Xiaomi has unveiled its flagship Mi5 handset, priced at Rs 24,999.
The smartphones are priced Rs 6,399 onwards.
Patent fees will likely squeeze margins, and in turn the company's valuation.
Expansion of distribution network, venturing into new markets, supplementing production capacity, and ramping up workforce are all on the cards. Instead of trying to fight with brands having massive war chests, it will pass on the benefits to consumers by offering them phones at lower prices.
Internal management tensions, stiff opposition from Chinese handset makers led to halving of the company's market share
India has pipped China to drive the volume growth of smartphones in the world on the back of falling prices of high-end devices.
The struggling smartphone maker has been slashing prices of its handsets in India -- Z30, Z10, Q5, 9320 and 9720 -- to drive sales due to competition from Android, iOS and Nokia's Windows Phone, which have been offering devices at affordable prices.
60-plus men and women who live independent lives are becoming the cynosure of ad men's eyes.
India is an important market for handset makers.
Ratan Tata has acquired a stake in Chinese handset maker Xiaomi, the first investment by any Indian in the smartphone maker.
Micromax accounted for 22 per cent of smartphone sales in India
The addition of a mobile payments service to Apple Inc's next iPhone could help to boost sales of the larger-screen phones and claw back market share lost to mobiles running on Google Inc's Android platform.
Also, the combination of a new entrant and new technology is not necessarily good.
The research firm expects global smartphone shipments to surpass a billion units this calendar year and 1.7 billion by 2017 aided by steady decline in average selling prices and emerging markets, including Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East and Africa contributing in volumes.
The Chinese phone maker has ensured its two brands - Lenovo and Motorola - do not cannibalise into each other's share.
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.
The US tech major is planning to begin local production of its upcoming iPhone 12 by next April - within six months of its launch.
These five are budget-friendly yet feature rich.
Nokia sold its once-dominant handset business last year.
Samsung on Monday launched its 'Note 5' in the country priced at Rs 53,990.
With 8.5 per cent market share in the quarter ended September 2017, Nokia makes it to the top four bestselling feature phones in India.
Ashish Pratap Singh wonders if Samsung will meet the same fate as Nokia?
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?
Motorola said it has crossed the three million device sales milestone.
Google Inc on Monday launched the first smartphones powered by its Android One operating system in India, pricing them at around Rs 6,399 ($105) to capture the low-cost segment of the world's fastest growing smartphone market.
The smartphones have 5.1-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED screen.
However, the firm continued with its operation in the Indian market.
The processor is just 5 per cent of the overall cost of a computing device.
The five-year-old Chinese brand's assent to the summit comes after a year of astounding rise -- often growing by over 200 percent a quarter, reports Arnab Dutta.
Very few things can faze Madhukar V Kulkarni, a cop of 30 years. Yet, an innocuous smartphone scares him. For those like him in Maharashtra's cities, tech classes have stepped in to teach them how to embrace Skype & WhatsApp. Ranjita Ganesan reports.
India continues to be the fastest growing smartphone market in the Asia Pacific region.
BlackBerry has signed a letter of intent agreement under which a consortium to be led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has offered to acquire the company subject to due diligence, it said in a statement.
From spreading updates about the brand and upcoming devices to creating personalised world-of-mouth goodwill for Xiaomi -- its online army of fans have swelled parallelly with Xiaomi's fortunes in the country.
Xiaomi said in a statement that "it isn't easy" to build up a patent portfolio as a start-up company, but it aims to have filed 8,000 applications by 2016.
Lumia 640 XL will begin rolling out globally in March.
Every service provider, say analysts, now needs to make a much larger investment, and therefore needs a much larger share of the market to be profitable.
Price, specifications, features and all that you need to know about Apple's hot new 10th anniversary phone.
Dell emerges the most attractive among technology players.
As competition for the smartphones market hots up, new players are making waves.
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