Last year iBall launched Andi Udaan, India’s first Android smartphone with safety features for women. We already know that it has a dedicated SOS button on the back to alert people in case of emergency. MapmyIndia, popular for its GPS navigation and mobile apps have partnered with iBall for Andi Uddaan for MapmyIndia’s people safety app Locate, which powers the SOS/safety feature in the phone. Continue reading “MapmyIndia Locate app powers the SOS safety feature in the iBall Andi Udaan”
Last week we reported that Flipkart would launch the Motorola Moto G in India soon. Flipkart has just sent us a press invite for the launch, slated on February 5th, the same date that Motorola said it would reveal more details about the Moto G launch in India. Motorola service center list for India got leaked last week. We already reviewed the phone last year. Check out our Motorola Moto G review, if you are planning to get it. Continue reading “Flipkart to launch Motorola Moto G in India on February 5th”
The HTC One successor, codenamed M8, is all set to be released to the market in a couple of months, as the Taiwanese company plans to repeat its predecessor’s success. One interesting rumour that had persisted all this while was that HTC was finally going for on screen buttons instead of the weird capacitive ones on the HTC One and other devices. According to a leak from one Seina Weibo user, the HTC M8’s one screen buttons, the one you see in the image above, might just have been revealed. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was one of the first devices to incorporate on-screen buttons after the introduction of Android 4.0 for phones and tablets and then the trend caught up with other OEMs like Sony, but HTC curiously avoided it, which might change with the M8.
Huawei has unveiled the Ascend Y530, the latest smartphone in the Y Series in Europe. It has a 4.5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) FWVGA display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 (MSM8210) processor with Adreno 203 GPU and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) OS with Huawei Emotion UI on top. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend Y530 with 4.5-inch display, Android 4.3 announced”
At the Abu Dhabi event in 2013, Nokia announced two phablets – Nokia Lumia 1520 and Nokia Lumia 1320. Among the two phablets, Nokia Lumia 1520 was the high end phablet with top of the shelf specifications and features. Nokia Lumia 1320, on the other hand, was supposed to be the mid-range phablet. Nokia launched the Lumia 1520 sometime in Dec 2013, but the Lumia 1320 is making its way to the market only now.
Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini A200, a mid-range smartphone went on sale recently. Now three new Micromax smartphones in the Bolt series, the Micromax Bolt A24, Bolt A37B and Bolt A46 are available online. The Bolt A24 has a 2.8-inch QVGAscreen, powered by a 1 GHz Spreadrtum SC6820 processor and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It comes with support for 20 regional languages and has a VGA rear camera. Continue reading “Micromax Bolt A24, A37B, A46 now available, Bolt A37 coming soon”
Last week Lava Iris 404e appeared online, now the Iris 408e, another budget smartphone in the Iris is available from online retailer Saholic. It has a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) display, powered by a 1 GHz processor and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS. It has a 3-megapixel rear with LED flash and VGA front-facing camera. It comes with Dual SIM support with dual standby and 2G (EDGE) connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Iris 408e with 4-inch display now available for Rs. 3829”
After MTNL, the State Owned Telecom Operator, BSNL has started rolling out free roaming plans starting from Rajasthan. Unlike MTNL, this service is not free on BSNL. Prepaid customers have to purchase special tariff vouchers (STVs) to avail free incoming calls while roaming across the country. These packs come under One Nation:One number:One rupee and starts at Rs. 5. Continue reading “BSNL launches free incoming national roaming packs starting from Rajasthan”
Motorola Moto G, the most highly awaited launch for the company here in India, just got more credibility with the leak of the list of Motorola Service Centers in India. This leak comes at a crucial time, just ahead of the February 5th launch Motorola has planned for releasing this device in India. The service center list is straight from the Motorola Mobility website, which lends a lot of credibility to the list, apart from it being Moto branded and all. A huge amount of doubt prevailed on how Moto was planning to bring back the distribution and service channels it abandoned, when it left the country years back, but now we are starting to see the details. The image above shows you just a glimpse of the list, which you can download as a PDF here –
Download the list of Motorola Mobility service centers in India (FoneArena can independently confirm that the list is real)
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Not long ago, we saw that the UK retail box of the red Google Nexus 5 leaked out. It was an interesting colour choice for the popular smartphone, which released with only two colours – Black or White, back in October. We had compared the two colours and found that the material used for them are vastly different with each providing a different level of build quality and handling. Now, we have a new red coloured version which looks like the real deal, as the press image leaked by evleaks showcases it in bleeding red. Riding the colour wave started by Nokia with its Lumia series of devices, the Nexus 5 in red might be really tempting for people who are still holding back on the purchase because of the lack of colour choices.
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Intex launched the Aqua Curve with a 5-inch qHD screen earlier this week. The Intex Aqua i15 and four new Cloud series phones, Cloud Y12, Cloud Y11, Cloud X11 and Cloud X1+ appeared online last week. Now, two new smartphone, Intex Cloud X12, and Aqua N8 are on sale on eBay.
Continue reading “Intex Cloud X12 and Aqua N8 now available for Rs. 4290 and Rs. 8990”
The end to a long CEO search is getting near, as reports are piling up from the other side of the planet that Satya Nadella, a senior VP who heads the enterprise and cloud business at Microsoft, is all set to become the new third CEO, after his predecessors Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. It’s been a long while since Ballmer announced his retirement from the CEO position, with pressure from investors mounting as Microsoft fumbled its mobile and tablet strategy, the two fastest growing consumer electronics markets. However, under the same leadership, Microsoft became a company with a diversified portfolio, with hit consumer products like Xbox and the fast growing enterprise products like Office 365, a key initiative by Satya Nadella. This might be one of the biggest reasons why the Board members are narrowing down on Nadella to be the next CEO, he is the moneymaker in Microsoft’s wealthy still-growing division.
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Lava launched Iris Pro 30, the company’s latest flagship last month after a long delay. We already brought you the Hands-on, photo gallery, unboxing, benchmarks and camera samples of the device. The Iris Pro 30, the first phone in the Iris Pro series is quite different from previous Lava smartphones in terms of design and hardware. Can it compete with other phones in the similar range? Let’s find out in the complete review. Continue reading “Lava Iris Pro 30 Review”
It’s the numbers season, with various analysis groups releasing their take on the smartphone market for the whole year of 2013. We saw the IDC report recently that the Smartphone market has crossed the 1 billion threshold. In that lineup, we have Canalys reporting that Android dominated 2013 with almost 80% of that whole Smartphone market in 2013, and amongst them, Windows Phone posted the fastest growth, with a 69% rise YoY between the three major platforms. Both Android’s meteoric rise to the top and Windows Phone’s slow rise from the bottom are pretty much known quantities now, but some of the numbers are interesting. The second biggest platform, Apple’s iOS, has almost stagnated with only 7% growth by losing marketshare, whereas Android is steadily growing at 54%, a good 10% above the market growth percentage. This technically means that Android will reach its maximum in about 2 or 3 years if it and the market retains the growth pattern. Yes, it can happen only at the expense of gobbling up other platform’s shares but it begs this question. Will we we start to see saturation in the Smartphone market soon?
Continue reading “Android runs on 79% of 2013 smartphones, Windows Phone posts fastest growth”
Inq Mobile, UK-based smartphone and software development company has shut down after six years of business. It was the first company to launch Facebook phone, the INQ Cloud Touch with built-in Facebook app back in 2011. Later it launched apps from the INQ Cloud Touch and other INQ smartphones for other Android smartphones. The company was backed by Hutchison Whampoa based in Hong Kong. Continue reading “Inq Mobile, the first Facebook phone maker shuts down”
