The smartphone market could be reaching another tipping point. Several developments in recent weeks point to potentially big shifts in the fortunes of the major players. Let’s start with Apple, which on Tuesday took the wraps off not one but two new iPhones, a top-end model, the 5s, and, perhaps more significantly, a
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China’s fast-growing Huawei — it’s pronounced wha-way — is better known for its network gear than its consumer devices. The company has been making Android-powered budget smartphones for a number of years, but it’s never managed to take on the big names at the top end of the market
As always, your TalkCentral hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson dive into the big technology stories of recent days. In the show this week, we talk about MTN’s financial results and their admission that they were too slow in reacting to the price war in South Africa; the R400m project to
The Gauteng provincial government believes it can train teachers at 2 200 schools in how to use tablet computers in education before the 2014 academic year commences in mid-January. That’s when the schools will be provided with 88 000 tablet computers for use by pupils
Rarely are the kings of one era the kings of the next. Just as Nokia and BlackBerry were the kings of the pre-smartphone era, so they were eclipsed by Apple and its fast-follower, Samsung. The same is true of Palm, which reigned in the preceding age of the personal digital assistant
In the wake of another set of poor quarterly results tied to weak consumer demand for its new smartphones, BlackBerry on Monday announced that it was exploring “strategic options”, including the possibility of selling the business. But who would want to buy
The provincial government in Gauteng has outlined details of a R396m “e-learning solution” designed to replace the controversy-ridden R2,2bn Gauteng Online. It will involve the roll-out of 88 000 Android-powered tablet computers made by China’s
Huawei’s smartphone strategy is clear: cheap, Android-powered handsets made to look higher end than the hardware they contain and targeted at the budget conscious and first-time smartphone buyers. The Ascend G510 fits this mould perfectly. The first thing you’ll notice
The problem with budget gadgets is that no matter how good their exteriors look, cutting corners on crucial components like processors results in a poor user experience. Huawei’s MediaPad 7 Lite is a prime example of this: it looks and feels like a premium device, but it behaves like a
Samsung’s new top-end smartphone, the Android-powered Galaxy S4, has set the benchmark that other manufacturers, especially Asian rivals such as Sony, HTC and Huawei, are going to have to beat in 2013. The S4, launched at a no-expense-spared event in New York two weeks ago, packs the sort of technology into its