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Smartphone Market Growth Comparison – India vs China
China & India are respectively the biggest Mobile markets in the world. While China recently crossed the 1 Billion mobile subscriber mark, India is still short with total mobile subscriber base of about 930 million. Smartphones sales…
3G Data traffic increases 78% in 2012
Nokia Siemens Networks, who provide and manage nearly one-thirds of 2G and 3G Networks for telecom providers in India have come out with some interesting growth numbers on mobile data traffic in India. According to their MBit Index…
Google Nexus 7- Why it may fail in India unless it changes some things…
Google Nexus 7, the latest and greatest android tablet ever to come has been launched in US and it is literally flying off the shelves. Which to be honest is not all that shocking. If anyone analyzes the specifications of the tablet and…
Tablet without Internet, is it of any value?
Now, this might not be a question that everybody has thought over but this is something I have had in my mind since a long time. What is the value of a tablet without a net connection? A smart phone too loses a lot of its value if it…
Batteries – The real Bottleneck to bigger mobile revolution!
My first computer was PIII-550MHz, 64 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD. It ran Windows 98 and I was a proud owner. My first smartphone has processor- 800MHz, 256 MB RAM and 8 GB memory card and it irks me often. Sometimes it hangs while an app and…
Samsung Galaxy S3: The 3 S’s behind the Success of the Smartphone of 2012
Samsung Galaxy S3 is undoubtedly the Smartphone of the year 2012… The much anticipated phone of the year was launched with much fanfare on June 3rd 2012. In less than 3 months, the phone has sold over 10 Million units and has been…
How Indians skipped wired wagon and gone wireless!
India is a strange nation with even stranger habits… We are not adaptable to newness and generally prefer the older ways to the new horizons. The biggest proof of this might be the technological advancement that our country has seen. It…
Top 5 Tablets with 3G SIM Facility
In last couple of years, tablets have come out to be one of most sought after gadgets by consumers. Tablets promise to be all-in-one on the go portable devices, that enables users to do all lesser resource intensive activities like checking…
The Duplicate Mobile phone Market in India – Who is responsible?
We have always been witnessing a strategic competition between big ‘cell phone manufacturing’ companies like Nokia, Samsung and Apple to cover large market share, bring emerging technologies and more. But, there is a bigger competitor for…
Can Sony and HTC Capitalize On the Dual SIM Boom?
Dual Sim mobile sales are booming in India with over 71 million unique subscribers in India that is around 61% of the whole mobile phone sales in the country. A recent report by Neilson also states that a large portion of the consumers are…
Mobile internet users in India moving from TV, Newspapers to mobiles & tablets
Online audience measurement platform Vizisense's recent study about mobile internet usage in India puts forward interesting figures. The study reveals that crores of Indian mobile users have cut down their print newspaper and TV consumption…
Flipkart’s Digiflip Brand Camera bag [Video Review]
Flipkart launched its own brand – Digiflip – last week and the first product to be launched with that brand name was a Camera Bag. Incidentally, I was looking at buying a camera bag at the same time, so decided to order it as it looked…
Can Nokia Bounce Back? Scenarios for a Nokia revival…
In 2007, Nokia was the undisputed champion and the biggest brand in the mobile phone industry but it is no longer a heavy weight. Nokia which was valued at $150 Billion in 2008 but has now slipped to an overall valuation of only $6 Billion.…
Tencent’s Social Messaging Mobile App WeChat launches in India
Tencent, a Chinese Internet company has launched it popular cross-platform mobile Social Messaging App – WeChat – in India. They have collaborated with ibibo (in which they have a minority stake) to bring WeChat in India. WeChat Mobile…
Mobile usage in Agriculture & Healthcare Sector in India [Report]
World Bank recently published a report titled Information and Communications for Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile which looks at how mobile phones and apps are changing the lives of people across the world and in India. In this post, we…
New Reliance 3G tab launched for Rs.14500
Reliance has announced launch next better version of its predecessor Reliance 3G tab. According to press release sent to us, the new 3G tablet will be priced at Rs. 14,500/-
In August last year, Reliance had launched 3G tab priced at Rs.…
Tata Docomo Launches Unlimited calling plan for Rs. 899/-
Tata Docomo which has been known for its innovative data and voice plans have launched a revolutionary plan which allows unlimited voice calling for their post paid customers for only Rs. 899/-. And if you are thinking it is only on…
5 ways BlackBerry can save itself from the Damocles’ Sword
The writing on the wall has been the same for over 3 years now. The days of RIM and Blackberry seem numbered and there’s hardly anyone who seem to protest even diplomatically. Optimism may soon have a unit of measurement in number of RIM…
India Mobile Subscriber base reaches 929.4 Mln, MNP requests cross 50 mln [May’12]
Although, the growth in mobile subscriber base has slowed down considerably over past few months, May 2012 saw a healthy growth after dismal April figures. According to the TRAI report for May 2012, India added 8.35 million new subscribers…
Indian Mobile VAS Market to reach INR 33,280 Cr. by 2013
It is clear from the lackluster Mobile subscriber growth numbers that it has hit a ceiling. Although, the rural mobile subscriber numbers are still showing decent pace of growth, urban subscriber numbers have more or less reached the limit.…