Smartphone Archive

India’s smartphone market revenue crossed $38 billion in 2021 with 27 per cent (on-year) growth, as shipments grew 11 per cent to reach 169 million units, a new report showed on Monday. India’s smartphone market retail ASP (average selling price) grew 14 per cent (on-year) to reach

Bharti Airtel shares spiked up 6% on January 28 after the company announced a partnership with Google. Bharti Airtel will issue 71.2 million shares to Google on a preferential basis at Rs. 734 per share. Bharti Airtel and Google might collaborate to make an affordable smartphone to rival JioPhone. Bharti

Vivo X21 has been launched in India at an event in New Delhi on Tuesday. The smartphone’s biggest highlight is of course its under-display fingerprint sensor (aka in-display fingerprint scanner), making it amongst the first production smartphones to offer the feature. Other highlights of the Vivo X21 include

Nokia 1, the company’s first smartphone running Android 8.1 Oreo (Go edition), is finally available for sale in India. Nokia licensee HMD Global had announced the smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February this year. The Nokia 1 is among the first handsets in India which come with

With “near-religious” fervour, mobile phone industry players gathered this week at their annual trade fair in Barcelona are vaunting their positive impact on the world even if they are also timidly starting to address fears over the dark side of new technology. While not new, the idea

HIGHLIGHTS A total of 403.5 million units shipped in Q4 2017, according to IDC iPhone shipments declined 1.3 percent YoY in Q4 Samsung saw a YoY dip of 4.4 percent in its smartphone shipments The iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X helped Apple overtake Samsung in the global smartphone market in the fourth

Home-grown information technology company Micromax on January 15 announced the launch of Bharat Go, a smartphone based on Google Android Oreo Go edition. The smartphone is expected to be unveiled by the end of January.“Taking the mission of connecting the unconnected ahead, and providing the best in class mobility

Shipments of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for smartphones surged 30 percent globally in the third quarter of 2017 as compared to the same period in 2016, data showed on Thursday. According to data from industry tracker IHS Markit, the global market for the OLED displays for

The unavailability of the iPhone X during the three months ended October pulled down the market share for Apple’s iPhones in some key regions, while phones running on Google’s Android recorded higher sales, data from a research firm showed on Tuesday. The market share for Apple’s iPhones, as measured by sales

HIGHLIGHTS The launch has been teased as a smartphone made for India Xiaomi has not revealed any details about the launch yet Some rumours point to the launch of Redmi 5A in India Xiaomi India Managing Director on Twitter teased the launch of another handset in the country. Being