April, 2013 | Fone Arena

Micromax A51 Bolt now available for Rs. 4599

Micromax A51 Bolt

It’s been less than a month since the Micromax A51 Blot was spotted on the official Micromax website. It is finally on sale from online retailers Saholic and Snapdeal. It has a 3.5-inch (320 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 832 MHz Broadcom processor and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS. It packs a 2 MP rear camera and a 0.3 MP front-facing camera similar to the A35. Micromax launched the A35 Bolt, the company’s first Android smartphone in the Bolt series back in February. Continue reading “Micromax A51 Bolt now available for Rs. 4599”

Nokia Lumia 720 up for pre-order on Flipkart for Rs. 18999

Nokia launched the Lumia 720 in India last month along with the Lumia 520. The Lumia 520 went on sale earlier this month. Online retailer Flipkart has put up the Lumia 720 for pre-order at a price tag of Rs. 18,999. It was listed on Flipkart for Rs. 18,499 on Friday, but Flipkart changed the price of the device to Rs. 18,999 yesterday. The Lumia 720 was unveiled at the MWC 2013 back in February along with the Lumia 520. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 720 up for pre-order on Flipkart for Rs. 18999”

LG Optimus G Pro Value Pack upgrade starts, brings Smart Video and Smart Camera features

LG Optimus G Pro Value Pack upgrade

LG announced the Optimus G Pro Value Pack upgrade last month. The update has started rolling out in Korea that would bring Smart Video feature recognizes the position of the viewer’s eyes and automatically plays or stops the video and the Smart Camera feature, an extension of the Smart Video, would let you capture photographs using both the front and back cameras for a picture-in-picture composition. Continue reading “LG Optimus G Pro Value Pack upgrade starts, brings Smart Video and Smart Camera features”

Facebook Home now available for select Android devices

Facebook Home Android launcher is now available for select Android devices. The Facebook Home was announced last week, and the HTC First is the first device to come pre-loaded with Facebook Home launcher. The Facebook Home has Cover feed that offers photos and updates from your newsfeed, Notifications, Chat Heads, App Launcher to launch Facebook apps and more. The Facebook app for Android got updated to version 3.1 and the Facebook Messenger got chat heads support in the latest update. Continue reading “Facebook Home now available for select Android devices”

Facebook Messenger for Android updated with Chat Heads

Facebook announced the Facebook Home last week that comes pre-installed with the HTC First. It brings several features including Chat Heads feature. We brought you the hands-on hands-on impressions of the Facebook Home last week, but it didn’t have the chat heads feature, since it was a pre-release version. The Facebook Messenger for Android has received an update to version 2.4.2 today that brings Chat Heads. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Android updated with Chat Heads”

IPL Cricket Fever 2013 game launched for Android

IPL Cricket Fever 2013

Disney UTV’s Indiagames has launched IPL Cricket Fever 2013, the official IPL season 6 mobile game for Android. This game has all the official 9 teams – Mumbai Indians, Chennai Superkings, Hyderabad Sunrisers, Delhi Daredevils, King XI Punjab, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Pune Warriors. You can play your favourite cricketers including Sachin Tendulkar, Michael Hussey, M.S.Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virendra Sehwag, Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Yusuf Pathan, Kevin Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Dale Steyn and many more. Continue reading “IPL Cricket Fever 2013 game launched for Android”

DailyCost is an expense tracking app for iPhone

DailyCost for iPhone

DailyCost is a simple, yet useful expense tracking app that has intuitive interaction-based functions. It also has statistics on the top that changes according to your expenses every day. You cal pull down to enter the expense from range of categories including Food, Drinks, Groceries, Shopping, Movies, Transport and lots more. You can swipe through to go backward, to a particular date. Continue reading “DailyCost is an expense tracking app for iPhone”

Nokia Lumia 620 Review

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Since the Windows Phone 8 reboot, Nokia has so far launched five devices, with the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 launching way back in September 2012, then the Nokia Lumia 620 at LeWeb, and the Nokia Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 at the Mobile World Congress. The portfolio of devices cover almost all the price points of the market, and the Lumia 620 is in that special mid range segment. Same time last year, Nokia had the Lumia 610 as the predecessor to the 620, but the hardware was so lacking(with 256MB of RAM) and Windows Phone 7 was not really up to the mark in terms of market expectations. Fast forward to this year, Windows Phone 8 brings a lot of features and ticks check boxes of most requested features including Bluetooth file transfer, mass storage, support for micro SD cards, NFC tap to send etc and the hardware too has gained some decent specs, with respect to the Lumia 620. With all these specs and features backing it, will the Lumia 620 suffice a budget minded smartphone buyer in India? Read on to find out.

