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iPhone loses its top spot in China: iPhones is known as the top selling smartphones in China since 2012. This crown is no longer with Apple because it is taken by Android. According to the new reports from Counterpoint Research, Oppo's R9 has taken the lead in top selling smartphone in China. The report says that 17 million R9 units were sold in China last year. These numbers are equal to 4% of the market share. In comparison, Apple managed to sell only 12 million units of the iPhone 6s, which is only 2% of the market. The report also says that Oppo's shipments in China increased by 106% whereas Apple's flagship declined by 21%. Source: http://tecupdates.com/iphone-loses-its-top-spot-in-china/

Samsung Sales in Q4 2016: Samsung announced its sales report of Quarter 2016. Although Note 7 incident was a mess but the Korean giant managed to sell 90 million smartphones and 8 million tablets in 2016. Their sales report mentioned $18.8 billion sales revenue for the IT & Mobile Communications and $2 billion operational profit. Looks like Note 7 did not affect Samsung sales at all. Customer still buying Samsung products. Source: www.tecupdates.com

Causes of Note 7 Battery fires - Samsung details: Today, Samsung mobile business chief Dong-jin Koh identified what went wrong with their Galaxy Note 7 handsets who caught fire. Samsung recalled all Note 7 all around the world due to this mishap, which is said to be worst technology, recalls in recent times. The conference held in Seoul, South Korea today (23 rd  Jan 2017). Dong-jin Koh, apologize to customers and suppliers. The Galaxy Note 7 handsets were packed with lithium-ion batteries, which are arranged in three layers: Positive electrode, Negative electrode Physical layer that acted as the separator between the first two. When the positive and negative electrodes touch, it can sometimes lead to short circuits within the battery cells. Koh clarified in the primary set of batteries, which were moved out with the original Note 7, there was a problem with the upper right corner of the battery cell. "He said, adding incorrect positioning of the negative elec...

Samsung Nougat Devices: Nougat update is already out for Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Now, Samsung has revealed list of phones and tablets which are getting Android N update. Here under list of devices getting Nougat update in 1 st  half of 2017: List of Samsung Devices receiving Nougat Update: Galaxy S6 Galaxy S6 edge Galaxy S6 edge+ Galaxy Note 5 Galaxy Tab A with S Pen Galaxy Tab S2 LTE (unlocked variant) Galaxy A3 Galaxy A8  Surprisingly, J series is nowhere to be found in the above list. This list is not final at least for now. The remaining phones might get the Nougat update not before at least third quarter 2017. At the moment Samsung is working on the stability of Android N in their recent flagships and high end devices. Source: http://tecupdates.com/samsung-nougat-devices/

LG launching G6 event on Feb 26 at Mobile World  Congress: LG already teased us with their  G6 video.  Now the company started to invite media and press event because it’s going to launch its G6 launching event in MWC. The invitation says “See More, Play More”. At this moment, we could say that G6 is going to have a large screen (See More) while the other part indicates a bigger battery (Play More). The event is going to held at 12:00 (local time, Barcelona) on February 26. Here is what we know so far about LG’s latest flagship G6: The design will be metal and glass. Luckily, they will continue to add 3.5 mm jack. New display with 18:9 aspect ratio. LG teaser aims at the G6 being waterproof and having a larger display. 5.7” display with a resolution of 2880×1440 pixels is what we could guess. LG could not get much out of G5 last year. Let us hope their new device will not suffer last year’s situation.

Google Play vs App Store: We just received a report of app revenue related to two largest app stores, Google Play by Android and App Store by Apple. Apple’s revenue reached $5.4 billion in Q4 of 2016. It’s 60% increase year on year. As market share of Google is more than Apple, we could see that Google's Play Store is enjoying an even more growth which is 82% compared to the same period of 2015 but is still trailing the App Store in absolute figures. It is $3.3 billion total which is less than what Apple's store generated the year before. If we talk about the total platforms combined, the numbers are $8.7 billion which is 67% increase. 19.2 billion app installs were estimated to have taken place in Q4 2016 and that's a more modest 17% increase compared to the same period of 2015. Source: www.tecupdates.com

