Chinese search engine giant Baidu enters into the Mobile OS market with its Yi OS that is based on Android. It was announced at Baidu World event in Beijing and it includes several Baidu apps such as Ting, their social music service, Shen Bian app similar to Google places, maps and a book-reading app. The core features such as integrated voice search would remain the same. Continue reading “Chinese Search Engine Giant Baidu announces Android-based Yi OS for Mobile”
Vodafone has launched their Facebook phone, Vodafone Blue in India. This phone is developed in collaboration with Facebook that has the qualities of a smartphone and social networking functions. The phone was announced in UK this July. This phone has dedicated F button that lets the user upload pictures, visit profiles and update status at a single click. This has 2.4 inch screen, Full QWERTY keypad and an optical track pad for navigation. Continue reading “Vodafone Blue – Facebook phone launched in India at Rs. 5000”
Idea has launched new tariff voucher for this festive season that offers all the local on-net calls at 10 paise per minute for Andhra Pradesh customers. This is available for both existing and new Idea prepaid customers. Continue reading “Idea offers local on-net calls at 10 paise per minute for Andhra Pradesh customers”
Vodafone has launched new offers for the prepaid customers in Chennai and Tamil Nadu travelling to Sri Lanka. These top-up packs would let them make and receive calls at cheaper rates while in roaming. They have also launched new 3G experience zone in Salem, Tamil Nadu. Continue reading “Tamil Nadu: Vodafone launches International Roaming offers for Sri Lanka, launches 3G experience zone in Salem”
Dinamlar has launched their iPad app that gets you the latest news around the world, India and Tamil Nadu. This also offers features such bookmarking particular news for reading it later and option to download the news to get access to the content offline. Dinamalar newspaper has completed 60 years this month, and they have launched this app to commemorate this. Continue reading “Get the latest news in Tamil with the Dinamalar app for iPad”
Airtel has launched their new special pack called Mangalmurti for the Ganpati festival that offers a host of products that include LIVE Aarti at Siddhivinayak and Lalbaugcha Raja, Ganpati downloads and Ganesh predictions. Continue reading “Airtel launches Mangalmurti Pack for Ganpati festival”
As the uptake of smartphones with built-in GPS receiver increases, so are people’s reliance to using their smartphone as a car navigation solution. These days even a cheap Android smartphone is more than capable of handling all sorts of navigational duties in a motor vehicle. All you need is a car mount.
The problem with universal car mounts are there aren’t all that reliable. A one size fit all solution doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good. From my experience with universal car mounts, they are either flimsy or can’t be mounted on any surfaces. Enters Exogear with their Exomount universal car mount to prove me wrong. Continue reading “Exomount universal car mount review”
Droid Bionic is one of the most anticipated and mysterious Android handsets and it was officially announced back in January during the CES event along with the Motorola Atrix. Then Motorola decided to redesign it and we saw the new version which is really good looking. Recently, Verizon launched Droid Bionic sign-up page and there was a description on the page that it will be coming this Summer. Continue reading “Motorola Droid Bionic release date revealed in teaser video”
Last month, Canadian mobile phone manufacturer Research In Motion launched few new BlackBerry handsets in London. BlackBerry 9810 a.k.a Torch 2 was also announced back then and it’s a successor to BB Torch which is also a very famous BlackBerry handset. Well, it’s currently available in UK for £460 (which is around $760) without contract and it’s not affordable for everyone. Continue reading “BlackBerry Torch 2 hits pre-order in UK, free on contract”
TomTom is a very famous Dutch provider of automotive navigation systems and their devices are famous all over the world and they are also offering application for iOS devices like iPhone and iPod Touch and soon it will hit Android devices. It was launched for iPhone (only USA) back in 2009 but if you are an iPad user, then you were out of luck the whole time but not anymore. Continue reading “TomTom launches Official Application for iPad”
Launch of the next Apple flagship smartphone is around the corner which will be known as iPhone 5. Well, there’s a little confusion that Apple will be launching two new smartphones sooner or later, one will be known as the iPhone 5 and the other one will be iPhone 4S. We recently heard that Apple is working on a 8GB version of iPhone 4 and it could be the low-end iPhone we are hearing about, also there will be some changes in it like there will be plastic on front and backside instead of glass, anyway let’s wait for Apple to clear the air. Continue reading “Apple iPhone 5 hitting BestBuy next month, Sprint also carrying it”
The phone you are looking at is the HTC Ruby. We had already shown you the leak when the phone was spotted in a reflection of the HTC Flyer’s screen. It might also be known as the HTC Amaze 4G on the T-Mobile USA network.
Continue reading “HTC Ruby Pictures and Specifications Leaked”
Rumors are rife that Intel plans to discontinue MeeGo development following the rather tepid market response to hardware based on fledgling OS. Digitimes reports that Intel is planning to “temporarily discontinue development of its MeeGo OS” . If Intel backs down from the OS it would mean the end of the linux based operating system from a commercial point of view and would be relegated to being a hobbyist OS at best.
Continue reading “Intel to discontinue MeeGo development ? Not so fast !”
Want the latest and greatest version of the HTC Sense UI but still toting a Desire HD ? Well you don’t have to wait any longer as the hackers over at XDA Developers have managed to get it running on handset.
Heard of Philips Mobile Phones ? They were available quite a while ago and we have not heard from them in a while now. The Xenium range of phones are popular in Europe and Russia for their exceptional battery life. Looks like the company is making a comeback into India or at least testing the waters again as we got an invited to a launch event happening on September 7th.Interestingly the invite comes from Conplex Telecom India. From the looks of the phone in the invite we are placing our bets on the Xenium X806 which is a Dual SIM phone with 1 month standby time and around 8 hours of talk time. Continue reading “Philips Xenium X806 Dual SIM Phone launching in India on Sep 7”
