Nokia Lumia 520 up for pre-order on Flipkart for Rs. 10,499

Nokia Lumia 520 Flipkart

Nokia launched the Lumia 520 in India last week. Online retailer Flipkart has put up the device for pre-order at a price tag of Rs. 10,499.  It wasunveiled at the Mobile World Congress in 2013 in Barcelona last month, and appeared on the Nokia India Shop online portal earlier this month, which still says ‘coming soon’ without any price tag. It has a 4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display with 2D hardened glass, and is super sensitive touch for finger nail and glove use. It is powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8227 processor and runs on the latest Windows Phone 8 OS. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 520 up for pre-order on Flipkart for Rs. 10,499”

Asus Padfone Infinity gets priced in Taiwan, available in April

Asus Padfone Infinity Taiwan launch

Asus announced the Padfone Infinity last month at the MWC 2013. It was launched in Taiwan earlier this week as we told you, and all the four major carriers have started taking pre-orders for the device in Taiwan. The Padfone Infinity packs a 5-inch Full HD (1920×1080 pixels) IPS display and the Padfone station has a 10.1-inch (1920×1080 pixels) display. It is powered by 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Asus Padfone Infinity gets priced in Taiwan, available in April”

Mike Laziridis, co-founder of Research in Motion, to leave Blackberry on 1st May

After Blackberry’s earnings release, Mike Laziridis announced that he plans to leave the company on 1st May. He stepped down as co-CEO last year and has been holding the position of Vice Chair of the Board.

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Commenting on his departure from the company he co-founded, Lazaridis commented, “With the launch of BlackBerry 10, I believe I have fulfilled my commitment to the Board… I believe I am leaving the company in good hands.” Continue reading “Mike Laziridis, co-founder of Research in Motion, to leave Blackberry on 1st May”

D Shivkumar, Nokia India and MEA MD, resigns

D Shivakumar, MD at Nokia India, has quit the Finnish smartphone manufacturer after an 8 year stint that began in 2006. Based out of Dubai, Shivakumar over saw operations in 90 countries including Africa, West Asia and India. Shivakumar has no intentions of being associated with mobility, telecom and FMCG once he returns to India in June.


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Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Review

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Review

Samsung announced the Galaxy Grand and the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082) back in December 2012. It was launched in India in January. We brought you the Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos photo gallery and the benchmarks recently. Here we have the complete review of the device. The Galaxy Grand has a similar design with curved corners and chrome finish all around, but it lacks the wedge shape and curved glass like the Galaxy S3. It runs on the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean that recently rolled out for the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note in India. Let’s dive into the complete review. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Review”

Aircel ties up with Nimbuzz to offer free data for prepaid subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir

Aircel Nimbuzz

Aircel has tied up with Nimbuzz to launch a new data plan to promote the app ecosystem with an offer to provide free data for the Aircel subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir. This is aimed towards observing data-based communication behavioural pattern of the Jammu and Kashmir customers. The Aircel-Nimbuzz communication-based data plan doesn’t require you to recharge with any packs. Aircel recently launched free unlimited 3G data access for 3 hours every day with 30 days validity. Continue reading “Aircel ties up with Nimbuzz to offer free data for prepaid subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir”

Wireless charging: The future or a passing fad?

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Wireless charging, much like many other technologies that find their ways into the hands of the everyday consumer has a long and unspectacular past. First attempted, at least in the public sphere, in the early 1900’s by one Nikolas Tesla, whose many brilliant ideas and even more spectacular failures (this being one of them) coloured a rather interesting period in innovation and developments for consumer-facing products. The idea was revived in the mid-2000’s by a number of independent individuals working out of MIT, Jeff Lieberman and Marin Soljacic and team. Wireless power transmission is a bit of a misnomer as wires are almost certainly involved in nearly every step of the way with the sole exception being the wire usually linking the power supply to the “sink” which is the device using the power in the first place.

