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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Apple scores record 2.5 million 2016 iPhone sales in India, but Samsung and Chinese brands rule
Samsung continues to comfortably dominate smartphone shipments in India, despite the rapid growth of several Chinese OEMs, and minor Apple progresses.
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China reportedly seized 8 of top 12 spots in Q1 2016 smartphone vendor ranks
How serious and dangerous is China’s offensive on Korean and Western mobile hardware brands? Extremely, according to research conducted between January and March by IC Insights, which predictably positioned Samsung and Apple atop the smartphone manufacturer hierarchy, only followed by a flurry of handheld vendors based in the Middle Kingdom.Huawei naturally won bronze during Q1 ...
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Micromax sets sights on China, global smartphone OEM top five placing by 2020
An early leader of the slowly developing Indian handheld landscape, Micromax appears to have ironically ran into trouble as its domestic market started to mature. While still ranked behind only Samsung in smartphone sales around those parts, the 2000-founded company has seen its numbers plummet of late, with the rise and expansion of many budget-focused Chinese OEMs.But if device manufacturers like Lenovo, ...
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‘Flagship-breaking’ Yu Yunicorn launches at $190 with 4GB RAM, 4,000 mAh battery
While it’s certainly (the good kind of) hard to choose an ultra-high-end Android phone from an established brand nowadays, after Samsung, LG and HTC all outdid themselves, it’s arguably even trickier to shop for so-called “affordable flagships” in crowded markets like China or India.The latter just got more crazy-packed with sub-Rs. 15,000 powerhouses, as local startup Yu Televentures challenges ...
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Micromax’s Yu is teased to “break the flagships” this month
Gimme a break, gimme a break, gimme a piece of that Android version that still has about a third of distribution. Cheesy joke, we know.But Micromax subsidiary Yu wants another break. After it sent us to Yutopia late last year, we’re being promised another phone that is poised to break flagships.Breaking apart a ...
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Micromax Canvas 6 with fingerprint sensor and 4GB RAM Canvas 6 Pro go official in India
Ranking first among domestic brands in the world’s fastest-growing smartphone market, and second overall as far as local sales go, behind Samsung, has to mean something, even if your numbers are shrinking, and you’re undergoing key management changes as a consequence.Micromax is therefore betting big on its newest flagship devices, dubbed Canvas 6 and Canvas 6 Pro, to regain the lost Indian mojo, and perhaps ...
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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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Micromax loses CEO as Lenovo, Samsung encroach on market share
India’s second-largest smartphone manufacturer may not have a leadership vacuum, per se, but the move certainly doesn’t come at an opportune time.Micromax CEO Vineet Taneja has resigned after an especially lousy Q4 performance where the company shipped 13.2 percent of the market’s smartphones, down from 21.7 percent in Q3. It wedges the manufacturer between
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India tops US for second place in smartphone market ranks, with 220 million users
It was bound to happen sooner or later. After all, we’ve been hearing about the constant growth of smartphones in India since… forever, and the country is roughly four times as populous as the United States.It’s therefore perhaps surprising it took so long to reach a billion mobile users in the region, 220 million of which are reportedly on Android, iOS or Windows Phone. With a 22 percent yearly hike in smartphone shipments, and a 15 percent boost in Q4 2015 alone, it doesn’t look like this market is in danger ...
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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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Yu Yutopia finally debuts with Quad HD screen, SD810 SoC, 4GB RAM, $375 price
As the main hardware-producing partner of customizable software supplier Cyanogen Inc., Yu Televentures rapidly rose to prominence in the low-cost Indian smartphone décor thanks to bang-for-bucktastic Yureka, Yuphoria, and Yunique models.But now it’s time Micromax’s online-focused sub-brand got truly serious about its local market perspectives, directly targeting all the Android powerhouses you can think of with an ultra-high-end Yutopia.
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Samsung loses smartphone share in essential Indian market, but stays on top
Oversaturation is the word that best describes the two biggest smartphone markets in the world right now, so naturally, it’s vital for everyone from Samsung to Apple, Huawei, and Microsoft to make a decent splash in India.Even as sales gradually decelerate in China, the country is unlikely to be overtaken at the top of the mobile ranks, thanks to its staggering 1.35 billion population. But India may well surpass the US as early as 2017, and become the world’s second largest smartphone market.Hence, it’s less and less ...
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Yu Yunique offers LTE speeds, HD screen, and Cyanogen OS option for $75 in India
Seeing as how the first two Cyanogen OS-powered devices released under Micromax’s Yu sub-brand were christened Yureka and Yuphoria, it’s not surprising in the least to have the Yunique follow in their footsteps.The problem with this unconventional naming technique is of course the finite number of words starting with U or EU that make sense when associated to a smartphone. For the time being though, Yunique feels like a spot-on description of the super-affordable 4.7-inch Android available exclusively through ...
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