New numbers on smartphones suggest they’ve notched a significant milestone. The global market topped 1 billion shipments for the first time in 2013, covering about one-seventh of the world’s population, according to research by IDC.
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Blackberry KEY2 smartphone arrives in the Middle East
The all-new BlackBerry KEY2 is now available across a choice of leading retailers in the UAE and will be available in Saudi Arabia later this month.1 3931
Gartner: 20% of enterprise BYOD programmes to fail by 2016
This will fail happen, according to the research firm, due to enterprise deployment of mobile device management (MDM) measures that are too restrictive. It also predicts that by 2018, less than 0.01 percent of consumer mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their developers.
Review: Skullcandy Crusher
Skullcandy has yet again come up with a sufficiently high-performance product at a reasonable price.
ECB: smartphone mobile payments present serious security risk
The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that current smartphone operating systems represent a security risk as consumers adopt mobile payments.
EMS releases UAE’s ‘very own’ smartphone
EMS has launched its new range of “be” smartphones in five different models.
Sony announces MEA launch of Xperia C smartphone
Sony today announced the Middle East and Africa launch of its Xperia C, a dual SIM Android smartphone.
Samsung in hot water over malfunctioning smartphones
Samsung made a lot of headlines this week, though probably not for the reasons it would like.
Review: Sony Xperia Z Ultra
Sony has brought out the big guns with its Xperia Z Ultra. But given the device’s 6.4-inch display, is it simply too big for everyday use?
Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
On pretty much every quantifiable level, Samsung’s Galaxy S4 beats the HTC One. But that’s not the entire story.
HTC signs content partnerships with four major Arabic outlets
HTC has announced new content partnerships with Al Arabiya, Reuters, Al Jazeera, and CNNArabic.com, which will see stories from all four news outlets added to HTC Blinkfeed, the new HTC experience that aggregates user-relevant content to turn the HTC One home screen into a live information stream.