Smartphones


Mobile Market To Recover 12% This Year. No, Not You, Small Smartphone Outfits

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Analyst: Big 5 manufacturers should be able to shoulder ongoing semiconductor shortage 2020 was a dismal year for the s... Read more

Samsung Brags That Its Latest Imaging Sensor Has The Ittiest-bittiest Cam Pixels In The World

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It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it Samsung today introduced its latest imaging sensor, the 50-megapixel... Read more

Smartphone Shipments Jumped 26% In Q1 – Only To Recapture Ground Lost To The Pandemic

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Don't call it growth Global smartphone shipments recovered in the first quarter of this year following a dismal 2020 fo... Read more

Xiaomi Touts Hypercharge 200W Charging Tech, Claims 4,000mAh Battery Goes From 0 To Full In 480 Seconds

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One of the few differentiators left in the smartphone arena Chinese mobile maker Xiaomi has demoed its latest charging ... Read more

Unihertz Titan Pocket: Like Asking Mum For A BlackBerry And She Tells You 'but We've Got A BlackBerry At Home'

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Caters to those desperate for a physical keyboard but nothing about it is intuitive Review  The Unihertz Titan Pocket ... Read more

IFixit Slams Samsung's Phone 'upcycling' Scheme For Falling Short Of What Was Promised

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Dude, where's my unlocked bootloader? It's a sad, pointless, and frankly wasteful cycle. You buy a phone. Two years lat... Read more

Samsung Shows Off Rollable And Foldable Displays, Suggests They'll Arrive In 2022

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Paper-thin OLED screens collapse impressively Vid 'n' pics  Samsung has revealed foldable and rollable displays at the... Read more

LG Intranet Leaks Suggest Internal Firesale Of Unsold, Unreleased Smartphones As Biz Exits The Mobile Market

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Staff offered doomed handsets at knockdown prices in move reminiscent of HP's Palm episode Following its decision to ex... Read more

As Another Vendor Promises 3 Years Of Android Updates, We Ask: How Long Should Mobile Devices Receive Support?

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Really, three years should be the bare minimum at this point Analysis  Almost seven months after the brand splashed do... Read more

Samsung Stops Providing Security Updates To The Galaxy S8 At Grand Old Age Of Four Years

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Goodnight, sweet prince: Awesome life expectancy for an Android, but now it's time to move on Four years after it first... Read more

Major Shift In Smartphone Market Sees Chinese Kit Win The Middle While Apple And Samsung Skim The Cream

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Many owe thanks to Huawei ducking out under what IDC calls 'increased weight of US sanctions’ People are buying smart... Read more

Working From A Countryside Plot Nestled In A Not-spot? Consultation Opens On New Rural Mobile Planning Laws For Bigger Masts, Wider Coverage

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Here we go again - you don't want them in your backyard, amirite? The UK government has submitted major reforms to the ... Read more

Last Chance To Grab An IPhone Mini As Savvy Analyst Reckons Apple Will Scrap It Next Year

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Incoming iPhone 13 could be final slimline version All good things come to an end. And pointless things, too, with Appl... Read more

Lenovo's Latest Gaming Monster: Eight Cores, 3.2GHz, Giant Heat Sink, Two Fans. Oh, And It Has A Phone Bolted On

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Mammoth as a mobe, but serious as a game device Lenovo's latest tech features top-shelf components and new cooling tech... Read more

Sitting Idle While Global Chips Fry: US Car Industry Asks Biden To Earmark Cash For Automotive Semiconductors

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Forget smartphones – whaddabout motors? The US automotive industry has warned it faces a bleak six months of disrupti... Read more

Samsung Thinks About Giving The Galaxy Note Refresh A Miss This Year As Semiconductor Supplies Run Dry

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Wot?! No new luxury phablet?! Samsung Electronics is contemplating skipping this year's Galaxy Note flagship as the bus... Read more

Got A Need For Speed? New Report Claims IPhone 12's 5G Performance Lags Behind That Of Rival Android Models

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Baked-in mmWave support may improve figures with more deployments 5G performance on the iPhone 12 range trails that of ... Read more

Xiaomi Didn't Turn The Glue Up To 11 On Its New Mi Flagship, But Still Gets Low Marks For Repairability

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Yep. Gadget botherers had to haul out a 'specialist tool' Released in China last year, and about to drop in the UK, the... Read more

There Was Hope Samsung Had Turned A Corner In Repairability, But The Galaxy S21 Ultra Is A Step Backwards

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iFixit's flagship autopsy finds glue. Lots of glue iFixit – an organisation with a toddler-like proclivity for breaki... Read more