BaselWorld-2017 : The Rise of Hybrid and Premium Smartwatches

Baselworld is the world’s largest trade show for the watch and jewellery industry, organized every spring in the city of Basel, Switzerland. This year, the week-long event commenced on 23rd of March, offering a line-up of…

Why Integrating Bixby is a Good Challenge to have for Samsung!

In smart devices space, the battle has moved from hardware to software to services and now to intelligence. The basic definition of smartphone is that it needs to be inherently smart. The first level of smartness industry…

Nokia is back with Nokia 3310

HMD stimulates muscle memory with cute ‘3310’, but drives business with smartphones

HMD, the new licensee of the iconic Nokia brand, is attempting to storm back into the smartphone market that Microsoft so publicly failed to crack.

What does Gigabit LTE mean for the Telecom Industry?

Gigabit LTE promises to bring many improvements to the telecom industry. A plethora of new GB LTE ready hardware will be launching throughout 2017. Not just within smartphones, the industry will see seeding of GB LTE within drones, mobile…

Smartphone Trends: More Memory, More Market Share

Smartphones have (and are) becoming advanced computers as the software, hardware, services and user needs mature to a point it almost are replacing the need for PCs. Applications such as AR/VR will be more demanding on DRAM in phones this year…

Surprise! Feature Phones to Drive the Next Wave of LTE Growth

More than half a billion LTE capable phones in a feature phone form-factor will be shipped globally over the course of five years. Local kings (mobile phone brands) in many feature phone centric markets as well as Operators…

Why Handset Players will look forward to Middle East & Africa Market For Their Growth Plans?

The fourth quarter of 2016 recorded a 3% growth year-on-year and a healthy 11% sequential increase in handset shipments. Middle East and Africa (MEA) (+16%), Asia (+6%) and…

What to Expect from the LG G6

LG unveiled their latest flagship at the “G6 Unpack Event” at MWC in Barcelona, Spain, February 27th. The G6 appears to have checked off most of the requirements for an early 2017 flagship. Clearly, it was a lot of work for LG’s R&D teams which scrapped its modular design and…

MWC2017 and the IoT Revolution

IoT Revolution -2017 Summary

After many years of talk and theory, MWC2017 showcased a multitude of real world IoT applications. The numerous announcements showcased the transition to Internet of Everything (IOE). To sum things up…

MWC-2017: Day 1 Highlights

Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, organized by the GSMA and held in the Mobile World Capital Barcelona. We have a team of analysts present at the event meeting with tech companies large and small to discuss and analyze the latest…

MWC-2017: Day Zero

Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, organized by the GSMA and held in the Mobile World Capital Barcelona. This year the event commenced on 27th February and there have already been several announcements in the run-up to the event.

MWC-2017: Day 2

Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, organized by the GSMA and held in the Mobile World Capital Barcelona. This year the event commenced on 27th February and there have already been several announcements in the run-up to the event.

Infographic: Q4–2016 | Mobile Market Monitor

Our Q4–2016 Market Monitor report has been published. We release one Infographic in each quarter to summarize handset and smartphone market activities in a single page.