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Another troubling report for the smartphone industry this week. This time the numbers come from IDC, which puts shipments at an 11.9% year-over-year decline for 2020. The number reflects a steep drop off in Q1, followed by what what will likely be continued struggles for companies to regain footing. In fact, the report goes on to note that the first quarter's figures represent the sharpest y-o-y drop in the history of its reporting. That's bad enough news, right? Well, things aren't getting too much better for smartphone makers any time soon. The whole of H1 is on track for an 18.2% decline. The slowed recovered comes courtesy of all of the factors we've come to expect at this point in the global pandemic. Supply chain issues have given away to demand problems, as recession has gripped the global economy. Here in the States, some 40 million people have applied for unemployment since the beginning of the crisis. It's an understatement to say people simply ...

The number of phishing attacks targeting smartphones as the entry point for attempting to compromise enterprise networks has risen by more than a third over the course of just a few months. Analysis by cybersecurity company Lookout found that there's been a 37% increase in mobile phishing attacks worldwide between the last three months of 2019 and the first few months of 2020 alone. Phishing emails have long been a problem for desktop and laptop users, but the increased use of mobile devices – especially as more people are working remotely – has created an additional attack vector for cyber criminals who are targeting both Android and IOS phones. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) | Download the report as a PDF (TechRepublic)     Attacks targeting desktop email applications can leave tell-tale signs that something might not ...

Smartphone sales declined by 20.2% in the first quarter of 2020 as a result of impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Gartner. Huawei took the biggest hit, with market growth dropping by 27.3% in Q1 2020 compared to Q1 2019. Not only is Huawei grappling with the impacts of the coronavirus along with the rest of the industry, but it's also at a disadvantage because it cannot use Google's software and app store. The results come after the smartphone industry has been struggling in recent years as consumers are finding high-end phones less appealing.   Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. It's shaping up to be a rough year for the smartphone market so far. Lockdown orders and the economic fallout from the coronavirus have made it challenging for consumers to spend on nonessential products like smartphones, sending sales plummeting, according to the latest report from market research firm Gartner. Smartphone sales dec...

Phone cameras have come far in a few decades, but manufacturers still manage to improve them in innovative ways.  China's Vivo, known for its photography-oriented phones, launched new flagship smartphones on Monday: The X50, X50 Pro, and X50 Pro+.  The latter two come with a feature we haven't seen on a phone before. It's called the Gimbal Camera System, and it's a tiny gimbal module (modeled after actual gimbals, Vivo says) that moves the camera in the opposite direction of shaking motions, providing clearer handheld shots. Vivo says the system widens the rotation angle, as well as the anti-shake area, compared to other stabilization methods. That means it should be able to compensate for some very jerky movements. The results, the company claims, should be "super clear images." The X50 Pro and X50 Pro+ both have a quad camera setup on the back, with a periscope lens that allows up to 60x optical/digital zoom mix. Only the X50 Pro+, however, has Samsung...

© Provided by News18 Revamped PLI Scheme Aims to Boost Local Smartphone Manufacturing in India Smartphone manufacturing in India is being seen as a big avenue going forward, and the government of India is making a few changes to enable that. At the top of the charts is a revision of the existing production-linked incentive scheme for smartphone manufacturers, where an empowered committee has decided that it will no longer evaluate manufacturing plant and machinery brought into India by a brand at just 40 percent of its value. Revealed in a report by The Economic Times, this was one of the clauses to which Apple had raised an objection to. Now, the government is reportedly in discussion with manufacturers such as Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron to attempt to move some of their manufacturing activities over to India. Interestingly, the government committee that made the above change on Friday also voted to begin involving industry players in meetings and discussions...

Marc Saltzman, Special to USA TODAY Published 6:00 a.m. ET May 30, 2020 We're swimming in photos. Here are ways to share, store and organize you may not know. Be honest: Once you've taken photos and videos on your smartphone, how often do you look at these captured moments? If the answer is "not often," you're not alone.  Even though your smartphone is super convenient for taking photos and videos, and you probably have hundreds of even thousands of them, perhaps you don't want to squint to see images on a small screen? Or you prefer to look at them with others. Or it's too difficult to find what you're looking for.  Regardless of the reason, you might better appreciate these photos and home movies –and relive the memories associated with them – when viewed on that big-screen television you own. Stay-at-home concerts: For musicians and their fans, virtual events are the next best thing to being there Pre...

NEW DELHI : Growth in both television viewership and smartphone usage has lost pace in India as the country relaxes lockdown restrictions and people are freer to step out of home. Television continued to lose eyeballs towards the end of the fourth phase of the covid-19 lockdown, with viewership having grown only by 15% in week nine of the post-covid disruption period. This is the fifth weekly consecutive drop as compared to the 24% increase last time, the 29% rise seen in the seventh week, after the figure stood at 31% in week six and 40% in week five. Smartphones are not attracting consumers either, their usage having grown by only 11% in the ninth week of lockdown as compared to the pre-covid period, the figure had stood at 14% previously. The findings are part of the ninth report by television viewership monitoring agency BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) and data measurement firm Nielsen on TV viewership and smartphone us...