by admin | May 25, 2021 | Branding, Business, Markets, SMEs, Technology
Gurugram : Samsung India on Friday opened pre-booking for its newly-launched Galaxy ‘S10’ series smartphones that will start from Rs 55,900.
The 1TB Galaxy S10+ smartphone will be available for Rs 1,17,900 while 512GB and 128 GB storage variants of S10+ will be priced at Rs 91,900 and Rs 73,900, respectively.
Priced at Rs 84,900, the 512 GB variant of Galaxy S10 will be available in prism white colour, whereas the 128 GB variant will cost Rs 66,900 in prism black, prism white and prism blue colours.
The cheapest of the lot, Galaxy S10e comes with 128 GB storage variant in prism black and prism white colours for Rs 55,900, the company announced.
“Customers will be able to pre-book their Galaxy S10 devices until March 5 through Samsung website, Flipkart, Amazon, Paytm, Tata CLiQ and select retail outlets.
“All variants of Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10e will be available across retail and online stores from March 8. Deliveries for pre-booking customers will start from March 6,” said the company.
The 1TB and 512GB variants of the S10+ will come in luxurious, ceramic white and ceramic black colours while the 128GB variant will come in premium prism black, prism white and prism blue colours.
The new Galaxy S line has cinematic Infinity-O Display, versatile pro-grade camera, wireless “PowerShare” and in-display ultrasonic fingerprint scanner (only on Galaxy S10+/S10).
Consumers who pre-book the Galaxy S line will get a choice to own the new Galaxy Watch for Rs 9,999 or the new Galaxy Buds for Rs 2,999.
The pre-booking customers are also eligible for an upgrade bonus up to Rs 15,000 and HDFC cashback up to Rs 6,000, said the company.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Branding, Business, Markets, Medium Enterprise, SMEs, Technology
San Francisco : Samsung on Thursday unveiled its flagship smartphones — the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, a cheaper Galaxy S10e and the Galaxy S10 5G at its Unpacked event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium here after weeks of detailed leaks and rumours.
The company hasn’t announced the India pricing of the devices.
Samsung’s rival to the iPhone XR is the Galaxy S10e that doesn’t have all of the features of the pricier Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+, including the new in-screen fingerprint scanner, the advanced cameras or the curved displays. However, it does have the same brand new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor and the most affordable price, starting at $749 (roughly Rs 53,000).
The price of Galaxy S10 starts at $849 (roughly Rs 60,000) and it packs in almost all of the same features as its high-end sibling Galaxy S10+, except for a slightly smaller display and a front-facing camera with portrait mode.
The S10 brings three rear cameras — a 16MP ultrawide sensor with fixed focus, a main 12MP dual aperture wide-angle lens with OIS and a 12MP telephoto lens with OIS.
It has a 6.1-inch display and it is slightly smaller than the Galaxy S10+, which has a 6.4-inch display.
Samsung’s introduced the new “Infinity-O” screen has a tiny cut-out for the camera hole on top of the display. That means users don’t have any sort of “notch” as you see on iPhones.
The costliest of the lot is Galaxy S10+ that adds a 6.4-inch screen and a selfie camera for portrait selfies.
Samsung would reportedly sell a super premium model with a stronger ceramic body, 12GB RAM and a massive 1TB of storage out of the box apart from the $999 (roughly Rs 74,000) variant with 128GB internal storage and 8GB RAM.
The company also unveiled the Galaxy S10 5G phone, which has the largest screen of the bunch, measuring in at 6.7 inches.
The Galaxy S10 5G has a 4,500mAh battery and comes with 256GB storage with 8GB RAM.
The South Korean tech major also unveiled the Galaxy Fold with six cameras and two batteries for $1980. This is Samsung’s first truly flexible device which converts from a smartphone to a tablet and will be available on April 26.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Branding, Business, Markets, SMEs, Technology
Gurugram : Google and OnePlus were the only brands which shipped all their smartphones with the latest version of Android OS in 2018, a new report said on Monday.
According to market research techARC, 32 models of smartphones were launched by various original equipment manufacturers last year.
