Worldwide sales of smartphones grew 9pc in Q1Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totalled 380 million units in the first quarter of 2017, a 9.1 per cent increase over the first quarter of 2016, according to a new report from Gartner, a global research and advisory company. More… |
Samsung Q3 profit up 82pc but warns of weaker Q4Tech giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported its first on-year profit growth in two years but warned fourth-quarter earnings will fall sequentially due to exchange rate conditions and seasonally weaker components sales. The More… |
Apple edges out Samsung in Q4 smartphone salesApple Inc sold the most number of smartphones globally in the fourth quarter, overtaking Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for the first time since 2011, according to research firm Gartner. Apple sold 74.83 million smartphones to end use More… |
Huawei 2014 sales to rise 15pc to $46bn: CEOChinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies expects advances in cloud computing and higher demand for smart devices to have lifted 2014 sales revenue by 15 per cent to $46 billion, CEO Ken Hu said in a new year's message on the comp More… |
Huawei 2014 smartphone sales rise by a thirdHuawei Technology’s smartphone sales rose by almost a third to $11.8 billion in 2014, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters, showing the Chinese telecoms firm's continued ascent in the global handset wars. The di More… |
Mideast smartphone sales surge 50pc in Q3Emerging markets witnessed some of the highest sales in smartphones, with the Middle East and Africa achieving the highest increase in the third quarter of 2014, with sales growing almost 50 per cent year-over-year, a report said. More… |
Huawei's smartphone sales hit 20m in 1 yearChina's Huawei Technologies has taken sales of its low-price Honor brand of smartphones to 20 million from 1 million in just one year, hitting pay dirt with the disruptive online-only strategy it copied from smaller upstart Xiaomi. More… |
Lenovo's April-June profit surges 23pcChina's Lenovo Group, the world's biggest maker of personal computers, said net income jumped 23 percent in the first fiscal quarter, as it consolidated its position in the PC market while boosting smartphone shipments. Ne More… |