Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos now available in India for Rs. 13,490

The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos, Dual SIM Android phone is now available in India from online retailers Letsbuy and Flipkart. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Ace Duos along with a range of Dual SIM smartphones in India last week. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is a Dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) smartphone with Dual Standby. It comes with 3.5-inch (320 x 480 Pixels) TFT display and is powered by 800 MHz Qualcomm processor. It has 3MP camera and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos now available in India for Rs. 13,490”

Samsung feature phones to come preloaded with Opera Mini browser

Opera Mini to come pre-loaded on Samsung’s latest feature phones such as Samsung Star 3, Star 3 Duos and Champ Deluxe Duos. The Opera Mini offers faster browsing and also saves browsing charges. It is 10 times faster and consumes up to 90% less data since the webpages are compressed before being sent to the phone. Continue reading “Samsung feature phones to come preloaded with Opera Mini browser”

Airtel Money – Mobile Payment Service now available across India


Airtel has expanded its Airtel Money, Mobile Payment Service that is now available in 300+ key cities across India. This enables the Airtel Money users load cash on their mobile devices and spend it to pay utility bills and recharges, shop at 7,000+ merchant outlets, transact online etc. They launched the Airtel Money services last year starting with Delhi NCR and expanded it to Chennai in May 2011. Continue reading “Airtel Money – Mobile Payment Service now available across India”

NVIDIA Tegra 3 vSMP architecture renamed as 4-PLUS-1

NVIDIA has officially renamed their variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP) Multi-Core CPU architecture as 4-PLUS-1 quad-core architecture. They unveiled the Quad-Core Tegra 3 processor for Tablets and Mobile Phones last November. This offers better performance with their 4 cores while playing HD videos and games sand uses its companion core while performing tasks that require less power consumption like playing music, e-mail, operating in standby mode or updating background data. Continue reading “NVIDIA Tegra 3 vSMP architecture renamed as 4-PLUS-1”

ZTE to unveil 8 new devices including Windows Phone and Multi-Core Android phones at MWC 2012

ZTE has announced that they would unveil 8 new devices at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week. These devices include multi-core chipsets, LTE, 4G radio and the latest Android and Windows Mobile platforms. They have already revealed the ZTE PF200 and the N910 LTE smartphones running on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with 1.2GHz and 1.5GHz chipsets, earlier this week.  Continue reading “ZTE to unveil 8 new devices including Windows Phone and Multi-Core Android phones at MWC 2012”

Samsung Galaxy S2 sales cross 20 million units

Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy S2 sales (to channels and distributors) have surpassed 20 million units worldwide, 10 months after the launch. The 4.3-inch Android phone with super AMOLED Plus display was launched in Korea last April and later launched in other Asian and European countries Worldwide. 1 million units of Galaxy S2 were sold in Korea in the first 30 days. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S2 sales cross 20 million units”

Google Docs for Android gets Real-time collaboration, Rich text formatting and more

Google Docs for Android has been updated to version 1.0.54 that brings new features such as real-time collaboration that lets you see updates in real time as others type on their PC, tablet or the Android phones. The new interface offers pinch to zoom that enables you to focus on a specific paragraph. It also has rich text formatting such as bold, italics, underline, font color and background color.

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LG Optimus 4X HD with 1.5GHz Quad-core Tegra 3 processor, 4.7-inch HD display and Android 4.0 announced

LG has announced the Optimus 4X HD, successor of the LG Optimus 2x, the  that was launched last year. It has 4.7-inch True HD IPS display and is powered by 1.5GHz Quad-core Tegra 3 processor. It runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It has 8MP auto focus camera with LED Flash support, 1.3MP secondary camera and is 8.9mm thick . The 1.5GHz Quad-core Tegra 3 processor offers better HD video playback, multi-tasking and would consumes less power which while performing simple tasks such as phone calls, music playback etc. Continue reading “LG Optimus 4X HD with 1.5GHz Quad-core Tegra 3 processor, 4.7-inch HD display and Android 4.0 announced”

Samsung showcases the 4GB LPDDR3 RAM at ISSCC

Samsung has been bringing out loads of mobile hardwares lately, and it is being really profitable for them, their Exynos line of processors were a great success and now they have come up with the first 4GB LPDDR3 RAM which two times faster than the current being used in the mobile devices. This new RAM was unveiled at ISSCC expo.

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Asus Transformer Prime Bootloader unlock tool now available for download


Asus has finally released the Bootloader unlock tool for the Transformer Prime tablet as they announced last month. This would be useful for the modding community who would like to have the bootloader unlocked and also for people who would like to install custom ROM on their tablet. The Unlock tool works only with the with Transformer Prime TF201 with ICS OS. Continue reading “Asus Transformer Prime Bootloader unlock tool now available for download”

Firefox mobile will soon support ARMv6 handsets

Firefox is one of the major desktop browsers and it has been slowly trying to capture the mobile market too as most of the people are now using handheld device, but the main problem is that Firefox for mobile only supports ARMv7 handsets as of now, which means that it cannot be run on more than 50% percent of Android devices available in the market right now. But Mozilla has confirmed that they are working a update which will bring ARMv6 handset support to Firefox mobile.

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NEC to bring 3 LTE handsets with Android 4.0 to MWC 2012

NEC is a good manufacturer, I remember getting their tablet running touch Windows XP, it was a great device, I also used some of their chips while doing my research on Microprocessors and Micrcontrollers, but they have not been very active in the international markets from quite some time now, but as the mobile industry is booming with the help of Android, NEC have decided to come back to action and will be showcasing three interesting devices this MWC running the latest Android 4.0.

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LG Optimus 3D Max Android Smartphone unveiled

LG has unveiled the Optimus 3D MAX, successor of the LG Optimus 3D that was launched last year. This is the international variant of the Optimus 3D Cube  that was announced for SK Telecom in Korea earlier today. It has 4.3-inch IPS display with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection that would offer Glasses-Free 3D viewing and is powered by 1.2GHz dual-core processor. It is just 9.6mm thick and weighs 148g with metallic and rounded edges as the previous rumors suggested. It comes D-style cubicle icons that could also be customized with Icon Customizer app and also has enhanced 3D Converter to convert Google Maps and other road views into 3D. Continue reading “LG Optimus 3D Max Android Smartphone unveiled”

Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G coming to T-Mobile late March for $149.99

T-Mobile USA has announced that the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G would be available late March.  They unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G at CES last month and it supports upto 42 Mbps data speeds on HSPA+.  It has 3.97-inch Super AMOLED display and is powered by 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor. It runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It comes with 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording with flash and advanced shooting modes, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G coming to T-Mobile late March for $149.99”

Twitter for iPhone and Android updated, brings Swipe shortcuts and lots of new features

Twitter has updated their iPhone and Android apps with lots of new features. Both the apps have Swipe shortcut that lets you reply, retweet, favorite or share it, or view the Twitter user’s profile just by swiping without leaving your timeline. Find friends now provides confirmation alert before uploading your contacts’ email addresses and phone numbers to add new friends. Continue reading “Twitter for iPhone and Android updated, brings Swipe shortcuts and lots of new features”