5G will take years to become popular
Taiwan IoT Technology and Industry Association warning
Taiwan IoT Technology and Industry Association (TwIoTA). Chairman Frank Huang has warned that it will take years before 5G applications to become popular.
Smartphones are in decline
The market is no longer flat
New statistics suggest that smartphone use is not just flat, but is in total decline.
HTC denies smartphone exit
Will not be exiting stage left pursued by bear
HTC has dismissed rumours claiming it would quit the smartphone market.
Expensive phones easily hacked
You do not get what you pay for
It looks like paying big bucks for a top-of-the-range smartphone does not buy you any security.
Chinese smartphone processor shipments fall
Vendors retrench
Shipments of smartphone-use application processors in China are expected to decrease 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter as smartphone vendors have become more conservative on pulling in orders due to lower visibility in demand in the end market.
Hardware makers are keen to get 5G away from just smartphones
Developing the Qualcomm model
Global chipmakers including Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek and UNISOC (Spreadtrum & RDA) are looking to expand their 5G solutions to include non-handset applications.
Blue light from smartphones does not make you blind
Another advert proved wrong
The Interwebs have been getting adverts from companies who claim that the blue light from smartphones make you blind and are offering drugs to fix "the problem".
Smartphones AP shipments slide
0.8 percent
Global smartphone AP shipments may show a 0.8 per cent on-year decline to reach 1.59 billion units in 2018.
Why the “post-PC” era never happened
Ever get the impression you have been lied to?
In 2007 Steve Jobs announced that humanity had entered the “post PC era” and that the world would be completely mobile.
UK people losing the power of speech
Much better to text
Britons are more attached to their mobile phones than ever before, but are not particularly interested in using them to talk.