Lava is offering a free Agni 5G for everyone who returns their Realme 8s 5G
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- Anonymous
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- 04 Jan 2022
It's that the article mentions this brand is from India, because it looks like any other cheaper Chinese brand.
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- 04 Jan 2022
I am not sure the sort of agreement these companies have (Lava and Realme). However, I think this is some sort of agressive marketing, which I believe shouldn't be allowed to continue.
The Indian trade and commerce should wade into such agressive business strategy before it turns into some trade war? I am sure the two companies are not Indian origins?
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- 03 Jan 2022
Never bought a chinese smartphone and never will as long there are other options, but trying to rely on people's patriotism to sell your phones? That's bad.
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- 03 Jan 2022
OwnFix3, 03 Jan 2022Agree with you. Competition is good, but tactics like these... moreAgreed.
A local brand trying to grow or countrymen advocating for purchase/support of said local brand isn't inherently a bad thing. Especially if the product by the brand is of decent quality.
Marketing like this however only serves to hurt their image or whatever's left of it and serves to undermine people's faith in ability of local OEMs in general.
I am not sure what they could've done differently besides taking the humble pill. I am sure promising OS updates or experimenting with the phone design too much isn't cost effective for these companies, so to compete they should've just dropped the prices further to make the phone more appealing to buyers instead of pulling this stuff. It might have involved cutting down profit margins but they might have been able to get some space in the market that way and could've capitalized on that.
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Jan 2022
Dudenoway, 03 Jan 2022This marketing trick will work for most of the Indian peopl... moreto Dudenoway's comment. Chinese are known to copy ideas and designs for decades. you think copying is professional business? no, it's not. it's much worse than this.
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- 03 Jan 2022
Techfun, 03 Jan 2022New low for India with this pseudonationalism... very ugly ... moreAgree with you. Competition is good, but tactics like these are unprofessional and brings bad light for Indian brands internationally. They're doing more harm than good.
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- 03 Jan 2022
No one would in their right mind buy this utter trash Indian brand phone even though the majority of components are Chinese. It should be called the The Shiti 5g
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- 03 Jan 2022
Penk2856, 03 Jan 2022Most components come from China or elsewhere. Those are onl... moreThat's what i thought but people always misunderstood everything 🤷🏻♂️
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- 03 Jan 2022
[deleted post]I don't think you understand the issues and I'm pointing you towards them so you can consider them yourself. This is Indian patriotism contrived by anti-China sentiment caused by propaganda from the US. And asking me to beat it is just ridiculous.
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- TheAverageConsumer
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- 03 Jan 2022
*non-chinese
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- TheAverageConsumer
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- 03 Jan 2022
Very cheap trick by Lava. I seriously think that Lava is going nowhere with such tactics and will be doomed soon enough. Just stamping Made in India sticker on boxes don't make the phone Chinese when not even a single component is Indian in the phone.
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- 03 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 03 Jan 2022USA is threatening to sanction India at the moment for buyi... moreAnd so what?
The US is free to pursue its national interests. Russia should too. And India WILL as well.
The US also threatened to sanction Germany over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia. What do you make of that? Or Israel and the US squabbling over the Iranian nuclear deal?
How about you avoid geopolitical debates if you aren't smart enough to decipher them. Allies and quasi-allies get into minor quarrels all the time. India knows its enemies, its frenemies, and those it has to tolerate. China is firmly in the enemy camp, along with Pakistan.
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- 03 Jan 2022
Scram, 03 Jan 2022If China shuts its borders for whatever reason, the world W... moreChina would never close its borders to trade. It's not in their interest and the size of their economy is about surpass the US. The US is causing the kerfuffle worldwide with their trade wars and trying to isolate China, cut off their trade and stop their growth. US propaganda is going into overdrive at the moment churning out negative news about China everyday in the hopes that ignorant people would do their dirty work for them and confront China for no good reason. It's really really stupid to fall for the propaganda.
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- 03 Jan 2022
captain fokou, 03 Jan 2022Like it or not unfortunately the whole world depends to Chi... moreIf China shuts its borders for whatever reason, the world WILL move on. The world was doing just fine until 1990 and would continue chugging along long after we forget whatever sh*t goes on in that country.
This Chinese brown-nosing because a lot of you are too far down the economic totem pole to afford the stuff you actually want needs to be toned down. Go get something worth doing with your life so you don't need to purchase cheap trinkets to feel better about yourself.
China practices nationalism. The worst kind. Samsung barely has a 2% market share in China because of a kerfuffle between South Korea and China a couple of years back. China has actually killed Indian soldiers in the last couple years during clashes, but you deranged f*ck ups think the world runs on fairy farts. Perhaps, you can go tell the families of the soldiers who died that their sacrifice is BS and that the country they died for should bend over backwards to accommodate the companies of the country that orchestrated their demise.
Nationalism and id*otic multinational greed is why China is doing so well today. Other countries and companies have a right to explore the same path. India has a population of 1.3 billion people and should support its own companies rather than those of its next door arch-enemy. China cannot close off its market access to foreign companies then go into other countries it actually has regular flare-ups with to demand fair access. They can GF themselves.
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- 03 Jan 2022
kek, 03 Jan 2022Sure, now tell me when did the USA went around getting into... moreUSA is threatening to sanction India at the moment for buying Russian made S-400 missile system if you haven't caught up with the news.
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- 03 Jan 2022
switching from Realme to some unknown Indian brand smartphone ahahahahha, and it's still not fully Indian.
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- 03 Jan 2022
kek, 03 Jan 2022When the CCP army comes knocking on your door, you will the... moreThank you for the reminding me, I will only buy Chinese products from no on.
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- 03 Jan 2022
kek, 03 Jan 2022When the CCP army comes knocking on your door, you will the... moreLike it or not unfortunately the whole world depends to China. If they just closed their borders (nothing in, nothing out) then 90% of the thing that are for sale now will get discontinued, companies will run out of stock due to lack of materials or for the very least the prices would skyrocket due to to the higher manufacturing costs and the cost of new factories.
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- 03 Jan 2022
Techfun, 03 Jan 2022Still believing this crap lmao...rather google and usa be k... moreSure, now tell me when did the USA went around getting into fights with India. Or with anyone in Southeast Asia. It has been decades since the Vietnam war, and that was like the last time they got involved directly in that area.
Now, go on and tell me China wasn't trying to pick fights with India, never invaded Tibet, never threatened Taiwan or Hong Kong.
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- 03 Jan 2022
Kev, 03 Jan 2022These guys seriously just made a 2MP macro camera (maybe a ... moreNo, but they do have 5mp ultrawide, Realme only has the main and the useless cameras. Sure it's low-res but ultrawide is fine the other ones are just useless.