#iphone roadkill

Beleaguered BlackBerry (née Research In Motion), one of several examples of iPhone roadkill, said on Tuesday it would sell patents, primarily related to its mobile devices, for up to $900 million after outfit scrapped an earlier deal to sell the patents to Catapult IP Innovations Inc. Reuters: Malikie Innovations Ltd will buy the patents and pay $170 million in cash on deal closing, and another…

Apple was the only top phone vendor to increase shipments in Q3 – IDC

Apple was the only top phone vendor to increase shipments in Q3 as worldwide smartphone shipments declined 9.7% year over year to 301.9 million units in the third quarter of 2022 (3Q22), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. The drop marks the largest-ever third quarter decline and the fifth consecutive quarter of…

Apple iPhone dominates global premium smartphone market with 57% share

Apple captured 57% of premium smartphone market sales as the global premium smartphone market ($400 and above wholesale price) average selling price (ASP) grew 8% YoY to reach $780, a second-quarter record, in Q2 2022, according to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse Service. The smartphone ASP growth was mainly driven by the 94% YoY sales growth in the $1,000 and above price segment. The…

Apple’s global smartphone market share surges 20% YoY leaving the imitators behind

Despite the global technology sector facing constraints related to semiconductor shortages and uncertain economic prospects, Apple has made the most significant gains in the smartphone market share over the past year as competitors struggle to catch up, Canalys data shows. The pro camera system on iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max features an all-new Ultra Wide camera with autofocus which…

Beleaguered Samsung slashes prices on performance-hobbled Galaxy S22 phone

Beleaguered Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 iPhone wannabe has taken a battering from reports of hobbled performance and has seen carriers quickly rush to halve its price at home in South Korea just weeks after launch. Samsung’s Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for bribery in January 2021 Reuters: Consumers have complained – and even filed a class-action lawsuit –…

China’s Xiaomi vows ‘War of Life and Death’ against Apple iPhone; pledges to open 20,000 retail stores in China

Apple knockoff peddler Xiaomi will ratchet up its challenge to Apple by focusing on the high-end segment of the global smartphone market, according to the Chinese company’s founder and chief executive Lei Jun who also vows to roll out 20,000 new retail stores over the next three years across China. Xiaomi’s retail stores are about as original as their smartphones Iris Deng for the South China…

BlackBerry ends support for all its classic phones

BlackBerry, what’s left of it, has announced that the legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, will no longer be available after January 4, 2022. As of this date, devices running these legacy services and software through either carrier or Wi-Fi connections will no longer reliably function, including for data,…

China’s Oppo cuts jobs after trying to compete with Apple’s iPhone

After trying to compete in the premium smartphone segment with Apple’s iPhone, phone maker Oppo is cutting around 20% of staff in key software and device teams after it merged operations with affiliate OnePlus, the first major consolidation in a Chinese mobile industry struggling with chip shortages triggered by the response to COVID-19. Bloomberg News: Oppo, which in 2016 became the country’s…