
Samsung on Monday launched a 4G-enabled smartphone in India, the second of three promised back in February. Warsi refused to share details about its sales revenue from online channel and said it has 2,100 exclusive Samsung stores and reaches to 1,500 modern retail outlets. Mobile industry was growing at 12-14 percent with 6-7 million unit market for smart phones, he said. "India is an encouraging market with double digit growth," Warsi said. However, he declined to comment over the margins in India when asked about reports over shrinking margin levels in the mobile division of its parent Samsung Electronics Co. Warsi said 2015 has a great start for the company with 16 devices launched till now. "Our market share during January 2015 was about 35 percent," he said during the launch of Galaxy A8 handset here. Since January 2015, we continued to grow for six consecutive months and widened the gap (marketshare)," Samsung India VP marketing (IT and mobile) Asim Warsi claimed on the basis of GfK data. "Our market share (smartphone) has crossed 40 percent by value in June this year. This article is from the CBROnline archive: some formatting and images may not be present.Electronics giant Samsung on Tuesday said its market share in the Indian smartphone segment has crossed 40 percent in June. It appears on the Samsung Z1, with the Z2 already slated for release. It is HTML-5 based, which will allow shorter development cycles, and crucially, is designed to work with other devices it is not just set up for smartphones but also tablets, wearables and smart televisions. Tizen is the result of a partnership involving huge mobility players including Samsung, Intel, Huawei, Fujitsu, Orange, Panasonic and Vodafone. Ubuntu Touch is featured on, in ascending price order, the BQ Aquaris E4.5, BQ Aquaris E5 HD and the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition. Essentially each scope is a bar on the screen presenting a different type of content for easy access. Key to the Ubuntu user interface are ‘scopes’, which aim to reinvent the idea of home screens. Ubuntu Touch, also known as Ubuntu Mobile, is a smartphone version of the Debian-based Linux operating system. In a throwback to the glory days, it also features a virtual keyboard. Other features include BlackBerry Hub, which acts as a notification centre for email and social media accounts. It includes enterprise mobility management features such as BlackBerry Balance, which separates work and personal data. True to its roots, the OS is designed for the business market. The original star of the business phone market brought out its Unix-based operating system for its own hardware in early 2013 in a market already dominated by Android and iOS.

Key features include a single scroll replacing multiple home screens, an easy search bar at the top of the screen and the ability to swipe between apps.
