Facebook has released the Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8, as it promised at the Mobile World Congress last week. The Facebook Messenger has a new user interface, similar to the Facebook app for Windows Phone, that already has Facebook Messenger Integration. It has stickers, images, conversation history and more features, similar to other platforms.
Features of Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8
Get to all your messages without having to open Facebook.
Bring your conversations to life with stickers and send photos privately.
Have group conversations and make plans on the go.
Share your location so people know when you're nearby.
Know when people have seen your messages.
See who's using Messenger and who's active on Facebook.
Stay logged in so you never miss a message.
Turn off notifications when you're working, sleeping or just need a break.
Never lose your conversation history or contacts.
Download Facebook Messenger (Free) - Windows Phone 8
Facebook has released the Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8, as it promised at the Mobile World Congress last week. The Facebook Messenger has a new user interface, similar to the Facebook app for Windows Phone, that already has Facebook Messenger Integration. It has stickers, images, conversation history and more features, similar to other platforms.
Features of Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8
Get to all your messages without having to open Facebook.
Bring your conversations to life with stickers and send photos privately.
Have group conversations and make plans on the go.
Share your location so people know when you're nearby.
Know when people have seen your messages.
See who's using Messenger and who's active on Facebook.
Stay logged in so you never miss a message.
Turn off notifications when you're working, sleeping or just need a break.
Never lose your conversation history or contacts.
Download Facebook Messenger (Free) - Windows Phone 8
According to Gartner, the year 2013 was a pretty good year for tablets - a total of 195.4 million units were shipped during the year. The almost 200 million units is a 68% increase over the number of tablets shipped during 2012. The report also says that the sales of tablets was boosted by the low end smaller tablets and hence Android continues to dominate the tablet market. You can check out the numbers below.
As you can see from the data above, the sales of Apple iPads have increased, but only marginally. Despite a increased sales, Apple has lost considerable ground in the tablet market as its share has dropped from 52.8% to just 36% within a year. The Android tablets on the other hand have risen from 45.8% to around 61.9% and there by dominating the tablet market.
"In 2013, tablets became a mainstream phenomenon, with a vast choice of Android-based tablets being within the budget of mainstream consumers while still offering adequate specifications. As the Android tablet market becomes highly commoditized, in 2014, it will be critical for vendors to focus on device experience and meaningful technology and ecosystem value — beyond just hardware and cost — to ensure brand ...
Creative is quite well-known for its Audio Gear products across world and is now gearing up again to be a prime player in the Indian Market. Creative recently announced the Creative Aurvana Live! 2 in Global market as well in Indian market as the successor to highly acclaimed Aurvana Live!. Creative launched this flagship wired headphones in India for at MRP of Rs. 12,999. Fortunately we have received the opportunity to experience these flagship Head-Phones for a good time.
Specifications of Creative Aurvana Live! 2
Wired Over-the-Ear Headphones
Designed for true to life acoustic performance
Adjustable Headband with Noise Isolation earcups
Inline Control, Volume Control and microphone
Weight – 255g
40mm (1.57 inches) Neodymium magnet with composite bio-cellulose diaphragm
Frequency Response – 10Hz ~ 30KHz
Sensitivity – 105dB/mW
Design
Compared to first generation Live!, Creative has definitely designed Aurvana Live 2 (CAL!2) with quite Modern looks. The CAL!2 is quite looker with its uniquely designed ear-cups shape.
Creative has reduced the size of packaging and now compared to some other big brands, they don't come in box which has massive size. The box size is just perfect and Creative used every inch of available space to securely pack the CAL!2 headphones.
Thanks to already light weight CAL!2 which weighs just 255 grams, the ...
LG announced the G Pad 8.3 tablet back in September last year. It introduced the G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition in December, that we reviewed recently. LG has released the G Pad 8.3 LTE exclusively on Verizon Wireless in the US. Except the LTE support via SIM card slot, other features are similar to the original LG G Pad 8.3. It has a 8-inch (1920 x 1200 pixels) full HD display, quad-core 1.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Android Jelly Bean OS.
It has a 5-meapixel rear camera and 1.3-megapixel front facing camera. It has 2 GB RAM, 16GB inbuilt memory with expansion slot and packs a 4600mAh battery.
