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• Smartphone market fights off decline to post modest Q3 growth

  Huawei and Xiaomi have helped drive global smartphone sales preventing the industry as whole from declining in the third quarter of 2018.

• PB Tech reveals weekend bargains ahead of Xiaomi store opening

  Xiaomi will officially launch in New Zealand on 10 November, through a dedicated Mi Store in Auckland's Sylvia Park shopping centre.

• Samsung dominates global smartphone market

  ​Samsung has taken the top billing in the global smartphone stakes for the three months ending September, beating out Apple in the process.

• Apple looks over its smartphone shoulder as Huawei sales surge

  “Usually the conversation in the smartphone market revolves around Samsung and Apple, but…”

• ​Apple challenged by China as wearable market soars

  “China has quickly emerged as the fastest-growing wearables market, attracting companies eager to compete on price and feature sets."

• Consumers win as Android vendors struggle

  Staff cuts at Lenovo and HTC, a failed patch from Google, and Samsung's latest flagship smartphones all highlight how tricky selling Android smartphones has become.

• Chinese vendors triple smartphone share in India

  Chinese vendors tripled shipments year-on-year in the second quarter in the Indian market, indicating that low-cost vendors are posing a challenge to global players like Apple in a very price-sensitive market.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, August 4

  Google's started a car company...Samsung puts $85 million into cancer-victim fund...Apple explores offering phone service...and more tech news.

• Apple falls to third in China smartphone rankings, while Xiaomi vaults ahead

  Xiaomi regained its position as China's leading smartphone vendor in the second quarter, while Apple fell to third place despite increased sales of its iPhones.

• Gap between winners and losers grows larger as smartphone shipments reach 338 million

  Galaxy S6 revives Samsung’s smartphone revenues but does not boost volumes.

• Market diversifies as affordable handsets boost smartphone sales

  “The overall growth of the smartphone market was not only driven by the success of premium flagship devices from Samsung, Apple, and others..."

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, July 17

  Google results show slowing growth... embedded SIM cards on the way... Reddit's new rules lack muscle... and more tech news.

• Xiaomi faces challenge to reach sales goal, amid slowing smartphone growth

  Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi has hopes of selling at least 80 million smartphones this year, but that goal may harder to reach than originally thought.

• Xiaomi break outs of Asia, introduces phones to Brazil

  Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi will finally begin selling product in Brazil, marking the first time it has sold handsets outside of Asia.

• Android stutters while iOS shines during Q1

  Sales of Android smartphones were up in the first quarter but its share of the market fell, while that of iOS grew for the third consecutive quarter.