Informa Telecoms & Media expects smartphone sales to split into two main segments during the next few years: low-end devices priced below $150 (£93) and high-end devices priced above $250 (£155).
Last year, higher-spec devices accounted for 85% of the smartphone market but their market share is expected to fall to 33% in 2017.
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Twitter has added the option of eight special-effect photo filters to its iPhone and Android applications.
The announcement comes shortly after photo sharing service Instagram removed a feature that enabled users’ photographs to automatically preview within a ‘Tweet’.
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Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Media subsidiary says its NOOK Video service is now available in the UK for customers who have a NOOK HD or NOOK HD+ tablet. It means that a wide variety of films and TV shows are available to stream or download over WiFi.
NOOK ebook readers and tablets launched in the UK earlier this year, challenging Amazon’s Kindle devices.
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Chip producer STMicroelectronics has announced a new strategic plan that’ll see it leaving the ST-Ericsson joint partnership with Ericsson.
The move is expected to be completed in autumn 2013.
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A few months ago we heard that Huawei was planning to spend £1.3 billion in the UK on a number of projects during the next five years. It’s now announced new plans to invest €70 million (£56 million) to establish a research and development centre in Helsinki.
The money will be spent over the next five years as the R&D centre expands to employ more than 100 people.
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