Xiaomi and Flipkart said they sold their entire stock of Mi3 high-end phone in 38 minutes and 50 seconds today. Registrations to purchase the device were open till July 21st and saw over 100,000 fans registered to buy the Mi 3, Flipkart said. It is not clear how many Xiaomi Mi3 smartphones were on sale. […]
A slew of cheap octacore phones have hit the Indian market over the last one month, starting with the iBerry Auxus Nuclea X, Gionee Elife S 5.5, Intex Aqua Octa and ending with the launch of the Panasonic P81, Wickedleak Wammy Neo, Alcatel One touch IDOL X+ and the Karbonn Titanium Octane Plus in the last […]
After fighting it out for a decade, Samsung finally dethroned Nokia in the Indian mobile phone market — rising to number one with a 20.3% market share in the March quarter compared to Nokia’s 17.6%. Micromax came third in terms of shipments. Samsung’s victory was the result of a sharp increase in its sales during […]
Reliance Communications will upgrade its high-speed CDMA network in data-intensive areas to 3.5G for speeds of up to 14.7 Mbps this year, the company said. Currently, RCom’s networks are on the EVDO standard Revision A and supports speeds of upto 3.1 Mbps. This will be upgraded to EVDO Rev B, which will be about five […]
For long, CDMA users, especially those of Reliance Communications and Tata DoCoMo, had no real choice of decent 5-inch Android phones on offer. To some extent, the Micromax Canvas Blaze HD EG116 filled the gap for a 5-inch Android CDMA Evdo phone, but the phone’s availability is severely restricted. Besides, at nearly Rs 16,000, the […]
Have you been waiting for an Android qwerty phone with a physical keypad for years? Well, there’s both good news and bad news for you. First the good news. The space for Android phones with a real physical qwerty keyboard has started getting addressed with the launch of the Intex Aqua Qwerty. Now, the bad […]
Flipboard, often billed as the Google News of the mobile world, has won its first media client in India in the shape of Condé Nast, the global publisher that runs magazines such as Vogue and The New Yorker. Vogue India has become the first magazine from India to have a customized version made available on […]
Tablets will overtake traditional PCs in monthly shipments somewhere in the second half of this year, according to the latest projection from Gartner Inc. The market tracker has pointed to total shipments of 276.7 mln PCs in 2014 compared to 270.7 mln tablets. While that looks like it favors the PC market, it also means […]
The soaring popularity of big size phones, or phablets, is affecting sales of tablets in India, according to market tracker 6Wresearch. Phablets, or phones with displays of 5 to 6 inches, have increasingly gained consumer affection due to three factors. First, they come with built-in cellular and 3G connectivity, unlike low-cost tablets that typically offer […]
It’s the battle for the mid segment of India’s booming smartphone market, and it looks like Nokia X series may be the first to hit the market by a whisker, beating Samsung’s Tizen operating system. According to sources, Samsung has exhibited its upcoming Tizen based smartphone to developers in India and the first of Samsung […]
A new BBC survey has underlined the importance of mobile phones in content consumption – especially news, and shown that Indians are ahead of others when it comes to using mobile phones for productivity purposes. The study, carried out among 6,000 smartphone owners in Australia, Germany, Sweden, India, Hong Kong and the US, found that […]
