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LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Taiwan-based electronics group Asus announced Wednesday it was launching a new smartphone which uses Google Tango 3D technology and allows users to experience augmented and virtual reality. The Zenfone AR is just the second handset to incorporate the Tango computing platform which allows for indoor mapping, augmented reality and more. The new device, unveiled by Asus at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is also one of a […]
by Anne KAURANEN Agence France-Presse HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos. A loud “yeah!” breaks the quiet, along with delighted screech from a toddler whose mother has just handed him her smartphone to calm him down with a video. Finland, once a world leader in mobile telephony with Nokia, is in a class of […]
MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — Chinese electronics firm Huawei on Thursday unveiled its latest Mate 9 smartphone in Munich, designed to challenge global market leaders Apple and Samsung with features including a high-quality camera and higher-capacity battery. As Korea’s Samsung struggles with negative publicity following the high-profile recall of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in response to reports of it catching fire and exploding, Huawei has scented an opportunity. Standing in front of a graphic […]
by Sophie ESTIENNE with Rob Lever in Washington SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Apple’s quarterly profit slumped on a widely expected drop in iPhone sales, but gains in services offered some optimism on the company’s efforts to curb dependence on its smartphone. The company said Tuesday that profit fell 19 percent to $9 billion in the fiscal quarter ending September 24. Revenue fell nine percent to $46.9 billion from $51.5 billion a year earlier. […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A South Korean law firm said Tuesday that it expected thousands more people to join a class action lawsuit seeking compensation from Samsung over its combusting Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. Seoul-based Harvest Law filed the initial suit on Monday on behalf of 527 Note 7 buyers — demanding 500,000 won (US$440) per plaintiff for time and effort lost during a chaotic recall process that turned into a PR nightmare for […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (October 25) – Google Pixel Smartphone has made a lot of news lately for being the first-ever smartphone produced by Google. The smartphone has many new technological features to offer. The Google Pixel has two variants just like the latest iPhone7. It comes in Pixel and Pixel XL – which resembles the iPhone6. But what makes it so special is that the design. The Pixel makes use of a glass design that gives it a […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Samsung said Wednesday it would limit recharging of the batteries of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to lower the risk of explosions in a measure apparently intended to jolt users into returning their devices following a recall. The South Korean electronics giant on September 2 suspended sales of its latest flagship smartphone and announced a recall of 2.5 million units already sold, after faulty batteries caused some handsets to explode […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Solid sales of its flagship smartphone and an aggressive cost-cutting drive saw Samsung Electronics on Thursday post a better-than-expected gain in net profit for the second quarter. The giant South Korean conglomerate said its key mobile division enjoyed “substantial earnings improvement” in the April-June period led by expanded sales of its high-end Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones. Industry trackers estimate that the world’s largest smartphone maker has sold about […]
by Sebastian Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — The hugely popular WhatsApp smartphone messaging service was briefly blocked by a Brazilian court Tuesday for the third time in less than a year after failing to surrender user data to police. The latest drama ended after the Supreme Court president, Ricardo Lewandowski, accepted an appeal against a lower court order that shut down the service nearly four hours earlier. “The suspension of service apparently violates […]
by Harumi OZAWA TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — With Pokemon-mania sweeping the planet, Nintendo’s nascent shift into mobile gaming has proved a massive hit, vindicating the Japanese videogame giant’s decision to unshackle itself from a long-standing consoles-only policy. Since its release last week, smartphone game Pokemon Go has been winning legions of fans around the world, downloaded millions of times and topping the rankings at official online shops. The game hasn’t even been released in Japan […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nintendo shares soared more than 20 percent Monday morning, extending a rally sparked by news that its smartphone game debuted at the top of gaming charts. The videogame giant jumped 3,310 yen to 19,580 yen as its latest foray into mobile gaming launched in the US and Australia was an immediate hit with fans. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Pedestrians glued to their smartphones were given something else to look at this week, as officials in Seoul launched a safety campaign to keep them from walking into busy traffic. Smartphone related collisions between pedestrians and vehicles in South Korea have more than doubled in five years to around 1,000 reported incidents in 2014, according to the Transportation Safety Authority. The problem is especially acute in a country where smartphone […]
