HTC follows through with its cost-cutting, cuts 15% of its workforce
The last few years have been a struggle for Taiwanese device manufacturer, HTC, but this last financial period was different. HTC decided that it was time...
Manufacturers
Lenovo will rely on Motorola to design, develop and manufacture smartphone products
Lenovo announced their financial results earlier today, and while their mobile division technically lost $292 million USD, it wasn’t exactly because of recent acquisition, Motorola. In...
Brace yourselves, Nokia is coming: Nokia is hiring Android engineers, readies itself for mobile entry
Nokia was once the most dominant force in mobile phones, but has recently faded into all but obscurity. However, we know the company is down, but...
HTC is in trouble and it’s going to cut jobs and products to get back in the black
The trials and tribulations of Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer, HTC, are well documented by the media, and after their latest poor financial performance – yet another quarter...
LG announces its financial results, mobile sales increase only 1% year-on-year
LG has today announced its financial results for Q2 2015 and the results are, well, meh. As a whole company, LG Electronics made a decent profit...
OnePlus sold 1.5 million OnePlus Ones in its first year
We rarely get to hear how many of one smartphone is sold by any one manufacturer (unless of course they are yelling it from the top...
Rumours of Google buying out LG send LG stocks through the roof
Sometimes rumours are so random that people start to believe them – that was the case today after rumours of Google buying out LG sent LG stocks...
Silicon Valley companies back Samsung in infringement case against Apple
The patent infringement lawsuit between Samsung and Apple has gone on for as long as anybody can be bothered to remember. Most recently, Samsung was ordered...
Nokia is back in the smartphone game, but says “it’s complicated”
In a statement made by Nokia spokesperson Robert Morlino today, its been confirmed that Nokia is back in the smartphone game, but adds that “it’s complicated”. For...
Pretty much official: Samsung profits are down four percent in Q2 2015 from a year ago
It was a result that was suspected, but now it’s pretty much official: It was announced today that Samsung profits are down four percent in the second quarter compared...
Sony’s Hiroki Totoki says that Sony will never get rid of its mobile business
Early this year, there was talk that Sony was considering getting rid of its mobile business due to continued poor performance in all its key markets....
Samsung Galaxy S6 sales are not looking so good anymore, Galaxy Note 5 to be the new saviour
It previously seemed like Samsung was making a return to prominence with its release of the widely acclaimed Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones....
HTC doesn’t want to be acquired by ASUS, wants to keep going it alone
Last week, we covered the story of Asustek (ASUS) Chairman, Johnny Shih, floating the idea of ASUS acquiring HTC at the Asustek annual general meeting. Although...
Android-based BlackBerry smartphone with slide-out keyboard could be coming in the future
We don’t talk about BlackBerry much here at AndroidStory so it’s even more unusual when we have to say the words “Android-based” and “BlackBerry” in the...
ASUS Chairman says the company is entertaining the idea of ASUS acquiring HTC
Simply put, Taiwanese device manufacturer HTC is not doing well. In the past week, it announced its revenue was going to take a 30% hit compared...
HTC One M9 sales fail to get HTC back in the black in Q2
Among all flagship devices released in 2015 so far, the HTC One M9 is one that probably elicits the least excitement due to its minor –...
FC Barcelona and OPPO team up in partnership to celebrate the art of football and smartphones
If you asked which smartphone manufacturer would be logical for one of the biggest football clubs in the world to partner with, I’m willing to bet...
The Fourth is with Samsung too: Samsung is fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in China
When a report comes out detailing the performance of the top 3 manufacturers in China and Samsung isn’t one of them, you really take notice. In Strategy...
Samsung is opening a new production line to accomodate Galaxy S6 Edge demand
By now, many of you will have heard that demand for Samsung‘s latest devices, the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, has been considerably more than...
Qualcomm will use Samsung’s factories to manufacture Snapdragon 820
A few days ago we heard rumours that Qualcomm might have to spin off its chip manufacturing unit due to the loss of Samsung‘s contract for the...