The 1990s were seminal for India. India broke its shackles and moved ahead with liberalization. Overnight, India transformed from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market. Consumers became more aware, more aspirational, and demanded quality and value. Encouraged by the Government’s liberal policy regime, players, such as Samsung came into India. Samsung recently completed 25 …
Breaking Samsung Galaxy Fold: Stop Deriding, Learn Celebrating
Despite all the incredibly ‘over-the-top’ bad press, marked by condescension and some derision on the part of some of the tech reviewers of early units of Samsung Galaxy Fold that broke, Samsung is keeping up with its launch on April 26. Somewhere in the era of ‘instant gratification’, cynicism overrides everything else. The Galaxy Fold …
Vivo will invest more in India to bring its design, R&D centres
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has said that it will invest more in India to bring its design and research and development (R&D) centres to support its ‘make in India’ strategy, having already announced Rs 4,000 crore investment in setting up a new manufacturing plant in Uttar Pradesh that will generate 5,000 jobs in its first …
Will India Emerge as a Mobile R&D Hub?
When mobile phone manufacturing picks up an accelerated momentum in India, impactful R&D cannot be left lagging behind. Slowly and silently, India is emerging as a research hub for mobile phones in India. The move is a natural evolution of how the world sees India as a business destination, especially in telecommunication, hardware and manufacturing. …
Oppo, OnePlus step up R&D play for localised offerings
Chinese handset makers Oppo and OnePlus are setting up research and development centres in India to improve their offerings of localised products and services for the fast-growing smartphone market and create hubs for global innovation. The move is a natural extension of their already expanding local manufacturing capability, analysts said. OnePlus, the leader in India’s …
OPPO and the future of Indian Smartphone R&D
On December 15, 2018, OPPO, a leading smartphone brand, announced their first ever R&D centre in Hyderabad, India. For OPPO, the R&D centre is the fourth globally, and their largest facility outside of mainland China. Here are some key questions that this article seeks to answer: Why is OPPO India focusing on R&D now? What …