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ZTE launches a range of low to mid end smartphones in India

ZTE India launch event

ZTE has announced its arrival to the Indian market at an event in Mumbai today with an onslaught of a total of six devices and four 3G data cards. With these new devices, the Chinese mobile giant aims to capture some marketshare and mind share in the world’s second fastest growing smartphone market. While data has proven that the smartphone market is just a miniscule part of the whole mobile phone market in India, it is indeed growing faster than any other. This lucrative opportunity has provided us, the consumers with a lot of choices and that includes various Chinese companies like Gionee, Huawei, Lenovo and now ZTE. The company has launched four mid range devices in the Blade range as a part of their complete portfolio roll out.

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HTC One Android 4.2.2 OTA update starts rolling out in India

HTC One Android 4.2.2 India

HTC has finally started rolling out Android 4.2.2 update for the HTC One users in India. It started rolling out first in Taiwan earlier this month. Users in UK and France got the update earlier this week. The update brings lot of new features including a new lock screen widget, quick settings panel, battery level indicator in the status bar and lots more. Continue reading “HTC One Android 4.2.2 OTA update starts rolling out in India”

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 310 and Tab 3 311 launched in India for Rs. 21945 and Rs. 25725

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 311

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab 3 310 (SM-T310) and the Galaxy Tab 3 311 (SM-T311), 2 new tablets in India at an event in Delhi. It was announced last month as Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 and packs a 8-inch (1280×800) IPS LCD capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.5GHz dual core processor and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) with Samsung’s own TouchWiz UI on top. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Unlike the Galaxy Note 510, this doesn’t come with stylus support. The Tab 3 310 is the WiFi-only variant and the Tab 3 311 comes with 3G support via SIM card slot and voice calling capabilities. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 310 and Tab 3 311 launched in India for Rs. 21945 and Rs. 25725”

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 211 (7.0) launched in India for Rs. 17745

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 211

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab 3 211 in India. It was announced back in April as the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and packs a 7-inch (1024×600) TFT LCD display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 3-megapixel fixed focus rear-facing camera and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It also comes with 3G support via SIM card slot and voice calling capabilities similar to the Galaxy Tab 2. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 211 (7.0) launched in India for Rs. 17745”

HP Slate 21 All-in-One PC with 21.5-inch full HD display, Android 4.2 launched in India for Rs. 24990

HP Slate 21

HP has launched the Slate 21, the company’s first All-in-One (AiO) PC running runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) along with the Slatebook x2 in India. It was announced last month and has a 21.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) full HD capacitive reclining IPS touchscreen display with wide viewing angles and is powered by a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor. You can tilt the screen between 15 and 70 degrees with your hand and can also mount the AiO using a standard VESA mount. Continue reading “HP Slate 21 All-in-One PC with 21.5-inch full HD display, Android 4.2 launched in India for Rs. 24990”

LG Optimus L5 gets the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update in India

LG Optimus L5 Android 4.1 India

The LG Optimus L7 got the Android 4.1 update in India back in May, now LG has started rolling out the Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) update for the Optimus L5 (E612) users in India. The Optimus L5 was announced back in February 2012 and released in India last June. The software version is JZO54K similar to the other countries and the software version is V20c. All the L Series II devices that were launched recently run on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) out of the box. Continue reading “LG Optimus L5 gets the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update in India”

Lenovo IdeaPad A1000 with 7-inch display, voice calling now available in India for Rs. 8980

Lenovo unveiled the IdeaPad A1000 at the MWC 2013 earlier this year. Now the tablet is available from the official Lenovo online store in India. It has a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core MediaTek MTK8317 processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a SIM card slot with 2G data support and voice calling capabilities. It has large, dual front-facing speakers that would offers enhanced audio experience for music or movies along with Dolby Digital Plus support. Continue reading “Lenovo IdeaPad A1000 with 7-inch display, voice calling now available in India for Rs. 8980”

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and 8.0 likely to launch tomorrow in India

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 and 8.0 inch devices were launched separately, with one device announced in April and the other on the 3rd of June, with not that much of a fanfare. In less than two months, it has been teased as “coming to India” on Samsung’s Facebook page and is also being displayed as “coming soon” in the Samsung India eStore for the both the models. The Galaxy Tab 3 devices are an evolution of the Galaxy Tab 2 tablet and are all equipped with voice calling capabilities, much like the original Galaxy Tab. Boasting 7 and 8 inch screens respectively, they are much of the earlier Samsung device like the Tab 2 310 and the Note 8.0. It is also likely that Samsung will be launching both the devices tomorrow, as we have just received an invite for a press conference tomorrow.

