Smartphone Usage

As of 2014, India had 140 million smartphone users, which is expected to explode to over 650 million by 2019. With such breathtaking expansion of Internet based mobility, it becomes imperative to understand what is driving it’s usage,…

84% of all smartphone owners and 92% of feature phone owners in India have prepaid connections, according to global information and measurement company Nielsen. A majority of Indian smartphone users also prefer data plans that have a fixed…

In India, feature phone sales are on decline and Smartphones are getting uber popular, especially with prices of Smartphones coming down drastically over past couple of years. You can now get a decent Android smartphone for around Rs. 5000,…

Smartphones have taken the Indian cellphone market by storm. With yearly growth of 87%, the smartphone is slowly making its way into every household. While international players Samsung and Nokia can claim a significant share of this surge,…

I recently wrote an article about how Indians have skipped the wired internet to go the wireless route thanks to easy availability and good tariffs of mobile internet. Arun rightly pointed out that when such an enormous shift occurs there…

MTS has announced launch of revolutionary service on its smartphones called – mPOS or Mobile as Point of Sale. The MTS mPOS is essentially a combination of a smartphone app along with a small hardware  that reads debit or credit cards. The…

Last week, Google did a survey with Ipsos which showed that percentage wise there were more active smartphone users in India than in US. Now, information and media giant Nielsen used 'smartphone metering technology' to survey smartphone…

Indian mobile handset market is expected to grow at 25% by volume in 2011. Of which, smartphones will be one of the hottest growth category comprising 6% of the shipments. 2.5 million smartphones were shipped to India in 2009 and 6 million…

It is Monday morning and time to look at some of the buzzing stories of last week. Here is the the Wrap-up Last few months have not been too good for Asian Economy and India in particular. Inflation has been putting a spanner in economic…