China's Xiaomi unveiled on Tuesday its new flagship Mi 4 smartphone, aimed squarely at the premium handset market dominated by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
The company is already setting up shop elsewhere in Asia in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
With their hundreds of years of watch making experience, Swiss watchmakers can afford to take a long view of technological fads and fashions.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday launched the world's first smartphone with a curved display, a variant of the Galaxy Note which moves the Asian giant a step closer to achieving wearable devices with flexible - even unbreakable - screens.
Curved displays are an early stage in screen evolution, which is shifting to bendable or foldable designs.
Judge rejected Apple's request for a permanent sales ban in the US against some older Samsung smartphones.
Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch works as an accessory to its market-leading Galaxy smartphone, with a small screen offering basic functions such as photos, hands-free calls and instant messaging.
Apple may launch two new models this year - an upgrade to iPhone 5 and also a cheaper version of the phone.
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A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple Inc launched the technology that it promises will better protect devices from criminals and snoopers seeking access.
Lenovo Group, the Chinese technology company that earns about 80 percent of its revenue from personal computers, is betting it can also be a challenger to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc in the smartphone market.
Mobile carriers requested the company for a US launch.
The lawsuit was unlikely to have deprived Lee of his control over Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips.
The company, which sells more phones than Samsung in China, aims to sell 1 million smartphones in India next financial year.
Apple, returning the offensive, could roll out a smaller, cheaper "iPhone Mini" in 2014.
Of the top five vendors, only Apple lost market share, while LG Electronics Inc, Huawei and ZTE Corp making incremental gains.
While Samsung and Apple remain the leaders, LG pushed HTC to the fourth spot becoming the world's No. 3 smartphone maker.
Handset manufacturers are drawing up big plans for large display phones. Bigger than smartphone and smaller than tablet - phablet is going to be the buzzword this year in mobile space.
With the launch of low-cost devices running on Google Inc's Android platform by local firms, sales of tablets and smartphones have grown rapidly in the last two years.
Google Inc said on Thursday that Andy Rubin, co-founder of its Android mobile business and head of its nascent robotics effort is leaving the company.
Loading an app required the watch to pull tremendous amounts of data from iPhones.
The deal covers patents currently owned by the companies, as well as any filed in the next 10 years.
Samsung also battling low-cost Chinese vendors.
The new phone offers better hardware including a faster processor, a higher quality screen and improved cameras.
The jury found Samsung violated several Apple patents including those related to iPhone's design and appearance
Samsung India on Tuesday announced the launch of four new mid-segment smartphones - Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7.
On Sept 15 Google launched the first of its Android One phones in India aimed at making smartphones more affordable for the masses.
Amazon.com Inc is preparing to launch its long-rumoured smartphone in the second half of the year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people briefed on the company's plans.
Brazilian soccer legend Pel has sued Samsung Electronics Co for at least $30 million, alleging the Korean company improperly used a look-alike in an advertisement that ran in the New York Times without permission.
Last month Samsung said that it will launch smartphones with curved display in October.
Xiaomi Inc said it had upgraded its operating system to ensure users knew it was collecting data from their address books after a report by a computer security firm said the Chinese budgetsmartphone maker was taking personal data without permission.
Pantech, South Korea's No.3 smartphone maker, has been under a debt-restructuring programme after suffering six consecutive quarters of losses.
Jury finds that Samsung had infringed two Apple patents
most believed that Apple could have done more to enhance the battery life of the phones.
The Korean electronics giant says it will get more aggressive on pricing and focus on a narrower set of products for its mid-to-low tier products.
Apple has said the watch will launch in April
Shares of the company rose more than 1 percent to $99.44 in heavy trading.
The online strategy cuts down on marketing and distribution costs, allowing Xiaomi to sell feature-rich phones at low prices.
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