HTC Desire getting Android 2.2 FroYo on June 23rd ?

The is a  fresh rumor that the HTC Desire might get the latest android update aka FroYo on June 23rd. We know HTC is already working on bringing the update to all HTC android devices sold in 2010.

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BOLT 2.1 Available for Download

Bitstream the company behind the Bolt Mobile Browser has released the 2.1 version of it’s BOLT Browser which was in a Beta for sometime. What’s cool is that the company is claiming that the browser has the best mobile browser video support. If that’s true then its some serious competition for Skyfire.  This version has HTML5 Video support in addition to Flash. Bollywood sites such as hungama and bollywoodhungama are supported.

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Blackberry now offering 18 months warranty on BBs

Did you put off your Blackberry purchase just because you were not happy with a standard 12 month warranty ? Well starting now, RIM will offer 18 months warranty on all Blackberry handsets sold in the country !

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Samsung Champ Official Photos

Here are some official photos of the just announced Samsung Champ aka C3300K or Champion which is seen as the Star successor. Finally some non corby phones from the Korea phone maker. The Champ looks like it will be a ht like the Star due the aggressive pricing by Samsung. It’s just a cheap entry level touchscreen phone with Music,Radio, Camera and pretty much basic stuff ! Continue reading “Samsung Champ Official Photos”

Airfone Music Mania Series launched

Airfone has launched a bunch of handsets underthe Music Mania Series. The name has got something to do with the audio chipset which produces high quality sound and the ear earphone noise cancellation according to the company’s claims. They have launched 6 new handsets in this category ranging from Rs.1400-Rs.3600

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India 3G Auctions Winners Announced

The Department of Telecom (DoT)  just posted the list of winners for the 3G Auctions in various circles. Airtel , Aircel ,Reliance, Idea, Tata , STel won atleast 1 circle. Videocon and Etisalat did not win even one circle ! Once the formalities are over we should expect commercial services to be offered by the winners starting from September 2010

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Fly Booom MC105

Fly Mobile has launched the Booom MC105 with an inbuilt amplifier and a 30 x 40 mm speaker . Yeh it claims to go BOOM with an extra ‘o’  and aims to be your Portable Music system in a relatively small form factor. and reasonable price . Apart from the Bo0om’s Music capabilities It’s a Dual SIM phone so you can make calls too ! Continue reading “Fly Booom MC105”

Review of 3 Olive phones

The Indian mobile phone industry has seen unprecedented growth and emergence of new players in the market. Players like Micromax, Maxx, Karbonn have come from nowhere and started selling handsets in the lakhs.

Amongst them is a company called Olive. Olive Mobiles is a new entrant just like the ones above and many more. So what makes them unique you might ask, they all are the same after all! One look and you might say so. But a closer look reveals that it is not the same.

Olive phones have made quite a splash with their handsets. Engadget even covered one of their models. A feat, no Indian manufacturer I know has managed till date.

Olive has been very kind in providing us at Fonearena, three devices to review. We’ve put each of the handset through its paces and pushed it to the hilt. Continue reading “Review of 3 Olive phones”

FoneArena on NDTV CellGuru

As many of you might know folks from NDTV were at the FoneArena HQ recently to check out the Google Nexus One. Our small review of the phone was aired on NDTV yesterday in their cellphone show CellGuru. If you didn’t watch the show don’t worry as you watch it online even now. You can watch the video embedded below.  Just wait for around 10mins and someone you know must appear 🙂 Continue reading “FoneArena on NDTV CellGuru”

HTC Desire Tons of Pics

Here are tons of pics of the HTC Desire running on Android 2.1 . The Desire is expected to be launched in India really soon and we bring you new exclusive pics of the Phone. The Desire hasa 3.7 inch AMOLED display and a optical trackpad. It has 3 physical keys below the screen. Continue reading “HTC Desire Tons of Pics”

Twinkle Khanna to endorse Micromax Mobiles ?

UPDATE : Video added below

The latest news from Bollywood is that Twinkle Khanna wife of Akshay Kumar might endorse Micromax Mobiles. You might have already seen Akshay in the not-so funny ads for the Micromax Gamolution phone aired during IPL. Continue reading “Twinkle Khanna to endorse Micromax Mobiles ?”

LG BL40 Review Part-2: OS

The LG BL40 has a proprietary OS – with S class UI running. Due to this, it is easy to dismiss the BL40 as just another device. But that is exactly where most of us get it wrong. The BL40 is by no means an ‘under featured’ phone. It has a plethora of unique additions which cannot be found on many other devices. Let’s look into them in some detail –

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Nokia N8 Coming Soon to India

The Nokia N8 is coming soon to India according to Nokia India’s product pages !  When N8 was announced it was said that it would be available in Select Markets in Q3. Well , even N900 was released the same way. We had some butterflies in our stomach when we spotted this during the N8 announcement but a slight relief as we see the phone on  the India site now stated as ‘Coming Soon’ Continue reading “Nokia N8 Coming Soon to India”