Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones and TVs, has forecast a fall in profit for the October-to-December quarter.

Experts believe that smart phones will completely replace feature phones and they will have the features to be used like personal computers. The smart phones running on Android are believed to dominate the market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experiencing the difficult period in economic development, Vietnamese still spend billions of dollars on luxurious cars and smart phones.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Which IT gadgets do Vietnam consumers wish to purchase or receive as a gift this holiday season?

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is expected to have one smart phone user in every four citizens, increasing the number of smartphones in use in the local market to 20 million units next year, according to market research and consulting company Spire.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Seventy percent of Vietnamese people still don’t have smart phones, which means that Vietnam remains a potential market for manufacturers to exploit.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign direct investment attraction in the January-September period has exceeded the year’s target and amounted to over US$15 billion, with a large amount seen flowing into science and technology. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Shortly after the new iPhone 5S and 5C went on sale in some foreign markets, many local stores have announced the prices of these smartphones, with the highest quoted at a whopping VND47 million.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local telco giants are making great strides in roll-outs of made-in-Vietnam smartphones.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam consumed 5.8 million cellphones in the second quarter, most of them smartphones, according to market research firm IDC.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As much as 50 per cent of internet page viewing in Viet Nam will go to mobile by the second half of 2014, according to a report by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With smart phone purchases on the rise in Viet Nam due in no small part to its younger generations, more Vietnamese than ever are connecting to the internet and accessing social media.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese smartphone users do not care much about protecting data and accounts on their smartphones, according to a survey carried out by the Bkav Internet Security Corporation.

 Heavyweight publishers came out swinging against a bid by the US Department of Justice to rein in deals Apple can make with e-book providers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile network operators have expressed their worries about the information security problems OTT (over the top content) app users may have. But how high is the risk?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Google Inc announced on July 2 the launch of three new search tools in Vietnamese - Knowledge Graph, Voice search on Android and Google handwrite.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 58 per cent of Vietnamese use the Internet with average time spent online at 16 hours per week, according to a recent survey by Nielsen Viet Nam on Internet use.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Concerns over high inventory occurred from 2012 failed to stop Viet Nam's PC market from recording solid year-over-year growth in the first quarter of the year.

Contrary to all predictions that low cost smart phones would soon disappear from the market because of their low quality, the products still have been selling very well and become more and more favored by customers.

VietNamNet Bridge – While touch-screen smart phones are dominating the market, a lot of Vietnamese still favor old generation BlackBerries with QWERTY keyboard.