Get Ahead reader Arun Iyer lists out three quick facts smartphone buyers must know before choosing the mobile they desire.
A Windows Phone 7.5 device looking to take on the likes of the HTC Explorer, Samsung Galaxy Ace and LG Optimus Hub.
The government's stated vision is that it wants to make India a manufacturing hub and that is where such a rush or confusing policies don't help, reports Shubhomoy Sikdar.
The industry is expecting double-digit growth on a year-on-year basis, helped by a possible price correction after softening of raw material inputs and factors such as positive sentiments, pent up demand and improving economic conditions. Besides, a shift in consumer behaviour from price consciousness towards technologically advanced premium products with quality, value proposition and safety aspects leading to a rise in demand for home automation products is making the industry upbeat. With the government's production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for white goods, which has witnessed a committed investment of Rs 4,614 crore, in place, many manufacturers are gearing up to make the most out of the opportunity as well as take steps towards reducing their dependency on imports and make products more affordable.
Only one in five handsets sold in India this year is likely to be made locally.
Tablets with smart apps help shoppers browse products and make hassle-free payments.
The company will, however, not bring its new 5G-enabled Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a (5G) to India and Singapore markets.
The Department of Telecom on Tuesday approved applications of telecom companies -- Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and MTNL -- for conducting 5G trials but none of them will be using technologies of Chinese entities. The list of telecom gear makers approved for trials include Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, C-DOT and Reliance Jio's indigenously developed technologies.
How exciting is the Vivo Nex 3? Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com lets you know.
The base model is estimated to be priced at Rs 30,000.
Korean major Samsung would invest Rs 85 crore (Rs 850 million) to implement its various ambitious projects in Haryana by year 2010, chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday.
Phone manufacturers, like car companies, are capitalising on the latest trends and working with cool designers as the market for designer phones is big, and getting bigger. Of the 180 million mobile subscribers, young consumers are estimated to account for around 60 per cent (108 million units). It is this consumer group that the mobile vendors are planning to lure with premium, designer or special edition mobile phones, this season.
Microsoft has launched the Lumia 830, 735 and 730, priced at 330 euros (about Rs 26,190), 219 euros (about Rs 17,370) and 199 euros (about Rs 15,800), respectively, as it tries to build on its acquisition of Nokia's mobile division earlier this year.
Forget about black and silver. Your choice of mobile phone color signals something about you.
Known for its phones and emerging from nowhere in the segment, it might take on the scooter Goliaths.
On Sept 15 Google launched the first of its Android One phones in India aimed at making smartphones more affordable for the masses.
Loading an app required the watch to pull tremendous amounts of data from iPhones.
Price before taxes and subsidies is Rs 17,300.
There are few firms that are applauded for managing a healthy top line growth along with an impressive brand image that inspires most companies.
What is driving the digital-first approach of traditional, legacy brands? Apart from the growing adoption of the internet in the country, brands are drawn to the agility of the medium.
Time was when you turned on your car's ignition, all that happened was that the mechanical system fired up your engine and made it run. Today, the moment you do so, your stereo system probably lights up, connects to the Bluetooth on your smartphone, and lets you make calls through an audio assistant or play music from your phone, which you can hear on the car's speakers. All these smart features in a car are powered by semiconductors, or chips, as they are commonly called.
The OnePlus 7 is a leader by natural selection. Just don't expect any surprise enhancements, says Veer Arjun Singh.
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.
One of the biggest upgrades of the S5 over the S4 has been the introduction of a fingerprint scanner below the Home key.
Get ready for more firepower as smartphone makers plan to dazzle you with high processing power, bigger RAMs and of course, cameras that come with beastly megapixels.
There's no end to what designers can do to mobile phones. Here's a look at some unique phones that are likely to hit the market next year, and do their owners proud.
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.
Today, Vachani's public-listed company, Dixon Technologies, has gone beyond manufacturing just television sets. Armed with private equity funding from Motilal Oswal eight years ago, it has transformed itself into a Rs 4,400 crore electronic manufacturing services major, which now straddles lighting products, home appliances, feature phones, LED bulbs, amongst others. A two-part series looks at how two home-grown manufacturers are leveraging the govt's production-linked incentive scheme.
The content discovery platform designed to help you discover content and services in the language of your choice recently turned profitable. It has delivered 1 billion application installs and updates in the past 12 months, says Samreen Ahmad.
Shipping will start fall.
Phones, cameras and other devices that have been tested to their limits.
Venugopal from Anaparti, a small town in Andhra Pradesh was able to buy a new Samsung mobile phone, thanks to Turning Point on the Rediff shopping platform.
This is the first Windows Phone 8 device with a full high-definition 1,080-pixel display.
Customs officials have been directed to stop shipments of such phones. Industry experts expect the move to hit the sales of dual-SIM handsets, which are imported into the country by companies including Nokia, Samsung, Meridian Mobile and Spice. More importantly, this could also affect the plans to manufacture these handsets in the country. It is estimated that around 100,000 dual-SIM phones are sold in the country every month.
If you're shopping for a new laptop, you might want to consider one of these. NS Sawaikar tells you why.
The Pixel handset comes with all-round improvement, and with some workable niggles here and there, the handset looks poised to take on the rival Apple iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7, says Himanshu Juneja.
Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com looks at the latest phone in the market.
This year saw a lot of innovations in mobile phones, and next year will be even more interesting.
