The number of consumers adopting smarter, wireless technology in the country is on the rise.
Rugged Gorilla Glass coating, whopper screen sizes and a high pixels per inch density will make you drool at the displays of these smartphones.
Trends like bundled offers and 4G-LTE feature phones could become mainstream in 2018
Domestic firms Spice and Intex will launch India's first Firefox operating system-based mobiles next week, a move that will further heat up the strongly contested affordable smartphone market.
Emerging brands in the Indian smartphone market are gaining momentum.
Last month Samsung said that it will launch smartphones with curved display in October.
E-learning and work from home have forced a section of feature phones users to shift to smartphones.
Micromax accounted for 22 per cent of smartphone sales in India
The low-cost smartphone option is very limited if you intend to buy anything other than Android, but we have tried to give the widest choice here in terms of best smartphone for less than Rs 10,000.
Chinese handset maker Xiaomi is expected to launch its latest 4G device Mi4 in the country later this month as it looks to strengthen its position in the booming Indian smartphone market.
Typically used by businesses or users as email devices, smartphones are more data-centric and have a suite of productivity tools like Word, PDF viewer, voice to text converter and a PC-like web browser.
'The country is a good test bed for enterprise adoption, but to scale rapidly, companies will need to look outside the country for customers.'
Demonetisation impacted the smartphone market at almost all levels, including customer demand and stock movement in distribution channels.
While Samsung and Apple remain the leaders, LG pushed HTC to the fourth spot becoming the world's No. 3 smartphone maker.
Motorola is betting that low-cost smartphones can provide the spark to rekindle its struggling business, even as the company's ownership by Google Inc will force it to sit out of China, the world's largest smartphone market.
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc unveiled a curved smartphone on Monday in a move to catch up bigger rival Samsung Electronics Co.
It also sports 128MB RAM, 256MB memory (expandable up to 32GB), 2MP camera and 1350 mAh battery.
The Chinese PC manufacturer looks to ride its India success and tap the promising mobile devices market.
'Lots of YouTubers and influencers use a phone that can do lots of things, but if you need to do heavy editing or proper editing, you will still come back to a proper laptop setup.'
Glimpses of the Google Pixel 10 series of mobile phones launched at the Made by Google event in Brooklyn, New York, August 20, 2025.
Shipments of 5G smartphones spurted by 74 per cent in 2022 even as overall mobile phone shipments declined by 8 per cent in the year, CyberMedia Research said on Tuesday. According to the CyberMedia Research (CMR) report, Xiaomi led the overall smartphone market with a 21 per cent market share while Samsung led in the shipment of 5G smartphones with a 23 per cent market share. Driven by a resilient consumer appetite to switch and upgrade, the premium smartphone market continued to gain traction, the report said.
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.
Sony's flagship Xperia Z seems to be topping the list at the moment, boasting of some incredible hardware, beating even the likes of Samsung Galaxy S4 with unprecedented benchmark scores.
In FY22-23, Samsung exported $4.09 billion smartphones from India -- an increase of 42 per cent over 2021, when it was $2.8 billion -- accounting for 35 per cent of all smartphone exports.
The aim is a vast improvement in quality that would lead to a surge in demand for low-end Android phones
Let's take a look at some of the best smartphones launched this year.
The once-popular brand plans to try its luck in the smartphone market with reliability as its key proposition.
Amazon's latest Prime Day sale event broke records with over 18,000 orders per minute - a 50 per cent jump from 2024. Nearly 70 per cent of new memberships came from Tier-III cities.
Ringing Bells will start with the assembly of handsets in Phase-I.
The sweeping tariffs proposed across sectors by US President Donald Trump are scheduled to be imposed starting April 2, with most analysts worried about their impact on companies, and in turn the financial markets. Recently, the US administration signaled that it will impose sectoral tariffs on energy, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, agriculture, copper, and lumber.
Now, that Xiaomi has almost become a household name in India, it is time to explore the top 10 Xiaomi smartphones that have either hit or are expected to hit the Indian shelves soon.
The two entities would form a "broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem."
Curved displays are an early stage in screen evolution, which is shifting to bendable or foldable designs.
Want to take on Samsung and Nokia in India.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, recently stated that he sees India in the same position that China was seven to ten years ago
There's no change in Apple Inc's India strategy, said a top government source. 'It can only be enhanced'.
Lenovo Group Ltd said on Tuesday it was establishing a smartphone assembly unit in India.
The new model is 5.6mm thick. CEO Tim Cook said it promises "pro performance in a thin and light design."
Amazon.com Inc is preparing to launch its long-rumoured smartphone in the second half of the year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people briefed on the company's plans.
Intensifying competition in the mid-segment smartphone market, Samsung India today launched two devices under its Galaxy series, priced at Rs 6,750 and Rs 8,290.
