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Tech Crunch
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi today confirmed that it sold just shy of 35 million phones in the first half of this year.
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The Economist
The smartphone is ubiquitous, addictive and transformative
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Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers have underestimated how disruptive mobile technology potentially can be. We are likely to see an entirely new ecosystem develop with the smart phone at the center.
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Trusted Reviews
Around half of the world’s entire population will be accessing the internet at least once a month by 2018, according to new estimates.
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The Verge
Chasing the next billion with Google's Sundar Pichai
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Soundcloud - a16z
Stream a16z Podcast: What Comes After the Smartphone by a16z from desktop or your mobile device
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Adage
Under the radar, Verizon, Sprint, and other carriers have partnered with firms including SAP to manage and sell data.
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TechTimes
Google seems like it's going to start manufacturing its own brand of chips soon based on a job posting, which is looking for a multimedia chip architect.
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Economist
A new wave of mobile technology is on its way, and will bring drastic change
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Recode
We usually look right through it, but glass deserves some props.
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International Business Times
Seven of the 10 biggest smartphone brands in the world come from China as they outshine players like LG, HTC and Sony.
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Reuters
Nearly a decade after the iPhone broke the mould for mobile phones the question being asked is whether the evolution of the smartphone has finally come to an end, as even Apple now treats older, smaller 4-inch screens as something new.
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Next Big Future
IBM making progress with resistive computing. the idea for resistive computing is to have compute units that are analog in nature, small in substance, and can
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Time
New technologies could replace the phone in your pocket, argues technology analyst Tim Bajarin.
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Recode
That’s up from 63 percent this year. Ad spending, meanwhile, is still catching up.
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The Verge
Xiaomi, Huawei, the Oppo-Vivo duo, and Apple now account for 91 percent of sales
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Wired
Flexible smartphones like Samsung's rumoured Galaxy X have been promised for years but technical challenges face the companies racing to bring folding touchscreens to market
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Physics
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Interesting Engineering
Smart devices are constantly evolving, and so are their screens. Here are just some exciting developments in screen technology to look forward to.
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New York Times
With smartphones, everything digital has been managed through screens. Now that all of our visual capacity has been captured, the tech giants are starting to build a less eyes-only world.
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Vox
With 5G networks coming, understanding the health effects of radio-frequency radiation is more urgent than ever.
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Wired
Lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars and e-cigarettes. But, with lithium close to breaking point, researchers are scrambling for the next battery breakthrough
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Wired
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The Verge
Samsung is following science fiction’s lead: gadgets with expanding screens have appeared in Westworld, The Expanse, Firefly, Star Trek Beyond, Looper, Minority Report, The One, Earth Final Conflict and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. These examples say something about the power of foldable screens.
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New York Magazine
Growth in smartphone sales stopped surging years ago. In the next decade, they’re likely to decline. What does that world look like?
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Toms Guide
According to the patent, the device doesn’t need viewers to look at a flat surface at a specific angle to see the hologram.
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Medium
Apple’s premier gadget faces a less certain future than ever as the market shifts under its feet.
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Techcrunch
The only way to get more information from a smartphone screen is to bring the pixels closer to our eyes, with the device somehow mounted on our heads rather than holding it in our hands.
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Tom's Guide
A newly unearthed patent shows a three-fold device that transforms from phone to full-size tablet.
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Samsung
Samsung Unfolds the Future with a Whole New Mobile Category: Introducing Galaxy Fold
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YouTube - Tech Insider
At its Galaxy Unpacked 2019 event, Samsung showed off its first foldable phone. Starting at $1,980, the phone will be available in the US starting in April.M...
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Youtube - Charbax
At SID Display Week 2019, BOE shows their latest 12.3" Rollable Phone, 7.7" Foldable Phone, many other flexible displays, UHD displays, micro-displays, other...
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Deloitte
The market for smartphone apps, accessories, and ancillary devices is almost as big as the market for smartphones themselves—and it's growing fast.
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Digitaltrends
Four smartphone giants -- Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo -- have apparently formed an alliance to take on the dominance of Google Play, and provide a platform for developers to upload apps to all Chinese app stores at the same time.
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Samsung
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Android Central
Apple innovates in many ways, across more than just phones, but it's clear now that Samsung is the company leading the next smartphone form factor change.
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Android Central
iPhones from 2015 will get the iOS 14 update and an Android phone you buy today will be lucky to get Android 12. You deserve better.
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Quantumrun Foresight
As customers clamor for larger smartphone screens, manufacturers look into the rollable design for solutions.
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Tech Crunch
Homescreen social networking apps are becoming increasingly popular among Gen Z users, who are looking for alternatives to the dominant players in the market. These apps offer a more simple and private way to connect with friends and share content and are being marketed toward tweens and younger teens. Although there is still some question as to whether these apps will have long-term staying power, they have already begun to impact the social networking landscape. To read more, use the button below to open the original external article.
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The Conversation
YouTube may have more potential to encourage children to learn than you’d think.