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Nokia Lumia 520 up for pre-order on Flipkart for Rs. 10,499

Nokia Lumia 520 Flipkart

Nokia launched the Lumia 520 in India last week. Online retailer Flipkart has put up the device for pre-order at a price tag of Rs. 10,499. It wasunveiled at the Mobile World Congress in 2013 in Barcelona last month, and appeared on the Nokia India Shop online portal earlier this month, which still says ‘coming soon’ without any price tag. It has a 4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display with 2D hardened glass, and is super sensitive touch for finger nail and glove use. It is powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8227 processor and runs on the latest Windows Phone 8 OS. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 520 up for pre-order on Flipkart for Rs. 10,499”

Asus Padfone Infinity gets priced in Taiwan, available in April

Asus Padfone Infinity Taiwan launch

Asus announced the Padfone Infinity last month at the MWC 2013. It was launched in Taiwan earlier this week as we told you, and all the four major carriers have started taking pre-orders for the device in Taiwan. The Padfone Infinity packs a 5-inch Full HD (1920×1080 pixels) IPS display and the Padfone station has a 10.1-inch (1920×1080 pixels) display. It is powered by 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Asus Padfone Infinity gets priced in Taiwan, available in April”

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Review

Samsung announced the Galaxy Grand and the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082) back in December 2012. It was launched in India in January. We brought you the Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos photo gallery and the benchmarks recently. Here we have the complete review of the device. The Galaxy Grand has a similar design with curved corners and chrome finish all around, but it lacks the wedge shape and curved glass like the Galaxy S3. It runs on the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean that recently rolled out for the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note in India. Let’s dive into the complete review. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Review”

Aircel ties up with Nimbuzz to offer free data for prepaid subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir

Aircel Nimbuzz

Aircel has tied up with Nimbuzz to launch a new data plan to promote the app ecosystem with an offer to provide free data for the Aircel subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir. This is aimed towards observing data-based communication behavioural pattern of the Jammu and Kashmir customers. The Aircel-Nimbuzz communication-based data plan doesn’t require you to recharge with any packs. Aircel recently launched free unlimited 3G data access for 3 hours every day with 30 days validity. Continue reading “Aircel ties up with Nimbuzz to offer free data for prepaid subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir”

Xolo B700 with 3450 mAh Battery officially launched for Rs. 8999

Xolo B700

Xolo has officially launched the B700, the company’s new Android smartphone with a 3450 mAh battery which offers 363 hours of standby 20 hours of talk time on 3G, up to 38 hours Music Playback via internal speakers and up to 86 hours via wired headset. Xolo promises 9 hours of video playback while using internal speakers and up to 10.5 hours while using a wired headset. The Xolo B700 went on sale online last week.

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Evernote for Windows Phone updated with new home screen, Notebook Stacks and more

Evernote 3.0 for Windows Phone

Evernote for Windows Phone the Windows Phone app to version 3.0 that brings several new features including a new redesigned homescreen, shorctcuts, improved tag lists, premium document search feature and lots more. The Evernote app for Android got these features in a new update earlier this week. The new Notebook Stacks feature is a new way to visually group similar notebooks. The app has several tweaks that makes the app much smoother, faster and more responsive. Continue reading “Evernote for Windows Phone updated with new home screen, Notebook Stacks and more”

Easter Sale: Up to 90% off on EA iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Games

EA 4th Annual Easter Sale

Electronic Arts have started their big 4th annual Easter Sale. Last year they offered very few titles at discounted rates, but this time they are offering up to 90% discounts on iPhone and iPad games. They are also offering up to 80% off on Android games and up to 40% off on games on Windows Phone devices. Continue reading “Easter Sale: Up to 90% off on EA iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Games”

UTV Stars Entertainment app launched for Android and iPhone

UTV Stars for Android and iPhone

Disney UTV has launched the UTV Stars App for Android and iPhone. This is an entertainment app lets you watch free movies, get latest news, gossips, paparazzi images, full shows and videos from Bollywood. You can also watch UTV Stars LIVE TV. The Visual Search Augmented Reality feature Powered by Ricoh Innovations shows you the movie details just by clicking an image of the UTV Motion Pictures movie poster. The app is add-supported. Continue reading “UTV Stars Entertainment app launched for Android and iPhone”

