HTC has official launched Desire 600 Dual SIM in India. It was announced back in May and went on sale in India earlier this month. It has a 4.5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) pixels super LCD2 display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8625Q processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) . It has a 8-megapixel camera on the back with LED flash, BSI sensor and a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor.
It has Dual SIM support with dual active SIMs that allows you to have two SIM cards active all the times, enabling you to receive a call on first SIM, even if you are already using the other.
It has HTC BlinkFeed home screen that aggregates social streams and news, providing the freshest content at a glance and gets global content from more than 1,400 media sources. The Video Highlights feature automatically creates professional-looking 30-second show reels without the need for advanced editing software. The HTC BoomSound feature offers enhanced audio output with Dual frontal stereo speakers and built-in amplifiers and comes with Beats Audio integration.
HTC Desire 600 specifications
4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) pixels super LCD2 display
1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8625Q processor
Android 4.1 (Jellybean)
Dual SIM with Dual Active
8MP rear camera with LED Flash, ...
HTC has official launched Desire 600 Dual SIM in India. It was announced back in May and went on sale in India earlier this month. It has a 4.5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) pixels super LCD2 display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8625Q processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) . It has a 8-megapixel camera on the back with LED flash, BSI sensor and a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor.
It has Dual SIM support with dual active SIMs that allows you to have two SIM cards active all the times, enabling you to receive a call on first SIM, even if you are already using the other.
It has HTC BlinkFeed home screen that aggregates social streams and news, providing the freshest content at a glance and gets global content from more than 1,400 media sources. The Video Highlights feature automatically creates professional-looking 30-second show reels without the need for advanced editing software. The HTC BoomSound feature offers enhanced audio output with Dual frontal stereo speakers and built-in amplifiers and comes with Beats Audio integration.
HTC Desire 600 specifications
4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) pixels super LCD2 display
1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8625Q processor
Android 4.1 (Jellybean)
Dual SIM with Dual Active
8MP rear camera with LED Flash, ...
Google unveiled the new Nexus 7 few hours back. The Nexus 7 comes in 3 variants, 16GB WiFi, 32GB WiFi and 32GB 4GLTE. Google announced that the WiFi version of the Nexus 7 (2013) would go on sale first in the U.S starting from July 30th over Google Play and several local retailers. It also announced that the Asus-made Nexus 7 tablet would be available United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Japan, Korea, and Australia in the coming week with other countries to follow soon after. Even though they did not announce what these countries the New Nexus 7 page is live for several countries including India that reveals that the tablet would eventually launch here.
Google Nexus 4 appeared on the India Play Store back in March and it was launched by LG in May. Google currently sells the 16GB WiFi and the 32GB WiFi variants of the Nexus 7 in India via Google Play and Asus sells the 32GB 3G variant through stores and online retailers. We are not sure when the new Nexus 7 would go on sale here or how it would cost. The Nexus 7 16GB and 32GB WiFi variants are priced at $229 and $269 respectively in the ...
Aircel has tied up with Wikimedia Foundation to offer free access to Wikipedia on mobile phones for their customers. This is the first service of its kind to formally launch in India. This lets you browse Wikipedia website (m.wikipedia.org) on any internet enabled mobile phone without any data charges. This is a part of Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Zero program, to enable mobile access, free of data charges, to Wikipedia to billions of people around the world, especially in developing countries.
Regarding the partnership Anupam Vasudev, Chief Marketing Officer for Aircel, said
Through our alliance with the Wikimedia Foundation, Aircel is not only making internet services reach a wider audience, but also help encourage and enrich the lives of our customers by offering access to knowledge and information free of cost. We are excited about this partnership and hope this initiative will benefit all our customers from various age groups
Kul Takanao Wadhwa, Head of Mobile with the Wikimedia Foundation said
We hail Aircel’s commitment to enhancing and expanding access to free knowledge for their mobile customers. With the partnership, we extend our program to India where we potentially reach millions of people for the first time. Aircel is one of the operators across the globe that has contributed towards expanding free access to ...
Google announced the Google Play Games services back in May at the Google I/O. Now the Google Play Games app is live in the Play Store that lets you invite a friend and start challenging gamers around the world, compete for top achievements, and race to the top of the leaderboard. You can also discover new games and play with friends and join supported multiplayer games. It also shows notifications and friend's requests. By default only users from your Google Play circles can send requests, but you can change it from the settings.
Under the recommended games section, you can view featured games, popular games and popular multiplayer titles. It also recommends people to added in your Google+ circles so that you can play with them.
Features of Google Play Games
Discover great games
Play with your friends, and see what they're playing
Join multiplayer games
Track your achievements
Compare scores with other players
Download Google Play Games from the Google Play Store for free. This doesn't have any country restriction and is available for all the users with Google account globally.
Asus launched the Fonepad in India with 3G data support and voice calling capabilities back in April. Later the Fonepad was upgraded with a more powerful processor and 32GB internal storage in May. Now the new Fonepad is available from online retailer Flipkart. Apart from the processor and the internal memory, the new Fonepad has similar features including a 7-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) IPS display, 3-megapixel auto focus rear camera with 720p HD video recording, 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). We reviewed the first Fonepad back in May.
