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Market Scan: 2015-05-03

May 3, 2015

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Industry

  • Nest CEO Tony Fadell on the Future of the Internet (WSJ)
  • Google Now becomes a more robust platform with 70 new partner apps (ZDNet)
  • iPhone trade-ins eroding Chinese Android sales: Report (ZDNet)
  • Cyanogen looking to work with Chinese vendors to load its software on more smartphones (Android Central)

Smartphones

  • Apple: Future iPhones may sport both telephoto and wide angle cameras, patent application suggests (AppleInsider)
  • Apple: iPhone’s New Growth Engine Illustrated: China’s Middle Class (Mobile Forward)
  • More than Half of Apple’s China Levers are Unique to Apple (Mobile Forward)
  • Samsung Pay scheduled to launch in the second half of 2015 (GSMArena)
  • Xiaomi tries to end waiting period for phone buyers, amid complaints (PC World)

  • Microsoft’s Continuum turns Windows 10 phones into tiny, full-blown Windows PCs (PC World)
  • Microsoft: Windows 10 won’t launch on phones this summer (The Verge)
  • HTC set for H2 flagship launch; India push reported (Mobile World Live)
  • HTC to raise outsourcing in 2015, says CFO (DigiTimes)
  • Sony set for separate Indian smartphone strategy – report  (Mobile World Live)
  • Micromax: India’s Micromax Close to Selling Stake to Chinese Investor (Alipay) (cellular-news)

Wearables

  • More wearable device vendors looking to in-house developed platforms for smartwatches (DigiTimes)
  • Apple: 1.7M US Apple Watch orders to date, 22% of them shipped (9to5Mac)
  • Apple: WatchMe Messenger looks like Japan’s first killer Apple Watch app (Tech in Asia)
  • Apple Watch Insides / S1 PCB Details Revealed for the First Time (ABI Research)
  • Apple: WSJ: Taptic Engine component responsible for limited Apple Watch supplies (Ars Technica)
  • Apple Watch costs under $85 to make (ZDNet)
    • Only if you divide the actual cost by two
  • Apple: Review: The absolutely optional Apple Watch and Watch OS 1.0 (Ars Technica)

Tablets

  • Apple’s 12.9″ iPad will feature Bluetooth stylus, Force Touch, NFC & more, source says (AppleInsider)
  • Microsoft pens deal to acquire N-trig (TechRadar)
  • Nokia is ready to sell its N1 Android tablet outside of China (starting in Taiwan) (Phone Arena)

Technology

  • Sensors: As sensors shrink, watch as ‘wearables’ disappear (Reuters)
  • Sensors: Scanadu pulls in another $35M to take ‘medical tricorder’ to market (VentureBeat)
  • Imaging: OmniVision to Be Bought by Chinese Investors in $1.9 Billion Deal (Re/code)
  • Imaging: Magid: Mountain View OSH is first to launch 3-D scanning and printing on demand (San Jose Mercury News)

Operators & Other

  • Dumb ‘Smart’ Gadgets: The Bubble Is Set to Burst (WSJ)
  • O2Overload: the past, present, and future of China’s on-demand explosion (Tech in Asia)
  • Google Is Working On A High Performance, Java-Free App Framework For Android Based On Dart (Android Police)
  • T-Mobile: John Legere implies T-Mobile could someday merge with a cable company (The Verge)
  • T-Mobile adds 1.8 million customers in Q1, becomes threat to wireless giants (ZDNet)
  • Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10 (Ars Technica)
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