Firefox to stop selling its own smartphones
If 2014 was a year of brave new mobile operating systems, challenging Android’s dominance with open platforms and modern cloud-oriented designs, 2016 looks set to be the year when their hopes die. A...
View ArticleIndonesia’s smartphone boom may fail to happen
Indonesia’s expected smartphone fireworks may have fizzled out before they were even visible in the dark sky of handset market slowdown. Logically, the world’s third largest country should be a bright...
View ArticleApple buys plants in Taiwan and Silicon Valley
Apple has been steadily increasing its control over its own components and supply chain in recent years, especially for the iDevices. It has developed its own processor family and invested in key...
View ArticleGoogle expands Project Fi to tablets
Google continues to chip away at the traditional mobile operator business model in the US, this time by extending its Project Fi multi-network MVNO service to data-only devices such as tablets,...
View ArticleCES will show the smartphone decade is over
The decade of the smartphone will end this year, as upgrade fatigue sets in and consumers turn their fickle attentions to new devices. Growth in sales will fall below 10% for the first time ever,...
View ArticleWireless and Mobile News From Around the Web
The latest wireless and mobile news from around the web, consolidated into one place for Rethink Wireless readers. CES 2016 Fridges, vacuums, sensors, TVs, cameras all on show at CES 2016 as Samsung,...
View ArticleWireless News from Around the Web
Rethink Wireless understands there are many sources for Wireless news, and while we deliver analysis on what we consider key events, we feel our Rethink Wireless readers should also be aware of...
View ArticleTwo-year contract is dead, but AT&T revives unlimited data
The start of 2016 is being marked by the disappearance of several names we might have expected to be with us forever – not just Motorola handsets and Alcatel, but the two-year contract. Sprint and...
View ArticleFoxconn to get its hands on Sharp at last
Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn of Taiwan has been diversifying its business in recent years, and is now looking to add Japan’s venerable but ailing Sharp to its portfolio, a move which could...
View ArticleNokia’s patent settlement with Samsung disappoints investors
Nokia was the victor in an arbitration court, with a settlement that could generate patent revenues of €200m a year from Samsung. However, analysts had hoped for as much as €250m, and their...
View ArticleeSIM extends its reach to wearables, cars and global roaming
Embedded SIM cards have become a necessary evil for mobile operators. The SIM has been a source of power for them for so long, that attempts by Apple and others to introduce embedded SIMs which they,...
View ArticleMobile World Congress 2016: The big themes in Barcelona
These were the biggest themes this year in Barcelona – no big surprises on the topic list, though there were plenty of unexpected twists within each area, many of them concerned with unexpected new...
View ArticleeSIM standards gain support in connected car sector
The GSMA’s Embedded SIM (eSIM) standards proposal was in the spotlight in Barcelona, as operators increasingly acknowledge that millions of connected things will need to be automatically and remotely...
View ArticleQnovo Sony deal could save the smartphone battery
Smartphones are getting smarter and networks are getting faster, but with the surge in mobile first TV and services such as T-Mobile’s Binge On, smartphone batteries are struggling to keep up – which...
View ArticleThe MNO’s nightmare, an iPhone with eSIM, may come true this year
In 2010, Apple tried to bulldoze an embedded SIM card into the industry before it was ready. The company was forced to retreat under intense fire from European MNOs, which threatened to refuse to sell...
View ArticleIf Android’s wings are clipped, other Google platform elements may gain power
If Google’s wings are clipped in the mobile market by European Union judgements, other elements of its portfolio may gain heavier strategic weight as it pushes to create a dominant platform that looks...
View ArticleTough balancing act for Apple as it faces iPhone decline
Smartphone vendors rush out high function, affordable models to kickstart upgrade cycle; Apple braces for first ever iPhone sales drop The high end smartphone market is saturated, and slowing upgrade...
View ArticleOsterloh hired for Google’s latest hardware adventure
Former Motorola Mobility president returns to head up a unified hardware effort, but is Google tipping at device windmills again? In its latest triumph of hope over experience, Google is hiring back...
View ArticleOracle-Google copyright battle goes to court again today
A huge $8.8bn damages claim, and the way Android developers operate, are at stake as Google claims ‘fair usage’ Oracle’s legal battle with Google has never achieved the high drama of the Apple-Samsung...
View ArticleGoogle increases investment in CoreOS containers
CoreOS has raised $28m in a second round of financing led by its most strategic supporter Google – money which will help it compete against Docker to be the dominant platform for containerizing Linux...
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