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Lava Iris 356 and Iris 402 with Android 4.2 officially launched for Rs. 4499 and Rs. 5499

Lava Iris 356

Lava has launched the Iris 356 and the Iris 402 that went on sale online earlier this month. The Iris 356 has a 3.5-inch (480 x 320 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). The Lava Iris 402 packs a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) display. Other features are similar to the Iris 402. These have 3G support, Dual SIM with dual standby, rear and front-facing cameras. Continue reading “Lava Iris 356 and Iris 402 with Android 4.2 officially launched for Rs. 4499 and Rs. 5499”

Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle Unboxing

Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle-1

Micromax launched the A111 Canvas Doodle back in May. It is the company’s first smartphone in the Canvas series to come with a stylus. It has a 5.3-inch (854 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8625Q processor similar to the Karbonn S5 Titanium and the Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro. It runs on Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean).

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iBall Andi 4a Radium with 4-inch display, dual-core processor, Android 4.1 now available for Rs. 6990

iBall Andi 4a Radium

iBall Andi 4a Radium, a new budget smartphone in the Andi series is now available from online retailer Snapdeal. It has a 4-inch (480 x 854 pixels) TFT capacitive touch screen IPS display and is powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby similar to other iBall smartphones. Continue reading “iBall Andi 4a Radium with 4-inch display, dual-core processor, Android 4.1 now available for Rs. 6990”

Samsung Galaxy Smartphones and Tablets to get support for 9 Indian languages

Samsung Galaxy Grand Indian Language support

Samsung today announced support for 9 Indian languages for their Galaxy smartphones and tablets. This would let the Samsung smartphone users to access the user interface and content in these languages. The 9 Indian languages include, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati. These Indian languages will be supported on Galaxy Grand, Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy Tab 3 starting from today. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Smartphones and Tablets to get support for 9 Indian languages”

Lava Iris Pro series with HD display, quad-core processor coming on August 25th

Lava Iris Pro Teaser

Lava has started teasing their Iris Pro series. The company has been teasing the Iris Pro for over a week one their Facebook page and on their website, Lavairis.com. The teaser with a tag line “Lava IrisPro series of Smartphones that redefines the Art in SmART” show offer some features including a HD display, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and sleek looks. Continue reading “Lava Iris Pro series with HD display, quad-core processor coming on August 25th”

HTC One Dual SIM now available in India for Rs. 46495

HTC One Dual SIM surfaced on the HTC India website earlier this month. We reported that the smartphone would release in India soon. Now online retailer Flipkart has started selling the smartphone in India. It has similar features as the HTC One single-SIM variant including a 4.7 inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display, 1.7 GHz quad-core processor, Android Jelly Bean with Sense 5, UltraPixel camera with LED Flash and a 2.1MP HD front-facing camera. Continue reading “HTC One Dual SIM now available in India for Rs. 46495”

Nokia India introduces Smart Buy Back offers for Lumia 520 and Lumia 620

Nokia Lumia Smart Buy Back Offers

Nokia India has announced Nokia Lumia Smart Buy Back offers on purchase of Lumia 620 and Lumia 520 smartphones. Samsung launched a similar Smart upgrade offer for the Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy S4 and Sony introduced Xperia Xchange offer. In the Nokia Lumia Smart Buy Back offer users get Rs. 6000 discount on Lumia 620 and Rs. 4000 discount on Lumia 520, in exchange for old smartphones. Since Nokia offers discounts on MRP instead of MOP the effective price after the discount would be less. Continue reading “Nokia India introduces Smart Buy Back offers for Lumia 520 and Lumia 620”

Intex i-Buddy Connect II 3G with 7-inch display, voice calling now available for Rs. 7500

Intex i-Buddy Connect II 3G

Intex is all set to launch the i-Buddy Connect II 3G, successor of i-Buddy Connect 3G tablet that was launched earlier this year. The tablet has appeared on the official website and is also available from online retailer ShopClues. It has a 7-inch (800 x 400 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Cortex A5 processor and runs on Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It comes with a 2-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes pre-loaded with Facebook , Nimbuzz, Skype, Gtalk , Yahoo Messenger apps and games including Fruit Ninja, Moto Racing, Alpine, Angry Bird, Chess , Carrom and more.

