Global smartphone shipments fell 22% year on year to 255.3 million units in the third quarter, the largest drop IDC has recorded for any quarter. IDC analysts say memory costs have risen about 350% since last year and the market has not reached bottom.
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Global smartphone shipments fell 20% in Q3, the lowest third-quarter level since 2012, Counterpoint Research's preliminary data show. Samsung's shipments slipped only 3% and Apple reached a record 22% share, so the loss concentrated in Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo.
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Vivo is taking its X Fold 6, a foldable with a 200MP main camera and a 6,900mAh battery, to buyers outside China. No US release is expected, so everyone who gets to test Vivo's case for a camera-first foldable will be in other markets.
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Memory diverted to AI data centers is lifting phone prices in India four times faster than in the US
Chinese phone makers are cutting entry-level models as AI data centers absorb memory chips, and phone prices are up 21% in India against 5% in the US. Teams counting on first-time phone buyers outside the US now have to plan around a more expensive entry device.
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Huawei is selling the Z10, a 5,999-yuan clip-on zoom lens with its own 1-inch sensor, in China this week. It goes further than the fixed teleconverters rivals sell. A maker that wants to follow has to build a mount into the phone first.
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MediaTek puts its first 2nm phone chip against Qualcomm on a single AI speed claim
The Dimensity 9600 Pro is MediaTek's first processor on TSMC's 2nm process, and the case for taking premium handset share from Qualcomm rests on a single prompt-processing figure.
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Judge model choice swings AI-Infra-Guard's false positive rate fifteenfold
Tencent's Zhuque Lab has put its AI asset scanner on GitHub for nothing. The skill auditor asks a language model whether code looks malicious, and the lab's own benchmark puts the false positive rate anywhere between 1.2 and 18.67 percent.
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Carrier gatekeeping keeps three of the world's top five phone makers off the US test bench
Xiaomi and Oppo together ship 23 percent of the world's phones and neither reaches a US carrier shelf, so a device matrix drawn from American analytics omits the hardware most users hold, at the prices they actually pay.
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