Asian 15 New Smartphone makers !!!!!>> to crush Samsung and Apple>>!!!!

Samsung is the world’s – and Asia’s – top Smartphone maker. But there are a lot of rival phone-makers out there aiming to dethrone. That competition is especially strong across Asia, where a number of relatively new phone-makers are playing to their strengths in home markets, aiming to get consumers hooked on their own keenly-priced but strongly-spiced devices.

Let’s look at 15 of the strongest new contenders across Asia. They’re all – individually and collectively – keen to steal sales from more established phone-makers.

 CHINA:-

1. Xiaomi

Best known of any Asian startup, fact that it’s already outselling Apple in China. Xiaomi plans to sell 60 million smart phones this year.

What’s Xiaomi’s secret? Its smart phones sell for about half the price of Samsung’s and HTC’s flagship phones, yet the strength and versatility of its Android skin makes them feel like top-quality products. Xiaomi keeps costs low by selling 70 percent of its phones online, and the rest via telco partners. It has no retail business to drain money. It also sells to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. It aims to roll out in more countries in Southeast Asia – the next stop will be Malaysia. And then it’ll tackle big markets like India. Xiaomi’s next continent will likely be South America.

Lower down in the price range is the Xiaomi Hongmi, which we reckon is the best phone you can get for a mere $130.

Flagship phone: Xiaomi Mi3 has a 5-inch 1080p HD screen, 1.8GHz NVIDIA Tegra 4 (WDCDMA version) or 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 (TD-SCDMA version) processors; 13-megapixel back camera and a 2-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $325 (16GB) or $405 (64GB) unlocked.

2. Coolpad

 Coolpad is China’s third biggest Smartphone brand in terms of sales, according to Gartner, thanks to a broad line-up of mostly cheap Android-based smart phones, with lots of special versions made for China’s three telcos. They won’t win any design awards and won’t blow your mind, but only 13 percent of Chinese people will buy smart phones that cost over $330 (that’s the psychologically important RMB 2,000 barrier) so the low-end market is vast.

Coolpad has been an OEM for several telcos around the world (producing stuff like the MetroPCS Quattro 4G phone for T-Mobile in the US), and that’s still part of its business. But Coolpad wants to stand on its own brand overseas, and it’s targeting Southeast Asia as a first step.

Flagship phone: Coolpad Magview 4 has a 5.9-inch 1080p HD screen; 1.8GHz Tegra 4 processor; 13-megapixel rear camera; Android 4.2; costs a whopping $650 unlocked.

3. Oppo

Oppo is another Chinese phone-maker that’s looking to be big overseas as well as at home. But, despite spending big on advertising with Hollywood faces, Oppo is struggling to get brand recognition in its native China.

The company is aiming globally with its newest flagships, the OPPO N1 . The brand offers Oppo’s own Android skin (dubbed Color OS), but for some markets there’s the option of CyanogenMod’s new OS, potentially making it a big draw for Android geeks. A spin-off company from Oppo called OnePlus launches soon which will challenge Oppo with similarly strongly-spiced phones with above-average size price-tags.

Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines – all young and fast-developing mobile markets – are target new markets for OPPO.

Flagship phone: Oppo Find 7 has a 5.5-inch quad-HD screen (yes, that’s 2560 by 1440 pixels), 2.5GHz Snapdragon quad-core processor; 13-megapixel rear camera (with software trickery it takes 50-megapixel images) and 5-megapixel front one; Android 4.3; costs $599 unlocked.

INDIA:-

4. Micromax

 Micromax is the closest to its goal of beating Samsung. 44 million new smart phones were shipped in India in 2013 – 38 percent of those from Samsung, 16 percent from Micromax. Like most of these Asian brands (though not the Chinese ones), Micromax also makes tablets and feature phones.

Micromax started its overseas expansion late last year by venturing into Russia and Romania, two developing markets that it reckons have a strong desire for more affordable smart phones.

Flagship phone: Micromax Canvas Knight has a 5-inch 1080p HD screen; 2 GHz MediaTek octa-core processor; 16-megapixel rear camera and 8-megapixel front one; Android 4.2.2; costs $330 unlocked.

5. Karbonn

Karbonn made up 10 percent of Smartphone shipments in India at the end of 2013. Karbonn is a bit smaller than Micromax, but both are growing strongly.

Flagship phone: Karbonn Titanium Octane Plus has a 5-inch 1080p HD screen; 1.7 GHz MediaTek octa-core processor; 13-megapixel rear camera and 8-megapixel front one; Android 4.4; costs $240 unlocked.

6. Xolo

Though smaller than its two compatriot rivals, Xolo is also keen for a slice of India’s low-end to mid-range Smartphone market. However, the prices are not as tempting as those of its local rivals.

Flagship phone: Xolo Q3000 has a 5.7-inch 1080p HD screen; 1.5 GHz MediaTek quad-core processor; 13-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $350 unlocked.

PAKISTAN:-

7. Q Mobile

Q Mobile is the largest homegrown Smartphone maker in Pakistan, making a mix of feature phones, smart phones, and tablets. The company started relatively recently – in 2009 – so it’s not struggling with a switch away from making basic phones in the same as  some other brands on this list.

