Reliance Jio has announced details about its first smartphone. As previously announced, the 4G smartphone will be available under the Lyf brand. Called the Lyf Earth 1, it runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box. The dual-SIM (Micro-SIM and Nano-SIM) Lyf Earth 1 sports a 5.5-inch Amoled display with a full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) resolution, translating to a pixel density of 401ppi. The smartphone... 

Terming it as a “virtual consolidation” in the highly-competitive telecom space, Anil Ambani said his group firm RCom is tying up ‘trading and sharing’ of spectrum with Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio including for the much-awaited 4G services. Addressing shareholders at the Annual General Meeting, Reliance Communications Chairman also said he was “grateful” to his elder brother for “unstinted... 

Google unveiled 2015’s Nexus smartphones – the LG-made Nexus 5X, and the Huawei-made Nexus 6P. Alongside, the new Pixel C tablet was announced, and new Chromecast products – specifically, the second-gen Chromecast dongle, Chromecast Audio, and the Chromecast App. David Burke, VP Engineering (Android) at Google, introduced the new Nexus lineup, saying the range represented the “latest... 

Panasonic has launched the Eluga Switch smartphone in India priced at Rs. 19,990. The smartphone will be available via Amazon India in Gun Metal Grey colour. “The Eluga Switch does exactly what it was imagined to do, offer two vertical screen orientations in one handheld device,” Pankaj Rana, Business Head, Mobility Division, Panasonic India said on the launch of the Panasonic Eluga Switch.... 

Microsoft has launched the Nokia 222 and Nokia 222 Dual SIM budget phones. Both the smartphones will be available in select markets starting September and will come at $37 (approximately Rs. 2,450) before local taxes and subsidies. The Nokia 222 is the successor to the Nokia 220, launched last year. Considering that Microsoft India now lists the Nokia 222 Dual SIM, we can expect the company to launch... 

Soon after launching the Lenovo A5000 in Russia, the Chinese company has now unveiled yet another smartphone, the K80. Unveiled in China, the Lenovo K80 has been priced at CNY 1,799 (approximately Rs. 18,400) and will be available in the firm’s home country starting April 30. The highlight of the Lenovo K80 smartphone is it features a massive 4GB of RAM and the same variant includes 64GB of built-in... 

Lenovo’s A7000 budget 4G LTE-enabled smartphone will go on sale again on Wednesday. The third flash sale will commence at 2pm IST for registered users on Flipkart. Lenovo India, at the time of writing, had not revealed the number of Lenovo A7000 units that will be going on sale in the flash sale on Wednesday. The last sale saw 35,000 units going out of stock; though no time period was shared... 

Bharti Airtel on Tuesday reported an over 30 percent jump in its consolidated net profit at Rs.1,255 crores for the March quarter, driven by growth in mobile data revenue. The country’s largest telecom operator had reported a net profit of Rs. 962 crores in the corresponding period a year ago. Total revenue of the company rose 3.6 percent to Rs. 23,016 crores for the reported quarter as compared... 

Aditya Birla group-owned Idea Cellular on Tuesday said its consolidated net profit during 2014-15 soared by 62.26 percent at Rs. 3,192.9 crores against Rs. 1,967.8 crores for the previous year. Its total consolidated revenue went up by 19.1 percent at Rs. 31,570.9 crores against Rs. 26,518.9 crores during 2013-14. The company, in a statement, however, said that on account of the changes in the Trai... 

The website of telecom regulator Trai remained inaccessible for a few hours for the second consecutive day due to a technical snag in its system provided by the National Informatics Centre. The site has been facing frequent outage since Monday when it made comments public that it received in response to consultation paper floated for regulation of over-the-top players and net neutrality. “A router... 

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked state-run operator BSNL to improve quality of services, especially in border and extremist-affected areas, in a bid to become market leader and win back people’s confidence. The minister also said that the government is committed to revive BSNL and numbers of initiatives are in the pipeline to bring the PSU back to the position of market leader. Prasad,... 

To check the call drop menace, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will soon put in place a new set of ‘service quality benchmarks’, non-adherence to which may lead to stricter penal action against the mobile operators. The new parameters should be announced within a month, Trai Chairman Rahul Khullar said on Wednesday. “It is a work in progress,” Khullar said on the...