Vaio to release Windows 10 phone
Out this week
Sony spin-off Vaio is set to release a new Windows 10 smartphone this week.
Ikea makes smartphone borking tables
Now if only we could assemble one
The Swedish makers of flatpack furniture which has a unique feature requiring screws to be hit in with hammers after consulting complicated plan with a font so small that it could be written on a rice grain, have come up with a table that kills off phone use.
Blackberry confirms Android only future
RIP Blackberry 10OS
While we have been saying that Blackberry was going to give up on the BlackBerry 10 OS, but official confirmation has been thin on the ground.
More than 1.43 billion smartphones sold
Samsung is still number one
Beancounters at IDC have added up the numbers and divided by their shoe size and reached the conclusion that smartphone shipments hit a record 1.43 billion units in 2015.
Oppo sold 50 million phones last year
Makes it the eighth largest
While lacking the fanfare in the west that its rivals get, the Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has just announced that it sold 50 million smartphones last year.