In February this year, Nokia had announced the 'Nokia X' family of affordable smartphones, running Google's Android apps, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Mods let Lenovo fight the features battle with premium players like Apple and Samsung and keep the price of the phone low, thereby drawing in aspirational customers who can't afford high-priced feature-rich handsets.
If Android One succeeds, it will only cement Pichai's so-called position as the most powerful man in the mobile world.
It was not immediately known how many jobs the proposed new plants would eventually create.
After posting a net loss of $265 million and with more loses being predicted for the next quarter, things are definitely not looking good for HTC Mobiles, says Siddhy Shetty
WikiLeaks has released what it termed as the biggest-ever leak of confidential documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming the America's premier spy agency partnered with foreign intelligence agencies to turn TVs and smartphones into weapons for surveillance.
SoftBank will pay 17 pounds in cash for each ARM share.
Industrialist Gautam Singhania has close to 8,80,000 followers on Twitter, yet he has opted for a service that 'promotes' his tweets by displaying them to a wider audience beyond his own followers.
The proposed company, Yu Televentures, will import handsets from China and sell in the Indian market.
The smartphones are priced Rs 6,399 onwards.
A look at Canvas Nitro A310, and you could get a fair idea as to why Micromax's growth is not surprising.
Google is going ahead with a policy revision mandating 30% charge on in-app purchases across all apps on Play Store. This has left developers' community worried about tighter squeeze on their earnings, says Yuvraj Malik.
The past few years have seen a frenzy of phone launches.
They are the best value for money smartphones in India.
The scales started tilting in favour of smartphones in 2014, when a slew of new, yet vibrant, brands entered the market, with their competitively priced offerings helping smartphones become the indispensable device that it has turned into today.
Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com looks at the latest phone in the market.
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In the last few years, zero per cent financing has become quite attractive as consumers aspire to buy the latest products, especially in categories such as mobile phones and television sets.
Motorola said it has crossed the three million device sales milestone.
They belong to different budget segments but when it comes to features and looks these seven stand out in the crowd.
'There are people clicking beautiful photos with a phone camera that others fail to achieve even with a DSLR' says Amit Mehra.
Patent fees will likely squeeze margins, and in turn the company's valuation.
Tax problems and unfavourable WTO agreements are making Tamil Nadu's electronics corridor less attractive to companies.
Online retail is increasing market share rapidly.
India's e-commerce sector is expected to touch $22bn in 2015.
Nokia agreed in September to sell its devices and services business and license its patents to Microsoft for 5.44 billion euros after failing to recover from a late start in smartphones.
It also sports 128MB RAM, 256MB memory (expandable up to 32GB), 2MP camera and 1350 mAh battery.
most believed that Apple could have done more to enhance the battery life of the phones.
Competition in the booming multi-billion dollar Indian smartphone market is further set to intensify with e-commerce giants Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal all set to launch Google's much-awaited sub-$100 (around Rs 6,000) handsets on Monday.
The once-popular brand plans to try its luck in the smartphone market with reliability as its key proposition.
The best in their class, all these five offer premium quality, exciting features that suit different budgets
Tech major is in discussion with film-makers, sport administrators to enter the fast-growing sectors.
It is ranked 7th on the list of world's top-10 consumer finance firms
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Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd is expected to use between 30,000 and 45,000 mobile towers when it starts offering 4G services in the third or fourth quarter of this financial year, according to Credit Suisse.
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
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Apple has not divulged much specific detail on HealthKit, which is expected to be incorporated into the iPhone 6 come September.
After Sheryl Sandberg, it's now the turn of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to visit India, the second biggest market for the social networking giant, later this month.
To beat its rivals, Nokia has done what most Chinese brands did soon after they entered the Indian market. Tied up with a well-known Bollywood actor as endorser, associated with cricket and established fan engagement initiatives, reports T E Narasimhan.
