HTC just confirmed that a majority of its recent smartphones will get upgraded to Android Jelly Bean. The handsets mentioned include the HTC One X, HTC One XL and HTC One S. This is great news for owners of HTC devices seeing that almost no other manufacturer has committed to an upgrade path for their phones.
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Aircel has announced that the Apple iPhone 3GS is now available from them for just Rs. 9,999 with unlimited data usage for a year with Advance rental plan of Rs. 3,000 for post-paid customers. After a year customers can shift to Simple Value 499 Plan (in 2G circles), or 399 Smart PI plan (in 3G circles). In 3G circles customers can shift any existing Aircel plan after a year. Continue reading “Apple iPhone 3GS now available from Aircel for Rs. 9999”
Nimbuzz has finally arrived for Windows Phone devices. This app lets you chat with your friends on several IM accounts such as Nimbuzz, Facebook, GTalk, Yahoo Messenger and MSN/Live Messenger. You can also share images and connect with twitter. Still there is no support for voice call and VOIP. Since this is the first version we can expect these features eventually. Continue reading “Nimbuzz Instant Messenger now available for Windows Phone”
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (GT-P5100) that was announced at MWC 2012 earlier this year is now on sale in India from Samsung eStore. The Galaxy Tab 2 310, 7-inch variant that we reviewed recently officially launched in India in May. It has 10.1-inch WXGA(1280×800) PLS TFT display, 1 GHz Dual-Core Processor, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with Touchwiz UI, 3MP rear-facing camera and VGA front facing camera. It is 9.7 mm thick and weighs 583g. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 now available in India for Rs. 32990”
Gameloft has released the much awaited The Dark Knight Rises game for Android, iPhone and iPad. This is inspired by The Dark Knight Rises and has all the characters from the batman like Catwoman, Lucius Fox and Commissioner Gordon. Gameloft released The Amazing Spider-Man game couple of weeks back. Continue reading “The Dark Knight Rises game released for Android, iPhone and iPad”
Mozilla has started rolling out nightly builds of its upcoming Firefox Mobile OS for users to download. The OS seems to take a lot of inspiration from iOS and Android in terms of UI. In addition, the icons seem to take some hint from Symbian.
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LG India today confirmed to FoneArena at the LG Bloggers Meet today that the Optimus Vu is indeed coming to India later this year. The Optimus Vu is a 5-inch phone from LG which puts it in the same league as the Samsung Galaxy Note. The screen is one of the main highlights of the device and it packs a 1024x768px resolution. The phone packs 32GB of inbuilt storage and utilizes a microSIM card slot. It also comes with a capacitive stylus.
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LG has launched the Optimus 4X HD, their first quad-core Tegra 3 handset in India. It was announced at MWC 2012 earlier this February. It has 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) True HD IPS display with 313 PPI and is powered by 1.5GHz Quad-core Tegra 3 processor. It runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and has an 8MP auto focus camera with LED Flash support, 1.3MP secondary camera. It is just 8.9mm thick. Continue reading “LG Optimus 4X HD launched in India for Rs. 34990”
LG has launched the Optimus L5 in India from the L-Style series of phones that was unveiled at MWC 2012 . Other L-Style series of phones, Optimus L3 went on sale in India in May and the Optimus L7 was officially launched in June. LG has officially launched the Optimus L3 in India today. The Optimus L5 lies between L3 and L7 that has 4.0-inch (320×480 pixels) Capacitive Touch screen display and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich with Optimus UI 3.0. Continue reading “LG Optimus L5 launched in India for Rs. 13199”
Uninor has launched a unique offer that would let their customers make free unlimited local on-net (Uninor to Uninor) calls on Sundays. This offer is valid on every Sunday starting from July 22nd to August 26th 2012. They launched Ek Bharat, Ek Rate (One India, One call rate) plan that offers a flat rate of just 25 paise per minute on all local and STD calls for Mumbai customers. Continue reading “Uninor offers free unlimited on-net local calls on Sundays for Tamil Nadu customers”
Reliance Communications has launched Reliance 3G Tab, a new 3G Android tablet, upgraded version of their previous tablet that was launched last year. It is manufactured by ZTE and has 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) capacitive touch screen display and is powered by 1.4GHz processor. It runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It has 3.0 MP rear camera and a front camera with video calling support. Continue reading “Reliance launches new 3G Android tablet for Rs. 14,499”
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Beam, successor of their previous Beam, in India. It was announced at MWC earlier this year and went on pre-order last month and went on sale last week. It comes with 4.0-inch 480×800 (WVGA) TFT display and is powered by 1 GHz Dual-Core Processor. It has 15 lumens pico projector that allows users to share photos, videos or other digital media instantly and in crisp clarity up to 50-inch wide, at a distance of 2 meters. It is 12.5mm thick. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Beam launched in India for Rs. 33,900”
Research in Motion (RIM) has just launched new BlackBerry Premium Stores in 2 locations in Mumbai. They launched their first BlackBerry Premium Store in Delhi in April and in Gurgaon in May and in Bangalore recently. These two stores located at The Future Shop, 7, Palladium, Phoenix Mills, Lower Parel and The Future Shop, 325, Nawab Building, Dr. D.N. Road –Fort respectively. Continue reading “RIM launches Two BlackBerry Premium Stores in Mumbai”
MTS has launched Unlimited Social Media plan for its MBlaze customers that offers unlimited free access to most popular Social Networking sites, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. This plan costs Rs. 647 with 30 days validity and is applicable for both new and old MBlaze customers across India. Continue reading “MTS launches MBlaze Unlimited Social Media plan with free access to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn”
Qualcomm just reported its 3rd quarter fiscal 2012 results and profits have soared year on year owing to continued strong demand for 3G and 4G connected hardware. High sales and strong yearly growth have contributed to a bottom line of $4.63 billion in revenue.
Meanwhile net income is reported at $1.21 billion. MSM chipsets were the biggest contributors with 141 million units sold. Though sales were reported to be down 7% over the last quarter, the YoY growth is noted to be 18%. CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacob said that the sales drop was due to upcoming devices lined up for the holiday season.
