You’ll probably be sad to see another device say ‘farewell’ to the 3.5mm headphone jack. Fortunately though, as mentioned, Xiaomi were kind enough to include an adapter in the box.

Research analyst Canalys says while it’s inevitable that more vendors will jump in on the fad, it won’t be gaining much traction in 2019.

Move over OLED screens, stylus pens and speaker quality, the new battle of the smartphones is in foldables.

An attacker could target a rider, and then cause the scooter to suddenly brake or accelerate.

Futuresource Consulting reflects on the smartphone design trends of 2018 and what might be coming through the coming year.

The VR headset market returned to growth in 3Q18 after four consecutive quarters of decline and now makes up 97% of the combined market.

The fans filled Auckland’s Westfield Sylvia Park to take advantage of the opening specials and get their hands on some Xiaomi tech.

This quarter saw a global 6% YoY decline in smartphone shipments, largely due to a 13% decline for market leader Samsung, but Xiaomi’s rise continues.

Mi smartphones are hitting Kiwi shores as sales grew by 88% last year - in contrast to the global market decline of 3% facing its competitors.

Despite global shipment numbers dropping by more than a third, the market outlook is still positive an IDC Tracker report shows.

Apple’s share of the market continues to grow along with Chinese competitors Xiaomi and Huawei. Fitbit still in decline.

While Google and Amazon still lead the way, it seems the smart speaker market is no exception to the steady rise of Chinese tech.

Global smartphone sales return to growth with Xiaomi grabbing up sales to hit over 100% year over year improvement.

Canalys says wearable band shipments grew 35 percent from the year before with a two horse race at the front & fierce competition behind.

During Q1 2018 we got a new leader on top of smartphone shipments, one vendor experiencing triple digit growth, and a huge decline in China.

The worldwide wearables market continued its upward trajectory in the final quarter of 2017 with full year shipment volumes reaching new records.

An IDC report has shown that Samsung’s smartphone shipments took a dive in Q4, letting Apple take the top spot but only for that quarter.

All of the top five smartphone vendors achieved double-digit growth apart from Apple.

Smartphone vendors may be launching their high-end flagships in abundance, but it’s more affordable models that will drive the market.

India's smartphone market has recovered from a shaky Q2 2017 to surge in growth with the five major vendors being the drivers - Xiaomi in particular.

The findings come from market research company Counterpoint in its recently released Market Pulse report for July 2017.

Apple has fallen to third place in the market, overtaken by both Xiaomi and Fitbit - despite the latter experiencing a 34% year-on-year decline.

​New research from IDC has revealed the smartphone market declined slightly in the second quarter of 2017 – but this is expected to soon change.

The worldwide wearables market continued its rapid rise in the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17) with multiple companies experiencing triple digit growth.