{"id":55998,"date":"2019-01-14T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=232169"},"modified":"2019-01-14T21:14:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:14:16","slug":"low-cost-smartphones-head-samsung-india-fightback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/14\/low-cost-smartphones-head-samsung-india-fightback\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost smartphones head Samsung India fightback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tSamsung detailed plans to release a budget smartphone lineup in India as it seeks to claw back market share lost to Chinese rivals in the market.<\/p>\n<p>Asim Warsi, head of Samsung\u2019s Indian mobile phone business, told Reuters the vendor will launch three new M-Series phones in India at the end of January through its own website and Amazon&#8217;s local operation. While mainly aimed at shoring up Samsung&#8217;s position in India, these devices will also be launched globally following their debut in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The online sales element is important: Warsi told Reuters revenue from the channel is in the double-digits. Following government efforts to boost production of components and complete devices in the country, all M-Series smartphones will be made in India.<\/p>\n<p>Warsi said prices will range from less than INR10,000 ($141) to INR20,000, and the models will offer high-end features including quick charging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe M-Series has been built around and incepted around Indian millennial consumers,\u201d said Warsi.<\/p>\n<p>Fightback<br \/>\nFigures from Canalys showed the vendor tussled with Chinese rival Xiaomi [1] for the top spot in Indian smartphone shipments during the opening half of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>During 2018 it opened a new mobile manufacturing plant [2] near capital New Delhi, as well as its biggest global mobile phone store. It currently has 250,000 retail outlets and 2,000 stores in the country.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/devices\/news-devices\/samsung-claws-back-ground-on-xiaomi-in-india\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/devices\/news-devices\/samsung-targets-india-dominance-with-larger-factory\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung detailed plans to release a budget smartphone lineup in India as it seeks to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/low-cost-smartphones-head-samsung-india-fightback\/\">Low-cost smartphones head Samsung India fightback<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/14\/low-cost-smartphones-head-samsung-india-fightback\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-ezc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56001,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55998\/revisions\/56001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}