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China's Xiaomi unveils copycat 'Mi Pad' in bid to take on Apple's iPad
Apple's dominance in the tablet market with the iPad will be challenged by a new competitor in Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone maker that plans to take on the iPad with a nearly identical look and a...
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Xiaomi Showdown: Chinese upstart set to target high-end market with 'premium'...
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi -- known for its disruptive high-spec, low-cost Android handsets -- appears ready to make a move upmarket with the launch of an all-metal device after inviting members...
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Xiaomi's Redmi Note allegedly sending user data to China surreptitiously
At least one device from upstart Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has been found to transmit user data -- including SMS messages and photos -- back to servers in mainland China without the user's...
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Samsung Electronics' heir apparent Lee Jae-yong profiled as silver spoon-fed...
When Apple's chief executive Tim Cook came out as gay, jokes flew that Samsung might rush to announce it "was even more gay." In reality however, Samsung Electronics is a step further behind Apple,...
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Xiaomi reported earnings of only $56 million in 2013, one-tenth what WSJ...
In November, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi had earned $556 million based on "internal documents." Reuters is now reporting that the company actually earned an...
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Apple Inc's thermonuclear assault on Samsung vaporizes Android's remaining...
After years of failing to do much more than embarrass Samsung Electronics in legal battles over patent infringement, Apple has rapidly obliterated Samsung's mobile division profitability, rendering it...
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While Apple's average iPhone price surges to $687, Android devices flounder...
Highlighting the huge disparity between the iPhone and the rest of the mobile market, the average selling price of Apple's smartphone lineup is now 2.7 times that of devices running Android.
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Apple's iPhone grows to 27.6% of Chinese smartphone market, led by iPhone 6
The iPhone's share of the Chinese smartphone market rose to a new all-time high of 27.6 percent in a three-month period ending in February, driven primarily by sales of the iPhone 6, according to...
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IDC: Apple snags global smartphone marketshare from Samsung in June quarter
IDC research data published on Thursday shows that Apple's share of the global smartphone market grew to 14.1 percent in the June quarter, up from 11.7 percent in the same period a year ago -- largely...
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Surging iPhone, plummeting feature phone sales push Apple past Microsoft in...
Though slowing as a whole, the global cellphone industry -- including both smartphones and feature phones -- saw several platform rankings shake-ups during the June quarter, with Apple rising to...
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Apple dipped to 3rd in Chinese smartphone market in June, Canalys says
Despite the country being a key market continuing to see tremendous growth, Apple nevertheless lost ground in China to native phonemakers Xiaomi and Huawei during the June quarter, according to...
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iPhone 6s launch propels Apple to further gains in global smartphone market,...
Apple's share of the global smartphone market rose 0.6 points year-over-year to 13.1 percent in the September quarter, although Google's Android cemented its lead as the world's dominant mobile...
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IDC estimates 3.9M Apple Watches sold in Sept. quarter
Apple shipped approximately 3.9 million Apple Watches in the September quarter, according to new IDC research estimates for the wearables market published on Thursday.
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China's iPhone-clone Xiaomi defending its valuation after missing sales targets
Xiaomi--a Chinese startup that aimed to push out high volumes of low cost smartphones and then make money on ecosystem-related services--has missed its volume goal for 2015 while substantial revenues...
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Antutu: iPhone 6s performance thrashes high-spec Androids Huawei Mate 8,...
Performance benchmark vendor Antutu presented iPhone 6s as the best performing smartphone of the year, despite being compared against high end Androids with more RAM and faster CPU clocks driving four...
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Year-old Android 5 Lollipop on 33% of Google Play users, but only 20% of...
Google's ability to distribute new Android updates has always lagged far behind Apple's iOS, but the situation is even worse in China, where the "Lollipop" version 5.x, introduced in 2014 alongside...
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85% of mobile device failures occur on Android, with Samsung leading the way
The overwhelming majority of mobile device failures come from handsets running the Android operating system, new data reveals, showing that Samsung devices are responsible for the most overall issues.
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Wearables market surged in 2015 fueled by Apple Watch & Fitbit, IDC data shows
Wearable sales leaped ahead in both the December quarter and during 2015 as a whole, thanks in no small part to Apple Watch sales, research firm IDC said in a report published on Tuesday.
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iPhone SE reportedly 'squeezing' marketshare from Chinese smartphone makers
Chinese and Taiwanese smartphone suppliers are reportedly scaling back component production in the wake of Apple's iPhone SE, which appears to be impacting the sales of local smartphone brands.
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iPhone marketshare dips to 14.8% amid tougher Chinese competition, Gartner says
Apple's year-over-year drop in smartphone sales during the March quarter also caused the company to lose marketshare, though part of the shift can be linked to fast-rising Chinese smartphone makers,...
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