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A blog about consumer technology from Jan Dawson and Jackdaw Research. Original home at www.beyonddevic.es. Jan Dawson is an analyst and consultant who helps consumer technology companies understand market trends and devise strategies for success.

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Sep 21, 2017

Evaluating Google’s HTC Deal

Cross Posted from Tech Narratives

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Sep 5, 2017

Note8 Live Focus vs iPhone Portrait Mode

A deep dive on the dual cameras in Samsung’s new super…

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Oct 5, 2016

Google’s Schizophrenic Pixel Positioning

This is my second post about Google’s event this week, and there will likely be more. The…

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Aug 22, 2016

Nougat Launch Highlights Android’s Slow Rollout

Google today released Android 7, codenamed Nougat. What this means in practical terms is that owners of recent Nexus devices can download and install the new version immediately, while the vast majority of Android device owners have to wait…

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Apr 28, 2016

Samsung, LG, and Sony Smartphone Roundup

For some reason, Samsung, LG, and Sony all ended up releasing their earnings this morning Asian time. As such, I spent some time earlier today updating all my models and charts, and tweeted out a few of them. There’s a full Samsung deck as part of the Jackdaw…

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Feb 3, 2016

Lenovo’s Increasingly International Smartphone Business

Note: For two previous posts on Lenovo on this blog, see here and here. See also this post I wrote for Techpinions a while back. The charts in this post are based on the slide deck on Lenovo’s results available as part of the Jackdaw…

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Sep 10, 2015

Further thoughts on Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program

Related: Apple topic page

I wrote a piece Thursday on Techpinions about Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program which proved quite popular, hitting Techmeme and being retweeted by some of the bigger names on Twitter, and so I…

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Aug 13, 2015

Lenovo’s tough quarter

Lenovo reported this week that it had just concluded a tough quarter, and was going to be taking actions to streamline its business and operations, including laying off a significant number of employees and cutting costs in the mobile business in particular. This post runs through some of…

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Feb 13, 2015

Samsung’s Microsoft deal and Cyanogen

SamMobile reported last night that Samsung was planning to pre-install a number of Microsoft applications on the Galaxy S6, which is to be announced in a few weeks at Mobile World Congress. I think this is a huge boost for Microsoft’s Android apps and for the…

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Sep 4, 2014

Quick thoughts: on Microsoft’s IFA announcements

Half the tech world is making announcements this week at the IFA trade show in Germany. A couple of other companies are making announcements elsewhere (Motorola today/tomorrow in Chicago, Apple next week in Cupertino). Samsung, Sony and other…