Large-scale electronics PLI catalyses Rs 96,000 cr investment in mobile manufacturing: MoS ITProduction-linked schemes have driven significant investment in India's electronics manufacturing sector. Mobile production alone has seen ...
29 Jul, 2026, 05.44 PM IST
AI+ wants to be India's answer to global smartphone brandsMadhav Sheth aims to build India's first globally competitive smartphone brand, AI+.He is leveraging two decades of experience from China's...
26 Jul, 2026, 04.42 PM IST
Cellecor Gadgets aims to achieve ₹5,000-crore revenue in three years: Ravi AgarwalCellecor Gadgets is aiming for ₹5,000 crore revenue within three years. Consumer appliances and smart TVs offer significant long-term growt...
16 Jul, 2026, 05.05 PM IST
PhonePe’s Indus Appstore to come preloaded on Alcatel smartphones as part of new partnershipAlcatel smartphones will soon have PhonePe's Indus Appstore pre-installed. This partnership aims to provide Alcatel users with a localized ...
04 Aug, 2025, 05.07 PM IST
Lava launches world's first customisable smartphone developed in IndiaThe customisable smartphone series, branded as MyZ, has been developed indigenously at Lava's facility and will be available for purchase f...
07 Jan, 2021, 01.45 PM IST
4G will continue to remain relevant for quite sometime: Qualcomm"While we see a fast adoption of 5G across geographies globally, we do recognise the phenomenal boost that 4G has given towards enabling br...
21 Jan, 2020, 10.36 PM IST
Vivo Adds 2000 employees, expands annual production by 8.4 mn unitsThe company is also planning to start the next phase of mobile manufacturing expansion from mid-2020 under which it plans to increase headc...
06 Nov, 2019, 07.10 PM IST
How an indigenous operating system overtook Apple iOS, Microsoft WindowsIndus OS co-founder Rakesh Deshmukh on how they built an OS that works on Indian languages
07 Jan, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
Chinese smartphones, with 34 per cent share, are all over the Indian marketIndian smartphone players counter that while hardware specifications are getting commoditised, what would become critical is a simplified e...
30 Dec, 2016, 01.48 AM IST
Home-grown brands wake up to their IndiannessIndia, which opened gates to foreign players via the FDI route to promote ease of business, is seen by many conglomerates as the largest wo...
09 Jul, 2016, 10.39 PM IST
Chinese, Korean smartphone companies look at sourcing from IndiaThe move has prompted global contract manufacturers such as Taiwan's Foxconn and Wistron to make India a base, as smartphone sales are grow...
28 Jun, 2016, 09.41 AM IST
Firstouch rebrands to Indus OS, raises $5 million Series A led by Omidyar NetworkFirstouch raised $5 million in a series A funding from investors led by Omidyar Network, and rebranded itself as Indus OS.
19 Jan, 2016, 07.08 PM IST
Here’s what India’s smartphone landscape looks like in the New YearIndia has the third largest internet user base in the world out of which more than 50% are mobile-only internet users.
02 Jan, 2016, 05.26 AM IST
Smartphones turn smarter in 2015, gear up for 4G ride in 2016Estimates suggest that close to 30 per cent of the handsets being sold monthly are now being manufactured or assembled locally.
31 Dec, 2015, 01.19 PM IST
Micromax launches Canvas 5 with 3GB RAM at Rs 11,999The latest Micromax smartphone has a 5.2-inch IPS display with Full HD (1080p) resolution with Gorilla Glass 3 protection.
04 Nov, 2015, 01.32 PM IST
Micromax files for patents, seeks hardware recognition in push to become a technology firmMicromax’s subsidiary Yu Televentures has filed for four patents on hardware innovation designed inhouse and packed into its smartphone Yup...
13 May, 2015, 06.27 AM IST
Desi brands like Micromax, Karbonn make hay in smartphone marketIn a growing trend, budget conscious Indian consumers are now looking at handsets sold by indigenous brands instead of getting one from int...
27 Mar, 2013, 09.35 AM IST