Micromax Company

Micromax is an Indian Consumer Electronics company located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It focuses on the manufacturing of Mobile Telephones, Tablet Computers, 3G, Datacards and LED Televisions. It has 23 domestic offices across the country and international offices in Hong Kong. Presently, the company has about 656 employees.

Micromax started as an IT software company in the year 2000 working on embedded platforms. In 2008, it entered mobile handset business and by 2010 it became one of the largest Indian domestic mobile handsets company by offering unique affordable innovations. This transformation was steered by four friends who divided responsibilities on functional lines, which haven’t changed since: Rajesh Agarwal, Rahul Sharma, Vikas Jain, and Sumeet Arora. The company has a 22% market share in the smartphone segment in India As per IDC Asia/ Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker 2013 Q2 for August 2013. The brand’s product portfolio has more than 60 models today, ranging from feature rich, dual SIM phones, 3G Android Smartphones, TabletsPC's, LED Televisions and 3Gdata cards. The company has many firsts to its credit when it comes to the Mobile handset market including the 30-day battery backup, dual SIM, QWERTY Keypad, Universal Remote Control Mobile Phone etc. Micromax  has presence in more than 560 districts through 125,000 retail outlets in India The company has sales presence spread across Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

For more details about company visit: www.micromax.com or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromax_Mobile

Nokia Company

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation that is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Its principal products are mobile telephones and portable IT devices. It also offers Internet services including applications, games, music, media and messaging, and free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services through its wholly owned subsidiary Navteq. Nokia owns a company named Nokia Solutions and Networks, which provides telecommunications network equipment and services.

As of 2012, Nokia employs 101,982 people across 120 countries, conducts sales in more than 150 countries, and reports annual revenues of around €30 billion. By the fourth quarter of 2012, it was the world's second-largest mobile phone maker in terms of unit sales (after Samsung), with a global market share of 18.0%. Now, Nokia only has a 3% market share in smartphones. They lost 40% of their revenue in mobile phones in Q2 2013. Nokia is a public limited-liability company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 274th-largest company measured by 2013 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500.

Nokia was the world's largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012. However, over the past five years its market share declined as a result of the growing use of touchscreen smartphones from other vendors principally the iPhone, by Apple, and devices running on Android, an operating system created by Google. The corporation's share price fell from a high of US$40 in late 2007 to under US$2 in mid-2012. In a bid to recover, Nokia announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft in February 2011, leading to the replacement of Symbian with Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system in all Nokia smartphones. Following the replacement of the Symbian system, Nokia's smartphone sales figures, which had previously increased, collapsed dramatically. From the beginning of 2011 until 2013, Nokia fell from its position as the world's largest smartphone vendor to assume the status of tenth largest.

On 2 September 2013, Microsoft announced its intent to purchase Nokia's mobile phone business unit as part of an overall deal totaling €5.44 billion (US$7.17 billion). Stephen Elop, Nokia's former CEO, and several other executives will join Microsoft as part of the deal.
For more details about company visit: www.nokia.com or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia

Samsung Company

Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).

Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following Lee's death in 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since the 1990s Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities, and electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important source of income.

Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's 2nd-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 13th and 36th-largest construction companies). Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest life insurance company), Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea), Samsung Techwin (an aerospace, surveillance and defense company) and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 16th-largest advertising agency measured by 2011 revenues).

Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture, and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River". Its affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea's total exports. Samsung's revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea's $1,082 billion GDP.

In 2013, Samsung began construction on building the world's largest mobile phone factory in the Thai Nguyen province of Vietnam.
For more details about company visit: www.samsung.com or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

HTC Company

HTC Corporation, formerly High-Tech Computer Corporation, is a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones and tablets headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Founded in 1997, HTC began as an original design manufacturer and original equipment manufacturer, designing and manufacturing devices such as mobile phones, touchscreen phones, and PDAs based on Windows Mobile OS and Brew MP to market to mobile network operators who were willing to pay a contract manufacturer for customized products. After initially making smartphones based mostly on Windows Mobile, HTC expanded its focus in 2009 to devices based on the Android, and in 2010 to Windows Phone. As of 2011, HTC primarily releases and markets its smartphones under the HTC brand, ranking as the 98th top brand on Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2011 report. A September 2013 media report stated that HTC's share of the global smartphone market is less than 3 percent and its stock price has fallen by 90 percent since 2011.

HTC is a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of handset manufacturers and mobile network operators dedicated to the development of the Android mobile device platform. The HTC Dream, marketed by T-Mobile in many countries as the T-Mobile G1 or Era G1, was the first phone on the market to use the Android mobile device platform.

For more details about company visit:www.htc.com or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC

Sony Mobile Company

Sony Mobile Communications (formerly Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB) is a multinational mobile phone manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It was founded on October 1, 2001 as a joint venture between Sony and the Swedish telecommunications equipment company Ericsson, under the name Sony Ericsson. Sony acquired Ericsson's share in the venture on February 16, 2012.

