Samsung’s third generation foldable phones are truly at the threshold of mainstreaming foldable adoption. Since they first made their debut in 2019, Samsung has been able to rapidly scale-up the new foldable technologies, with features such as enhanced durability and water resistance to make them much more attractive to a wider audience in 2021. All …
How LG lost the race in key India smartphone market
LG Electronics that was once the world’s third-largest handset maker and saw its feature phone business peaked some 10 years back, was never a serious contender in the fastest-growing India market, industry watchers reiterated on Monday. LG that has shut down its mobile business, has been striving to make a turnaround in its mobile business in …
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip: A Purposeful Foldable
The question about “what comes next” is something that has propelled innovators, thinkers, and the dreamers forward. In an industry that has thrived on iterative innovations, Samsung introduced its bold engineering marvel, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip. The era of iterative innovations is beyond us. In a hyper-competitive market, demanding consumers are more keen on …
With the Galaxy Z Flip, Samsung asserts its leadership on Foldable smartphones
At its Samsung UNPACKED event for 2020, organized at the Palace of Fine Arts on February 11, 2020, Samsung unveiled the all-new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, alongside the Samsung Galaxy S20 Series. If the Samsung Galaxy Fold was all about showcasing Samsung’s technological leadership in display and design engineering, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is …
Galaxy Fold Review: A Compelling Value Proposition
Conventional thinking never results in pathbreaking innovation. And, looking at tomorrow’s ideas through today’s lens will always open up new innovations for ridicule and rejection. Samsung gets full credits for being bold and brave in envisaging a new form factor and making it a reality. The Galaxy Fold is an exciting, pathbreaking and successful innovation, …
Fold – The costliest phone in India launched by Samsung
Korean handset maker Samsung has launched the world’s first foldable smartphone, Samsung Galaxy Fold in India at Rs 1,64,999. Confident of getting traction from luxury-end of the market, Samsung will make the device available in the offline market before Diwali. The handset maker, citing GFk data, claimed 72% value market share in the month of …
Five Key Tech Trends To Watch at IFA 2019
The Internationale Funkausstellung — more popularly known as IFA — is an annual flagship consumer tech trade show held at the Messe Berlin, and is very much akin in size and scale to the CES. In fact, the IFA is Europe’s flagship event, with a very sweeping canvas, that is in sharp contrast to the …
MWC Barcelona 2019: Beyond “5G” and “foldable devices”
This year’s MWC2019 looks all set to be*one*of the most promising and exciting editions yet. The MWC has, over the years, emerged as a key barometer for what technology themes are likely to dominate the telecommunications industry in year ahead and beyond. The MWC itself, is no longer just about ‘smartphones’. Its rather about mobiles …
MWC 2019: 5G, Foldable, and Mixed Reality
At Day Zero of the MWC 2019 at Barcelona, there were some interesting contrasts: While Huawei made a bold bet on Foldable Smartphones, Nokia showcased its Computational Photography chops (in collaboration with Light Labs) with its five rear camera innovation. One key standout hit was Microsoft, who crashed the party, with a renewed pitch for …
Eight Predictions for Smartphones in Twenty Eighteen
2017 will be remembered as the year when the smartphone innovation hit a plateau. This is the year when the lines got increasingly blurred when it came to comparing smartphone brands on specs and hardware, across price bands. Smartphone vendors also realized the futility in driving their USPs around hardware. Whether it be cameras or …