The Intel Atom Z2420 was used in the Xolo X500, and the Intel Atom Z2460 chip is used in range of devices including Xolo X900, X910 and ZTE Grand X IN.
New Asus Fonepad Specifications
7-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display
1.6 GHz Intel Atom Z2460 processor with PowerVR SGX540 GPU
Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS
3MP auto focus rear camera with 720p HD video recording
1.2MP front-facing camera
1GB RAM, 32 GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
3G HSPA with voice calling, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Blueooth 3.0, GPS
10.4mm thick and weighs 340 grams
4270 mAh battery
The upgraded Asus Fonepad is priced at Rs. 17,999 and comes in Champagne Gold color. It is expected to be officially ...
Ever since the original Galaxy Note, Samsung has continuously shocked us with screen sizes on their smartphones. Predictably, that has continued with the Galaxy Mega 5.8 and its bigger brother, the Mega 6.3 with the world's biggest screen, on a smartphone that is. We initially thought it was ridiculous that Huawei launched a 6.1 inch device at CES, but Samsung has one-upped them, actually 0.2-upped them with a more monstrous 6.3 inch screen. After a good amount of ridicule and plenty of surprises, we have finally tested this Smartphone-Tablet hybrid in whole and here are our complete thoughts on the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3. Retailing at Rs 32,990, is this the large screen phablet you are waiting for? Lets find out.
Box Contents
We just unboxed the Galaxy Mega 6.3 recently and found the contents to be pretty normal, but we really would have appreciated the inclusion of a flip cover within the box. Anyway, you can take a look at our unboxing post for more details, or at the unboxing video we filmed earlier -
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kT4Fzg4zcM
Listed here are the box contents of the Galaxy Mega 6.3 -
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
2-pin charger
USB cable
Earphones with earbuds
3200 mAh battery
Quick start guide
Design
The Mega 6.3 is clearly ...
Oppo, a smartphone and consumer electronics company from China has been responsible for smartphones like the Finder and more recently, the Find 5. Surprisingly, for a small company like Oppo, news comes by the way of China's Entrepreneur magazine that it is the second most profitable mobile phone company in the country. For a market as big as China, this certainly seems like good news for a relatively unknown company.
The company, as we noted earlier in our Find 5 review, is one of the very few from China that builds high quality smartphones. Starting with the Oppo Finder, which still is one of the world's thinnest smartphones, the company made inroads into the smartphone market in China as well as gained some global approval and recognition. Its current flagship, the Oppo Find 5 is available for shipping globally and has found its way to Europe and other countries.
Having revealed a limited edition red coloured Find 5 and teased a Windows Phone render, Oppo is on the way to becoming more versatile with more choices, in hardware as well as software. It is also important to note that the company has its own software solution for its Android phones which look ...
NVIDIA showed off Project Logan, their next-generation, CUDA-capable mobile processor. It detailed the Tegra roadmap back in March with Logan and Parker SoCs with Kepler and Maxwell GPUs. The Keplar GPU is built on the same Kepler graphics architecture found in its latest generation of PC GPUs such as Nvidia GeForce Titan. The Logan chip would use a similar 4 + 1 arrangement similar to Tegra 3 and Tegra 4 chips and use 4 ARM A15 CPU cores and Kepler GPU with 192 CUDA cores.
It supports all the features of the Kepler GPU including the latest OpenGL 4.4 and DirectX 11 in the Geforce Titan but it uses just 2 watts of power.
The GPU performance of mobile Kepler is three times better than the iPad 4 and even exceeds the performance of the Playstation 3 reveals NVIDIA.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx0t-WJFXzo
NVIDIA demoed Ira, detailed digital model powered by Project Logan with mobile Kepler GPU that shows great performance and consumes just 2 to 3 watts power. The Logan chip in the development board is connected to a 10.1-inch 1920 x 1200 touchscreen running Android.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpvfTuaO75k
The Island demo shows the performance of the Mobile Kepler GPU embedded within next-gen Logan mobile processor.
The Logan SoC with Kepler mobile GPU would give an opportunity ...
Sony Mobile would be one of the first companies to announce the upcoming Android updates for their devices. It started rolling out the Android 4.2.2 update for the Xperia Z and the Xperia ZL starting last month. Now it has confirmed that the Xperia ZR and the Xperia Tablet Z would start receiving Android 4.2 from early August. It has also confirmed the list of devices that would get the Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update.
List of Xperia devices that would get Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update
Xperia Z
Xperia ZL
Xperia ZR
Xperia Tablet Z
Xperia SP
Xperia Z Ultra
Another good news is that they are planning to update the select (2012) Xperia devices running 4.1 directly to 4.3, skipping the Android 4.2. The company said that they would reveal more details about the list of devices soon. Sony started rolling out the Android 4.1 update for the 2012 Xperia devices starting from February earlier this year.
