Here is the FoneArena Mobile Roundup for the 3rd week of September 2011. SanDisk has announced that they would broaden the distribution network by partnering with Beetel Teletech and making them as an authorized distributor to distribute SanDisk memory cards across India. The memory card comes at wide range of capacities that include, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB to meet a range of storage needs. Continue reading “Mobile News Roundup – September 19 2011”
Category: Brands
Motorola Admiral Leaked
The phone is the picture is the Motorola Admiral. It is another addition to Motorola’s Android powered QWERTY candybar phones.
LG Optimus Note with QWERTY Leaked
We recently saw Samsung announce the Galaxy Note smartphone. It seems that LG is also ready to introduce a phone named Note. The phone in the picture above is the Optimus Note.
Nokia N8 strikes again – amazing Timelapse Video from Austria
We all know about the Nokia N8’s amazing camera capabilities, right? It may not be the most user-friendly device (well, at least not until Symbian Belle comes out), but the superb build quality and the main aspect of the Nokia N8, the camera, have always spoken for it! Those two aspects are also the reason why i always carry one with me. I always try and find a place somewhere in my bag, just to have it with me, be it as backup device on a long day or as my camera for quick snapshots!
You see, there’s quite some love in the air for the Nokia N8, and apparently it is the same with a user called Sascha, who I found via the Nokia Austria Facebook page. Equipped with Camera Pro, Sascha has created a Timelapse Video, that I like so much, I just had to share it! Camera Pro, written in Qt by another fellow austrian, enables the user to access and use a more professional side of the Nokia N8 camera, like an 11x digital zoom, RAW jpg, video recording with 30fps and REAL video autofocus! Another feature of Camera Pro is a Timelapse function, which Sascha used to produce a whooping 1.552 pictures, and merge it all together to make one awesome video of it. Without further adue, enjoy the video!
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Ovi Store gets renamed to Nokia Store
Nokia has already announced its intentions to move away from its ‘Ovi’ brand and instead focus on the name Nokia. After the shift from Ovi Maps to Nokia Maps , the next big change comes in the form of the Ovi Store.
[Updated] 5 new userland exploits found , Untethered iPhone 5 jailbreak imminent
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Hacker pOsixninja from the Chronic Dev Team has announced the discovery of 5 new bootrom userland exploits which will be used to develop a jailbreak for Apple A5 based devices. The A5 chip is being currently used in the iPad and is expected to be the chip powering the next generation iPhone.
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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer rooting guide
The eee pad Transformer by ASUS has been the most successful tablet running Google’s Android Honeycomb (3.2) Operating System. Not only that it is a low cost device with a dual core processor but the performance of this tablet is better than any other Android tablet out there, also one of the reason for the tablet’s success is the Keyboard dock which comes with the device. The great thing is that this device is also doing great in the developing field, there are about 4 – 5 ROMs, kernels, themes, also a 3G USB dongle support is in development. This post will help you root your Transformer and also flash ClockworkMod recovery using which you will be able to flash the custom ROMs and other goodies.
Blackberry Playbook O.S 2.0 will bring video store
RIM just had it’s Q2 conference call and it was mentioned that the playbook will receive an update to O.S 2.0 which will have many new features including video store where you will be able to rent movies and TV shows.
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RIM Q2 2011 results are out , 10.6 Million BlackBerry smartphones and 200,000 Playbooks shipped
Research in Motion today declared the results for the quarter ended Aug 27 2001 and the company saw revenue drop to $4.2 billion. Surprisingly the revenue from services crossed $1 billion as the BlackBerry subscriber base saw a 40% growth to cross 70 million. The company managed to ship 10.6 million smartphones and 200,000 units of the Playbook during this quarter. Although it was not a great Q2 for RIM , it was not so bad considering the new devices like the Bold 9900 hit the stores only towards the fag end of the quarter. Hopefully Q3 will be a better quarter considering the global launch of the OS7 devices. The company has promised a QNX based mobile platform next year.
Nokia 100 and Nokia 101 phones launched in India
Nokia has launched their Nokia 100, single SIM and Nokia 101, Dual SIM phones in India. These phones were announced in the last week of August. The Nokia 101 is Nokia’s fifth dual SIM phone and it is also the most affordable dual SIM Nokia phone till date. Both these phones run on Nokia’s S30 platform. Continue reading “Nokia 100 and Nokia 101 phones launched in India”
Samsung invests 70 million USD in Noida Mobile Manufacturing Facility
Samsung Electronics has just made an announcement that it’s investing USD 70 million in the Noida mobile manufacturing facility. Seems like India is one of the top 3 mobile markets for Samsung globally.This facility in Noida is Samsung’s 6th manufacturing unit outside Korea and employs over 4000 people. This facility in Noida is also capable of handling TVs , Refrigerators , ACs and Washing Machines in addition to mobile phones. Surprisingly Samsung also has a manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur , Chennai where Nokia also has a pretty big factory. Press Release after the break .
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Exclusive : Micromax A85 Photo
An Anonymous tipster just sent us this image of the rumoured Micromax A85 which is expected to be Micromax’s first high-end device. The device is the photo we received looks much more attractive than the one we saw in the earlier leak. As excepted , it is running on Android and expected to be powered by a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU and support HSDPA and WiFi networks.
WhatsApp coming to Windows Phone 7
One of the most popular cross platform messaging services ie WhatsApp is finally making its way over to Windows Phone 7.5 which is also known as Mango. WhatsApp sent across a cryptic message via its official Twitter channel which indicated that it was working on an app for Mango.
HTC Sensation XE Specifications and Price
HTC announced HTC Sensation XE, their first HTC phone with Beats audio today. HTC announced its partnership with Beats Electronics last month and promised to launch HTC devices with beats audio. The Clove UK, online retail site has revealed the price and the launch date of the phone for UK. The HTC Sensation XE runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), features 1.5GHz Dual core processor and has extended battery. It also has aluminum uni-body. Continue reading “HTC Sensation XE Specifications and Price”
HTC coming up with it’s own OS?
HTC has been experimenting with the O.S used in it’s devices from a long time, it was the first company to adopt Android O.S, it also came out with devices running Qualcomm’s BREW and has been running Windows 6.5 from long back, recently they have also introduced devices running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. Now we are hearing that HTC is looking to develop it’s own O.S, is this HTC’s reply to Google buying Motorola or is HTC worried about future Android upgrades and it’s relation with Google? Reason could also be the recent lawsuit against HTC by Apple on HTC’s Android devices.
