A smartphone is more than a necessity these days. This is true for everyone, irrespective of your status professional, employed, student, homemaker. Isn't it? So, as the race to own a smartphone gets charged up, so does the market.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday launched the world's first smartphone with a curved display, a variant of the Galaxy Note which moves the Asian giant a step closer to achieving wearable devices with flexible - even unbreakable - screens.
Once associated with feature phones, the dual SIM feature has now made its way into the smartphone category and has revolutionised the Indian handset market. Take a look at these top 5.
New Asha 310 to come with a full-touch 3-inch display, 2 MP camera and Wi-Fi.
Chinese tech giant Lenovo unveiled its new 'layered' smartphone - Vibe X2 - priced at Rs 19,999 in India.
'One out of three phones sold in India is a Xiaomi phone.'
Will focus on aggressively expanding its storage offering.
Motorola on Thursday unveiled a new smartphone that consumers can personalise with a choice of colours and materials, hoping to stand out in a crowded market and justify the $12.5 billion that Google Inc paid for the ailing handset maker.
The Ericsson Consumer Lab study was conducted among 4,000 smartphone users across 18 urban cities in India.
Bengaluru-based Sunny Gupta had been searching for a laptop for months. In August, while sitting at a coffee shop, he decided to order an Acer Predator laptop - typically priced between Rs 95,000 and Rs 2.5 lakh - through the quick-commerce (q-com) platform Flipkart Minutes. "It took exactly 13 minutes from payment to receiving it at the Starbucks I ordered it to," he wrote in a now-viral post on social media platform X.
At 190g, this phone is noticeably heavier than nearly everything else of its size on the market.
Artificially intelligent smartphones will be able to offer solutions and suggestions based on user behaviour.
Samsung, Nokia and Sony are leading from the front in making smartphones and tablets afordable
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.
Apple Inc is commencing assembly of its iPhone 12 model in the country, a move that is expected to help the US tech giant further consolidate its position in the burgeoning smartphone market in India. Apple has partnered with third-party manufacturers like Foxconn and Wistron to make some of its phones in India. These include iPhone SE, iPhone 10R and iPhone 11.
The world's lightest smartphone, weighing just 60 grams, is all set to hit the Indian market to make the most of the ongoing festive season.
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According to analysts, most of the growth in the smartphone space will come from existing users, who will be lured to upgrade their handsets as new features and technologies turn existing features redundant, says Arnab Dutta.
Mozilla showcased a smartphone prototype costing as little as $25 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, targeting developing countries including India and China.
The US-based company, in collaboration with partners like Wistron and Foxconn, had recently started assembling iPhone 11 in India.
The New Year is just a couple of weeks away and 2013 has seen an unending line of smartphones entering the market.
The company, which sells more phones than Samsung in China, aims to sell 1 million smartphones in India next financial year.
If growth reverts to the pre-Covid level, a lot of people may have to temper their rosy optimism, points out Debashis Basu.
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The app provides users with information so they can make more informed decisions on whether they want to avoid downloading power-hungry apps or remove such apps that were previously downloaded.
Global sales of smartphones is likely to cross the billion-unit mark in 2014.
The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone allows easy typing and dialing. The smartphone's external display offers previewing calendar reminders, email, text messages and phone calls. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip is a powerful, compact smartphone equipped to deliver a wide range of applications, said Sanjay Gupta, chief marketing officer, Mobile Services, Airtel.
Samsung shipped 83.2 million smartphones worldwide and captured 24 per cent market share
The under Rs 20,000 price category is a sweet spot for the consumers, who wish to have a great smartphone, but are not willing to shell out a lot of cash to own one.
Making the Pixel 8 in India will not necessarily bring the price down -- witness iPhones made in India that are more expensive than those in the US and Dubai.
Taking the fight to rivals manufacturing high-end mobile devices, the world's largest handset-maker, Nokia, on Tuesday unveiled three new smartphones in an attempt to increase its market share.
It's earnings from mobile gadgets dropped 64%
After a long wait, the handset maker adopts the ubiquitous operating system to gain volumes in the smartphone market.
The Indian market is expected to see launch of the first quad-core smartphone, S1 Titanium, in first week of February by Karbonn Mobiles.
The phone is lighter than Lumia 920 and will hit the market in June.
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Aiming a larger share in the country's smartphone market, Finnish handset maker Nokia today launched its Windows-based phone 'Lumia 610' at Rs 12,999, the cheapest device in the series.
Following the footsteps of Motorola, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi is also teaming up with e-Commerce major Flipkart to launch its handsets in India.
Apple's newest phone iPhone 14 will be made in India as the global tech titan bets big on the manufacturing prowess of the world's second-biggest smartphone market after China.
