Companies bank on festive season to beat slow market blues
The top 5 cities of India made up about 60 per cent of the online smartphone sales in India.
Not only humongous in size but these five smartphones also have powerful hardware inside.
The once-popular brand plans to try its luck in the smartphone market with reliability as its key proposition.
Market grew 15% YoY in June quarter, sharply lower from 23% in previous quarter and 34% in the same quarter of 2015
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.
Let us take a look at some of the most important parameters that have completely transformed smartphones in the last few years.
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
Sleek, smart and sexy: These ten come loaded with amazing features too.
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.
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.
The report forecasts that by 2020, four out of every five smartphone connections worldwide will come from the developing world.
What made them so special and worth owning despite the premium price tags some of them have
Companies are playing the price game to woo customers.
If you have a budget of just under Rs 50,000, usher in the New Year with these beauties.
From cheaper iPhones to the most expensive Sony smartphone to Samsung's smart watch, there are several high-end devices set to be launched next month.
Leading up to Valentine's Day on February 14, quick-commerce platforms like Blinkit and Swiggy Instamart have witnessed a phenomenal uptick in the sales of products related to the occasion, such as roses and chocolates. Meanwhile, e-commerce giants like Amazon and Flipkart have gone live with their respective Valentine's Day sale events, offering generous discounts on products. Sales of chocolates and roses on Zomato-owned Blinkit shattered previous records at the beginning of this year's Valentine's Day week, on February 7, which is celebrated as Rose Day.
Most of these handsets have 5-inch display and interestingly all of them are based on Android operating system.
These come loaded with features that help click superb photographs
While some may be gimmicky the amount of functionality these interfaces offer is immense.
The company picked the launch date - 6/18 (June 18) - to tie in with the smartphone's dimensions.
The Intel Inside logo, which consumers have always seen on laptops and PCs, will now be seen on smartphones, too. In April, mobile vendor Lava International will launch its first smartphone in India based on the Intel processors, expected to be priced around Rs 25,000.
Rugged Gorilla Glass coating, whopper screen sizes and a high pixels per inch density will make you drool at the displays of these smartphones.
Emerging brands in the Indian smartphone market are gaining momentum.
The best in their class, all these five offer premium quality, exciting features that suit different budgets
Also, as many as 74 per cent Indians have slept holding their smartphones while 41 per cent have used their devices in the washroom, a seven-country survey of over 7,000 people about cell phone habits has found.
The company has set target to sell 15-20 lakh units of Honor smartphones by the end of this year
With Christmas and New Year approaching, it is once again time to make endless trips to shopping malls to select the best gifts for the holiday season.
US-based chipmaker Micron Technology is expecting demand for semiconductors to rise significantly in the next few years, globally and in India, as memory consumption is going up, largely driven by the widespread adoption of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). "Memory consumption is expected to double by the end of the decade and the biggest driver in this is AI. "While it's natural to talk about compute and GPUs (graphics processing units) in the context of AI, it is not to be forgotten that the true enabler for AI is memory ... in all the AI engines that we talk about, there is a lot of need to access memory quickly," Anand Ramamoorthy, managing director, Micron Technology India, told Business Standard.
The number of consumers adopting smarter, wireless technology in the country is on the rise.
Top smartphones that can record videos at 1080p HD quality.
The device features a five-inch all-touch screen with BlackBerry 10.3.1 OS.
There are plenty of smartphones under Rs 30,000 but these are the top five across all major smartphone platforms.
The company has identified India as one of the two key markets in South Asia.
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.
Isha Ambani means business. Not only when she is doing business - she leads Reliance Retail - but also when she is not. The latter was unmistakable on Wednesday, during her eight-minute 49-second video address on the occasion of "Girls in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Day India 2024".
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.
These are the best phones in the mid-range segment and if you have a budget of up to Rs 20,000, then you have a good variety to explore.
Samsung India on Tuesday announced the launch of four new mid-segment smartphones - Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7.
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