MediaTek sees growth in emerging markets
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4G was big in China

MediaTek captured an impressive 4G market share especially in China. According to MediaTek's CJ Hsieh, the company’s presidentphone market will continue to grow in 2016 especially in emerging markets. 

Samsung planning 5 million Galaxy S7 smartphones
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Two different flavours

Samsung Electronics  the world's top smartphone maker, plans an initial production run of about 5 million of its upcoming Galaxy S7 smartphones.

ASUS gets built in ad-blocker
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This will annoy the content industry

ASUS is installing ad-blocking software in all its phones or tablet and will enable it by default.

Apple tries to squeeze more cash out of Samsung
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Still not admitting that patent war was wrong

Despite years of pointless legal wrangling, the fruity cargo cult Apple is still trying to squeeze cash out of its business partner Samsung.

Umi Zero 2 gets MediaTek Helio X20
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Q2 launch with LG G4 looking 2K screen

Small Chinese phone manufacturers are good in imitating the features of some larger phone manufacturers. Umi is launching a phone with leather, 4GB RAM, Helio X20 and 2K screen which makes it the twin of the LG G4..