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Samsung India unveils new range of mobile phones
MUMBAI: Samsung today showcased its latest range of mobile phones. The range also displayed select models that are slated for launch in the Indian market in the next 8 to 12 months.
Samsung India Electronics presented ways for consumers to communicate, interact and share their experiences with unique features and concepts in mobile phones.
The mobile phones on display presented a host of firsts’ in mobile
communication in India. Some of these are:
The first mobile phone in the world with hard disk drive and space of 1.5 GB
The first 5 mega pixel camera phone with a 2-inch display with 16 million colors in a QVGA TFD LCD screen and 32 MB extension memory
The first 3.2 megapixel camera phone with optical zoom that supports TV output function
Samsung unveiled the Swing Bar design B100 – the first phone to support satellite digital multimedia broadband (DBM) services and features a MP3, TV output, video recording and two mega pixel camera.
For the business consumer on the move, Samsung showcased its M500, mobile intelligent terminal Palm PDA. This phone has a transmission speed of 2.4 Mbps and also supports video on demand.
Speaking at the event, Samsung South West Asia Worldwide and India director, sales and marketing H C Ryu said, “The consumer has been demanding more and more features in their phones. To address these needs of the consumer, we put together our consumer research, marketing, engineering and technology teams together to create phones that will set trends in design and technology. The phones that we are unveiling today are the ultimate in style and technology.”
The entire range of mobile phones will be on display at the Samsung Stall in the Mobile Expo in New Delhi from 9 to 12 February.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
