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• Startup headed by ex-Apple engineer aims to eliminate smartphone buttons

  Sentons, a startup led by chip industry veterans, on Thursday began marketing technology that aims to do away with gadget buttons and said it is working with two smartphone makers in addition to an existing contract with Asus.

• Huawei tests smartphone with own operating system, possibly for sale this year

  Huawei is testing a smartphone equipped with Hongmeng, the company's self-developed operating system, which could potentially go on sale by the end of this year, Chinese state-media outlet Global Times reported.

• Apple teams up with SAP to help clients develop iPhone business apps

  SAP and Apple are teaming up to help clients develop their own mobile business applications using Apple's machine-learning technology.

• 5G will be ‘killer’ and foldable phones are ‘over-hyped’: IDC

  ​5G will be the biggest game-changer to affect a softening hardware market this year - but vendor adoption will be slow, according to a senior analyst.

• Lawsuit over Google location tracking

  Google has been accused in a lawsuit of illegally tracking the movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they use a privacy setting to prevent it.

• How to change the voice on your Android phone

  Changing the voice used for navigation on an Android phone from robotic to something more natural is easy, but buried in the menus.

• 3 Free Alternatives to Windows for Desktop PCs

  It's an increasingly mobile world -- and the mobile future of Windows is dubious. To better accommodate end users, CIOs would be wise to consider these three alternatives to Windows on the desktop -- Chrome, Android and Ubuntu.

• BlackBerry 6: Wipe Your Smartphone, Restore Factory Settings

  Many reasons exist for why you might want or need to "security wipe" a BlackBerry, or completely erase all personal data stored on your handheld: You got a new smartphone and plan to retire the older device; you're trading in your existing BlackBerry for a new one from your wireless carrier; you and a friend are swapping devices; you loaded too many applications or media and just want to start over from scratch; etc.

• 5 reasons you're going to want Apple's next iPhone

  Apple is cooking up such an iPhone upgrade path, with a wave of rumors warning the next iteration will be faster, thinner, and possibly even curvier than before.

• The LG G4: Three things right, three things wrong

  This week the G4 smartphone from LG Electronics starts shipping outside its home country, with arrivals in the U.S. and Europe expected in a couple of weeks. While the smartphone has a great screen and camera, it doesn't get everything right.

• 10 years in tech: The crazy cellphone ideas of 2004

  A year is a long time in smartphone technology today, so remember if you can the changes that have taken place over the last decade.

• Trust issue looms large for tech companies capitalizing on personal data

  As tech companies increasingly rely on analyzing and selling user data to boost revenue, trust is emerging as one of the defining issues of the year for the IT sector.

• Microsoft's 'go-low' play puts Windows revenue on the line

  Analysts were uncertain today whether the recent stretch of "go-low" moves by Microsoft means that the company has tweaked its strategy to emphasize services at the expense of devices.

Whitepapers about smartphones

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  Enterprise mobility management - The big bang theory

  This whitepaper explores the complex and growing trend of mobility in the enterprise by comparing its lifecycle to the creation of our universe. • Much like the big bang, mobility began when in a white-hot burst of innovation the very first smartphone was born • For mobility’s transformative potential to be realized, IT needs to become a business partner that understands business drivers • Like our ever-expanding cosmos, mobility’s potential can be realised through a rational, analytic, and comprehensive understanding