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www.mymobileindia.comwww.mymobileindia.com SEPTEMBER 2017 Rs 100 ® FOR A CONNECTED LIFESTYLE Tested Asus ZenFone AR, BlackBerry ACCHE DIN KEYone, Samsung On Max, Panasonic Eluga A3 Pro and NOW P55 Max, Moto Z2 Play, Mafe Shine For M820, Xolo Era 1x Pro and more... Smartphone Market FACE TO FACE Kenichiro Hibi Web Series Managing Director, Redefining Sony India Entertainment PHONE OF THE MONTH HONOR 8 PRO FIRSTCALL espite prolonged Indo-China border stand-off at Doklam and attempts by some misguided groups to call for the boycott of Chinese goods EDITORIAL including mobile handsets, Indian consumers D Pankaj Mohindroo | Editor-in-Chief have shown remarkable maturity by generally not heeding to such calls. This in itself should awaken Shelley Vishwajeet | Editor Chinese leadership to view India and Indian people in a Ramesh Kumar Raja | Assistant Editor new light and, should be reflective of the inherent good Haider Ali Khan | Senior Correspondent naturedness of we the Indians while encouraging it to explore a peaceful and amicable solution to the border Nijhum Rudra | Correspondent disputes rather than engaging in bullying tactics or encouraging a section Vanshika Malhotra | Reporter of its state-owned media to fuel battle cries. Editorpage Today, China is India’s biggest trading partner with BoP tilted heavily DESIGN in favour of the former. Despite deep rooted suspicions about China Ajit Kumar Parashar | Sr. Graphic Designer in Indian establishment’s psyche worsened by its open support to Pakistan’s nefarious activities, we have not let these factors come in MARKETING the way of successful Indo-China trade engagement or growing people to people contacts. China and India have more to gain by economic and Puja Mohindroo | Manager - Business trade engagement and much to lose by fueling hostilities. I do hope that Sandeep Kumar | Sr. Manager – Marketing good sense will prevail and both nations will march together to realize its ambitious and social economic transformational journey. OPERATIONS Good news is here for the smartphone market. A series of unexpected K. Rajagopalan | Advisor-Legal, Accounts & policy moves such as the ill-conceived demonetisation last November Administration closely followed by GST migration, which though have long term benefits Deepak Kohli | Manager – Accounts for trade and economy, brought disruption in the market impacting Varun Lama | Sr. Manager – Human Resources handset sales. Nonetheless, oncoming festive season is going to bring B. G. Mathur | Manager- Production lots of cheers to handset makers. Historically, the third quarter have been the months when sales are highest be it for high value items such CIRCULATION gold or cars or essentials like mobile handset. This is because the long Bhupender Singh Bisht | Manager – Circulation festive season starting with the first day of Navratri and coming after prolonged hot and humid months usher a happy feel among people ADVISORY BOARD which translates into good times for everyone - from sellers to consumers. Bejon Misra Be assured, we are going to see a good upswing in handset sales soon. Rajan Mathews My Mobile continues to be the market leader in terms of content, S.D. Saxena circulation and readership. This should be laurels enough to celebrate Subhash Chandra for an average publishing house but not for us. What cheers us more Sunil Dutt when more and more celebrated corporate leaders, thought leaders come Sonu Bhasin forward to exclusively share their views on our platform. 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