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Vodafone Slashes 3G Tariffs by 80 percent

June 21, 2012 0 Rahul S

Taking a cue from its archrivals Airtel, Idea and Reliance, telecom major Vodafone has announced huge cuts in its 3G tariffs. Up to 80% lower than what they have been charging from consumers until now, the idea seems to be…

eReaders & Tablets

Microsoft Announces the “Surface” Tablet

June 19, 2012 0 Rahul S

At an event held at Los Angeles late last night (India Time), Microsoft took covers off an entirely new line up of tablets. Christened the “Surface”, the tablets come in two variants – one based on Windows RT and the…

Microsoft

Microsoft to Debut New Tablet Today?

June 18, 2012 0 Rahul S

Software giant Microsoft has issued fresh invites for a surprise event that would be held today at Los Angeles. Reports are flying in suggesting that Microsoft might announce a surprise product at this event. This device is nothing but a…

Nokia

Nokia Gives Vertu Away; To Layoff 10,000 Employees by 2013

June 14, 2012 0 Rahul S

Once the biggest mobile phone maker on the planet, Nokia is struggling to keep its head above water amidst rising competition. The company which once led the smartphone world with its Symbian OS has long lost its dominant position to…

Android

HTC Acknowledges iPhone like Death Grip Issues on the One X

June 13, 2012 0 Rahul S

HTC’s Android powered flagship phone, the One X was announced earlier this year and saw a worldwide launch a few months later. The phone was intended to compete against the likes of the Apple iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy…

Apple

Does iOS 6 Maps Turn by Turn Navigation Work in India?

June 12, 2012 0 Rahul S

At the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) held by Apple yesterday, the company announced the much awaited iOS 6. For developers, Apple also started seeding the first iOS 6 Beta. This of course enabled a lucky few to be able…

Apple

(UPDATED) WWDC 2012: Apple Announces new MacBook Pro With Retina Display

June 12, 2012 0 Rahul S

Apple’s much awaited WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) ended earlier today and it has heralded the arrival of a bunch of new Apple products and services that will surely blow you away. Let’s take a quick look at one of the…

Android

Motorola Launches Water Resistant Defy XT and Defy Mini Smartphones in India

June 8, 2012 0 Rahul S

Motorola has announced the launch of two new Android smartphones in India. Aimed at people looking at a mid-range Android smartphone that can also take some mild punishments, the two models announced are the Defy XT and the dual SIM…

Android

HTC Announces First Dual SIM Android Phone – Desire V

June 7, 2012 0 Rahul S

In a rather surprising move, HTC has announced two new additions to its ‘Desire” line up of Android smartphones. The two handsets that see the light of the day are the Desire V and the Desire VC. Of these two,…

Notebook / Laptops

Lenovo Launches A310, A410 Ultrabooks, A270 All in One in India

June 7, 2012 0 Rahul S

Lenovo India has announced the addition of three new products to its existing portfolio of notebooks and All In Ones. The new launches include two new Ultrabooks and a stylish, premium All in One system. The new Ultrabooks include the…

Nokia

Nokia Announces Budget Range of Touchscreen “Asha” Phones

June 7, 2012 0 Rahul S

Nokia has taken covers off three new budget handsets from its Asha range earlier today. The new handsets to be introduced are named the Asha 305, Asha 306 and the Asha 311. All the three devices are targeted at emerging…

Nokia

OG Exclusive: Nokia To Launch PureView 808 on June 9!

