Tech Industry News

Blaupunkt Brings New Range Of Car Audio Speakers In India

July 2, 2013 0 Rahul S

Blaupunkt India, has announced the launch of of its new range of high performance speakers in India. The new speakers belong to the company’s Blue Magic and Velocity range. In a press release issued by the company the company explains that…

Nokia

Nokia Debuts The Asha 501 and Asha 301 in India

July 2, 2013 0 Rahul S

Over the weekend, Nokia has launched two new Asha branded devices in India. They started off with the Asha 501 which was announced back in May and was promised a June end launch. True to their promise, the Asha 501…

Android

Sony Unveils The Xperia Z Ultra: Has 6.4 inch Display, Boasts Snapdragon 800 Chip

June 26, 2013 0 Rahul S

Sony has unveiled the latest model in the Xperia Z lineup of high end smartphones. Called the Xperia Z Ultra, this handset features a humungous 6.4 inch,full HD display and is the first smartphone to be announced with the Qualcomm…

India

Uttarakhand Tragedy: Aircel Sets Up Mobile Booths, Offers Free Calls

June 25, 2013 0 Rahul S

In an attempt to help people still stranded in flood affected loacations in Uttarakhand, Aircel has set up free mobile booths in the region. These mobile booths will aid victims and help them communicate with their loved ones in other…

Android

Google To Setup “Android Nation” Stores In India

June 20, 2013 0 Rahul S

Following the opening of exclusive “Android Nation” brick and mortar stores in Indonesia, Google is looking to strengthen its Android presence in India by following the same strategy. Google has partnered with Spice Global and will soon set up “Android…

Telecom

Vodafone, Airtel Slash 2G Data Rates By 80% and 90% Respectively

June 20, 2013 0 Rahul S

Vodafone and Airtel are in a cut throat competition to woo its large base of 2G Internet users on prepaid, it seems. It was just hours ago that Vodafone first announced that it would be slashing its 2G Internet surfing…

Tech Industry News

AMD’s Richland And Plans For 2020

June 15, 2013 0 Riya

Keeping their mission to be the leading designer and integrator of innovative, tailored technology solutions that empower people to push the boundaries of what is possible alive, it has been constantly adapting to the changes that gaming industry has been going…

Android

Samsung Announces The Mega 5.8 And Mega 6.3 In India

May 29, 2013 0 Rahul S

Samsung has announced the launch of its new mega sized phablets the Mega 5.8 and the Mega 6.3 in India. The devices are amongst the largest screened mobile phones you can buy today and as made evident by the naming…

HTC

Coming Soon: HTC One Variant With Stock Android?

May 24, 2013 0 Rahul S

It has been just over a week since Google announced that they would be coming up with a Galaxy S4 Google Edition – which as you might be aware is a Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android. Now, we have…

Android

Panasonic Debuts P51 Android Smartphone In India

May 17, 2013 0 Rahul S

Panansonic India has announced the launch of the P51 – an Android   powered smartphone in the country. The first in a series of new Android handsets that the Japanese company plans to bring here, the P51 the company says “is…

Android

LG, Google Finally Bring The Nexus 4 To India For Rs. 25,999

May 16, 2013 0 Rahul S

LG and Google have jointly announced the launch of the Nexus 4 Android smartphone in India. The device is expected to make it to India in the next  few days and is already available for preorder on Flipkart, starting at…

Android

How Google Just Killed Simplicity With Its Hangouts Android App

May 16, 2013 0 Rahul S

One of the reasons I love almost every Google product out there was the basic principle of simplicity they followed in designing them. The simplicity of design that they kickstarted with their search engine seemed to have been implemented across…

Launch

The Nokia Lumia 925 Goes Official: Is Basically A Metal Clad Lumia 920

May 14, 2013 0 Hardik Shah

At an event held a few minutes ago at London, Nokia took covers off its newest Windows Phone powered handset – the Lumia 925. Now for those of you expecting the Lumia 925 to be that all important successor to the Symbian…

Nokia

5 Reasons Why You Should Buy The Nokia Asha 501!

May 13, 2013 0 Rahul S

Yours truly just returned after a whirlwind trip to New Delhi where Nokia had its international launch of its new Asha Series handset – the Asha 501. The launch event in itself was huge and was unlike any other I…

News

Nokia Lumia 520 To Get Some FM Radio Love Soon?

