As consumer sentiment runs high amid growing chorus for boycotting Chinese goods in the country, the fluid situation in India’s smartphone market offers new opportunities for various smartphone makers, especially the non-Chinese ones like Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Asus and others, to realign their strategies and regain the lost market share in the face of fierce …
The Covid-19 outbreak has been a blessing for at least one segment – tablets. After declining for four straight years, the tablet PC market is expected to grow 5-10% on-year in 2020 compared with an 18% fall in 2019, especially due to a surge in adoption of e-learning across educational institutions and enterprises, analysts say. …
eSIM-capable smartphones shipments will double in 2020 to top 3.5 million units in India, driven by latest iPhones, CyberMedia Research (CMR) said in its report. Google was the first company to launch eSIM capable smartphones. Later the eSIM environment got a huge lift with Apple’s embrace of eSIMs in its premium smartphones in 2018, including the …
It’s been a tough few years for Samsung in the India handset market, where it has struggled to keep pace with or beat back competition from Chinese rivals such as Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo. The first signs of vulnerability came when Samsung lost the smartphone crown to Xiaomi in the September quarter of 2017. In …
The latest Samsung Galaxy Note10 Lite is part of Samsung’s new differentiated product offering strategy that makes available smartphones at various price points, ranging from the uber-premium foldable smartphones, to the premium flagship smartphones and their ‘Lite’ counterpoints. The new Samsung Galaxy Note10 Lite is an aggressive move by Samsung to bring all of the …
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 …
It was August 2018 when Xiaomi officially announced Poco as its new sub-brand to cater to the growing demands of young smartphone users. The Chinese brand unveiled the Poco F1 as its first — and only — model that disrupted the market for mid-range smartphones with the then top-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC and up …
At the 53rd annual Consumer Electronics Show, or CES 2020 held at Las Vegas, there were more than 4,500 exhibitors and 170,000 attendees from more than 160 countries. As a bellwether of new technology trends sweeping the consumer technology landscape, the CES this year was high on concepts. AI was everywhere ‘connecting everything’, and in …
It’s that time of year again. The annual Consumer Electronics Show, or CES 2020, will debut in Las Vegas in the first week of January. While this is the largest expo of its kind, and may be intimidating in terms of its scale, the CES remains a bellwether on new technology trends sweeping the consumer …
Xiaomi, the No.1 smartphone brand in India with 26% market share in Q3 2019, is forging ahead with its diversification moves towards services, with a new offering, named Mi Credit, launched earlier this week that aims at simplifying access to credit for the youth. The new offering follows on the heels of the Mi Pay, …