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 …
Google’s new Pixel devices priced at almost half of its previous rollouts may still not be able to move the needle much for the search giant in Indian smartphones, especially in the premium segment, given the superior features rivals such as Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo and OnePlus offer at similar or lower price points, say market …
Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth has hit out at bigger rival Xiaomi, saying India’s top smartphone maker is “insecure” about the relative newcomer’s success. Sheth was reacting to Xiaomi India head Manu Jain’s recent tweets, claiming that his company’s new device — Xiaomi’s Note 7 Pro — was better than Realme‘s Pro 3 which was …
Oni Chakravartti is the Vice President- Global Channel Sales at Forcepoint. He has over 20+ years of global and Multi-regional Channel Sales, product management, marketing, operations/ business management results in the intensely competitive computer systems industry. On the sidelines of the Forcepoint APAC Media Conference at Kuala Lumpur, Oni shared his perspectives on channels, and …
All eyes are going to be at the Shoreline amphitheatre in California this week, where Google’s I/O conference is going to kick off on May 7. Like every year, Google is expected to showcase what it has been working on for the past year, and what it plans to bring to the market in future. …
The shipments of 4G devices surpassed 20 crore units in India in 2018, growing by 50 percent from 2017, and securing a market share of 64 percent, a report by CyberMedia Research (CMR) said on Thursday. While 4G-enabled mobile device shipments crossed 60 percent, 4G tablets accounted for 44 percent of the total tablet shipments …
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on April 24 that the company is actively working on to launch WhatsApp Pay in India, the message was clear to the digital payments leader in the country: Brace for the landfall. The country’s digital payments industry — estimated to hit $1 trillion by 2023 — is going to …
In a flat sea of sameness, the camera has been the point of biggest differentiation on the smartphones. It is evident from the growing number of cameras on the back of Android flagships. Whether it be smartphones such as Huawei P30 Pro or the Samsung Galaxy S10+, they all sport three lens system on the …