It has a range of software features including, Slide Aside, to switch between up to three apps by sliding three fingers across the screen, QSlide, to display up to two apps on the screen at once, Q Pair, to sync the tablet with Android smartphone (running Android 4.1 or higher) to receive notifications for calls, texts and social media updates over Bluetooth.
The LG G Pad 8.3 LTE would go on sale starting March 6th on Verizon for $299.99 online and stores. It is also available for $99.99 with a two-year activation plan till March 10th, after that it would be available ...
Micromax unveiled the Canvas Knight A350 at an event in Russia, back in January. The company has launched the smartphone in India as it promised last month. The Canvas Knight has a 5.0-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display, powered by a 2 GHz octa-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It features a 16-megapixel auto focus rear camera with M8 Largan lens, LED Flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.
It has Yamaha Amplifier for enhanced audio output. It has brushed metal finish with the champaign gold bezels and the rear panel glass finish. The OmniVision CameraChip sensors are capable of capturing high resolution images in rapid successionand the phone has Camerazzi camera has 360 Degree Panorama, Cinemagraph and Object Eraser.
It comes pre-loaded with BBM and Hike for instant messaging, Spuul, Kingsoft Office Suite, M!Security, M!Live portal, Truecaller, GetIt, M!Vault and pre-loaded games like RealSteel WRB, Where’s My Perry and Where’s My Water .
Micromax Canvas Knight A350 specifications
5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display
2 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592T processor
Dual SIM
Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
16MP auto focus camera with LED Flash
8MP front-facing camera
7.3mm thick
3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
2GB RAM, 32 GB internal memory (25GB for mass storage and 1.5 GB for applications)
2350 mAh ...
Adobe has released the Adobe Revel app for Android devices. This lets you edit your photos with built-in tools such as Photoshop Elements 12 and Premiere Elements 12. It also lets you create a group library to share images. Adobe already has Adobe GroupPix for collaborative photo sharing and Photoshop Express for editing. Adobe Revel is already available for iPhone and iPad.
Features of Adobe Revel for Android
Invite friends and family to join a Group Library, where you and your inner circle can create a huge collection of everyone’s photos and videos.
Control who can view, add, organize, and edit the memories in a Group Library.
Create albums to keep your photos and videos organized.
Share albums with loved ones in private web galleries.
Share photos and videos on your favorite social networks.
Edit your photos to make your memories look their best.
Download Adobe Revel (Free) - Android
Google has introduced indoor Maps in India finally, that lets you determine where you are, what floor you’re on, and where to go indoors and more, when you are visiting popular venues such as malls, supermarkets etc. Google Maps for Android got the Indoor maps feature back in 2011, later it was updated to support walking directions. This feature is also available for Apple's iOS devices.
You can zoom in to a particular venue on Google Maps app on iOS and Android to view the indoor maps. It fades away when zoomed out. Support for My Location feature helps navigate your way inside in some venues. Indoor walking directions to help you get to where you need to go more quickly. Venues can upload their floor plan at maps.google.com/floorplans to get their location’s floor plan included in Google Maps.
Indoor Maps will initially be available at select locations in 22 Indian cities including Delhi – NCR, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Coimbatore and Ahmedabad. There are 75 popular indoor venues in these cities across India. You can check out the complete list of venues here.
When Google announced their $35 HDMI dongle in 2013, everybody saw a lot of potential for Google Chromecast. But Google had been little slow in opening up the SDK for the developers and it looks like it is slowly catching up. As of March 2014, you can now stream the videos from a webpage on your Google Chrome browser to your TV.
This new feature will allow users to stream content directly from the web site for those sites which do not have support for Chromecast yet. To be able to use this new feature, you should download Google Chrome Beta from Play Store. Then you should enable the “experimental Chromecast support” flag by typing chrome://flags in the address down. Or, you could easily achieve the same thing by just typing chrome://flags/#enable-cast.
Once done, you should restart the browser to see changes. When you goto websites with videos embedded, you will find a Chromecast icon using which you can stream those videos to your TV. In our time with this feature, it seemed to work well across YouTube(being a Google product, it was kind of obvious), but when you try other Flash/Silverlight sites like Vimeo, we encountered occasional problems.
