Mobile phone sales across the world totalled 435 million units in the second quarter of 2013.
Dixon Technologies' January-March quarter (Q4) results came in well below expectations, but the potential for signing up a new mobile client, and plans for backward integration into display manufacturing kept investors happy. Dixon's Q4FY24 revenue grew 52 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 4,660 crore, below Street consensus, due to weakness in consumer electronics (Rs 890 crore) and home appliances (Rs 294 crore) segments.
DRI had last month issued the notice to Samsung India for allegedly evading duty worth about Rs 70 crore (Rs 700 million) while importing the tablets from South Korea between April 2012 and February 2013, the sources said.
Jury finds that Samsung had infringed two Apple patents
Electronics major Samsung launched the world's first solar-powered mobile phone, priced at Rs 2,799 in the Indian market.
This year Galaxy S4 has topped the survey with more than 72 per cent respondents voting for the launch as very successful.
As 4G internet completes coverage of the entire country, rural markets have become the primary generator of sales.
Samsung announced a global recall of the device after reports that the handset can explode while charging
Samsung last week suspended sales of its latest flagship smartphone and announced a recall of 2.5 million units already sold, after faulty batteries caused some handsets to explode during charging.
Samsung also unveiled its slimmest Galaxy handset.
It has 18.9 per cent share of the market, down from 22.6 per cent for the third quarter of 2018 while Xiaomi has 27.1 per cent share.
Samsung is counting on snazzy new products, innovative marketing and vaulting ambition to close the gap on rival Nokia in this lucrative segment.
The Galaxy S Series, accepting the Android platform and niche marketing helped Samsung emerge on top in India.
Leading online retailers have confirmed that they will start selling the much-awaited phone by April 25 at an approximate starting pricing of Rs 39,000.
Disha's erroneous Instagram post received a lot of flak.
In a first, the India's smartphone market fell by 4%.
Samsung is betting on core capabilities like R&D to stay prepared for the new wave of technologies like 5G and IoT (internet of things).
Feature for feature, Samsung Galaxy S5 beats iPhone 5S hands down, says Shruti Puri. However, the real picture will emerge only after the phone launches this April.
India is the world's third largest smartphone market.
The government on Monday extended the period of production-linked incentive scheme for large-scale electronics manufacturing with a focus on mobile phones by a year until 2025-26. The base year of the scheme 2019-20 remains the same but the companies will have the option to choose their five-year period either from the base year or the year 2020-21 for calculation of the incentives under the scheme. "Now we have extended the tenure of the scheme from 2020-21 to 2025-26. "Earlier, it would have ended in 2024-25.
One can pre-book the Note by paying an upfront booking amount of Rs 2,000 through the Samsung India e-store.
Not at the moment, says Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com, but the day is coming soon when the DSLR camera might become redundant.
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday launched OMNIAHD in India world's first full-touch handset featuring 720P HD video recording, with the largest 9.4 cm AMOLED screen on mobile.
However, a passenger can carry such phones on board in switch off mode and in cabin baggage
All that is hot and all that is not about Samsung's latest phones.
Samsung recently introduced its "S bike" mode, a feature targeted at India's legions of motorbike riders that, when activated, notifies callers that the phone's owner is riding and cannot answer
Samsung on Friday announced it would set up a handset manufacturing facility at Manesar in Gurgaon district with an investment of $15 million.
Digital technology major, Samsung Electronics, strengthened its touch screen mobile phone portfolio by launching three new products Star, Star 3G and BeatDJ in the Indian market recently.
'If you are watching cricket and don't want to leave the screen, you could check the menu and order through Zomato (or any other app) from a small part of your screen. That is what we are working towards.'
While the government has not barred procurement of equipment from Chinese companies, the process to amend the general financial rules (GFR) 2017 has started. This will impose restrictions on bidders in public procurement from countries that share a land border with India, reports Megha Manchanda.
Samsung eyes growth in consumer electronics business in 80 districts through its service vans, and adding over 250 service points and as many resident engineers.
With cellular telephony fast expanding, Samsung on Friday said it has tied up with India's largest cellular operator AirTel for bundling of handsets in all circles.
The company unveiled a 105-inch screen UHD TV, which it claims is the world's largest curved UHD TV.
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Popular Kannada actor Ramesh Aravind talks about turning an author.
Smartphones have been a key success story of the government's production-linked incentive scheme, helping India become the second-largest mobile phone manufacturing country, after China.
With a processor and camera that just about makes the cut, the Grand 2 is bound to face competition in the market from home grown brands.
Two full-fledged semiconductor fabrication plants are going to come up in India very soon entailing multi-billion dollar investment besides several chip assembly and packaging units, Minister of Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. In an interview with PTI, the minister confirmed that the two projects include a $8 billion proposal submitted by Israel-based Tower Semiconductors and the other from Tata Group. "I am happy to share this with you and you are probably the first one I'm sharing this with.
