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Xolo Play Tegra Note price drops to Rs. 7999

Xolo Play Tegra Note

Xolo launched the Xolo Play Tegra Note tablet with Tegra 4 processor back in December 2013 for Rs, 17,999. Now the tablet is available exclusively from Amazon.in for Rs. 7,999. It has support for NVIDIA DirectStylus technology and also comes with a stylus pen. In our review we said that this is of the best tablets in the sub Rs. 20,000 segment at that time. With the latest price cut the tablet becomes more affordable and one of the cheapest tablets with a Tegra 4 processor. Continue reading “Xolo Play Tegra Note price drops to Rs. 7999”

Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo price drops to Rs. 12499

Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo

Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo (GT-I9300I) smartphone has received a price cut and is available for Rs. 12,499 in India. The official Samsung eStore lists the smartphone for Rs. 15,900, but Flipkart has started selling it at new rate since yesterday midnight. It was launched in India back in April last year at Rs. 25,499 running Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean), later it received Android 4.4 (KitKat) update. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo price drops to Rs. 12499”

Lava Iris Alfa with 5-inch display, quad-core processor launched for Rs. 6550

Lava Iris Alfa

LAVA International has launched Iris Alfa, the company’s latest smartphone in the Iris series. It has a 5-inch FWVGA IPS Full Lamination display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED flash and VGA front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Iris Alfa with 5-inch display, quad-core processor launched for Rs. 6550”

Swipe Ultimate Tab 3G 10.1-inch Windows 8.1 2-in-1 with built-in 3G launched for Rs. 19999

Swipe Ultimate Tab 3G

Swipe Technologies has launched the Swipe Ultimate Tab 3G, the company’s latest Windows 8.1 2-in-1, an upgraded version of Swipe Ultimate tablet with inbuilt 3G SIM support and direct USB 3.0. Most of the specifications are similar, including a 10.1-inch (1280×800 pixels) IPS screen, quad-core Intel Atom Z3735 processor, 5-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front-facing camera and magnetic keyboard that has a touchpad so that it can double up as a laptop. Continue reading “Swipe Ultimate Tab 3G 10.1-inch Windows 8.1 2-in-1 with built-in 3G launched for Rs. 19999”

Micromax Bolt A066 listed on official website

Micromax Bolt A066

Micromax Bolt A066, the latest smartphone in the Bolt series has been listed on the official website. It doesn’t have dual front-facing speakers like the Bolt AD3520 that went on sale earlier this month, but this has similar specifications, including a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, dual-core MediaTek SoC, Android KitKat OS, dual SIM support and 2G (EDGE) connectivity. Continue reading “Micromax Bolt A066 listed on official website”

YU YUREKA Review

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Micromax’s YU launched the YU YUREKA (AO5510) smartphone last month. This is the first smartphone under YU brand. It comes packed with features and it is the first official smartphone in India to run on Cyanogen OS. Specifications look great on paper. Is the smartphone worth the price of Rs. 8,999? Let us find out in the complete review.

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Sony SmartWatch 3 and SmartBand Talk get priced in India at Rs. 19990 and Rs. 12990

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Sony SmartWatch 3 and SmartBand Talk are priced on official Sony India website at Rs. 19,990 (MRP) and Rs. 12,990 (MRP). Both these were unveiled at IFA 2014 back in September. Continue reading “Sony SmartWatch 3 and SmartBand Talk get priced in India at Rs. 19990 and Rs. 12990”

Registrations now open for YU YUREKA sale on Jan 22nd

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Micromax’s YU launched the YUREKA smartphone last month for Rs. 8,999. It sold 10,000 smartphones in just 3 seconds in the first flash sale earlier this Tuesday, January 13th. At that time the company confirmed that the second flash sale will take place on January 22nd. Today Amazon.in has started registrations for the second sale. You just need to click subscribe that will be considered as registration. Customers who had registered but couldn’t purchase the YUREKA on 13th Jan, will now be automatically pre-registered for the next sale, said the company. Continue reading “Registrations now open for YU YUREKA sale on Jan 22nd”

Xolo One Android 5.0 Lollipop update now available

Xolo One Android 5.0 Lollipop

Xolo has released Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for its Xolo One smartphone, as it promised. Xolo becomes the first Indian company to roll out Lollipop update for its device. Continue reading “Xolo One Android 5.0 Lollipop update now available”

Lenovo A6000 4G smartphone launched in India for Rs. 6999

Lenovo A6000

Lenovo has launched A6000, the company’s latest budget smartphone with 4G connectivity as it promised. It was announced at the CES last week, packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Vibe UI on top. Continue reading “Lenovo A6000 4G smartphone launched in India for Rs. 6999”

Xiaomi Mi 4 might launch in India on January 28

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Xiaomi is expected to launch the Mi 4 smartphone in India on January 28th, according to a report from ET. At the Mi Note and Mi Note Pro launch event in China, Xiaomi’s Vice President Hugo Barra said block your date for 28th. Earlier Manu Jain, Operations Head of Mi India said that they would be launching the Mi 4 smartphone at the end of January. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4 might launch in India on January 28”

BlackBerry Classic launched in India for Rs. 31990

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BlackBerry has launched the BlackBerry Classic, their latest smartphone with a full QWERTY physical keyboard in India. It comes with a 3.5-inch (720 x 720 pixels) touch screen display at 294 PPI pixel density and is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor.  It has a 35-key QWERTY physical backlit keyboard with wider layout and larger sculpted keys and navigation keys. BlackBerry has partnered with Snapdeal to launch the smartphone. Continue reading “BlackBerry Classic launched in India for Rs. 31990”

Rdio launched in India, offers free radio experience and on-demand subscription service

Rdio Music for Android India

Rdio has finally launched in India. It has over 32 million songs in 43 languages from global, regional and local labels, offers free internet radio experience without any trail or subscription and also has on-demand subscription service that lets you access any song, album, playlist or station, online or offline, without ads for US$ 1.99 or Rs. 120 per month. Continue reading “Rdio launched in India, offers free radio experience and on-demand subscription service”

BlackBerry Classic Giveaway Contest

BlackBerry Classic Giveaway

FoneArena has teamed up with BlackBerry India once again for a new contest. This time we are giving away a BlackBerry Classic smartphone. The contest will run for two days, January 15th (today) and January 16th (tomorrow). You need to Tweet your answers with the hashtag #BBClassic, follow @BlackBerryIN and @FoneArena and include both Twitter handles in the tweet to enter the contest. Continue reading “BlackBerry Classic Giveaway Contest”