Huawei plans to sell budget-brand smartphone unit Honor in a 100 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) deal to a consortium led by handset distributor Digital China and the government of its home town of Shenzhen, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Samsung Electronics' System LSI Business Division is planning to supply its smartphone application processor (AP) Exynos to Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo in 2021.

China's Omnivision also gets permit but smartphone maker's supply woes not over

Samsung might be planning to make additional investments in Vietnam and increase its smartphone production capacity in the country.

India on Tuesday said it was approving incentives under a federal plan to boost domestic smartphone production to 16 companies, including top Apple suppliers Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron.

South Korean tech firm LG has unveiled a smartphone with a larger screen which swivels out to reveal a second, smaller one underneath.

Samsung shares could rally over 40% in the next year, according to one analyst who sees TV and smartphone sales rebounding sharply in the near-term and a boost in the chip division.

Analysts are bullish on the stock, thanks to new orders for Samsung's chip manufacturing operations or foundry, next-generation smartphone launches and a recovery in memory pricing next year.

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Global smartphone sales dropped 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to data released Tuesday from Gartner.

Huawei recently became the world's biggest smartphone maker, beating Samsung and Apple at their own game by offering consumers state of the art phones with amazing cameras at competitive prices.

Users say they would rather give up their iPhones than the 'crucial' app

Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest Galaxy Note smartphone and new version of its foldable phone, the Z Fold 2, on Wednesday, hoping to regain ground against rivals Huawei and Apple as the smartphone market begins to recover from its COVID-19 slump.

Huawei became the biggest smartphone player in the world in the second quarter for the first time overtaking Samsung and Apple.

A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet's Google will collaborate with India's Reliance Industries on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world's second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say.

At Samsung Electronics, demand for its chips from data centres bulking up to meet a surge in work-from-home traffic was not likely enough to offset muted sales of its smartphones in the second quarter, analysts said.

Sony's image sensor business aims to replicate PlayStation's success to address its reliance on a handful of manufacturers in the fickle smartphone market: It plans to sell software by subscription for data-analyzing sensors in situ.

In a huge market surprise, Huawei has defied the odds and not only stayed ahead of Apple but also overtaken Samsung to become the world's largest smartphone maker - for April, at least.

The 'Holy Grail' of smartphone designs has just gone into mass production, leaving Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy ranges to play catch-up.

Huawei is currently the second-largest smartphone maker in the world ahead of Apple and behind Samsung.

An IR temperature sensor lets a smartphone do fever screening for COVID-19.

The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to decline 11.9% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units.

It's already powering Vivo's latest smartphone.

It's got large pixels for better low-light capability, too.

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Sony on Thursday said it would make its cash-cow image sensors smarter to broaden their application, as the Japanese electronics maker seeks to reduce reliance on a saturated smartphone market.

Tougher scrutiny of foreign investment in India has soured the plans of China's smartphone manufacturers seeking to expand beyond selling hardware for a bigger share of the South Asian country's competitive financial services market.

Smartphone shipments from China's factories to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same month a year ago, according to government data released on Tuesday.

It's officially launched in South Korea.

Huawei's secretive chip unit shipped slightly more smartphone processor shipments in the latest quarter despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report

Apple's discounts on the iPhone 11 in China and the release of a new low-price SE model have put the company in a better position than rivals to weather a coronavirus-related plunge in global smartphone demand.

LG is moving away from its old number schemes.

Teetering on a razor, smartphone giants try to balance infection tracking and privacy.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said on Tuesday, as the country starts to return to normal following the coronavirus lockdown.

Singapore launched a contact-tracing smartphone app to allow authorities to identify those who have been exposed to people infected with coronavirus as part of efforts to curb the spread of the disease.

Europe's privacy rulebook does not create obstacles to taking action to curb the coronavirus epidemic but mass tracking of people's movements and contacts using smartphone location data would represent a clear violation.

Analysts expect expanding 5G coverage and a rumored 5G iPhone to drive more demand in 2020.

Sony has revealed its latest flagship smartphone and there are plenty of unexpected details, from the name to the audio technology to the inclusion of 5G.

Samsung Electronics said Saturday it has temporarily shut down a smartphone plant in the southeastern city of Gumi, shortly after a plant employee tested positive for the new coronavirus.

Samsung Electronics stands to be a major beneficiary of the China production problems announced by rival Apple Inc on Monday, reaping the rewards of a decade-long bet on low-cost smartphone manufacturing in Vietnam.