T-Mobile Continues to Roll Through 2017
First to report of the major US carriers, T-Mobile looks to remain ahead of the pack on phone net adds both this quarter and for the rest of the…
JioPhone: Accelerating India to Cross The 4G Chasm
The most disruptive 4G operator in India Jio, part of Reliance Industries, announced a category of 4G Feature Phone "JioPhone" which is essentially…
New Attempts at Hardware Differentiation : Bezel-Free & Alternative Aspect Ratio Smartphones
In a quest for increased display sizes and new forms of hardware differentiation, leading smartphone OEMs are turning to new solutions to increase…
Audio Tech: Cinderella’s Going to the Ball
With smartphones becoming the primary source of music for many consumers, handset OEMs have been steadily improving the audio quality of their…
WWDC 2017 : Powerful New Hardware, Augmented Reality and Machine Learning
Apple's annual WWDC 2017 kicked off today in San Jose, California. Apple’s annual WWDC 2017 conference was centred on getting its legions of…
Can Android ”O” de-fragment Android ?
Google enjoys a dominant position smartphone operating systems with close to 85% of the market. To keep up with its main rival Apple, Google…
Infographic: Q1-2017 | Mobile Market Monitor
Our Q1-2017 Market Monitor report has been published. We release one Infographic in each quarter to summarize handset and smartphone market…
Wanna Crypt: Not the first and definitely not the Last
In the last week, World news has been filled with words like ransomware, virus attack and ‘Wanna Cry’. However, apart from these buzz words it’s hard…
Qualcomm’s “Affordable Premium” Strategy Blossoms with Latest Snapdragon 660/630 Platforms
Counterpoint Analysts participated at Qualcomm's latest launch events for its Snapdragon 600 platform's latest solutions 660 and 630 at Snapdragon…
Huawei, Oppo & vivo Dominate China Smartphone Market
According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service, the smartphones shipments in China grew a modest 4% annually during Q1…
“Affordable Premium” Smartphones Grew 49% Annually in Q1 2017
Global smartphone shipments grew 11% in Q1 2017 compared to Q1 2016. This is a stark contrast from the -2% decline Q1 2016 endured. The industry…
Road block for IoT Revolution: IoT Privacy and Security
There are various definitions of IoT, but to keep things simple we will say everything that can be “connected” will be connected. IoT promises an…
Oppo, vivo and Gionee are driving the selfie-trend in India
Key takeaways Overall mobile handsets and the smartphone segment witnessed a healthy growth of 6% and 15% YoY respectively in Q1 2017. Smartphones…
Amazon Echo Look: playing a longer game
Amazon is introducing a new variant of the Echo voice assistant, Echo Look. It is currently available only by invitation at a cost of $199. It is…
Key Takeaways from Huawei Analyst Summit – HAS 2017
Huawei held the 14th annual Huawei Global Analyst Summit (HAS) in Shenzhen from April 11th to April 13th. The theme of this year’s event was “Leading…
How will eSIMs drive the IOT revolution ?
A staggering 50 billion IoT devices are expected to be connected by 2020, making IoT one of the hottest topics at this year’s MWC. Cellular…
One in Two Smartphones Sold Globally Sports a TLC NAND Flash Memory Solution
The smartphone has become one of the most important devices in the world today, enabling people around the globe to connect, communicate, create and…
China Mobile : 500 Million LTE Subs :: A Unique Milestone
Since the first rollout of LTE networks at the end of last decade, the global LTE subscriptions or connections over the last seven years has swelled…