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Nokia 105 affordable phone launching in India in April for Rs. 1200

Nokia 105, the company’s most affordable entry-level phone with a color screen would launch in India later this month, according to a recent report from Hindu Business Line. The Nokia 105 was announced at the MWC 2013 back in February. It has a 1.45-inch (128 x 128 pixels) 65k Colour TFT Display, has FM Radio support and comes with Nokia Life in select markets. This phone is based on Nokia’s Series 30 platform similar to the Nokia 100 and 101 affordable entry-level phones that were launched in India last year. It would offer up to 12.5 hours of talk time and up to 35 days of standby. Continue reading “Nokia 105 affordable phone launching in India in April for Rs. 1200”

Samsung Galaxy Trend 2 and Trend 2 Duos with 4-inch display, Android 4.1 announced in China

Samsung Galaxy Trend 2 China

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Trend 2 (SCH-I739) and the dual SIM variant, the Galaxy Trend 2 Duos (GT-S7572) in China along with the Galaxy Win. Samsung has also announced the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082)in China, that we reviewed recently. These look like souped up versions of the Galaxy S Duos. These have a 4.0-inch (480 x 800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and run on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). These have a 3-megapixel rear camera.

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PhotoCal with Event app for iPhone and iPad lets you arrange and view photos in a calendar view

PhotoCal with Event for iPhone and iPad

PhotoCal with Event, is a new application for iPhone and iPad that arrange and view your photos more efficiently, while keeping you up to date on your events. It lets you arrange your images in chronological order and displays them on your monthly calendar view along with all of your upcoming appointments and errands. This app would be much useful to view photos based on a date, since it arranges the images according to the date they were taken and displays them on your monthly calendar view, instead of searching for a picture in the default camera roll. Continue reading “PhotoCal with Event app for iPhone and iPad lets you arrange and view photos in a calendar view”

BlackBerry to shut down BBM Music in June

BBM Music

BlackBerry has started sending emails for BBM Music subscribers that BBM Music would be discontinued as of June 2, 2013. BBM Music is BlackBerry’s own cloud-based music service in partnership with several music giants Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI. BlackBerry Music was anounced back in August 2011, and it was launched it widely in the US, Canada, and Australia later in November 2011 after several closed beta trials. Continue reading “BlackBerry to shut down BBM Music in June”

Amazing Alex now available for Windows Phone 8

Rovio has finally launched the Amazing Alex physics puzzle game for Windows Phone 8 devices. Several games including Temple Run, Gravity Guy 2, 6th Planet, Propel Man, Fling Theory Orcs Must Survive and Drift Mania Championship 2 arrived for Windows Phone 8 devices last week. Continue reading “Amazing Alex now available for Windows Phone 8”

Angry Birds Friends coming soon to Android, iPhone and iPad

Angry Birds Friends soon on Android and iOS

Rovio has announced that Angry Birds Friends would be available soon for Android, iPhone and iPad. Angry Birds Friends was released on Facebook last year. It has new weekly tournaments that would let you win bronze, silver and gold crown on the levels, play new weekly levels and earn power-ups through tournament mode. There are also daily rewards and option to send and receive gifts of power-ups with your friends. You can also share details about your accomplishments with friends. Continue reading “Angry Birds Friends coming soon to Android, iPhone and iPad”

Chrome for Android updated with password and autofill sync

Google Chrome for Android Autofill and Password Sync

Chrome for Android has been updated to version 26 that brings the password and autofill Sync that was available in the Chrome Beta for Android last month. The Password sync would let you sync passwords easily, and the auto fill option lets you fill out forms quickly on a small screen. The new experimental data compression feature from the beta version is also available for the this stable version of Chrome for Android. It is based on SPDY proxy running on Google servers that would improve the page loading. Continue reading “Chrome for Android updated with password and autofill sync”

Firefox for Android updated with better private browsing and support for more devices

Firefox for Android v20 Private Browser

Firefox browser for Android has been updated to version 20. This version brings better private browsing and Per-tab private browsing lets you switch between private and standard tabs within the same browsing session. You can also without closing or changing your current browsing session. This version also brings support for Android devices with 384MB of RAM and QVGA displays. The Firefox for Android version 17 update last November brought support for devices with ARMv6 processors. Continue reading “Firefox for Android updated with better private browsing and support for more devices”

