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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition launched in India for Rs. 49990

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Samsung has launched the Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) (SM-P601) in India. It was announced at the IFA 2013 last month as an upgrade to the last year’s Note 10.1 that was launched in India as Galaxy Note 800. It packs a 10.1-inch (2560×1600 pixels) TFT LCD display, powered by a 1.9 GHz quad-core Exynos 5 Octa processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Samsung TouchWiz UI on top. It has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash, BSI sensor and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with a S Pen stylus with a lot of features such as S Note(Easy Chart), S Planner and Air Command: Action Memo, Scrapbook, Screen Write, S Finder, Pen Window.

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Nokia World 2013 Live Blog

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We are here on ground live from Abu Dhabi , UAE which is the city hosting the Nokia World 2013 event. Stay tuned to this page to catch all the action and announcements from the show floor including the rumoured Lumia 1520 and 2520. We will be bringing live updates from Nokia World 2013 on this page.We just grabbed our badge and also grabbed a seat right in front of the stage ! Hope the internet at the venue holds up and our 3G connection holds steady! Watch the Nokia World 2013 live blog below –

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BBM to resume roll out to iPhone and Android today but new users will be on a waiting list

It’s back. The BlackBerry Messenger, fondly known as BBM faced some intense server loads thanks to a pre-release leak on Android, which forced the company to postpone the much awaited launch. After a long wait, it looks like the company is finally up to speed and ready to launch on both iOS and Android today, resuming where it left off on iOS and completely starting afresh on Android. According to the official blog, you should be hopefully seeing the BBM app popup on the App Store, Google Play and the Samsung Apps Store any time in the next few hours. We’ll posting the links here once it goes live. Meanwhile you can check how it looks in an iPhone, in our hands on post that we did earlier.

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Nokia Guru NFC Music device leaked

Nokia Guru leak

Nokia is all set to launch the Lumia 1520 smartphone, Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet and range of Asha devices at an event in Dubai tomorrow. Looks like it is also planning to launch range of accessories. Evleaks has leaked the Nokia Guru, a music device with NFC support. This has a 3.5mm audio jack to plugin the earphones and has micro USB for charging. Continue reading “Nokia Guru NFC Music device leaked”

Nokia India offers free insurance with Asha 501 this Diwali

Nokia Asha 501 Free Insurance

Nokia India has announced a limited period free insurance offer on purchase of Asha 501. Nokia partnered with New India Assurance to provide handset insurance back in March whic includes thefts, burglary, malicious acts, riots among others. This will be administered by Universal Insurance Brokers Services Private Limited (UIBSPL). Continue reading “Nokia India offers free insurance with Asha 501 this Diwali”

Intex Cloud Y4 with 4-inch display, Android 4.2 spotted on official website for Rs. 6900

Intex Cloud Y4

Intex Cloud X5 and the Aqua N2 surfaced on the official website last week, now the Cloud Y4 has surfaced on the website. It has a 4-inch (800 ×480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6572 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby. Continue reading “Intex Cloud Y4 with 4-inch display, Android 4.2 spotted on official website for Rs. 6900”

iBall Slide 3G 8072 with 8-inch display, Dual SIM support now available for Rs. 11999

iBall Slide 3G 8072

iBall Slide 3G 8072, a new tablet in the Slide series is now available in India from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 8-inch (1024 x 768 pixels) multi-touch display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Cortex A9 processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a front-facing camera. It has 3G support via a SIM card slot and has voice calling capabilities. Continue reading “iBall Slide 3G 8072 with 8-inch display, Dual SIM support now available for Rs. 11999”

Celkon AR50 RahmanIshq smartphone with 5-inch display, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 8499

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Celkon launched the A45 smartphone in the RahmanIshq series last month, now the company has launched the AR50, a new smartphones in the series. It has a 5-inch display, powered by 1.2 GHz dual-core Cortex A7 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It also comes pre-loaded with AR Rahman’s chartbusters and a special tune created for the Rahmanishq Music Smartphones, similar to the AR45. Users can also download Rahman’s Signautre ringtone from Celkon’s website. Continue reading “Celkon AR50 RahmanIshq smartphone with 5-inch display, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 8499”

Samsung Galaxy S4 Android 4.3 OTA update starts rolling out in India

Samsung Galaxy S4 Android 4.3 India

Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update for the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500) in India. The LTE variant of the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) got the Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update in Germany last week. The Samsung Galaxy S4 was launched back in April running on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). It got the first update back in May the brought stability improvements, another update in June brought option to move apps to the SD card, new Smart Pause toggle and more.

