Motorola unveils first Android smartphone One Power in India at Rs 15,999

as informed in The motorized camera module hides a 16MP + 20MP dual rear camera and a 25MP front camera. The motorized camera module hides a 16MP + 20MP dual rear camera and a 25MP front camera. It also has a under screen fingerprint scanner, 12MP + 5MP dual rear camera with OIS, dual SIM slot, USB Type-C port and Android 8.1. Expected Price: Rs 50,000 onwards NEX is the other unique phone expected to arrive in India this month. It also has a under screen fingerprint scanner, 12MP + 5MP dual rear camera with OIS, dual SIM slot, USB Type-C port and Android 8.1.

How the smartphone is transforming India

India Connected: How The Smartphone Is Transforming The World's Largest Democracy By Ravi Agrawal, Oxford University Press, 240 pages, Rs 550. Noting this in his book India Connected, Ravi Agrawal, managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, draws parallels between early 20th century America and early 21st century India; between the car and the smartphone. Could it be an enabler of social change?' America was transformed by the car, by automobile technology; will the smartphone do the same for India?" says Agrawal over Skype. In the book, Agrawal describes Leone's evolution from one of the most-searched pornstars on Pornhub to a mainstream, popular Indian celebrity. "The numbers were changing every day," he says, referring to figures like the number of smartphone users in India or the number of handsets sold every year.

Oppo launches Realme 2 Pro smartphone in India for $200 and up

according to After launching the $130 Realme 1 smartphone for the Indian market in May, Oppo is back with a new model sporting better specs, a bigger screen, and a higher price tag. But the Realme 2 Pro is still pretty affordable for a phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor, dual rear cameras, a fingerprint sensor, and at least 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. It also has one of Oppo's newfangled waterdrop or "dewdrop" notches to maximize screen space on the front of the phone. The phone features LPDDR4X memory and UFS 2.1 storage. There's a fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone, below a dual camera system featuring a 16MP Sony IMX398 camera and a secondary 2MP camera.

Chinese smartphone makers are winning in India — the fastest growing market

India's smartphone market is currently a key battleground for a number of phone makers from China, Taiwan, and South Korea. Most of the new handsets are from Chinese smartphone makers, many of whom see India as their most important market. The rise of Chinese smartphone makers in India has been spurred by falling data prices in the nation. Many of the Chinese companies that are dominating the Indian smartphone market were originally the hardware and design partners of Indian smartphone vendors. "India has quickly surpassed other regions to become the biggest and the most important market for OnePlus," OnePlus India General Manager Vikas Agarwal told VentureBeat.

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