LG G6 teaser video: Last year was not so good with the LG’s flagship G5. The phone received some critics and could not get much attention. This time LG trying its best to get back in the game. That is right. LG G6 is coming February 2017 or March 2017. LG selected this time because its rival Samsung is also launching its long awaited Galaxy S8 in one of these months. LG announced that they managed the display of 18:9 aspect ratio with a resolution of 2880×1440 pixels. They started to ask some random questions like what we want to be in our phone. Different people has different answers. That is all LG is talking about. A bigger phone with less bezels. We’ll see soon what they’re upto. Source: www.tecupdates.com

HTC U Ultra Specs and Pics: Today HTC announced their two new phones, HTC Ultra U and HTC Play U. Hereunder the specs we have come to know so far of HTC Ultra U HTC Ultra U Specs: 2.1 Ghz Snapdragon 821 5.7" QHD display (2560x1440) 2.05” secondary display on top (160x1040) 3000 mAH battery 12 Ultra Pixel rear facing camera capable to record 4K video 16 Mega Pixel front facing camera with 1080p video recording Android 7.0 with HTC Sense HTC Usonic (Boom Sound and Adaptive Audio) HTC Sense companion 64/128 GB of internal storage 4GB of RAM Everyone (including me) hoping that they will give Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 in their flagships but they followed Google Pixel here by giving Snapdragon 821. Although there is not much difference between SD820 and 821 we could see how these glossy looking phones could bring for HTC. HTC U Ultra Color options: Source: http://tecupdates.com/htc-u-ultra/

HTC U Ultra: HTC decided to to launch anything big in CES event. Instead, they decided to schedule their own event in January 12 th 2017 (This Thursday). Today we saw some images and specs of HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play. Reports are saying that  HTC One X10 is also a device which HTC is going to launch. In the above video we could see that HTC made the letter U a huge part of its upcoming event. We cannot miss this event so HTC is live-streaming their event in their website. The live streaming goes live at 4 PM Taiwan time, which is 12 AM PST, 3 AM EST, 8 AM GMT, 9 AM CET, 1:30 PM IST. It is clear that HTC will launch a new line of smartphones (U-branded). According to latest reports we have, HTC is launching three new devices in their event. The names of these devices will probably be HTC U Play, HTC U and HTC X10. Some specs of these phones are already out few hours ago. HTC U ULTRA Pictures: Hereunder some pictures we have of the HTC U Ultra: More ...

HTC Vive smartphone leaked: Now a day’s smartphone market is full of similar looking devices whereas people are different with different type of usage with their smartphones. Taiwanese based company, HTC used these two sentences in their opening sound in a few seconds video of leaked HTC Vive video. Evleaks posted a 90 second video on Twitter showing flashing images of different phones looks the same by introducing HTC Vive. In the end of the video we see a new device by HTC with HTC Vive branding on the back of the phone. It is yet to see if HTC is launching this device in MWC. Source: www.tecupdates.com

Nokia 6 hands on: Nokia is back in the game and announced it’s mid-range smartphone Nokia 6 (Exclusively in China). The phone is approximately cost $250 providing aluminum body. Here under Nokia 6 latest images we received. Nokia 6 Specs: The phone is packed with interesting features starting from Android Nougat 7.0. Nokia 6 has Snapdragon 430 chipset which is an octa-core Cortex-A53 with Adreno 505 GPU and 4GB of RAM. It’s screen is 5.5” (1080 HD screen) with curved 2.5D Gorilla Glass sheet. Nokia 6 offers 16MP rear camera with F/2.0 lens. If we talk about the front it has 8MP camera with the same aperture. Internal memory is 64GB which is enough for your media files and photos. Nokia 66 could record 1080p@30fps. Hereunder the video we have about Nokia 6:

One Plus Dash Charge: Over the passage of time in smartphone industry revolution, fast processing is something in which every manufacturer has its grip if we talk about Android  ( Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 )  or IOS (A10) fusion backed with 4GB and 6GB of rams we found on our personal computers few years ago. What companies are highly focusing on its battery because these powerful SOC’s consume batteries even though these processors have battery efficient algorithms. Fast charging has its own pros and cons as we already saw one in the case of Galaxy Note 7. Even though fast charging technology is flourishing. For your info, Qualcomm has QuickCharge, MediaTek has Pump Express, Oppo has VOOC,and OnePlus has Dash Charge. What’s the difference in these technologies? Emily Ratajkowski is here to answer :-) That's how marketing works :-) Source: www.tecupdates.com