Nokia N91 launched in India

Nokia India launched its latest music smartphone N91 at a launch function in Chennai. Mr Gautam Advani, Director, Multimedia, Nokia India, presented the first phone to music composer Mr A.R. Rahman. The phone will cost about Rs 33,000, he said. The Nokia N91 is part of Nokia’s new media-centric N series: 2 megapixel camera 4GB [...]

Nokia produces 1 million handsets at Sriperumbudur plant

Nokia has announced that it has manufactured over 1 million GSM mobile handsets so far at its manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur. The facility started commercial production on January 2, 2006. The manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, was formally inaugurated by Matti Vanhanen, prime minister of Finland, along with Surjit Singh Barnala, governor of Tamil [...]

Motorola aiming for No. 2 position in India

Article quotes Simon Leung, Motorola’s senior VP of Asia, saying that Motorola is close to being the No. 2 handset seller in India. It says that Motorola is already the No. 3 behind leader Nokia and Samsung Electronics. Which means they have replaced Sony Ericsson at that position. “There’s a perception in the United States [...]

Swadeshi ULC handset

Move over Infineoon, TI and Philips, we have an indigenously designed ULC handset. A Professor at Ahmedabad’s National Institute of Design (NID) has designed a mobile handset that would cost barely Rs 800, but limits outgoing and incoming calls to and from only three (or limited) programmed numbers. “The idea is simple. If you want [...]

Nokia debuts fashion phones in India

Nokia has introduced a collection of three trend-inspired mobile phones, the Nokia 7360, Nokia 7370 and Nokia 7380 in India. Tanja Fisher, Senior Designer and Creative Director for the L’Amour Collection added “Every detail of these products, from the nature-inspired graphics to the velvet-lined pouches, has been carefully considered with the style-conscious individual in mind. [...]

LG betting on upgrades to colour phone

LG has set itself an ambitious growth target of 300% in 2006 by focusing on the upgrade market. LG launched itself in the Indian market by supplying CDMA phones to Reliance Infocomm and becoming numero uno in that segment. But its share in the GSM segment is miniscule. Unlike CDMA, GSM phone manufacturers are not [...]

Monochrome handsets

According to data compiled by GfK Asia Marketing Services, monochrome handsets have a 48% share in class A cities while colour phones have grown to reach 52%. However, all-India share of monochrome handsets is estimated to be much higher than 48% because consumers in B, C and D class towns largely use these mobiles. The [...]

Made in India Motorola for Rs 1700

World’s second largest maker of mobile phones, Motorola, on Thursday launched its first ‘Made in India’ handset, the C115, for Rs 1,700. C115 is a mass market phone with high battery life and Hindi messaging capability. The company has bagged a bulk deal from Hutch for the C115. Commenting on the `Made-in-India’ tag, he said, [...]

Mobile manufacture banks on India

Financial Express article on global telecom manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola, Nokia and LG setting up manufacturing facilities in India. Of the expected 810 million global mobile phone sales this year, India is expected to account for about 34 million. A large percentage of mobile handsets market in the country is the below Rs 4000 category [...]

LG to make CDMA handsets in India

LG is planning to start manufacturing CDMA handsets in India next year at the company’s existing plant in Pune, where it currently produces GSM handsets. “As of now, the company imports CDMA handsets in India, but once the manufacturing begins it would be sufficient for the market here,” he said. The Pune plant produces over [...]

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