Developer page indicates upcoming Snapdragon 800 based Nokia Windows RT tablet?

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Take this with a pinch of salt but some of the deep rooted developer pages belonging to Nokia have recently added references to “Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8974” and “Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8274” both of which are part of the new range of Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoCs, which are currently the fastest chips on the market, alas with not a single device based on it yet. Qualcomm just announced its support for Windows RT 8.1 by readying its Snapdragon 800 chipsets for it. And now we are seeing Nokia add references to it on its website, co-incidence? While the recently leaked phablet comes to mind, there’s always a possibility of a Windows RT tablet from Nokia, as it has been rumored for a long time now.

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Vodafone cuts 2G data rates for Pay As You Go customers up to 80%


Vodafone India has announced that they have reduced the 2G data rates for the Pay as you Go (PAYG) users up to 80%. The charges are down to 2p/10KB from the previous rate of 10p/10KB. This rate would be applicable for all pre-paid and post-paid customers using 2G network on a Pay as you Go basis, which would be affordable for those who use mobile internet in a limited way. Vodafone revised their 3G data plans last June that made additional usage charges after free data and The Pay As You Go (PAYG) rate for the customers customers as 2p/10KB on a 3G network. Continue reading “Vodafone cuts 2G data rates for Pay As You Go customers up to 80%”

LG Optimus G Pro sales surpass 1 million units in Korea

LG Optimus G Pro 1 Million Korea

LG has announced that the sales (to supply channel) of their latest flagship, the Optimus G Pro has surpassed 1 million units in their home county Korea, in less than 4 months of launch. The LG Optimus G Pro was unveiled in February, that went on sale in Korea on February 21st. The LG Optimus G Pro sales crossed 500 thousand units in Korea back in April in less than 40 days after the launch.  Continue reading “LG Optimus G Pro sales surpass 1 million units in Korea”

HTC Desire 200 with 3.5-inch display, Beats Audio announced

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HTC has officially announced the Desire 200, the company’s latest budget Android smartphone. It was leaked recently and has a 3.5-inch (320 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and features a 5-megapixel camera. Details about the Android version is not available but it is likely to be 4.0 or 4.1. It has Beats audio support and comes with in-ear headset. The looks like an enhanced version Desire C that was launched last year. Even the rear part of the device looks similar to the Desire C. It has the HTC Data Manager that lets you manage your data usage. Continue reading “HTC Desire 200 with 3.5-inch display, Beats Audio announced”

Huawei Ascend Mate Benchmarks

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Huawei launched the Ascend Mate with a 6.1-inch HD display in India earlier today. We brought you the unboxing of the device earlier today, here we have the benchmarks of the device. The Ascend Mate is powered by a the Huawei’s own K3v2 processor developed by HiSilicon Technologies from Huawei. It has four 4 ARM Cortex A9 cores based on ARMv7 architecture. The chip is based on 40nm technology. It has a 16-core Vivante GC4000 GPU. Huawei uses the same CPU and the GPU in the Media Pad FHD.

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Huawei Ascend Mate Unboxing

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The Huawei Ascend Mate was launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January and has then evaded the Indian market until now. Today, the company has launched its ambitious phablet device with a massive 6.1 inch screen at a price tag of Rs. 24,900, just weeks after Samsung continued their trend of releasing phablet devices with the Galaxy Mega series. The Indian market seems to have likened to the big screen phenomena and the Ascend Mate is hoping to address at least a part of it. The device just landed in our labs and here is our ritualistic unboxing video below –

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Review

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The Galaxy Note 8.0 launched way back in February, at the Mobile World Congress as the first 8 inch screened device in the Galaxy Note series. The surprising addition was that the cellular edition of the device could make calls and lets you use it like a phone thanks to the on-device ear piece. It was extremely awkward to see people holding a huge device to their face but worry not, we have got the 16 GB WiFi only version for review here and we are going to see whether the Note 8.0 is really worth your money. Lets find out in the full review then.

