Technology
This Week in Mobile is a weekly podcast available on Apple iTunes or Google Play where I bring you up to speed on the top mobile news stories of the week: Android P: a copy of the iPhone X navigation gesture ZTE shuts down and could break up and its business units (consumer/smartphones, enterprise, carrier) sold separately to highest bidders OnePlus 6 is launching on Wednesday and could quickly rise to be one of the top high-end smartphones in 2018 thanks to its performance and price Qualcomm confirmed that it will launch the next generation of its Snapdragon Wear chip for WearOS (formerly Android Wear) this fall, coinciding with the release of new Android watches by Google, Huawei, LG, and others. Samsung was the top smartphone seller in Europe for the first 3 months of the year according to a new report from market research firm Canalys with 15 million smartphones shipped, a 15% drop from last year. Apple shipped 10 million iPhones, a 5.4% drop, while Huawei smartphones sales grew 38.6% to 7.4 million units. The App of the Week this week is Kloop Inc., an iOS app designed to fight misinformation and fake news by displaying related articles from hundreds of legitimate sources (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post...).