NEW DELHI: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is expanding its online-only smartphone range, a senior company executive said on Thursday, as the South Korean tech giant hopes to win over new customers in India’s festive season sales. Samsung will launch the new India-made Galaxy F range of smartphones at Walmart Inc-controlled online retailer Flipkart on Oct. … Read more
Unit sales in the ₹8,000-10,000 category surged 88% in July and jumped 51% in the ₹10,000-15,000 segment, even as overall smartphone market sales fell 10% on-year for the month Synopsis The $100-200 (₹7,350-14,700) smartphones in India have always been the biggest category by volume but exponential growth of budget- and mid-range devices these days is … Read more
We’ve seen solid-state drives (SSDs) replacing hard drives (HDDs) in PCs and laptops, and now portable SSDs are also quite popular with several to choose from in the market. They aren’t ideal for everyone, though. While flash memory chips are a lot faster than spinning platters, you still can’t get anywhere near the same amount of … Read more
New Delhi: Applications by iPhone contract makers Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron as well as Samsung, Karbonn, Lava and Dixon to export mobile phones worth around $100 billion from India have been cleared by the empowered group, said people with knowledge of the matter. “The empowered committee has approved all applications estimated to export around $100 … Read more
Six months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the sudden cancellation of the Mobile World Congress, the technology trade fair business is mounting a comeback with a scaled-back version of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin. Yet this year’s edition of the event, first held in 1924, is shaping up to be a lot like … Read more
Nvidia on Tuesday announced a series of powerful gaming chips it designed using new memory tech from Micron and that it is having manufactured by Samsung. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 chips will improve video game graphics with twice the performance and nearly twice the power efficiency … Read more
NEW DELHI: Imports of furniture, toys and sports goods are likely to require licences soon, a measure the government hopes will reduce imports and encourage domestic production, said people with knowledge of the matter. India has already imposed licensing requirements for tyres and colour TV imports, a big percentage of which comes from China. The … Read more
NEW DELHI: iPhone maker Apple’s contract manufacturers, as well as firms like Samsung, Lava and Dixon have proposed to produce mobile devices and components of over Rs 11 lakh crore in the next five years under the government’s new scheme to boost electronics manufacturing, according to sources. The proposals submitted by the companies to the … Read more