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Handset sales to reach 38m in ‘06

The number of cellular handsets to be sold in India next year is projected to reach 38.5 million units (including replacement and grey handsets), or a growth of 26% year-on-year, a report by Australian based research and forecaster BIS Shrapnel said.
As India is still a maturing market, new user handsets, which account for 65% of [...]

Made in India Motorola

Motorola announced a series of steps to help drive the company’s growth in India.
It announced the C115, one of the company’s hottest-selling mass-market handsets, will now have a “Made in India” label. The company expects the first Motorola C115 handsets assembled in India will be available by mid-December this year. Assembly in India is the [...]

Motorola-Bharti tie-up to boost sales

Motorola announced a strategic tie-up with Bharti Teletech to boost the sales of its phones in India. The company says it wants to break the Indian consumer’s “mindset” for Nokia phones.
Alan Burnes, Motorola vice president for high growth markets, while unveiling the tie-up with Bharti Teletech, also shied away from stating the market share the [...]

Handset market pegged at Rs 12,000 crore

The present mobile handset market size in India is pegged at Rs 12,000 crore ($2.5 billion approx). The emergence of the sub-2K handset is expected to drive market expansion, at a time when operators are expediting network rollouts in rural circles where low tele-density levels at 1-5% are way below the 9.5% national average.
Even as [...]

Sirf Baat Mat Karo

I was impressed with new Nokia 6600 TV advertisement. It came after the Ajay-Kajol ad for Tata Tele, which positioned the utility of the phone as just talking. The Nokia ad not only makes that position look old style but also breaks it by demonstrating the multimedia capabilities of the smartphone. It is necessary to [...]

Indian Mobile Handset Market

According to a study by Research and Markets, the Indian mobile handset market is now worth about $2 billion, but will surge by over 60 percent in two years. Nokia dominates the market with a 59 percent market share, followed by Samsung with 13 percent and Motorola with 7 percent.
Handset manufacturers including world’s top 3 [...]

Nokia N90

Nokia has launched the N90 multimedia phone in India. The N90 boasts a camera with a lens from 159-year-old optical equipment specialist Carl Zeiss, auto focus and 20x digital zoom, integrated flash, macro mode for sharp close-ups and high quality video capture with on-phone editing capabilities.
Read the full review of the phone on Mobile Review.

Second hand phones

Rediff has a story on the second-hand mobile phones market in India. The second-hand market is largely for GSM phones only.
“The second hand mobile phones cost anywhere between Rs 800 to 1500 here but in villages and small towns, 7 to 8 year old models are available even less”, says Madan, who runs the business [...]

Music Phones

ET has a round-up of various music phones available in India. It starts with Sony’s W800i, Samsung D500, Nokias and moves on to Nokia’s plans to rule the segment with N-series phones like N61. Read the article only to get updated on the choices of models available, if you are planning to buy a music [...]

Sony Ericsson W800i Walkman

Sony Ericsson has launched in India the first musicphone in its Walkman series - the W800i. It is priced at Rs 24,995 and ships with a 512 MB Memory Stick, upgradable to 2 GB, allowing it to hold approximately 125 music tracks.
The W800i has a 30 hours of music playback battery life and comes with [...]

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