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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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