After posting its Q3 global smartphone report last week, IDC went ahead and released the India specific report for the July-September period.
As a whole, the market saw 46.6 million smartphone shipments which is well up from the 42.6 million seen in the prior year. All top-five brands (apart from Samsung ) saw a year on year increase in shipments for the period.
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Realme takes chunk of India mobile market as Samsung slides
November 11, 2019
Realme keeps on increasing its share of the Indian smartphone market, growing shipments more than 400 percent year-on-year to grab 14.3 percent in the third quarter of 2019, according to figures from IDC. That’s a huge increase on the 3.1 percent recorded a year ago when…
Samsung patents SAMOLED brand for screens ahead of Galaxy S11 launch
November 11, 2019
Samsung is already working on the Galaxy S11 lineup, and the latest reports give us more info about the front and the back of the smartphones. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the manufacturer has trademarked the SAMOLED moniker in the Smartphone…
Google Maps lets you manage your public profile from the Android app
November 11, 2019
Google Maps increasingly thrives on user contributions to fill in details, but you haven’t had the option to manage your public profile from the phone app you’re probably using to make those contributions. That’s a bit backwards, but Google is thankfully setting things right. An updated version of the Android app lets you manage your profile from a new “your…
Weekly poll: Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - is this the new camera king?
November 10, 2019
The Xiaomi Mi Note 10 is the first smartphone in the world to bring a 108MP camera thats 13 times the resolution of a 4K TV! It’s also the first phone to offer five different focal lengths, something the Nokia 9 PureView (the first penta camera phone) could not…
This week’s top stories: iOS 13.2.2 bug fixes, iOS 13.3 beta testing, Adobe MAX, more
November 10, 2019
In this week’s top stories: iOS 13.2.2 is now available and iOS 13.3 starts beta testing, more Apple TV+ news, the new Mac Pro appears in the wild, and more. Read on for all of this week’s biggest news.
Apple on Thursday released iOS 13.2.2 to…
The OnePlus 7 Pro was announced back in May with three memory versions – 6GB/128GB, 8GB/256GB and 12GB/256GB. But in the US, the company is now only selling the 8GB RAM variant.
The base and top models of the OnePlus 7 Pro have been removed from the company’s official US site, and you can only purchase the 8GB RAM variant which is available in Mirror Gray, Almond, and Nebula Blue…
MIUI 11 for the Redmi 5 and Redmi Note 5 now seeding in China
November 9, 2019
Credit where credit is due, Xiaomi made some big promises regarding MIUI 11 updates on its older devices and has been following through on those pretty nicely since. Now the company’s shiny new MIUI skin has officially started popping-up on Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus (Redmi…
OnePlus made a piano using 17 OnePlus 7T Pro units
November 9, 2019
A couple of days ago, OnePlus posted a dark image on Twitter with the caption “Coming soon.” This led people to think the company was going to launch yet another phone. Well, they guessed it wrong because this new product turned out to be a piano.
Yes, OnePlus…
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Call of Duty Endowment announced its new “Hire. Honor.” campaign. The aim is to get veterans back to work, helping them adjust to civilian life after they serve in the military.
General James Mattis, decorated American veteran and former United States Secretary of Defense, kicked off the campaign in a call-to-action Public Service Video which can be…
