HTC Desire U Dual SIM smartphone now available in India for Rs. 13499

HTC Desire U

HTC Desire U that was announced earlier this year is now available in India from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 4.0-inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1 GHz processor and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with HTC Sense UI similar to the Desire V was launched last year. It has dual SIM support with dual standby, a 5-megapixel auto focus camera at the back with LED Flash and Beats audio support. Continue reading “HTC Desire U Dual SIM smartphone now available in India for Rs. 13499”

HTC sales touch $970 million, its best month since June 2012

HTC has revealed its monthly revenues for May 2013 and it might be considered the first sign of recovery for the ailing smartphone manufacturer. The company posted sales worth $970 million which is just 3% lower than what it last reported in May 2012.

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Toshibha unveils Excite Pure Android 4.2 tablet for 299$ alongside Pro and Write with 10 inch 2560×1600 displays and Tegra 4

Toshibha just unveiled its refreshed range of Excite tablets at Computex, Taiwan, consisting of three models – Excite Pure, Excite Pro and Excite Write. All the three 10.1 inch Android tablets are aimed at different price ranges and target consumers. These tablets are priced between 299$ and 599$ and Toshibha hopes to ship them out by June 25th, available directly from their website. Lets see the models in detail then.

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Lemon Aspire HD and Aspire Full HD with 720p and 1080p displays, quad-core processor coming soon

Lemon Aspire HD

Lemon Mobiles launched the Aspire A1, the company’s latest flagship Android smartphone last month. Now the Aspire HD and Aspire Full HD, the company’s upcoming Android smartphones have surfaced on the official website. The Aspire HD would come with a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display and the Aspire Full HD would have a 5.3-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD IPS display as the name suggests. These phones look identical to the Zopo ZP810 and the ZOPO ZP980 from the Chinese manufacturer Zopo. Continue reading “Lemon Aspire HD and Aspire Full HD with 720p and 1080p displays, quad-core processor coming soon”

Aircel launches new calling pack at Rs. 22 in Delhi, offers STD calls at 25p/min

Aircel has launched a new STD calling pack for prepaid customers in Delhi that offers national calls at 25 paise per minute. This would let people in Delhi stay connected with their friends and family outside the state at an affordable cost. Aircel recently launched One Nation One Rate pack recently which made incoming roaming charges free.  Continue reading “Aircel launches new calling pack at Rs. 22 in Delhi, offers STD calls at 25p/min”

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 to power future Windows RT 8.1 tablets

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It is a well known fact that Qualcomm is one of the leading chip providers for the Windows RT ecosystem as well as the Windows Phone ecosystem. At the Computex event in Taipei, they have gone ahead and announced that their Snapdragon 800 series of powerful high end chipsets will include support for the Windows RT 8.1 platform. Powered by quad core processors with upto 2.2 GHz clock speeds per core, this marks a huge upgrade from the yesteryear dual core S4 plus chipsets that were used for the first Windows RT tablets, like the Dell XPS 10 for example. The Adreno 330 graphics is supposed to offer even greater graphics performance, and with additional support of in-built LTE and USB 3.0, the performance and feature gains for the Windows RT 8.1 are massive.

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Intel shows off Merrifield prototype at Computex, First phones at MWC 2014

Intel revealed its first prototype smartphone built on its next Atom smartphone chip codenamed Merrifield. The processor chip is slated to provide a 50 percent performance boost over current chips and will have much improved battery life as well.

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Shown off by Tom Kilroy during the keynote session at Computex, the chip will ship to carriers and device makers early next year. Kilroy also stated that we should expect to see the first phones running on the Merrifield chip at MWC 2014.  Continue reading “Intel shows off Merrifield prototype at Computex, First phones at MWC 2014”

Chrome 27 for iOS brings improved voice search and faster reloads

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After launching Chrome 27 for the desktop and then for Android, Google has gone ahead, like promised, and launched the Chrome 27 for iOS. The new version adds an improved version of voice search, with a persistent bar for immediate access and faster page reloads by efficient use of the cache. The update is live on the app store and you can get it here.

