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.
You saw the LG Optimus 3D Max Unboxing last month, here is the complete review of the 3D phone, successor of the Optimus 3D that we review last year. It was announced at MWC 2012 earlier this year. It went on sale in India last month, and was officially launched later. Let’s get into the review. Continue reading “LG Optimus 3D Max Review”
LG Mobile is being quite aggressive this year when it comes to launching attractive Android smartphones running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. LG Mobile has announced three international models running on ICS apart from a few Gingerbread running devices at MWC 2012. These three devices are the Optimus L5, L7 and Optimus 4X HD which run Android 4.0.3 out of the box. Continue reading “Hands-on with LG Optimus L5 In India”
If you search for weather forecasts and conditions fairly often on your smartphone you might have noticed how Google displays the latest conditions depending on your location right in the browser itself. It has now extended this nifty addition to tablet browsers as well.
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The Google Music application has just received a major update bringing its user interface in line with the one shipping on the Nexus 7. The updated application follows the Holo UI principles similar to the Google+ app and there is a lot of focus on visuals with large images. In addition some useful additions like adding new tracks to a playlist queue have been included.
The update is available for all phones with Google Music on Android 2.2 and above via Google Play. The official changelog is listed below. Continue reading “Google Music receives major UI overhaul”
As turn by turn navigation becomes a standard feature on more and more phones, there is a growing demand for accessories like car mounts to safely and securely attach a phone to the car. The SuperGrip is one such mount which comes in a fairly small package but is surprisingly solid. Read on for the complete review.
