LG India has launched India’s cheapest LTE phone, the LG F60, at a maximum retail price of Rs 15,000. At present, LTE phones are priced in the Rs 30,000-40,000 bracket. “Blazing Fast 4G LTE For All,” LG said in its introduction to the 4.5-inch phone, which carries on the oval design seen in the LG […]
If you are a fan of Intel-power smartphones and tablets, you have reason to rejoice – the Asus Fonepad 7 with the first ever quad-core Intel Atom processor will be launched in India in 2-3 weeks. The models, which will come with a 1280*800 pixel displays, will be the first ever in India to come […]
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will start selling and be available in stores in India on Tuesday, a week after its official release date. UPDATE: The phone is now available online. While e-stores like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon are yet to start selling the Note 4, a relatively unknown site called theelectronicstore.in has started making […]
India will see the launch of yet another big smartphone this week – the 6-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 – priced at just Rs 21,000. It will be one of the cheapest phones from Samsung in the 5.5-inch-plus category, and will compete against HTC Desire 820q (5.5-inch, Rs 22,500) and the LG G3 Stylus (price […]
Intex, which redefined value-for-money at the entry level of the Indian smartphone market with its 2,700 Aqua 4X last month, has done it again – this time with the 4.5-inch Intex Aqua Style X, priced at Rs 4,890. The phone, which is selling like hot cakes on eBay (the only seller) has much better specifications […]
HTC has announced the prices of a slew of products launched in India, including the 64-bit HTC Desire 820 and 820q, the Desire Eye, the One M8 Eye and the RE Camera. The most surprising of all would probably be the ‘limited’ number pricing for the RE Camera – at just Rs 9,999 on exclusive […]
Telenor Group announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the 26 per cent ownership stake in Telewings, held by Lakshdeep Investment & Finance. As a result, Telenor now takes full ownership of the company that operates under the brand name Uninor. The process was finalized after Telenor received approval from the Indian government’s […]
Indians first got a taste of what low-cost marketing and production can achieve with the recent launches of Xiaomi Mi 3 and RedMi 1S. But now, one of the original price warriors of India’s handset market and a fellow Chinese brand – Huawei, has taken on the challenge posed by Xiaomi. The company has unveiled […]
Swipe Sense, a 5.5-inch ultra-thin Android KitKat phablet from the Indian brand, has started selling for Rs 9,999 in India. The phone was announced in August, and is pitted as a lower-priced, but hi-tech phablet with a fingerprint scanner and gesture support. It is also one of the sexiest phones, in terms of looks, in […]
Taiwan’s HTC Corp is preparing to launch a new entry-level, 5-inch smartphone in the Indian market priced in the Rs 10,000 range. The phone is expected to be released in the next three weeks, according to a source familiar with the development, and will be the company’s first KitKat phone in the 10,000 rupee range. […]
After making fans for weeks, Samsung has launched the Note 4 in India with a maximum retail price of Rs 58,300, implying that the phone should be available in the 56,000 range in practice. The phone’s expected price in India was Rs 55,000. The launch has come quite fast, possibly due to the ongoing Diwali […]
Samsung Galaxy Mega 2, the second edition of the Korean company’s ultra-big model, will be launched in India over the next 10-15 days for a price of Rs 20,000-22,000, according to industry sources. The original Galaxy Mega, launched in mid 2013, was priced at Rs 31,500, but Samsung is keen to position the Mega 2 […]
The Mobile Store has started shipping the recently launched HTC Desire 816G, the lower priced version of the Desire 816. The HTC Desire 816G dual SIM (DS) was announced along with the 64-bit HTC Desire 820. However, unlike the Desire 820 (price around Rs 23,000) the 816G comes with a cheaper Mediatek quad-core processor. The […]
A prominent Bangalore-based online retailer will launch India’s first back-and-front dual-screen phone next week, according to an industry source. The manufacturer of the phone is not known, but the price will be around Rs 35,000. The phone will have a Snapdragon processor and the display will be slightly smaller than 4.5 inch. The key selling […]
Nokia Lumia 930, the highest-end phone from Microsoft Nokia, will be available in stores starting early next week, according to suppliers. “We expect to get our first stock by Tuesday or Wednesday,” said a Delhi-based retailer. UPDATE: Microsoft has announced that the Lumia 930 has is available in stores starting today, October 16. Online retailers […]
Ahmedabad-based Infibeam, which was getting left out in all the hullabaloo around billion dollar funding of ecommerce, has come back by being the sole authorized online reseller for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus. It has now come out with a firm delivery date for iPhone 6 sales in India. The online retail firm has […]
It took nearly 2-2.3 lakh phones to be sold, but finally the Xiaomi Redmi 1S is available on Flipkart to anyone who wants to buy it. The phone had been getting sold out on Flipkart for the last several weeks, and has notched up sales of around 2 lakh units (200,000) excluding today’s. At present, […]
Flipkart has slashed the price of the Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro to Rs 32,999 – making it similarly priced as Lenovo’s own Moto X 2 Second Generation. While Moto series has always been pitched as the most value for money product in Android, the K925 has changed it to a large extent with unexpected pricing. […]
HTC Desire Eye, the first phone to come with a large, 13-megapixel front camera and a powerful dual-LED front camera flash, is all set to be launched in India in the next ten days at a price of around Rs 36,000-37,000. The price could fall to around Rs 34,500 in four weeks after launch, according […]
Taking feedback from customers, Xiaomi and Flipkart have decided to junk the ‘tatkal ticket’ method of selling its flagship Mi3 phone, and opted to add the device to the shopping carts of nearly 25,000 Flipkart customers who have tried to buy it at least five times on the website. Flipkart and Xiaomi had come in […]