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Lava Iris 501 gets Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Lava Iris 501 Jelly Bean
Lava has announced the Jelly Bean update for their Android smartphone, the Iris 501 (also known as Iris N501). It was launched earlier this year for Rs. 9,999, now the phone is available for Rs. 7,999. The Iris 501 runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), and company launched the Iris 502 recently for Rs. 8,499 that runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) out of the box, which is now available for Rs. 7,499. The company usually announces a new phone every Friday in their promotion Blockbuster Phoneday. Continue reading “Lava Iris 501 gets Android 4.1 Jelly Bean”

HTC One Benchmarks

HTC launched the HTC One, the company’s latest flagship Android smartphone in India earlier this week. We brought you the unboxing of the device last month. Here we have the benchmarks of the device. The HTC One has a 4.7 inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display, powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor clocked at 1.7 GHz with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It out performs all the current quad-core smartphones in all the benchmarks.

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Pulse News reader acquired by LinkedIn for $90 Million

LinkedIn, the world’s biggest online professional-networking service has acquired Pulse, a startup Pulse, a Newsreader and mobile content distribution. It had costed LinkedIn $90 million, and they would pay 90 percent in stock and 10 percent in cash for the application, which is owned by Alphonso Labs Inc, according to Bloomberg. Pulse was started in 2010, as a class project, which rose to top in the iTunes store few years back. Continue reading “Pulse News reader acquired by LinkedIn for $90 Million”

Nokia Lumia 720 gets listed on Flipkart at Rs. 18999

Nokia launched the Lumia 720 in India last month along with the Lumia 520. The Lumia 520 went on sale from retail stores last week. Now, online retailer Flipkart has listed the Lumia 720 on their website for ~~Rs. 18,500~~ Rs. 18,999. The Lumia 720 was unveiled at the MWC 2013 last month along with the Lumia 520. It has a 4.3-inch (800 x 480 pixels) ClearBlack display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8227 processor and runs on the latest Windows Phone 8 OS. It has a 6.7-megapixel auto focus camera at the back with LED Flash, Carl Zeiss optics and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 720 gets listed on Flipkart at Rs. 18999”

Micromax Funbook Talk P362 with Voice calling, Android 4.1 now available for Rs. 7499

Micromax Funbook Talk P362

Micromax Funbook Talk P360 went on sale online earlier this week for Rs. 7,049. Now the Micromax Funbook Talk P362 is up for sale from online reatiler Saholic in India. Even though it has a 7-inch (480 x 800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display and voice calling support through the SIM card slot, similar to the P360, it has a slightly better single-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Other features are similar including a 2-megapixel rear camera, VGA front-facing camera, 1 GB RAM and a 3000 mAh battery. Continue reading “Micromax Funbook Talk P362 with Voice calling, Android 4.1 now available for Rs. 7499”

Airtel can continue 3G Intra-circle roaming, but cannot add new 3G customers in 7 circles, says SC

Supreme Court has ordered Bharti Airtel not to extend its 3G Intra-circle roaming services to new customers in the 7 circles, where it did not have licences for 3G spectrum, according to a report from The Economic Times. Airtel got a temporary relief earlier this week, when Supreme Court allowed them to continue their 3G intra-circle roaming till April 11th. Last month DoT had asked Bharti Airtel to stop 3G services in 7 circles and asked them to pay Rs. 350 crore (Rs. 50 crore per circle) for illegal roaming pact with Vodafone and Idea . Delhi High Court temporarily stalled the execution of DoT’s order until the final hearing, after Airtel appealed against it. Continue reading “Airtel can continue 3G Intra-circle roaming, but cannot add new 3G customers in 7 circles, says SC”

Celkon A119 Signature HD Benchmarks

Celkon launched the A119 Signature HD last month for Rs. 13,499. We brought you unboxing of the Celkon A119 earlier this week, here we have the benchmarks of the device. The Celkon A119 packs a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display at 295 PPI, powered by a dual-core MediaTek MT6577 processor clocked at 1 GHz with PowerVR SGX 531 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). We reviewed the Xolo A1000 recently which has a similar processor and a HD display. Let’s see how the device performs in the benchmark tests.

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