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It’s Still A Feature Phone World: Global Smartphone Penetration At 27%
With all the talk of iPhone vs. Android these days, it’s easy to forget how the majority of the world’s mobile users still make calls and access data: via feature phones. A recently released report...
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For Microsoft, Nokia Represents A Crossroads In Its Emerging Markets Strategy
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s Devices & Services division for $7.2 billion is a bet on emerging markets and a continuation of Nokia’s emphasis on “connecting the next billion” users. In order...
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Microsoft Also Axing Nokia’s Entry Level Mobiles
It’s not just Nokia’s Android line of devices that are for the chop: Microsoft plans to ramp down production of Nokia devices running the legacy Series 40 platform too, so no more Asha or basic Nokia...
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The OnePlus 2 Returns With Another Indie Phone Powerhouse
If you’ve been out of the Android game for a while you’d be hard-pressed to understand why people love OnePlus so much. These phones, conceived by the folks who initially launched Oppo, are aimed at...
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Gartner: Android’s smartphone marketshare hit 86.2% in Q2
What growth there is left in the smartphone market continues to center on emerging markets where consumers are upgrading from feature phones. Read More
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Google is now using deep learning to measure store visits
Google is announcing a major update to its store visits measurement tool today at its Google Marketing Next conference. Google has used anonymized location and contextual data since 2014 to estimate...
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It’s Still A Feature Phone World: Global Smartphone Penetration At 27%
With all the talk of iPhone vs. Android these days, it’s easy to forget how the majority of the world’s mobile users still make calls and access data: via feature phones. A recently released report...
View ArticleFor Microsoft, Nokia Represents A Crossroads In Its Emerging Markets Strategy
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s Devices & Services division for $7.2 billion is a bet on emerging markets and a continuation of Nokia’s emphasis on “connecting the next billion” users. In order...
View ArticleMicrosoft Also Axing Nokia’s Entry Level Mobiles
Today’s big Microsoft news is that the company is cutting 18,000 jobs this year — with around two-thirds of those jobs going at the Nokia mobile making division it bought for $7.2 billion back in...
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The OnePlus 2 Returns With Another Indie Phone Powerhouse
If you’ve been out of the Android game for a while you’d be hard-pressed to understand why people love OnePlus so much. These phones, conceived by the folks who initially launched Oppo, are aimed at...
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Gartner: Android’s smartphone marketshare hit 86.2% in Q2
What growth there is left in the smartphone market continues to center on emerging markets where consumers are upgrading from feature phones. And that ongoing transition is helping boost Android’s...
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Google is now using deep learning to measure store visits
Google is announcing a major update to its store visits measurement tool today at its Google Marketing Next conference. Google has used anonymized location and contextual data since 2014 to estimate...
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Nokia 8110’s slider ‘Matrix’ feature phone returns with 4G and a €79 price tag
Nokia’s 8110 — the distinctive ‘candy bar’ feature phone with a slider opening — was once the phone that everyone wanted but no one could afford, made popular through the Matrix film franchise. Now...
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KaiOS, a feature phone platform built on the ashes of Firefox OS, adds...
Mozilla called it a day with Firefox OS for mobile handsets back in 2015 and said it would test the waters for an IoT effort using some of the same technology (and it has). But that hasn’t spelled the...
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Xiaomi outs Redmi Go, a $65 entry-level smartphone for India
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has announced a new entry level smartphone at an event in Delhi. The entry-level smartphone is targeted at the Indian market and looks intended to woo feature phone...
View ArticleGartner: Q3 smartphone sales down 5.7% to 366M, slicing COVID-19 declines in...
We are now into the all-important holiday sales period, and new numbers from Gartner point to some recovery underway for the smartphone market as vendors roll out a raft of new 5G handsets. Q3...
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It’s Still A Feature Phone World: Global Smartphone Penetration At 27%
With all the talk of iPhone vs. Android these days, it’s easy to forget how the majority of the world’s mobile users still make calls and access data: via feature phones. A recently released report...
View ArticleFor Microsoft, Nokia Represents A Crossroads In Its Emerging Markets Strategy
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s Devices & Services division for $7.2 billion is a bet on emerging markets and a continuation of Nokia’s emphasis on “connecting the next billion” users. In order...
View ArticleMicrosoft Also Axing Nokia’s Entry Level Mobiles
Today’s big Microsoft news is that the company is cutting 18,000 jobs this year — with around two-thirds of those jobs going at the Nokia mobile making division it bought for $7.2 billion back in...
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The OnePlus 2 Returns With Another Indie Phone Powerhouse
If you’ve been out of the Android game for a while you’d be hard-pressed to understand why people love OnePlus so much. These phones, conceived by the folks who initially launched Oppo, are aimed at...
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