June 6, 2012 0 Rahul S

Nokia’s flagship camera phone, the much talked about PureView 808 will be launched in India on the 9th June – a little birdie tells us. The phone would be initially made available at Nokia Priority Dealers giving them exclusivity for…

Apps

Google Acquires Mobile Productivity Suite Maker Quickoffice

June 5, 2012 0 Rahul S

In an unexpected development, Google has announced the acquisition of famous Mobile productivity suite maker Quickoffice. The latter, which has been in the mobile space for quite some time now is one of the leaders in the field and boasts…

Android

Micromax Launches A45 Superfone Punk Music Phone

June 5, 2012 0 Rahul S

Micromax Mobiles has just announced a new addition to their growing portfolio of Android smartphones. The new handset to be announced is the intriguingly named A45 Superfone Punk. The Superfone Punk happens to be a dual SIM Android powered handset running…

Android

Wickedleak Wammy 7 Android Tablet Launched; Has Aakash in Sight

June 4, 2012 0 Rahul S

WickeDleak Inc has announced the launch of a new Android powered low cost tablet in India. The Intriguingly named product – the Wammy 7 – from an equally intriguingly named company is claimed to be low cost ICS toting tablet…

Android

Samsung Galaxy S III Launches in India; Yours for Rs 43,180

May 31, 2012 0 Rahul S

After days of waiting, the day most smartphone enthusiasts in India have been waiting for is here. After making its debut in various countries across the globe, the Samsung Galaxy S III has been officially announced in India. The launch…

Android

Milagrow Launches India’s Thinnest 7 inch Tablet

May 31, 2012 0 Rahul S

Milagrow has announced the launch of a new 7 inch tablet in the country. Claimed to be the thinnest 7 inch tab to be available in India, the TabTop 7.4 as the device is called, also boasts of a 4:3…

Android

HTC One S to make India Debut on June 8?

May 30, 2012 0 Rahul S

HTC’s third handset from its new One Series, the One S is yet to be officially launched in India. The other two handsets from the range – the top of the line One X and the mid-range One V is…

Rumors

Facebook Hires Apple Employees to Develop Smartphone?

May 28, 2012 0 Rahul S

Rumors of the Facebook phone have been doing the rounds of the Interweb for quite some time now. In fact, there has been quite a number of Facebook approved handsets including the HTC ChaCha, HTC Status and the likes which…

smartphones

Sony Xperia Play ICS Update Cancelled

May 26, 2012 0 Rahul S

Here’s some real bad news for all you folks out there who own a Sony Ericsson (now Sony!) Xperia Play. The Android powered gaming centric handset released last year still runs an outdated version of Android OS. Many had expected…

BlackBerry

BlackBerry Curve 9320 Goes Official

May 9, 2012 0 Rahul S

While you might have already seen this newest member of BlackBerry’s Curve family in the form of leaked pictures, it was only today that RIM finally announced the existence of the BlackBerry Curve 9320 to the world. The handset, which is…

Dell

Review: Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

May 8, 2012 0 Rahul S

It was not very long ago that Dell announced the launch of its first Ultrabook, the XPS 13. The product, a much sought after one by Dell fans was recently launched in India as well. Dell was kind enough to…

Samsung

Samsung Announces the Galaxy S III; Has the iPhone 4S in sight

May 4, 2012 0 Rahul S

Samsung’s much awaited flagship Android handset, the Galaxy SIII has been finally announced. In an event held at London yesterday, the successor to the popular Galaxy S II was revealed to an expectant crowd of bloggers and journalists. While the Galaxy…

Android

Samsung Galaxy Nexus to Skip India Launch

May 3, 2012 0 Rahul S

Here’s some bad news for all you folks out there eagerly awaiting the launch of the first ever Android 4.0 device and the reference ICS phone – the Google Galaxy Nexus in India. The official Twitter account of Samsung India has…

Android

Angry Birds Space Crosses 50 Million Downloads in 35 Days

April 30, 2012 0 Rahul S

After its announcement and subsequent launch on March 22, 2012, Game publisher Rovio has announced in a blog post that their latest version of Angry Birds – “Angry Birds Space” has crossed an astonishing 50 million downloads! It took just…

Tech Industry News

Karbonn Ties up with Dolby, Releases KT 81 Music Phone

April 30, 2012 0 Rahul S

India’s homegrown mobile phones industry seems to have come of age of late. We have been hearing quite a few tie-ups by desi companies with prestigious brands in the past few months. The biggest one was probably Lava Mobiles tying…

Nokia

Nokia Launches new Asha 202 Handset with “Free Internet”