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Nokia have reportedly sold at least 8 million Lumias last quarter, claims WSJ

In a run up to the Nokia World event set to happen on the 22nd of this month, the Wall Street Journal has published a piece on Nokia, Elop and its future. The report also serves us new information that Nokia have reportedly sold at least 8 million Lumias last quarter, spanning from July to September, which is a more than double of what they had sold the same quarter, last year. This information, credited to “people familiar with the matter” is nothing surprising considering the fact that Nokia had sold 7.4 million Lumias the quarter before, with the momentum of the low cost Lumia 520 and other cheaper devices gaining marketshare all around the world. Major growth markets like India have seen a remarkably fast uptake of the Lumia 520, which is possibly the most VFM phone available, and this has naturally applied to other markets as well.

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Airtel acquires 100% stake in Qualcomm’s 4G venture

Airtel announced that they have acquired 100% stake in Qualcomm Inc’s 4G venture. Airtel increased its stake to 51% from 49% back in July, which it acquired back in May 2012 by paying US$ 165 million (Rs 927.39 crore approx). Qualcomm won BWA Spectrum in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala circles in 2010 by paying about US$ 1 billion (Rs. 4912.54 crore approx) in the auction by DoT in June 2010 Department of Telecom (DoT). Continue reading “Airtel acquires 100% stake in Qualcomm’s 4G venture”

Sony Xperia Z1S press image surfaces, rumored for 2013 launch

Sony Xperia Z1S leak

Sony announced the Sony Xperia Z1 f (SO-02F), a variant of the Xperia Z1 in Japan for NTT Docomo in their Winter 2013 range. Now press image of Sony Xperia Z1S, a completely new device has appeared, thanks to evleaks. The leaked press image is completely different from the Z1 f, but the size of the phone is similar. Looks like Sony is planning for a Z1 mini with a different design for global users. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z1S press image surfaces, rumored for 2013 launch”

Nokia Lumia 1520 specifications leak, 6-inch 1080p display and 20MP Pureview camera

Nokia Lumia 1520 leak

We had already seen several leaks of the Lumia 1520, Nokia’s upcoming flagship smartphone. An image of the smartphones first appeared back in August, last month the press render. Now an online store in China have posted the official price of the device along with a sheet that shows off the features of the smartphone. The phone has also appeared in Cyan color, thanks to twitter user Moroleaks. Check out the sheet below. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 1520 specifications leak, 6-inch 1080p display and 20MP Pureview camera”

Real Racing 3 for Android, iPhone and iPad updated with Ferrari cars, new track and more

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EA Mobile has updated the Real Racing 3 game for Android and iOS platforms to version 1.4.0 that brings the most requested cars from iconic Italian manufacturer, Ferrari. This update also bring new tracks including Spain’s famous Circuit de Catalunya, new Challenges and more. Real Racing 3 was launched for both these platforms back in February earlier this year. It arrived for BlackBerry 10 in August. Continue reading “Real Racing 3 for Android, iPhone and iPad updated with Ferrari cars, new track and more”

Nokia Lumia 1020: Reinventing Zoom

Much has been written and said about Nokia’s PureView technology but at the core, it all comes down to the amalgam of optics and software algorithms to create a compelling solution. We saw this first on the Nokia 808 PureView and this has been further tuned and improved on the newly launched Nokia Lumia 1020. In its quest for perfection, there have been a few questionable and some very welcome tweaks to the winning formula of the Nokia 808. Over the past few days we got to test out the photography capabilities of the device and get our queries answered by Marc Olsson, Product Manager at Nokia. Here’s our attempt to demystify the camera technology on the Nokia Lumia 1020 for you. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 1020: Reinventing Zoom”