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• Samsung leapfrogs Apple
• ZTE signs 5G deal with Softbank
• Smart wine bottles launched

Samsung leapfrogs Apple Posted: 10 Jul 2015 08:51 AM PDT Korean giant Samsung intends to launch a new smartphone in August, in a move that is seen as spoiling Apple's next iPhone launch in September. Reuters, quoting an unnamed source, said the machine will be a variant of Samsung's Note and will be a phablet, that is to say a device with a bigger screen. Several sources in the Far East suggest that Apple's next iteration of iPhones will be launched in September, although it's unclear whether they'll be a departure from its existing iPhone family. Samsung, said Reuters, is still trying to recover from shortages for the curved screen Galaxy S6 smartphone. Apple's Taiwanese partners have already started producing iPhones, according to some reports, while the company may incorporate OLED displays for the new models.

ZTE signs 5G deal with Softbank Posted: 10 Jul 2015 08:19 AM PDT Chinese phone manufacturer ZTE said it has signed a memorandum of understand with Japanese giant Softbank for joint research and development on 5G networks. ZTE has technology called Pre5G which includes multiple input, multiple outlet (MIMO) technology. The two companies have already worked together including ultra dense networks and multi user shared access. ZTE said MIMO base stations are able to support over 100 antenna elements and give higher space division multiplexing gains than traditional eight antenna base stations. Softbank believes this technology will define standards for future mobile internet communications. ZTE said that it already has formed alliances with other partners around the world on 5G research and wants to build a system based on open collaboration. Softbank already has ambitions to dominate a future 5G network and said it will be the industry leader worldwide.

Smart wine bottles launched Posted: 10 Jul 2015 07:06 AM PDT A Norwegian company said it has created a "smart" wine bottle, which knows where it is and where it's going at any given moment. Thinfilm said it will show off the bottle, which uses printed electronics technology the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai. The printed electronics on the tag include NFC tags and is aimed at battling the trade in counterfeit wines. According to Thinfilm, counterfeit wine is particularly prevalent in mainland China – it believes 50 to 70 percent of all wine sold there is counterfeit. Thinfilm is collaborating with a Western Australian wine company, Fengrove, to create a live field trial. Thinfilm said that the electronics on the wine bottle will allow it to be tracked from vineyards direct to peoples' tables. The NFC Opensense tags that Thinfilm has created can detect whether a product is sealed or opened and can be tracked using an NFC smartphone or device. The tags have unique identifiers making it easy to track products using software and analytics tools.

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