Lava Mobiles has launched a new touch screen phone LAVA M70. The phone is packed with entertainment features and has 3.2” Hi-brightness IPS display. It comes with 5 MP Camera with dual LED flash with Smile and Blink detection. It captures your photo automatically when you smile and you are in a particular location facing the phone’s camera. The same case with the blink detection. Continue reading “Lava Mobiles launches LAVA M70 Touch Screen Phone for Rs. 5999”
The price of Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S has been revealed for India. The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S is the sucessor of the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc and it is powered by a 1.4Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It comes with a 4.2-inch Reality display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine and 8 MP auto focus camera with Exmor R image sensor, LED flash and 720p HD video recording. It was announced in September. Continue reading “Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S gets priced in India”
Motorola RAZR gets a price tag in India. Online retailer Flipkart has listed the phone with a price but these is no exact launch date. The Motorola RAZR is the thinnest smartphone till date with 7.1 mm thickness, which is about 1.5mm slimmer than the previous slimmest smartphone the Samsung Galaxy S2. It it is made with KEVLAR fiber and features 4.3-inch (960 x 540 pixels) Super AMOLED hyper-vibrant display and it is powered by 1.2 GHz dual core processor. It runs on Android Gingerbread 2.3.5. Continue reading “Motorola RAZR Price Revealed for India”
The detailed specs of Samsung Illusion has leaked out from the Verizon Infocenter and the guys from the androidcentral has got hold of the specs page. This is expected to be entry-level handset that looks like Nexus S with the capacitive touch buttons, rounded edges and a textured back, but comes with a SD card slot and Samsung TouchWiz UI. The image of the phone emerged couple of months back on Flickr. Continue reading “Samsung Illusion for Verizon leaked specs emerge”
MOTOACTV is a lightweight, wearable fitness performance tracker and smart music player in one. The MOTOACTV also lets you stay connected to your Android smartphone, so you can answer calls, receive texts and listen to music via your headphones easily. It has 1.6-inch sweat-proof, rain-resistant and scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla display that comes with a GPS to track your running, walking and biking data, and displays it on a scratch-resistant display for instant analysis. You can monitor your time, distance, speed, calories burned and much more. It comes with Bluetooth 4.0 and ANT+ wireless connectivity for existing fitness sensors. It is 9.6 mm thick and weighs 35 g. Continue reading “Motorola MOTOACTV – GPS Fitness Tracker and Smart Music Player”
Looks like Apple finally has an answer for the battery issue surrounding the iPhone 4S. Apple has released the first Over-the-Air update for all iOS devices running on iOs 5 such as the iPhone 3GS, 4 , 4S, iPad , iPad2 , iPod Touch ( 3rd gen and 4th Gen). The update is available Over-the-air meaning you won’t have to download a 700 odd MB file and use iTunes to update your device. In fact I have managed to update 2 iPhones and an iPod touch in a matter of minutes as the OTA update was just 44.6 MB for my iPhone.It would have taken to few hours or days required to download few GBs of files normally. Continue reading “First OTA update for iOS – 5.0.1 now rolling out to iPhone , iPad and iPod Touch”
If you are one amongst consumers who had purchased the iPhone 4S from outside India and were facing issues getting it to work here , good news for you. Many users including me were seeing no signal bars on the iPhone 4S in India. Calls and SMS were not working.Surprisingly 3G data was working fine on most operators including Airtel , Vodafone and BSNL. I had tried using some international SIM cards such as AT&T, T-Mobile , O2 UK, 3 UK, SmarTone (HK). The issue was strange as I had another iPhone 4S which was working perfectly fine with all the SIM cards. Continue reading “The mysterious story of the Apple iPhone 4S not working in India”
RIM’s new BBX smartphones may come with better specs that is similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook and not look like the BlackBerry Bold says the RIM’s vice president of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development, Alec Saunders in an interview with PC Mag. The BlackBerry BBX phones would have 16:9 aspect ratio and 1024 x 600 resolution display similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook unlike the 800 x 480 resolution displays in the recently launched BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Torch 2 smartphones. The resolution is also different from other phones that come HD resolution (1028 x 720 pixels) displays such as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC Rezound and the LG Optimus LTE. Continue reading “RIM’s BBX smartphones to come with PlayBook like display and BES support”
RIM (Research in Motion) has announced that they would continue working on and releasing its own implementations of Flash Player in the future. Yesterday, Adobe announced that it is stopping development of Flash Player for mobile browsers and mobile devices and focus more on HTML5 development. Continue reading “RIM to continue developing Flash Player for BlackBerry PlayBook”
Micromax A85, the company’s first high-end Android phone is now available in India. It is branded as Micromax Superfone A85 and it is powered by a 1 GHz Dual Core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo) that is upgradable to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It has gesture controls in Contacts, Call Logs, Messaging, Email, Calendar, Gallery and Music Player and also has voice controls. It has 3.8-inch (480 x 800 Pixels) capacitive touch screen display with gorilla glass to protect it from scratches, 5MP camera and 0.3MP front video calling camera. Continue reading “Micromax A85 now available in India for Rs.18990”
The HTC Sensation XL isn’t the most exciting smartphones currently on the market. But it is one of the few devices that comes with a massive 4.7″ display. If you are the type of person who finds the original HTC Sensation small, then this may be the device for you. Continue reading “HTC Sensation XL hands-on”
Nokia India just sent us an invite for a launch event on Nov 14th. The invite talks about Amazing New Experiences. We are betting this is the India launch of the Windows Phone devices. Nokia announced the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 devices at Nokia World 2011 last month where the company promised to bring these devices to India before the end of the year. The Lumia 710 would be coming first followed by the Lumia 800 from what we have learnt. Interestingly both these devices use a microSIM card like the iPhone 4 , 4s and Nokia N9. Would be interesting to see how operators address this issue. Pricing wise the Lumia 710 is expected to be cheaper than the 800 and the stated pricing is 270 euros and the device can come at around Rs.20,000
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NVIDIA has unveiled the world’s first Quad-Core Tegra 3 processor for tablets and mobile phones. This is said to offer PC-class performance levels, better battery life and better mobile experiences (Better web experience, faster applications and multitasking) in tablets and mobile phones.This was previously named, Project Kal-El that was confirmed by the Nvidia CEO in AsiaD last month. Continue reading “NVIDIA unveils Quad-Core Tegra 3 processor for Tablets and Mobile Phones”
Asus has announced their Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet with Quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and 10.1-inch LED backlit display that offers 178-degree viewing angle and has a maximum brightness of 600 nits. The tablet is powered by Quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and runs on Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) with an update to Ice Cream Sandwich expected soon. It is 8.3mm thick and comes with a mini-HDMI output, microSD slot. The keyboard dock has Multi-touch pad, SD Card reader and a USB port. Continue reading “Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime with Quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU announced”
Swype Keyboard Beta for Symbian has been updated to version 2.1 that brings Symbian Belle support and new install / uninstall experience that lets you install the app easily without any problem. They have solved all the critical issues raised on Nokia Beta for the period of last 8 weeks in the Beta Labs. This is also the last Beta release for the app before it gets graduated to the Ovi store. The previous version was 2.0 that brought portrait and split-screen text input support. Continue reading “Swype for Symbian updated to v2.1 in Nokia Beta Labs”
