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Nothing's new Phone 3a Lite is now on sale in India with a simplified Glyph Light design, Dimensity 7300 Pro chip and AI-powered features, alongside a new India-specific Blue colour variant

Nothing Phone 3a Lite debuts in India with a new single-LED Glyph Light, Dimensity 7300 Pro chip, 6.77-inch AMOLED display, triple cameras and Android 15-based NothingOS 3.5

After festival lull, Apr-Oct shipments power a 50% jump for FY26 so far

Nothing is set to launch the Phone 3a Lite today as the newest addition to its Phone 3a lineup, likely featuring a transparent back, Glyph Lights, and a Dimensity 7300 chipset

Qualcomm's newly launched Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 chip offers 36 per cent faster CPU, 59 per cent improved GPU, 144 FPS gaming, and 200MP photos for mid-range smartphones

The top three brands - Vivo, Samsung, and Oppo - account for half the smartphone volumes, and the top four, with Realme, over 60 per cent

Mappls navigation and mapping services data are already used by Apple for Apple Maps, but Android devices use Google Maps

Compared with those who said they had never used a smartphone on the toilet, the researchers found that the smartphone users were much more likely to spend more than five minutes going to the bathroom

ICEA said that in the first five months of FY26, smartphone shipments to the US reached $8.43 billion, up from $2.88 billion in the same period of FY25, nearly a three-fold increase

Under the deal, Nothing and Optiemus will invest more than $100 million and create over 1,800 jobs

The India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA) said smartphone exports in August 2025 increased by 39 per cent year-on-year, countering claims of a decline, and cautioned against drawing inferences from month-on-month comparisons without context.ICEA reported that exports increased from USD 1.09 billion in August 2024 to approximately USD 1.53 billion in August 2025, with shipments to the United States more than doubling. Exports to the US increased by 148 per cent to USD 965 million in August 2025, compared to USD 388 million in August 2024."Every export sector has its particular nuances based on multiple factors. Oversimplification of trade data, and worse, inferences based on monthly comparisons, are misleading and avoidable. It's important that subject matter experts are consulted before drawing sector-specific conclusions," said ICEA Chairman Pankaj Mohindroo.ICEA added that August and September are traditionally low-export months due to upcoming new launches, plant ...

The latest Nothing Phone 3 update enhances camera performance in third-party apps, fixes multiple user-reported bugs, and boosts overall system performance

Nothing has teased its Android 16-based Nothing OS 4.0 with refreshed icons, widgets, and UI changes; rollout to eligible Nothing and CMF smartphones is expected in September

The Nothing Phone 3 will be launched at the "Come to Play" event on July 1. Alongside the smartphone, Nothing will also unveil its maiden over-ear headphones, dubbed the Nothing Headphone 1

Investors fear a global trade war that would erode some of the US-China bilateral trade that reached $690 billion in 2024, decimating industries and raising prices for consumers

Nothing is set to launch the CMF Phone 2 Pro on April 28, alongside a range of new audio products in the CMFF Buds 2 series

Exports from Tata Electronics, another Apple supplier, stood at $612 million in March, around 63 per cent higher than the previous month

Beyond economic considerations, the exclusions appear to be part of a broader strategy to reduce inflation concerns and mitigate disruptions in supply chains

French technology brand Alcatel has earmarked an initial investment of USD 30 million, about Rs 260 crore, as it gears up to re-enter India's mobile phone market after seven years with plans to sell locally-made smartphones, a senior official of the company said. Alcatel's business is operated by Chinese firm TCL Communication under a trademark licence agreement from Nokia. "As of now we are setting up the manufacturing plans, maintaining our supply chain etc. We have an initial investment plan of USD 30 million but rest of the plans will purely depend on the kind of responses we get, the kind of models that we decide to launch," Alcatel's Chief Business Officer Atul Vivek told PTI. He said that the company has plans to invest in other consumer technology categories later and export from India as well, but everything will depend on the response from the market. "We honestly believe that if you are able to crack India, which is one of the toughest consumer segments in the world, the

In many other countries, including Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Turkiye, Egypt and the UAE, the US has imposed a reciprocal duty of only 10 per cent