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12 Mar Apple to expand applied research labs in Shanghai and Shenzhen as iPhone sales weaken in world’s largest smartphone market

Posted at 11:30h in Asia

Apple is enlarging its applied research operations in mainland China, as the US technology giant’s iPhone sales slow in the world’s largest smartphone market amid increased competition from Huawei Technologies and other major domestic handset vendors.Cupertino, California-based Apple plans to expand its research centre in...

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02 Mar Chinese smartphone giants Honor and Xiaomi show AI’s vast market potential at MWC Barcelona to challenge Samsung, other global rivals

Posted at 07:08h in Asia

At a nearby booth in the same MWC Barcelona exhibition floor, Xiaomi displayed its new flagship handset model, the 14 Ultra, which features enhanced photography features and AI capabilities. The handset’s AI Album Search function employs natural language processing that enables users to locate specific...

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26 Feb China’s Honor bets on AI smartphones for global growth ahead of an expected market rebound

Posted at 09:30h in Asia

Chinese smartphone maker Honor, a spin-off from Huawei Technologies, is counting on artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise how users interact with its smartphones and help it gain more ground amid intensifying global competition.Honor CEO George Zhao Ming laid out the company’s new AI strategy at...

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21 Feb China’s foldable smartphone shipments more than double in 2023, as Huawei continues to lead the growing handset segment

Posted at 11:30h in Asia

Foldable phone shipments in mainland China more than doubled last year in spite of overall weakness in the world’s largest smartphone market, with Huawei Technologies remaining the country’s top vendor in this growing handset segment.Mainland shipments of foldable smartphones reached 7.01 million units last year,...

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05 Feb Huawei reclaims top spot in China’s smartphone sales ranking, its first time back since company was added to US blacklist

Posted at 12:00h in Asia

Huawei Technologies climbed back to the No 1 spot of China’s smartphone market in the initial two weeks of this year, according to a report by research firm Counterpoint, putting more pressure on 2023 industry leader Apple and major mainland rivals...

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26 Jan Samsung to integrate Baidu’s AI model into new Galaxy S24 handsets, as mainland Chinese rivals push new smartphones with similar tech

Posted at 23:00h in Asia

Under a strategic partnership between Samsung’s China arm and Baidu AI Cloud, the recently unveiled Galaxy S24 series will deploy the Ernie LLM to perform the handset’s new “Circle to Search” feature that enables users on the mainland to search texts, images...

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23 Jan China’s smartphone market recovers in 2023 amid increased competition, Huawei’s strong comeback in 5G handset segment

Posted at 12:00h in Asia

Domestic smartphone shipments totalled 289 million units last year, compared with 272 million in 2022, according to the latest report published on Monday by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a scientific research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.That...

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16 Jan Apple gets deeper into China’s smartphone price wars with widening iPhone discounts, but rival Huawei stays above the fray

Posted at 12:30h in Asia

Apple’s atypical discount drive on the mainland shows the US tech giant’s focus to gain ground in the world’s second-biggest economy amid sluggish global iPhone sales, which has seen the company hit by two ratings downgrades in the first week of this year.Huawei Technologies’...

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10 Jan Can Beethoven, Bach and Mozart help iPhone sales in China? Apple to launch classical music app on mainland amid sluggish demand for its flagship product

Posted at 13:00h in Asia

Apple will soon make its classical music app available in mainland China, expanding the US tech giant’s digital services offering in the world’s largest smartphone market where sales of the iPhone are seeing a deepening decline.The Apple Music Classical app,...

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