Nokia Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet announced – 10.1″ full HD, 32 GB, LTE and 11 hour battery life

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The Nokia Lumia 2520 has been officially launched at the Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi today. The Windows RT tablet from Nokia has been leaked before, and has since been much awaited for a long time. But now Nokia has made it clear that they are in the tablet market and are aiming to make the device more mobile than other tablets have been. Stephen Elop specifically mentioned in the keynote how Nokia is targeting the usage times that the traditional tablets cannot work in, like during the day other than mornings or evenings, by adding 4G LTE functionality, better portability and better battery life. The 10.1 tablet, running on Windows RT is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 – MSM8974 chipset which provides the LTE functionality as well as blazing fast Quad Core performance for the Lumia 2520. Before we dive in to the details, here’s an official hands on video from Nokia –

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Instagram for Windows Phone is official, coming in next few weeks

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At Nokia World, the Finnish smartphone manufacturer just announced in partnership with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom that the application will be available to Windows Phone users over the next few weeks. Continue reading “Instagram for Windows Phone is official, coming in next few weeks”

Nokia Lumia 1320 with 6-inch 720p display, 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor announced

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Nokia has announced the Lumia 1320, a new smartphone in the Lumia series along with the Lumia 1520 at the Abu Dhabi event. It has a 6-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD LCD IPS Super sensitive display and Gorilla Glass 3 protection, powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and runs on Windows Phone 8 OS with the latest Lumia Black update. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has Nokia Music for free streaming of ad-free music and HERE maps and location services. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 1320 with 6-inch 720p display, 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor announced”

Nokia Lumia 1520 with 6-inch 1080p display and 20MP Pureview camera announced

 Nokia Lumia 1520

Nokia has finally announced the Lumia 1520, the company’s latest flagship smartphone at an event in Abu Dhabi. It packs a 6-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) full HD capacitive touch screen ClearBlack display with Gorilla Glass 2 protection, quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and runs on Windows Phone 8 with the latest GDR3 update and Lumia Black update. It packs a 20-megapixel autofocus rear camera with new oversampling technology,ZEISS optics with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), 2x lossless zoom dual LED flash, 1080p video recording 30 fps. It also has Nokia Camera app that combines the Smart, Pro and Video modes. It comes with 32GB of internal memory and a micro SD card support.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition launched in India for Rs. 49990

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Samsung has launched the Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) (SM-P601)  in India. It was announced at the IFA 2013 last month as an upgrade to the last year’s Note 10.1 that was launched in India as Galaxy Note 800. It packs a 10.1-inch (2560×1600 pixels) TFT LCD display, powered by a 1.9 GHz quad-core Exynos 5 Octa processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Samsung TouchWiz UI on top. It has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash, BSI sensor and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with a S Pen stylus with a lot of features such as S Note(Easy Chart), S Planner and Air Command: Action Memo, Scrapbook, Screen Write, S Finder, Pen Window.

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Nokia World 2013 Live Blog

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We are here on ground live from Abu Dhabi , UAE which is the city hosting the Nokia World 2013 event. Stay tuned to this page to catch all the action and announcements from the show floor including the rumoured Lumia 1520 and 2520. We will be bringing live updates from Nokia World 2013 on this page.We just grabbed our badge and also grabbed a seat right in front of the stage ! Hope the internet at the venue holds up and our 3G connection  holds steady! Watch the Nokia World 2013 live blog below –

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Nokia Lumia 1320 render leaks ahead of Nokia World

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While there’s just a few hours left for Nokia World to kick off, we’ve got our first glimpse of the Nokia Lumia 1320. This device will be a lower end companion to the Lumia 1520. The device will still have a large display but is expected to drop the resolution to 720p. The handset runs the latest release of Windows Phone 8 ie GDR3 and supports the three column layout from GDR3 which reaffirms that this is a restriction based on screen size and not resolution. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 1320 render leaks ahead of Nokia World”

BBM to resume roll out to iPhone and Android today but new users will be on a waiting list

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It’s back. The BlackBerry Messenger, fondly known as BBM faced some intense server loads thanks to a pre-release leak on Android, which forced the company to postpone the much awaited launch. After a long wait, it looks like the company is finally up to speed and ready to launch on both iOS and Android today, resuming where it left off on iOS and completely starting afresh on Android. According to the official blog, you should be hopefully seeing the BBM app popup on the App Store, Google Play and the Samsung Apps Store any time in the next few hours. We’ll posting the links here once it goes live. Meanwhile you can check how it looks in an iPhone, in our hands on post that we did earlier.

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Watch this – Was Apple’s iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?

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Much has been said about Apple’s iOS 7. The radical new change in the user interface launched for the public recently and it had surprised a lot of people, with most of them caught off guard. With the official and final release, more critics chimed in on how Apple got it all wrong. The animations caused nausea, some reported, the icons were too ugly, others said. The reactions have been funny as well as serious enough for Apple to keenly take notice, or at least we hope. On the matter of icons, we would agree too. They looked amateur and frankly, didn’t look like the work of talented Apple designers in our opinion. But here’s a wild thought! What if Apple had used Microsoft Word to design iOS 7?

Ok, it’s obviously a joke, but what if..? One very talented Microsoft Word user on YouTube – Vaclav Krejci asks you this question in his video titled “Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?” You just have to watch and find out –

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Samsung was the first company to introduce a 5inch+ phablet and they started it off with their original Samsung Galaxy Note. Initially, the Samsung Galaxy Note was not well received by the critics, but soon the adoption of the big display device among the users made it a hit. Samsung followed up the success of the original Samsung Galaxy Note with the second version – Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Samsung Galaxy Note 2 was launched at IFA 2012 and went on to become one of the greatest hits for Samsung. After having given back to back successful Galaxy Note products, Samsung was expected to come up with another champion of a phablet at IFA 2013 and Samsung did not disappoint. Samsung announced the third iteration of their Note series at IFA 2013 in Berlin – Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Being the successor of a very successful Samsung Galaxy Note 2, the Galaxy Note 3 had a lot of promises to fulfill. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is an update over the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 in almost all the terms and lets check out if it is worth the upgrade.

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Lenovo A10 announced as the company’s first Android powered laptop

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.lenovo-a10 Continue reading “Lenovo A10 announced as the company’s first Android powered laptop”

Nokia Guru NFC Music device leaked

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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

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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 Asha 501 Free Insurance

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 Y4

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”