Samsung India has announced that they have sold 10 million Galaxy devices in India, since the Galaxy S, their first Galaxy device that was launched in India in June 2010. Samsung did not reveal the exact numbers for each devices, but said that the Samsung SIII, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy Y has contributed to more that 50% of the sales. Continue reading “10 million Samsung Galaxy devices sold in India”
Google unveiled the Nexus 7 earlier this June that went on sale in India last month. Here we have the review of the Nexus 7, Google’s first Android Tablet that is made by Asus, popular for its Transformer tablets. We unboxed the device back in August. Let’s get into the complete review of the tablet to find out how it performs. Continue reading “Google Nexus 7 Review”
Lytro, the kaleidoscope-like camera that hit the markets last year had a special advantage to it. It could refocus the image, AFTER it was taken. It was a market disruption and there was no competition, till now. Yes, Toshiba has now announced that they are manufacturing a similar sensor that can be used for Smartphones and Tablets with commercial availability slated for sometime around 2013.
Continue reading “Toshiba challenges Lytro with its new refocusing smartphone sensor”
Samsung’s cross platform chat application, ChatON, has received a major update bringing the version number to 2.0.5. The app serves as a competitor to the extremely popular WhatsApp and Asia based competitors like WeChat.
Huawei Ascend G330 is now available for purchase from online retailer Snapdeal in India. Most of the features in the G330 are similar to the Huawei Ascend G300 that was launched in India back in July, including a 4-inch ( 800×480 pixels) IPS capactive touch screen display and a 5MP auto focus camera with LED Flash, but the Ascend G330 comes with a 1GHz dual-core processor, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) out of the box and comes with a front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend G330 now available in India for Rs. 10990”
It is the holiday season and at FoneArena, we have decided that we should spread joy and the holiday spirit! So, we are going to giveaway a brand new “limited edition” Apple iPad mini, the white 16 GB WiFi version! Read on to find out more about the contest.
India’s leading mobile and broadband provider Airtel has now sought after a new way to provide its broadband internet as a service. While the notion of a paid WiFi hotspot is nothing new in India, there has not been a wide commercial push that has widened its reach, and Airtel may fix just that, with its new “WiFi Hangout” service, a prepaid WiFi hotspot, initially launched in three cities/regions namely Mumbai, NCR and Bangalore.
Continue reading “Airtel launches WiFi hangout – a prepaid hotspot service in select cities”
Videocon has entered into the Smartphone segment with the launched of A20 and A30, affordable Android Smartphones in India. These are powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon Processors and has Dual SIM support with Dual Standby. The A20 comes with a 3.5-inch HVGA display, 1GHz processor 3MP rear Camera and a VGA front-facing camera, while the A30 comes with a 4.0-inch WVGA display, 1GHz dual-core processor, 5MP auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. These phones also come with pre-loaded apps including Facebook, TOI, ET, History Eraser and more. Continue reading “Videocon A20 and A30 Dual SIM Android Smartphones launched for Rs. 4999 and Rs. 7299”
Gameloft has started their Holiday Sale for Android games that would let you grab select games at a discounted price of $0.99 each. These Android games include, The Dark Knight Rises, N.O.V.A. 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, Wild Blood and more. Gameloft started their holiday sales for iPhone and iPad games at $0.99 last week. Continue reading “Holiday Sale: 12 Gameloft Android Games at $0.99”
Vodafone India has launched customer support through live chat. This service lets Vodafone customers chat to the customer care executive to solve their queries about their connection. This saves a lot of time since it connects quickly, unlike a call to customer support that would have several procedures before it connects to a customer care executive. Tata Docomo introduced live chat support for their customers few years back. Continue reading “Vodafone India launches Customer Support through Live Chat”
HTC has started the roll out of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update in some markets including UK. We had access to a UK unit and a massive 600 MB update showed up via OTA today. The update bears the version number 3.16.401.8 and measures 612.27 MB.We decided to give it a go and it was the much awaited jelly bean update. HTC had promised that it will release Android 4.1 JellyBean for the One S and One X this year and looks like the Taiwanese phone maker is keeping its word ! Continue reading “HTC One S JellyBean update roll out starts”
RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 based devices are no secret and have shown up more than a few times. Today, we got a glimpse at what might be the first QWERTY equipped device running BlackBerry OS 10. Named the “BlackBerry X10”, the handset brings a Bold 9900 inspired design to the struggling smartphone manufacturer’s next generation line up.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published statistics which reveal that the country’s mobile subscriber base has crossed 1.104 billion users as of November 2012. This is an increment of close to 118 million subscribers over the course of 11 months. The national telecom business volume has gone up 11.4% over the same period last year with a total of 1.18601 trillion yuan.
Approximately 82% of China’s population uses a mobile phone with about 20% of that (approximately 220 million) using 3G equipped devices. The Chinese smartphone market remains one of the most rapidly increasing territories and will top the combined US iOS & Android install base in 2013. There are about 167 million iOS and Android devices in use. Gartner had previously reported that Lenovo is set to steal the spot for number one manufacturer from Samsung in 2013. With the amount of innovation being seen in China by the likes of Huawei, ZTE amongst others, we expect Android based smartphones to help increase the smartphone userbase multifold over the next year.
[Source – MIIT]
Acer has been a prime contender in the Android tablet sector. Now they are planning to release Android devices starting from $99 next year.
Continue reading “Acer to launch low cost Android and Windows tablets next year”
Reliance Communications (Rcom) launched My College plan for pre-paid GSM customers earlier this September that offered unlimited access to Facebook and WhatsApp. Now they have launched Facebook Messenger Pack that would let their pre-paid customers enjoy unlimited access to Facebook and Facebook Messenger at just Rs. 16 per month. Continue reading “Reliance offers Unlimited Facebook and Facebook Messenger access at Rs. 16 per month”
