Samsung’s President & Chief Executive for South-West Asia, BD Park has refuted the recent market research report that claimed Samsung to have lost the number one spot to Micromax in India. While Park admits the growth in the smartphone market slowed down in the previous quarter, according to their internal research data, Samsung India is […]
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Samsung India under pressure to stabilise handset prices online
If Micromax taking over Samsung in the last quarter wasn’t enough, smartphone retailers in India are playing hardball with the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer. According to a report on Times of India, brick-and-mortar retailers who deal in Samsung smartphones are threatening to boycott every Samsung product. Reason? A huge price gap between the same handset […]
Samsung India announces Galaxy Star 2, Galaxy Star Advance and Galaxy Ace NXT
Samsung has made three sub-10k phones – Galaxy Star 2, Galaxy Star Advance and Galaxy Ace NXT official for the Indian market. The new devices will take on the competition by offering a “premium leather finish back”, support for 12 Indian languages and free 200MB data from Vodafone for the first six months. The Galaxy […]
Samsung launches Galaxy S5 4G in India for Rs. 53,500
Well, it’s official! Samsung has announced the Galaxy S5 4G, making it one of the first Samsung devices to support 4G LTE in India. In addition to enabling faster internet surfing speeds, the Galaxy S5 4G is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801 2.5GHz quad-core processor. This is a big turnaround as Samsung flagship smartphones in […]
Samsung to reportedly bring LTE-equipped Galaxy S5 to India
It seems Samsung will do the inevitable and launch an LTE-toting Galaxy S in India soon, according to a Mumbai-based retailer. Samsung India is expected to launch the SM-G900I variant in India that will support Indian LTE bands and will be powered by Snapdragon 801. Interestingly, Samsung has used a Snapdragon equipped device to demo […]