Google Chrome Beta Download
Sony Mobile has launched the Xperia E1 and Xperia E1 dual in India. These smartphones were announced back in January and packs a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). These have a 3-megapixel rear camera and offer 100dB loud audio output through rear speakers. These have Walkman key, shake to shuffle and hardware controls for easy music control.
The Xperia E1 dual has new dual SIM technology that lets users set custom ring tones and the dual SIM management technology keeps both SIMs active, so that you never miss a call, even when talking on one of them.
Sony Sony Xperia E1 and E1 Dual specifications
4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) TFT capacitive touch screen display
Dual SIM (E1 dual)
Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean)
1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 (MSM8210) processor with Adreno 302 GPU
12 mm thick and weighs 120 g
3MP rear camera
3.5 mm audio jack, FM Radio with RDS
3G, Bluetooth, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS / aGPS
512MB RAM, 4 GB internal memory, up to 32 GB expandable memory with microSD
1700 mAh battery
The Sony Xperia E1 Dual would be the first smartphone to go on sale starting from 10th March 2014. The Xperia E1 would be available from 25th March 2014. ...
Aircel has launched Happy Recharge, the company's latest recharge pack, that offers talk, text and mobile internet benefits in a single recharge. The Happy Recharge packs start at Rs. 45, that comes with 5 days validity and goes up to Rs. 368, that has 30 days validity. The company recently launched 3-in 1 Happy Recharge pack, but the new packs are much cheaper.
Last year Aircel launched Fuccha Pack with discounted Voice Calls, SMS and Data benefits aimed at College students.
List of Happy Recharge packs
MRP (in Rs.)
Calling benefits
Data benefits
SMS benefits
Validity
45
Rs. 45 Talk Value
45 MB
45 Local/National SMS
5 Days
168
11,000 Local/National Seconds
750 MB
168 Local/National SMS
30 Days
268
22,000 Local/National seconds
1 GB
268 Local/National SMS
30 Days
368
33,000 Local/National seconds
2GB
368 Local/National SMS
30 Days
Commenting about the Happy Recharge, Anil Gupta, Regional Business Head-North, Aircel, said,
At Aircel, we constantly introduce products keeping in mind the needs and requirements of our customers. The ‘Happy Recharge Pack’ will make communication simpler and convenient than ever by providing a unified communication solution encompassing voice, texting & data. It is a single solution for customers currently engaged in multiple recharges. With an aim to establish Aircel as a preferred brand in Delhi, we have launched this pack which caters to all the communication needs of the customer in ...
With Internet, you can sure do a lot of stuff on your smartphone. But handheld Internet is yet to reach the larger crowd in India and folks at Bangalore are trying to come up with solutions for the less Internet savy people. The service, called as FreeKall, brings voice-over-internet like services to those without the Internet.
With FreeKall, all you have to do is to dial their number - 08067683693. Once the user dials the number, the call is disconnected after a ring. And then, the system calls back the user prompting him to enter the number to which he wants to make a call. The system then connects the call. This is where the trick begins - instead of hearing a ringing tone on the call, the user hears an advertisement.
That is not the end of Ads ofcourse. In between the call, for every two minutes, you and the other person will hear an Ad during which the call will be paused and the call resumes once the Ad is over. For now, unregistered users can make calls up to 3 minutes and registered users can make calls up to 12minutes. The team hopes to improve their infrastructure and claim ...
Google Now is Google's idea of a personal assistant and it is very useful in countries like USA and Canada where all your travel data sync with Google. In India, all you could was weather updates and updates about your favorite football team. But it looks like things are about to change pretty soon. Jet Airways, one of the leading airline companies in India, has announced that it is integrating its flight booking details with Google Now.
According to the announcement, users who book their flight details on Jet Airways website or through the mobile app will be providing their gmail ID which will provide contextual information for the user on their smartphone. Jet Airways has announced that with this integration, users will benefit from the fact that they will get relevant and contextual information right on their smartphone.
