Since its official release on April 26, Samsung’s new smartphone, Galaxy S4, has been enjoying record-breaking sales in Russia. According to Mobile Research Group, in the first three days, over 15,000 handsets have been sold. “This is a record for a device in this price range. The iPhone 5 did considerably worse in the first …
Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet group, announced this past Friday the winners of its annual Best Gadget of the Year Award. The award event was hosted by Hi-Tech Mail.Ru, the group’s media project which collected users’ opinions on new tech solutions across digital sectors. With more than 2.3 million votes taken into account – …
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Windows Phone powered smartphones gained the third largest market share in Russia in the fourth quarter of 2012, a study by IDC Russia/CIS found, outshining Nokia’s Symbian after having surpassed Apple’s iOS in the previous quarter. Windows enabled mobile devices accounted for 7% of the Russian market, trailing only Google’s Android, the undeniable leader with 69.6%, …
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Weekly sales of Windows Phone powered smartphones at MTS’ new “demo zone” feature outlets have grown a sturdy 2.5 times over the past four months, and tablet PC sales have shown a 30% increase, MTS announced last week. Such are the early results of a strategic initiative the Russian mobile phone operator launched with Microsoft last November …
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Cellrox, a leader in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Multi-Persona solutions for mobile devices, has secured $4.7 million in a Series A round led by Runa Capital, a Moscow-based international venture fund. The Israeli company’s existing investors, Previz Venture Partners, Columbia Technology Ventures, and others, have also participated in the round. The terms of the …
A monument in memory of Steve Jobs was unveiled earlier this month in the yard of the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO). The monument, which is about the size of a man, represents an iPhone 4, and is equipped with an interactive touch screen that displays highlights of …
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While smartphones have gone mainstream in many regions around the globe, adoption among emerging countries is still developing. According to new research from Nielsen, China is the only country among the high-growth BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) markets where smartphones are predominant, owned by two-thirds of Chinese mobile subscribers as of the first half of …
Las Vegas – Yota Devices today announced it won a Best of CES Award for its YotaPhone, the first dual-screen phone with a full-color liquid crystal display (LCD) on one side and an electronic paper display (EPD) on the other. Produced and judged by editors from CNET, the winners of the Best of CES Awards were …
Last month the Russian police confiscated 103 packaged bales full of fake Apple and Samsung phones; they estimate 10 million rubles ($310,000+) and 179 million rubles ($5.6 million), respectively, in damages for the trademark holders. As many as 8,400 handsets “with unmistakable signs of falsification,” stacked on a train that ran from Vladivostok, in Russia’s …
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Vladimir Elin, a Russian inventor based in Moscow, has recently patented a futuristic dual-screen smartphone which is controlled by glances and gestures – no touch is required. This unique device is said to be able to monitor and respond to the owner’s eye pupil movements. Users may also make a call by applying a “virtual …
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Life-Pay, a startup that is developing smartphone-based bank card payment terminals, has secured $2.6 million from Life.Sreda at an undisclosed valuation. The news was reported yesterday by Unova.ru, a website covering startup and venture news. The funds will be used to reinforce the startup’s team, develop new products and penetrate new markets in the former …
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Apple has tapped into solutions offered by Yandex, Russia’s Internet search giant, for the latest update of its iOS 6 mobile platform, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing an unidentified source with knowledge of the matter. “Apple’s Russian map coverage is far from ideal, and therefore the company is drawing on Yandex technology,” …
