Xiaomi, China’s New Phone Giant, Takes Aim at World

Xiaomi, China's New Phone Giant, Takes Aim at World

NEW DELHI—When Xiaomi Corp. launched a new smartphone here in April, there was an air of chaos. Employees were still stuffing gift bags that morning, and a few staffers from Beijing headquarters, pressed for time, arrived on tourist rather than business ... Read more

All News & Tips about Smartphone - June 8, 2015

The End of the Smartphone: What It Means for Investment Professionals

The next global extinction event is on the horizon . . . and it will dramatically change how the wealth management industry conducts day-to-day business, including how it connects with clients. The day that your iPhone or Android grows as obsolete as the ... Read more

BlackBerry Leap quick video review: A good smartphone but purely for work

BlackBerry Leap The Leap is a natural progression of the Z3 and looks and feels a bit like that phone. The design is sleek and contemporary. There is a textured back which makes gripping and working with the phone real easy. Specs: 5.0 inch (720x1280p ... Read more

You Get Just 1.26GB of Free Space on This 8GB Smartphone

As the old saying goes, there are lies, damned lies, and advertised internal storage capacities for mobile devices. Manufacturers misrepresenting usable space on devices is a trick with a long and storied history, but Sony's Xperia M4 Aqua is the most ... Read more

Remittances at the Click of a Smartphone Button

LONDON — When Stellah Vardling was getting ready recently for her birthday party, she did what many 22-year-olds would have done. She asked her family for money to help pay for the party. Yet Ms. Vardling, who lives in Kampala, Uganda, did not turn to ... Read more

Samsung's new dual display, foldable smartphone patent is ripe for a future Galaxy Note

Just a few weeks ago we heard about Samsung's Project Valley which was rumoured to be a dual display, foldable smartphone concept. To further that chain of rumours, we have word today that Samsung has taken out a number of design patents that design ... Read more

BETTER RE turns old smartphone batteries into portable power packs

Just because you're done with an old smartphone doesn't mean you should be done with its battery. A product called the BETTER RE is applying the concept of upcycling to extend the life of discarded smartphone batteries by turning them into portable ... Read more

I bought a $200 Android 'flagship' smartphone and it changed everything

A few weeks ago my one-and-a-half-year-old Nexus 5 started to misbehave. Its power button wasn't holding up well, forcing the phone to switch off a dozen times, while also making it a chore to turn the phone back on again. I realized the phone was on its ... Read more

Global smartphone users to hit 6.1b by 2020

Today there are 2.6 billion smartphone subscriptions globally, and while growth has been levelling off in developed markets like the U.S. and Europe, it's not stalling altogether by a long shot. By 2020, globally there will be 6.1 smartphone users led by ... Read more

5 Things Sold by Xiaomi, China's Hot Smartphone Startup

Xiaomi, the Chinese company with the hard-to-pronounce name (an approximation: sh-YEOW-mee), is one of the world's fastest growing smartphone companies. Just five years old, Xiaomi sells advanced smartphones at bargain prices, saving costs by selling ... Read more