Sony Corporation has reported its revenues for fourth quarter of the financial year 2014 and the full year that ended March 31, 2015. Sales increased to 1,937.7 billion yen ( US$ 16,148 million), an increase of 3.6% in Q4 14 compared to the same quarter last year. Sales for the whole financial year 2014 increased 5.8% to 8,215.9 … Continue reading “Sony Mobile sales up 11% YoY, 39.1 million smartphones shipped in FY14”
Xiaomi sold 40,000 units of Mi 4i smartphones in just 15 seconds in the first flash sale today on Flipkart at 2PM. It received over 3 lakh registrations for the sale. Even though the company sells only the White variant of the smartphone, the company plans to bring blue, yellow and pink colors variants soon.
Consumers have never had it better. With the rapid commoditization of technology come better devices at price points that have never been lower. This trend started with the likes of Xiaomi and Motorola bringing cheaper devices with performance that was good enough for a lot of buyers out there and has been quickly aped by … Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Spark Q380 Review”
Microsoft has launched Lumia 430 Dual SIM, the company’s most affordable Lumia smartphone till date. It has a 4-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 SoC, runs on Windows Phone 8.1 with Lumia Denim update, packs a 2-megapixel fixed-focus rear camera without flash and VGA front-facing camera. It is also upgradable … Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 430 Dual SIM launched in India for Rs. 5299”
Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 Build 10074 after a week of the last release and 30 days after the previous release. The latest build 10074 is available to both the Fast and Slow ring for Windows Insiders so people will be able to download the ISO for this version.
HTC has announced its Q1 2015 earnings where it has reported $1.3 billion revenue, a 25% year on year increase. The Taiwanese manufacturer has also revealed of $11.8 million in quarterly net profit.
Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference that iOS and Android developers will be able to port their apps and games directly to Windows 10. In addition, the company has also revealed that its new browser will be called as Edge.
Yesterday we showed you some of the leaked screenshots of Windows 10 and the changes it brought in terms of UI. Microsoft is holding the Build 2015 conference today in San Francisco and apparently it plans to announce Android app support for Windows 10.
Microsoft is looking forward for manufacturing handsets in India as the government raised import duties on mobile phones, as per a report from the Economic Times. Nokia was once a leader in manufacturing feature phones in India.
Xiaomi has just announced the results of Q1 2015 and that it has retained its number one spot in the Chinese market. The company holds a market share of 14% and are well ahead of some of the big international players.
Micromax just announced that it sold 20,000 units of its recently launched Canvas Spark smartphone in under 2 minutes in the first flash sale today at 12 noon. The smartphone was launched last week at a competitive price tag of Rs. 4999.
LG Electronics has reported revenues of 13.99 trillion won (US$ 12.72 billion) in Q1 2015, an increase of just 0.04% compared to the same quarter last year with operating profit of 305.2 billion won (US$ 277.45 million), down 36.2 percent from the same period the previous year. Net profit was 38.4 billion won (US$35.9 million) during the quarter, down from 92.5 billion … Continue reading “LG Q1 2015 profits down 36.2% YoY, 15.4 million smartphones shipped”
On Tuesday, the world’s first rebranded Microsoft Priority Reseller Store was inaugurated in India by Chris Weber (Corporate VP, Mobile Device Sales at Microsoft), and we got hold of the man for more information about this transition and his/ Microsoft’s thoughts on the overall boom in smartphone/ Android market.
Twitter announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015. The micro blogging site reported that the revenue was $436 million in Q1, an increase of 74 percent on a year-over-year basis however, well below estimates of $456 million.
Microsoft has begun the transition of Nokia branded stores to Microsoft ones. The world’s first Microsoft Priority Reseller Store was opened today at Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, India by Mr Chris Weber (Corporate VP, Mobile Device Sales at Microsoft).
