The Indian smartphone market is very hyper-competitive. For instance, at the end of CY2018, the top five smartphone brands enjoyed a market share exceeding 75%, while over 88 smartphone brands fought for a mere 0.3% market share available for each player. In terms of smartphone shipments, most of the activity is centered around the entry-level …
Gen Z users are looking for smartphones that deliver superior consumer experience with premium tech innovations at entry-level prices, and OPPO, Samsung and Apple are the top three brands that find favour with consumers, a new survey said on Friday. At least 78 per cent Gen Z consumers see smartphones as a symbol of their …
Facing stiff competition from Chinese and South Korean players, Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation has announced to quit the Indian smartphone market. Sony had less that 0.01 per cent of the total Indian smartphone market share in the first quarter of 2019. Sony Mobile, however, said that it would continue to monitor the market situations and …
Nicolas (Nico) Fischbach is the Global Chief Technology Officer at Forcepoint. Nico is leading Forcepoint’s cloud-first transformation as the CTO for the company’s cloud security business, where he oversees technical direction and innovation. Before joining Forcepoint, he spent 17 years at Colt, a global B2B service provider, and was responsible for company-wide strategy, architecture and …
After Samsung, Huawei has the biggest share in the global smartphone market but it now faces a huge challenge after Google barred the Chinese giant from some updates to the Android operating system. As a result of the new restrictions introduced amid the bitterly fought US-China trade war, Huawei is prohibited from buying parts from …
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has said that it will continue to provide security updates and after-sales services to all existing Huawei and Honor smartphone and tablet products. “We will continue to build a safe and sustainable software ecosystem, in order to provide the best experience for all users globally,” Huawei said in a statement. “Huawei …
Google‘s smartphone business has been struggling to gain ground even as rivals Apple, Samsung and Huawei continue to upend competition with better “specced” devices every quarter. Samsung grabbed the top position with 21 per cent market share while Huawei, with 17 per cent share was at the second spot and Apple settled at the third …
There was a time when Android smartphone makers used to unabashedly copy the iPhone, often considered as the gold standard in smartphones. From shamelessly copying the design to stealing the signature features like the infamous notch, Android smartphones were simply iPhone knockoffs. But in recent months we have seen evidence of how Android smartphone makers …
Realme, the young smartphone startup that started-off as a sub-brand of OPPO in 2018, has grown tremendously over the past year. The Realme strategy playbook has focused on packing their smartphones, with all the right mix of the latest specs and combining it with youth-centric marketing. As a result, smartphone brands such as Xiaomi, are …
One of the standout hits this year, thus far, has been the Huawei‘s latest and the most premium flagship in its P series, the Huawei P30 Pro. It raised quite a few eyebrows, and appreciation for its camera system, especially the 50x Zoom. The four cameras on the back are the standout sensation on this …