Google, who recently announced the Android One program at its I/O conference, will be subsidizing the handsets to get them under $100, according to The Information (Paywalled, via GigaOm). Besides subsidizing, Google will also include $1B advertising budget and this new program will start in India to begin with. I have previously discussed that the ultimate goal of the Android One program is not... Read More
Xiaomi Mi3 has just been launched in India for Rs 14,999 and its specifications list easily matches if not surpasses almost all the flagship smartphones from renowned brands. Nexus devices are a benchmark for providing flagship performance and prices lower than those of flagships. Xiaomi Mi3 is undercutting the Nexus 5 by half the cost, we think that it would give other manufacturers sleepless nights. But what it means for the... Read More
Department of telecommunications is considering the sale of airwaves across most commercially used spectrum bands in the current fiscal year 2014-15. Spectrum in 900, 1800, 2100, 2300 and 2500MHz bands will be put up for sale across the 22 telecom circles in India. Dot expects a total of Rs 38,954cr proceeds from communication services this current fiscal including the revenues generated from auction. The exact dates of the auction have... Read More
No service or industry can survive without tariff revisions - most of the times upward. The tariff wars which was a part of telecom sector for past few years, thanks to new entrants, seems to be going away. In the year 2014, we have seen a majority of telecom operators hike tariffs for their services. Today we make an attempt to enlist tariff hikes which caused major impact to consumers... Read More
With the commercial launch of services by Reliance Jio drawing closer day by day, the company has taken every measure possible to ensure a large scale smooth roll out of services on a Pan India level. Rjio has signed tower sharing deals with Tower vision, ACT India, Viom networks, Bharti AirTel and also with younger brother Anil Ambani’s company Reliance communications. Rjio has signed multiple deals with Rcom which includes... Read More
All those rumours about Nexus devices being axed in favour of Android One and Android Silver have been put to rest by Dave Burke who heads the engineering at Android and the Nexus program. During the Google I/O 2014, Burke stated "People just get excited by concepts and forget why we do things. We are still invested in Nexus. People have been commenting about Nexus because there is something else... Read More
Flipkart is trying to imitate Amazon in every possible way. First, it turned into a marketplace and then it started one day delivery of products. Now, just like Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, Flipkart has forayed into the tablet market with the launch of its own DigiFlip Pro XT712 tablet which was launched last week in Delhi. The Digiflip Pro XT712 is an entry-level Android tablet with 7 inch screen, quad-core processor, dual SIM card... Read More
We have heard you and your interest to know about further statistics putting in a graphical way and hence we came up with this infographic containing the details of Porting Requests received in respective circles as per the report released by TRAI on 26 June 2014. As per the data reported, by the end of April, 2014 about 119.24 million subscribers have submitted their requests to different service providers for... Read More
Google recently launched the Android One program, which Sundar Pichai says will conquer 'The Next Billion'. While the program is ambitious, I feel that the western media is blowing it out of proportion and giving Google way too much credit. At the risk of giving out anti-Android vibes, let me say it out loud - this is not about targeting the next billion. Let's be clear, when Google said that it... Read More
Since a few months now every operator has been hiking tariffs and BSNL was not left behind. BSNL started with tariff hikes in the broadband segment, followed by landline and cellular telephony. BSNL has always had the reputation of affordable tariffs in the industry and they offered Special Tariff Vouchers (STVs) which enabled common man to save considerably in mobile bills. After the recent spate of hikes, we discovered that... Read More
How did Nokia X come to the market? Everyone was surprised when it was announced in September that Microsoft was planning to acquire Nokia's Devices and Services division for $7.2 billion. Right before the acquisition was made official, rumours of Nokia working on an Android based device started making rounds of the Internet. Nokia's move to Android was justified given that its Windows Phone venture had not worked out as expected.... Read More
When it comes to making international calls, let's agree that telcos have really expensive calling rates. One of the option is to use the voice over IP solutions, however, it requires a lot of planning from both the parties -- from setting up a time to actually checking whether your mic is working. Hangouts on Android can actually solve a bunch of these issues if it also allowed one to... Read More
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