iBall Andi 4.5z with 4.5-inch qHD display and Android 4.2 now available for Rs. 7499

iBall Andi 4.5z

iBall Andi 4.5z, the company’s new smartphone in the Andi series is now available from online retailer Shopclues and packs a 4.5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display, powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and a front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby and packs a 1700 mAh battery. This would compete with the Zen Ultrafone 502 that has similar features, which went on sale last week. Continue reading “iBall Andi 4.5z with 4.5-inch qHD display and Android 4.2 now available for Rs. 7499”

Sony MDR-10RNC and MDR-10RBT Headphones launched in India

Sony MDR-10RNC and MDR-10RBT

Sony India has launched two new headphones, the MDR-10RNC with Noise Canceling capabilities and the MDR-10RBT with Bluetooth and NFC support in India. Sony has also launched the 3-in-1 Headphones with MP3 player and built-in speakers priced at Rs. 8,990. The Sony MDR-10RNC has built-in Intelligence Noise Canceling technology that could be enabled by a press of a button. This automatically activates one of three optimal noise canceling modes based on an analysis of ambient noise. It effectively reduces up to 99.4% of ambient noise whether on an airplane, on a train or in an office with Sony’s digital signal processing technology. Continue reading “Sony MDR-10RNC and MDR-10RBT Headphones launched in India”

Panasonic P11 Unboxing

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Panasonic might have announced its retirement from the consumer smartphone market worldwide, but weirdly enough, that has not stopped the company from launching devices in India. One of them is the Panasonic P11, which seems like a specced down version of the P51 that we reviewed earlier. The P11 has almost the same specifications as the P51, with a quad core 1.2 GHz processor, 4GB of internal storage, but running on the older Android 4.1 operating system. But what’s striking is the outer shell, in a radical fluorescent green colour. But not to worry, there are replaceable covers in the box, which we show you in the unboxing video here –

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlh2k911Qps

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Sports Car Challenge 2 for iPhone and iPad launched for free

Sports Car Challenge 2

Volkswagen Group (China) and Fishlabs Entertainment has released the Sports Car Challenge 2, successor of the Sports Car Challenge game that was released back in November 2011. The first game got a major update earlier this year that brought a new race track and gameplay features, its sequel has 14 exclusive super sports cars ranging from Audi, Bentley and Bugatti to Lamborghini, Porsche and Volkswagen, additional gameplay features, completely overhauled 3D graphics and all-new visual effects. Continue reading “Sports Car Challenge 2 for iPhone and iPad launched for free”

Tweetbot 3 for iPhone with iOS 7 redesign launched as a new app

Tweetbot 3 for iPhone

Tapbots, the creators of the popular Tweetbot app has finally released a new version of the Tweetbot as iOS 7 update. The company had missed to update the app for the iOS 7 software that was released last month. It recently announced that they have finally submitted Tweetbot for iPhone to the app store on October 17th. When the existing Tweetbot users thought the app would be updated with iOS 7 support, the company has now released the Tweetbot 3 as a new app for iOS 7 users. Continue reading “Tweetbot 3 for iPhone with iOS 7 redesign launched as a new app”

Dhoom 3 game exclusively arrives on Windows Phone 8

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Another day, another exclusive game/app for Windows Phone in India. Just after Krrish3, we now have Dhoom 3, another highly awaited multi starrer sequel in Bollywood this year, is getting its own game. Publishing games for movies is kind of a new marketing avenue for the respective movie producers and Yash Raj Films, Dhoom 3’s maker acknowledges this, by partnering with game dev 99Games Online Private Limited to release the Dhoom 3 game. It is an endless 3D moto racing game, which follows the popular formula of Temple Run and Subway Surfers with perks, power ups and feels like a good fit in this genre. You play Aamir Khan, whose bike you maneuver, who is being chased by Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra in two other bikes, and thus begins the endless chase to fight your boredom.

