The Canvas Knight 2 impresses in terms of design.
New entrant Micromax gives tough competition to established brands as they bring in more lucrative offerings to woo the youth with devices loaded with education and entertainment apps.
Micromax's Canvas Selfie wants to make women 'more presentable'.
India is the world's third largest smartphone market.
Canvas Blaze will have one sim slot that will work on 3G equivalent CDMA network of MTS and the other will support GSM sim which can work on network of telecom players like Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular etc.
YU will be run as a separate business, not as an extension, says Rahul Sharma.
Samsung retains top slot in smartphones but Motorola pips Nokia for 4th position.
The device does not require users to don the pesky 3D glasses to view the content.
At Rs 6,499, the Micromax Canvas A1 is a magical phone that runs on Google's Android One platform.
At Rs 6,499, the Micromax Canvas A310 is a magical phone that runs on Google's Android One platform.
The big reception will take place in Mumbai on January 23.
This smartphone is promising in every way and its impressive package might even be the next technology breakthrough
Micromax has built a successful brand by harnessing the advantages China offered. Now it needs to change its strategies.
The device comes with a 5-inch full HD screen and is powered by 1.5 GHz quad core processor.
Make no mistake. Jackman is a huge catch! But even the star's celebrity status might not be enough to rake in huge sales as expected.
With 19 per cent market share, Samsung rules supreme in India.
With Galaxy Win, Samsung is trying to contain the Indian brands who are selling quad core phones at very cheap prices. But will it succeed?
Made-in-China phone brands are eating away market share of prominent firms like Nokia and Samsung
Though Micromax sold its first mobile phone just two years ago, it appears confident it can pull off a coup - it already has a 5 per cent market share.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested the co-owner of Micromax mobiles and another top executive of the company while they were allegedly giving Rs 30 lakh bribe to the engineers of North Delhi Municipal Corporation for clearance to a banquet hall construction.
The Doodle 2 is for those who like to draw or scribble on their phone and picks up where its predecessor, the A111 Canvas Doodle, left off.
Confident with the popularity of its Canvas phones, Micromax launched its first 'premium' 8-inch tablet.
Micromax to launch Canvas Tab P666 priced at Rs 10,999.
Micromax launched a range of LED TVs priced between Rs 15,990 and Rs 129,990. The company eyes a revenue of Rs 225 crore from this segment in this fiscal
The government is likely to extend fiscal incentives for production of toys, bicycles and leather and footwear in the forthcoming budget as it looks to expand production linked incentive (PLI) scheme to cover more high-employment potential sectors, sources said. The government has already rolled out the scheme with an outlay of about Rs 2 lakh crore for as many as 14 sectors, including automobiles and auto components, white goods, pharma, textiles, food products, high efficiency solar PV modules, advance chemistry cell and speciality steel. The scheme aims to make domestic manufacturing globally competitive and create global champions in manufacturing, and it is yielding solid results, sources said.
At least two of them - Lava and Micromax - are arming themselves against the Chinese rivals which made them insignificant in the local market over the past few years.
The government is busy strategising ways to revive the domestic mobile device industry as Chinese firms have grabbed a large chunk of the handset market. The idea is to minimise competition from Chinese mobile players in the entry level or sub-Rs 10,000 category, according to a senior government official familiar with the plans. While discussions on the strategy are on, there's a growing consensus within the government that the lower end of the market should be reserved only for the domestic players, the official said.
After slaying biggies at home, Chinese smartphone makers bullish on India
Home-grown companies, including electronics manufacturing services (EMS) firm Dixon Technologies and mobile device maker Lava International, have started exploratory talks with Chinese sub-assemblies and component players for setting up joint ventures (JVs) in the country. Sources in the industry say many domestic companies have also had preliminary discussions with original design manufacturers (ODMs) in China to look at a JV model for manufacturing smartphones. Key ODM players in mobile devices in China include Longcheer, Huaqin, and Wingtech, which has already set up a plant in Tirupati.
How dominant are Chinese firms in India's sub-Rs 10,000 mobile device market? The question has become relevant as the government has been thinking of reserving this price segment for domestic players who have not been able to battle the Chinese onslaught. However, telecom firms and others are concerned that such a move could stymie the effort to build affordable 5G phones in the sub-Rs 10,000 category.
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The company wants to put Android handset in every hand.
According to research firm IDC, a slowdown in smartphone shipments began showing up as early as late February, though companies insist that the March quarter was fine, albeit on a low base.
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.
The onslaught of Chinese mobile brands is virtually obliterating Indian brands, especially in terms of value. According to industry estimates based on excise and Custom duty trends, the value share of Indian brands (across smartphones and feature phones, operator phone sales - which is mostly Jio phones - and the value of phones smuggled into the country) has dropped to a mere 1.2 per cent in January-October 2021 compared to 25.4 per cent in the calendar year 2015. In the same period, the Chinese have established their domination, hitting a value share of 64.5 per cent, up from 17.8 per cent.
Ashish Pratap Singh wonders if Samsung will meet the same fate as Nokia?
In a first, the India's smartphone market fell by 4%.
Samsung may be the leader in the burgeoning Indian mobile market.
Comparing the budget smartphones from Micromax and Xiaomi.
At Rs 14,990, Karbonn Titanium Octane comes with an octa core processor as well as with the latest Android KitKat operating system.
A number of smartphone players such as Xiaomi, Samsung, LG and Micromax also have smart TVs in their product portfolio.
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