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If there's one company in the world that has the widest range of connected technologies in the world, across all sectors of consumer, business, industrial technologies and prowess, memory and CPU design and manufacture, connected appliances, and more, it's Samsung, with it's new enterprise range laser-focused on meeting the ever growing needs of enterprise customers, as the newest versions of all enterprise devices ably demonstrate.

Earlier this year, Aussie Broadband switched to Optus for its mobile service, and now it has launched 5G plans, a near doubling of data, and for a limited time, a two month free of the Optus network, all in service of giving customers more bang for their buck.

They say a change is as good as a holiday, but despite being a universal constant (and making your pockets very heavy), the last decade saw the most rapid change in our history - with the COVID-19 tinged decade we're currently in set to see change changing at the fastest pace yet.

The mainland China smartphone market has finally returned to the Q1 2019 level, one year after the pandemic first hit.

Kantar has released its smartphone OS data for the first quarter of 2021, which follows last year’s iPhone 12 series launch, and shows it has delivered YoY growth for iOS across EU5 (+3.6% pts), USA (+4.9% pts.) and Australia (+3.5% pts.). Coupled with Huawei continuing to haemorrhage sales in all reported markets, Android struggles to keep up despite some strong sales share growth among individual brands.

India has recorded a big rise in smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2021, but this is likely to be reversed just as sharply during the second quarter, as the coronavirus takes a vice-like grip on the country.

On the same day that Apple launched a range of new products, Huawei has popped up to offer "a host of exciting new benefits including extended warranty, 50GB HUAWEI Cloud Storage, discount on spare parts, free screen protector application, and free handset surface and storage clean-up."

The United Kingdom has announced that it is looking afresh at the proposed deal between GPU vendor NVIDIA and CPU specialist ARM, with the former to buy the latter for US$40 billion (A$51.5 billion), on the grounds of national security.

I've heard it said for many years that those in the trades make more money, with OPPO hoping you'll spark yourself into action to get a new OPPO with a more powerful chippie and much better specs, saving your eyes and your wallet even more with its new trade-in and trade up program.

Chinese smartphone maker vivo has taken the top spot in its home market for the first, beating its own stablemate, OPPO, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says.

Chinese smartphone vendor OPPO has released two new 5G models in its A series, the A74 5G that retails for $449 and the A54 5G that sells for $399.

The average Australian will spend 16.6 years of their life on their mobile phone - equating to 5.5 hours every day or a total of 145,800 hours - based on the average age of around 10 years old that we get our first phone - and average Australian life expectancy.

LG has made a public pledge to reassure current and future customers on future OS updates following its announcement to withdraw from the mobile industry, for select 2019 and 2020 premium models.

HMD Global is the home of Nokia phones, and its new G-series phone has launched, the G10, billed as "the hero" of Nokia's mid-range smartphone portfolio.

The company that sells Gigaset Android smartphones has advised that it has taken measures to automatically rid devices infected with malware that was reported to have been introduced in a supply chain attack.

Unfortunately, there weren't enough people who loved LG's smartphones enough to buy them in the quantities required to sustain great longevity for LG's smartphone business, which has now breathed its last gasp.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei technologies has again managed to record an annual profit despite the US sanctions it faces, with the company announcing a 64.6 billion yuan (A$12.98 billion) profit for 2020, an increase of 3.2% year-on-year. Revenue was 891.4 billion yuan, an increase of 3.8% on the previous year.

Chinese smartphone maker OPPO is using the release of its latest 5G phones, the Find X3 series, to promote saving the Great Barrier Reef, through what it calls a "Gift With Purpose" initiative.

Chip designer Arm has released details of its new Armv9 architecture, which it says "will form the leading edge of the next 300 billion Arm-based chips".

Boost Mobile is the best of the telcos using the Telstra network, with competitive plans offering plenty of data, data rollover, data-free Apple Music, unlimited calls and texts and international call inclusions, too - and with its Refurb Shop, Boost has great prices for refurb tech that's definitely worth upgrading to.