Redmi - Snapdragon 625 Love Story could Derail its Success Run

Xiaomi or its subbrand Redmi is one of my favorite brand for smartphones these days. The main reason is pocket friendly or affordable smartphone with quite good quality. The second reason is its service center is just 4 min walk from my home. There is another reason which most OEM skips - regular software update which is great on Xiaomi phones with regular MIUI updates.

Now recently Xiaomi launched Redmi Y2 in India - to target selfie lovers.

I am using Redmi Note 4 since 1 year and I am happy with its camera and overall performance. But as per their 3rd phone on the series Note 5 is a disappointing launch, rather returning customers would buy Note 5 Pro or better wait.

Why Oppo's RealMe 1 is Big No-No for me?

Launching sub brands by major handset makers has turned a new trend in Indian smartphone market and Chinese giant Oppo could not use this opportunity better by launching Amazon India exclusive Real Me 1 smartphone to take on rival Xiaomi and its sub brand Redmi. The sub brands RealMe and Redmi sound similar right?

But I will never buy any smartphone from Oppo, why?

1. Oppo's Chinese employee is accused of discarding Indian flag at its Noida office.

The following reasons are to discard RealMe 1:
2. It does run on Mediatek processor 

3. It runs on ColorOS and seeing the trend of Oppo, it's unsure that when this phone will get latest Android update - not a future proof smartphone.

Tower Companies of India

The article was first published in November 2017, and therefore updated regularly til November 2020. 

In March 2024 this post was deleted by Blogger. The reason I don't know. Therefore putting it for a review by Blogger Team. 

As Indian telecom sector is going through the merger and acquisition - the consolidation of the mobile operators is pushing the consolidation of the passive infra providers, most specificly the tower firms. Apart from the carrier/operator's own tower companies there are several independent tower and infra providers in the market and these companies depend on the tenancy of the towers by small and mid sized telecom operators. Now as the consolidations are reshaping the market, it's obvious that the tenancy business is not working. And at the same time operators, burnt out by huge debt, plan for renting towers to cut down operational costs. 

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