Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 Smart Lens Review

As the race to improve smartphone optics flares up, we’ve also seen a variety of interesting offshoots. These range from  cameras with built in Android case in point being the Galaxy Camera, Nikon S800C or phones with a more full featured captured module. The Galaxy S4 Zoom and the Nokia 808, 1020 would fall in this category. The problem however is the size and thickness tradeoff being made here.

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Sony is trying to change things up a bit by introducing a brand new category of products into the mix. The QX10 and QX100 are Sony’s attempts at letting you have a point and shoot camera that works with your phone and fits in your palm but isn’t permanently attached to the back of your phone. If that sounds weird, you’re right. But we decided keep our reservations about the product aside and give it a proper spin. Read on to find out what we think about the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 smart lens. Continue reading “Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 Smart Lens Review”

Sygic & MapmyIndia offline GPS Navigation app goes free for Android

Sygic & MapmyIndia for Android
MapmyIndia has made the the most popular Sygic & MapmyIndia app for Android completely free for ever. The app did not go for iOS. It was first launched for iPhone back in 2009 and costs Rs. 1,500 for the iOS platform. The recent update brought support for tablet and smartphones with high resolution display. It has lot of features including offline navigation, travel book, SOS/Help, City Guides from premium providers and from Wikipedia and more. You can also download Maps for a particular state separately. With all these features, the free app is definitely a great deal. Continue reading “Sygic & MapmyIndia offline GPS Navigation app goes free for Android”

Samsung Galaxy Trend Duos with 4-inch display and Android 4.1 now available in India for Rs. 8490

Samsung Galaxy Trend Duos

Samsung India recently announced that they would release couple of Android mid-range Android smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Trend Duos (GT-S7392) is now available in India from online retailer Snapdeal. Even though Samsung has not announced the smartphone officially, it is available in China in a different name. The phone has a  4.0-inch WVGA(480×800) capacitive touch screen display similar to the Galaxy S Duos and also comes with Dual SIM support with Dual SIM always-on feature that automatically forwards calls from the phone number on SIM 2, even if a user is on the phone with SIM 1’s number.  Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Trend Duos with 4-inch display and Android 4.1 now available in India for Rs. 8490”

Whatsapp for the Nokia Asha 500 shows up alongside leaked press image

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While we have already seen renders of the purported Nokia Asha 500 and its dual shot style shells, the bigger news to report here is that Whatsapp is finally coming to the Asha software platform, which includes the highly popular Asha 501 too. If the above leaked press image is to be believed(usually very trustworthy because of @evleaks), Whatsapp will finally arrive for the new Nokia Asha series. This has been THE highly requested app on Nokia Asha 501, and we are glad to see that it is indeed coming, but when is the question.

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Samsung leads the Indian tablet market as shipments surpass 1 million again in Q2 2013

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Samsung is leading yet another consumer electronics segment in India, and this is after conquering the mobile category. Yes, the company is now leading the rapidly growing tablet segment too, with 21% of marketshare according to CyberMedia Research’s analysts. The overall tablet market too has massively improved in India, with about 1.15 million shipments in the last quarter – Q2 of 2013. This is a 27& QoQ increase and a huge 107% increase year-on-year. But the Indian market is predominantly 7 inch and other similarly sized small tablets, with about 70 vendors actively part of the whole market making it highly fragmented.

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HP Slate 7 HD and Slate 10 HD tablets with dual-core processor, Android 4.2 announced

HP Slate 7 HD and Slate 10 HD

HP has announced two new mid-range Android tablets along with the Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro powered by Tegra 4. These tablets come with 7-inch and 10-inch display at a resolution of 1280 x 800. These tablets are powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Cortex A9  Marvell PXA986 processor and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). These also have  front and rear cameras. HP unveiled the Slate 7 at the MWC 2013 earlier this year. Continue reading “HP Slate 7 HD and Slate 10 HD tablets with dual-core processor, Android 4.2 announced”

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Android 4.2.2 update starts rolling out in India

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Android 4.2
Samsung has finally started rolling out the Android 4.2.2 update for the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082). The update started rolling out for the Grand Duos starting from Russia last month. . The phone was announced in December last year running Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean). It was launched in India back in January.  Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Android 4.2.2 update starts rolling out in India”

