Samsung partners with Swarovski for a limited edition Galaxy Note 3 Crystal cover

Galaxy Note 3 Swarovski cover

Samsung has partnered with Swarovski, popular for its crystal and fashion jewelry to launch a limited-edition cover encrusted with Swarovski crystals for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Samsung introduced the Galaxy S4 Crystal edition few months back, but they have planned to sell a crystal cover for the Note 3 separately. Recently Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 3 in Rose Gold White, Rose Gold Black and Merlot Red colors, in addition to Jet Black, Classic White and Blush Pink colors. Continue reading “Samsung partners with Swarovski for a limited edition Galaxy Note 3 Crystal cover”

LG Optimus L1 II Tri Android smartphone with Triple SIM support announced

LG Optimus L1 II Tri

LG launched the Optimus L1 II, an entry-level 3G smartphone with dual SIM support in India back in November last year. The LG Optimus L1 II Tri (E475) with triple SIM support has been listed on official LG Brazil website. It has similar specifications as the dual SIM variant including a 3.0-inch (320 x 240 pixels) capacitive touch screen  display, 1 GHz processor and runs on Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean). It comes with a 2-megapixel rear camera with VGA video recording. It also has a dedicated SIM switch key as seen on dual SIM L Series II devices. Continue reading “LG Optimus L1 II Tri Android smartphone with Triple SIM support announced”

Moto G Back Cover, Grip Cover and Flip Cover get priced in India

Motorola and Flipkart partnered to launch the most expected Moto G in India earlier today starting at Rs. 12,499. The Moto G comes only with a back rear cover. You can buy the rear sells and Flip covers separately. Moto G accessories, including the Back Cover, Grip Shell and the Flip Cover has been priced on Flipkart. Motorola started selling Grip shells for Moto G in the US last month at $19.99.

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Motorola Moto G launched in India starting at Rs. 12499

Motorola has partnered with Flipkart to launch the Moto G, the company’s latest budget smartphone in India as it promised earlier this week. It was announced back in November 2013 and packs a 4.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) edge-to-edge display at 329 ppi with Corning Gorilla Glass protection, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor and run on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean), upgradeable to Android 4.4 (KitKat) in a few weeks. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G launched in India starting at Rs. 12499”

Paytm launches shopping app for iOS, coming to Android next week

Paytm shopping app

Paytm, one of India’s popular online recharge platforms has launched their own mobile-only shopping app for smartphones. This lets users purchase more than 100,000 items from 250 merchants in a range of categories such as Men, Women, Kids fashion and Home Furnishing. This also has Paytm’s own Mobile and DTH recharge options built-in. Continue reading “Paytm launches shopping app for iOS, coming to Android next week”

Flipkart’s launch day offers for the Motorola Moto G detailed

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Just after revealing the prices of the highly awaited Motorola Moto G in India, Flipkart, the exclusive launch partner for the device, has also revealed new launch day offers for its customers. Expected to be a timed exclusive, Flipkart is pulling all stops to sell out the most hotly anticipated Indian smartphone launch in the recent times, with bundled offers that might make sense for its own customers. Motorola, a company that exited the Indian smartphone business years back, is now firmly back in play with its successful budget smartphone, but obviously, they had to look at building new distribution channels for the re-entry in the Indian market. Flipkart has obviously capitalized on this opportunity to have Moto G as an exclusive, especially with Amazon India as a growing competitive threat.

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Motorola Moto G gets priced in India at Rs. 12,499 for 8GB and Rs. 13,999 for 16GB

Flipkart and Motorola are all set to announce the budget Moto G in India. Just hours before the official announcement, Flipkart has thrown light on the pricing details which was the most expected announcement. Motorola Moto G comes in two variants – 8GB and 16GB and the pricing of 8GB is Rs. 12,499 while the 16GB version costs Rs. 13,999. Motorola Moto G is exclusively available only on Flipkart on launch day and it will be gradually available to other sellers.

