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You could say the smartphone market is a bloated affair, so when companies like Xiaomi release devices like the Mi Mix, it was rather refreshing to see something «different».

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Earlier this week, market researcher Counterpoint said the iPhone X captured more profits than any other smartphone during the critical fourth quarter.

A recent study by comScore said the iPhone held 27.3 % of the U.S. smartphone market.

Although Apple sold slightly fewer iPhones than expected — and at a lower price — during the quarter, Cook said he's optimistic there's room to run in the smartphone market worldwide.

But BlackBerry smartphones make up only 2.9 percent of the global smartphone market, down from 4.9 percent during the second quarter last year, says Framingham, Mass. - based research firm IDC.

Heins said RIM plans to use its existing BlackBerry 7 line to upgrade feature phone users to their first smartphones in overseas markets where the brand is still wildly popular.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

«Sales of tablet computers and smartphones will eclipse that of PCs, so the market is huge, and there's going to be a number of people who will win,» said Varma.

Cheaper smartphones enable things «like what's the going market rate for the crop or the foods that I gather every day, and knowing that before you actually go to the market,» Lagerling says.

CEO John Chen says the company is working on a set of products that will help it to regain its faltering share of the smartphone market.

«Ubiquity is very attractive, especially in markets like Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where a lot of folks are using feature phones and not smartphones,» he says.

«New smartphones will definitely entice people to upgrade, but vendors are more careful of avoiding oversupply in the channel,» he said, adding that the market could see «a short period of stagnancy» as players refocused on research and development efforts instead of marketing products.

Needless to say, Note 7 cost Samsung 13.5 % of its market share, which now stands at about 20 % of all smartphones sold, according to IDC:

John Boynton, chief marketing officer at Rogers (which owns Canadian Business), says that with smartphones often ranging into the $ 600 and $ 700 range, customers would rather split their costs up over time than fork it all over at once.

And even though much of the opportunity for further growth in the smartphone market is at the low end in emerging markets, don't expect Apple to go down in price much, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said.

But ChildNet will likely stick with Android in the future as it is gaining more traction in the smartphone and tablet markets, said Dipak Parekh, chief financial officer at ChildNet.

RIM chief marketing officer Frank Boulben says the smartphone user experience is at a point of maturity.

Analysts said the move into smartphones is a bit of a head - scratcher, since the company is a late entrant into the highly competitive market.

«Apple and Samsung are very much running away with the smartphone race globally, and it's especially true in a developed market like Canada,» says IDC analyst Kevin Restivo.

«I'm not going to build a general purpose device, simply because it is a 5 - inch touchscreen,» he said, referring to the wide array of fairly standardized touchscreen smartphones in the market right now.

«We will be going from an emerging - market player to a worldwide player in smartphones,» Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Smartphones are a huge market for [semiconductors] overall,» said Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at Bleakley Financial Group.

According to Daniel Debow, Senior Vice-President of Emerging Technologies, wearables are the next wave of the mobile revolution but the market is still in its early stages, «This is as much a platform for business applications, for new uses, for productivity as the smartphone was,» he said.

The firm said in a January 30 letter to investors that its largest collective short position is companies that it thinks will be negatively impacted by a slowdown in the smartphone market.

«I certainly expect RIM to be an extremely active player in the global smartphone industry,» says Rick Costanzo, the company's executive vice-president of global sales and regional marketing.

He said Lenovo was just beginning to advance into the smartphone business and the acquisition of BlackBerry would automatically bring it a large Western market of business phone users.

Google says it is trying to make it easier to create digital marketing campaigns, but online ad experts say the shake - up also appears to an attempt to harvest more revenue from the rapidly growing usage of smartphones and tablets.

The departure of Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft is another sign that the PC market is dying and the software company isn't needed in a computing market dominated by smartphones and tablets, said Dan Niles, senior portfolio manager at AlphaOne Capital Partners.

Chen has previously said if the hardware business doesn't turn profitable, the company will exit the smartphone market in 2016.

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The company, whose low - cost smartphones have won a loyal following not just in China but in other emerging markets like India as well, said it would raise an unspecified amount from the public in order to fund the development of new smartphones and other devices like household gadgets.

«If the issue can not be solved smoothly and immediately, we think that ZTE will face tremendous disaster and would be forced to scale back on its smartphone business, not only in the U.S., but also in other markets,» said Strategy Analytics analyst Woody Oh.

Apple shrugged off its critics, and analysts who said the high - end smartphone market was saturated, by announcing it has sold nine million iPhones in just three days.

«BlackBerry is excited to bring a new BlackBerry QWERTY smartphone, the BlackBerry Q5, to our customers in selected markets around world,» said Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of BlackBerry.

The company said rising competition in both the smartphone and feature phone markets is taking a toll on average selling prices and margins, prompting the company to scale back its previous guidance.

He said that the company still had a relatively small share of the PC market and that the smartphone and tablet businesses were expanding quickly.

Between smartphones and wearables about to hit the market, say goodbye to the traditional wristwatch.

BlackBerry has been struggling to stay relevant in an increasingly - competitive smartphone market, but T - Mobile CEO John Legere said the Canadian smartphone maker was «on a comeback.»

This is reminiscent of the strength of the smartphone and app market during the 2008 — 2010 period in mature markets like the U.S., App Annie said.

Kyocera says it expects to bring its solar - powered smartphone to market soon, possibly in time for the next Mobile World Congress in February 2017.

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Smartphones and computer tablets are the hottest trend in automotive marketing, says Kevin Root, chief product officer at Dealer.com.

«With a starting price of $ 21,500 USD, this new - generation design continues the exceptional combination of value and innovation that made Altima the second best - selling car in the U.S. in 2011,» said Brian Carolin, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing, Nissan North America, Inc. «With its evocative styling, sophisticated interior, rewarding driving experience, smartphone connectivity and available class - exclusive technologies, we expect an even stronger consumer response to the new Altima when it goes on sale this summer.»

«Our Night Drive campaign is a fitting way to launch this vehicle with the opportunity for our target audience to engage with the car through their smartphones,» said Francine Harsini, senior director of Marketing at MMNA.

«In some markets consumers are already making the choice to buy a large smartphone rather than buying a small tablet, and as a result we've lowered our long - term forecast,» said Tom Mainelli.

A new report by market intelligence firm IDC says that the reason why you've been noticing more tablets and smartphones is because PC sales are in decline.

«Northwestel is listening to what residents of the North require in wireless products, and the new BlackBerry Curve 9350 has all the features you'd expect from a BlackBerry smartphone,» said Curtis Shaw, Northwestel's vice president of marketing.

Adobe says that in the last six months, Android Market downloads of Flash Player topped 6 million and that 20 million smartphones were «shipped or upgraded with Flash Player 10.1 software.»

«Smartphones have become integral, personal parts of users» lives — that's why Motorola believes they should be fun, fashionable and feature - packed,» said Fei Liu, senior vice president, mass market consumer products, Motorola Mobility.

ZTE's Axon M foldable smartphone is official in the company's home country as of Tuesday and is now also making its way to select European markets, the Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer said.