May 8, 2013 0 Rahul S

If you have been following the Windows Phone saga closely, you might be aware that for reasons best known to Microsoft, the company had decided to stop support for FM Radio with Windows Phone 8 – a thing which was…

Android

Wickedleak Wammy Desire 2 Tablet Launched, Gets Quad Core Exynos Processor

May 6, 2013 0 Rahul S

Wickedleak Inc has just announced the launch of its new “Wammy Desire 2” Quadcore 7 inch tablet in India. This Android 4.1 Jellybean toting device features the aforementioned 7 inch IPS capacitive display sporting a resolution of 1280*800 pixel.  The…

Android

This Week In Apps – 001

May 4, 2013 0 Harshit

The daily trickle of apps bogging you down? Worried you might get left behind in the lightning fast world of mobile apps? Wondering who might be so kind as to separate the wheat from the chaff for you on a…

BlackBerry

BlackBerry Services Go Down On Freaky Friday

May 4, 2013 0 Hardik Shah

Beleaguered smartphone maker BlackBerry who is trying hard to make a comeback with its newly launched Z10 smartphone faced its first major technical hurdle yesterday when its famed services faced an outage for a few hours. The outage first started…

Android

Zync Launches Quad 10.1 Full HD Tablet For Rs.14,990

May 3, 2013 0 Rahul S

Zync Global who has been of late been on a tablet launch spree has just announced the launch of a brand new addition to their tablet range. The newest tablet to come out of their stables has been christened the…

Internet

YouTube Changes View Count Display On Viral Videos From 300 Views To 301+ Views!

April 30, 2013 0 Hardik Shah

YouTube has a major issue when it comes to its view count on videos that go viral. Well, not much of a major issue actually – maybe a minor irritant. I am sure you have come across videos that have…

Entertainment

Mark Your Calendars, New Xbox to be unveiled on May 21st!

April 24, 2013 0 Harshit

Microsoft has just sent out invites to members of the press that confirm that a “New Generation of Xbox” shall be revealed less than a month from now on May 21st! Rumors thus far have heated up quite a bit…

Android

Celkon’s CT 888 7-Inch Tablet Costs Rs.7999, Runs Android 4.0 ICS

April 24, 2013 0 Rahul S

It is raining Android tablets these days. Just as I complete writing a piece about the not too spectacular launch of the Asus Fonepad, I have news about yet another tablet launch. This time, the manufacturer in question is not…

Android

Hit the update switch Xperia owners! Android 4.1 Rolling out for Xperia P, Xperia Go and Xperia E dual

April 24, 2013 0 Harshit

You know what the best sort of news in the mobile industry is? Update news! To that effect, Sony Mobile has just confirmed through a blog post that they have started rolling out updates for the Xperia P, Xperia go and…

Android

Asus FonePad Lands In India For Rs.15,999

April 24, 2013 0 Rahul S

Asus has launched its large screened tablet cum phone – the FonePad in India. First unveiled at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year, the device is basically a 7 inch tablet that can also double up as a phone.…

Nokia

WhatsApp Away With Nokia’s New Asha 210

April 24, 2013 0 Rahul S

It was just a few days ago that Nokia announced on its Conversations Blog about an impending new launch. A few teaser images of the handset were leaked by them as well. It was clear that the device was a…

Nokia

So Is This How Wireless Charging Will Go Mainstream?

