The Taiwanese phone maker is reportedly not going to make its own devices for the Indian market and leave it to three local players.
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Micromax Android Go phone could come late this month with $31 price
It's not as cheap as that one hilarious device that cost $4, but at least this should be coming from a more reputable name.
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Karbonn bundles free VR headsets with two new affordable phones
The Alcatel Idol 4’s packaging allows for you to repurpose it as a Google Cardboard headset. It’s a clever bit of engineering, but then again, who needs that when you can just put all that jazz inside the box.Indian smartphone manufacturer Karbonn has just released the Quattro L52 and the Titanium Mach 6. Both phones are priced under Rs. 10,000 or $150 and come with plastic VR goggles with two-axis ...
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Indian manufacturers coalition hitting against Apple’s plan to sell used iPhones in country
While Apple sells relatively expensive smartphones, it does want to pry open another avenue of sales growth: India, a country with low per capita income. With the iPhone SE selling for more than a third of an Indian’s average annual income and total market share at two percent, the company is asking the government for permission to import and export used products for sale in the ...
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Local and foreign brands manufactured 100 million smartphones in India last year
As part of a government initiative suggestively titled “Make in India”, a number of top-tier foreign smartphone manufacturers have been swayed to assemble their products locally by way of tax cuts and other incentives.The program was established in late 2014, and already, it’s helped significantly boost production in dozens of mobile plants recently erected in the second global market to reach a billion active handheld users.How significantly? According to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, no less than 100 ...
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What can we expect from second-gen Android One phones?
This year Google introduced Android One as its new project to make available affordable, high-quality smartphones with strong software support. Sales in India got underway back in September, followed by a rollout to other Asian nations. There were already a number of different manufacturers releasing Android One hardware, including Karbonn. Now, with 2015 nearly upon us, Karbonn says that it’s already looking forward to what’s next, sharing its intention to follow that first model up with a new Android ...
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Where are all the new Windows Phones?
Last winter was an exciting time for Windows Phone fans. Microsoft was all up in MWC’s bidness and name dropping like a drunk bathroom attendant. We heard about all of these OEMs that had sworn a blood oath – okay, it might have been ink – to bring forth Windows Phone upon it markets in broad fashion making Windows Phone the envy of all other platforms. That might be reading between the lines a bit, but that was basically the gist of it.So here we are, almost five months later and we here at the Pocketnow feeding trough started thinking – “Where the heck are all those OEMs we ...
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Microsoft kills WP8 licensing fees for some new OEMs?
Since last year, a couple big ideas have been floating around regarding changes Microsoft was rumored to make in how it permitted OEMs to deliver handsets running Windows Phone. One of those major shake-ups was the notion that Microsoft would start letting manufacturers deliver phones that were capable of dual Android/WP operation, and after months of uncertainty, we finally heard just a little over a week ago that the first such deal had been made,
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Dual-booting Windows Phone 8.1-Android handsets to launch this year
Even though Android has always been famous for its ability to allow you to run many other operating systems on a device after a certain amount of tweaks, the smartphone platform that hasn’t been famous for this is Windows Phone. We were all surprised with the announcement of Windows Phone 8.1, and its ability to run on existing Android hardware, though in a radical “wipe-one-install-the-other” approach. What we didn’t expect were dual-booting phones running Android and Windows phone, but that is officially about to happen. The Times of India is now reporting that ...
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