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As the budget and mid-segment smartphone market in India is witnessing cut-throat competition, the premium smartphone market has started attracting the eyeballs of smartphone manufacturers. Despite the fuelling competition, the Korean electronics giant, Samsung is able to hold its ground in the premium smartphone market in India and retained its numero-uno position in the first half of 2018.According to the...

2017 has undoubtedly been a landmark year for smartphone design and function. We saw the mainstream debut and adoption of several new standards in smartphone design language and functionality such as bezel-less displays, OLED technology, iris scanning and more. However, perhaps the most widespread and the most desirable new smartphone standard has been the dual-camera trend.While some companies had tentatively...

With over 1.18 billion mobile phone subscriptions, India is the second largest mobile phone market, clocking the fastest growth rate. The smartphone adoption, however, has been little below par compared to other markets, likes of China. Only 450 million mobile phone users have smartphones, but it creates a big window of opportunity for smartphone vendors. As smartphone manufacturers are...

At the time when Apple is being criticised for its strategy and absence of innovation in iPhone 7 worldwide, there is some good news for Tim Cook & Team. The news becomes more valuable with the fact that it is about the market which apparently holds the key to the door of future success. A smartphone, which was introduced way...

The growth of 4G/LTE enabled devices has been ground-breaking. There is a cut-throat competition prevailing in the market with smartphones leading the segment. However, data cards have also become very popular as they provide data services anytime and anywhere. If we talk about India data card market, there was a decline of 12% in Q2 CY2016 as compared to...

The shipment of LTE-enabled devices in India is on a rise and, among all, smartphone rules the roost, according to Q1 2016 CMR India report. A whopping 15.8 million units of 4G/LTE devices were shipped in India and 97.9% of these devices were smartphones, accounting 15.46 million units. Data card shipments accounted for mere 1.5% of the total LTE devices...

A recent report released by CyberMedia Research (CMR) highlights the growing demand of sub Rs 5,000 ($75) tablets in Indian market. The tablet market in India recorded a modest 7% QoQ growth with 0.91 million units of tablet PCs shipped in Q1 2016.Datawind that manufactures tablets under Akash brand has ruled the throne with 34.2% share of all tablet shipments...

While the rest of the world has been witnessing plateauing growth for smartphones, India has been the only country to go against the trend and provides a glimmer of hope to OEMs across the world. However, painting a somber mood over the optimism surrounding the Indian mobile phone market has been a new report from CyberMedia Research. The overall shipment...

Analyzing the latest report by CMR (Cyber Media Research), one can decipher the lack of brand loyalty among the Indian smartphone users. The flourishing budget phone market offered implausible features at an average selling price of Rs. 10,700 ($160) as recorded in the year 2015. These economical smartphones are giving a stiff competition to the top league players like Apple,...

With the global smartphone sales expected to grow from 1.5 billion units in 2015 to 1.7 billion by 2017, a new report from CMR (Cyber Media Research) indicates that Indian smartphone market is expected to grow by 37% - a huge achievement compared to the 32% average growth for the last three years. Previously, reports have surfaced claiming that India will leapfrog...

The global mobile industry is undergoing many changes with smartphone adoption rates increasing, new players emerging and revolutionary pricing strategy. In tune with the global mobile industry, India is also witnessing a radical change in the handset arena. It has become a hot target for the mobile makers all over the world. The most popular reason being the untapped...

A couple of days back we presented a report on the increasing roots of the social business among the entrepreneurs to enhance their success levels and now the recent report published by the Fortune 500 has further entrenched this trend by revealing that the top gun companies are now increasingly embracing to the same social media platforms  - especially...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KRX:005930) is the undisputed leader of the Indian tablet industry capturing almost one-fourth of the market in Q1 2014. On the parallel development, the tablet market in India is witnessing a rapid decline as shipment of devices are lowering with each passing quarter. The tablet shipments in India went down to just 0.75 million units...

Smartphone market in India is yet to claim a sizable pie of global market; the recent growth performance in 2013 justifies this claim. In CY 2013 (January – December) mere 41.1 million Smartphone devices were shipped, claiming 16.6% of total mobile handsets shipment market. In 2013, mobile handset market in India recorded 247.2 million shipments, a Y-O-Y growth of...

Tablet market in India recorded a 9% Y-O-Y growth resulting in 1,204,410 units of tablet shipments during Q3, 2013. Nearly 20% of the shipments were triggered by the demand in enterprise tablet market. As per the recent trend, Korean electronics giant Samsung lead the growth by capturing 15% of total tablet shipments, closely followed by Lenovo with a 13.3%...

I was always told – timing is everything to ensure optimum results. Just when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is bracing up to face Android in India, this report diffuses Apple’s excitement with regards to the tablet market in India 2013. Barely two days ago Apple started selling the new iPad Air in India and today a report from Cyber Media...