Lenovo announced its first Android powered laptop today – Lenovo A10. Lenovo A10 is targeted at being an affordable and ultra-portable laptop that runs on Android OS. The dual-mode laptop from Lenovo weighs less than a kilo-gram and is no more than 17.3mm thick.
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Nokia Guru NFC Music device leaked
Nokia is all set to launch the Lumia 1520 smartphone, Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet and range of Asha devices at an event in Dubai tomorrow. Looks like it is also planning to launch range of accessories. Evleaks has leaked the Nokia Guru, a music device with NFC support. This has a 3.5mm audio jack to plugin the earphones and has micro USB for charging. Continue reading “Nokia Guru NFC Music device leaked”
Verbatim USB OTG Pen Drive Unboxing and Demo
I still remember the first time USB OTG was shown to me in a video demo, featuring the Nokia N8. It was so cool to see that mobile devices could be independent and act as hosts to peripherals like a keyboard and mouse or even a full sized external hard drive, but the most handy use case was always a pen drive. The Nokia N8 came with a USB OTG cable in the box, which let you turn the micro USB port on the phone into a full size USB and in turn that connected to the peripherals. Now, imagine if you have the same functionality, yet you don’t need a cable and happily act as a host right away. That’s exactly what Verbatim has done with its USB OTG Pen Drive. We bought a couple of these from Hong Kong and have unboxed it and demoed it in front of a camera for you. A simple idea, brought to life –
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Nokia India offers free insurance with Asha 501 this Diwali
Nokia India has announced a limited period free insurance offer on purchase of Asha 501. Nokia partnered with New India Assurance to provide handset insurance back in March whic includes thefts, burglary, malicious acts, riots among others. This will be administered by Universal Insurance Brokers Services Private Limited (UIBSPL). Continue reading “Nokia India offers free insurance with Asha 501 this Diwali”
Intex Cloud Y4 with 4-inch display, Android 4.2 spotted on official website for Rs. 6900
Intex Cloud X5 and the Aqua N2 surfaced on the official website last week, now the Cloud Y4 has surfaced on the website. It has a 4-inch (800 ×480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6572 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby. Continue reading “Intex Cloud Y4 with 4-inch display, Android 4.2 spotted on official website for Rs. 6900”
iBall Slide 3G 8072 with 8-inch display, Dual SIM support now available for Rs. 11999
iBall Slide 3G 8072, a new tablet in the Slide series is now available in India from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 8-inch (1024 x 768 pixels) multi-touch display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Cortex A9 processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a front-facing camera. It has 3G support via a SIM card slot and has voice calling capabilities. Continue reading “iBall Slide 3G 8072 with 8-inch display, Dual SIM support now available for Rs. 11999”
Google expands availability of Chromecast app beyond US
Google announced their first streaming dongle – Google Chromecast, nearly three months back and it has been available only in the US since then. Finally, Google seems to be expanding Chromecast’s market as it has taken off the demographic restriction off for the Chromecast app in various places like UK, Canada and India.
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Celkon AR50 RahmanIshq smartphone with 5-inch display, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 8499
Celkon launched the A45 smartphone in the RahmanIshq series last month, now the company has launched the AR50, a new smartphones in the series. It has a 5-inch display, powered by 1.2 GHz dual-core Cortex A7 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It also comes pre-loaded with AR Rahman’s chartbusters and a special tune created for the Rahmanishq Music Smartphones, similar to the AR45. Users can also download Rahman’s Signautre ringtone from Celkon’s website. Continue reading “Celkon AR50 RahmanIshq smartphone with 5-inch display, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 8499”
Samsung Galaxy S4 Android 4.3 OTA update starts rolling out in India
Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update for the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500) in India. The LTE variant of the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) got the Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update in Germany last week. The Samsung Galaxy S4 was launched back in April running on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). It got the first update back in May the brought stability improvements, another update in June brought option to move apps to the SD card, new Smart Pause toggle and more.
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Nokia have reportedly sold at least 8 million Lumias last quarter, claims WSJ
In a run up to the Nokia World event set to happen on the 22nd of this month, the Wall Street Journal has published a piece on Nokia, Elop and its future. The report also serves us new information that Nokia have reportedly sold at least 8 million Lumias last quarter, spanning from July to September, which is a more than double of what they had sold the same quarter, last year. This information, credited to “people familiar with the matter” is nothing surprising considering the fact that Nokia had sold 7.4 million Lumias the quarter before, with the momentum of the low cost Lumia 520 and other cheaper devices gaining marketshare all around the world. Major growth markets like India have seen a remarkably fast uptake of the Lumia 520, which is possibly the most VFM phone available, and this has naturally applied to other markets as well.
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Airtel acquires 100% stake in Qualcomm’s 4G venture
Airtel announced that they have acquired 100% stake in Qualcomm Inc’s 4G venture. Airtel increased its stake to 51% from 49% back in July, which it acquired back in May 2012 by paying US$ 165 million (Rs 927.39 crore approx). Qualcomm won BWA Spectrum in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala circles in 2010 by paying about US$ 1 billion (Rs. 4912.54 crore approx) in the auction by DoT in June 2010 Department of Telecom (DoT). Continue reading “Airtel acquires 100% stake in Qualcomm’s 4G venture”
Micromax Canvas Turbo – What to expect?
Micromax Canvas 4 was the company’s last flagship phone and nearly four months have passed since it was launched. Recently, Micromax roped in Hugh Jackman as the brand ambassador for their Canvas series and by the ways have been heading, it looks like he will be promoting the Canvas Turbo first.
Sony Xperia Z1S press image surfaces, rumored for 2013 launch
Sony announced the Sony Xperia Z1 f (SO-02F), a variant of the Xperia Z1 in Japan for NTT Docomo in their Winter 2013 range. Now press image of Sony Xperia Z1S, a completely new device has appeared, thanks to evleaks. The leaked press image is completely different from the Z1 f, but the size of the phone is similar. Looks like Sony is planning for a Z1 mini with a different design for global users. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z1S press image surfaces, rumored for 2013 launch”
Nokia Lumia 1520 specifications leak, 6-inch 1080p display and 20MP Pureview camera
We had already seen several leaks of the Lumia 1520, Nokia’s upcoming flagship smartphone. An image of the smartphones first appeared back in August, last month the press render. Now an online store in China have posted the official price of the device along with a sheet that shows off the features of the smartphone. The phone has also appeared in Cyan color, thanks to twitter user Moroleaks. Check out the sheet below. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 1520 specifications leak, 6-inch 1080p display and 20MP Pureview camera”
Real Racing 3 for Android, iPhone and iPad updated with Ferrari cars, new track and more
EA Mobile has updated the Real Racing 3 game for Android and iOS platforms to version 1.4.0 that brings the most requested cars from iconic Italian manufacturer, Ferrari. This update also bring new tracks including Spain’s famous Circuit de Catalunya, new Challenges and more. Real Racing 3 was launched for both these platforms back in February earlier this year. It arrived for BlackBerry 10 in August. Continue reading “Real Racing 3 for Android, iPhone and iPad updated with Ferrari cars, new track and more”