Any details regarding the plane will be updated on the smartphone. Users will be able to view travel information in Google Now several hours before their flight departure. Information includes updates on their flight schedule, and the airport terminal for their flight. This information is automatically updated in Google Now. If the flight is delayed or the status changes, the latest information will be ...
RAR for Android was first introduced as beta last month. The app was out of beta recently, that brings a lot of new features including a new navigation panel with archive history, RAR 4.x compression options, new notifications and support for more languages such as Bulgarian, Dutch, Italian and Simplified Chinese.
The RAR app for Android from RAR labs lets you create RAR and ZIP and unpack RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO, ARJ archives. You can also repair damaged ZIP and RAR files.
Features of RAR for Android
RAR, ZIP and ZIPX with BZIP2, LZMA and PPMd compression
Set a password before archiving
Unpack RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO and ARJ archives.
Unrar support for RAR5, UDF and ISO9660
WinRAR benchmark to find performance of RAR compression and decompression for your device
Multiple language support
Uses multiple CPU cores for quick compression and decompression
Download RAR for Android (Free) - Android
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SpiceJet, popular Indian airline, has launched their mobile mobile exclusively on the Windows Phone Store. The app has been available on the Store for over two months, looks like they have planned to officially launch it today. The app lets you book tickets, check flight status and also avail special promotional offers. Nokia has partnered with SpiceJet to launch the app to Windows Phone Store.
Features of SpiceJet app for Windows Phone
Book tickets, check PNR status and enjoy special promotional offers
Select premium seats by paying an additional amount.
Spice Destinations offers exciting holiday destinations and flight options
Tap-to-call option to dial a 24x7 sales & reservations number for any support
Commenting on the SpiceJet app being available on the Windows Phone Store, Navdeep Manaktala, Head of Developer Experience, Nokia India, said,
Living up to our commitment of providing relevant and improved experiences to Lumia consumers, we are very happy to partner with SpiceJet to bring to our consumers a first of its kind mobile app on the Windows Phone Store. We believe that its unique and interactive features will help users access information and plan both their business and leisure trips very conveniently, making air-travel more hassle free and pleasant than ever before.
Sanjiv Kapoor, Chief Operating Officer, SpiceJet, said,
We are ...
Xiaomi, popular for its Mi series of smartphones in China was rumored to launch a tablet last year, but it didn't happen. A device codenamed Xiaomi HM 1AC has surfaced on GFXBench with some specifications. According to the benchmarks, it would have a 9.2-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) display, powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU and run on custom MiUI ROM based on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean).
It would have a 8-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash, 1080p full HD video recording and a 1.5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has SIM support, WiFi, Bluetooth, Compass and GPS, It also has Lightsensor, accelerometer and proximity sensors. The display might be small, since the 9.2-inch HD screen would have low pixel density of around 160. If it comes with a smaller display, it might have voice calling as well.
The tablet is also rumored to come in 3G and WiFi variants. Xiaomi MiPad with a quad-core MediaTek MT8125 processor, HD screen and 1GB RAM is also rumored to be in the works. It is not clear when Xiaomi plans to launch this tablet.
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Huawei Ascend P6 was the phone that was supposed to push Huawei into the International market as a notable manufacturer, but it din't succeed as much as they company would have loved. But nevertheless, it was a great phone with exceptional build quality. The Huawei Ascend P6 was launched with Android 4.2.2 Jellybean on board overlaid by Huawei's Emotion UI 1.6. Huawei had assured us that they would be upgrading the device to Android 4.4.2 KitKat and true to their word, they have already started rolling out the update in China.
If you din't know about the Huawei Ascend P6, some of its important features are
4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive touch screen display based on in-cell LCD screen technology
1.5 GHz quad-core Huawei K3V2 processor
Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
8MP camera with BSI sensor, F2.0 aperture, 4cm macro lens
1080P full HD video recording and playback
5-megapixel front-facing camera with auto facial-enhancing capabilities
6.18 mm thick and weighs 120 grams
2GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, expandable memory via microSD
3G HSPA+, dualband WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS
2000 mAh battery
The device is getting the OTA update in China and along with the Android version upgrade to 4.4 KitKat, Huawei's own custom skin is also getting an update to Emotion UI 2.0.