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SanDisk Extreme microSDHC and microSDXC UHS-I Memory Cards launched in India

SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I Memory Card

SanDisk has launched Extreme microSDHC UHS-I and microSDXC cards in India. These cards would offer up to 80MB/sec read speed for quick photo editing and smooth Full HD video playback. With up to 50MB/sec write speeds you can transfer files more efficiently and capture multiple photos using burst mode. It comes in capacities up to 64GB. Continue reading “SanDisk Extreme microSDHC and microSDXC UHS-I Memory Cards launched in India”

HTC Butterfly S launching in India soon

HTC announced the Butterfly S, successor of the Butterfly last month. Now the phone has appeared on the official HTC India website, which indicates that the launch could be expected soon. It packs a 5.0-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD Super LCD 3 display display with 440ppi with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, poweed by a 1.9 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.2.2 Jellybean with HTC Sense 5.0. Continue reading “HTC Butterfly S launching in India soon”

Intex Aqua I-5 Unboxing

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Intex launched the Aqua I-5, the company’s latest flagship smartphone in the Aqua series last month. Here we have the device for unboxing. The Aqua I-5 has a 5-inch qHD (960 × 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Intex launched the Aqua Wonder quad-core, the company’s first quad-core smartphone back in April.

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Gionee Elife E3 gets an OTA update in India, adds new camera features, new apps and more

Gionee launched the Elife E3 in India back in May. We reviewed the device last month that runs on Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean). Gionee has announced that they have started rolling out a over-the-air (OTA) update for the device. This update doesn’t upgrade the Android version but brings new Camera features including new modes picture clear, best picture, muli-angle shots and beauty effects. This also adds online wallpaper, support for Indian cities in the weather app, new du batter and Gionee Xender apps. Continue reading “Gionee Elife E3 gets an OTA update in India, adds new camera features, new apps and more”

BlackBerry Messenger 7 with BBM Voice now available in India for BB OS 5 devices and later

BBM 7 Voice

BlackBerry launched the BlackBerry Q5, the company’s latest BlackBerry 10 smartphone in India earlier today. At the event, Sunil Lalvani, Managing Director for India at BlackBerry announced that the BBM 7 with BBM Voice would be available for devices running on BB OS 5 and later. BlackBerry Messenger with BBM Voice was released as beta Back in December last year. It was released in the BlackBerry World earlier this year that brought Split-screen feature, New Emoticons, BlackBerry ID Integration and more. Continue reading “BlackBerry Messenger 7 with BBM Voice now available in India for BB OS 5 devices and later”

BlackBerry Q5 launched in India for Rs. 24990

BlackBerry has launched the BlackBerry Q5 in India as we reported yesterday. This is the company’s third phone running on BlackBerry 10 OS, and a second phone with a hardware QWERTY keyboard in the OS 10 series. BlackBerry launched the Z10 back in February and the BlackBerry Q10 was launched last month. It was announced at the BlackBerry Live event in Orlando last month and packs a 3.1-inch (720 x 720 pixels) capactive touch screen IPS display at 330 PPI pixel density, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. Continue reading “BlackBerry Q5 launched in India for Rs. 24990”

Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 Unboxing

Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 Unboxing-8

Samsung launched the Galaxy Mega 6.3 (GT-I9200), the company’s first smartphone with a 6.3-inch display back in May in India. It went on sale in India last month. We brought you the review of the Mega 5.8 earlier today. Here we have the unboxing of the Mega 6.3. The package is made of 100% recycled material and features a wood-like finish similar to the other phones such as Galaxy S4 and the S4 Zoom. This also looks better than the plain white box. The Galaxy Mega 6.3 is the first smartphone to launch in India with a dual-core Snapdragon 400 MSM8930 chip. It is clocked at 1.7 GHz and has Adreno 305 GPU. The Galaxy Mega 5.8 has a Broadcom BCM28155 processor and VideoCore 4 GPU.

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