PARIS - Phone makers will seek to entice new buyers with better cameras and bigger screens at the world's biggest mobile fair starting Monday in Spain after a year of flat smartphone sales. The camera "seems to have become a major source of differentiation for the latest generation of smartphones," said mobile phone analyst Ben Wood of CCS Insight. The sector is hoping the introduction of blazing fast 5G mobile internet service -- which is is about 1,000 times faster than the 4G widely available in the developed world -- will trigger a wave of growth in equipment sales and mobile services. "We will hear much more pragmatic discussion around 5G, around commercial trials, around what initial 5G networks will deliver. It is transitioning 5G from a future technology that has many possibilities into more of a business as usual approach," said Fogg.

Source: Bangkok Post February 24, 2018 02:48 UTC