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Gionee unveiled the Elife E6, the company’s latest flagship phone back in June. The company already announced that the phone would launch in India, now Gionee has sent us an invite for the India launch slated for October 3rd. The Elife E6 has a 5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display based on one-glass solution (OGS+) technology, powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core Mediatek MT6589T processor processor and runs on Android 4.2. Continue reading “Gionee Elife E6 launching in India on October 3rd”
Cygnett, popular international digital accessories brand has launched Alternate, a two-tone dockable cases for the iPhone 5 and the 5S in India. This lets you alternate between Work and Play, since these feature two pairs of ends in alternate colors, says the company. This case also comes with a screen protector and lifetime Guarantee. Since the case has removable ends, it offers easy in-case docking. Continue reading “Cygnett Two-tone case for iPhone 5 and 5S launched in India for Rs. 2499”
Priced at Rupees 44990/-, Sony Xperia Z1 is already available in stores, in India. It was first introduced to the world at IFA in Berlin, earlier this month and Sony has been surprisingly quick to bring this flagship device to India. The Z1 has a 5 inch Full HD display and is powered by a super fast Quadcore Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.2 Ghz. The Android 4.2.2 handset has some of the most tempting add ons with the box.
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Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z1 Unboxing”
MapmyIndia has made the the most popular Sygic & MapmyIndia app for Android completely free for ever. The app did not go for iOS. It was first launched for iPhone back in 2009 and costs Rs. 1,500 for the iOS platform. The recent update brought support for tablet and smartphones with high resolution display. It has lot of features including offline navigation, travel book, SOS/Help, City Guides from premium providers and from Wikipedia and more. You can also download Maps for a particular state separately. With all these features, the free app is definitely a great deal. Continue reading “Sygic & MapmyIndia offline GPS Navigation app goes free for Android”
Samsung India recently announced that they would release couple of Android mid-range Android smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Trend Duos (GT-S7392) is now available in India from online retailer Snapdeal. Even though Samsung has not announced the smartphone officially, it is available in China in a different name. The phone has a 4.0-inch WVGA(480×800) capacitive touch screen display similar to the Galaxy S Duos and also comes with Dual SIM support with Dual SIM always-on feature that automatically forwards calls from the phone number on SIM 2, even if a user is on the phone with SIM 1’s number. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Trend Duos with 4-inch display and Android 4.1 now available in India for Rs. 8490”
While we have already seen renders of the purported Nokia Asha 500 and its dual shot style shells, the bigger news to report here is that Whatsapp is finally coming to the Asha software platform, which includes the highly popular Asha 501 too. If the above leaked press image is to be believed(usually very trustworthy because of @evleaks), Whatsapp will finally arrive for the new Nokia Asha series. This has been THE highly requested app on Nokia Asha 501, and we are glad to see that it is indeed coming, but when is the question.
Continue reading “Whatsapp for the Nokia Asha 500 shows up alongside leaked press image”
Samsung is leading yet another consumer electronics segment in India, and this is after conquering the mobile category. Yes, the company is now leading the rapidly growing tablet segment too, with 21% of marketshare according to CyberMedia Research’s analysts. The overall tablet market too has massively improved in India, with about 1.15 million shipments in the last quarter – Q2 of 2013. This is a 27& QoQ increase and a huge 107% increase year-on-year. But the Indian market is predominantly 7 inch and other similarly sized small tablets, with about 70 vendors actively part of the whole market making it highly fragmented.
Samsung has finally started rolling out the Android 4.2.2 update for the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082). The update started rolling out for the Grand Duos starting from Russia last month. . The phone was announced in December last year running Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean). It was launched in India back in January. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Android 4.2.2 update starts rolling out in India”
Flipkart, one of the leading e-commerce platform in India has finally released a native Android app to shop easily. The app also offers voice search and barcode scanning to check for products, share the details with others and also add a widget to the homescreen. Flipkart launched eBooks app for Android last year. The app was released for iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 devices last month. The Flipkart app would be available for other platforms soon. Flipkart also has a mobile site Flipkart Lite. Continue reading “Flipkart releases shopping app for Android”
Videocon has renamed its telecom brand to from Videocon Mobile Services to Videocon Telecom and has also launched its new logo. The company has roped in Punjabi actor and singer, Gippy Grewal as its brand ambassador. The company says that the new logo creates a strong association of the brand with the telecom sector and the new brand ambassador who has huge fan following would connect with the youth segment in India. Continue reading “Videocon Mobile Services is now Videocon Telecom, announces its new brand ambassador”
Aircel has launched BookMate, the company’s first e-book store. This lets users browse, store, download and read books, magazines and comics, on their smartphones, tablets and PCs. This has collection of fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, magazines, comics, biographies, classics, children’s stories, reference books and more. Aircel BookMate will be available on WAP, Web and Android. iOS app would be available soon. Continue reading “Aircel introduces BookMate eBooks store”
LG unveiled the G2, the company’s latest flagship smartphone at an event last month. We brought you the unboxing of the device recently. Here we have the benchmarks of the device. The device is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) 28nm HPm Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.27 GHz with 480 MHz Adreno 330 GPU. The Xperia Z Ultra was clocked at 2.15 GHz, but the G2 is clocked at 2.27 GHz as you can see in the CPU-Z in the image above. We brought you the benchmarks of the Snapdragon 800 on a reference smartphone few months back. Here we have also compared it in these benchmarks to show you the difference. Even though this one is slightly undercloked than the original chip that is clocked at 2.3 GHz, benchmarks are almost similar.
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ZTE, the Chinese company known for its communication infrastructure solutions and even smartphone products, is now the leading Data Card vendor in India, with a user base of 63.04% of the total Data Card users. The CyberMedia Research team had released these statistics for the Indian market in their website sometime back, where they actually noted a decline in the Data Card market from the previous year but compared to the last quarter, Q2 has seen a 66.7% growth and about 30.2% of all the new shipments are ZTE cards, according to the data.
Continue reading “ZTE becomes India’s leading Data Card vendor with 30.2% marketshare in Q2, 2013”
MapmyIndia, popular for its GPS navigation and mobile apps has updated the MapmyIndia app for Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 tablets / PCs with real time traffic information. This offers accurate, comprehensive and real-time traffic information so that you can easily track the traffic situation in real time and plan routes accordingly. Continue reading “MapmyIndia for Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 gets real-time traffic information”
Lava has officially launched the Iris 506Q, a new smartphone in the Iris series. It went on sale online earlier this week, but the launch price is cheaper than the online price of Rs. 11700, which is a good thing. It has a 5-inch qHD (960 × 540 pixels) OGS display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, 720p HD video recording and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support with dual standby and 3G connectivity. It also comes with FOTA feature to update the phone’s software over-the-air. Continue reading “Lava Iris 506Q with 5-inch display, quad-core processor, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 10999”