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Nokia Lumia 925 gets a pre-order price of Rs. 33999 in India

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Nokia Lumia 925 that was announced back in May, is now available for pre-order in India at a price or Rs. 33,999 from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 4.5-inch (1280 × 768 pixels)Pure Motion HD+ Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen ClearBlack display, powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs on the latest Windows Phone 8 with the Amber update that adds glance screen and other new features. The Lumia 925 went on sale back in June starting from Germany. It packs a 8.7MP auto focus rear camera with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), dual LED flash and 1080p HD video recording at 30fps. It has 6 element lens and supports upto 3200 ISO.
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Celkon Campus A63 with 4-inch display, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 4499

Celkon Campus A63

Celkon has launched the Campus A63, the company’s latest smartphone in the new Campus series. It has a 4-inch WVGA (480×800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 3.2-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has 2G (EDGE) support and packs a 1500 mAh battery. Lot of Indian OEMs including Intex and Lava have started releasing entry-level Android smartphones running on Android 4.2. Continue reading “Celkon Campus A63 with 4-inch display, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 4499”

Sangeetha Mobiles enters into North Indian Market

Sangeetha Mobiles

Sangeetha Mobiles, popular multi-brand retail solutions in South India has announced that it would enter the North Indian market with 30 multi-brand retail outlets in the across Delhi, UP and Haryana. It also plans to expand its retail presence to 100 stores in South India and 300 stores across India by the end of 2013. Continue reading “Sangeetha Mobiles enters into North Indian Market”

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos now available in Brown and Red colors in India

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Brown

Samsung released the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082) in India back in January. It was released in Elegant White and Metallic Blue colors initially. Now Samsung has released the Grand Duos in two new colors, Luxury Brown and Wine Red. The Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos is one of the popular mid-range smartphone in the India market, these two new colors would improve the sales of the device. We reviewed the device earlier this year. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos now available in Brown and Red colors in India”

Huawei Ascend P1 now available for pre-order in India for Rs. 12990

Huawei Ascend P1

Huawei is all set to release the Ascend P1 in India. The smartphone that was announced back in January 2012 at the CES along with the Ascend P1 S, is now available for pre-order in India from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 4.3-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) Super AMOLED display with scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla glass protection, powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It has a 8 megapixel auto focus camera with dual LED flash, full HD video recording and a 1.3MP front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend P1 now available for pre-order in India for Rs. 12990”

Lava E-Tab XTRON+ Review

Lava E-Tab XTRON Plus-1

Lava launched the XTRON+, the successor of XTRON recently. We brought you the unboxing and the benchmarks of the device last week. Here we have the complete review of the device. The XTRON+ has a 7-inch display and is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor similar to the first XTRON tablet that we reviewed earlier this year. Lava has added a HDMI port, a 2-megapixel rear camera in terms of hardware and this one runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). Is the XTRON+ a worthy upgraded ? Let us find out in the review. Continue reading “Lava E-Tab XTRON+ Review”

Lenovo A1000, A3000 and S6000 Android Tablets launched in India, priced between Rs. 8999 and Rs. 27000

Lenovo has launched three new Android tablets in India. These tablets were announced earlier at the MWC 2013 and the A1000 went on sale in India from the official Lenovo online store last month. The A1000 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, voice calling capabilities and a VGA front-facing camera. The A3000 also has a similar 7-inch display, but it is powered by a quad-core MediaTek 8125 processor. It also supports 3G and voice calling. Continue reading “Lenovo A1000, A3000 and S6000 Android Tablets launched in India, priced between Rs. 8999 and Rs. 27000”