Flagship phone: Q Mobile Noir Quattro Z4 has a 5-inch 1080p screen; 1.5Ghz processor (CPU brand not disclosed); 13-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $313 unlocked.

INDONESIA:-

8. Smartfren

Smartfren is different from the others in this list in that it’s a mobile telco company. It has 12.5 million subscribers, and it’s pushing forward Indonesia’s shift to Android with its own competitively-priced smart phones.

In our experience, the cheap components can lead to a laggy and sub-par experience on Smarfren’s phones, but then they do cost well under $200 unlocked. Still, Xiaomi’s cheapest phone is only $130 but has much stronger specs and doesn’t feel laggy, so Smartfren (and many others on this list) have some catching up to do on their sub-$200 phones.

Flagship phone: Smartren Andromax Z has a 5.5-inch 720p screen; 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor; 8-megapixel rear camera and 2-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $245 unlocked.

9. Cyrus

Cyrus phones are pretty badly spiced – but then they are half the price of the flagships from Xiaomi, Micromax,etc. This is the ultra low-end of the Smartphone market.

In a nation that’s crazy about BlackBerry phones and BBM, Cyrus is wisely pre-installing the new BBM Android app on its phones, and marketing them heavily as replacements for the nation’s beloved BlackBerry handsets.

Flagship phone: Cyrus Cerry has a 5.3-inch but low-res screen (960 x 540 pixels); 1.2 GHZ quad-core processor; 8-megapixel rear camera and 0.3-megapixel front one; Android 4.1; costs $160 unlocked.

10. Mito

Mito sells tablets, feature phones, and smart phones. It’s based in Indonesia but it also operates in India. 80 percent of its sales are low-end, feature phone devices. It sold about two to three million devices in 2013, so it’s not going to sell that many smart phones, but it’s still one to watch as its ratio of Smartphone sales increases.

Flagship phone: Mito Fantasy Power A68 has a 5-inch 720p HD screen; 1.3 GHZ Mediatek quad-core processor; 8-megapixel rear camera and 2-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $130 unlocked.

MALAYSIA:-

11. Ninetology

Emphasis on style and a bit more attention paid to design than is evident in the others on this list, Malaysia’s Ninetology is already, it claims, Malaysia’s second biggest phone-maker – behind, inevitably, Samsung.

The Malaysian firm sells its phones in neighboring  Indonesia.

Flagship phone: Ninetology Z1+ has a 5-inch 720p HD screen; 1.2 GHZ quad-core Mediatek processor; 13-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $410 unlocked.

THAILAND:-

12. I-Mobile

Like Cyrus and a couple of other firms on this list, Thailand’s I-Mobile is slowly transitioning from being a cloner of other people’s feature phones to a maker of its own Android devices. Its latest IQ range of phones packs in a commendable amount of camera for less than $300, which is a good idea for a country that’s so crazy about Instagram.

Flagship phone: I-Mobile IQ Octa 1068 has a 5-inch 1080p HD screen; 1.7 GHZ Mediatek octa-core processor; 18-megapixel rear camera and 8-megapixel front one; Android 4.2.2; costs $390 unlocked.

VIETNAM:-

13. FPT

FPT has set the goal of manufacturing and selling 600,000 smart phones in Vietnam in 2013. This will be a shift from what FPT was shipping last year, which was centered on feature phones. It will mean that smart phones make up 70 percent of its mobile output.

Flagship phone: FPT VI has a 5-inch 720p screen; 1.2 GHZ Snapdragon quad-core processor; 13-megapixel rear camera and 1.6-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $235 unlocked.

PHILIPPINES:-

14. Cherry Mobile

The Philippines has faster Smartphone market growth than the likes of Indonesia and Vietnam, to watch right now.

If you thought that Samsung has a dizzying array of options, Cherry Mobile makes the Korean giant look like a master of Zen simplicity. Cherry Mobile recently revealed 84 models – yes, eighty-four – that will be rolled out gradually during the course of a huge marketing blitz that will last for the next two months. It also makes tablets and feature phones.

Cherry Mobile’s devices are all made in China or India. This brand also sells in Thailand.

Flagship phone: Cherry Mobile Omega Infinity has a 5.5-inch 1080p screen; 1.5Ghz MediaTek processor; 18-megapixel rear camera and 8-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $340 unlocked.

15. Starmobile

Starmobile is battling Cherry Mobile with even larger phones that generally have stronger specs at a lower price. As is commonplace among these homegrown Asian brands, Starmobile also makes basic phones and tablets so as to cover the nation’s wide demographic spread.

Cherry Mobile and Starmobile are being stalked closely by two local rivals, MyPhone and Torque. It’s hard to discern which of the four is selling more phones right now, but a recent survey suggests Cherry Mobile is the top homegrown phone-maker.

Flagship phone: Starmobile Diamond X1 has a 6-inch 720p screen, 1.7GHz MediaTek octa-core processor; 18-megapixel rear camera and 8-megapixel front one; Android 4.2; costs $316 unlocked.

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