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The global smartphone industry showed trends of improvement in 2018. According to a report from GFK, global smartphone sales increased 5% amounting to $522 billion in 2018. However, it's the contribution of the APAC region which is no less than a surprise. A whopping $254 billion worth of the smartphones sold in the Asia Pacific region alone!The report also...

This year, about 337 million people in India will own a smartphone, witnessing a 15.6% growth. This is the highest estimated growth rate in the smartphone industry by any country in the world. Despite the promising market scenario, India is struggling to grow in term of quarterly smartphone shipments. Overall, the smartphone shipments in India decreased by 1% YoY, to...

 The above DGraph represents the Google Pixel sales share in Q2 2018, by region. Till Q2 2018, Google had launched 3 Pixel devices - Google Pixel, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL - all were failed to capture a sizable share of the global smartphone market. In the year 2017, Google only shipped about 3.9 million units of the Pixel and Pixel 2 devices,...

Huawei - the world's third largest smartphone manufacturer - is showing a remarkable growth in its smartphone sales. Recently, Honor, Huawei's sub-brand for the entry and mid-segment smartphone market, had sold 3 million units of Honor 10 in just a couple of months of its launch. And now during a recent launch event of Nova 3 in China, Huawei CEO...

When it comes to the smartphone ecosystem, the APAC region, and India in particular, is undoubtedly one of the hottest prospects across the world. We have already analyzed the state of the smartphone market in India at length in the past. There is no doubt that India is rapidly becoming the next frontier for the smartphone manufacturers and represents the...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (KRX:005930) is growing faster than ever in the world's second-largest smartphone market India. The company said that it is estimating a 5% rise in overall smartphone market share in India with the launch of its latest devices.The South Korean giant registered an impressive 27% growth in mobile revenue in India for the fiscal ending 2017, clocking a...

World's second-biggest smartphone market has experienced a major shift since the resurgence of Chinese smartphone OEMs. While a majority of smartphone OEMs found it tough to stay deal with the ongoing cut-throat competition, the meteoric rise of Xiaomi has influenced many rivals to replicate its strategy. Oppo, the fourth largest smartphone maker in India, is apparently following the bread-crumb trail...

The exploded adoption of smartphones has revolutionised the telecom and communication industry. At one hand, smartphones are proving to be the productivity boosters, on the other hand, researchers are founding it a serious health hazard. A recent study of young Australians researchers has revealed that Smartphone addiction has been the root cause that affects the productivity and well-being of the...

The rapid upheaval of technology and storming fast internet has led to an enormous growth in the number of smartphone users in India. The unprecedented demand for smartphones in India has made it the second largest smartphone market in the world. The latest forecast by eMarketer, the US-based market research firm, suggests that more than a quarter of India's population...

Ever since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, Apple has been diligent enough in the improvisation of every coming iPhone. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) makes sure that every new iPhone is better than the previous one. It helped the tech mogul in building an everlasting trust among its users. Hordes of faithful customers anxiously wait for the upcoming models....

The year 2017 was supposed to be the year of the iPhone. On the tenth anniversary of the original iPhone, everybody expected the next generation of iPhones to redefine the smartphone as we know it, and put Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) firmly back on top of the smartphone industry. There was an overwhelming sense of excitement over what Apple would come...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (KRX:005930) has managed to pull off an unbelievable comeback over the last year, as they are now set to overtake Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) as the most profitable smartphone company in Q2 2017. According to the earnings guidance report for Q2 2017 released today, Samsung is expecting 14 trillion Korean won or $12.1 billion operating profit in Q2 2017....

As the smartphone industry heads into maturity, we find that the lucrative industry has helped develop several markets around the device that we spend most of our daily time on. In the past, we have looked in depth at the app ecosystems, the mobile ad industry and even, the up and coming IoT markets that have been made possible...

The current mobile ecosystem has undergone several changes since the era of smartphones, touch-enabled devices, have changed the way in which people perform tasks that were usually done through a PC or a Laptop. Everything from buying tickets, to shopping, to making reservations and browsing through emails is now being done through smartphones.Users can choose between a mobile website...

In continuation of our previous post on the Top 10 Smartphones in the Rs. 20,000 segment, we now present to you a comprehensive compilation of the Top 10 Smartphones available in India up to Rs. 50,000. 10. Huawei Ascend P6:The Huawei Ascend P6’s claim to fame is that with a depth of 6.18 mm, it is supposedly the thinnest Smartphone...

The Rs. 20,000 segment is a very interesting one in the sphere of Smartphones. On one hand, there are the well established players exercising an almost monopolistic control over the market and on the other, a set of manufacturers (including some home-grown ones) that may not be as well established as their high-end counterparts but are certainly putting up...