In December last year, the government had set up a joint task force, which included industry representatives from Samsung, Microsoft and Lava, to rejuvenate nation's mobile phone manufacturing ecosystem with a view to achieve production of 500 million units of mobile handsets by 2019. With smartphones turning smarter every passing day, it is the domestic players and new Chinese entrants to the market that continued to challenge global giants like Apple and Samsung in 2015 and the New Year can be much more exciting with the expansion of 4G services. Emerging as a big force in the global smartphones market during 2015, India saw about 75 million devices being shipped in the first three quarters of the year. The pace of the blistering growth was further strengthened by the online channel as many handset makers added eCommerce only devices. The strong pace is expected to help India replace the the US as the second largest market globally, after China. "Smartphones
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CHICAGO - Samsung Electronics Co plans to expand its fledgling mobile payment service in the United States next year, allowing users to shop online and with more smartphones that support the electronic wallet. Lower-priced Samsung phones will likely start offering the mobile wallet "within the next year," Thomas Ko, global co-general manager of Samsung Pay, said in an interview. The service debuted in South Korea on just a handful of high-end Samsung phones, including the Galaxy Note 5, the Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy S6, and S6 Edge Plus. Wider "handset availability of Samsung Pay as well as online payment support is coming soon," he said late last week. He did not comment on which other countries Samsung Pay would expand to. Samsung Pay has already scored a lead over its major rivals Apple and Android, by launching its US service on Sept. 28 with technology that is widely used at most stores. Apple Pay and Alphabet Inc's Android Pay require retailers to instal l
SEOUL: South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd and the panel-making unit of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will supply organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens for Apple Inc's iPhones, the Electronic Times reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources. The report comes after years of speculation that Apple will start using the next-generation technology in its phones. OLED screens are thinner and offer better picture quality than the mainstay liquid crystal display screens. Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported last month that Apple plans to start using OLED screens for iPhones starting in 2018. LG and Samsung Display are close to a final agreement with Apple for the screens, the Electronic Times report said, adding the two Korean firms plan a combined 15 trillion won ($12.8 billion) in capital expenditure to build up OLED production capacity over the next two to three years. Apple will likely provide some funding to both firms to help with the investments, the paper added. LG Display
A new video claimed to show the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge running Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with an overhauled edge panel functionality has been uploaded on YouTube. As seen in the 2-minute long video, the apps in the Edge Screen v1.0.52 of the Galaxy S6 Edge are divided in to two categories - Edge Feeds and Edge Panels. While the Edge feeds apps are for taking a quick look at the useful information from different apps, the Edge panels add more functionality to the curved display, making more use of it than before. Some new apps such as My Apps to access recently used apps, Task to access commonly used apps, Quick Tools, S Planner, Weather, Twitter trends, Yahoo, and Sports were also found running on the curved panel of the Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow-based Galaxy S6 Edge. All of them can be seen as user swipes from the right of the smartphone display. Although Samsung has not yet brought latest Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow to any of its Galaxy smartphones, this video suggests that i
Samsung plans to have an initial production of only five millions Galaxy S7 smartphones, as reported by the South Korea's Electronic Times on Monday, citing unnamed sources. One of the top brands in the smartphone industry, Samsung Electronics Inc is apparently planning to launch two different versions of the Galaxy S7. There will be a 5.2-inch screen version as well as a 5.5-inch curved-screen version that will be called the 'Galaxy S7 edge'. The South Korean multinational conglomerate company plans to have an initial production of about 3.3 million of the 5.2-inch flat-screen version and about 1.6 million of the 5.5-inch curved-screen version. Reports also say that the range of smartphones will launch sometimes in February 2016. A Samsung Electronics spokeswoman declined to comment on the report. Source: Samsung plans an initial production of only 5 million Galaxy S7 Smartphones
New Generation Samsung Galaxy A9 After launching Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge+ or Apple's iPhone 6s Plus, Samsung introduced Galaxy A9 in the chinese market. After long time debate, thw smart phone manufacturing company Samsung launched the Galaxy A9 in China market. The size of the smartphone screen is six-inches. Technical Features This Samsung Galaxy A9 has 4,000 mAh battery, it provides us around 36 to 48 hours of total talk time. This A9 is using a power-efficient processor. It has 64-bit, eight-cores Snapdragon 652 high powerful processor. It supports a Quad HD screen which can display the resolution of 1920×1080. The A9's size and resolution puts its pixel density at 367 ppi which is a little lower than the aforementioned iPhone 6s Plus. Other Samsung Galaxy A7,A5,A3, which each have a thickness of 7.3mm, but the A9 comes in a hair thicker at 7.4mm. This Samsung Galaxy A9 is 2mm wider than the iPhone 6s+, and its edges are little curved.
Last week of 2015, and Samsung announced its latest top-end smartphone in the 'Galaxy A' series at an event in China dubbed the Samsung Galaxy A9. The Galaxy A9 packs a 6-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display with 2.5D curved glass and 2.74mm narrow bezels, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 652 (Previously 620) processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization (OIS), LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support with dedicated nano SIM slots and a microSD expansion slot, but this might be different in the international variant. It has 4G LTE connectivity, fingerprint sensor under the home button and packs a 4000mAh battery with fast charging support. It has metal frame and glass back similar to the Galaxy S6 series smartphones. The Samsung Galaxy A9 comes in White, Gold and Pink colors. No word on the pricing or availability yet. Check full specifications here. HTC this week anno
The cases for Galaxy S7 are appearing before the actual smartphone. The newest information about Samsung's upcoming device arrives from the case producers that are providing a series of low-priced items for the upcoming phone. These cases are covered around allegedly dummy Galaxy S7 gadgets, and the pictures are in line with past leaks of the company's leading phone. Even if the cases have a very low cost for general distribution, the design and production needed for these items is anything but inexpensive. Developing cases for various unreleased mobile phones is a bet regarding their actual physical features. Since these cases' style adds up to the leaked images that permitted CGI sketches of the Samsung Galaxy S7, it gives them more reliability in the eyes of the users. It is unlikely that the producer would invest in tool manufacturing based on just one source. This also confirms previous speculations that the new S7 series will follow Samsung's existing st
The last time I fully road tested a smartphone, I was moving from a rather decrepit Samsung Galaxy S2 to the 'glorious' 6-inch HTC One max, at a time when my smartphone use case consisted of taking pictures and basic gaming. Two years on, and I'm upgrading again, because the One max has become frightfully slow and I now use my phone a lot for writing reviews on the road. My phone of choice for this next round comes from a whimsical tale but is an obscure number, from a Chinese company based in Shenzhen called CUBOT. My search for a smartphone to replace the One max has taken the best part of a few months, on and off. The drive to an upgrade came from a number of factors - the phone was a PVT sample, which means I was stuck on Android 4.3. The camera suffered from the famous 'purple haze' effect that was a result of damaged signal amplifiers in the early HTC One models from the Zoe software. Also the way I used my phone, due to new apps in my repertoire like E