Smartphones

Apple’s iPhone shipments in China surge 20% in Q1: Counterpoint

This comes as overall shipments drop 4% in the world’s largest smartphone market

Apple led the smartphone market for the first time in a first quarter with a 21% market share.

Apple leads smartphone market even as overall shipments decline: Counterpoint

The decline is primarily driven by memory players prioritising AI data centres over consumer electronics

The initiative is the newest chapter in a years-long effort to bring to market Bezos’ long-held vision of a ubiquitous voice-driven computing assistant.

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The broader memory cost crunch is forecast to persist throughout 2026, forcing handset makers into difficult trade-offs between managing costs, protecting margins and hitting shipment targets.

Apple’s China smartphone sales jump 23% to start 2026, bucking industry trend

The US tech giant’s tight grip on its supply chain leaves it better placed than rivals to absorb the impact of soaring memory chip costs

Samsung introduced Galaxy Z TriFold late last year as a showcase of its engineering prowess.

Samsung to stop selling US$2,899 TriFold phone after three months

The Korean company will begin by halting sales in its home market

Viettel frames “commercialising 6G” not merely as offering telecoms services, but also as monetising technology products it develops and manufactures.

Vietnam’s Viettel to develop AI smartphone, makes foray into 6G device development

It has joined an alliance led by Qualcomm to speed up global deployment of the AI-native cellular network technology from 2029

The 17e includes the A19 chip, the same processor that’s in the regular iPhone 17 from last year, as well as Apple’s in-house C1X cellular modem component.

Apple launches iPhone 17e and M4 iPad Air, starting product wave

The company has also been planning to introduce new laptops this week

Honor is yet to give details of the robot’s specifications, pricing or production rollout.

China’s Honor shows humanoid and robot phone demo in AI pivot

The company and its Chinese peers are expected to look for ways to push consumers towards more expensive, premium devices as one way to offset rising costs

Memory chips, or DRAM, are crucial to smartphones as they allow power-hungry applications to run smoothly.

Smartphone market set for biggest-ever decline in 2026 on memory price surge: IDC

The research firm expects a modest 2% recovery in 2027 as the crisis eases

Honor, which went independent from Huawei Technologies in 2020, says it will be first among its peers to enter the humanoid segment.

Chinese smartphone maker Honor plans humanoid service robot

The robot will make its debut at the MWC Barcelona tech conference