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BlackBerry’s Priv smartphone used to be only available at AT&T and T-Mobile. But Verizon Wireless has since announced that it is also selling the BlackBerry device, although at a higher price.
According to market research firm IDC, the growth rate of smartphone shipments in the world is expected to decrease to 5.7 percent in 2016. This is a far cry from the 10.4 percent increase that global smartphone shipments posted in terms of growth rate in the previous year. This is a further sign that worldwide, the market for smartphones are indeed slowing down.
Ever since it was launched in the United States market back in September of last year, Samsung Pay has achieved faster growth than Apple Pay, as reported by Bloomberg.
Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, has released a report saying that smartphone ownership in major smartphone markets around the world have now reached full saturation levels. In other words, Milanesi thinks that the global smartphone industry is now at its peak, in terms of growth.
You may have already heard by now that Samsung has finally formally introduced its flagship devices for this year. A day before the annual Mobile World Congress is set to start in the city of Barcelona in Spain, the South Korean tech giant has unveiled its Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge devices.
A startup company based in the second most populous country in the world has just started selling what could be the cheapest smartphone on the face of the planet. Yup, Indian tech firm Ringing Bells has released the Freedom 251 device, a fully functioning smartphone that is powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system, and comes with a really, really friendly price of just 251 rupees, which basically is about $4.
Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) TextNow Wireless presents a couple of treats for its customers. Firstly, the wireless carrier is now selling one of Samsung’s flagship devices, the Galaxy S6 Edge, for a price of only $299.99 refurbished. And secondly, the mobile service provider is also launching its free international calling service.
As Microsoft can attest, challenging Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS in the world of mobile operating systems is no walk in the park. For Mozilla, it knew that its Firefox OS only had a slim chance of becoming as successful as Android or iOS. And it did not help that growth has been very, very slow in the last twelve months. When Mozilla finally ceded defeat by last week, the company itself kind of expected it.
As far as mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) go, US Mobile is not even that popular. Sure, it uses T-Mobile’s network in delivering its mobile phone services, but other than that, many would think of the wireless carrier something that is not a household name. Well, this little MVNO just became the first ever wireless carrier in the United States to sell smartphones produced by Chinese phone makers Xiaomi and Meizu.
It appears that Snapchat is currently testing features such as video and audio calling, as well as stickers within the its chat service environment (view the screenshots here, courtesy of XDA). To date, Snapchat works only with text or images accessed from the camera roll.
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