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HTC has officially announced its newest flagship device, the HTC 10. As can be expected of any major smartphone release from the Taiwanese phone maker, the HTC is a high end smartphone offering with plenty of impressive specifications and features. But in an incredibly competitive Android smartphone market, it is somewhat puzzling that HTC’s latest high profile device will be offered by only three of the Big Four wireless carriers in the United States.
Google has an in-house tool that allows mobile users to test the audio and touch latency commands for Android and Chromebook products, and the tech giant has publicly posted it recently, with the hope that by making the tool readily accessible to anyone, the industry as a whole can improve and make way for even better responding mobile devices.
Samsung is offering yet another native mobile app, and as a matter of fact, has already listed it on the Google Play Store. The Samsung Music app has now been made available by the South Korean tech giant on the Play Store. But it should be noted though that the mobile app is still in beta, which may be a bummer to some. However, it does make it easier for Samsung to launch updates to individual apps without needing to deploy new updates to the whole software.
Because of the popularity of mobile video streaming services (Verizon Wireless’ Go90, T-Mobile’s Binge On), it is sometimes easy to forget that certain phone makers still decide to equip their smartphone products with support for FM radio, especially for their devices that they are targeting to be released in emerging mobile markets. But why, you may ask?
The legal battle between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has hit some headlines lately, and has certainly got people talking about individual privacy, national secrecy, and of course, mobile encryption. As for that last one -- mobile encryption -- not all mobile users actually know what is and what is not encrypted on their mobile devices. Hence, we created a post to provide a primer on that subject.
BlackBerry’s Priv smartphone used to be only available at AT&T and T-Mobile. But Verizon Wireless has since announced that it is also selling the BlackBerry device, although at a higher price.
According to market research firm IDC, the growth rate of smartphone shipments in the world is expected to decrease to 5.7 percent in 2016. This is a far cry from the 10.4 percent increase that global smartphone shipments posted in terms of growth rate in the previous year. This is a further sign that worldwide, the market for smartphones are indeed slowing down.
Ever since it was launched in the United States market back in September of last year, Samsung Pay has achieved faster growth than Apple Pay, as reported by Bloomberg.
Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, has released a report saying that smartphone ownership in major smartphone markets around the world have now reached full saturation levels. In other words, Milanesi thinks that the global smartphone industry is now at its peak, in terms of growth.
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