Even as International Data Corporation (IDC) claimed that local player iBall overtook Samsung as India’s most popular tablet brand last quarter, IDC’s rival and former partner CyberMedia has released numbers that show Samsung on top. CyberMedia Research is today an independent technology market intelligence firm and tracks tablet and phone shipments in India, among other […]
Back in October, MediaTek, the Taiwanese chipmaker that practically ruled India’s low- and mid- range smartphone market, announced that by December, India would see several smartphones powered by its first LTE chip MT6595. December’s over. January’s also over, and February is almost over. Yet, India is yet to see the flood of LTE handsets powered […]
Below is a list of new smartphones being launched in India. Huawei Honor 3C, Price 14,000-15,000 Features 2.5/5 Value 1.5/5 The Huawei Honor 3C is available on Flipkart at present from two marketplace sellers. The current price of the 5-inch, 720p phone is Rs 15,000. The phone launch is a bit of an oddity, as […]
Micromax YU has closed pre-registrations for its first model, the Yu Yureka, a day ahead of schedule due to what the company called heavy rush. The preorder period, what the company calls registration period, opened last Friday and were supposed to end tomorrow. Instead, Yu has already closed registrations on Amazon.in. “YUREKA received a phenomenal […]
Popular open source Android-based operating system maker Cyanogen Inc officials said the mobile ecosystem has fallen into a slump as far as innovation was concerned, and promised to introduce a new paradigm in the market by 2016. Howard Harte, director of engineering at the company, and chief technology officer Steve Kondik were speaking at the […]
Something very surprising happened today: Lenovo announced that it would sell the Lenovo X2 for a price of just Rs 19,990. You might wonder what is so special about the launch and why this should come as such big news. Let us pause for a minute and take in the specifications. Look at the Lenovo […]
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, […]
Spice has launched its Smart Flo 503 and Karbonn has unveiled its Titanium S2 Plus, making them the cheapest 5-inch Android KitKat smartphones in India right now. While the Android One phones, launched a month ago, are supposed to provide the most affordable and complete Android experience for entry-level smartphone users, the launch of these […]
Taking a break from the routine of getting “customers to fight like dogs”, as a irate fan termed it, Flipkart has announced that it would add an Xiaomi Mi3 to the shopping carts of those who have tried to buy the phone five times or more over the past few weeks. The announcement has come […]
So you’re excited about the Google Android One platform, and want to buy one the three phones launched by Micromax, Karbonn and Spice. But just before that, you want to check out other options. Here’s a low down of the alternatives to Google One in the market, all of which have the same quad-core processor, […]
Micromax will launch a new mid-range Android KitKat 5-inch mobile phone in its Canvas series this week at a price of around Rs 15,000. The phone is likely to have a model number between A310 and A325. The phone, which will be placed above the Canvas Turbo A250 and Canvas Nitro A310 but below the […]
Indian telecom industry grew by 10.8% last financial year, with equipments segment growing faster than services, according to Voice & Data Annual India Telecom industry Survey 2014. The top three telecom service providers in the country – Airtel, Vodafone and Idea account for more than 50% of the services revenues for FY 2013-14. “Launch of […]
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 […]
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 […]
