Most popular smartphones – Smartphones now rule the roost for obvious reasons, they minimize your work by every which means and keep you connected to the world. Push notifications are your saving grace when you are out and about your daily schedule and have little time to spare to know the happenings around the world or keep track of your social media accounts, that is to say.

The market has been inundated with a series of smartphones but our brand loyalty towards Apple and Samsung eclipses our vision sometimes. There are many potential counterparts of the aforementioned ones that go unnoticed by the Apple enthusiasts and here are the names:

Most popular smartphones –

iPhone X:

Our above statement may look contradictory to you as we are mentioning Apple’s potency here, but is needs a special mention for having emerged as the highest-selling smartphone of the year 2018 in just the matter of three months. It is also believed to be the most profitable smartphone in the world now which fetched 35% total handset profits to the company.

iPhone 8:

This stands next after iPhone X in the highest selling smartphones of 2018 that garnered humungous profit in the first 3 months. This is opted for by many as being one of the cheapest of the Apple reservoir. Also, iPhone X receives a neck-to-neck competition from iPhone 8 in the US, no matter if they belong from the same house.

iPhone 8 Plus:

This is the next big screen alternate of iPhone 8 embedded with the same features and some more. This generated a skyrocketing profit in the last few months which is numerically 15.2% of the total smartphone industry.

Apple iPhone 7:

This belongs to the 2016’s line-up from the Cupertino based tech giant which carved a niche in the market lately and became the fourth-most selling smartphone in the first quarter of 2018. It holds the 6.2% of whole industry profit, now that’s really impressive.

Xiaomi Red Mi 5A:

It broke past Apple’s record to secure the fifth position in the highest selling smartphones of the world list. In just the matter of three months from being introduced, it was lauded by the audience at large and became pretty popular across the countries like India and China.

Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus:

Samsung has a stronghold over the market and it is not going to relinquish the position anytime soon in view of the cutting-edge technology having being introduced constantly. This phone ranks the sixth in the list of highest selling smartphones of the world and the flagbearer of the growth parameter is Galaxy S9.

These are Most popular smartphones across the world – These six smartphones will lacerate at your pocket by some degree but they will be completely worth your while for providing the best technology and value for money. The durability is not a concern if you invest in these phones and software problems too are pretty less as compared to their other cheaper counterparts. Many of us steer clear from Apple as being complicated but all you need is to get the proper hang of it.

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Finally it is here folks! India now has the Samsung Galaxy 6!

The phone sports a whopping spec sheet yet its launch price is a little overwhelming for most people who are budget-conscious, especially when it comes to investing in a costly phone of such magnitude.

Samsung Galaxy S6

Here we help you analyze which is better, a Samsung Galaxy S6 or the iPhone 6.

Head to Head Comparisons

Price

• Finally the prices for the new Samsung devices have been revealed yesterday!
• Samsung Galaxy S6 will retail for INR 49,900 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge will retail for INR 58,900 whereas the Apple iPhone 6 currently retails at INR 56,500 for the 16 GB variant.

Size and Display

• Since both the phones have adopted a brand new design philosophy, they score big with larger displays and more intuitive features.
• Size wise, the S6 is 6.8mm thick and the iPhone is 6.9mm which is almost equal. However, the S6 is heavier at 138 grams in comparison to the iPhone 6 which weighs just 129 grams.
• For the display, Samsung’s S6 sports a 5.1 inch Quad HD Super-AMOLED screen that promises brilliant QHD resolution of 1440 by 2560 pixels with 577 PPI.
• The iPhone 6 is slightly smaller at 4.7 inches and a lower resolution of 750 by 1334 pixels with 326 PPI which makes Samsung win due to better colour reproduction and viewing angles. However, Apple isn’t far behind, their MacBook Retina Pro screens are the envy of most normal laptop users!

Performance

• Samsung’s S6 derives it juice from an 64-bit Octa-core Exynos 7420 processor clocked at 2.1 GHz + 1.5 GHz coupled with a whopping 3GB of RAM that spells out no lags or glitches while transitioning from one app to other, playing games or multitasking.
• The iPhone 6 has a measly offering with a dual-core 1.39 GHz A8 processor with just 1GB of RAM. The iPhone 6 may seem to appear slower due to the spec sheet but it isn’t. It performs remarkably well due to massive tweaking of the latest version of iOS 8.2.

Camera

• The Galaxy S6 comes with a 16 MP primary camera which has Optical Image Stabilization and live HRD video recording. The front cam comes with a 5 MP resolution with auto focus.
• The iPhone 6, comes with an 8 MP primary cam and a 1.2 megapixel front cam. The iPhone’s cameras are industry stalwarts but most people may not understand this and may compare this wrongly with the S6 camera.

