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Steve Jobs’ iPhone is Ten Years Old

EghtesadOnline: The smartphone continues to change the world a decade after the debut of the iPhone, even as Apple is under pressure to come up with a new wonder.
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Publish Date:09/January/2017 | 15:14

China's Used-Phone King Has Designs on Landfill

EghtesadOnline: Millions of toxic smartphones end up in landfills around the world each year. Kerry Chen thinks he can change that, starting with China -- one of the worst offenders.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 04:32

Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones

EghtesadOnline: Samsung Electronics Co. will create an all-screen front for the Galaxy S8 smartphones coming out next year and scrap the physical home button, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Publish Date:08/December/2016 | 20:42

Troubled Chinese Billionaire Reveals Cash Crunch at LeEco

EghtesadOnline: The billionaire chairman of China’s LeEco has admitted his technology empire is running out of cash to sustain a headlong rush into businesses from electric cars to smartphones .
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Publish Date:07/November/2016 | 11:29
The former CEO says Microsoft got into the mobile device market too late

Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Strained His Relationship With Bill Gates

EghtesadOnline: Steve Ballmer said his decision to push Microsoft Corp. into the hardware business contributed to the breakdown of his relationship with longtime friend and company co-founder Bill Gates. Ballmer's only regret: not doing it sooner.
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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 07:03

U.S. bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from air travel

EghtesadOnline: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone devices will be banned from aircraft in the United States starting on Saturday at noon EDT (1600 GMT) under an emergency order, regulators said on Friday after numerous reports of the devices catching fire.
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Publish Date:15/October/2016 | 05:38

Samsung Cuts Profit by $2.3 Billion After Killing Note 7

EghtesadOnline: Samsung Electronics Co. cut its third-quarter operating profit by $2.3 billion after ending production of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones , the first official indication of how much the crisis will cost South Korea’s largest company.
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Publish Date:13/October/2016 | 09:39

As iPhone 7 Sales Start, Apple Has Scant Supplies for Buyers

EghtesadOnline: Shoppers looking to buy Apple Inc.’s new iPhone 7 smartphones Friday better have ordered ahead. Limited supply meant some stores sold out, leaving those who purchased online with the best chance to get their hands on the latest models -- and some resorting to extreme measures.
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Publish Date:17/September/2016 | 09:57

Samsung Says $38 Million of Goods On Board Two Hanjin Vessels

EghtesadOnline: Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest smartphone maker, said about $38 million of its goods and parts were on board two vessels operated by the distressed Hanjin Shipping Co., which applied for bankruptcy protection last week.
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Publish Date:07/September/2016 | 09:51

Haul of Smartphones Confiscated From Market Manipulators

EghtesadOnline: Following the hike in the dollar exchange rate in Iran which has perturbed the public and driven commodity prices to unprecedented highs, some mobile importers have turned to profiteering to make big bucks out of the public distress. Tehran’s prosecutor has ordered the confiscation of 100,000 smartphones from the culprits in an attempt to help regulate the disturbed market.
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Publish Date:23/July/2018 | 11:10

Haul of Smartphones Confiscated From Market Manipulators

EghtesadOnline: Following the hike in the dollar exchange rate in Iran which has perturbed the public and driven commodity prices to unprecedented highs, some mobile importers have turned to profiteering to make big bucks out of the public distress. Tehran’s prosecutor has ordered the confiscation of 100,000 smartphones from the culprits in an attempt to help regulate the disturbed market.
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Publish Date:23/July/2018 | 11:10

Apple’s New iPhones May Miss Out on Higher-Speed Data Links

EghtesadOnline: Verizon Corp., AT&T Inc. and the rest of the U.S. wireless industry have a big boast for this year’s crop of smartphones : thanks to network upgrades, devices will be able to download as much as a gigabit of data in a single second -- speeds 100 times faster than before.
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Publish Date:10/June/2017 | 06:53

Samsung Says Irregularly Designed Batteries Caused Note 7 Fires

EghtesadOnline: It was the battery, after all. In a presentation and news conference on Monday that lasted more than two hours, Samsung Electronics Co. detailed the results of its investigation into Note 7 smartphones that overheated and burst into flames last year.
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Publish Date:23/January/2017 | 04:55

Samsung to disable Note 7 phones in the U.S. via software update

EghtesadOnline: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday that a software update for Galaxy Note 7 smartphones will be released mid-December in the United States preventing them from charging and functioning as mobile phones, rendering them useless.
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Publish Date:10/December/2016 | 05:02

Apple's Chip Choices May Leave Some iPhone Users in Slow Lane

EghtesadOnline: It turns out not all iPhone 7s are created equal. The latest Apple Inc. smartphones that run on Verizon Communications Inc.’s network are technically capable of downloading data faster than those from AT&T Inc. Yet in testing, the two phones perform about the same, according to researchers at Twin Prime Inc. and Cellular Insights.
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Publish Date:19/November/2016 | 08:21

Seventy-five percent of internet use in 2017 will be mobile: report

EghtesadOnline: Seventy-five percent of internet use will be mobile in 2017, up slightly from this year, as a growing number of consumers around the world access the web on smartphones and tablets, media buying agency Zenith forecast this week.
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Publish Date:29/October/2016 | 05:41

Samsung Elec to compensate Galaxy Note 7 parts suppliers

EghtesadOnline: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it will compensate component suppliers for the discontinued Galaxy Note 7 smartphones and consider giving them orders for other models to cushion the blow.
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Publish Date:18/October/2016 | 05:22