One of the key pieces of research I wanted to accomplish in India, is a real understanding of the volumes and usage of smartphones. Despite exhaustive trawling of the internet, I haven’t found any decent numbers on market share in India alone to prepare for this. The most credible numbers I can find were total [...]

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop spent a week here at the beginning of September, during which he described India as being at the forefront of transition within the company. For all those in the West who have been writing them off for the last couple of years it is worth remembering that Nokia has an installed [...]

Following on from the Blykwatch section that used to be in Mobile Industry Review back in the day. I knew that they had started a new venture in the Indian market and thought I should find out how it’s going. Blyk India head honcho Shubhodip Pal kindly agreed to meet me at their office in [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Prafulla Mathur, the founder and CEO of Quepplin. His company stood out in the research I made ahead of visiting India to conduct interview for these posts. They are an agile and highly disruptive team, embracing J2ME, Android, iOS and wap based gaming. Their attitude that anything and [...]