Flipkart releases shopping app for Android

Flipkart for Android

Flipkart, one of the leading e-commerce platform in India has finally released a native Android app to shop easily. The app also offers voice search and barcode scanning to check for products, share the details with others and also add a widget to the homescreen. Flipkart launched eBooks app for Android last year. The app was released for iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 devices last month. The Flipkart app would be available for other platforms soon. Flipkart also has a mobile site Flipkart Lite. Continue reading “Flipkart releases shopping app for Android”

HP Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro Tegra 4 powered Android tablets announced

HP Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro

HP announced the company’s first Tegra 4-powered hybrid, SlateBook x2 with a 10.1-inch 1080p display back in May. Now the company has announced two new devices, Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro powered by a Tegra 4 Cortex-A15 processor with 72-core GeForce GPU. The Slate 7 Extreme has a 7-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) display, while the Slate 8 Pro comes with a 7.98-inch (1600 x 1200 pixels) display. Both these run on Android (version is not available yet) Continue reading “HP Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro Tegra 4 powered Android tablets announced”

Quickoffice for Android, iPhone and iPad now available for free to everyone

Quickoffice for Android

Google acquired Quickoffice back in June 2012 and made Quickoffice for Android, iPhone and iPad free for enterprise users in April 2013. Now Google has made these apps free to everyone, and all you need is Google account to use these apps. The app lets view and edit Microsoft Office Excel, Word and PowerPoint files. Since Quickoffice is integrated with Google Drive, you can store and access your files across devices.Google has also updated these apps with new features including a new icon, ability to create .ZIP folders and view charts in Excel and PowerPoint files. Continue reading “Quickoffice for Android, iPhone and iPad now available for free to everyone”

Apple iPhone 5S iFixit tear down details the internals

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It has been a tradition of iFixit, the immensely popular website known for its disassembling and assembling guides, to provide tear down images of Apple products as soon as they are launched. The Apple iPhone 5S is no exception and has received the tear down treatment from the website.

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Videocon Mobile Services is now Videocon Telecom, announces its new brand ambassador

Videocon Telecom

Videocon has renamed its telecom brand to from Videocon Mobile Services to Videocon Telecom and has also launched its new logo. The company has roped in Punjabi actor and singer, Gippy Grewal as its brand ambassador. The company says that the new logo creates a strong association of the brand with the telecom sector and the new brand ambassador who has huge fan following would connect with the youth segment in India. Continue reading “Videocon Mobile Services is now Videocon Telecom, announces its new brand ambassador”

ZTE becomes India’s leading Data Card vendor with 30.2% marketshare in Q2, 2013

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ZTE, the Chinese company known for its communication infrastructure solutions and even smartphone products, is now the leading Data Card vendor in India, with a user base of 63.04% of the total Data Card users. The CyberMedia Research team had released these statistics for the Indian market in their website sometime back, where they actually noted a decline in the Data Card market from the previous year but compared to the last quarter, Q2 has seen a 66.7% growth and about 30.2% of all the new shipments are ZTE cards, according to the data.

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MapmyIndia for Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 gets real-time traffic information

MapMyIndia Real time traffic

MapmyIndia, popular for its GPS navigation and mobile apps has updated the MapmyIndia app for Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 tablets / PCs with real time traffic information. This offers accurate, comprehensive and real-time traffic information so that you can easily track the traffic situation in real time and plan routes accordingly. Continue reading “MapmyIndia for Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 gets real-time traffic information”

Lava Iris 506Q with 5-inch display, quad-core processor, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 10999

Lava Iris 506Q

Lava has officially launched the Iris 506Q, a new smartphone in the Iris series. It went on sale online earlier this week, but the launch price is cheaper than the online price of Rs. 11700, which is a good thing. It has a 5-inch qHD  (960 × 540 pixels) OGS display,  powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, 720p HD video recording and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support with dual standby and 3G connectivity. It also comes with FOTA feature to update the phone’s software over-the-air. Continue reading “Lava Iris 506Q with 5-inch display, quad-core processor, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 10999”