Comments on: Android to Add Next 500M Mobile Web Users in India?

By: A Canadian In Espoo: Elop Gives Nokia a Chance: Mobile Technology News «

A Canadian In Espoo: Elop Gives Nokia a Chance: Mobile Technology News « — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:00:32 +0000

[...] in highly populous countries such as India where mobile broadband and smartphones are now emerging, $150 Android phones are taking large chunks of Nokia’s market share: what was once nearly two-thirds of the market has quickly dissolved to [...]

By: HTC Moves 24.6M Handsets, But Can it Keep Growing?: Mobile Technology News «

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:11:37 +0000

[...] 83 percent of sales in regions where smartphone adoption is already high, will HTC be able to catch the fast growth that will appear in places such as India, which is home to less expensive smartphones and a huge chunk of the global population? What about [...]

By: Google Eyes Mobile As The Key To 2011: Tech News and Analysis «

Google Eyes Mobile As The Key To 2011: Tech News and Analysis « — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:02:04 +0000

[...] availability of inexpensive smartphones around the world. As we’ve noted before, Google has a big opportunity as Android moves down market in less developed countries. With component prices coming down and manufacturers building cheaper Android phones, this will be [...]

By: Mobile Web Growth in Africa: Hotter Than the Sahara!: Mobile Technology News «

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:00:44 +0000

[...] packing my bags for a little safari right about now. And on that trip, I’d also be looking to see if any low-priced Google Android handsets could hunted and bagged or if Nokia will continue to be king of the African [...]

By: Peek Looks To Cheap Smartphones, Connected Devices For Future: Tech News «

Peek Looks To Cheap Smartphones, Connected Devices For Future: Tech News « — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:04:45 +0000

[...] we’ve written prior, many manufacturers are looking to the free Google Android operating system to build cheap smartphones. But the hardware requirements of Android are still more rigorous than commodity feature phones, so [...]

By: Mobile Community mig33 Brings Android to 40+ Million Customers | RCR Local Asia

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:56:57 +0000

[...] (3) http://gigaom.com/2010/10/12/android-to-add-next-500m-mobile-web-users-in-india/ [...]

By: Open Gardens » With the warp speeds of android, can Klingons win or do we need faster features?

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:55:29 +0000

[...] Google seems to be working with Indian manufacturers like Micromax Informatics Ltd., Spice Mobility …. This will test the brand loyalty of Nokia which is already strained at the lowest end of the Indian handset market by the local Indian manufacturers. Already a price point of $150 has been reached by the Huawei Ascend in the US. [...]

By: Watch Out Nokia: LG Sells 1M Cheap Androids in 40 Days: Tech News «

Watch Out Nokia: LG Sells 1M Cheap Androids in 40 Days: Tech News « — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:31:44 +0000

[...] I don’t think such sentiments are a given when a company such as LG can quickly move a million low-end smartphones that run a modern operating system. With the entire smartphone market growing, there’s room for many hardware makers: Nokia, LG, Apple and the like. But the companies that can build a useful smartphone priced at a good value stand to gain many sales among the current billions of feature phone owners: especially in regions like India, where the next 500 million mobile web users are waiting for such affordable devices. [...]

By: Nokia Takes Back the Reins of Symbian: Tech News «

Nokia Takes Back the Reins of Symbian: Tech News « — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:51:10 +0000

[...] its development, but with developers more enamored of iOS and Android and cheaper Android phones eating into Nokia smartphone sales overseas, Nokia has to show that it can do more than re-assume control. It has to show it can execute and do [...]

By: Android Still on Top; Now Crushing BlackBerry: Tech News «

Android Still on Top; Now Crushing BlackBerry: Tech News « — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:55:57 +0000

[...] than the market overall which grew by 95 percent to 80.9 million shipped units. However Android, as my colleague Kevin has noted, could eat into Nokia’s share in places like India as it moves down market into cheaper [...]