Demand for personal computers may be up due to all the people working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. But it looks like demand for smartphones is down… way down. Research from IDCÂ and Canalys shows that smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2020 were down by 12 to 13 percent compared with the same […]
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If Apple drops the notch in 2019, will Android phone makers follow suit?
Nearly a dozen new Android phones with camera cut-outs in their otherwise nearly full-screen displays debuted at Mobile World Congress last month. Rumor has it LG’s next flagship will also have a camera “notch.” And Google has officially added support for displays with cutouts to Android P. While the first modern smartphone with a notch was […]
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Most popular Liliputing articles of 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, so do some of the more ambitious mobile tech projects of recent years. Cyanogen OS is dead. Pebble is dying a slow death and wearables aren’t necessarily the hot commodity some had hoped. This was also the year that I launched the LPX podcast, featuring interviews with people like: Jim […]
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A walk through the CES Global Technology Marketplace
The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show wraps up on Saturday, and we’ve seen a lot of announcements from well-known companies including Lenovo, Samsung, Dell, HP, and Acer. But while CES is a big event for tech reporters, it’s an even bigger deal for small companies looking to connect with one another (or with bigger companies). A […]
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Liliputing in 2012: Top stories, search terms, trends
It’s been a strange year in the little computer space. When Liliputing launched in 2008, the big stories in mobile computing were all about netbooks. Over the past few years we’ve seen smartbooks, tablets, ultrabooks, and other portable devices enter the space. In 2012 pretty much every major netbook maker stopped producing new models, spurred […]