#based-on-its

Samsung launches its first affordable UHDTV

Strategy Analytics predicts that based on its own research, it will take until 2020 for UHD TVs to make up over 40 percent of global television shipments (global demand for UHD TVs only surpassed 1 million units for the first time in 2013, driven predominantly by China), by which point 32 percent of US homes and 22 percent of western European homes will have one. Yet none of that seems to be …

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Samsung to launch first Tizen-based smartphone

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to launch the first smartphone based on its Tizen operating system in the third quarter, marking the company's latest bid to build up its own ecosystem and reduce reliance on Google Inc's Android. The South Korean firm on Monday said the Samsung Z, which comes with a 4.8 inch high-definition display and offers features such as a fingerprint sensor …

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New Samsung phone marks break from Android

Samsung announced Monday the launch of a new smartphone based on its own operating system, in a step towards independence from the Google Android platform that dominates its popular handsets. The Samsung Z, which has been specially developed to run on the Tizen platform, will go on sale in Russia in the third quarter of this year before reaching other markets, Samsung said in a statement. The …

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Nokia, Algérie Télécom launch North Africa’s first commercial LTE network

Nokia has deployed North Africa's first commercial LTE network in Algeria for the state-owned operator, Algérie Télécom. Under the contract, Nokia provided its Single RAN Advanced solution based on its high-capacity, scalable Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station for the majority of the LTE network.

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