Indian market is flooded with Android Smartphones, and a huge lump of the market share is occupied by budget smartphones. Smartphones like Micromax Canvas HD, Canvas Turbo, Xolo A500s and more in the same category are widely accepted by the younger audience in India. These smartphones are not of much benefit if you don’t have an active internet connection on them, taking this into consideration mobile operators in India are coming up with great deals for smartphone users in India. Some of these deals are bundled with the smartphone sale and some are for the existing users.
Smartphones have brought about revolution in the communication industry and has changed the whole purpose of communication, these days communication is linked with internet, social networking and sharing. We use instant messaging and social network majorly for communication and entertainment. And smartphones give us the freedom to stay online anywhere and anytime.
There are about 67million smartphone users in India, 50% of which fall below 25 year age category. These smartphone users love to stay connected to the internet and get quick access to facebook, twitter, Whatsapp and other social networking applications. Smartphone users also download a lot of applications and games on their devices using internet connection, games like Temple Run, Candy Crush Saga and Angry Birds are very popular among android users.
There is one application that is growing very rapidly in India, its Whatsapp. The application has about 30 million active users in India and more than 300 million users worldwide. Whatsapp seems to be in good mood to elevate the number of users in India by launching unlimited free usage with Tata Docomo in India. The company has partnered with Docomo to provide smartphone users with unlimited Whatsapp usage for 15 days at Rs 15.
Whatsapp recently launched the voice message service, which is now widely used by the users. Docomo is also offering pay per site plan for users in India, websites like Facebook, Gmail+Gtalk, Rediffmail, Yahoo Mail+messenger along with Orkut, Twitter and Linked in for as low as Rs 10 per month (each site).
There are other service providers in India who has slashed down their tariffs too to attract smartphone users. Vodafone, Airtel and Idea have slashed down their 2G internet rates by up to 90% and 3G rates by up to 30%. With the advent of 4G LTE connection in India we may soon find 3G rates coming down too. You enjoy more news on mobiles.sulekha.com/news meanwhile we keep our eyes open on further developments and keep you updated with the same.
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