Smartphone companies are renaming old budget phones and increasing prices. This is due to rising component costs and currency fluctuations....

As memory prices experience inflation, the landscape of India's smartphone market is shifting. Retailers momentarily benefit from increased...

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after fifteen years. Hardware expert John Ternus will take over. Cook's tenure saw Apple's market va...

The new projections counter previous estimates about memory prices continuing to peak every quarter for consumer electronics brands. They f...

Smartphone brands have been largely holding back and absorbing the increased cost of imported components to spur demand during the festive ...

There is scope for more as it still has some 350-400 million feature phone users who can be upgraded to smartphones. The industry wants an ...

Import duty on components such as PCBs and camera modules, besides other components that can be sourced locally, would have a greater impac...

Cellphone seek policy support to make mobile-phone handsets cheaper in the country.

To serve the fast growing mobile device market, budget handset maker Maxx Moblink will start assembling and manufacturing mobile devices at...

The phones, a mix of 3G and 4G devices, will be priced at Rs 7,000-Rs 18,000 and cater to different segments of the market, a top company e...

The Z3 is the first phone to be launched by BlackBerry since new CEO John Chen took the helm late last year.

Mobile phones priced at less than Rs 2,000 will cost more after Finance Minister P Chidambaram proposed to levy a uniform excise duty of 6 ...

Now all phones will be charged with uniform 6 per cent duty, which will raise the price of sub-Rs 2,000 handsets by up to Rs 60.

Last year, the government had raised the excise duty to 6 per cent on handsets priced above Rs. 2,000.

I propose to restructure the excise duties for all categories of mobile handsets,"Chidambaram said while presenting the Interim Budget 2014...

Mobile handset makers on Friday welcomed Budget 2012-13 retaining the excise duty of one per cent on cellular phones.

Concerned over different VAT rates on mobiles in different states, device manufacturers have demanded a uniform GST rate on handsets in Bud...