After a delay of five months, Ringing Bells managed to dispatch the first lot of Freedom 251 smartphones.
Indian kiranas are agile enough to face the q-com challenge, but it's going to be a tough fight, notes Ambi Parameswaran.
Domestic handset maker Intex has launched India's first Firefox OS based handset for Rs 1,999, targetted at capturing a larger chunk of the booming affordable smartphone market in India.
These upcoming phones might have the coolest tech of 2018.
BlackBerry is planning to develop a bacteria-free phone, specifically for use in hospitals.
Buying a smartphone can be very confusing today. Here's the list to help you narrow down on your choice.
These devices set the trend for the future of smartphones.
According to a Pew survey, 71 per cent of Chinese say they use the internet at least occasionally or own a smartphone, our definition of internet users. In contrast, only 21 per cent of Indians say they use the internet or own a smartphone.
'How casually some people say cruel things online that they would never dare say in person.'
If you need a smartphone to message and call, this is the phone to buy. A lot of focus has been levied on build and quality, which goes missing on most of the other smartphones.
Dual SIM smartphones are no longer rare. All smartphone vendors have options to offer. Here are the five best.
The research found that the device accurately detected a set of positive samples in under 5 minutes.
The "stringent" step has been taken by the navy soon after seven naval personnel were caught leaking sensitive information to enemy intelligence agencies over social media, officials said.
Samsung's smartphone sales started to drop in the third quarter of 2016, and the decision to discontinue the Galaxy Note 7 slowed down sales of its smartphone portfolio in the fourth quarter.
"My smartphone has been my longest relationship. We connect with our phones on so many emotional levels. We look to it for solace, to calm us down, to put us to sleep, to ease our minds," Aaron said in a YouTube video.
Indians spend 4 hours and 5 minutes on an average daily, outdoing global usage by an hour.
The camera on your smartphone can detect a type of eye cancer found in children under the age of five, according to experts in the UK.
The entire census and NPR exercise is likely to cost the government over Rs 12,000 crore, the officials said.
BlackBerry has formally announced the two smartphones with BlackBerry 10 operating system.
Dixon Technologies' January-March quarter (Q4) results came in well below expectations, but the potential for signing up a new mobile client, and plans for backward integration into display manufacturing kept investors happy. Dixon's Q4FY24 revenue grew 52 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 4,660 crore, below Street consensus, due to weakness in consumer electronics (Rs 890 crore) and home appliances (Rs 294 crore) segments.
Companies bank on festive season to beat slow market blues
Not only humongous in size but these five smartphones also have powerful hardware inside.
Streamlining its delivery network and shifting focus back to the mass segment - at a time when competitors were struggling to restore normalcy in operations due to the pandemi - aided the firm's revival.
The top 5 cities of India made up about 60 per cent of the online smartphone sales in India.
The once-popular brand plans to try its luck in the smartphone market with reliability as its key proposition.
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.
Market grew 15% YoY in June quarter, sharply lower from 23% in previous quarter and 34% in the same quarter of 2015
Let us take a look at some of the most important parameters that have completely transformed smartphones in the last few years.
This listing is arranged according to price in descending order. The last few days -- the arrival of the iPhone 4 and the launch of the much awaited Samsung Galaxy S II has infused some fresh blood into the smartphone range available to you.
Sleek, smart and sexy: These ten come loaded with amazing features too.
Counterpoint Research estimates that Xiaomi will end CY23 with a volume market share in CY23 to 15 per cent, pushing the Chinese company, which has faced numerous challenges and scrutiny from investigative agencies, to the third place.
Goods and services tax (GST) collections from mobile device companies, amounting to Rs 1.82 trillion between 2020-21 (FY21) and 2023-24 (FY24), have already generated more than five times the revenue for the government compared to the Rs 34,149 crore allocated under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for mobile devices over six years ending 2025-26 (FY26). Currently, the GST on mobile devices stands at 18 per cent.
Ringing Bells will start with the assembly of handsets in Phase-I.
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.
What made them so special and worth owning despite the premium price tags some of them have
The report forecasts that by 2020, four out of every five smartphone connections worldwide will come from the developing world.
Sukanya Verma lists fun things you can do, inspired by Bollywood, when it's raining cats and dogs outside.
To burnish production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes, the government is considering an overhaul of some of them relating to sectors such as textiles and pharma, and making incentive payments quarterly, officials in the know said. In a bid to cut the delay in processing incentive claims, the government is looking at switching to a quarterly disbursement of incentives. Currently, in most schemes, incentives are annual.
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
Companies are playing the price game to woo customers.
