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Asus Padfone Infinity gets priced in Taiwan, available in April

Asus Padfone Infinity Taiwan launch

Asus announced the Padfone Infinity last month at the MWC 2013. It was launched in Taiwan earlier this week as we told you, and all the four major carriers have started taking pre-orders for the device in Taiwan. The Padfone Infinity packs a 5-inch Full HD (1920×1080 pixels) IPS display and the Padfone station has a 10.1-inch (1920×1080 pixels) display. It is powered by 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Asus Padfone Infinity gets priced in Taiwan, available in April”

Mike Laziridis, co-founder of Research in Motion, to leave Blackberry on 1st May

After Blackberry’s earnings release, Mike Laziridis announced that he plans to leave the company on 1st May. He stepped down as co-CEO last year and has been holding the position of Vice Chair of the Board.

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Commenting on his departure from the company he co-founded, Lazaridis commented, “With the launch of BlackBerry 10, I believe I have fulfilled my commitment to the Board… I believe I am leaving the company in good hands.” Continue reading “Mike Laziridis, co-founder of Research in Motion, to leave Blackberry on 1st May”

D Shivkumar, Nokia India and MEA MD, resigns

D Shivakumar, MD at Nokia India, has quit the Finnish smartphone manufacturer after an 8 year stint that began in 2006. Based out of Dubai, Shivakumar over saw operations in 90 countries including Africa, West Asia and India. Shivakumar has no intentions of being associated with mobility, telecom and FMCG once he returns to India in June.


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Aircel ties up with Nimbuzz to offer free data for prepaid subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir

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Aircel has tied up with Nimbuzz to launch a new data plan to promote the app ecosystem with an offer to provide free data for the Aircel subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir. This is aimed towards observing data-based communication behavioural pattern of the Jammu and Kashmir customers. The Aircel-Nimbuzz communication-based data plan doesn’t require you to recharge with any packs. Aircel recently launched free unlimited 3G data access for 3 hours every day with 30 days validity. Continue reading “Aircel ties up with Nimbuzz to offer free data for prepaid subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir”

Wireless charging: The future or a passing fad?

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Wireless charging, much like many other technologies that find their ways into the hands of the everyday consumer has a long and unspectacular past. First attempted, at least in the public sphere, in the early 1900’s by one Nikolas Tesla, whose many brilliant ideas and even more spectacular failures (this being one of them) coloured a rather interesting period in innovation and developments for consumer-facing products. The idea was revived in the mid-2000’s by a number of independent individuals working out of MIT, Jeff Lieberman and Marin Soljacic and team. Wireless power transmission is a bit of a misnomer as wires are almost certainly involved in nearly every step of the way with the sole exception being the wire usually linking the power supply to the “sink” which is the device using the power in the first place.

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Xolo B700 with 3450 mAh Battery officially launched for Rs. 8999

Xolo B700

Xolo has officially launched the B700, the company’s new Android smartphone with a 3450 mAh battery which offers 363 hours of standby 20 hours of talk time on 3G,  up to 38 hours Music Playback via internal speakers and up to 86 hours via wired headset. Xolo promises 9 hours of video playback while using internal speakers and up to 10.5 hours while using a wired headset. The Xolo B700 went on sale online last week.

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Easter Sale: Up to 90% off on EA iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Games

EA 4th Annual Easter Sale

Electronic Arts have started their big 4th annual Easter Sale. Last year  they offered very few titles at discounted rates, but this time they are offering up to 90% discounts on iPhone and iPad games. They are also offering up to 80% off on Android games and up to 40% off on games on Windows Phone devices. Continue reading “Easter Sale: Up to 90% off on EA iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone Games”

UTV Stars Entertainment app launched for Android and iPhone

UTV Stars for Android and iPhone

Disney UTV has launched the UTV Stars App for Android and iPhone. This is an entertainment app lets you watch free movies, get latest news, gossips, paparazzi images, full shows and videos from Bollywood. You can also watch UTV Stars LIVE TV. The Visual Search Augmented Reality feature Powered by Ricoh Innovations shows you the movie details just by clicking an image of the UTV Motion Pictures movie poster. The app is add-supported. Continue reading “UTV Stars Entertainment app launched for Android and iPhone”

Gmail mobile web for feature phones get Tamil, Telugu and 4 more Indic languages

Gmail mobile web in Tamil

Google has introduced support for 6 Indic languages in Gmail on the feature phone browser. These languages include, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. This would be much useful for native language speakers with feature phones read emails and understand the functionality inside Gmail in their own languages. Google had introduced support for Indic languages for their apps. Google Translate for iPhone got support for 5 Indic languages back in 2011. Continue reading “Gmail mobile web for feature phones get Tamil, Telugu and 4 more Indic languages”

Iron Man 3 game for iPhone, iPad and Android releasing on April 25th

 

Iron Man 3 Game

Gameloft has released a trailer for their upcoming Iron Man 3 game for iPhone, iPad and Android. The Iron Man 2 game for iPhone and iPad was released back in 2010. Iron Man 3, the third movie in the Iron Man franchise, based on the Mavel’s comic book character is releasing in several countries including India on April 26th. In this game you play as the billionaire Tony Stark / Iron Man who fights the AIM around the world to prevent their dark schemes from succeeding.

Here is the Iron Man 3 game trailer

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3M Smart Pen for Tablets and Smartphones launched for Rs. 999

3M Smart Pen

3M has launched a new Smart Pen for Tablets and Smartphones. It has highly sensitive capacitive tip that makes it ideal for use with iPads‚ iPhones and other popular capacitive touchscreen devices including touchscreen laptops and desktop monitors. It is powered by unique 3M technology with anti-stiction pen tip that offers users a comfortable pen feel while moving across their touchscreen surfaces to draw smoothly. It also offers precise icon selection and allows faster texting. Continue reading “3M Smart Pen for Tablets and Smartphones launched for Rs. 999”

Sony Xperia Tablet Z LTE version gets a pre-order price in UK

Sony Xperia Tablet Z was announced in Japan earlier this year.  At the MWC 2013 Sony announced that it would roll out globally from Q2 2013. Sony has started taking pre-orders for the Sony Xperia Tablet Z  (SGP321GB) 16GB LTE version. The Sony Xperia Tablet Z has a 10.1-inch HD (1920 x 1200 pixels) WUXGA Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2. It is powered by a 1.5 GHz asynchronous quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Sony Xperia Tablet Z LTE version gets a pre-order price in UK”

Gionee Dream D1 Review

The stupendous growth of India’s indigenous smartphone industry is proof of the demand for smart devices at ‘feature phone ‘ prices. We’ve finally reached a point when even the mid range devices can be considered as fast enough for a majority of the users and smartphone manufacturers are definitely capitalizing on this.


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Another day and we spot yet another entrant in the increasingly packed Android phone market in India with hopes of carving a niche for itself. Gionee has launched its flagship device, the Dream D1, that hopes to hit all the checkpoints in terms of buzzwords and provide ‘high-end’ features to users on a moderate budget. Can it succeed in providing a flagship level experience at a fraction of the price ? We spent a week with the handset to gauge for ourself and here is our Gionee Dream D1 review. Continue reading “Gionee Dream D1 Review”

Google shipping Nexus 7 India orders from Singapore

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The Nexus 7 16GB WiFi version is the first device to be sold officially by Google in India. We brought you the news of the launch yesterday and we have some interesting info to share . The device will be shipped by April 5th 2013 from Singapore ! One of our readers sent us this order receipt which indicates the same. Google has tied up with Fedex and Aramex to handle the logistics including the delivery of the device to your door. Continue reading “Google shipping Nexus 7 India orders from Singapore”