You can download the game from the Windows Phone Store here. And here’s a trailer for the game, it’s CG and does not represent actual gameplay –

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MapmyIndia Maps for iPhone launched for free

MapmyIndia Maps for iPhone

MapmyIndia, popular for its GPS navigation and mobile apps has launched the MapmyIndia Maps app for iPhone users. MapmyIndia made Sygic & MapmyIndia offline GPS Navigation app for Android completely free for Indian users last month. This offers  accurate and updated interactive maps of India including house addresses. It also offers Step-by-step driving direction, POIs and more. Even though this not an universal app, this works on iPads too. Continue reading “MapmyIndia Maps for iPhone launched for free”

Huawei Ascend P6 officially launched in India for Rs. 29999

Huawei has officially launched the Ascend P6, the company’s latest flagship smartphone in India. It was announced back in June and went on sale in India online earlier this week. It packs a packs a 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) display based on in-cell LCD screen technology with responsive touch that works even when wearing gloves, powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) with new Emotion UI. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with BSI sensor, F2.0 aperture and 4cm macro and 1080P full HD video recording and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The phone is just 6.18mm thick and weighs just 120 grams. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend P6 officially launched in India for Rs. 29999”

Vodafone announces the winner of Drive into the Big League Season 3 contest

Vodafone Drive into the Big League Season 3 winner

Vodafone announced the Vodafone Drive into the Big League contest for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) back in August. Now it has announced Havmor Ice Cream Limited  as the winner of the contest after  two months. This allowed medium enterprise (a company with a turnover of Rs.100-500 Cr) a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of getting its company logo take prestigious place on the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes cars that will race at the Indian Grand Prix 2013.  Continue reading “Vodafone announces the winner of Drive into the Big League Season 3 contest”

Reliance Jio gets unified telecom license across India


Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited has announced that it has received unified License for all 22 Service Areas across India. This would allow RJIL to offer all telecom services including voice telephony under a single license. It is the only pan India operator with Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum across 22 circles capable of offering fourth generation (4G) wireless services. Continue reading “Reliance Jio gets unified telecom license across India”

Samsung reports record profit of $9.6 billion in Q3 2013

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Samsung just reported its Q3 earnings for 2013, in which the company has managed to make operating profit of 10.16 trillion won (~US$9.6 billion), which is the highest Samsung has ever posted in a single quarter and a 7-percent increase compared to last quarter. It has reported net profit of 8.24  trillion won (~US$7.76 billion) and revenues of 59.08 trillion won (~US$55.6 billion). Mobile phone sales accounted for 35.20 trillion won (~US$33.1 billion), which is 2-percent increase compared to last quarter. Continue reading “Samsung reports record profit of $9.6 billion in Q3 2013”

Huawei Ascend P6 Benchmarks

Huawei Ascend P6, the company’s latest flagship smartphone went on sale in India earlier this week. We brought you the unboxing of the device earlier today. Here we have the benchmarks of the device. The Ascend P6 has a 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) display based on in-cell LCD screen technology and 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 used the same chip in the Ascend Mate that we reviewed earlier this year. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend P6 Benchmarks”

Xolo A500L with 4-inch display, dual-core processor and Android 4.2 coming soon

 Xolo A500L

Xolo launched the A500S back in August, now it is all set to launch the A500L in the A Series. It has appeared on the official Xolo website and packs a 4-inch  (480×800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, 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). It has a 3.0-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support with dual standby similar to other Xolo smartphones. This would compete with the recently launched Panasonic T31 that has almost similar specifications.
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Micromax Canvas Turbo with 5-inch 1080p display, 2GB RAM, 13MP camera launched for Rs. 19990

MMX Canvas Turbo

Micromax has finally launched the most expected Canvas Turbo, the company’s latest flagship smartphone in India. It has a 5.0-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) CGS (Continuous Grain Silicon) IPS display, powered by 1.5 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589T processor and runs on Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera similar to the Canvas 4. It has Camerazzi camera which offers a lot of features including 360 degree panorama, Cinemagraph that lets usr animate still photographs (.GIF) and Object Eraser feature allows users to erase unwanted objects from still pictures that are shot with the smartphone. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Turbo with 5-inch 1080p display, 2GB RAM, 13MP camera launched for Rs. 19990”

Dead Trigger 2 for Android, iPhone and iPad released for free

Madfinger Games, the creators of the popular games such as Shadowgun and Dead Trigger has released Dead Trigger 2 as they promised . The Dead Trigger 2 is a first person zombie shooter similar to the first game that was released in 2012. You need to find a safe place to hide-out, get equipped, and fight for your life in a real time bid for survival against an onslaught of bloodthirsty undead. Continue reading “Dead Trigger 2 for Android, iPhone and iPad released for free”