Devices & Platforms

The grey market for cellphones will contract for the second consecutive year in 2013, with worldwide shipments dropping by 12% as both makers and buyers of these handsets turn to branded products...

Nokia has released three new high-performing handsets which are being pitched as the firm’s most affordable 3G devices yet...

While the South African mobile telecommunications sector continues to be one of the fastest growing sectors in the country, the market is still dominated by feature phones...

Nokia’s newest Asha device, the Asha 501, is launching in Thailand and Pakistan this week, with  India following soon afterwards...

Nokia has announced a new touchscreen device in its Asha range which will retail for under $100...

Mobile World Congress has traditionally been the launch pad of the handset manufacturer's hottest and most innovative handsets. These handsets feature the latest network compatibility such as dual mode LTE for a range of markets and smarter technology such as NFC. More recently emerging markets have deployed 3G technology and due to lower income levels these markets need to offer significantly lower priced handsets...

This month is likely to see China become the largest market in the world for smart devices, including iOS and Android smartphones as well as tablet computers...

The first low-cost smartphone targeted specifically at the Africa region will launch in the first quarter of 2013...

After just three days on sale in China, the iPhone 5 racked up sales of over 2 million, according to official sales figures published by Apple...

The first TD-SCDMA to use the Windows Phone operating system in China has been launched by Nokia and China Mobile...

Apple is more than doubling the number of countries in which it sells the iPhone 5, with the goal of adding “more than 50” markets to the current total of 47 by the end of this year...

The latest model of Apple’s iPhone will be available through two of China’s largest operators by the end of the year...

Russian operator MTS has announced a partnership with Microsoft to promote innovative mobile solutions...

Two new devices have been added to Nokia’s Asha Touch range, a collection of relatively low-cost, mid-tier devices which are largely focussed on emerging markets...

Subscriber data from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology indicates that the Chinese market is on track to meet previous predictions in the coming years through 2016...

The next iteration of the Apple iPhone – rumoured to be the iPhone 5 – may function on China Mobile’s 3G TD-SCDMA network, according to an industry observer...

China’s market for connected devices – including smartphones, tablets, M2M and other electronics – will be worth six times its present value by 2020...

ZTE has launched its latest smartphone in Turkey, marking the first time that a model in its Grand series has been made available outside China...

Low-cost devices are set to have a dramatic impact on the Chinese smartphone market...

The low-cost smartphone could finally be upon us, with Vodafone announcing that it will launch the Smart II across 25 of its markets...

Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform reportedly now has a greater market share in China than Apple’s iPhone – despite having been available there for just two months...

With tablets finding an eager audience in Southeast Asia, Android is emerging as the most prevalent operating system for the devices...

A new agreement will provide buyers of Android phones in India with free airtime...

Google’s Android OS has affirmed its dominance in the Chinese smartphone market, with the number of devices running the OS more than doubling in 2011...

The first CDMA Windows Phone to go on sale in China is being readied for launch...

This year will almost certainly see China overtake the US to become the largest smartphone market in the world...

With mobility on the rise among India’s small and medium businesses, the market has witnessed a significant shift towards adoption of mobile devices and services such as smart phones, tablets, wireless cards, data plans and hosted applications. More than two thirds of India SMBs (companies having <1000 employees) own at least one smart phone or tablet, and almost half plan to purchase more devices in the next year...

One of the leading telecom groups in the Latin America region has acquired an analytics tool in order to analyse the composition of its installed base of devices...

With a growing number of mobile phones coming to market with invalid identification IMEI numbers, device configuration and intelligence provider Mobilethink is launching a generic settings tool as part of its remit to support all devices used in GEM markets...

2012 may be the year of the low-cost smartphone following the introduction of a 1GHz Android smartphone platform for TD-SCDMA and EDGE/WiFi...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has granted China Unicom permission to begin offering Apple’s latest iteration of the iPhone, the 4S model...

Smartphone shipments reached a record 24 million units in China during the third quarter of 2011, surpassing the 23 million units shipped in the US...