Manufacturers - 33 - Mobile News

Vodafone Smart platinum 7 now available to purchase

The flagship smartphone comes bundled with a free virtual reality headset

Alcatel and Barclaycard team up for contactless payments on POP 4

Free sticker attaches to first 20,000 of the smartphone at Carphone Warehouse and links to a digital wallet in the phone

Alcatel-parent TCL sees May shipments jump 11pc to 6.1m

Group saw overseas sales grow 24pc to 5.8m while overall shipments for first five months of 2016 were up three per cent to almost 28 million

O2 offering £120 off Samsung Galaxy S7 edge

The promotion is running until July 29 and also applies to the Samsung Galaxy S7

Doro backs Nokia’s faith in feature phones

UK and Ireland boss Chris Millington insists the market is not exclusively all about smartphones

Samsung ramps up investment in B2B channel

Manufacturer spending “millions” to boost operator and dealer relationships after admitting it “could do better”

Bullitt Group to fire up sales with Our Perspective appointment

Rugged phone-maker will work with former Data Select pair Kemp and Taylor’s new branding firm to drive sales of CAT and JCB phones in UK

Wileyfox set to launch new handset on June 28

UK-based manufacturer will unveil follow-up to last year’s award-winning Swift and Storm devices at London Event

OnePlus unveils “fan inspired” OnePlus 3 smartphone

Third generation device goes on sale today following virtual reality press event last night (June 14)

Data Select dismisses latest sales suggestions

Owner Peter Jones is understood to have made unsuccessful attempts to sell the business in recent years

Huawei sponsorship of Arsenal reaches full time

Official smartphone deal with Premier League side will not be renewed as manufacturer switches branding strategy

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for £18.3bn

Software giant to acquire professional network in its biggest ever cash deal

Job cut fears at Microsoft UK

Sources claim staff numbers in its handset team could fall from 40 to 10

Tech Data Mobile now distributing Moto G4 smartphone

Tech Data expecting fourth generation Moto device to become a top 10 selling device in the UK

Lenovo unveils world’s first Project Tango phablet

Phab 2 Pro uses Google’s Project Tango technology to enable augmented reality on a handset

Sony launches Xperia X ad campaign with Channel 4

Adverts feature Paul Chowdhry, Steve Jones and James Buckley promote camera on the manufacturer’s latest flagship smartphone

EE launches official Glastonbury 2016 app and on-site charging

Official comms and tech partner for music festival unveils free app and on-site swap service for Juice Tube Power Bank

24 Seven national roaming SIM compatible with Xperia X and XA

Jump SIM, which runs on EE, O2 and Vodafone, switches to the next available network when signal is lost

Worldwide smartphone sales to slow in 2016

Market set to grow by 7pc to 1.5bn units, according to Gartner, significantly slower than 2010’s record growth of 73pc

HTC sales drop 37pc YOY to £143m for May

May was best month so far in 2016 for manufacturer, who has reported revenue of £587 million from January to end of May

Exertis signs new distribution deal with Swann

Distributor is offering home security cameras, motion triggered cameras and video doorbell systems from Swann

Exertis now distributing Huawei MediaPad M2 10

The tablet is available in both 10-inch and eight-inch variants

Nokia completes ‚¬170m acquisition of Withings

Digital Health business unit established to offer wide range of connected products from trackers to blood pressure monitors

SIRIN LABS claims £10k SOLARIN smartphone is “most secure in the world”

The Israeli manufacturer launched the device in front of 200 journalists at an event in London today (May 31)

Samsung partners with Warner Bros for special edition S7 edge

Galaxy S7 edge Injustice Edition comes with Batman-inspired design and is a nod to mobile came “Gods of Injustice”

ZTE unveils new “S7-beating” Axon 7 flagship

Taiwanese manufacturer claims the new device is more powerful than the Samsung Galaxy S7

Grey Huawei P9 Plus now exclusively available from Vodafone

The flagship device, also available in two smaller variants, was launched last month

Honor introduces 60-day money back guarantee

The guarantee is available only on Honor 5X and 7 devices purchased from the vMall online store

Exclusive: John Lewis to stock latest Doro smartphones

Retailer will expand its range of Doro products to include the Liberto 825 and Doro 8030

Microsoft to axe 1,850 jobs as smartphone business shrinks further

Latest round of cuts to be completed by July 2017 at a cost of $950 million

Huawei sues Samsung over patent dispute

Chinese manufacturer has filed legal papers in California and Shenzhen accusing Korean rival of breaching its IP

Pebble announces new line of fitness wearables

Pebble Core is a standalone fitness watch, while US manufacturer has also announced Pebble Time and Pebble Time 2

Lenovo teases return of iconic Moto Razr phone

Motorola Razr V3 is the ninth best-selling mobile of all time, with Moto posting a teaser video to YouTube hinting the brand might make a comeback

Smartphone sales up 3.9pc to almost 350m in Q1

Huawei saw shipments grow by more than 10m YOY, while Oppo doubled market share to secure fourth spot

Acer unveils new child-friendly Iconia One 7 tablet

The device will be available in June priced from £79.99

Microsoft to offload feature phone business in £240m deal

Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile has agreed to buy the assets as part of a deal with HMD Global, which could see return of Nokia to feature phone market

Huawei MediaPad M2 10″ goes on sale in the UK

Standard edition available for Â£249.99 from Currys PC World, with premium edition priced at Â£329.99

London & Bristol leading the way in smart city technology

Report from Huawei and Navigant research ranked top 10 “smart cities” in the UK

Motorola claims new G Plus has better camera than flagship iPhones

The new device was launched alongside a cheaper Moto G variant

DeWalt exclusive to help Global Mobile Comms drill into new markets

Handset manufacturer will distribute MD501 rugged handset through Ingram

Tech Data Mobile made exclusive distributor for Lenovo K5

Five-inch smartphone packs a 13MP camera and was announced in Febraury

Carphone Warehouse exclusively stocking gold HTC 10

HTC launched its latest flagship device last month on April 12

Huawei P9 Lite to go on sale across UK at end of May

5.2-inch mid-tier handset will be available from O2, EE, Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse and costs £239 SIM-free

O2 bags Samsung Gear S2 classic exclusive

It becomes the first smartwatch to come with an embedded e-SIM, available on a range of O2 Refresh tariffs

BlackBerry appoints Moto veteran Pini

Pini spent 27 years with Motorola and oversaw launch of popular Razr handset, succeeds Ron Louks after two years at Canadian manufacturer

Former Apple execs aim to fill “gap in market” with Obi WorldPhone

New smartphone launched in UK today and goes on sale for £119 later this month

HTC sees Q1 losses of £102m as revenues plummet 64pc

Taiwanese manufacturer posted revenues of £315 million for three months to March 31, compared with £883m last year

Global PC shipments decline y-o-y from 116 million to 101 million

This is according to the latest numbers from Canalys published today (May 9)