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With the shipments of smartphones and tablets increasing, the PC industry is facing the heat of this shift. IDC, the company that predicts trends and reports them has reported the decline of PC sales in 2013. According to IDC, this is the most severe contraction in the PC market ever and they predict that it will continue. PC shipments were expected to decline by 10.1% but they declined by around 9.8%.
Speaking on this occasion, Loren Loverde, Vice President of Worldwide PC Trackers, told "Emerging markets used to be a core driver of the PC market, as rising penetration among large populations boosted overall growth. At the moment, however, we're seeing emerging regions more affected by a weak economic environment as well as significant shifts in technology buying priorities. We do expect these regions to recover in the medium term and perform better than mature regions, but growth is expected to stabilize near zero percent, rather than driving increasing volumes as we saw in the past."
As you can see from the data above, PC sales are expected to slump everywhere across the world. According to IDC, the fourth quarter sales in 2013 were marginally better because it was the end of a life cycle ...
Over the past few years, with the introduction of their smartphones and tablets, Archos has proven that it is not just a company that is known for it's PMPs (Portable Media Players). They introduced a few devices at CES in January this year and MWC last month as well. Here are the three new devices that they announced at MWC 2014.
The first device is called the 40b Titanium. It's the cheapest of the trio and comes with a 4" 800x480 pixels resolution display. It's powered by a Meditek Dual Core processor clocked at 1.3 GHz, 512MB of RAM and a 1400 mAH battery. There's 4GB of internal storage that can be expanded using a microSD card slot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEgREnG7UE
The device is built reasonably well and has a sleek design. While it may not seem like much, we believe that it is very good value for money at the 100 GBP (166 US$ Approx) price point it is set to be launched at.
The next device is the 64 Xenon which is a phablet that as the name suggests is a 6.4" device. It sits right at the top along with the likes of the Sony XPERIA Z Ultra in terms of screen estate ...
LG unveiled the L90, the company's top-end smartphone in the L Series III line-up last month, and showcased it at the MWC 2013 few weeks back. The company has announced that it would begin rolling out the smartphone globally starting this week. The phone has a 4.7-inch qHD screen, powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with LG's custom UI on top.
It would be the first L Series III device to offer Knock Code, that lets users turn on and unlock the phone by tapping their screens using one of over 86,000 “knock” combinations. It can be entered even when the screen is turned off, using anywhere from two to eight taps.
LG L90 specifications
4.7-inch (960 x 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen display
1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 (MSM8226) processor with Adreno 305 GPU
Android 4.4 KitKat
8MP rear camera with LED flash
1.3MP front-facing camera
1GB RAM, 8GB Internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
Dimensions: 131.6 x 66.0 x 9.7mm
3G (HSPA+21Mbps), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS
2,540 mAh battery
The LG L90 would be available initially in the CIS region followed by global markets. Check out the LG L90 hands-on from the MWC.
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Nokia unveiled the Nokia X, the company's first smartphone built on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) at the MWC 2014, few weeks back. Earlier this week online retailer The Mobile Store listed the smartphone at a price tag of Rs. 8,500 with availability date of March 15th. Today, online retailer Saholic has listed the smartphone for purchase at a price tag of Rs. 8,499.
The black variant is available for purchase and is expected to be delivered by 25th March. Other colors are currently out of stock at the moment, but these are expected to arrive by March 11th. The design of the Nokia X is similar to Nokia Lumia devices. It has Nokia Store for Android apps.
Nokia X specifications
4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) capactiive touch screen display
1 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 play (MSM8225) processor
Nokia X software platform 1.0 based on AOSP Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
Dual SIM
Dimensions: 115.5 x 63 x 10.44 mm; Weight: 128.6 g
3MP fixed focus rear camera
3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
512MB RAM, 4GB of Internal storage, micro SD expansion slot
3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n,Bluetooth 3.0, aGPS
1500 mAh battery
The Nokia X comes in Green, Cyan, White, Black, Tellow and Red colors. At the MWC, Nokia announced that the Nokia X would roll out in Asia-Pacific, Europe, ...
