Seoul: Samsung Electronics said sales of the latest version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone have reached 10 million since its launch in late April, making the model its fastest selling smartphone.
The S4, the South Korean firm's challenge to Apple's iPhone, is already selling in 60 countries and Samsung plans to expand sales to 327 carriers in 155 countries by next month, the world's biggest smartphone maker said on Thursday.
Solid sales have come even as supply issues have snarled the US rollout through some carriers.
Analysts expect strong sales of the fourth version of the Galaxy, which has propelled Samsung to the top of the $225 billion smartphone market since its debut in 2010, will help the firm report record earnings in the current quarter....
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09:02 AM, May 23, 2013
Tokyo: Japan's Sony Corp lowered its sales target for digital cameras to 1.3 trillion yen ($12.7 billion) for the fiscal year to end-March 2015, from a previous estimate of 1.5 trillion yen. Sony also cut its sales target for smartphones and tablets to 1.5 trillion yen in its 2014 fiscal year from an earlier outlook of 1.8 trillion yen. Sony, which expects smartphone sales to rise by more than a...
12:49 PM, May 22, 2013
Toronto: BlackBerry no longer owns the fast-paced, innovative smartphone world but the company, whose email-on-your-hip devices once revolutionised the industry, now aims to run it. The change in focus was hard to miss at the company's well-attended annual conference in Florida last week, even as news of a new smartphone model and its plans to offer the popular BlackBerry Messaging (BBM) instant message service on other platforms grabbed the headlines....
10:21 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Announcing its new series ELife, Gionee has launched a new smartphone named "E3" under the new series. The ELife series will see a slew of launches over the next few months. The E3 features a 4.7-inch IPS HD display. It comes with 16 GB of memory on board. The phone has an 8 megapxiel rear camera with auto focus and a front 2 megapixel camera. It is powered...
11:56 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Jolla has unveiled its first Sailfish smartphone. The highlight of Jolla's homonymous phone is 'The Other Half'. Though Jolla has not revealed in detail what the Other Half is and does, it hints towards choice of a wide array of backpanels, possibly customisable, for the device. Each backpanel gives the phone and the also its UI a different colour and design. Colours, fonts, tones, profiles, functionalities all can...
07:21 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Flagship phones are supposed to make us stand up and take notice, but not the Samsung Galaxy S4. It's not that there is not much good in it, only that the not-so-good somehow managed to put me off. The Samsung Galaxy S4 isn't a worthy successor to the Galaxy S III. This is what I had written in my Galaxy S III review, "Human nature is that we...
03:55 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Samsung has officially launched a new smartphone - Galaxy Grand Quattro - in India. While the MRP of the phone is Rs 17,290, the phone is available on the Samsung India e-store for Rs 16,900. The Galaxy Grand Quattro has a 4.65-inch WVGA display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. It has a 5 megapixel rear camera with an LED flash and a front VGA camera....
02:41 PM, May 20, 2013
Washington: Researchers are developing a revolutionary new technology that puts the mobile phone on the palm of your hand - literally. Using a special camera that combines high-speed vision and two rotational mirrors, Masatoshi Ishikawa and colleagues at the University of Tokyo have found a way to project a device's display or keyboard onto the palm, or any other surface, so that one can operate it remotely at home or...
04:28 PM, May 19, 2013
Pune: Aiming to become one of India's top three handset vendors, Chinese telecom major ZTE announced a tie-up with city-based firm Calyx to launch its smartphones in the domestic market. ZTE, which supplies handsets to Indian handset-makers such as Micromax and Karbonn and telecom operators Reliance Communications and Idea Cellular, has set a target of selling one million smartphones in the first year. "With our foray into the open handset...
11:44 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: When we tested the HTC One, we found it to beautiful to look at and powerful to play but there is still no clarity about the official launch date for the phone. Now online shopping site Saholic has listed the phone at a price of Rs 42,900 and assures delivery within eight business days. The phone runs Google's Android software, but HTC has grafted its own home screen...
01:50 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Many months ago we reviewed the Spice Stellar Horizon Mi 500 and found it to be right on price but wrong on weight. The phone was then launched for Rs 12,499. Budget Android smartphone prices have fallen since and the successor to the Mi 500 the Spice Stellar Horizon Pro Mi 505 is being launched at a price of Rs 8,499. In terms of specifications the phone doesn't...
05:40 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Panasonic India has entered the fast expanding Indian smartphone market with the Panasonic P51. The company is very ambitious in its India plans and expects garner a market share of 8 per cent in the first year. The Panasonic P51 has a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels and is powered by a quad-core 1.2GHz processor and runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The P51 also comes...
04:30 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: When it had started to seem that the Google Nexus 4, will be yet another Nexus phone to skip India, LG has announced the launch of the Google Nexus 4 smartphone in the Indian market at a price of Rs 25,999. Online shopping site Flipkart had also listed the phone for pre-orders on May 15 at the same price. The Nexus 4 was first announced in October last...
12:53 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Zen Mobile has announced the launch of the company's new flagship phone - the Ultrafone 701HD which is the first of a new series of Ultrafone phones from the company. The phone priced at Rs 11,999 runs on Android Jelly Bean 4.2 and is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor. Zen Ultrafone 701HD's IPS screen measures 5-inch. The phone comes with a 2000mAh battery. The dual-SIM smartphone...
04:27 PM, May 15, 2013
Orlando: BlackBerry maker Research In Motion unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry Q5 aimed at consumers in emerging markets, stepping up its efforts to regain market share lost to Apple's iPhone and Android devices powered by Google's software. CEO Thorsten Heins said on Tuesday that the Q5 device will be available worldwide this summer. It is RIM's third smartphone to run the new BlackBerry 10 system. The Q5 will have a physical...
09:49 PM, May 14, 2013
