Finals – Nokia Lumia 520 vs Gionee Elife E6 #SmartFone13

Hey folks! Thanks for voting in the first and second rounds of this best budget smartphone of 2013 competition. You have chosen the winners from the first round and they have competed against each other in semi-finals from where you have again chosen two finalists. In the battle between Nokia Lumia 520 and Micromax Canvas Turbo, you have chosen the lone Windows Phone – Nokia Lumia 520.  In another battle between the Gionee Elife E6 and Intex Aqua i7, you have chosen Gionee Elife E6. Now when Nokia Lumia 520 goes up against the Gionee Elife E6, what phone will you choose? Which of the two phones will win the best budget smartphone of the year award?

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BlackBerry partners with Foxconn to produce affordable BlackBerry 10 devices

As sales plunge, BlackBerry has announced a new partnership with Foxconn to produce BlackBerry 10 devices. The five year partnership aims to launch the first device by March or April. The BlackBerry 10 based device will be introduced first in Indonesia. The company has also earmarked six or seven additional markets for the device.

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Windows Phone users to get 20 GB of free SkyDrive storage for an year thanks to Microsoft

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Windows Phone users have something to be extra happy about this Christmas. Microsoft is spreading around some festive cheer in the form of 20GB of free SkyDrive storage. Microsoft says that the free storage is valid for 1 year after which we presume you’ll have to pay for it.  Continue reading “Windows Phone users to get 20 GB of free SkyDrive storage for an year thanks to Microsoft”

Simmtronics Xpad Turbo 7-inch Dual SIM Tablet with voice calling now available for Rs. 8056

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Simmtronics Xpad Turbo, a new 7-inch tablet with dual SIM support is now available from online retailer Snapdeal. It has a 7-inch ( 1024 x 600 pixels) capacitive touch screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 2-megapixel pixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has 3G data connectivity and voice calling through dual SIM card slots and packs a 2800 mAh battery. Continue reading “Simmtronics Xpad Turbo 7-inch Dual SIM Tablet with voice calling now available for Rs. 8056”

Temple Run 2 finally arrives for Windows Phone 8

Imangi Studios, creators of Temple Run has launched Temple Run 2 for Windows Phone 8 devices finally, as it promised. The first Temple Run game for Windows Phone was released back in March. Temple Run: Brave and Temple Run: Oz in the franchise were released soon after. The Temple Run 2 has similar gameplay mechanics as the first Temple Run game such as running, jumping, turning and sliding. Continue reading “Temple Run 2 finally arrives for Windows Phone 8”

Google certified Cyanogen Mod Oppo N1 shipping on Christmas Eve

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Oppo N1 is the first Cyanogen Mod phone to have been approved by Google’s strict CTS, for compliance to Android compatibility and of course, inclusion of Google Play on this limited edition device. The Oppo N1 Cyanogen Mod Edition was announced as “coming in December” but never really got solid dates owing to the obvious roadblocks, but thanks to this recent development, Oppo has revealed that the device is shipping on Christmas Eve i.e December 24th of this year. This marks the first time in history that a popular third party AOSP ROM based phone is Google certified and is shown the green light. Cyanogen Mod’s Koushik Dutta happened to be relieved about the announcement, as his G+ post read –

Google just approved our first CyanogenMod  phone

Man, the last 24 hours has been a total rollercoaster of emotions, and it isn’t letting up it seems.

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Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 likely to launch in India on December 23rd


Samsung has sent us an invite for a smartphone launch on Monday, December 23rd, 2013. The invite just says “New GALAXY Smartphone Launch” without giving any hint about the smartphone. Since there are no new smartphones for Samsung to launch in India and it had already released the new Galaxy S Duos 2, it is likely to launch the Grand 2 next week. The Galaxy Grand that was launched earlier this year was one of the popular mid-range smartphone in this year. The Grand 2 with better display, faster processor more RAM and a larger battery would definitely attract more customers in the mid-range segment. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 likely to launch in India on December 23rd”

Geeksphone Revolution with Intel Atom Z2560 CPU and multi-OS support coming in Q1 2014

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Spanish handset maker Geeksphone has finally revealed the specifications of their upcoming high-end smartphone called Revolution. It would feature a 4.7-inch (960 x 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display, powered by a 1.6 GHz dual-core  Intel Atom Z2560 processor with PowerVR SGX544 GPU and Hyper-Threading technology. Last month the company posted a video showing the performance of an Intel Atom-powered developer device compared with a Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered device, both running on Firefox OS. Continue reading “Geeksphone Revolution with Intel Atom Z2560 CPU and multi-OS support coming in Q1 2014”

Jolla phone goes on sale in Europe, priced at €399

The Finnish upstart, Jolla, has just hit another milestone and is now available for purchase in Europe. Running on the Sailfish operating system, the phone has a very interesting user interface derived from the remains of the erstwhile MeeGo project. The phone is already on sale in Finland and has been shipping to users for a few days now.

