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[New] Starbucks outshone those of major third-party mobile pay services in 2018: The coffee giant was projected to have more than 23.4 million U.S. mobile payment users that year, compared to Apple Pay's 22 million, Google Pay's 11.1 million and Samsung Pay's 9.9 million.
As of 2019, several smart TV makers will support Apple's AirPlay 2 wireless streaming tech, and Samsung has become the first TV maker to include iTunes.
The three main DRAM suppliers-Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron-generally agree that DRAM bit volume will grow roughly 20% per year over the next few years.
With 5G chipsets becoming commercially available from vendors in 2018, the availability of 5G smartphones should evolve rapidly in 2019 with multiple vendors expected to launch devices.
The global mobile payments market is forecast to grow to $3.7 trillion by 2024 from $897.7 billion last year as more businesses let shoppers pay with PayPal, Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, AliPay and WeChat Pay.
As for the global ranking of smartphone market share, Samsung is expected to remain the market leader, while Huawei is set to surpass Apple to become the world's second largest smartphone maker.
Smartphone makers like Samsung will have 5G smartphones available starting this year, so Apple could not afford to delay the rollout of its 5G iPhones.
Even though Verizon is leading the charge for the new technology, which will greatly increase speeds on mobile networks - up to 50 or 100 times faster than the currently available 4G - some industry watchers say the new tech will not be widely available until about 2025 or so.
Renault Group is expanding its range of vehicles for the South Korean market with the XM3 Inspire, a coupe-styled SUV that will be sold starting next year by Renault Samsung Motors.
The usage rates for Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Google Pay will continue to rise through 2020.
Samsung has confirmed the recent rumors that their latest Galaxy device, the Samsung Galaxy S10, will be the first in the world to come equipped with Wi-Fi 6 technology.
Leading and innovative smartphone manufacturers including Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, and LG are driving face recognition applications in consumer electronics as face biometrics apps are expected to boast an impressive 26.9% 5-year CAGR growth until 2024.
In the USA, major cellular service providers have already announced which cities they will be launching in and several smartphone manufacturers including Samsung, OnePlus and Huawei have confirmed that they will be launching devices in 2019.
AT&T and other mobile operators are expecting dozens of U.S. cities by the end of the year, with at least Samsung known to be planning the rollout of their next line of phones and 5G integration later this year.
Futuresource expects 20 million 5G handsets to ship in 2019, growing to 473 million devices in 2023, reflecting the limited rollout of 5G compatible devices and 5G network services.
AT&T and Verizon have already announced they plan to have a Samsung 5G phone in the first half of 2019, with Sprint and T-Mobile saying that they, too, will carry a Samsung 5G phone this year.
By the end of 2019, there will be over 60 million Samsung Smart TVs in use worldwide that can offer the iTunes app, which does not include any possible firmware upgrades to pre-2018 models, already dwarfing Apple TV's installed base.
TSMC will begin mass production of 7 nm chips in the first half of 2018, and will install extreme ultraviolet tools to make 7 nm "plus" chips in 2019.
As for the global ranking of smartphone market share, Samsung would remain the market leader, while Huawei is expected to surpass Apple to become the world's second largest smartphone maker.
The world's largest smartphone maker is signalling that it's bullish on 5G, after announcing that it will have its first 5G phone for Verizon in the first half of 2019, and two 5G phones with AT&T.
Television manufacturers are expected to add more voice assistants to their products, likely choosing an existing option like Alexa or Google Assistant over building their own from scratch.
Some Chinese handset makers and Samsung Electronics have said they will release their first 5G smartphones this year.
The year 2019 will see many new smartphones being launched by established brands like Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and more.

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Last updated: 13 October 2019