BlackBerry India head resigns

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Just weeks after launching the BlackBerry Z10, BlackBerry’s head honcho in India decided to resign the job, effective immediately. Previously known as Research in motion, the Waterloo company recently launched its revamped smartphone efforts with new devices based on the BlackBerry 10 operating system. The BlackBerry Z10 was launched in India with a hefty price tag of Rs. 43, 490 and it was supposedly sold out within two day, with BlackBerry scrambling to refill the chain with a fresh inflow of devices. But, after all this, it has been revealed that the BlackBerry India head is resigning today.

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Sony Xperia Z Benchmarks

Sony Xperia Z

Sony launched the Xperia Z, the company’s latest flagship device in India earlier this week. Here we have Benchmarks of the device. The Sony Xperia Z is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor Qualcomm APQ8064 processor and Adreno 320 GPU, similar to the HTC Butterfly, Optimus G and the Google Nexus 4. Performance of the device is better in most of the benchmarks when compared with the other quad-core Android Smartphones.

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XOLO Q800 officially launched for Rs. 12,499

XOLO Q800

XOLO has launched the Q800, the company’s first quad-core smartphone officially.  It went on sale from online retailer Flipkart yesterday.  It packs a 4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor with PowerVR SGX544 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It packs a 8MP rear camera with LED Flash, BSI sensor, 720p HD video recording and a 1MP front-facing camera. It has a YAMAHA 168 PA music system for enhanced audio experience. It has several music player options such as Shake to change the song and Auto filter in music settings to filter the songs based on their size. Continue reading “XOLO Q800 officially launched for Rs. 12,499”

Xolo to launch Intel Clover Trail+ powered Smartphone next week ?

Xolo new Intel Smartphone launch Invite

Xolo has started teasing their upcoming X series smartphone on their Facebook page. This is the company’s upcoming flagship device in the X Series. Xolo launched the X900 last year powered by a single-core Medfield Atom processor. The upcoming Xolo smartphone might be powered by a Clover Trail+ platform featuring a dual-core CPU and dual-core PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU. Xolo launched A series smartphones last year, and the Xolo Q800, powered by a quad-core processor went on sale yesterday. Continue reading “Xolo to launch Intel Clover Trail+ powered Smartphone next week ?”

CCleaner for Android coming soon

CCleaner for Android Teaser

Piriform, the creators of the popular system cleaning utility CCleaner for Windows and Mac has announced that they are working on an Android app. CCleaner for Android would be a one-click cleaning utility that would let you clear your browser history, Cache, Messages and more as you can see from their teaser image above. It’ll be quick and easy to set up and use just like the CCleaner desktop apps, says the company. Continue reading “CCleaner for Android coming soon”

Lava E-Tab Connect with 7-inch display, 3G and Voice Calling launched for Rs. 9499

Lava E-Tab Connect

Lava has launched E-Tab Connect, the company’s first tablet with 3G support and voice calling as they promised. It comes with a 7.0-inch (800 × 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7227A ARM Cortex A5 processor and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It has a 2MP rear camera, apart from the 0.3MP front-facing camera. It has a SIM card slot that offers 3G connectivity and voice calling support. Continue reading “Lava E-Tab Connect with 7-inch display, 3G and Voice Calling launched for Rs. 9499”

The Big MWC 2013 wrap up

The Mobile World Congress 2013 has been one hell of a ride! Our team was there at the event in full force and we got to cover a lot of stuff, churning out more than 70 posts and 38 videos right from the show floor. Pretty crazy, right? We really do hope it will be more than this on our next MWC adventure, but as of now, this is it, so lets get to the big wrap up then! Check out our video of the same –

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XOLO Q800 now available for Rs. 12499


XOLO Q800 that surfaced earlier today is now on sale from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor with PowerVR SGX544 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It packs a 8MP rear camera with LED Flash, BSI sensor and a 1.2MP front-facing camera. This is the company’s first quad-core smartphone. Xolo plans to launch 4 quad-core devices in Q series in the next two months. Continue reading “XOLO Q800 now available for Rs. 12499”

