Smartphone

  • Global smartphone shipments plummeted 38% in Feb

    Data released by Strategy Analytics recently showed that the global smartphone market in February suffered its worst decline ever, with shipments down 38% year-on-year.

  • Smartphone addiction changes shape of your brain, research shows

    Researchers at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine the brains of 48 volunteers, including 22 smartphone addicts and 26 non-addicts. The results show that smartphone addiction changes the shape and size of the human brain.

  • Vivo exec expects 5G phone prices to fall to $210 by year-end

    "Since March, Vivo's sales have increased by more than 10% compared to the same period last year."

  • New tech allows multi-finger fingerprint recognition on phones

    French company Isorg demonstrated a full-screen fingerprint recognition technology that supports multi-finger, and allows four fingers to touch simultaneously.

  • 100x zoom: Is it worth the extra money to get such a phone?

    As the zoom factor increases, the imaging effect of the photo becomes worse.

  • Global smartphone shipments in 2020will be 10% less than expected, report says

    Affected by the new coronavirus, global smartphone shipments in 2020 will be 10% lower than expected, and China's smartphone shipments will be 15% lower than expected, according to a report released by Strategy Analytics on Monday.

  • Meet Carbon 1 MK II: First carbon fiber Android smartphone

    Carbon fiber is a new type of fiber material with high strength and high modulus fiber with a carbon content of more than 95%. Its density is only half that of aluminum alloy and 1/5 of stainless steel, but the tensile strength is more than four times that of steel.

  • China's January phone shipments down 38.9%

    Affected by new coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, China's mobile phone shipments went down 38.9 percent year on year in January to 20.8 million units, a report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed on Monday.

  • Meet Emperion Nebulus: A phone that runs both Windows 10 and Android

    Emperion, a British company we have never heard of, is currently developing an Emperion Nebulus, a smartphone that runs both Windows 10 and Android. The company has been operating since 2017.

  • Explainer: Fast charging tech from Chinese phone makers

    Mobile phone battery life has always been a problem. In addition to increasing battery capacity, what other good ways can improve the battery life of mobile phones? At this time, fast charging of mobile phones has become another solution.