But if you really want to succeed in
the smartphone manufacturing business, you won't make it like this.
Not exact matches
With total
smartphone sales surpassing 1 billion in 2013, it's not a bad time to be in the
business of
manufacturing memory chips for those little computers we've got in our pockets.
Will this mega-lawsuit dramatically alter the way our devices are
manufactured and, in turn, affect our decision - making process when buying a
smartphone for personal or
business use?
«We announced some exciting news today: We have entered into an agreement to purchase Nokia's Devices & Services
business, which includes their
smartphone and mobile phone
businesses, their award - winning design team,
manufacturing and assembly facilities around the world, and teams devoted to operations, sales, marketing and support,» revealed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a letter to Nokia employees.
Still, Blackberry CEO John Chen stayed committed to the
smartphone business despite investors urging him to end the company's commitment to hardware
manufacturing.
Samsung's display
manufacturing arm has reduced its reliance on the company's
smartphone division and strengthened its
business with Chinese
smartphone brands.
For those who didn't know, TCL is the new company that owns and
manufactures both Blackberry and Alcatel
smartphones since the latter officially pulled out of the handset
manufacturing business last year.
But Microsoft has failed to grow the
smartphone business in the mobile phone market and stopped
manufacturing the Lumia Series
smartphones in October 2014, but it remained the feature phones.
Never a first - rate
smartphone vendor on a global scale, despite going into the Android handheld
manufacturing business more than five years ago, Asus stubbornly remains committed to the often confusing ZenFone lineup.
The announcement comes after Foxconn learned that its core
manufacturing business could face serious challenges due to the declining demand for
smartphones globally.
Samsung's display
manufacturing arm has reduced its reliance on the company's
smartphone division and strengthened its
business with Chinese
smartphone brands.
After Blackberry quitting the hardware
business, we have seen a couple of decent
smartphones that
manufactured by its partners.
There are those who say that Nokia itself, which is now in the
business of telecommunications equipment
manufacture, is staging the Nokia
smartphone's relaunch.
Samsung's
smartphone business is vertically integrated to a large extent with Samsung
manufacturing most of the components used in its
smartphones.