Skype for iPhone and iPad v4.6 update brings new calling UI, several fixes and improvements

Skype for iPhone and iPad 4.6

Skype for iPhone and iPad has been updated to version 4.6 that brings new features including an improved user interface for the calling screen, several bug fixes and improvements. This also brings a new and easy way to mark messages as ‘read’. Even though several issues regarding Calling, Conversations, File Transfer has been resolved, still there are several issues in VoiceOver. Skype promises they are working on a fix to resolve these issues.
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Micromax A110 Canvas 2 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update coming next week

Micromax A110 Canvas 2 would get the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) update next week, according to reports from Tech2. Micromax launched the A110 Canvas 2 last year, and we reviewed it earlier this year. The company’s latest Smartphone  the A116 Canvas HD comes with Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) out of the box, and they already said that it would get the Android 4.2 update eventually. Continue reading “Micromax A110 Canvas 2 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update coming next week”

Nokia Lumia 620 goes on sale in India at a price of Rs. 14,999/-

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Yes, the cat is finally out of the bag. Nokia Lumia 620, the company’s mid range Windows Phone 8 device that has been much awaited in the Indian market, has finally gone on sale in the Nokia India online shop. The currently available colours on sale are Cyan, Green, White and Magenta while the Yellow and Black variants are still shown as “Coming soon”, but we think it’s a work in progress at the site, and it might be available soon too. All the colour variations are priced at Rs. 14,999/- with delivery marked as “within 7 days” meaning it is already hitting retail anytime now.

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Karbonn A27 Retina with 4.3-inch qHD IPS display, Android 4.1 now available for Rs. 9090

Karbonn A27 Retina

Karbonn A27 Retina, the company’s new Android smartphone in the Duple Series is now available from online retailer Saholic. It comes with a 4.3-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) IPS display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8MP auto focus camera at the back with LED flash and a 2MP front-facing camera. Continue reading “Karbonn A27 Retina with 4.3-inch qHD IPS display, Android 4.1 now available for Rs. 9090”

Xolo Q800 specs detailed, 4.5-inch qHD IPS display and 1.2 GHz quad-core processor

Xolo Q800

Xolo is all set to launch the Q800, the company’s first Smartphone powered by a quad-core processor next week. We already told you earlier this week that the Xolo Q800 is coming this month. The phone showed up on Flipkart with complete specifications, and there is a count down for the phone’s launch on Xolo website, which shows 6 days remaining. It has a 4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor with PowerVR SGX544 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It might be the MediaTek MT6589 SoC similar to the Micromax A116 Canvas HD since this has a PowerVR SGX544 GPU. Continue reading “Xolo Q800 specs detailed, 4.5-inch qHD IPS display and 1.2 GHz quad-core processor”

Angry Birds for iPhone and iPad goes free, gets 15 new Bad Piggies levels

Angry Birds for iPhone and iPad

Rovio has finally made the original Angry Birds free for the iPhone and iPad. Rovio launched the most popular Angry Birds game for iOS back in 2009, and this is the first time the game has gone free. This might be a limited period offer, but we are not sure until Rovio announces it officially. The Angry Birds Rio for iPhone and iPad went free back in January. It was supposed to be a limited time offer, but the game is still free, so even the Angry Birds classic might also remain free. Continue reading “Angry Birds for iPhone and iPad goes free, gets 15 new Bad Piggies levels”

Lava E-Tab XTRON Review

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Lava launched the Etab-XTRON, their first Android tablet running on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) earlier this month for Rs. 6770 (MRP). This is one of the cheapest tablet in India to come with a dual-core processor and Android Jelly OS. We brought you the E-Tab XTRON unboxing last month, here we have the complete review of the tablet. Let’s quickly see the unboxing and box contents before heading to the complete review. Continue reading “Lava E-Tab XTRON Review”