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LG G Flex showcased in India, launching in February 2014

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LG has showcased the G Flex, the company’s first smartphone with a curved OLED display in India at an event in Delhi. It would go on sale sometime in February 2014. The company did not reveal the price yet. It was announced back in October and packs a 6-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD Curved Plastic OLED display that vertically concave from top to bottom to a radius of 700mm. It is powered by a 2.26 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera. It packs a 3500 mAh curved battery. Continue reading “LG G Flex showcased in India, launching in February 2014”

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel to share telecom infrastructure

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Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm would share their telecom infrastructure to cut the cost on their networks, according to a report from PTI. This includes optic fiber network – inter and intra city, submarine cable networks, towers and broadband services. This might also be extended to roaming on 2G, 3G and 4G, and any other mutually benefiting areas relating to telecommunication in near future. Continue reading “Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel to share telecom infrastructure”

BlackBerry 9720 Review

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BlackBerry unveiled the 9720, a budget touch screen smartphone running on BlackBerry OS 7.1 earlier this year, even though the company has moved to the BlackBerry 10. The phone was launched in India back in September at a price tag of Rs. 15,990. It is also the cheapest BlackBerry phone with a touch screen display and a QWERTY keyboard. Is the phone worth the price? Should you go for it? Let us find out in the complete review.
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Flipkart brings ‘In-a-Day Guarantee’ Delivery, proves that it is India’s Amazon

Flipkart, one of the leading eCommerce ventures in India, has just announced the roll out of its latest feature – In-a-Day Guarantee. Flipkart was portrayed as Amazon for India when it initially launched as it followed the footprints of the successful American giant. The trend still seems to continue with Amazon having just launched their 1-Day-Delivery feature and Flipkart doing the same.

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Xolo Q1000 Opus with 5-inch display, quad-core Broadcom processor up for pre-order at Rs. 9999

Xolo Q1000 Opus

Xolo Q1000 Opus, the latest smartphone in the QCORE series is now available for pre-order in India from online retailers Flipkart and Infibeam. It was announced last month and packs a 5-inch (854 ×480 pixels) FWVGA capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Broadcom (BCM23550) processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with BSI sensor, LED flash and 720p HD video recording and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby, similar to other Xolo smartphones.
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Celkon C76 affordable feature phone with support for 7 Indian languages launched for Rs. 1899

Celkon C76

Celkon has launched C76, the company’s first multilingual feature phone in the C Series. It comes with 7 regional languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. It has a 2.8-inch display, packs a 1.3-megapixel rear camera, comes with dual SIM support and even has wireless FM Radio. The company also plans to launch smartphones with similar regional language support.

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HTC Desire 501 Dual SIM smartphone with 4.3-inch display launched in India for Rs. 16890

HTC Desire 501 dual SIM

HTC has launched the Desire 501 dual sim, a mid-range smartphone with dual SIM support in the Desire series along with the Desire 700 dual SIM and Desire 601 dual SIM today in India. The Single SIM variant was announced in Taiwan last month. It packs a 4.3-inch (480 × 800 pixels) display, powered by a 1.15 GHz dual-core NovaThor U8520 processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with Sense UI. It has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and BSI sensor and a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera with 88-degree ultra-wide-angle lens. It comes with Dual SIM support with dual active capabilities. Continue reading “HTC Desire 501 Dual SIM smartphone with 4.3-inch display launched in India for Rs. 16890”

HTC Desire 601 dual SIM with 4.5-inch display, dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor launched in India for Rs. 24190

HTC Desire 601 dual SIM

HTC has launched the Desire 601 dual SIM, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in India. Specifications are similar to the single SIM variant that was announced back in September.It packs a 4.5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display, powered by a 1.4 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) with the new Sense UI. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, HTC Zoe with Sequence Shot, Always Smile and Object Removal, Gallery with Video Highlights and HTC Share and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support with dual active capabilities. Continue reading “HTC Desire 601 dual SIM with 4.5-inch display, dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor launched in India for Rs. 24190”

HTC Desire 700 dual sim with 5-inch qHD display, quad-core processor launched in India for Rs. 33050

HTC Desire 700

HTC has launched Desire 700 dual sim, the company’s latest smartphone in the Desire series in India. It was announced last month in Taiwan and packs a 5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. It has a 8-megapixel camera on the back with LED flash, BSI sensor, 28mm lens, F 2.0 aperture, HTC Zoe and 1080p video recording and a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor. It has HTC BlinkFeed home screen and HTC BoomSound with Dual frontal stereo speakers with built-in amplifiers. It also comes with dual SIM dual active capability. Continue reading “HTC Desire 700 dual sim with 5-inch qHD display, quad-core processor launched in India for Rs. 33050”

Gionee Elife E6 vs Intex Aqua i7 vs Micromax Canvas Turbo vs Zen Ultrafone Amaze 701 FHD

Today, we have four Full HD smartphones from Indian manufacturers – Gionee Elife E6 vs Intex Aqua i7 vs Micromax Canvas Turbo vs Zen Ultrafone Amaze 701 FHD. All these phones have a lot of similarities and that makes it a very difficult to pick a clear winner among the four devices.

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Google’s Great Online Shopping Festival #GOSF is back, great deals from December 11th to 13th

Great Online Shopping Festival, aka GOSF, by Google was an initiative by the Mountain View company to bring a “Cyber Monday” like deals bonanza to India last year, and it is back again this year, with more partners and of course, more deals. Unlike Black Friday, Cyber Monday and GOSF are online-only, and Google aims to attract the eager buyers of the legion of Indian internet shoppers, with deals on a single platform. That single platform is the website – GOSF.in, which lists all the partners and even has a countdown for the first day of the shopping festival, which begins on December 11th and ends on the 13th. 3 days, over 200 partners including all major e-tailers, and hopefully insane deals. Will this year be defining for the Indian e-commerce industry?

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iBall Andi5.5N2 QUADRO with 5.5-inch HD display, 12MP camera now available for Rs. 13215

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iBall Andi5.5N2 QUADRO, a new smartphone in the Andi series is now on sale from online retailers Snapdeal and Shopclues. It has a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 12-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby and packs a 2500 mAh battery. Continue reading “iBall Andi5.5N2 QUADRO with 5.5-inch HD display, 12MP camera now available for Rs. 13215”

Airtel to invest Rs. 4000 crores to expand 4G LTE services in Punjab

Airtel has announced that they have partnered with the Government of Punjab to sign an agreement at the Progressive Punjab Investors Summit to expand the 4G LTE services to all towns and villages across Punjab. The company will invest Rs. 4000 crores in Punjab over next 5 years. Continue reading “Airtel to invest Rs. 4000 crores to expand 4G LTE services in Punjab”

Gionee Pioneer P3 with 4.3-inch display, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor launched for Rs. 7499

Gionee has launched the Pioneer P3, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in India, as we reported last week. It has a 4.3-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). It packs a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby and has a 1700 mAh battery. Continue reading “Gionee Pioneer P3 with 4.3-inch display, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor launched for Rs. 7499”

Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 Benchmarks

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Samsung launched the Galaxy S Duos 2, the latest smartphone in the Galaxy series, and the successor of the Galaxy S Duos in India earlier this week. We already brought you the unboxing of the device, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. The device is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Broadcom BCM21664T processor based on ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and VideoCore 4 GPU. The chip supports 3G HSPA+ connectivity up to 21 Mbps. It has a 4.0-inch (480×800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display at 233 ppi pixel density. It has 768MB of RAM and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). Let’s find out how the Galaxy S Duos 2 performs in range of synthetic benchmark tests.

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