World’s First Angry Birds Store opens in Finland at 11:11 AM on 11.11.11

Rovio  , the company behind the hugely popular Angry Birds game series has opened the World’s First Angry Birds Store in Helsinki, Finland. Rovio is a Finnish company and it makes sense for them to open the store in their home turf. The store features Angry Birds accessories including birds and pigs found in the game and also life-size slingshots that makes interesting noises found in the actual game itself. You can also buy shirts, plush toys, bags. The store is located within a 20,000 square meter megastore called Verkkokauppa.com in Helsinki, Finland. The doors of the store were opened at 11:11 AM yesterday where we had the fancy 11.11.11 date.

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Unlocked Apple iPhone 4S now shipping from Apple Store in the US

When Apple launched the Apple iPhone 4S last month , it also announced it’s plans to sell factory unlocked versions in November which could be purchased without the need for a contract. Today , the Apple Store in the US is taking orders for the Unlocked iPhone 4S which starts at US$ 649 for the 16GB , $749 for the 32GB and $849 for the 64GB. Just a reminder that most states in the US charge a sales tax so the final price at the time of check out might be  slightly higher. Continue reading “Unlocked Apple iPhone 4S now shipping from Apple Store in the US”

Airtel launching iPhone 4S in India soon

Like Aircel , Airtel India has also announced on it’s Facebook page about it’s plans to launch the Apple iPhone 4S in India soon. As of now only Airtel and Aircel are the official operators authorized by Apple to sell the iPhone 4 in India. So this news is not very surprising. But then for those of you who have been waiting for the iPhone 4S to launch in India, good news ! We are not sure if Apple will get the pricing right though !

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Aircel launching the Apple iPhone 4S soon in India

Aircel India just announced on it’s official Facebook page earlier today that it is bringing the Apple iPhone 4S to India soon. The company would be sharing more details about the launch soon. There are no details about the pricing or the plans but expect it to be similar to the iPhone 4 Pricing with a slight premium. We might also see the introduction of the 8GB iPhone 4 along with the 16GB 32GB and 64GB iPhone 4S Continue reading “Aircel launching the Apple iPhone 4S soon in India”

Lava Mobiles launches LAVA M70 Touch Screen Phone for Rs. 5999

Lava Mobiles has launched a new touch screen phone LAVA M70. The phone is packed with entertainment features and has 3.2” Hi-brightness IPS display. It comes with 5 MP Camera with dual LED flash with Smile and Blink detection. It captures your photo automatically when you smile and you are in a particular location facing the phone’s camera. The same case with the blink detection. Continue reading “Lava Mobiles launches LAVA M70 Touch Screen Phone for Rs. 5999”

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S gets priced in India


The price of Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S has been revealed for India. The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S is the sucessor of the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc and it is powered by a 1.4Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).  It comes with a 4.2-inch Reality display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine and 8 MP auto focus camera with Exmor R image sensor, LED flash and 720p HD video recording. It was announced in September. Continue reading “Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S gets priced in India”

Motorola RAZR Price Revealed for India


Motorola RAZR gets a price tag in India. Online retailer Flipkart has listed the phone with a price but these is no exact launch date. The Motorola RAZR is the thinnest smartphone till date with 7.1 mm thickness, which is about 1.5mm slimmer than the previous slimmest smartphone the Samsung Galaxy S2. It it is made with KEVLAR fiber and features 4.3-inch (960 x 540 pixels) Super AMOLED hyper-vibrant display and it is powered by 1.2 GHz dual core processor. It runs on Android Gingerbread 2.3.5. Continue reading “Motorola RAZR Price Revealed for India”

Samsung Illusion for Verizon leaked specs emerge

The detailed specs of Samsung Illusion has leaked out from the Verizon Infocenter and the guys from the androidcentral has got hold of the specs page. This is expected to be entry-level handset that looks like Nexus S with the capacitive touch buttons, rounded edges and a textured back, but comes with a SD card slot and Samsung TouchWiz UI. The image of the phone emerged couple of months back on Flickr. Continue reading “Samsung Illusion for Verizon leaked specs emerge”

