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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Topic: smartphones

Smartphone rebound sparks signs of life in Asia’s tech cycle

Rise in global sales and better demand for smartphones signal a recovery for Asia's ailing tech industry, whose fallen sales have hurt economic growth

A phone cluttered with pictures good or bad? Depends on how you use your camera

From selfies causing anxiety to picture taking being a private art form, new studies explore if our smartphones are aiding or disabling us.

Microsoft looks to rewrite history on its phone business

Three years after retreating from the smartphone business, Microsoft has taken the wraps off the Surface Duo, a dual-screened device to be launched in 2020.

Global smartphone supply will be affected by 100-year-old strife between Japan & South Korea

With South Korean electronic device manufacturers reliant on chemicals from Japan, any delay in their production has the potential to disrupt global tech supply chains.

Smartphones business might be struggling, but there is one market preparing for a boom

There's been a slowdown in global smartphone sales. Not for companies that make the sensors powering your phone’s camera though.

Crack open an iPhone and you’ll see why Trump’s ongoing trade war with China makes no sense

Trump seems to believe that imports of iPhones or everything else from China represent money it’s 'taking out' of US and using to 'rebuild' China.

Huawei braces for a steep drop in overseas smartphone sales

Huawei sales & marketing managers are internally charting a drop in volumes of anywhere between 40 million & 60 million smartphones this year.

Google launches cheaper Pixel phones as it battles Apple & Samsung

Google is counting on its cheaper Pixel to fill in for people left behind by the rising price of many high-end phones.

Samsung can learn from Apple that boring beats sexy

Exploding of Galaxy Note 7 to poor product execution of Galaxy Fold, Samsung forgot that most consumers want a product that works, and not the one that excites.

Future of democracy is literally in India’s hands — through smartphones

The smartphone is dramatically reconfiguring human character in India, and the long-term consequences for the country’s fragile democracy.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.