Amazon has announced the launch of Kindle Unlimited subscription service in India. Users can now read unlimited books at a monthly price of Rs. 199 with this new service.
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Last week, two smartphones from Samsung, Galaxy Grand On and Mega On had surfaced in different leaks. Now, both the devices have been imported to India for testing.
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Facebook has updated its Moments app with a bunch of new features. Launched in June this year, the app which uses facial recognition to share your photos easily is now available in more countries including India.
Motorola announced two Moto X devices this year – the Moto X Play and the Moto X Style. A new import listing has revealed that the Moto X Play has been imported into India for the purpose of testing.
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Samsung on Wednesday launched its Galaxy S6 Edge+ in India with a hefty price tag of Rs. 57,900. The phone is a large-screen variant of the Galaxy S6 Edge and was announced at the Galaxy Unpacked 2015 event last week. We spent some time with the device at its launch event in Delhi and here are our impressions of it. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ Hands On Impressions”
India shipped a total of 56.6 million handsets during the April-June, 2015 quarter, out of which 43% were smartphones. The smartphone market grew 24.8% during the same period.
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Motorola is set to follow Xiaomi’s footsteps and start selling its smartphones via retail stores in India. As per a latest report from the Economic Times, the company is planning to make its smartphones available at brick and mortar stores in the country.
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International Data Corporation (IDC) on Tuesday published quarterly shipment data for the Asia Pacific region. As per their Quarterly Mobile Tracker for Q2 2015, India itself shipped 26.5 million smartphones this quarter, which is up by 44% from the 18.4 million units for the same period last year. Also, this quarter performance growth was 19% from the sluggish Q1 2015. Continue reading “Indian smartphone shipment grows 44% in Q2, courtesy eTailers: IDC”
Ola has secured $100 million (Rs. 630 Cr) in latest round of funding from Falcon Edge, as per a TOI report. The online taxi aggregator has now reached a valuation of $5 billion.
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In a bid to further strengthen its position in the highly demanding smartphone market, Xiaomi has announced that it will start selling phones via physical retail stores in India.
Asus is all set to join the “Make in India” initiative by starting manufacturing of smartphones in the country. The Taiwanese smartphone maker will foray into contract manufacturing for its mobile phones in India, as per a latest report from IANS.
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Uber has announced that will now accepts debit cards payments in India. The latest move comes from the online taxi hailing company that re-introduced credit card payment mode in the country last month.
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In a bid to further strengthen its position in the online taxi market, Uber has committed that it will invest whopping $1 billion in India over the period of nine months.
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Google has reduced the minimum purchase price of the app from Google Play Store in India to Rs 10. The move comes from the company to make affordable apps available to the ever increasing Android users in the country.
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Karbonn Mobiles has collaborated with Water World Co. to set up a manufacturing plant in Noida. Dubbed as Million Club Manufacturing (MCM), the joint venture has the capability to produce 1.5 million phones per month.
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