Overall, Vivo led the number of launches with 7 models having the latest Android OS version shipped out of the factory.
The second spot was taken by Nokia which launched four models, followed by Tecno (3), the report said.
“With stock Android becoming the preference of users, the OEMs are able to reduce the upgrade turnaround time for OS as it requires minimal integration from their end after Google releases one,” said Faisal Kawoosa, Founder and Chief Analyst, techARC.
Nearly 80 per cent of the launches with latest OS version had Android 8.1 (Oreo) pre-loaded when shipped for sale.
The remaining 20 per cent had Android 9.0 (Pie) version.
“The good news is that even for the entry level (sub-Rs 5,000), users could get a smartphone with the latest Android version, which were sold by Nokia and Lava,” the findings showed.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Emerging Businesses
New Delhi : Smartphones subscriptions in India are expected to reach one billion by 2024 and the total mobile data traffic per month in the country would grow four times by that time, according to an Ericsson report on Tuesday.
Smartphone subscriptions in the country will grow at compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 per cent, whereas the total mobile subscriptions in India are expected to grow at CAGR of three per cent from about 1.2 billion in 2018 to 1.42 billion in 2024, said the latest edition of Ericsson Mobility Report.
Globally, the number of smartphone subscriptions is forecast to reach 7.2 billion in 2024.
India also saw the second-highest number of net mobile subscription additions by a country in the third quarter of 2018, with the addition of 31 million mobile subscriptions.
Globally, the third quarter of 2018 saw an addition of 120 million new subscriptions, with China adding 37 million and Indonesia adding 13 million new subscriptions.
Mobile data traffic per month in India will grow from three exabyte (EB) in 2018 to 12 EB by 2024, according to the report. One exabyte is equal to a billion gigabytes.
Video will continue to drive data usage and monthly data consumption per smartphone will increase from 6.8 gigabytes (GB) in 2018 to 15 GB by 2024 growing at CAGR of 14 per cent.
“LTE roll outs in India will continue and it is expected to be the most dominant access technology by 2024 accounting for nearly 81 per cent of all mobile subscriptions in India compared to 30 per cent in 2018,” Nitin Bansal, Head of Ericsson India and Head of Network Solutions, South East Asia, Oceania and India said in a statement.
The Mobility report also projects that 5G will reach more than 40 per cent global population coverage and 1.5 billion subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by the end of 2024.
This will make 5G the fastest generation of cellular technology to be rolled out on a global scale, according to the report.
Key drivers for 5G deployment include increased network capacity, lower cost per gigabyte and new use case requirements.
North America and north-east Asia are expected to lead the 5G uptake. In North America, 5G subscriptions are forecast to account for 55 per cent of mobile subscriptions by the end of 2024.
In north-east Asia, the corresponding forecast figure is more than 43 per cent.
In western Europe, 5G is forecast to account for some 30 per cent of mobile subscriptions in the region by end of 2024.
Globally, mobile data traffic in Q3 2018 grew close to 79 per cent year-on-year, which is the highest rate since 2013, the report said.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Branding, Business, Markets, Sales, SMEs
New Delhi : Chinese smartphone maker Huawei’s online focused sub-brand Honor on Friday announced that it sold over 6 million units of the recently launched “Honor 8X” globally, becoming the top “Singles Day” performer in terms of sales volume and revenue under the smartphone category.
In India, over 1 million units of Honor products were sold during the Diwali festive period, with “Honor 9N” and “Honor 8X” being the most popular products on Flipkart’s Big Billion Days and Amazon India respectively on the first selling day, the company said.
“As a thanksgiving for our Indian consumers, we would like to announce that unlike other smartphone brands, Honor will not increase the price of its smartphones this year,” said P. Sanjeev, Vice President, Sales, Consumer Business Group, Huawei.
“Honor 8X” also became one of the highest selling phones in Germany, France, the Middle East, North America and South Asia, the company added.
“Honor 8X”, launched in October in India, comes in three variants — 4GB+64GB, 6GB+64GB and 6GB+128GB, priced at Rs 14,999, Rs 16,999 and Rs 18,999 respectively.
—IANS