Dailymotion for Android and iPhone updated with new features

Dailymotion for Android and iPhone has been upgraded to version 2.0 that brings in new features including a new intuitive personalized interface with new dashboard, universal search and new player with lots of enhancements. The app lets you watch new movie and game trailers, music videos; news, celeb, sports updates and their original web series and creative films. Continue reading “Dailymotion for Android and iPhone updated with new features”

Motorola MOTOACTV – GPS Fitness Tracker and Smart Music Player

MOTOACTV is a lightweight, wearable fitness performance tracker and smart music player in one. The MOTOACTV also lets you stay connected to your Android smartphone, so you can answer calls, receive texts and listen to music via your headphones easily. It has 1.6-inch sweat-proof, rain-resistant and scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla display that comes with a GPS to track your running, walking and biking data, and displays it on a scratch-resistant display for instant analysis. You can monitor your time, distance, speed, calories burned and much more. It comes with Bluetooth 4.0 and ANT+ wireless connectivity for existing fitness sensors. It is 9.6 mm thick and weighs 35 g. Continue reading “Motorola MOTOACTV – GPS Fitness Tracker and Smart Music Player”

First OTA update for iOS – 5.0.1 now rolling out to iPhone , iPad and iPod Touch

Looks like Apple finally has an answer for the battery issue surrounding the iPhone 4S. Apple has released the first Over-the-Air update for all iOS devices running on iOs 5 such as the iPhone 3GS, 4 , 4S, iPad , iPad2 , iPod Touch ( 3rd gen and 4th Gen). The update is available Over-the-air meaning you won’t have to download a 700 odd MB file and use iTunes to update your device. In fact I have managed to update 2 iPhones and an iPod touch in a matter of minutes as the OTA update was just 44.6 MB for my iPhone.It would have taken to few hours or days required to download few GBs of files normally. Continue reading “First OTA update for iOS – 5.0.1 now rolling out to iPhone , iPad and iPod Touch”

The mysterious story of the Apple iPhone 4S not working in India

If you are one amongst consumers who had purchased the iPhone 4S from outside India and were facing issues getting it to work here , good news for you. Many users including me were seeing no signal bars on the iPhone 4S in India. Calls and SMS were not working.Surprisingly 3G data was working fine on most operators including Airtel , Vodafone and BSNL. I had tried using some international SIM cards such as AT&T, T-Mobile , O2 UK, 3 UK, SmarTone (HK). The issue was strange as I had another iPhone 4S which was working perfectly fine with all the SIM cards. Continue reading “The mysterious story of the Apple iPhone 4S not working in India”

Google Translate for iPhone now supports 5 Indian languages

Google Translate for iPhone has been updated to version 1.2.0 that brings 5 new Indian language support the include, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. This feature is already available for the Google Translate for desktop and the web app since June. The Google Translate for iPhone was launched earlier this year and has received some minor updates since then. With the new addition, the app now supports text translation among 63 languages, voice input in 17 of those languages, and text-to-speech in 24 of them. Continue reading “Google Translate for iPhone now supports 5 Indian languages”

RIM’s BBX smartphones to come with PlayBook like display and BES support

RIM’s new BBX smartphones may come with better specs that is similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook and not look like the BlackBerry Bold says the RIM’s vice president of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development, Alec Saunders in an interview with PC Mag. The BlackBerry BBX phones would have 16:9 aspect ratio and 1024 x 600 resolution display similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook unlike the 800 x 480 resolution displays in the recently launched BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Torch 2 smartphones. The resolution is also different from other phones that come HD resolution (1028 x 720 pixels) displays such as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC Rezound and the LG Optimus LTE. Continue reading “RIM’s BBX smartphones to come with PlayBook like display and BES support”

MapmyIndia ShowNearby – Location-based app to find nearby places

MapmyIndia has launched ShowNearby app for Blackberry, Android and iPhone, that lets the users to search and discover all places of interest nearby, such as restaurants, ATMs, petrol pumps, retail brands, coffee shops, tourist spots, emergency services etc. across India. This is powered by digital map data from MapmyIndia with Singapore’s leading location app ShowNearby. It shows the list of places sorted by distance from along with the place name, address and phone number. Continue reading “MapmyIndia ShowNearby – Location-based app to find nearby places”