Looks like naming a new mobile model is much tougher than naming a baby. To start of there are umpteen mobile brands and then the categories and sub-categories. Companies like Motorola and Micromax are keeping the dictionary at hand, Nokia follows a more geeky naming convention. Kobian’s mercury has gone a little too creative and […] Read more
Dubbed as the worlds first floatable phone, iBall waterproof is a phone for all seasons and all conditions. It is a light weight phone with color display on a 3.6 cm screen. It has a built-in FM and built-in torch. Waterproof’s dual language support will let users send SMS in two languages – Hindi and […] Read more
This is the second post of a three part series of Android Phones in India. Read the first in the series here : Android phones in India : Price range, Input and Android version Touch screen, the size and its responsiveness are one of the key deciding factors. Though Resistive touch screen was in vogue […] Read more
This is first of a three series posts analyzing the trends of Android phones launched in India. Google is pushing Android heavily in India. Indian manufacturers like Spice and Micromax are part of Google’s grandiose Android plan. India which is typically neglected and left out of any global gadget launches is seeing its fair share […] Read more
Every phone maker follows their own naming strategy.Apple goes with the speed at which the phone runs like 2G, 3G, 3G S and 4G. Motorola goes with some nice words like quench, milestone and charm. Micromax got hold of a dictionary and named one of its phone as Psychedelic. Nokia follows a simple pattern to […] Read more
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LG Optimus is LG’s third Android phone for India. Priced at Rs. 13500, Optimus One runs Android’s Froyo (2.2) operating system. It is the first phone to be launched in India which runs Android 2.2. Optimus One enters the crowded price range of 10K-15K (50% of Android phones are in this range). It has to […] Read more
Motorola has launched its sixth Android phone in the country. Motorola Charm which has a charming QWERTY keyboard design costs Rs. 13499 and is available on Flipkart. Of the six Android phones launched so far by Motorola, four of them has a QWERTY keyboard – either slide out or full keyboard. The keys are nicely […] Read more
Spice Mobiles, which has brought India’s first 3D phone, View D is at it again. Spice has launched two 3G+2G dual SIM QWERTY mobile phones for Indian market. Spice is thinking ahead of the competition. When everyone else were testing the waters of dual SIM segment, Spice has already entered it. If the regular dual-SIM […] Read more
ST Ericsson u8500 which has a dual-core ARM cortex A9 chip is running Meego. The hardware is solid and will be delivering stunning 3D graphics at a very low power. The most notable thing here is not the hardware but the software it runs on- Meego. Meego is the new mobile operating system which Nokia […] Read more
Dell has got into it too. Dell has officially got into the mobile phone or smart phone business. It has launched two Android 3G touch screen phones. Dell XCD28 costs Rs. 10599 and Dell XCD 35 costs Rs. 19000. Dell is not the original manufacturer for these phones. The phones XCD 28 and XCD 35 […] Read more
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has decided to support the new mobile platform Meego. AMD will be providing engineering expertise to Meego platform. Meego is a jointly developed mobile platform by Nokia and Intel. It is based on Linux variant. Meego powered devices are rumored to be hit the market next year. In all likelihood, Meego […] Read more
To further fragment the highly fragmented mobile handset market, T-Series the cassette maker is all set to enter the mobile handset segment. And like everyone else, it is targeting a 5% market share in the next 18-24 months. Supertron a national distributor of computers and mobiles has entered the mobile handset segment just last month. […] Read more
For long Indian mobile phone market has been dormant. Not in terms of sales but in terms of innovation that can be done with the mobile devices in India. It took the entry of Indian mobile companies like Micromax and Spice Mobile to kick start a revolution. India is now turning out to be a […] Read more
I have been to the Intel tweetup which is a developer centric talk about Meego’s application market place – AppUp. Meego is a new operating system for mobile devices and low-computing power devices. Meego which is based on a Linux build is a joint venture of Nokia and Intel. Nokia which is feeling the heat […] Read more
Tata DoCoMo became the first private player to launch 3G services in India, leaving behind Bharti Airtel. This should not come as a surprise because of NTT DoCoMo’s pioneering 3G efforts elsewhere in the world and the lack of the same expertise with other operators. DoCoMo which has been walking a tight rope with the […] Read more
Picking a phone is often difficult. Especially if it has to be budget bound. India’s mobile market is brimming with new phones with unbelievable specs and ever falling prices. With Tata DoCoMo already launching 3G and other telcos to follow suit, this might be the time to pick the 3G phone. It would be best […] Read more
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