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Jolla’s self named phone has fairly mid range specifications but that doesn’t hold it back as the hardware and software are very well optimized for each other. The screen is a 4.5 inch display with a resolution of 540×960 pixels. Powering it is a 1.4Ghz dual core Snapdragon 400 processor paired with 1GB of RAM. The camera module is 8MP alongside a 2MP front facing unit. Users get 16GB of built in storage. Continue reading “Jolla phone goes on sale in Europe, priced at €399”

Foursquare for Android updated with redesigned UI and faster performance

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Foursquare for Android has been updated (v2013-12-19) with a completely new user interface that is more flatter, similar to iOS 7. Foursquare for iPhone got updated with redesigned iOS 7 look earlier this month that also added new features, but the new Android update doesn’t add any new features. Continue reading “Foursquare for Android updated with redesigned UI and faster performance”

500px Official app comes to Windows Phone

The Windows Phone App store is finally catching up with iOS and Android apps, recently we saw Instagram come to Windows Phone followed by the popular game, Subway Surfers. The next app to join the Windows Phone store, which now boasts more than 200,000 apps is the official app of 500px. 500px is easily one of the most popular photography social networks and there were numerous third party applications on the Windows Phone store but not the official app. That hole has been plugged as 500px have finally launched a Windows Phone application.

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BlackBerry opens its first Enterprise Solutions Centres in India in Mumbai and Gurgaon

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BlackBerry today opened the first Enterprise Solutions Centers in Mumbai and Gurgaon in India. This will be the third country to roll-out a BlackBerry Enterprise Solutions Centre after US and UK. These centers will cater to the needs of enterprise customers and provide them with a walk-in experience of BlackBerry’s robust enterprise mobility management solutions including BES10, says the company. Continue reading “BlackBerry opens its first Enterprise Solutions Centres in India in Mumbai and Gurgaon”

Man of Steel, Midway Arcade and more Warner Bros games for iPhone and iPad on sale at $0.99

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has put up some of its mobile games on sale for as low as $0.99 (Rs. 55). These include, 10 games for iPhone and iPad such as Man of Steel, Bastion and popular LEGO-themed games. Only 2 games for Android is on discounted sale. Check out the list of games of sale below. These games normally cost between $2.99 and $6.99. Continue reading “Man of Steel, Midway Arcade and more Warner Bros games for iPhone and iPad on sale at $0.99”

Nokia Lumia 525 Hands On

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Nokia announced the Lumia 525 sometime back last month and basically, it was a Lumia 520 with a very slightly different design and 1 GB of RAM. The Lumia 525 is primarily for addressing the low RAM issue on Windows Phones. Phones with 512 MB of RAM, like the Lumia 520, were not allowed to download some apps and games from the Windows Phone Store because of them demanding more resources. This was partly solved with more optimizations from the developers’ side, but we still see a lot of new apps and games releasing with the limitation, so Nokia simply went the other way and updated the 520 with 1 GB of RAM, and that’s exactly the reason why 525 exists. It was revealed at an event in Goa today that the Lumia 525 will be arriving to India during the first week of January 2014. The Lumia 520 is already the best selling Windows Phone in India and we hope the 525 directly replaces it. That said, we went hands on with the Lumia 525 at the Annual Strategy Sharing Summit in Goa, you can find our impressions below.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Game Edition with bundled GamePad controller revealed

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Earlier this week Samsung unveiled the Smartphone Gamepad, a gaming controller for smartphones to improve the gaming experience. Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Game Edition with GamePad bundle has been outed by a German website, AllaboutSamsung.de, who got hands-on the retail box. Even though Samsung announced that the GamePad has been optimized only for Android 4.3 devices like Galaxy S4, Galaxy S3, Note 2 and Note 3, the Galaxy Tab 3 Game Edition is likely come with Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) out of the box. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Game Edition with bundled GamePad controller revealed”