Xiaomi misses sales targets by 10 million
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But what is 10 million between friends?

The Western Press is having a field day after Xiaomi failed to meet its rather ambitious target of flogging 80 million handsets in 2015.

Hands on with Huawei's Mate 8 and Nexus 6P at CES 2016
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During CES 2016, Chinese multinational smartphone giant Huawei unveiled its 6-inch Mate 8 flagship smartphone to succeed the 6-inch Mate 7 released in October 2014. While both devices have beautiful 1080p, 368ppi IPS-NEO panels that take up roughly 78 percent of the device’s screen-to-body ratio, the Mate 8 is Huawei’s first device running its own silicon with the Kirin 950 16nm octa-core FinFET processor as we wrote about back in November.

Jobs Mob denies Android swap rumour
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Apparently it was worth denying

The Apple Press office works in the same way as the British Royal Family’s. Its official line on most things is “no comment.” But this week it took the rare position of denying a rumour.

MediaTek Helio P10 confirmed for Elephone M3
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Ready in February

The Helio P10 might ship around the Mobile World Congress 2016, or the middle to end of February in the Elephone M3.

Metal chassis makers giving up
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Cutting production

Makers of metal cases for smartphones are giving up and are halting their expansion plans.