Nokia Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet announced – 10.1″ full HD, 32 GB, LTE and 11 hour battery life

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The Nokia Lumia 2520 has been officially launched at the Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi today. The Windows RT tablet from Nokia has been leaked before, and has since been much awaited for a long time. But now Nokia has made it clear that they are in the tablet market and are aiming to make the device more mobile than other tablets have been. Stephen Elop specifically mentioned in the keynote how Nokia is targeting the usage times that the traditional tablets cannot work in, like during the day other than mornings or evenings, by adding 4G LTE functionality, better portability and better battery life. The 10.1 tablet, running on Windows RT is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 – MSM8974 chipset which provides the LTE functionality as well as blazing fast Quad Core performance for the Lumia 2520. Before we dive in to the details, here’s an official hands on video from Nokia –

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Instagram for Windows Phone is official, coming in next few weeks

Instagram for Windows Phone

At Nokia World, the Finnish smartphone manufacturer just announced in partnership with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom that the application will be available to Windows Phone users over the next few weeks. Continue reading “Instagram for Windows Phone is official, coming in next few weeks”

Nokia Lumia 1320 with 6-inch 720p display, 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor announced

Nokia Lumia 1320

Nokia has announced the Lumia 1320, a new smartphone in the Lumia series along with the Lumia 1520 at the Abu Dhabi event. It has a 6-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD LCD IPS Super sensitive display and Gorilla Glass 3 protection, powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and runs on Windows Phone 8 OS with the latest Lumia Black update. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It has Nokia Music for free streaming of ad-free music and HERE maps and location services. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 1320 with 6-inch 720p display, 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor announced”

Nokia Lumia 1520 with 6-inch 1080p display and 20MP Pureview camera announced

 Nokia Lumia 1520

Nokia has finally announced the Lumia 1520, the company’s latest flagship smartphone at an event in Abu Dhabi. It packs a 6-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) full HD capacitive touch screen ClearBlack display with Gorilla Glass 2 protection, quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and runs on Windows Phone 8 with the latest GDR3 update and Lumia Black update. It packs a 20-megapixel autofocus rear camera with new oversampling technology,ZEISS optics with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), 2x lossless zoom dual LED flash, 1080p video recording 30 fps. It also has Nokia Camera app that combines the Smart, Pro and Video modes. It comes with 32GB of internal memory and a micro SD card support.

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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

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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

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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

Celkon A50

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

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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”