Apple posted better earnings and revenue than Wall Street expected for the March 2019 quarter -- even as sales of its flagship iPhones were $6.5 billion lighter in the period, down by 17%. iPhones sales fell at their steepest-ever rate during the three months to the end of March but are showing signs of stabilising, the BBC reported. Apple lifted its outlook for the three months to June, sending its... Read More
Industry-wide "pressures in the premium smartphone market" led to a drop in Pixel sales in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the same time last year, a top official of Google parent company Alphabet has said. With Google finding it hard to compete in the premium segment, the company could offer new products in the mid-range market. Google is expected to show off its cheaper Pixel 3a and 3a... Read More
India offers great potential for Google-owned YouTube's growth and the latest in the journey is YouTube Music that has been downloaded more than 15 million times in the country, CEO Sundar Pichai has said. Admitting that recent ad product changes in YouTube and Search are hurting its top-line growth, the company sounded bullish on YouTube during its first quarter results on Monday. "YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are now available... Read More
Apple has defended its decision to remove third-party screen-limiting apps that helped people fight iPhone addiction, saying these apps put users' privacy and security at risk. Apple had removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental-control apps. In a blog post on late Sunday, the Cupertino-based iPhone maker said the use of mobile device management (MDM) technologies in the removed parental control apps could have... Read More
Hit by weak demand in the memory chips and displays, Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a massive 60% drop in operating profit (year-on-year) in the first quarter of 2019. The company, however, said the newly-launched Galaxy S10 smartphone is generating solid sales. It shipped 78 million smartphones and five million tablets in the quarter. Samsung posted an operating profit of 6.2 trillion won (nearly $5.4 billion) - from 15.64 trillion... Read More
China-based smartphone maker Realme, that clocked 7% market share in India in the first quarter of 2019, is aiming to sell at least 15 million handsets in the country by the end of the year, the company's India CEO said on Monday. The online-focused device maker that came into existence in 2018 was also among the top five smartphone brands in the fourth quarter of 2018 with 8% market share.... Read More
Amazon Pay on Monday launched person-to-person (P2P) payments for Android users who can now make instant bank-to-bank transfers using the UPI platform on the Amazon app. Amazon customers can also pay bills, rent and various daily subscriptions, the company said in a statement. "With this launch, we have the largest selection of shopping and payment use cases on the Amazon Android app which provides added convenience and control to our... Read More
In its new Insider Preview Build for Windows 10, Microsoft is working on a feature as part of its "Your Phone" software that would display notifications received on Android smartphones on PC screens. Launched in 2018, "Your Phone" is an app for Windows 10 that allowed users to see recent photos taken on a Android phone directly on a Windows 10 PC and to send SMS messages from a computer.... Read More
Chinese handset manufacturer, Nubia on Sunday, announced its new gaming phone Red Magic 3 that comes with 5000mAh battery and an industry-first built-in cooling system. The global release of the phone, which was launched in China at a starting price of 3,199 yuan (around Rs 33,205), is slated for May and would come to India soon after, Nubia said in a statement. While other gaming phones rely on passive cooling,... Read More
Apple held talks with chip-maker Intel about acquiring its smartphone-modem chip business in a multi-billion dollar deal to ramp up the development of wireless technology for iPhones, the media reported. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Friday, the two companies were in talks since last year, though those conversations have now "stalled." Apple has been working on its own chips for quite some time. Acquiring Intel's... Read More
Chinese smartphone maker Oppo on Friday launched a new Oppo F11 Pro Marvel's Avengers Limited Edition smartphone in collaboration with Marvel Studios. Priced at Rs 27,990, the design of the smartphone is named Space Blue -- blue background covered with an intricate hexagonal pattern at the back. It features gradient effects as the colour changes in different lights -- from steel blue in the middle to midnight blue on both... Read More
With a 30% market share, Reliance JioPhone became the leading feature phone brand in India in the first quarter of 2019, Counterpoint Research said on Friday. While the smartphone market offers a big opportunity, one can't ignore the 400 million feature phones users in the Indian market which too is likely to stay for the next five years in India, said Counterpoint's "India Smartphone Market Share Q1 2019" report. Samsung... Read More
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