India, China, Brazil, Russia to consume PCs, tablets, smartphones worth $206 billion next year

Connected devices to be driven by India

Telecom Lead Asia: BRIC countries — China, India, Brazil, and Russia — will consume around 662 million smart connected devices (PCs, tablets, and smartphones) worth around $206 billion in 2014. On the other hand, developed markets will see shipments of more than 650 million units ...

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Free FunTab Fit tablets to Class X and XII students with more than 95%

Funtab fit tablet

Telecom Lead India: Go Tech Digital will distribute 500 free FunTab Fit tablets to students, who secured more than 95 percent in this academic year in Class X and XII - CBSE/ ICSE/ ISE and State Boards. However, there are conditions. The company is offering free tablets to only first 500 ...

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DataWind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli says tablet will be available online this summer

DataWind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli

Telecom Lead India: DataWind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli says the company hopes to sell more tablets in the country as the tablet maker will be present through online this summer. According to Cyber Media Research’s India Quarterly Tablet Market report for Q1 2013, DataWind has a total market share ...

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Micromax tablet market share in 7-inch dips to 12% in Q1 from 19% in Q4

Micromax tablet share dips

Telecom Lead Asia: Micromax tablet market share in the 7-inch and above screen category has decreased to 12.3 percent in the first quarter of CY 2013 from 19.04 percent in fourth quarter of CY 2012. This is primarily because of Micromax, which has become the # 2 player in tablet market in India ...

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ASUS rocks Computex 2013 with connected devices

ASUS Transformer Book Trio

Telecom Lead Asia: ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih introduced the ASUS Transformer Book Trio, the New Transformer Pad Infinity, the Fonepad Note 6, the MeMO Pad HD 7, the VivoPC, and VivoMouse at Computex 2013. On Monday, ASUS unveiled the ASUS Transformer Book Trio – a dual OS device that is part ...

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Average selling price of tablets to dip 10.8% to $381 this year: IDC

Apple tablet

Telecom Lead India: Average selling price (ASP) for tablets is expected to decline 10.8 percent to $381 this year. Tablet prices will decline further which will allow vendors to deliver a viable computing experience into the hands of many more people at price points the PC industry has strived ...

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Sony cuts sales target of smartphone, tablet, camera by 13-17%

sony

Telecom Lead Asia: Sony cut its sales targets for smartphones, tablets and digital cameras by 13-17 percent for the year to end-March 2015. Sony’s cut in sales target is happening at a time when its rival Samsung surpassing 10 million units mark with Galaxy S4 smartphone. Launched globally on ...

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Swipe Telecom prices 4.7 inch Fablet with 1 GHz Dual Core Processor at Rs 8999

Swipe fablet

Telecom Lead India: Swipe Telecom has priced Swipe 9X– a new Fablet with 1 GHz Dual Core Processor — at Rs 8999. The latest 4.7 inch Fablet running on Android Ice-cream Sandwich 4.0 OS comes with a HD capacitive multi-touch screen. The 3G Dual SIM Fablet has dual camera — 8 MP ...

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Galaxy Note 510 tablet priced at Rs 30,900 in India

Samsung Galaxy Note 510

Telecom Lead Asia: Samsung says Galaxy Note 510 — the world’s first 8 inch (20.32 cm) tablet – is available in India at a price of Rs 30,900. The Samsung Galaxy Note 510 tablet – that features 1.6GHz quad-core processor — supports HSPA+ 21Mbps 850/900/1900/2100 in India. The new ...

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Zync unveils Quad 10.1 Android tablet at Rs 14,990

Zync-Quad-10.1

Telecom Lead India: Zync Global has unveiled its new tablet at Rs 14,990. The tablet – running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean – features Quad-core 1.5 GHz processor. The new HD tablet is available on the company website for purchase. Earlier, the company launched Dual 7.0, Quad 8.0 and Quad 9.7 ...

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DataWind supplies 100,000 Aakash tablets to IIT-Bombay

datawind akash tablet

Telecom Lead India: DataWind has supplied 100,000 Aakash tablets to IIT-Bombay. Announcing the completion of the tablet project target, DataWind said it supplied 98,000 Aakash2 devices and 2,000 devices with DataWind’s recommendations for Aakash3 at a price of Rs 2,263 (currently $41.61). The ...

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Apple’s tablet market share dips to 39.6%, Samsung up to 17.9% in Q1 2013

samsung tablet

Telecom Lead Asia: Apple’s market share in tablet segment has declined to 39.6 percent in Q1 2013 from 58.1 percent in Q1 2012. Samsung increased tablet market share to 17.9 percent from 11.3 percent. Microsoft has 1.8 percent market share in tablet space in the first quarter of 2013. It ...

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BlackBerry CEO sees a limited future for tablets

blackberry tablet

Telecom Lead India: BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins sees a limited future for tablet computers. “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” said Heins in an interview on Monday at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles. “Tablets themselves are not a good ...

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LG and Samsung in Korea’s trouble zone: Will global smartphone and tablet production halt?

Korean companies may halt smartphone production if there is a war

Telecom Lead Asia: The rising friction in Korea may impact the production of smartphones, media tablets and PCs. Samsung, Apple, Nokia, LG, HTC, BlackBerry, Sony, Huawei, ZTE, etc. will be forced to look for new alternatives as the electronics supply chain grinding may pose. If current tensions ...

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Salora prices new tablet Fontab on Android 4.1 Jelly bean at Rs 6,899

Salora prices new tablet Fontab on Android 4.1 Jelly bean at Rs 6,899

Telecom Lead India: Salora International has priced its new tablet on Android 4.1 Jelly bean – Fontab – at Rs 6,899. Fontab — powered by Cortex A9, 1.5 GHz processor — is Salora’s third device in the tablet series. Salora says the new tablet features 1GB RAM, internal memory of 4 GB ...

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Asus FonePad tablet to land in India on April 24

Asus India

Telecom Lead Asia: Asus will unveil its FonePad, a tablet with phone functions, in India on 24 April, 2012. Peter Chang, regional head – South Asia, Country Manager – System Business Group, Asus India and Debjani Ghosh, managing director – Sales & Marketing Group, Intel South Asia, ...

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