Sony Mobile Communications has research and development facilities in Tokyo, Japan; Lund, Sweden and Beijing, China. Sony Mobile is the fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer by market share in the fourth quarter of 2012. The current flagship device of Sony is the Sony Xperia Z1, a waterproof and dust-resistant premium smartphone featuring a 20.7MP camera.

For more details about company visit:www.sonymobile.com or www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mobile_Communications

Apple Mobile Company

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites.

The company was founded on April 1, 1976, and incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977. The word "Computer" was removed from its name on January 9, 2007, the same day Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, reflecting its shifted focus towards consumer electronics.

Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia. Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012. On September 30, 2013, Apple surpassed Coca-Cola to become the world's most valuable brand in the Omnicom Group's "Best Global Brands" report. However, the company has received criticism for its contractors' labor practices, and for Apple's own environmental and business practices.

As of May 2013, Apple maintains 408 retail stores in fourteen countries as well as the online Apple Store and iTunes Store, the latter of which is the world's largest music retailer. Apple is the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated value of US$415 billion as of March 2013. As of Sept 29 2012, the company had 72,800 permanent full-time employees and 3,300 temporary full-time employees worldwide. Its worldwide annual revenue in 2012 totalled $156 billion. In May 2013, Apple entered the top ten of the Fortune 500 list of companies for the first time, rising 11 places above its 2012 ranking to take the sixth position.
for more details about company visit:www.apple.com or www.wikipedia.org/wiki/apple_inc.

BlackBerry slashed price of Z10 to Rs. 17,990 in India

BlackBerry has slashed the price of its Z10 smartphone in India to Rs. 17,990 as the company "celebrates the 10th anniversary of its foray into the Indian market."
For a period of the next 60 days, you will be able to pick up a BlackBerry Z10 for the discounted price. The first BB10 smartphone, the BlackBerry Z10, was launched in India February last year carrying a price tag of Rs. 43,490.

The company also announced a new BlackBerry 10 smartphone for Indonesia today, the BlackBerry Z3. The phone is a 5-inch device, produced in association with Foxconn, also runs on the latest BlackBerry 10 OS, 10.2.1
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Z10 has following features:
Processor:Dual Core 1.5 GHz
Ram:2 GB
Inbuilt memory:16 GB
Memory extended:MicroSD upto 32 GB
OS:Blackberry 10 OS
Display size:4.2 inches
8MP Rear camera
1280 x 768 resolution, 356ppi
1080p HD video recording
Up to 13 days* standby time
BlackBerry® 10 operating system
MicroSD memory card
Up to 10 hours* talk time (3G)
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ S4 processor

NOKIA Android phones

Nokia is launching its very first Android phone.Nokia is targeting emerging markets with three low-cost smartphones .These phones are known as the X and the X+ and the XL and these phones are based on Google's Android operating system (that has become the world's most popular software used in smartphones) rather than the Windows Phone software.

Nokia announce this on stage at its annual Mobile World Congress press conference in Barcelona. Till now nokia is making only the window based smartphones .Once the No 1 maker of cellphones, Nokia has been struggling to keep up with the iPhone and devices running Android.

Prices:
The Nokia X is on sale immediately for 89 euros that means around $122.(approx Rs. 7,700)
Nokia XL will cost 109 euros means approx. $150.(approx Rs. 9,400)
The Nokia X+ will cost 99 euros means approx. $136.(approx Rs. 8,500)

Features:
screens:The Nokia X and X+ both have 4-inch screens but the X+ offers an SD card while the XL has a 5-inch screen .
Nokia X will have a 512MB RAM and 4GB of storage expandable storage via microSD slot up to 32GB.
Nokia+ X will have a 768MB RAM and 4GB of storage expandable storage via microSD slot up to 32GB.
Nokia X will have a 3-megapixel camera while Nokia XL a better 5-megapixel camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
The Nokia X+ 1GHz dualcore Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play.
Dual SIM
3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS with A-GPS
Here Maps
1500mAh battery
OneDrive support

The open version of Android software means that the new Nokia phone does not have rely on Google's services and access to the Google Play app store. Instead, Nokia is bundling it with its own music and map offers, and Microsoft's email, cloud, messaging and search services.

Apps will be available in Nokia's own app store, as well as a host of other app stores, Elop said.
Wood said Nokia and Microsoft had an advantage over other users of open Android, such as some Chinese manufacturers, in that they had a ready-made set of services that they could slot into the phone.

"It means Nokia is able to participate in that entry-level space, but our view is they will try to push Windows Phone down into that space as quickly as possible," he said.
Nokia says that'll have the advantages of the Android ecosystem, but with a "differentiated experience." So far, Here Maps, MixRadio, Skype and Outlook are being featured on the Nokia Store. You can access the Nokia and third party stores using the devices, but not Google Play, obviously. We've heard SwiftKey will be available on the Nokia X range (and for free, too), as will BBM, which is also coming to Windows Phone sometime "this summer."