Samsung Galaxy S4 Live Blog

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If you are looking forward to the Samsung Galaxy S4, be prepared to stay up tonight or wake up really early tomorrow morning. Samsung is holding its Unpacked event for the next big galaxy phone in New York City and might be also live streaming it. We should be live blogging the launch of the Galaxy S4 here on FoneArena. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S4 Live Blog”

XOLO ‘Fastest Smartphone’ launch event Live Blog from Goa

XOLO has been teasing its upcoming Smartphone for the past few days under the Mission X tagline.The company is claiming it will launch the Fastest Smartphone ever today in Goa. The phone is expected to be based on the all new Intel  Clover Trail+ platform.

Stay tuned to the FoneArena Live Blog from Goa to see if the new Xolo smartphone lives up to all the hype. Event will begin at 4PM India time today. Continue reading “XOLO ‘Fastest Smartphone’ launch event Live Blog from Goa”

Jolla Sailfish OS Hands-On

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At MWC 2013 , we were lucky to sit down with Marc Dillon, CEO of Jolla which is a mobile start-up based  in Finland. While Jolla might be new to mobile scene, most of the team previously worked with Nokia for several years before stepping out to start Jolla.If you were a fan of the Nokia N9 or any of the  Maemo or MeeGo devices , you will surely appreciate the approach Jolla’s Sailfish OS brings to the mobile arena.

Watch a nice 6 minute overview of the Sailfish OS presented by none other than the CEO Marc himself on a Nokia N950 developer device.

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NEC Medias W – Dual Screen Android Phone Hands-On

NEC Medias W is one of the best products we had a chance to play with at the Mobile World Congress 2013. It is an Android phone with 2 4.3 inch LCD displays which can be used either together or separately. You can browse 2 websites at the same time , watch a video on one screen while checking your mail on the other. You can actually play the same video on both the screens simultaneously if you place the phone on desk. So two people can watch the video comfortably without having to bump into each other.

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Asus Padfone Infinity first non-Apple device to use a nanoSIM card

While we are playing with the impressive Asus Padfone Infinity earlier today , we noticed that the phone was incredibly thin and also had a solid construction. What got our attention was the nano-SIM card slot on the top left of the new PadFone infinity.Currently Apple is only device maker which uses a nano SIM card in the iPhone 5 and the iPad mini Cellular version. Continue reading “Asus Padfone Infinity first non-Apple device to use a nanoSIM card”

HP Slate 7 hands on

HP unveiled the Slate 7, the company’s first Android Tablet few hours back. We brought you the photo gallery of the tablet, here is the hands on video. It has a 7-inch with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen is bright and the High-aperture-ratio Field Fringe Switching (HFFS) panel offers wide viewing angles.

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HTC One Price Revealed in UK

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Clove UK has revealed the price for the unlocked version of the just announced HTC One which is a flagship device from the Taiwanese phone maker with an excellent design and premium hardware. HTC has not joined the Megapixel war by cranking up more Megapixels on the Camera sensor but has taken a different approach known as UltraPixel which you can read about here.HTC did not reveal an exact market release date for the One handset or the price.

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BlackBerry Z10 India launch on Feb 25 as invite arrives

FoneArena was the first to bring you the news about the BlackBerry Z10 coming to India on February 24th,25th . Looks like we were right ! An interesting and unusual invite landed at our office today from BlackBerry and it was a cool heat sensitive mug ! Once we filled the mug with some hot liquid , the message slowly showed up on the mug. It reads – Block Your Date on Monday February 25th 2013.   BlackBerry will be launching the Z10 in India on that day and it would be going on sale later this month. Continue reading “BlackBerry Z10 India launch on Feb 25 as invite arrives”

FoneArena at CES 2013 a recap

I have been dreaming to go to CES for several years after watching all the madness sitting here in India. CES or the Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest tech conference in the world  attended by a record number of tech companies and journalists.Here is a recap of all what we saw at CES 2013. Sit back and enjoy the video below

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LG sends out invites for MWC 2013 Media Preview

LG just confirmed its presence at Mobile World Congress 2013 which we did hear about at CES 2013. LG will be showing of its products for 2013 at the first day of the mega event just before the show begins.The invite has the number 4 on the top and we are not sure what LG is trying to convey through it.May be we could see 4 new mobile products from LG Mobile .  LG has been teasing its upcoming products including a new F-series and there have been a lot of rumours about the Optimus G Pro and even a official announcement in Japan Continue reading “LG sends out invites for MWC 2013 Media Preview”

BlackBerry Z10 likely to launch in India for Rs.39000 on February 24th

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Here is some exclusive news regarding the launch of the upcoming BlackBerry Z10 handset from RIM BlackBerry. FoneArena has learnt from reliable sources that the first BlackBerry 10 handset is going to launched here in India as soon as February 24th. And the price will be similar to the Z10’s no-contract price in UK and other markets at around Rs.39000. India is a huge market for BlackBerry especially amongst youth and business users. The z10 is surely bound to attract business users with the all new BlackBerry 10 operating system.The Z10 is surely a huge step forward for the company in the touchscreen device segment after the Storm and the Torch.

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Xiaomi MI-2 hands on

Long time back in August 2012, we had seen the Xiaomi MI-2 launch in China with it being the successor to the first MIUI phone, from the makers of the MIUI ROMs for Android. It has a 4.3-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS display and is one of the first devices to pack the APQ8064 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor with Adreno 320 Graphics. It runs on the MIUI ROM based on Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean). We had some hands on time with the Xiaomi MI-2 at the International CES 2013 and here is a hands on video demo of it.

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