Gionee on Saturday launched its 'ELife S7' in the Indian market.
HTC Desire 820 will be available in two variants - with an octa core processor and quad core one.
Google is expected to launch its much-awaited sub-$100 (around Rs 6,000) smartphones in India this month, which will further intensify competition in the booming multi-billion dollar smart devices market in India.
Who says feature phones have become a thing of past?
Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com lists the pros and the cons.
In a dig at Jio's Rs 1,500 4G-enabled feature phone, the Sunil Bharti Mittal-led company said its smartphone would be made available for the price of a feature phone
The sharing agreement will provide more bandwidth for RJIL to provide its high-speed 4G services.
It also sports 128MB RAM, 256MB memory (expandable up to 32GB), 2MP camera and 1350 mAh battery.
India is an important market for handset makers.
Xiaomi keeps its promise of budget-priced, feature-rich products with its three new Redmi 6 phones, says Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com
Xiaomi, Lenovo and Micromax have launched low cost phones to attract consumers at large scale.
These will be priced at Rs 5,999 and Rs 6,499 respectively
From spending a little less than three hours on making voice calls, Indians are spending well over 5 hours. So, while people make more calls, they are spending less than ever, reports Romita Majumdar.
The strategy of selling the phone will remain the same.
The Lumia 530 runs on Windows Phone 8.1, which brings along with itself, among other things, one swipe notifications, Cortana, the Action Centre and a Word Flow keyboard.
The Canvas Knight 2 impresses in terms of design.
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The company wants to put Android handset in every hand.
Its plans, to cut tariffs by 40% or offer more data, comes bundled with 1 GB high speed data for 28 days with unlimited voice thrown in.
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.
The 5.7-inch 640 XL dual-SIM comes with a solid plastic body and looks sturdy.
The Yu Yutopia comes with a full-metal body, which is a step up from previous Yu phones.
Lumia 640 XL will begin rolling out globally in March.
Buoyed by the market response to its Tizen OS-based smartphone in India, tech giant Samsung plans to manufacture the 'Z1' at its Noida facility soon.
Ashish Narsale weighs in on Samsung's latest phone.
V1Max runs Vivo's FunTouch 2.1 operating system, which is based on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
We give you five reasons to buy the Wickedleak Wammy One if you are looking to buy a smartphone under Rs 10,000.
The Gionee S5.5 isn't the slimmest phone in its segment, but it is a great value for money product to be considered.
SONY XPERIA C3 competes with LAVA IRIS X5 and ZTE V5.
The device is being labelled as the phone for 'selfies and skype'.
And it is available at a competitive price!
With an impressive resume, the Meizu m1 Note phablet will attract users who would like to lay their hands on a big screen device which is well built, cost effective, and not a slouch in performance either, says Himanshu Juneja.
It's not just the price! These smartphones come loaded with great features too.
With the Moto X Style, Motorola has officially declared war against the bigwigs of the smartphone industry.
Lenovo's K3 Note not only impresses, but is going to make competing brands in the price segment sweat a decent bit, says Himanshu Juneja
The company is also looking to invest in Indian start-ups.
Stung by the flood of competitively priced phones from Micromax and Xiaomi, Samsung has decided to prop up the budget segment by offering 4G-enabled smartphones in India.
HTC gets back into the innovation game with the HTC U12 Plus, says Ashish Narsale.
"All the products that we have announced -- Nokia 3310, Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 -- will be available in the second quarter of this year in India. Average global selling price for Nokia 3310 is 49 euros," HMD Global Oy Chief Marketing Officer Pekka Rantala said.
Revenues of Airtel and Idea have been hit by falling realisation and analysts said margins would be affected by higher costs.
The much-awaited Lumia 535 has hit the stores in India.
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