Karbonn A91 with 3.9-inch display, Android 4.2 listed online for Rs. 4490

Karbonn A91

Karbonn A91, the company’s new enty-level smartphones has been listed on Flipkart. It has a 3.9-inch (480 x 800 pixels) display, powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 3.2 rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and has 2G (EDGE) connectivity. Continue reading “Karbonn A91 with 3.9-inch display, Android 4.2 listed online for Rs. 4490”

Lava Iris Pro 30 Unboxing

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Lava launched its latest flagship device, the Iris Pro 30 in India at a launch event on January 17th. It was announced for a price of Rs. 15,999 and the company prided itself on having designed the product in-house, in India. Made of quality materials like magnesium alloy, the phone comes in at just 7.5mm thickness and 114g of weight, a far cry from hefty phones we have been seeing in this price range. So, how does the actual retail phone actually look and feel? and what are its box contents? We unbox the Lava Iris Pro 30 on video to find out –

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo confirmed through official website, a variant Galaxy Grand Lite available in Netherlands

Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo (GT-I9060), that leaked in earlier this month has gone official in Samsung Levant, Samsung Bulgaria and other regions. It comes with a 5-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It also comes with dual SIM support and has software features such as Multi Window and Pop up Play. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo confirmed through official website, a variant Galaxy Grand Lite available in Netherlands”

Maxx Mobile launches 26 new phones including 7 Android Smartphones

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Maxx Mobile has launched 26 new handsets on the occasion of India’s 64th Republic Day, which includes 19 feature phones and 7 smartphones. These handsets are priced between Rs. 1,100 and Rs. 7,777. These are affordable and also offers value for money, says Maxx Mobile. Continue reading “Maxx Mobile launches 26 new phones including 7 Android Smartphones”

Samsung to issue OTA update for Galaxy Note 3 to bring back support for accessories

Samsung started rolling out the Android 4.4 KitKat update for its latest and greatest flagship – Samsung Galaxy Note 3 a week back. Ever since the update, some users have complaints that some unofficial accessories have stopped working. Samsung was blamed that they had terminated the support for third party accessories with the latest update. But that is not the case. Samsung has acknowledged this problem and have mentioned that they will be issuing an OTA update to bring back the support.

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Red Nexus 5 surfaces in UK, expected to launch soon

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Google released the Nexus 5 in Black and White colors back in October last year, which was officially launchedin India in November. A Twitter user@ artyomstar has posted images of a huge pile of Nexus 5 in hot Red color. According to the user, the images are taken at a LG warehouse in UK.

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Nokia Normandy specifications leaked

Nokia Normandy is coming. Things are falling together for the fans who are eagerly awaiting an Android smartphone from the Finnish manufacturer Nokia. There have been numerous leaks about the Nokia Normandy right from the end of December 2013 and the leaks just won’t stop. Most of the leaks have been courtesy of @evleaks. Nokia Normandy has been codenamed Nokia X.

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HTC smartphone with colorful rear shells leak, rumored to feature Octa-Core processor

HTC Desire Octa-Core Phone leak

HTC is popular for using colorful rear panels for their mid-range Desire segment. Now an unknown mid-range smartphone from HTC has been leaked in China, showing off colorful back covers in yellow, orange, cyan and red. The company had been using Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 and 200 series of processors for its mid-range smartphones, but this one is rumored to feature the new Octa-Core chip from MediaTek. Continue reading “HTC smartphone with colorful rear shells leak, rumored to feature Octa-Core processor”

Smartphones surpass 1 billion shipments in a year for the first time – IDC

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Ever since the introduction of the Smartphones in the mobile industry, we have been witnessing nothing but growth. The category was all set to replace the common mobile phone and the mid point of this transition was noticed sometime last year, with us seeing Smartphones outshipping the feature phones for the first time. The trend continued throughout the year and apparently history was made last year, with smartphones surpassing a billion shipments for the first time. This is after the holiday quarter, which has provided the necessary boost, with almost 284 million shipments. Head past the break for more information.

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Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 Review – Grand Successor

Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 is the successor of Samsung Galaxy Grand which was launched more than a year ago and was a huge hit. Despite having average specifications, Galaxy Grand managed to make a huge impact on the mid-range smartphone market and its successor – Galaxy Grand 2 improves upon most of the short comings of its predecessor.

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Twitter for Android updated with more crop options, trending tweets on refresh and more

Twitter for Android 5.0.11

Twitter for Android has been updated to version 5.0.11 that brings lots of new features such as better image editing before you share, a reminder to tag your friends in images before you share and recommended or trending tweets when you pull down to refresh.

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Apple reports $57.6 billion revenue, sells 51 million iPhones, 26 million iPads in Q1 2014

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Apple has just released its earnings report for Q1 2014 and has reported revenue worth $57.6 billion. Of this, net profit was $13.1 bilion which corresponds to a 5.7 percent growth in revenue year on year. The company has reported iPhone sales to the tune of 51 million devices sold. This mix was biased towards the iPhone 5s as was revealed in the earnings call. The underlying intent was clear that the iPhone 5c wasn’t as big a success as Apple might have wished for. Continue reading “Apple reports $57.6 billion revenue, sells 51 million iPhones, 26 million iPads in Q1 2014”

Microsoft’s SkyDrive will be called OneDrive

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After a trademark infringement lawsuit, won by the Sky broadcasting corporation in the UK, Microsoft was tasked with changing its consumer facing cloud service “SkyDrive” to something else. Today the company has revealed that SkyDrive will be called “OneDrive”, and that it will start rolling out the changes gradually. Technically, the product remains the same but the name, which is usually a constant, receives a change. This is not the first time Microsoft has been forced to rename its products, as we had witnessed earlier how the company was forced not to use “metro” for its whole design language it developed. That said, the OneDrive blog has posted a video that showcases the new vision that Microsoft wants to portray for its new product –

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Asus PadFone E with 4.7-inch HD display, 10.1-inch tablet dock announced

Asus Padfone E

After announcing the PadFone mini 4.3 with a 4.3-inch qHD display last month and the PadFone mini earlier this month with a 4-inch WVGA screen at the CES,  Asus has unveiled the PadFone E with a 4.7-inch HD screen and large 10.1-inch tablet dock in Taiwan. It has a 4.7-inch HD (1280×720 pixels) IPS display, 1.4 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It has PadFone station dock with a 10.1-inch (1280 ×720 pixels) display with anti-finger print coating and Corning gorilla glass protection. Continue reading “Asus PadFone E with 4.7-inch HD display, 10.1-inch tablet dock announced”

Xolo Q3000 Review

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After introducing the Q1000, Q1000S and the Q2000 with 720p displays, Xolo finally launched the Q3000 with a 5.7-inch full HD display. This is definitely a beast in terms of its size and also has a huge 4000 mAh battery, but is this better than other full HD smartphones in the similar range ? Let us find out in the complete review. Continue reading “Xolo Q3000 Review”