Google Unveils $105 Smartphone for Emerging Markets

 

Google on Monday unveiled a new line of low-cost smartphones in New Delhi, hoping to persuade more people in India and other emerging markets to upgrade their handsets.  The new phones will cost around $105 and will be the first to use Google's Android One platform, which was designed to give developing economy users a reliable and affordable way to get online.  "The pace at which users are adopting the Internet is unprecedented," Sundar Pichai, senior vice president at Google who oversees Android, told reporters in India's capital. "Almost all of this growth that is happening in India and the world is due to mobile (phones)."

 

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LitBit Targets Emerging Markets

How do you bring the power of the Internet to underserved emerging markets? Google is floating balloons. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are focused on better mobile connectivity.  Scott Noteboom is taking a different approach: finding the right spots to deploy advanced Internet infrastructure that is energy-efficient and affordable. To pursue this mission, he’s giving up one of the best jobs in the data center industry.

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The Next Billion Customers: Emerging Markets

Apple, Google and Facebook are arguably the defining technology brands of the current generation, and are each vying to define the next. All three have enjoyed scarcely believable success and growth over the past fifteen years -- driven first by the dot-com boom and more importantly by the cell phone and smartphone revolution, and everything that has come with it in terms of content and applications.

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