Sentences with phrase «end smartphone business»

When you look at the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sales figures, it's hard to believe that the high - end smartphone business is drying up, but that's exactly what Motorola President Rick Osterloh argued in an...

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Marking the end of an era, the Canadian mobile company's share of the smartphone market has officially reached 0.0 percent, Business Insider reports.

Rubin, who left Google in 2014, is now the CEO of Essential, a startup that plans to release a high - end smartphone to compete with the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy phones, sources have told Business Insider.

In fact, 76 % of people who search for nearby products on their smartphones end up visiting brick - and - mortar businesses within a day.

The South Korean company said that it sold 10m of the new phones after 28 days - and 20m after two months - but soon afterwards financial analysts marked down its stock because they felt the sales were slow, and indicated that the top end of the smartphone business, which the S4 targets, was tapped out.

In its smartphone business, Samsung plans to focus on increasing sales of premium products, while holding the line on mid-range to low - end products.

Smartphones, business meetings, school runs and general life - admin end up quickly packing out already busy schedules.

Sony's plan to exit the PC business might not be the end of the road for its association with Windows as they may still release a series of high end smartphones and tablets running Windows.

«After maintaining smartphone operating - profit margins above 15 % for 10 consecutive quarters, Samsung's margins from its mobile and information technology business were squeezed to just 7 % in the third quarter ended September — the lowest level since the end of 2008, before it launched its first Galaxy smartphone.

When asked why Dell discontinued the Venue line of smartphones, the manufacturer admitted that the phones had run their course internally and that the lifecycle for phones was much shorter in the US than in the aforementioned emerging markets, while admitting that it would rather focus on its core enterprise businesses in the US and work to increase profit margins on its high - end laptop lines.

Microsoft might be out of the smartphone - making business for the time being, but the company has been rumored to be working on a high - end Surface Phone.

Out of all these scenarios, I believe # 7 is the one that will end up happening as the DOJ clearly wants 4 national carriers to remain in competition, and big foreign carriers definitely have the $ $ and know how to operate the wireless industry unlike cable companies and also Google, some people are mentioning Google as a potential buyer but, Google makes smartphones and purchasing T - Mobile will hurt Google's smartphone business with the other carriers.

Still, Blackberry CEO John Chen stayed committed to the smartphone business despite investors urging him to end the company's commitment to hardware manufacturing.

Once the world's dominant phone maker, Nokia Corp failed to compete in touchscreen smartphones and ended up selling its handset business to Microsoft in 2014.

Today, there's clearly a business for eBooks with dedicated Readers and high end smartphones.

Last year, PC Magazine's readers selected Nokia Lumia / Windows Phones as the Business Choice Award for smartphones by scoring them the highest in end - user satisfaction.

Huawei Consumer Business Group Chief Executive Officer Richard Yu said, «We saw particularly fast growth in traditionally high - end smartphone markets such as Europe and emerging markets including North Africa, Central Asia & Latin America.»

Microsoft is also focusing on the low - end with their Nokia Lumia smartphone business — most people are buying these Windows Phone devices because they're very cheap.

A logical conclusion from these results would be that Apple is losing share to Samsung in the high - end segment of the smartphone business, mainly due to the success of the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge.

They're no longer the preserve of high - end smartphones and business - oriented computers.

The iPhone in the high end and Android in the low end disrupted Nokia's smartphone business so absolutely that its market share dropped from the 90 % range to single digits in six years.

In short, if you want a phone that looks the absolute business in the smartphone world, AND builds in some top - end components, you couldn't do much better at the time and even now the M8 is one of the best looking phones around.

For an exorbitant price tag, the manufacturer's X3 smartphone does have some high end configuration under its sleeve and makes it most suitable for business use.

[press] Huawei Consumer Business Group Announces 2014 Financial Performance Focus on High - end Premium Smartphone Strategy Results in 30 % Y - O - Y Sales Revenue Growth to USD 12.2 Billion

The Motorola Moto X Force is a quietly impressive smartphone that handles its high - end business with restrained aplomb, before knocking you out with a single killer hook.

HTC's smartphone business continues to struggle, so Google might end up buying it by the end of the year.

It was reported earlier this month that Google might be acquiring HTC's smartphone business, and now it looks like it might end up being true.

This isn't yet the end of HTC, however, or even of its smartphone business.

While Samsung and Apple compete over high - end flagship smartphones, the mid-range business is lively with plenty of competition.

According to Shao Yang, president of Strategy Marketing at Huawei Consumer Business Group, the smartphone - to - superphone evolution will take place within a 12 - year cycle similar to the one that saw Motorola invent the first feature phone in 1995 and Apple end that cycle by inventing the iPhone in 2007.