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Apple may have something to learn from secretive billionaire as he undercuts the iPhone in Chinese marketplace

Duan Yongping may have figured out how to beat Apple at its own game in the Chinese marketplace. The reclusive billionaire founded both Opposition and Vivo, the twin smartphone brands that dealt the world’s largest company a stinging defeat in China last year. Once derided as cheap iPhone knockoffs, they leapfrogged the rankings and shoved […]

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Apple leads in holiday device activations, down 5 percent year over year

The Christmas gifts have been exchanged, the Chanukah ones are being given this week and it looks like Apple is leading the pack in terms of smartphone activations for the 2016 holidays. This year, 44% of new phone and tablet activations were Apple devices with Samsung seeing 21%. While Samsung is slowly growing in popularity […]

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Rumor: Apple may use technology similar to Huawei’s P9 dual-lens system for iPhone 7 camera

It’s a rumor, but it’s got some interesting elements to it. Following Apple’s acquisition of LinX Imaging last year, Apple could be in line to use the Huawei P9 dual-lens camera system in its next-gen iPhone. The P9, created in a partnership with Leica, users two 12-megapixel cameras. One camera captures a normal color image, […]

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Rumor: Upcoming A9 processor could show 20-30% improvement over A8

If nothing else, the A9 processor will offer a nice speed boost over its predecessor. That’s what a graph of the forthcoming processor’s performance seems to indicate, Apple’s upcoming A9 chip beating out Samsung’s 8-core chips with a single-core score of 2090 and a multi-core tally of 3569, compared to the respective averages of 1611 […]

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Apple accounts for 51% of devices as Christmas gifts

These are the days of giving devices as gifts. Specifically, Apple devices. Per Flurry, 2014 turned into a banner year for Apple, its devices accounting for 51 percent of the new device activations worldwide Flurry recognized in the week leading up to and including Christmas Day (December 19th – 25th). Samsung held the #2 position […]