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Thursday, September 11, 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

Lifting night shift ban increased female employment in India—only among big firms

Discriminatory laws limit firms from hiring willing women, and removing such barriers can help narrow the economic gap between developing and developed countries.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

‘Foreign policy rests on hard power’—from 1965 Indo-Pak war to Op Sindoor, key takeaways for India

A panel of experts moderated by ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta drew connections between insights of 1965 Indo-Pak War and strategic takeaways highlighted by Op Sindoor.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?