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Xolo B700 with 3450 mAh Battery officially launched for Rs. 8999

Xolo B700

Xolo has officially launched the B700, the company’s new Android smartphone with a 3450 mAh battery which offers 363 hours of standby 20 hours of talk time on 3G,  up to 38 hours Music Playback via internal speakers and up to 86 hours via wired headset. Xolo promises 9 hours of video playback while using internal speakers and up to 10.5 hours while using a wired headset. The Xolo B700 went on sale online last week.

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Evernote for Windows Phone updated with new home screen, Notebook Stacks and more

Evernote 3.0 for Windows Phone

Evernote for Windows Phone the Windows Phone app to version 3.0 that brings several new features including a new redesigned homescreen, shorctcuts, improved tag lists, premium document search feature and lots more. The Evernote app for Android got these features in a new update earlier this week. The new Notebook Stacks feature is a new way to visually group similar notebooks. The app has several tweaks that makes the app much smoother, faster and more responsive. Continue reading “Evernote for Windows Phone updated with new home screen, Notebook Stacks and more”

Easter Sale: Up to 90% off on EA iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Games

EA 4th Annual Easter Sale

Electronic Arts have started their big 4th annual Easter Sale. Last year  they offered very few titles at discounted rates, but this time they are offering up to 90% discounts on iPhone and iPad games. They are also offering up to 80% off on Android games and up to 40% off on games on Windows Phone devices. Continue reading “Easter Sale: Up to 90% off on EA iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Games”

UTV Stars Entertainment app launched for Android and iPhone

UTV Stars for Android and iPhone

Disney UTV has launched the UTV Stars App for Android and iPhone. This is an entertainment app lets you watch free movies, get latest news, gossips, paparazzi images, full shows and videos from Bollywood. You can also watch UTV Stars LIVE TV. The Visual Search Augmented Reality feature Powered by Ricoh Innovations shows you the movie details just by clicking an image of the UTV Motion Pictures movie poster. The app is add-supported. Continue reading “UTV Stars Entertainment app launched for Android and iPhone”

Gmail mobile web for feature phones get Tamil, Telugu and 4 more Indic languages

Gmail mobile web in Tamil

Google has introduced support for 6 Indic languages in Gmail on the feature phone browser. These languages include, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. This would be much useful for native language speakers with feature phones read emails and understand the functionality inside Gmail in their own languages. Google had introduced support for Indic languages for their apps. Google Translate for iPhone got support for 5 Indic languages back in 2011. Continue reading “Gmail mobile web for feature phones get Tamil, Telugu and 4 more Indic languages”

Iron Man 3 game for iPhone, iPad and Android releasing on April 25th

 

Iron Man 3 Game

Gameloft has released a trailer for their upcoming Iron Man 3 game for iPhone, iPad and Android. The Iron Man 2 game for iPhone and iPad was released back in 2010. Iron Man 3, the third movie in the Iron Man franchise, based on the Mavel’s comic book character is releasing in several countries including India on April 26th. In this game you play as the billionaire Tony Stark / Iron Man who fights the AIM around the world to prevent their dark schemes from succeeding.

Here is the Iron Man 3 game trailer

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Temple Run, Gravity Guy 2 and more games arrive for Windows Phone 8

Temple Run, one of the popular games is finally available for Windows Phone 8 devices. It first launched for iPhone and iPad, and it was launched for Android last year. Along with the Temple Run, host of new games including Gravity Guy 2, sequel to the Gravity Guy, 6th Planet, Propel Man, Fling Theory Orcs Must Survive and Drift Mania Championship 2 are available for Windows Phone 8 devices.  Chaos Rings from Square Enix is a  role-playing game that is currently available only for Windows Phone 7.5 devices. Continue reading “Temple Run, Gravity Guy 2 and more games arrive for Windows Phone 8”

Google Translate on Android gets offline mode via update

With the latest update to Google Translate for Android, the company has added a much requested feature. The app now makes it possible to enable offline translations on a per language basis. Users will need to download a fairly large language pack to enable said feature. Google notes that offline translations will not be as good as those down in the cloud.

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