Tag: Smartphone

London: China’s top-selling smartphone Honor, which aims to expand aggressively in India this year, will be ready to take off in the next two quarters, the company’s president believes. Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has emerged as one of the fastest growing smartphone brands in the first quarter in India — entering the list of top five […]

Beijing: Chinese tech company Smartisan has claimed that its newly-launched “R1” flagship smartphone comes with 1TB storage and is capable of running a computer. The “Smartisan R1” is available online, with prices ranging from $549 for a 64GB storage device to $1390 for the massive 1TB version, Abacus.com reported late Thursday. The dual-SIM phone features […]

New Delhi: Aiming to further drive smartphone adoption in India, Bharti Airtel and Amazon India on Friday joined hands to offer a range of 4G smartphones at affordable prices, starting at Rs 3,399. As part of the partnership, customers will receive a cashback of up to Rs 2,600 that can be availed over time, coupled […]

New Delhi: Xiaomi continued to lead the Indian smartphone market with 31.1 per cent market share while Reliance Jio topped the feature phone market with a massive 35.8 per cent share in the first quarter of 2018, a new report has said. Xiaomi was the leader with 25 per cent market share in Q4 of […]

New Delhi: Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel on Friday said it has rolled out an initiative under which its customers on 2G/3G mobile devices will be eligible for 30 GB data free of cost when they upgrade to a 4G smartphone. Airtel said this programme will complement its ‘Mera Pehla Smartphone’ initiative, under which it […]

Shanghai:  Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Tuesday launched Mi MIX 2S in China. The device features Artificial Intelligence (AI) dual camera and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset. Starting at a price of 3,299 yuan (roughly Rs 34,055), Mi MIX 2S will be available in China from April 3 and will be officially introduced […]

San Francisco: Two owners of Google Pixel smartphones who found microphones on their devices to be defective have filed a proposed class action suit in federal court in San Jose, California, the media reported. The suit requests a jury trial and accuses Google of shipping the phones with defective parts, Fortune.com reported on Friday. The […]

Moscow: Smartphone cameras are now helping Russian researchers analyse rare ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). According to a team from the Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, mobile phone cameras use technology similar to that in particle detectors. The UHECR emanate from supernovae and […]

New Delhi: With an aim to make a dent in the market share of Chinese brands in the Rs 30,000-40,000 segment, Samsung India on Wednesday launched Galaxy A8+ smartphone with flagship features for Rs 32,990. Galaxy A8+ is Samsung’s first smartphone to sport a dual-front camera and will be available on Amazon.in. “This device will play […]

New Delhi: In a bid to take on Chinese smartphone manufacturers in New Year, Samsung India is set to launch a new “Galaxy On” device in the third week of January. Industry sources told IANS that the latest device will be priced at around Rs 15,000 – a key mid-price segment in the highly-competitive Indian market. […]

San Francisco: Facebook-owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp has stopped working on smartphones that support ‘BlackBerry OS’, ‘BlackBerry 10’, ‘Windows Phone 8.0’ and older platforms in the New Year. “These platforms don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features in the future,” a spokesperson wrote in a support note on the company’s […]

New Delhi: With the biggest surge in smartphone adoption happening in India and Vietnam and user base expected to grow by almost 20 per cent in both countries, the year will see 3.47 billion people using the Internet, market research firm eMarketer has said. Internet users will represent 46.8 per cent of the global population […]

New Delhi: Domestic telecom brand Kult from the Optiemus group launched a budget smartphone “Ambition” for Rs 5,999 on Monday. The device that comes with 5-inch, ON-CELL HD IPS display will be available on Amazon.in, starting December 11. “‘Kult Ambition’ is best suited to the needs of a youngster who is a 24X7 digital native, […]

Noida: Mohit Goel, the maker of the controversial “Freedom 251” smartphone which became the talk of the town last year, resurfaced on Sunday, saying that if he gets support from the government, he can still deliver the handsets by March-April next year. Police on Sunday arrested two persons after Goel, Managing Director of Noida-based Ringing […]

Seoul: South Korean smartphone company LG Electronics has started launching its V30 smartphone in Europe that weighs only 158 grams despite its 6-inch wide display, breaking the stereotype that phablets are normally heavy. While the phone was released in Italy on Friday through major mobile carriers, the V30 will be launched in Germany, Spain and […]