With Internet, you can sure do a lot of stuff on your smartphone. But handheld Internet is yet to reach the larger crowd in India and folks at Bangalore are trying to come up with solutions for the less Internet savy people. The service, called as FreeKall, brings voice-over-internet like services to those without the Internet.
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Aircel has launched Happy Recharge, the company’s latest recharge pack, that offers talk, text and mobile internet benefits in a single recharge. The Happy Recharge packs start at Rs. 45, that comes with 5 days validity and goes up to Rs. 368, that has 30 days validity. The company recently launched 3-in 1 Happy Recharge pack, but the new packs are much cheaper. Continue reading “Aircel launches Happy Recharge packs with Voice calls, SMS and data benefits”
Sony Mobile has launched the Xperia E1 and Xperia E1 dual in India. These smartphones were announced back in January and packs a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). These have a 3-megapixel rear camera and offer 100dB loud audio output through rear speakers. These have Walkman key, shake to shuffle and hardware controls for easy music control. Continue reading “Sony Xperia E1 and Xperia E1 Dual launched in India for Rs. 9490 and Rs. 10490”
When Google announced their $35 HDMI dongle in 2013, everybody saw a lot of potential for Google Chromecast. But Google had been little slow in opening up the SDK for the developers and it looks like it is slowly catching up. As of March 2014, you can now stream the videos from a webpage on your Google Chrome browser to your TV.
Google has introduced indoor Maps in India finally, that lets you determine where you are, what floor you’re on, and where to go indoors and more, when you are visiting popular venues such as malls, supermarkets etc. Google Maps for Android got the Indoor maps feature back in 2011, later it was updated to support walking directions. This feature is also available for Apple’s iOS devices. Continue reading “Google launches indoor Maps in India, available in 22 cities”
Adobe has released the Adobe Revel app for Android devices. This lets you edit your photos with built-in tools such as Photoshop Elements 12 and Premiere Elements 12. It also lets you create a group library to share images. Adobe already has Adobe GroupPix for collaborative photo sharing and Photoshop Express for editing. Adobe Revel is already available for iPhone and iPad. Continue reading “Adobe Revel photo sharing and editing app now available for Android”
Micromax unveiled the Canvas Knight A350 at an event in Russia, back in January. The company has launched the smartphone in India as it promised last month. The Canvas Knight has a 5.0-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display, powered by a 2 GHz octa-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It features a 16-megapixel auto focus rear camera with M8 Largan lens, LED Flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Knight A350 with 5-inch 1080p display, Octa-Core processor launched in India for Rs. 19999”
LG announced the G Pad 8.3 tablet back in September last year. It introduced the G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition in December, that we reviewed recently. LG has released the G Pad 8.3 LTE exclusively on Verizon Wireless in the US. Except the LTE support via SIM card slot, other features are similar to the original LG G Pad 8.3. It has a 8-inch (1920 x 1200 pixels) full HD display, quad-core 1.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Android Jelly Bean OS. Continue reading “LG G Pad 8.3 LTE coming to Verizon on March 6th”
Creative is quite well-known for its Audio Gear products across world and is now gearing up again to be a prime player in the Indian Market. Creative recently announced the Creative Aurvana Live! 2 in Global market as well in Indian market as the successor to highly acclaimed Aurvana Live!. Creative launched this flagship wired headphones in India for at MRP of Rs. 12,999. Fortunately we have received the opportunity to experience these flagship Head-Phones for a good time. Continue reading “Creative Aurvana Live! 2 Headphones Review”
According to Gartner, the year 2013 was a pretty good year for tablets – a total of 195.4 million units were shipped during the year. The almost 200 million units is a 68% increase over the number of tablets shipped during 2012. The report also says that the sales of tablets was boosted by the low end smaller tablets and hence Android continues to dominate the tablet market. You can check out the numbers below.
Facebook has released the Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8, as it promised at the Mobile World Congress last week. The Facebook Messenger has a new user interface, similar to the Facebook app for Windows Phone, that already has Facebook Messenger Integration. It has stickers, images, conversation history and more features, similar to other platforms. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8 released”
Swipe Sonic, the company’s first smartphone with Dual SIM (CDMA + GSM) support is now available from online retailer Shopclues. It has a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels), powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Swipe Sonic with 4-inch display, Dual SIM (CDMA + GSM) now available for Rs. 7399”
Microsoft has released the Office 365 software development kit for Android. With this, Microsoft is now opening up its SharePoint lists and files, Exchange contacts, mails and calendars to developers. Microsoft has made the preview available for download straight from GitHub.
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Apple has announced that Peter Oppenheimer, the company’s senior vice president and CFO, will retire at the end of September 2014. He joined Apple in 1996 as controller for the Americas, and was promoted to vice president and Worldwide Sales controller and then to corporate controller later. He will retire after 18 years of service. Continue reading “Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer to retire in September”
Apple has Siri and Google has Google Now, what does Microsoft have? It had Bing search on its phones till now, but things are expected to change soon as the next version of Windows Phone – Windows Phone 8.1 which is expected during Spring will come with Microsoft’s very own voice based personal assistant and it will be called – Cortana.
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