April 30, 2012 0 Rahul S

Expanding its portfolio of affordable handsets and the “Asha” range in India, Nokia India has announced the launch of the Asha 202 in the country. The Asha 202 is a touch and type handset featuring a full-fledged keypad as well…

HTC

Review: HTC One V

April 22, 2012 0 Rahul S

It was just days ago that HTC announced the launch of two of its latest handsets in India – the One X and the One V. Both the phones belong to the company’s newest One Series which also includes another…

Android

Asus Transformer Pad 300 on Sale Starting April 22

April 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

Asus has announced that they would be launching their newest Android powered tablet – the Transformer Pad 300 in the U.S, starting April 22, 2012. The Transformer Pad 300 would be the successor the much talked about Asus Transformer Prime…

Android

Sony Launches the Xperia S in India

April 10, 2012 0 Rahul S

Sony has announced the launch of its recently announced Android powered handset, the Xperia S in India. The phone has become the first handset to be launched in India after Sony Mobile Communications split from Ericsson and became a fully…

Tech Industry News

India gets first Commercial 4G LTE Service

April 10, 2012 0 Rahul S

Barely a year after the first commercial 3G services for private carriers went live in India, Airtel became the first Indian mobile operator to launch commercial 4G services in the country. Airtel earlier today launched its TD-LTE based 4G network…

Apple

Apple Issues Java Security Update After Malware Attack

April 6, 2012 0 Rahul S

Days after as many as 600,000 Mac computers were attacked by the Backdoor. Flashback.39 malware, Apple issued an update which patched the security hole that allowed the attack to be executed in the background whilst the user remained unaware.

eReaders & Tablets

Review: Zync Z990 ICS Tablet

April 5, 2012 0 Rahul S

While the likes of the iPads, the Galaxy Tabs and the Transformer Primes battle it out for supremacy in the highly volatile tablets segment on the global front, another battle is being fought on the same field here in India.…

Micromax

Micromax to Launch Phones with Solar Panel Soon

April 4, 2012 0 Rahul S

Micromax Mobiles, which has in the space of just a few years, managed to create a credible name for itself in the burgeoning mobile phones industry in India has just made an interesting announcement.

Android

HTC One X and One V Arrive in India Starting April 2

March 30, 2012 0 Rahul S

HTC has just confirmed what we already knew. The recently announced (at the Mobile World Congress) One X and the One V smartphones from HTC’s brand new One Series would be launched in various countries across Asia – including India…

Entertainment

PlayStation 4 to be known as Orbis; Second Hand Games Unsupported

March 30, 2012 0 Rahul S

Reports are flowing in about the likelihood of Sony’s next generation PlayStation gaming console to be codenamed the ‘Orbis’. In fact, we might see Sony dropping the legendary “PS” brand name altogether with this next generation console.

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP launches Envy Spectre Ultrabook in India

March 28, 2012 0 Rahul S

HP has announced the launch of its new Ultrabook laptop in India. The newest addition to HP’s Ultrabook range is the Envy Spectre which has been priced at Rs,99,999 and packs in a lot of features. Let’s take a closer…

Internet

BSNL to Establish National Optical Fibre Network by 2014 Connecting Rural Areas

March 27, 2012 0 Rahul S

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s state owned telecommunications giant has kickstarted an ambitious plan to establish telecom links with all villages in India. The plan envisages taking the concept of e-governance to far flung, rural areas of the country…

Tech Industry News

Apple Proposes new Nano SIM design; Motorola, RIM, Nokia Disposes

March 21, 2012 0 Rahul S

It was just a few months ago that we had first heard of the term nano SIM with rumors of it being “launched” by mid-2012. The proposal for the nano SIM was mooted by none other than Giesecke & Devrient,…

Android

Zync Debuts Low Cost IceCream Sandwich Based Tablet in India

March 20, 2012 0 Rahul S

Noida based company Zync Global has announced the launch of its new Android powered tablet, the Zync Pad Z990 in India. The Android 4.0 running tablet is priced at Rs.8990 – making it one of the cheapest Android 4.0 toting…