www.mymobileindia.comwww.mymobileindia.com FEBRUARY 2018 Rs 100 ® YOUR GATEWAY TO THE WORLD OF MOBILITY 10 Ways How AI Will Make Smartphones Smarter! CHIEF SPEAK Neeraj Sharma, Country Head, Spreadtrum India FACE TO FACE Jai Mani, Lead Product Manager, Xiaomi India Tested Honor View 10, Galaxy A8+, Bharat 5, iVOOMi i1, Redmi 5A, t-phone P and many more… PHONE OF THE MONTH GOOGLE PIXEL 2 XL Our Chipset. Your Smartphone. THE PERFECT DUO A world of possibility opens up when the latest MediaTek Helio chipsets meet your phone. mediatek.com FIRSTCALL The Future is Here and How! tage is all set for a new era in smartphone evolution! Your smartphone is going to be EDITORIAL smarter, rather one should say it will soon Pankaj Mohindroo | Editor-in-Chief have a brain of its own. 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Twitter twitter.com/MyMobileMag Volume XIII, Issue I, FEBRUARY 2018 04 | FEBRUARY 2018 MYMOBILE CONTENTS 42 58 88 46 Style Notes 46 CHIEF SPEAK Neeraj Sharma – Country Head 135 Dilip Venkatraman – Founder 10 LETTERS (India), Spreadtrum & CEO, VideoTap Communications 12 CELL SPEAK MARKET INSIGHT FACE TO FACE: 14 RUMOR MILL Chinese mobile brands’ profit Interviews with business/industry 52 soars but they still have a long 16 NEWS leaders way to go 48 Jai Mani – Lead Product 21 BIG NEWS Manager, Xiaomi India 58 IoT connected devices to cross the billion mark by 2020 109 MY GUIDE 51 Prashant Bora – CEO, East Sun Electronics India 56 Sukesh Jain – Vice-President, 26 JUST IN 54 CONSUMER IT & Mobile Enterprises INSIGHT Get a close look at new mobile Business, Samsung India devices now in the market App is still the way to go! 84 Ramakant Khandelwal – Chief Marketing Officer, PAYBACK The Burntest 42 LEAD STORY India 62 GOOGLE PIXEL 2 XL 10 Ways How AI Will Make 86 Doug Suttles – Co-Founder and Smartphones Smarter! General Manager, Ookla 64 HONOR VIEW 10 06 | FEBRUARY 2018 MYMOBILE CONTENTS 66 SAMSUNG GALAXY A8+ 98 Global IT spending forecasted 100 SHOWBIZ (2018) to reach USD3.7 trillion in CES 2018: Innovations 68 AMAZON 10. OR D 2018 Showcased 70 MICROMAX CANVAS INFINITY PRO SPECIAL FEATURE 106 BAZAAR 92 Expectations MWC 2018! 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