Samsung Galaxy Win with 4.7-inch display, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor goes official in China

Samsung Galaxy Win GT-I8552 China

The Samsung Galaxy Win (GT-I8552) that surfaced recently has gone official in China. It is listed on the Samsung China’s official website. All the specifications matches the leaked specs. It has a 4.7-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) TFT display, run on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with Touchwiz and is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor. It has a 5MP Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash and a 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support with dual standby and dual SIM Always On feature. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Win with 4.7-inch display, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor goes official in China”

Shazam partners with Saavn for better Indian music discovery

Shazam and Saavn partnership

Shazam, leading media engagement company has announced a partnership with Saavn, Indian music streaming service to offer a better local music discovery. Shazam has a music discovery app for leading mobile platforms including Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. Saavn too has apps for several platforms, and recently launched Saavn Pro premium music service for iPhone and iPad. Continue reading “Shazam partners with Saavn for better Indian music discovery”

LG Optimus G Pro (L-04E) goes on sale in Japan

LG Optimus G Pro L-04E Japan launch

LG has announced that the LG Optimus G Pro (L-04E) is now on sale in Japan from NTT Docomo. It was announced earlier this year as the part of NTT Docomo’s Spring lineup in the docomo NEXT series. It packs a 5-inch (1920×1080 pixels) Full HD IPS display, powered by 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The Japanese variant is smaller than the International version that was unveiled in February. LG announced recently that they have sold over 500 thousand units of the Optimus G Pro in Korea alone. Continue reading “LG Optimus G Pro (L-04E) goes on sale in Japan”

Samsung Galaxy Win with 4.7 inch display, quad-core Snapdragon CPU images and specs surface

Samsung Galaxy Win leak

Samsung Galaxy Win (GT-I8552) press images and specifications have surfaced on a Vietnamese retail site mainguyen. The features of the are slightly better than the Galaxy S2 Plus that went on sale in India recently. It is expected to come with a 4.7-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touch screen display and run on Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) with Touchwiz UI and Nature UX. The site listing says that it would be powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 chip with Adreno 203 GPU, but the Vietnamese site tinhte.vn speculates that it might feature a Snapdragon 200 processor. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Win with 4.7 inch display, quad-core Snapdragon CPU images and specs surface”

Viber for Windows Phone 8 gets VOIP calls with HD voice, lock screen notifications and more

Viber for Windows Phone 8 voice calls

Viber, cross platform VOIP (Voice Over IP) app for Windows Phone 8 has been updated to version 2.23.0.0 that brings support for voice calls, Option to pin conversations to your home screen, Lock screen notifications and lots more new features. Viber promises HD sound quality for voice calls that would offer crisp and clear sound. Viber also lets you send free texts including group conversations, share location in messages and also share photos from your phone’s gallery easily. It supports 30 languages. Continue reading “Viber for Windows Phone 8 gets VOIP calls with HD voice, lock screen notifications and more”

Asus Transformer Pad Infinity Android 4.2 update starts rolling out

Asus has announced that the Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OTA (over-the-air) update v 10.6.1.14.4 for the Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T would start roll out starting from today. The Asus Transformer Pad Infinity was announced last year at MWC with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It received the Android 4.1 update last year, and promised the Android 4.2 update for the TF700T in Q2 2013 last month . The Asus Transformer Pad TF300 was the first non-Nexus tablet to receive the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update, which rolled out last month. Continue reading “Asus Transformer Pad Infinity Android 4.2 update starts rolling out”

Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo and Galaxy Star with 3-inch display, Android 4.1 announced

Samsung has announced Galaxy Pocket Neo and Galaxy Star, two new Android smartphones in the Galaxy series. The Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo is the upgraded version of the last year’s Galaxy Pocket and the Galaxy Star is a budget phone with 2G EDGE support. Both these phones have a 3-inch (320 x 240 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and has a 2-megapixel rear camera. The Galaxy Pocket Neo is powered by a 850 MHz processor and the Galaxy Star has a 1 GHz processor. Both these phones would come in Dual SIM variants with Always On feature that would forward calls to the other SIM, depending on the market.
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