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Sony Xperia M and M dual with 4-inch display, 1 GHz dual-core processor, Android 4.2 announced

Sony Xperia M

Sony has announced the Xperia M and M dual the company’s new mid-range Android smartphones. These phones have a 4.0-inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8227 processor with Adreno 305 GPU.  Xperia M dual comes with Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), while the Xperia M would launch on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and is upgradable to Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and 720p HD video recording and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. These phones are based on OmniBalance design similar to the Xperia Z, have LED illuminations for notification and NFC connectivity for one-touch functions. The Xperia M dual comes with dual SIM support with dual Standby. Continue reading “Sony Xperia M and M dual with 4-inch display, 1 GHz dual-core processor, Android 4.2 announced”

Qualcomm expands its Tablet Reference Design to support Snapdragon 400 chips for emerging markets

Qualcomm Reference Design

Qualcomm has announced that they have expanded its Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) portfolio with a reference design made specifically for 7-inch and 10-inch version of tablets running on its Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM 8230 and MSM 8030 processors. The tablets support 3G HSPA+ connectivity, WiFi and 1080 encoding and decoding. The QRD provides access to third-party providers of tested and verified hardware and software components and there have been 200 public QRD-based product launches to date in collaboration with more than 40 OEMs in 14 countries, Continue reading “Qualcomm expands its Tablet Reference Design to support Snapdragon 400 chips for emerging markets”

Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon 400 Quad Core chip MSM8926, with in-built multi mode LTE

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Qualcomm, one of the leading chip manufacturers for mobile devices, has just unveiled a new variant of the Snapdragon 400 chipset, with support for Quad Core processors and multi mode 3G/4G LTE connectivity. This move enables Qualcomm to capture some of the lost low-end chip marketshare that has been recently been inundated with chipsets from companies like MediaTek. The MSM8926 chip, as it is codenamed, adds support for quad core Cortex A7 processors and mainly, multi mode 3G/4G LTE connectivity, which will enable mass market devices to sport LTE modems at very low prices.

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MTS Duet Dual SIM (CDMA + GSM) Android Smartphone launched for Rs. 4799

MTS Duet

MTS that operates under Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) has launched the Duet, the company’s latest dual SIM Android smartphone. The phone has a 3.5-inch (320 x 480 pixels) HVGA capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It supports CDMA on SIM card and GSM on the other. The phone comes bundled with voice & data plan. It comes with 3-megapixel rear camera, supports expandable memory up to 32GB and packs a 1200 mAh battery. Continue reading “MTS Duet Dual SIM (CDMA + GSM) Android Smartphone launched for Rs. 4799”

Adobe Reader app now available for Windows Phone 8

Adobe Reader for Windows Phone 8

Adobe Systems has released the Adobe Reader app for Windows Phone 8 finally. This app lets you View and Open PDF documents including password protected documents, search the text for specific words, zoom in on a page, Navigate docs easily with thumbnails, continuous scroll mode, Hyperlinks, bookmarks and more. The Adobe reader app for Android was launched back in 2010 and the iPhone and iPad app was released in 2011. Continue reading “Adobe Reader app now available for Windows Phone 8”

Xolo X1000 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update coming this week

Xolo X1000 would get the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) update this week, according to reports from NDTV Gadgets. Xolo launched the X1000, successor of the X900 back in March. Android Jelly Bean port for the Intel smartphones was ready back in September but the company released the phone running Android 4.0 at the launch. Xolo already promised at the launch that the phone would get the Jelly Bean update eventually.  The latest Xolo Smartphones, the Q700 and Q1000 powered by MediaTek chip comes with Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean) out of the box. Continue reading “Xolo X1000 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update coming this week”

Celkon A119Q Signature HD Benchmarks

Celkon A119Q Signature HD Benchmarks

Celkon launched the A119Q Signature HD last month. It is the successor of the A119 Signature HD that was launched back in March. The Celkon A119 had a 1 GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6577 processor with PowerVR SGX 531 GPU, the A119Q is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor with PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU and runs on Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean). We brought you the unboxing of the device last week, here we have the benchmarks of the device. Let’s check out how the device performs compared to other Android devices.

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