feature phones

Launched with a QWERTY keypad and support for YouTube, WhatsApp and Facebook, the JioPhone 2 is a minimal upgrade from the immensely popular Jio Phone apart from dual SIM support.

There's no Indian brand featured in the top five list, and the Chinese brands continue to dominate the market. Apart from Samsung, all the brands who topped the list are from China. The Chinese brands together constituted over 57 percent of…

Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has made a special, and urgent request to DoT to make GPS mandatory on all feature phones, as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Facebook has become the first 3rd party app on the Jio Phone.

As revealed by International Data Corporation's (IDC) Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Indian smartphone market has achieved a 14 percent annual growth with a total shipment of 124 million units in 2017. This qualifies India as the fastest…

Cybermedia Research has released reports for the same quarter, which verifies Xiaomi’s #1 position in the smartphone sales. However, there is a new angle as well: Jio Phone, which is sold under LYF brand has taken an unprecedented upswing…

The launch of Jio's new Rs 49 plan came as a big blow for Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. Now, these telecom operators will be releasing similar plans to compete with Jio's low-cost plan. As per industry sources, these…

The Ministry of Women & Child Development is ready to launch a real-time emergency response system in the form of a panic button in mobiles. The trials will begin in Uttar Pradesh from 26th January, Republic Day, of this year.

Indian public sector telecom operator BSNL today announced launch of Facebook access to users on their network which will not need any internet connectivity. The service will be offered based on USSD (Unstructured supplementary service…

Lo and Behold! It has finally happened. Feature phones, which have been on the rise since the start of mobile revolution in India have for the first time seen a drop in their sale. According to CMR report, in the last quarter,…