Ericsson Mobility Report: As the decade ends, 90% of the globe will have access to mobile broadband networks
In the mobile technology landscape, 2020 is poised to be a big year. The latest Ericsson Mobility Report projects that by the end of the decade, 70%...
There has been no shortage of news affecting the telecom and wireless industries. First, as many expected, a three-way merger among Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks was announced last Tuesday. Many, if not most, of you are versed on the details of...
Report: Record-setting sales represents an 8% year-over-year increase
Market analytics firm GfK reports record-setting smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2015; consumers spent some $96 billion on smartphones, an 8% increase over the same quarter in 2014, according to the analysis.
GfK, which based its...
Cases convert RF into usable power; Kickstarter funding campaign coming soon
Research and development firm Nikola Labs is set to launch a crowd-funding campaign to bring to market a new smartphone case that purportedly turns energy from Wi-Fi, LTE and Bluetooth into direct current power...
Report from security firm tallies apps containing malware that steal data among other negatives
U.S.-based Internet security firm Symantec released a report showing one in five apps for Google's Android operating system contain malware or "greyware."
Symantec came to this conclusion after using Norton’s Mobile Insight...
Rural penetration goal of China Telecom, Alibaba partnership
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has partnered with compatriot state-run mobile operator China Telecom to boost the adoption of mobile commerce in rural and isolated localities across China.
Under the agreement, Alibaba and China Telecom will offer 14 models of mobile phones, named...
Former Bush aide derailed career with questionable tweets; creates app for that
WASHINGTON – Ethan Czahor, a former aide for politician Jeb Bush, wants to make it easy for you to erase your more crass comments and embarrassing pics from social media.
Czahor developed a new...
Google starts favoring mobile optimized websites in search algorithms
Today Google made a major change in how its proprietary search algorithms rank Web search results; now websites that have been optimized for mobile viewing will be ranked higher than sites that aren’t designed to be...
FM chip on smartphone is usually not active but could be valuable in an emergency
Remember FM radio? The National Association of Broadcasters certainly does and, because many mobile manufacturers disable FM on smartphones, there’s tension brewing.
Samsung, Apple and LG phones, for example, could function...
Smartphone sales soar in Brazil
Brazil's smartphone market is growing rapidly, which could also push demand for data services.
Last year, smartphones sales were up 55% compared to 2013, totaling 54.5 million units, according to a survey conducted by IDC. When adding feature phones to the count, 70.3...
Pilot of Project Ara set for Puerto Rico
Google plans to launch its Project Ara, a modular, customizable smartphone platform, later this year in Puerto Rico, partnering with Ingram Micro Mobility on forward logistics.
Google describes Project Ara on its website as: “The smartphone is one...
Huawei, Microsoft producing low-cost smartphone tailored for Indian market
WASHINGTON – Driven in part by the ongoing wireless revolution, India, a country marred by the fallout of colonialism and stagnated by populist economics, is poised to leave the past behind and emerge as an economic...
Kyocera Torque durability demonstrated at MWC 2015
BARCELONA, Spain – Kyocera may not be a company associated with handsets in Europe, but it's looking to change that perception. With the recent announcement of Kyocera’s entry into this market with the Torque, a ruggedized LTE smartphone certified...
BARCELONA, Spain — The growth in smartphone penetration and adoption of 3G services benefited logistics company Celistics. The company, which is focused on Latin America, said it managed 192 million device units last year, which was a 50% increase compared to 2013, and helped...
Samsung Galaxy S6 features wireless charging
BARCELONA, Spain – Samsung unveiled its lasted Galaxy models in the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Edge smartphones at an event prior to the kick-off of Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain.
Samsung President and CEO JK Shin said the new smartphones are the...
In my Generation Wireless columns I generally share the viewpoint of the post-Internet generation, colloquially called “millennials,” on the emerging trends and the ebbs and flows of wireless technology. Sometimes I find myself drawn from the purely business or technological implications of the rapidly evolving...
Chinese manufacturers are six of top 10
In 2014, smartphone sales totaled some 1.167 billion, an increase of 25.9% from 2013, according to a new report from market research and analysis firm TrendForce.
TrendForce’s Global Smartphone Analyst Avril Wu points out in the report, released Jan....
Smartphones are now practically everywhere, having penetrated the consumer and enterprise markets early on and are now taking aim at the ruggedized environments.
A handful of such devices have been rolled out by devicemakers big and small, with some providing mere lip service (Samsung), while...
Is Xiaomi the world's most valuable tech startup?
Xiaomi, the Chinese hardware company that recently cracked the top five for smartphone vendors, raised $1.1 billion in new funding. Xiaomi co-founder Bin Lin revealed in a Facebook post that the company now has a valuation of...
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By the year 2020, some 90% of all people on Earth older than six will have a mobile phone and 6.1 billion will have a smartphone subscription, according to projections released in mobile giant Ericsson’s biannual mobility report.
The Ericsson Mobility Report, released Nov. 18,...
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Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has made many questionable decisions over the years. One of which is agreeing to let a long-time industry observer provide commentary on what is chapping his hide across the wireless industry. His name is Hunter Gates. We call him...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
