The HTC Butterfly is one of the first phones to sport a 1080p screen that is already available in the global market. It launched as the HTC Butterfly J in Japan, Droid DNA with Verizon in the US, but it’s essentially the same with minor differences, with one advantage of the global version being the … Continue reading “HTC Butterfly vs Samsung Galaxy S3”
FoneArena was the first to bring you the news about the BlackBerry Z10 coming to India on February 24th,25th . Looks like we were right ! An interesting and unusual invite landed at our office today from BlackBerry and it was a cool heat sensitive mug ! Once we filled the mug with some hot … Continue reading “BlackBerry Z10 India launch on Feb 25 as invite arrives”
Canonical has announced that the Touch Developer Preview of Ubuntu for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 smartphones would be available from 21st February. Canonical announced Ubuntu OS for smartphones last month, and we brought you a demo of the Ubuntu OS running on the Galaxy Nexus from the International CES 2013. At CES Canonical said … Continue reading “Ubuntu Developer Preview for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 coming on February 21”
When the Apple iPad mini was launched on October 23rd, 2012, there was a specific comparison made by none other than Apple themselves, and that too, directly in their slides. The competitor in question was the Google Nexus 7. The Google Nexus 7 was the direct answer to the threat that was the Amazon Kindle … Continue reading “Apple iPad mini vs Google Nexus 7”
I have been dreaming to go to CES for several years after watching all the madness sitting here in India. CES or the Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest tech conference in the world attended by a record number of tech companies and journalists.Here is a recap of all what we saw at CES 2013. … Continue reading “FoneArena at CES 2013 a recap”
The budget feature phone category is perhaps one of the hottest yet most saturated markets right now with multiple entries from most smartphone manufacturers. With similar specifications across the board, how do you differentiate from the crowd ? Xolo has placed its bet on Intel’s mobile chipset to set its latest device apart. Is it … Continue reading “Xolo X500 Review”
Samsung recently announced its latest line of Java based feature phones under the REX branding. We’ve got our hands on the top end model called the REX 90 and here’s a quick unboxing while we work on readying a review of the handset. The phone has an interface very similar to the TouchWiz UI seen … Continue reading “Samsung REX 90 Unboxing”
Samsung launched range of java-based feature phones in the REX series, the REX 60, REX 70, REX 80 and the REX 90 in India today. We got some hands on time with the REX 90, the top end model in the series. We brought you the REX 90 photo gallery earlier today, here is the video. It packs … Continue reading “Samsung REX 90 hands on”
Samsung, in an effort to revamp its featurephone strategy, launched its new range of smart feature phones recently at a press conference in New Delhi. They are called the REX series of devices and four devices have been launched namely REX 60, REX 70, REX 80 and REX 90. We’ve been taking a look at … Continue reading “Samsung REX 80 hands on”
The newly launched Samsung REX series of smart feature phones are Samsung’s new entries to the entry level smartphone market. With players like Micromax and Karbonn encroaching the feature phone territory with Android based models, the market is quite wide open. Nokia initially responded with their Asha series of device, and now it’s Samsung’s turn, … Continue reading “Samsung REX 70 hands on”
Samsung had launched their new REX series of smart feature phones recently at a press conference in New Delhi here, in India. This is a global launch and the REX series of devices have been designed at the Samsung R&D center in Delhi. Four devices were launched today, as a part of the new REX … Continue reading “Samsung REX 60 hands on”
A few weeks ago Micromax, the popular Indian smartphone manufacturer, showed off its next Android flagship. Catering to the budget minded audience, the Micromax A116 Canvas HD packs a punch in terms of specifications at an extremely wallet friendly price point of Rs. 13,990. The handset pairs a quad core processor with a 5inch 720p … Continue reading “Micromax A116 Canvas HD Unboxing”
Google has updated the Google Search app for Android devices running on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). This update brings the most expected Google Now widgets for the home screen and lock screen. This update also brings new cards such as movie cards with latest ratings from Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango movie pass with reminder and more. The … Continue reading “Google Search for Android updated with Google Now widgets, New cards”
ResolutionTweet is a new productivity app that helps you create, share and keep your resolutions on track. This will motivate you to change your Wish list into a Will list. We shared a similar app for the iPhone called the WishLab recently, but this app has several unique features such as reminders, web sync and more. The new update also … Continue reading “ResolutionTweet app for Android helps to keep your resolutions on track”
The Apple iPad mini was released on October 23rd ,2012 which is roughly 2 and a half years and three generations after the original Apple iPad that was announced on January 27, 2010. What’s special with the iPad mini is that Apple were vehemently denying the need for a smaller iPad, but as they always … Continue reading “Apple iPad 4 or iPad mini?”
