While the 'Made in China' tag continues to be dominant as far as handsets in India go, things are beginning to change.
The online strategy cuts down on marketing and distribution costs, allowing Xiaomi to sell feature-rich phones at low prices.
Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Xiaomi, in an internal letter on Wednesday, announced that the company has sold one million smartphones in the first 18 days of this month in India, state-run China Daily reported.
'Just as the monkey god needed a Jambavan to prod him into realising his superpowers, so did the poll panel need a poke from the Supreme Court into remembering it had an armoury of powers at its disposal to stop the infractions,' notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
iPhone sales in June quarter dropped 35% even as smartphone market grew 19%
Samsung may be the leader in the burgeoning Indian mobile market.
India has been able to attract 40 global smartphone makers to the country -- creating at least 50,000 jobs. But GST could hurt that, discovers Ayan Pramanik.
In 2015, as many as 15 major Chinese smartphone brands stepped into India.
Foxconn has said it is aiming to develop 10-12 facilities in India, including factories and data centres, by 2020
'I doubt very much if I will ever move on from his music, as I have from so much else through the years,' says Aakar Patel.
Analysts point to a pattern with Samsung gaining leadership position in the prime segment during Feb-Aug every year. Apple overtakes Sept onwards
For years, India has been a low priority for Apple as spending power is weaker than in China
The Ig Nobel prizes honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then makes them think.
RIL has been talking to groups including Gionee, Huawei and Xiaomi
The once-popular brand plans to try its luck in the smartphone market with reliability as its key proposition.
Nearly 92% of the 250-mn smartphones run on Android.
It's earnings from mobile gadgets dropped 64%
The iPhone SE will replace Apple's ageing iPhone 5s model.
The Chinese phone maker has ensured its two brands - Lenovo and Motorola - do not cannibalise into each other's share.
Gajraj Rao's performance in Badhaai Ho is the finest by an actor in a Hindi film this year, applauds Sreehari Nair.
In a first, the India's smartphone market fell by 4%.
All but 500 who booked Note 7 phones have bought older devices instead of cancelling their orders but Samsung may still lose market share this festive season.
In the beginning was Salman Khan and the word was Dabangg. Ever since Sallu bhaiyya outdid every other star's box-office record with his brother's film, by playing the buffoon and dumbing down to hitherto unimagined levels , every other actor worth his namak has had his Dabangg moment: Shah Rukh Khan with Chennai Express, Ranbir Kapoor with Besharam and Shahid Kapur with Phata Poster Nikla Hero.
The voyeurism and poor taste on display in the reportage of the murder case involving Mukerjea's wife reflect the mindset of the society we live in and the media we are exposed to
Price, specifications, features and all that you need to know about Apple's hot new 10th anniversary phone.
The company is headed for its worst annual profit in three years, under siege as Chinese firms like Xiaomi and Lenovo reel in buyers with full-function touch-screen smartphones that are cheaper.
Samsung has reason to be worried.
The Modi-Shah definition of secularism is, India is a confident, resurgent Hindu, and therefore secular, country.
The economy hasn't gathered even half the traction that some of us assumed it would just a year back.
The Korean electronics giant says it will get more aggressive on pricing and focus on a narrower set of products for its mid-to-low tier products.
'Nitish is now a helpless junior ally of Hindutva.' 'He just cannot think of reining in the hoodlums raging, marauding and killing in the mohallas,' argues Mohammad Sajjad.
The aim is a vast improvement in quality that would lead to a surge in demand for low-end Android phones
Ashish Pratap Singh wonders if Samsung will meet the same fate as Nokia?
'We look and say their life is so tragic.' 'But there are hundreds of millions of people in these circumstances and what can they do but to carry on.'
A left-leaning centralised socialist model has created a shortage/entitlement economy. In fact one of the reasons for India's limited progress is that post-independent India is at odds with its true nature. It is something that educated right of centre Hindus are trying to correct, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
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'It will be interesting to see how Dr Patel handles gadflies with the maturity of egregiously petulant three year olds.' 'That Dr Patel does not, in so far as we can tell, cause society matrons to gush like hormonal teenagers can only be a good thing for him.' 'Look where their febrile imaginations and breathless prose took his predecessor.'
The Queen has retired, the bosses have left, long live the prince as king, says Shiv Visvanathan.
PM Modi seems to be gradually ending India's strategic ambiguity
It is betting on enterprise services and new launches to revive demand. But are the measures enough to steal a march on established players like Samsung and Micromax?
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