Battery

• The Galaxy S6 comes with a 2,550 mAh battery which has a unique quick-charge function that lets you use the phone for four hours non-stop with a wireless charge of a mere 10 minutes. The phone’s charge normally lasts two days with moderate use.
• The iPhone 6 comes with a 1,810 mAh battery which is lesser than the S6 in capacity and runs almost a day.

Storage Options

• The Galaxy doesn’t have any expandable memory card slot in order to fit its massive battery yet keeping the phone really slim. The phone however comes in variants of 32GB/64GB/128GB.
• The iPhone 6 too has this problem and retails with 16GB/64GB/128GB versions.

Apps

• The Galaxy S6 runs on Android’s Lollipop with Samsung’s patented TouchWiz UI. The iPhone 6 runs on iOS version 8.2
• In terms of apps, Galaxy S6 wins handsomely due to more apps, mostly free available on the Google Play Store marketplace.
• iPhone 6 is currently behind due to lesser apps available, but since Apple has now invited third party developers to develop apps for this platform, more apps will soon show on the iTunes Store for sure.

To sum up, it is up to you which device you wish to invest your savings into. Normally, a phone sells over the other depending on its software offerings and its ability to handle multi-tasking apart from providing entertainment. In the end it all comes down to this, what serves your purpose better, try out both phones and invest wisely!

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Micromax leads smartphone market in India.

India being the third largest market in smartphone making after China and the Unites States, the smartphone sales and competition between different consumer electronics companies in the country has increased manifold in the recent years.

The domestic smartphone vendor Micromax has taken over the market share in smartphone shipments in India especially in the October to December 2014 quarter, as it now shares 22 percent market share, more than Samsung’s 20 percent.

Micromax Gold

A research firm Canalys has confirmed the report, saying that “Micromax has remarkably ousted Samsung to become the first domestic vendor to take the top spot in the Indian smartphone market, the third largest in the world.”

The probable reason for exceeding sales of Micromax seems to be the budget deals it offers like Canvas Nitro and Canvas Hue that come in the range of INR 9000- 12000, thus gaining much popularity and targeting more and more consumers.

Micromax Canvas Hue

Micromax, Samsung, Karbonn and Lava have sold the maximum number of smartphones in the last quarter with a total sale of 21.6 million units of smartphones. The Canalys report published on 3^rd February shows that the Indian smartphone market has recorded a 90 percent annual growth than the previous year.

23 percent of the devices shipped were priced under Rupees 6000 while 41 percent of smartphones fell in the Rupees 6000-12000 bracket.

Micromax’s performance was partly due to its “continuing appeal to mobile phone users upgrading to smartphones”, according to Canalys. As smartphones are coming up with more and more attractive features, more and more consumers are on the lookout for upgrading their basic phones to low-budget smartphones.

The home-grown brand has created a new record for itself as this is the first time that a domestic vendor has made its mark among the first position in India.

As a Canalys analyst, Rushabh Doshi reported to The Hindu, “Micromax has been quicker than its competitors to improve the appeal of devices, for example, by including a wide variety of local languages on its Unite phones”, the domestic smartphone seller has catered to the regional masses of the country and the local language issues to sell its brand and flagship products apart from the price and other features of the phones.

Certainly, people with mid-level income are lured towards these low-priced devices with attractive and user-friendly features.

Samsung, on the other hand, is facing tough competition from Micromax, Karbonn, Lava and also from Motorola and Xiaomi (with Xiaomi Redmi 1S and Redmi Note 4G in the rage now), not to mention the rivalry with Apple over the years. The number of Samsung phones in the Indian market has also reduced its share gradually.

iPhone’s increased sales in Russia, China, India and Brazil as well as in the US in the fourth quarter of 2014 has remarkably put Apple much before Samsung as per International Data Corporation (IDC).

Though Samsung Galaxy Grand series and the recent Samsung Galaxy Note Edge have gained much popularity in the Indian market off late, however, the South Korean company is eventually losing on its grip on the Indian consumer’s pockets.

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

China has a different story to tell altogether where Xiaomi and Apple have taken the top two position in smartphone sale, followed by Samsung. U.S. too ensures that Samsung is not the ace as most consumers use and buy Apple. However, Samsung denies the Canalys report and instead quoted a research firm called GfK that has shown Samsung’s volume market share to be 34.3 percent in quarter 4, 2014, and its value share to be 40.2 percent unlike 20 percent or 4.4 million units of regional sales as accounted by Canalys.  Samsung proclaims its market share to be “more than double” of Micromax and refuted Canalys report saying that they are unsure of Canalys’ data accuracy, while GfK numbers are more scientific and are based on the actual retail sales.

While the figures by different research firms are contradictory and conflicting, both the brands Micromax and Samsung are up to the neck in battling out to be the best and most used Smartphone Company.

While the handset market is mushrooming in the country, we might not be shocked if Micromax or Samsung come up with a direct advertisement that is a counter attack or a spoof on the other brand!

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