April 23, 2013 0 Annkur

Nokia seems to be working on taking wireless charging mainstream. They have been spotted running a trial at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in San Francisco where they integrate coffee tables with Qi wireless chairing pads. I can’t remember the…

Android

Zen Mobile Announces Feature Packed Ultrafone 701 HD: On Preorder Now

April 22, 2013 0 Rahul S

With the likes of Micromax and Karbonn gunning it out in the highly competitive, newly emerged “low cost – high end” mobile phones market (I think I just coined that term!), other players too seem to have made up their…

Apple

Apple Reveals: Siri Stores Your Data For Two Years

April 22, 2013 0 Rahul S

It is a well-known fact that companies use user generated data to supposedly “improve their services”. Many large corporations in the past have been rapped by authorities for not detailing how they deal with these data – and these include…

Nokia

Nokia To Make a Galaxy Note Sized Windows Phone Device?

April 18, 2013 0 Rahul S

While the company might have not had a great start with its Windows Phone based devices, there are some signs that Nokia seem to be picking up on the sales of its newer Windows Phone devices. Nokia as of today…

Android

Alcatel Launches Mid Range Smartphones In India

April 17, 2013 0 Rahul S

TCL Communications, the company that makes handsets under the “Alcatel” brand name has announced the launch of two new mid-range Android powered handsets in India. The new handsets in question are known as the One Touch Idol Ultra and the…

Android

Micromax A115 Canvas 3D Appears On Saholic

April 15, 2013 0 Rahul S

Micromax, who has been on an aggressive product launch spree of late seems to be cooking up a new handset that would be placed between the hugely popular A110 Canvas 2 and the A116 Canvas HD. The device has made…

Google

YouTube Goes Back To The Eighties With “VHS Mode”

April 15, 2013 0 Rahul S

If you are an 80’s kid, I am pretty sure you have had your time with VCR’s and video cassettes. Although VCR’s have given way to DVD and eventually Blu Ray players, there is still an old world charm attached…

Android

iBall Slide 6309i Tablet Debuts For Rs.5199

April 10, 2013 0 Rahul S

It’s literally raining affordable tablets here in India these days. The latest entrant to the already crowded affordable tablets space is the iBall Slide 6309i tablet. Featuring a 7 inch display and tipping the scales at a healthy sounding 310…

Android

Google Rolls Out New Look Update For The Play Store

April 10, 2013 0 Rahul S

Google’s Play Store has since its inception went through a few changes – almost all of them being evolutionary in nature. Frankly speaking, I never had any issues with the last version of Google Play as well. It did a…

App (Marketplace)

Facebook Home beta apk leaked; Compatible with a host of devices

April 8, 2013 0 Harshit

Huge grain of salt alert! Facebook’s new Home UI has been leaked from a pre-release HTC First ROM and its yours for the taking if you have a phone with the maximum resolution of 1280×768 and can uninstall your original…

Android

Facebook Home and the HTC First Officially Launched; Present Nirvana for Facebook Fans

April 5, 2013 0 Harshit

As repeatedly leaked, Facebook just launched its new launcher for Android devices, Facebook Home, accompanied by the first device to run it out of the box, the aptly named HTC First. As expected, there is a very deep integration with…

Tech Industry News

Indian Railways Introduces Free Wi-Fi Service On Rajdhani Express!

April 4, 2013 0 Rahul S

Being an Internet Junkie, (and also a railfan), one thing that has always bothered me when I am preparing for a long journey by train is whether I would get continuous Internet access over the course of the trip. Keeping…

Android

Twitter for Android Updated with an almost but not quite Holo UI

April 4, 2013 0 Harshit

Twitter just updated its Android app to v4.0 and refined its UI to be more in line with Android’s Holo guidelines. Twitter’s old application was quite archaic, featuring menu buttons and non-swipeable tabs. This version corrects some of those flaws…

Tech Industry News

Update: More images of Facebook’s new Home UI for Android leak

April 4, 2013 0 Harshit

After the hardware leaks that we saw earlier, 9to5Google in conjunction with @evleaks have brought us a look at the custom launcher Facebook has built for Android, namely: Facebook Home. Compared to traditional Android launchers, Facebook Home seems like a…

Android

Images Of HTC’s Facebook Phone Emerge Before Launch

April 3, 2013 0 Rahul S

I am sure you might be well aware of the Facebook event scheduled for later this month. The popular perception is that Facebook would be launching a phone at this event. Now, folks from over at @evleaks have posted an…