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Emerging markets are powering smartphone sales, according to forecaster GfK, with full year global smartphone sales for 2016 set to increase from US$400.7 billion to US$426 billion, up 5%.

New research looks at the cost and demand for lithium-ion batteries over the next 10 years to predict the intricacies of what should be a booming market.

Rumours are that Apple’s iPhone 8 will move to an AMOLED panel, if only to improve battery life. Other tablet, monitor, and notebook designers are having to ‘take a number and wait’ as AMOLED demand vastly outstrips supply.

Apple has finally unveiled its updated iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Although claims are rife that smartphone penetration has reach saturation point, Apple’s flagship devices are going to outsell their predecessors.

Although the Japanese launch of the iPad 2 has understandably been put back by a month due to the trio of disasters that has shaken one of the world's most technologically advanced countries, the Czech Republic's launch is being put back by a month too, leading some to wonder who's next.

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