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Huawei Ascend Mate launched in India for Rs. 24900

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Huawei has launched the Ascend Mate, the company’s latest flagship Android smartphone in India. It went on sale online few days back. It has a  6.1-inch 720p display with Corning Gorilla glass protection. It features magic touch technology that would let you use the phone even with gloves. It is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core Hi-Silicon K3V2 processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with Huawei’s Emotion UI 1.5 on top. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, full HD video recording and a 1-megapixel HD front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend Mate launched in India for Rs. 24900”

Pelican Imaging shows off Mobile array camera with 3D video capture, 3D printing and more

Pelican Imaging 3D printing arrary camera

Pelican Imaging announced the array camera for smartphones earlier this year. Now the company has released a new video that show off the depth-enabled features of the array camera including 3D printing, all-in-focus image capture, linear measurement, and 3D video capture. The camera can capture still images and video footage with depth information of the scene. You can perform several actions such as refocusing, selecting multiple objects of focus, measuring distance between any two points, or creating a depth map/3D model of any scene. The camera is about 50% of the thickness of the top-end camera modules used in mobile phones says the company. Continue reading “Pelican Imaging shows off Mobile array camera with 3D video capture, 3D printing and more”

Samsung to introduce faster Galaxy S4 with LTE-Advanced

Samsung is in talks with several carriers to introduce its LTE-Advanced version of the Samsung Galaxy S4. LTE Advanced 4G is an upgrade from the conventional LTE networks deployed currently and offers a data transmission speed at up to double the speeds of standard 4G networks.

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TRAI: Roaming charges for Calls and SMS to be cheaper from July 1st

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has reduced the limit for national roaming tariff for calls and SMS. They have also issued a new regime for the telecom providers to offer unlimited roaming through Special Tariff Vouchers (STVs) and Combo Vouchers. Several operators such as Airtel, Vodafone and Aircel and cheaper roaming rates through tariff vouchers, Videocon offers free incoming calls without any processing fee or a special tariff vouchers.  Continue reading “TRAI: Roaming charges for Calls and SMS to be cheaper from July 1st”

Xolo Q1000 Unboxing

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Amidst a sea of 5 inch phablets in the mid range category comes Xolo’s entry, the Q1000. Launched a while back, for a price of Rs. 14,999, the device has landed in our labs for testing. The 5 inch 720p screen has been a standard in most devices in this price range and they all come with very similar specs, so we went ahead and unboxed the Xolo Q1000 for you, with an unsuspecting view of the retail box contents and some initial thoughts on the device, watch the video –

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Skype video messaging graduates to release on every platform except Windows Phone

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The video messaging service from Skype has been lurking in devices as a beta feature for quite a while now, but has finally gained the official status and launched on major platforms like Windows, iOS, Android and Mac. The voicemail-like feature is present even on the Blackberry devices now, but surprisingly has evaded Windows Phone, which is disappointing. The video messaging feature is completely free of charge and is available for all accounts effective immediately. We think it is a nice feature on the whole, and here is a demo video explaining the usability –

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Windows Phone’s Bing Voice Recognition Now More Accurate and Twice as Fast

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Microsoft Research has been sitting on various improvements it made to the AI voice and natural language recognition for a while now, but today Microsoft’s research team and the Bing team have allowed Windows Phone to get a taste of it. Showed off earlier in a tech demo at one of the various developer conferences, the new update to Bing’s voice search and voice recognition is now twice as fast and about 15% more accurate. This update is gradually rolling out for Windows Phone users in the US right now, and will eventually reach out to the rest of the world in the coming weeks and months.

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iOS 7 game controller for iPhone surfaces

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First image of the iPhone controller has surfaced online. Apple announced the support API for 3rd-party MFi game controllers at the end of the iOS 7 demo at the WWDC earlier this month. Kotaku who managed to get an image of the controller reveals that the controller would be made by Logitech. It adds that the controller is large enough to fit an iPhone 5. It also has a lightning port, 4-way controller on the left and D-Pad on the right side. Continue reading “iOS 7 game controller for iPhone surfaces”