Author: Kevin Le

After Honor’s split from Huawei, everyone wondered if the company’s future phones would be allowed to partner with Google and have its services installed. Now CEO George Zhao is clearing it up and saying there is no reason the company should not partner with Google again. So far, the company has confirmed partnerships with Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and MediaTek, with Google being the most prominent name missing from the list. In an interview for Morning Message from South China, the company’s CEO said the two tech companies are already in talks. However, it doesn’t say whether the recently launched Honor…

2020 ended with three solid months for Apple – the company shipped the most iPhones in a single quarter, particularly 81.8 million units, according to data from Canalys. This pushed Apple to the top spot in terms of market share. Samsung failed to defend its position, as shipments fell 12% year over year (year-over-year) to 62 million units. But the Apple / Samsung fight was not the highlight of the quarter. Huawei emerged from the Top 5 smartphones for the first time in six years. Chinese competitors were quick to gobble up its market share, with Xiaomi increasing by 31%,…

  HÀ NỘI — “If I were a bird, I would be a white dove (the symbol of peace), as I am a man, I would die for my homeland,” go the lyrics of Tự Nguyện, and they probably say it all about the life and career of the late Nguyễn Trung Kiên. The patriotic song, written by Trương Quốc Khánh, was one of many Trung Kiên sang in his youthful days before growing up to be one of the Việt Nam’s greatest artists. Trung Kiên sadly passed away in Hà Nội on Wednesday at the age of 82 due to kidney…

Samsung just announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020 and the full year, and the numbers look impressive for both periods. The company saw a 26% increase in profits for the October-December period alone, compared to the same three months in 2019, while sales edged up – just under 3%. Samsung also saw an almost 30% increase in profits for the entire calendar year disrupted by the pandemic, while sales improved by KRW 6 trillion ($ 5.36 billion) on an annual basis, but a quarter of the gains (around KRW 1.4 trillion / $ 1.2 billion). )…

  An HDBank transaction office in HCM City. HDBank met all its business targets last year despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. — Photo courtesy of the bank HCM CITY — The HCM City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank, HoSE: HDB) has released its 2020 financial statements showing consolidated pre-tax profit of VNĐ5.82 trillion (US$253.6 million), which represents an increase of 15.9 per cent from the previous year and 102.8 per cent of its target. HDBank overcame numerous challenges in 2020 to achieve high growth, in the process exceeding all its targets. …

MIUI 12.5 beta dissection reveals that Xiaomi is working on two new phones that support 67W wireless charging. The two phones in question are codenamed “star” and “mars”. Evidence suggests that one of them is probably the still unannounced Mi 11 Pro, but the other remains a mystery. Could it be a Mi 11 Ultra? One thing is for sure, however, these phones are kind of related to each other as the model names end with K1 and K1A. It could also mean that it is the same phone but designated for different regions. In addition, “star” will surely use…

We have the last IDC report on worldwide smartphone shipments and after a very eventful year, things stabilized from October 1 to December 31. The market had a rebound quarter with a total of 385.9 million shipments, with Apple’s share of 90.1 million. Overall, the market grew 4.3% from Q4 2019 and all major smartphone vendors (excluding Huawei) recorded positive growth levels for the end of 2020. Fueled by the release of its iPhone 12 series, Apple had the best shipping volume of any vendor in a single quarter, which rightly translated into 22.2% year-over-year growth. the other. Samsung was…

  Nguyễn Phi Vân, founder and chairwoman of the Retail and Franchise Asia and founder and executive member of World Franchise Associates, speaks at the ‘Start your own business with franchise model’ seminar organised by the HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre in HCM City. Photo courtesy of the centre HCM CITY — Việt Nam will become an attractive destination for franchising businesses after the pandemic ends, experts have said.  Nguyễn Tuấn, deputy director of the HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC), told the ‘Start your own business with franchise model’ seminar in the city last week:…

Realme is preparing a new smartphone and it just appeared on TENAA with photos and some key specs. The device with model number RMX3121 will have a large display with a teardrop-shaped notch, a large battery and three cameras on the back. Realme RMX3121 The phone, rumored to be called Realme V13, will bring a 6.52-inch LCD display and we know the panel technology because the fingerprint reader is on the side, also acting as a power button. The device will have 5G connectivity, a 5,000mAh battery, and Android 11 out of the box, and that’s about all we know…

The latest research from Canalys gives us an overview of smartphone trends in the Indian smartphone market. The country has had a rough start to the year, with smartphone shipments stagnating around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, smartphone shipments improved significantly in the second half of the year with a record Q3. The second quarter of 2020 saw the largest decline, with a drop of more than 40% year-on-year compared to the second quarter of 2019. The market was able to recover in the third quarter, which beat the same quarter of the previous year . Meanwhile,…