INDIA SMARTPHONE MANUFACTURING

Atmanirbhar Bharat? Here's a reality check for Made in India smartphones

Indian manufacturing is either minimal or absent in high tech components like printed circuit boards, chipsets, display and camera modules....

Samsung pips Xiaomi to become India's top smartphone brand after 2 years: Report

Korean handset maker Samsung pipped China’s Xiaomi to become the leading smartphone company after two years with 32% year-on-year growth in...

OnePlus investing Rs 100 crore to build offline network in India; launches 8T smartphone

China's OnePlus currently has 5000 points of sales, including larger modern trade retail shops through 14-15 partners like Reliance Digital...

Micromax ties up with MediaTek for designing, development of "in" smartphones

Micromax is collaborating with MediaTek to design and develop smartphone solutions powered by MediaTek Helio G Series with MediaTek HyperEn...

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo pulls out as title sponsor of IPL 2020

Top officials in the Board of Control for Cricket in India told ET that Vivo had been looking for a reduction in the sponsorship sum due to...

Micromax to invest ₹500 crore in R&D, manufacturing backed by India's PLI scheme

Home-bred handset maker Micromax plans to invest Rs 500 crore on expanding local manufacturing and research and development (R&D) operation...

Manufacturing push: Motorola Mobility in talks to make $1 billion phones in India

In India’s smartphone market, Lenovo and Motorola together have a less than 1% share, which has shrunk in recent years due to the onslaught...

Samsung may move part of smartphone production to India, plans to make devices worth $40 billion

​​Once Samsung’s move fructifies, the company will join iconic smartphone major Apple, which is also in the process of shifting a key part ...

Import duty levy may impact smartphone prices, says LG

Beginning October 1, the Central government levied 10% basic customs duty on imports of display assembly, touch panel/cover glass assembly,...

Micromax creates Rs 500-crore war chest to launch 'in' sub-brand

Once a market leader, Micromax lost its position to players like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo as these Chinese giants captured the Indian market ...

Make in India: Samsung to commence local production of TV sets from December

The company has said the local plant will drastically reduce India’s import dependency in the sector by catering to the majority of the dom...

Airtel in talks with smartphone companies for low-cost 4G smartphones, could rival Jio-Google

The development marks a turnaround in strategy for the telco which has so far kept away from handset subsidy and appears to be a response t...

Micromax wants to make China history with its new smartphone brand 'In', and some cool ads

The new smartphone brand was born to facilitate India's need for #AatmanirbharBharat.

Smartphone imports fall, exports rise as local production ramps up

As per data released by the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) on Tuesday, smartphone exports in the month of August totalled Rs 1781.1 crore by va...

Honor forays into India PC market; to expand smartphone portfolio

"We are committed to bring new products and manufacture here in India. For laptops, we are just launching our first product in India and we...

India's electronic component imports for 2019-20 stand at Rs 1.15 lakh cr: Sanjay Dhotre

MoS for IT Sanjay Dhotre said the COVID-19 pandemic in China coincided with the Chinese New Year festivities, which extended till mid-Febru...

LG sees 'window of opportunity' to come back into Indian smartphone market

In an interview with ET, Advait Vaidya, business head - mobile communications at LG Electronics, said the brand has seen 10 times increased...