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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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19 Feb Chinese smartphone vendors from Meizu to Oppo step up AI integration in their devices amid expected industry recovery in 2024

Posted at 09:30h in Asia

“Meizu will build an ecosystem to fully open its AI devices to leading global LLM providers, including OpenAI, to jointly promote AI innovation and development,” the company said.An Oppo internal letter released on February 18, 2024, said the impact of artificial intelligence on its industry...

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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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02 Feb Apple’s China sales fall 13% in December quarter amid weak iPhone demand, increased competition from Huawei

Posted at 11:29h in Asia

Apple reported a nearly 13 per cent drop in revenue from its Greater China region in the December quarter, a setback that chief executive Tim Cook shrugged off amid the US tech giant’s overall global growth and its steadfast confidence in the...

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31 Jan Chinese selfie apps giant Meitu sees profits triple in 2023 on back of new generative AI-powered tools

Posted at 10:23h in Asia

Chinese selfie apps giant Meitu said new image-and-video-editing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) helped the company triple its profits last year, in stark contrast to how many other firms struggle to monetise the technology through their own generative AI...

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30 Jan Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus returns to Germany after sister firm Oppo strikes global 5G patent cross-licensing pact with Nokia

Posted at 12:00h in Asia

Shenzhen-based OnePlus on Monday brought back six smartphone models to the world’s fourth-largest economy, including the foldable OnePlus Open, according to the firm’s German website. OnePlus also started pre-orders for its latest OnePlus 12 and OnePlus 12R handsets.Before this week, OnePlus only...

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28 Jan Chinese police crack down on ‘Apple ID loan’ rackets, some of which were advertised under Tim Cook’s name

Posted at 01:00h in Asia

Police in China have arrested more than 40 people in relation to fraudulent schemes that target iPhone users in the country, whereby people give up their personal Apple IDs to obtain a loan, allowing the lenders to abuse their accounts.In a typical example of how...

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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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18 Jan Apple chip supplier TSMC expects a return to ‘healthy growth’, backing hopes for global tech recovery in 2024

Posted at 08:38h in Asia

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) expects a return to solid growth this quarter and gave itself room to raise capital spending this year, suggesting the world’s most valuable chip maker anticipates a recovery in smartphone and computing demand.The main semiconductor supplier to...

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