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Gionee M2 and Gpad G4 officially launched in India for Rs. 10999 and Rs. 18999

Gionee M2 and the Gpad G4 have been officially launched in India. These smartphones went on sale recently. The M2 has a 5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and packs 4200 mAh battery. The GPad G4 has a 5.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD one-glass solution (OGS) display, powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core MediaTek 6589T processor with PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU, 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and packs a 3200 mAh battery. Continue reading “Gionee M2 and Gpad G4 officially launched in India for Rs. 10999 and Rs. 18999”

Micromax Splash Durable Smartphone with IP67 certification leaked

Micromax Splash leak

Micromax is pushing out more smartphones in the Canvas and the Bolt series recently. Looks like the company is also working on their first water and dust-proof smartphone, according to new leak from the MMXNewscaster. The might be called Splash (or probably Canvas Splash ?) but the official name is not confirmed yet, according to the Twitter user. Continue reading “Micromax Splash Durable Smartphone with IP67 certification leaked”

Huawei Ascend G700 Camera Samples

Huawei Ascend G700

Huawei launched the Ascend G700, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in the G Series last month. We already brought you the benchmarks of the device, here we have the camera samples. The phone has a 8-megapixel rear camera with single LED flash, full HD video recording. The 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera can recording videos at HD resolution. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend G700 Camera Samples”

Dhingana music streaming service shuts down

Dhingana for iOS v4.0 Gold

Dhingana, popular online music streaming service in India has shut down. Their official website dhingana.com doesn’t say the reason behind the shutdown. This was first reported by Medianama, which said that Dhingana CEO Rohit Bhatia told them back in December that the company was in the process of restructuring its operations, but denied that it is going to shut down. Dhingana has also pulled their mobile apps from the respective app stores. Continue reading “Dhingana music streaming service shuts down”

Micromax Canvas Duet II EG111 with 5.3-inch HD display, Dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) available for Rs. 15990

Micromax Canvas Duet 2

Micromax Canvas Duet II (EG111) that surfaced earlier this week is now available in India from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 5.3-inch HD display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has 1GB of RAM and packs 2300 mAh battery. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Duet II EG111 with 5.3-inch HD display, Dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) available for Rs. 15990”

Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo launching in India soon for Rs. 19010

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo (GT-I9060), that went official earlier this month is launching in India next week, according to Mahesh Telecom . It has a 5-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It also comes with dual SIM support and has software features such as Multi Window and Pop up Play. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo launching in India soon for Rs. 19010”

Motorola Moto G Dual SIM gets Android 4.4.2 KitKat update in India

Moto G Android 4.4.2 KitKat India

Motorola has finally started rolling out the Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) update for the Dual SIM Moto G users in India. Motorola promised that the India users would get the update in a few weeks, at the launch, earlier this month. The Android 4.4.2 update was first released for the single SIM US variant first, back in December and it started rolling out in Europe, again for the single SIM variant last month. It rolled out for the Dual SIM variant in Malaysia and Taiwan earlier this month. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G Dual SIM gets Android 4.4.2 KitKat update in India”

Intex Aqua Octa Camera Samples

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Intex launched the Aqua Octa, India’s first MediaTek Octa-Core powered smartphone last month. We already brought you the unboxing, benchmarks and the photo gallery of the Aqua Octa. Here are the camera samples. It has a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and full HD video recording, but the 5-megapixel front-facing camera can record videos only at VGA resolution. It has a 6-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display, powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor with Mali 450-MP4 GPU and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Intex Aqua Octa Camera Samples”

Airtel launches 4G on mobile, available for Apple iPhone 5s and 5c users in Bengaluru at 3G rates

Bharti Airtel has launched 4G on mobile starting from Bengaluru. Airtel announced their plans to roll out 4G LTE service on smartphones for customers in the city back in December. It also rolled out carrier settings update on the iPhone 5s and 5c that enables the 2300 MHz LTE (Band 40) on the smartphones. Few weeks back it conducted a soft launch, today it launched the service officially. Continue reading “Airtel launches 4G on mobile, available for Apple iPhone 5s and 5c users in Bengaluru at 3G rates”

Intex Aqua Octa Photo Gallery

Intex Aqua Octa is the Indian company’s foray into the huge screen 6″ phablet market, and is also one of the first devices to sport the Octa core processor from MediaTek. We had unboxed it earlier, to show you the box contents and a quick overview of the device, but this time around, we will show a walkthrough of the phone in clear photos. This 6 inch device from Intex is pretty unique. It looks like a really slim unibody phone but actually has a removable back cover and a replaceable battery, while managing to be light at the same time. It also has a sleek design over at the front, with a dark IPS screen and a metal rim, so how does it look from all the sides? Lets find out.

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Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone win spectrum as auction raises Rs. 61,162 crore for Govt

2014 Spectrum Winners

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has announced the winners in the spectrum auctions in various circles that ended after 68 rounds. At the end of the 2G auction government got bids worth Rs. 61,162 crore, much higher than their target revenue of Rs. 41,000 crore. It had put 385 MHz of radio waves in the 1800 MHz band in 22 circles and 46 MHz in the 900 MHz band in 3 circles. Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL) won 1800 MHz spectrum in 14 circles across India, out of 22 circles. Continue reading “Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone win spectrum as auction raises Rs. 61,162 crore for Govt”

Vodafone ties up with Star India for Vodafone Sports VAS offering

Vodafone India has entered in to a strategic partnership with Star India for multi-sports offering under new Vodafone Sports portal on Vodafone Live. This lets feature phone as well as smartphone users enjoy sports content on-the-go. Powered by starsports.com, Vodafone Sports offers curated in-depth content from different sports such as Cricket, Football, Tennis and Hockey. It would cover other major sports like F1, Tennis etc in the future. Continue reading “Vodafone ties up with Star India for Vodafone Sports VAS offering”

Micromax Canvas Power A96 with 5-inch display, 4000 mAh battery now available for Rs. 9900

Micromax Canvas Power A96

Micromax Canvas Power A96, the company’s latest smartphone in the Canvas series with 4000 mAh is now available from the official Micromax Store. It has a 5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display, powered by a 1.3 GHz Quad-core Mediatek MT6582M processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Power A96 with 5-inch display, 4000 mAh battery now available for Rs. 9900”

Intex Aqua Octa Benchmarks

Intex Aqua Octa benchmarks

Intex launched the Aqua Octa, India’s first MediaTek Octa-Core powered smartphone last month. We already brought you the unboxing of the Aqua Octa. Here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a 1.66 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor which has 8 ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs and is based on 28nm HPM. It has a Mali 450-MP4 GPU, comes with a 6-inch HD display and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Intex Aqua Octa Benchmarks”

Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini Review

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Micromax launched the Canvas Turbo, the company’s first smartphone with a full HD screen last year. The Canvas Turbo Mini is a smaller version of the Canvas Turbo, which has a slightly smaller HD display, a different processor, but it maintains the premium looks of the Canvas Turbo with its aluminium frame and a metal back. Is the Canvas Turbo Mini worth the price? Let us find out in the review. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini Review”