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Smartphones

The Best Camera is the One That’s With You

Posted on March 2, 2019 by CN

As smartphone cameras become more advanced, they have replaced the need for consumer-grade, and soon, professional-grade, digital cameras.

The Rise of the Smartphone Ecosystem and Kodak’s Fall

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Noga Ratner

A brief history of photography, The basic concepts of photography can be traced back to China, 5th century B.C. where it was discovered that an upside-down image is formed on the opposite wall when viewed through a “pinhole”. In the 4th […]

The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again?) of BlackBerry

Posted on February 1, 2018 by JLuo

The roller coaster journey of the world's original smartphone leader.

From Zero to Hero – Xiaomi’s Short Journey into Becoming One of the Biggest Tech Giants in the World

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Cyou

How did Xiaomi, a 7-yr-old company, become one of the biggest technology firms in the world?

Google Maps – the most expansive data machine

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Anish Nahar

Over the years Google Maps have collected Billion of bytes of data to map the entire world. Increasing penetration of GPS-enabled smartphone has fueled Google’s appetite for data even further and it is putting all that data to good use.

Can a platform, once lost, regain its power?

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Seunghyun

rise and fall of a mobile application market in South Korea

Fire Phone- Amazon’s $170 million Summer Fiasco

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jack K

In October of 2014, Amazon reported a $170 million write off relating to the Amazon Fire Phone. This is the story of that epic failure.

OnePlus One, Redefining the Math of Smartphones

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Noam

OnePlus is changing the game in the smartphone market with a "flagship killer" priced at half of its competitors’ products. The question is whether OnePlus will be able to capture enough value to ensure its long-term viability.

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