From May, the company will start selling the Galaxy Mega phablets that come with 6.3-inch and 5.8-inch displays.
Rajeev Srinivasan on why consumers must be careful with their powerful mobile devices.
Says that 'challenging business conditions' would remain in current quarter, even as it posted an operating profit of $5.05 billion for December quarter
India, which is expected to be home to four million smartphones in the next two years, is already on the cyber criminal map.
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) on launched its new smartphone 'Curve 9220' priced at Rs 10,990, a move aimed at strengthening its presence in India, which is one of its fast growing markets.
Feature phones will be sold through the trade channel. Recently, Maxx had launched its AX356 GenxDroid7 for Rs 3,696.
The new phone will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed.
The phone has a big 5.5-inch screen, a great move for those who like watching movies and streaming videos.
Don't be surprised, for the Nokia Asha series smartphones offer better gaming, music, Internet and social experience than phones that come under the Samsung Rex brand.
Dixon Technologies right now is a beehive of activity. It is building a new facility in Noida to make 1.3 million laptops for Taiwanese PC maker Acer. The facility must be up and running in four months. The pace of activity will only increase. Last week Dixon won a similar contract from Lenovo, the Chinese personal computer maker and the third largest information technology (IT) hardware brand in India, to assemble laptops and notebooks. Though the clientele in these two cases is Taiwanese and Chinese, Dixon is a company reaching for the stars with its feet planted firmly in the Indian government's policy.
Apple's decision to launch the eSIM-only iPhone 14 series in the US has American buyers puzzled. Surprisingly, it stumped some Indian folks, too, despite the availability of a physical SIM slot in the India-centric iPhone 14 series. This is because a large number of Apple consumers in India get their iPhones at considerably cheaper rates from the US through visiting relatives, friends, family, et al. Their apprehensions are mostly about compatibility with Indian networks and eSIM availability in India.
Between 2012 and 2013, smartphone ownership increased sharply (up 20 per cent), while tablet ownership increased dramatically (up 125 per cent) in the UK, the research found.
The phone is lighter than Lumia 920 and will hit the market in June.
Canvas Blaze will have one sim slot that will work on 3G equivalent CDMA network of MTS and the other will support GSM sim which can work on network of telecom players like Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular etc.
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 application developed by a Texas-based mobile app company can control media boxes like Apple TV, digital video recorder, smart TVs, thermostats, garage door openers and anything else that is connected to the internet, the New Scientist reported.
After failing to get a court order to block an antitrust ruling, Google on Wednesday said it will allow users in India to choose default search engine on Android-based smartphones. As part of the key changes the tech giant will make to its platforms and business in India in the aftermath of the landmark CCI ruling, OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) will be able to license individual Google apps for pre-installation on their devices. Google is also updating the Android compatibility requirements to introduce changes for partners to build non-compatible or forked variants, the company said in its blog.
Want to take on Samsung and Nokia in India.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear on January 18 a plea of US tech giant Google against an order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) refusing an interim stay on the competition regulator imposing a Rs 1,337 crore penalty on it. The NCLAT, on January 4, had refused an interim stay on an order of the competition regulator and had asked Google to deposit 10 per cent of the amount. The NCLAT admitted the search giant's challenge to the CCI slapping a Rs 1,337.76 crore fine for abusing the dominant position of its Android smartphone operating system in the country.
You can buy them for your personal use or gift it to someone you love. Here are top 10 smartphones and tablets currently going hot in the market.
Google Inc's Android software is coming to cars, televisions and watches this year, as the Internet search giant races against Apple Inc and other tech companies to extend its business into a rapidly broadening field of Internet-connected devices.
Launched just a few days ago, the HTC Desire 210 has received good response from critics and customers thanks to its affordable price and some cool features.
Released on Wednesday, the report shows that 81 per cent of men and 72 per cent of women in India owned a mobile phone as of 2022, translating to a gender gap of 11 per cent. The numbers drop steeply in terms of mobile internet adoption. While 52 per cent of Indian men use mobile internet, women are way behind, with only 31 per cent of them accessing mobile internet, the report pointed out.
Icons on the home screen are replaced with a personalised stream of news articles, social networking updates, photos and video.
The new kind of computer chip operates in the part of the radio spectrum, known as the terahertz range. In this range, wavelengths of radiation are longer than infrared light and shorter than those of high-frequency radio.
The device, Win 400, is available at Rs 4,979.
Lenovo Smartphone P770 has all the juice to keep one hooked to it.
With exciting features and an apt price tag, the Moto X could give flagships a run for their money.
Ideal for those who want functionality of smartphones and tablets in one device.
The scarcity of resources is particularly evident in the case of Rajasthan compared to many other states.
Some dazzling mobile phones have been launched at the Barcelona World Congress in Spain.
India, the world's fifth largest economy in the world, is likely to overtake Japan to become the world's third-largest economy with a GDP of $7.3 trillion by 2030, S&P Global Market Intelligence said in its latest issue of PMI. After two years of rapid economic growth in 2021 and 2022, the Indian economy has continued to show sustained strong growth during the 2023 calendar year. India's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow 6.2-6.3 per cent in the fiscal year ending in March 2024, being the fastest-growing major economy this fiscal year.
If you have a budget of just Rs 10,000 or less these five smartphones are made just for you.
Apple's iPhone 5 is expected to outsell Samsung's Galaxy SIII.
Sony's latest offering is a 7mm thick smartphone packed with features to die for
The phone comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Processor that is clocked at 2.26GHz and a 2GB RAM.
Microsoft had acquired Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion two years ago under its then CEO, Steve Ballmer.
the Nexus 5X is everything a smartphone should be and will soon be climbing the rungs of the popularity ladder.
When the human body is exposed to too much artificial light at night, the body's biological clock gets confused and this natural sleep pattern starts disrupting.
The company's 64-bit processor scores over all other smartphones on benchmarks test.
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