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Lenovo’s Motorola acquistion a good move for all parties
Motorola’s RAZR MAXX smartphone Lenovo’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google looks like it could be a winning move for both firms. On one hand, handsets appeared to be a peripheral business...
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Chinese vendors drive smartphone market to new high in Q2 2014
Xiaomi has moved from relative obscurity to become a top-5 global smartphone player in a year The worldwide smartphone market broke its record for quarterly shipments in Q2 2014 with market trackers...
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Lenovo mobile goes straight to consumer China
Lenovo has come a long way since the Smartbook Lenovo has announced it is to establish a direct-to-consumer, internet-based mobile business in China next year. The new company, which will operate under...
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Lenovo completes Motorola Mobility acquisition
From left to right: Lenovo’s Liu Jun and Yang Yuanqing with Rick Osterloh from Motorola Lenovo has announced the completion of its acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google, claiming that makes it...
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Global smartphone market Q3 2014 – Xiaomi up to third
Xiaomi goes from strength to strength Telecoms.com tracks the top 10 smartphone vendor’s quarterly shipments through a combination of their own published numbers, analyst numbers and, when neither are...
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Amazon in Fire sale, other smartphone vendors feeling the heat
Amazon slashes cost of Fire again Amazon has taken another hit on its faltering Fire phone, by conceding a second price slash on its first smartphone offering. The online retailer has now listed the...
View ArticleAcer, Asus, LG, Lenovo, ZTE all launch smartphones at CES 2015
Acer, Asus, LG, Lenovo and ZTE have all announced new mid- and lower-end smartphones. This flurry of new mobile devices comes just ahead of the CES event commencing in Las Vegas later today, and each...
View ArticleMotorola set to return to China
Motorola has announced it is to return to China after being absent from the market since 2013 when it became a Google-owned company. This follows Chinese tech giant Lenovo’s October acquisition of the...
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Global smartphone market Q4 2014 – Apple and Samsung share top spot
Telecoms.com tracks the top 10 smartphone vendor’s quarterly shipments through a combination of their own published numbers, analyst numbers and, when neither are available, our own research and...
View ArticleOpenDaylight open source NFV/SDN project joined by Comcast and Lenovo
Comcast and Lenovo have thrown their hats into the OpenDaylight Project, an open source collaboration between many of the industry’s major networking incumbents on the core architectures enabling...
View ArticleLenovo to phase out Motorola brand from phones
In an interview at CES 2016 Lenovo confirmed that it is commencing the process of phasing out the Motorola brand from handsets, but it’s not quite goodbye Moto. The admission was made by Motorola CEO...
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Global smartphone market Q4 2015 – peak smartphone approaches
The Q4 2015 smartphone shipment numbers point to an industry at an advanced stage of maturity struggling to find its next growth driver. Samsung remains the number one smartphone vendor, but in spite...
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Microsoft and Sony continue their retreat from smartphones
Q4 earnings season has revealed a global smartphone market approaching a plateau and a couple more of its major players seem to be positioning themselves for an exit. Microsoft has continued the policy...
View ArticleAndroid adds new LBS feature as first Project Tango smartphone is launched
Google’s Android smartphone OS has introduced a new location-based facility to the Play Store, while Lenovo has launched the first smartphone based on Google’s Tango AR technology. Nearby is an attempt...
View ArticleQualcomm tries to make friends and influence people in China
Embattled chip giant Qualcomm is so keen to acquire new allies it has held a special event in China to court its smartphone vendors. In common with the rest of the industry it’s all about 5G this year,...
View ArticleGoing under the hood of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855: plenty to like
More details of Qualcomm’s first 5G chipset have been released, bringing all-round improvements, and a 5G chipset for PCs was also announced. On the first day of its annual Snapdragon Technology...
View ArticleInterdigital sues Motorola-owner Lenovo over 4G patents
Mobile and video tech developer Interdigital has filed patent infringement action against Lenovo in the UK because they can’t agree a price for use of its 4G patents. Perhaps wary of being labelled a...
View ArticlePC shipments back into growth, but can connectivity make it sustainable?
PCs are often seen as the forgotten child of the technology family, though new estimates suggest there is life left in the segment. We use laptops every day but never discuss the potential for...
View ArticleMotorola enters premium 5G bracket, but does it have the brand to justify a...
Lenovo-owned Motorola has announced the launch of its first 5G phone, coming in towards the top-end of the pricing scale at $999 in North America and €1,199 in Europe. The Motorola Edge+ will be...
View ArticleLenovo earnings reveal the damage COVID-19 can inflict
With its main smartphone manufacturing sites situated in Wuhan, Lenovo has been hit hard by COVID-19, spoiling what would have otherwise been a very productive year. Group revenues for Lenovo were down...
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