Quick hits: February 2020

ia Telecompaper, Poland’s state development bank BGK has concluded agreements with commercial banks and other entities on providing loans to operators deploying broadband networks under the state’s Digital Poland program.

er GSMArena, Chinese smartphone brand RealMe is getting into the earbud game, including functions that lets users send different audio to wired and wireless headphones.For more on RealMe, read this issue’s Takeaways From The East.

orldwide semiconductor revenue decreased 11.9 percent year-on-year to USD 418.3 billion in 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner and reported by Telecompaper. Intel regained the lead in the market as the downturn in the memory market negatively impacted many of the top vendors, including Samsung Electronics, the top vendor by revenue in 2017 and 2018.

echradar and Max Weinbach say that the upcoming Samsung S20 Ultra 5G will feature the typical SD Card slot with support for up to 1TB, up to 512GB of storage, up to 16GB RAM, and an astounding 108MP main camera, which led to speculation that prices will skyrocket for this line of mid-range phones.