Gmail mobile web for feature phones get Tamil, Telugu and 4 more Indic languages

Gmail mobile web in Tamil

Google has introduced support for 6 Indic languages in Gmail on the feature phone browser. These languages include, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. This would be much useful for native language speakers with feature phones read emails and understand the functionality inside Gmail in their own languages. Google had introduced support for Indic languages for their apps. Google Translate for iPhone got support for 5 Indic languages back in 2011. Continue reading “Gmail mobile web for feature phones get Tamil, Telugu and 4 more Indic languages”

Iron Man 3 game for iPhone, iPad and Android releasing on April 25th

Iron Man 3 Game

Gameloft has released a trailer for their upcoming Iron Man 3 game for iPhone, iPad and Android. The Iron Man 2 game for iPhone and iPad was released back in 2010. Iron Man 3, the third movie in the Iron Man franchise, based on the Mavel’s comic book character is releasing in several countries including India on April 26th. In this game you play as the billionaire Tony Stark / Iron Man who fights the AIM around the world to prevent their dark schemes from succeeding.

Here is the Iron Man 3 game trailer

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKflXaTdszs
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Temple Run, Gravity Guy 2 and more games arrive for Windows Phone 8

Temple Run, one of the popular games is finally available for Windows Phone 8 devices. It first launched for iPhone and iPad, and it was launched for Android last year. Along with the Temple Run, host of new games including Gravity Guy 2, sequel to the Gravity Guy, 6th Planet, Propel Man, Fling Theory Orcs Must Survive and Drift Mania Championship 2 are available for Windows Phone 8 devices. Chaos Rings from Square Enix is a role-playing game that is currently available only for Windows Phone 7.5 devices. Continue reading “Temple Run, Gravity Guy 2 and more games arrive for Windows Phone 8”

3M Smart Pen for Tablets and Smartphones launched for Rs. 999

3M Smart Pen

3M has launched a new Smart Pen for Tablets and Smartphones. It has highly sensitive capacitive tip that makes it ideal for use with iPads‚ iPhones and other popular capacitive touchscreen devices including touchscreen laptops and desktop monitors. It is powered by unique 3M technology with anti-stiction pen tip that offers users a comfortable pen feel while moving across their touchscreen surfaces to draw smoothly. It also offers precise icon selection and allows faster texting. Continue reading “3M Smart Pen for Tablets and Smartphones launched for Rs. 999”

Sony Xperia Tablet Z LTE version gets a pre-order price in UK

Sony Xperia Tablet Z was announced in Japan earlier this year. At the MWC 2013 Sony announced that it would roll out globally from Q2 2013. Sony has started taking pre-orders for the Sony Xperia Tablet Z (SGP321GB) 16GB LTE version. The Sony Xperia Tablet Z has a 10.1-inch HD (1920 x 1200 pixels) WUXGA Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2. It is powered by a 1.5 GHz asynchronous quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Sony Xperia Tablet Z LTE version gets a pre-order price in UK”

KFC India launches KFC WOW@25 Augmented reality app for Android, iPhone and iPad

KFC WOW at 25 Augmented Reality App

KFC India has launched a new KFC WOW@25 Augmented reality app for both Android, iPhone and iPad. This app is developed by Blink Solution for KFC India, to promote KFC’s new WOW Menu that are available at affordable prices. The app scans across currency denominations from as low as Rs.10 to as high as Rs.1000, and suggests KFC goodies that can be bought with the money using Augmented Reality. You can also take part in the KFC quick quiz and answer 25 questions about the WOW Menu within the time limit of 25 seconds to stand a chance to win an iPad Mini as the Grand Prize and KFC Vouchers worth Rs.500 every day. You can also head to kfcwow25.com to use it from the desktop which uses your webcam to scan the currency. Continue reading “KFC India launches KFC WOW@25 Augmented reality app for Android, iPhone and iPad”

iExplorer HD is a multi-purpose file management tool for iPad

iExplorer HD for iPad

iExplorer HD is not just a file manager, it also lets you manage/view files on your remote servers, acts as a media player, lets you view photos, read books (CHM, ePub, PDF) and offers lots more features. You can also view photos on your PC/NAS and share to friends, edit spreadsheets on your Google Docs and save them as different formats, print any viewable documents. Even though it is costly, the app is much useful productivity app that offers lot of features. Continue reading “iExplorer HD is a multi-purpose file management tool for iPad”