In the third quarter of 2014, Samsung plans to reduce the production of flagship smartphones GALAXY S5. This became known from Taiwanese manufacturers of parts for these devices. During this period, the output of devices will be reduced from 21 million to 15 million.
Due to the fact that the presentation of the Samsung GALAXY S5 did not become a sensation, the Korean company LG has changed the release dates of its most anticipated smartphones. So, LG G3 will be available for sale in June 2014 instead of the previously anticipated months: August and September.
Since the very beginning of 2014, NVIDIA has intrigued fans of new technologies with a demonstration of the Tegra K1 heavy-duty mobile processor, the release of which will be presented in two versions: 32-bit (4 cores, Cortex-A15 processor) and 64-bit (2 cores, Denver processor, which was developed by the company itself).
Rightware company conducted a series of synthetic tests to establish gaming productivity between Nokia Lumia 1520, Samsung GALAXY S5, Asus PadFone 2 Infinity A86, Sony Xperia Z Ultra C6802, Pantech Vega Secret Note IM A 890.
The Chinese company Goophone does not stop at the results achieved in the production of inexpensive smartphones and presents a clone of HTC One 2, which is informally called Goophone M8.
In connection with the statistical research of the Svyaznoy company, it was revealed that over the period of one year from 2012 to 2013, sales of tablet phones increased – these are smartphones with a screen diagonal of more than 5 inches. In another way they are called phablets (phablets) or supersmartphones (supersmartphones).
When reports of the Taiwanese company HTC about the losses it suffered appeared on the web, rumors about its possible bankruptcy or takeover by another larger company began to persistently appear.
According to the Russian operator MTS (statistics of the third quarter of 2013), the number of smartphone and tablet users is steadily growing, because the price of these devices is constantly decreasing. Mobile Internet is mostly used by smartphone owners, but in terms of the saturation of the transmitted data traffic, they are in second place after tablet computer users.
The new Google phone Nexus 5 has already been demonstrated to consumers in a video much earlier than its official presentation. This indicates that there was a loss of information control at Google, and the review of the new product became publicly available before its official announcement. After reviewing the Nexus 5, the Android 4.4 KitKat interface was shown.
There were reports in the Korean media that Samsung will officially present the GALAXY S5 smartphone in January 2014. The release of this new product has been accelerated due to the insufficiently high sales volumes of the GALAXY S4 smartphone.
The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer, HTC, took the 3rd place in smartphone sales in the 1st quarter of 2013, overtaking Nokia.