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Top 20 Startups & Unicorns companies in Feature phone
by Most News Heat in the world in 2020

The Feature phone top 20 is Discovery PatSnap’ annual ranking of the top 20 Most News Heat Feature phone Startups & Unicorns in the world. Discovery has identified the top key players, startups & unicorns, fast-growings, news entrants in 2020, ranking from differnt perspectives, including patent filing intensity, academic research capability, news media heat. The company list is generated from various data types.
Feature phone (known in popular culture as a dumbphone) is a term typically used to describe a class of mobile phones that are still technically otherwise smartphones, besides their lack of highly advanced hardware and capabilities of modern ones. Feature phones tend to use an embedded operating system with a small and simple graphical user interface. Unlike large and complex general-purpose mobile operating systems like Android or iOS, feature phones typically provide voice calling and text messaging functionality as well as basic multimedia and Internet capabilities and other services offered by the user's wireless service provider. Feature phones have a backlit LCD screen and micro USB port and have a physical keyboard, a microphone, SD card slot, a rear-facing camera to record video and capture pictures; and GPS. Some feature phones include a rudimentary app store that include basic software such as mobile games, calendar and calculator programs.
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Company Name
Region
Tech Topics
Total
1
HMD Global Oy
Southern Finland, Finland
Mobile device,Feature phone,Mobile phone,
...[+2]
news: 142
2
Lava LLC
Social media,Lava,Real-time computing,
...[+2]
news: 28
3
Counterpoint Technology Market Research
Hong Kong SAR, China
Market research,Decision-making,Software
news: 17
4
KaiOS Technologies, Inc.
Software,Operating system,Telecommunications,
...[+2]
news: 11
5
Snapdeal Ltd.
E-commerce,Electronics,Shopping mall,
...[+2]
news: 7
6
VAIO Corp.
Nagano, Japan
Personal computer,Laptop,Computer hardware
news: 7
7
Meizu Technology Co. Ltd.
Guangdong Sheng, China
Electronics,Headphones,E-commerce,
...[+2]
news: 6
8
Naffa Innovations Pvt Ltd.
Mobile payment,Mobile device,E-commerce,
...[+2]
news: 6
9
Reserve Media, Inc.
Systems design,Mobile payment,Social robot,
...[+2]
news: 5
10
FirstNET Corp.
Telecommunications,Wireless broadband,Radio access network,
...[+2]
news: 5
11
Ballmer Giving LLC
Economic mobility
news: 5
12
PhonePe Internet Pvt Ltd.
Mobile payment,Online payment,E-commerce,
...[+2]
news: 5
13
Adspruce Ltd.
United Kingdom
Advertising,Mobile device,Mobile Web,
...[+2]
news: 5
14
Reddit, Inc.
Social network,Social media,Home page,
...[+2]
news: 4
15
Lyf SASU
Île-de-France, France
Mobile payment,Universal solution,Mobile commerce
news: 4
16
Snapdragon Monitoring Ltd.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Counterfeit,Sales management,Publishing,
...[+2]
news: 4
17
Paytm E-Commerce Pvt Ltd.
E-commerce,Retail market,Shopping mall,
...[+1]
news: 3
18
Cellwize Wireless Technologies Pte Ltd.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Self-organizing network,Big data,Internet of Things,
...[+2]
news: 3
19
Zapier, Inc.
Cloud computing,Digital transformation,Data integration,
...[+2]
news: 3
20
Wefarm Ltd.
United Kingdom
Machine learning,Social entrepreneurship,Social network,
...[+2]
news: 3
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