Tag Archives: feature phones
How KaiOS claimed the third-place mobile crown
In December 2015, Mozilla announced it would be abandoning Firefox OS as a smartphone platform. Many assumed the company's withdrawal would kill any hope of a mobile operating system built around the open web, rather than a combination of native apps...
Google is making the Assistant smarter on feature phones
Google is doubling down on KaiOS, the "light" operating system that makes low-cost feature phones feel a little smarter. Today, the company announced that the Google Assistant will be upgraded with Voice Typing "over the coming months," allowing KaiO...
Here’s Looking at You/Me/We in 2014
What strikes you most about movies and TV shows from just a few years back? For me: the phones. Until about five years ago, most people had flip phones (mine was a T-Mobile special, very age-...
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Targeting $9 Billion Market, Perfecto Mobile’s Sales To Hit $100 Million By 2016
Eran Yaniv has been ahead of the curve before, but now he thinks his timing is right. And that could mean he enjoys another big startup payday by 2016. That’s because his automated mobile app...
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Cyber Monday 2013 Sales are Up 21% at Half-time
The Cyber Monday 2013 sale was predicted to be the biggest online shopping day with a sales volume around $2.2 billion. As things stand at noon ET, Cyber Monday 2013 is also going to be biggest yet....
One in 10 smartphones sold in Europe is a Windows phone
Windows Phone is making a real progress and now makes up one in 10 smart phone sales across the main five major European markets; which are the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain. According to the...
Gartner: Android Holds 82% Shares while Samsung Tops the Worldwide Smartphone Sales Again
It seems the Android market has reached the point of super-saturation. And never before in its history has the sales of smartphones made it to 55% of the overall market. In third quarter of 2013,...
Sony Xperia Z1F and Samsung Galaxy J announced for NTT DoCoMo
Japanese mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo, has just revealed its 2013 winter/ 2014 spring lineup of cool devices which includes ten smartphones, one tablet, two feature phones, two mobile Wi-Fi...
T-Mobile Drops Upfront Price on All Devices to Zero Dollars Down
T-Mobile USA has just announced its all new 'Zero Dollar' sale under a new back-to-school promotion. US retailer has dropped the upfront price on its entire lineup of devices in stores all over US....