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ARM reports earnings of $130.4 million in Q4 2013, falls below analyst expectations

ARM Holdings

ARM Holdings, the British semiconductor company whose processor chip designs power most smartphones reported its earnings for Q4 2013. While the earnings were up 7% year on year, it fellow below analyst estimates owing to slowdown in smartphone sales. The company was estimated to rake in  $138 million but reported processor royalties of $130.4m in the fourth quarter of 2013.  Continue reading “ARM reports earnings of $130.4 million in Q4 2013, falls below analyst expectations”

Android leads with 51.8% US Smartphone market share, Motorola jumps to 3rd place

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comScore published its quarterly report for the period of Q4 2013 today and the results show a slight dip in market share for Android. Compared to Q3 2013, Android showed a 0.3 percent dip to reach 51.5 percent market penetration. Trailing Android is Apple with 41.8 percent of the smartphone market being powered by iOS. This was a slight rise from the 40.60% market share it enjoyed in Q3 2013. The launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c are expected to have played a role in this rise. The remaining marketshare was split between with BlackBerry and Microsoft which are at third and fourth spots respectively with 3.4%, 3.1% penetration. Continue reading “Android leads with 51.8% US Smartphone market share, Motorola jumps to 3rd place”

Google Nexus 5 in Bright Red goes official, available in India now

Nexus 5 Red

Hankering for a bit of color in your favorite Google edition device? The Nexus 5 in red is now available on the Play Store in the same 16 and 32GB capacities as the other variants. The phone has a dual tone finish with the front being black, and the matte red finish extending to the edges. The specifications of the phone remain identical to the black and white versions and are detailed below.  Continue reading “Google Nexus 5 in Bright Red goes official, available in India now”

Microsoft invests $15mn in Foursquare, enters deal for licensing data

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Foursquare, the popular location-based social network, has just received a 15 million dollar investment from Microsoft. This equity investment from the Redmond company comes after a successful $35mn round of VC funding for the New York based Startup in December last year, reports the Wall Street Journal. Along with this fresh investment, Microsoft has also entered into a multi-year deal with Foursquare for licensing its vast location-based data. This will apparently be put to use in its Search Engine Bing, and naturally in Windows Phone too, as an extension. Foursquare has a massive point of interest database that’s heavily crowd sourced with tips, check ins, comments and so forth, hence we think this deal is a biggie for Microsoft.

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Xolo A500 Club with 4-inch OGS display, dual front-facing speakers listed on official website for Rs. 7099

Xolo A500 Club

After the A500, A500s and the A500L in the A Series, Xolo is all set to launch the A500 Club, the company’s first music-oriented smartphone with dual front-facing speakers. The phone has been spotted on the official website and packs a a 4-inch (480×800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display based on One Glass Solution (OGS) technology, powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core MediaTek MT 6572 processor with Mali 400 MP GPU and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Xolo A500 Club with 4-inch OGS display, dual front-facing speakers listed on official website for Rs. 7099”

Moodagent music player arrives for Nokia Asha 501, 502 and 503, offers mood-based playlists

Moodagent for Asha

Moodagent music player, one of the popular music players since 2010 is now available for select Nokia Asha devices. It has mood sliders that lets you create playlists from the songs in your library. You can move these sliders up or down depending your mood, which reflects in the playlists. The app is already available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbian. Continue reading “Moodagent music player arrives for Nokia Asha 501, 502 and 503, offers mood-based playlists”

It’s official, Satya Nadella is the new Microsoft CEO

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Just as several reports had predicted, Satya Nadella is officially the new Microsoft CEO, succeeding Steve Ballmer as the tech giant’s third Chief Executive Officer. Having led several Microsoft divisions including the wealthy Enterprise and Cloud business, Satya Nadella becomes the insider CEO, after several reports of an outsider being considered as the next CEO. Bill Gates also announced that he will leaving the board Chairman position, leaving way for John Thompson to take over that post, which is seen as a move to appease investors of radically lesser influence from the Gates-Ballmer era. While we scour for more publicly available information, here’s an introductory video directly from Microsoft –

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Apple sued by Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation(WARF) over A7 Chip

Apple is usually the aggressor when it comes to suing companies for infringement of patents and technologies, but this time it is the other way round. Apple is the defendant in a case against them for intentionally and willfully infringing patents.

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