Samsung touts new smart gear ahead of Apple August 28, 2014 SAMSUNG yesterday unveiled the first smartwatch capable of making and receiving calls without a smartphone nearby, as the South Korean electronics giant looks to gain a stronghold in the wearable market, which rival Apple is expected to enter in two weeks. Meanwhile, in the UK, Samsung has increased its smartphone market share from 32 per [...]
iPhone 6: Apple expected to buy 194m smartphone screens this year ahead of release date August 27, 2014 The countdown to the launch of the iPhone 6 has already started (13 days and counting – as if you weren't ticking the days off the calendar), and that means Apple has been buying up a lot of screens – 194m to be exact. That is according to figures from NPD DisplaySearch’s latest insight, the FT [...]
Samsung over the rainbow, way up high on London’s Southbank August 20, 2014 Did anyone catch the midnight rainbow on the Southbank on Tuesday night? This 14ft installation added an interesting addition to the London skyline, but it wasn’t local artists behind the vision, it was good old Samsung. That’s 150 Samsung Galaxy Tab S computers you can see. Snazzy.
Apple and Samsung scale back global smartphone patent war August 6, 2014 Global tech titans Samsung and Apple have agreed a truce to drop all litigation between the two smartphone giants outside the US. The deal means that legal battles between the two companies, over the rights to the technology used in their rival iPhone and Galaxy smartphones, will end in nine countries, including the UK, Germany [...]
The iPhone 6: Apple rumours swirling as September release date approaches August 6, 2014 It seems like an age since Apple boss Tim Cook took to the stage to unveil the iPhone 5S, probably the strongest “mid-release” upgrade since the inception of the iPhone. That saw the introduction of the fingerprint reader and a faster processor that dragged mobile gaming into a new league. But once again, Apple’s rivals [...]
Smartphones soar at Huawei July 29, 2014 HUAWEI, the world’s third largest smartphone maker, saw its smartphone shipments in the first half of 2014 soar 62 per cent year-on-year, as it targeted the more expensive sector dominated by Samsung and Apple. The Chinese company said it had shipped 34.27m smartphones during the period, boosted by the success of its flagship Ascend models [...]
Huawei smartphone sales up 62pc on success of flagship Ascend and global growth July 29, 2014 Huawei shipped 64.21 million devices in the first half of 2014, 34.27 million of which were smartphones, up 62 per cent on the same time last year. The Chinese smartphone-maker credited the rise to the success of its flagship Ascend models aimed at the mid- to high-end market. It’s biggest launch to date, the Ascend [...]
London Report: Home lending up but rise in UK prices is slowing July 27, 2014 MORTGAGE approvals figures appear likely to show the housing market is moving again, after tough new MMR loan tests slowed lending figures. However, house price data due on Thursday suggests prices may not be soaring as much as earlier this year. They are expected to have risen 0.5 per cent month-on-month in July – the [...]
Profit woes for Samsung after thieves hit Brazil plant July 8, 2014 Korean giant Samsung yesterday announced a 25 per cent decline in profits for the second quarter just days after robbers hit one of its plants in Brazil, seizing millions of pounds worth of products. It was the third straight quarter of annual profit decline and Samsung said it expected operating profits to be 7.2 trillion won [...]
Samsung set for worst results in two years as it predicts 25pc profit drop July 8, 2014 Samsung Electronics revealed today that it forecasts weak quarterly earnings, resulting in what would be its worst results in two years. This has cast doubt on the smartphone producer's ability to compete with cheaper Chinese rivals. The South Korean company has suffered at the hands of the recent slowdown in growth of the smartphone [...]