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Monday, August 18, 2025
TopicMobile Phones

Topic: Mobile Phones

Before Apple & Android’s world domination, the unbreakable Nokia was the mobile phone to have

Whether it's the 3310/3330 model first released in 2000 or the 6110 model from the ‘90s, Nokia phones have always been synonymous with sturdiness and durability. And they had games too.

Pushing India to surpass China as world’s biggest mobile manufacturer, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Calling electronic manufacturing an area of ‘great passion’, Union Minister Prasad says PLI scheme will showcase India as an alternative manufacturing location.

Education, wages, financial aid — how Covid made mobile phones a humanitarian lifeline

Governments need to step in to ensure mobile services help the world's most vulnerable communities access aid and other essential support.

India now the second-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world: Ravi Shankar Prasad

From just 2 factories, we now have 200 manufacturing units. India's electronic manufacturing was worth Rs 1,90,366 crore in 2014, today it's Rs 4,58,000 crore, Prasad added.

Cellphones for young African women isn’t really helping them as assumed

Ghana to South Africa, the use of the phone as a ‘digital leash’ to check women’s whereabouts is a growing feature.

‘Screw it, we’ll do it’: This is how Flipkart decided to sell phones online

Flipkart’s mobile phones category went live in early 2010. The first order came in shortly.

Talking cars and potholes you can forget — how 5G will change our lives 

5G is expected to transform our lives, much more than its predecessors 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, which were all landmark innovations when launched. 

Ministers, journalists among many lose phones at Jaitley funeral, police say only 5 cases

In a post on Twitter, Patanjali spokesperson S.K. Tijarawala claims phones of 11 people, including him, were stolen.

Now mobile phones suspected to be endangering hundreds of Boeing 737 and 777 planes

Boeing cockpit screens were vulnerable to interference from Wi-Fi, mobile phones & even outside frequencies, US FAA found in 2014.

Samsung stumble risks killing folding phones at birth

Samsung’s foldable phones failed within 2 days – an ominous sign for smartphone industry banking on the technology for next growth spurt.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?