It has also detailed the Android 4.3 process and promised faster upgrade times. It says that the software upgrade process has two phases, the first one is the Bring up phase and the Test, and second being the certification and approval phase. Sony delayed the ICS roll out, and accepts that ...
The new Nexus 7(2013) launched just within the last 24 hours but a lot has been already said about it thanks to the various leaks and pre orders that went live even before it went official. That said, the full specifications are finally revealed and we have gone through the completely to see if this is really worth the upgrade. Well, is it? Should you upgrade from your old Nexus 7? Lets find out.
In our usual way of explaining things, let us take you through each and every aspect of the new Nexus 7 vs the old.
Design and build
While the design remains almost the same, with thick bezels on the top and bottom, and curved edges, the choice of materials have changed. The plastic that covered the sides is now completely engulfed by a soft touch material with the glass on the front. This makes it nicer to hold and the dimensions too help. The device has nicely slimmed down from 10.45mm to 8.65mm and weighs slightly lesser from 340g to 317.5g.
Display
The new nexus 7 2013 sports a nicely upgraded true full HD display. The resolution is up from 1280x800 to 1920x1200, but both remain good 7 inch IPS ...
Just hours after we reviewed a monster of a device with a 6.3 inch screen, a screen bezel has leaked on to the internet from the factories in China. Guess what, it reportedly measures 6 inches in diagonal and it's a Nokia Lumia. Previously, we had seen a Nokia Lumia device with an aluminium body leak from a mass production line, with unnaturally long sides and we think this screen bezel might be part of that puzzle. With Microsoft and Nokia rumoured to support bigger 1080p resolution displays with a interim GDR3 Windows Phone update in fall, the phablet leak is in line with expectations.
Adding credibility to the leak is the fact that the same leakster that leaked mass production line leak(the one you see above) has now leaked this bezel. From the looks of it, the bezel is very much similar to what you see in the Galaxy Mega 6.3 and the Ascend Mate 6.1. But that aside, are we really ready to let companies introduce >6 inch devices in our lives? Android devices like the Xperia Z Ultra and the Ascend Mate at least have some sort of spiritual predecessors like any 7 inch Android tablet, but having ...
MediaTek has announced that they have partnered with LG to bring the world's first triple-SIM 3G smartphones. LG had already launched a triple SIM feature phone, A290 with triple support in India last year. LG starting launching dual SIM Android smartphones last year starting with Optimus Net Dual with a dedicated SIM switch key to switch between either SIM cards easily. This continued in the Optimus L Series and L Series II Range. The Optimus L4 II Dual is the latest Dual SIM Android smartphone from LG, which also comes with a dedicated SIM switch key.
The 3G Triple-SIM technology would let you use all the three SIM cards simultaneously. Users can receive receive calls, transmit data, send SMS messages and remain in standby mode concurrently without consuming excessive battery life. MediaTek is one of the popular chip vendors who offers multi-SIM chipset. The company did not reveal details about the chipset or modem that would be used in the upcoming Triple SIM 3G smartphones developed by LG. However it revealed that the smartphones would have built-in user interface to directly adjust or turn off the multi-SIM function.
LG did not reveal when they would show off their triple-SIM 3G smartphones. We can probably expect it at the MWC ...
Samsung just reported its Q3 earnings for 2013. The South Korea-based company managed to rack up an operating profit of 9.53 trillion won (~US$8.5 billion), which is the highest Samsung has ever posted in a single quarter and a 9-percent increase compared to last Quarter. It has reported net profit of 7.77 trillion won (~US$6.96 billion) and revenues of 57.46 trillion won (~US$51 billion). Mobile phone sales accounted for 34.58 trillion won (~US$31.1 billion), which is 9-percent increase compared to last quarter.
Even though Smartphone sales grew led by solid S4 shipments and the Note 8.0 in the tablet sector, profits declined due to increased costs of new product launches, R&D and retail channels investments, etc. Due to this there is a 3-percent decrease in operating profits in the handset sector. Smartphone shipments increased in America (continent) and China. Samsung believes that growth of the smartphone market would be strong in the third quarter but it would slower. Average selling price would come down due to lot of mid-priced smartphones in this quarter.
The OLED panel shipment increased due to the launch of premium smartphones. It aims to bring differentiated smartphone displays through technological competitiveness, including flexible display technology.
Sales of logic chips declined due to lower mobile application processor shipments. Samsung says it would ramp up the production ...
IDC has yet again released a marketshare analysis of all the smartphone vendors for the period of Q2 2013. Interestingly, the action is slowly shifting away from the top two, Apple and Samsung. In the event of stiff and challenging competition from other smartphone vendors such as LG and Lenovo, Apple and Samsung have lost a chunk of their smartphone and haven't been able to keep up with the rapidly expanding smartphone market. The overall smartphone market has seen a 52.3% YoY change and Apple has lagged with only 20% growth while Samsung has almost kept up, with 43.9% growth rate. Samsung is not in a bad position though, going by their recently revealed numbers.
These numbers portray a very different story from last year. LG and Lenovo are the biggest gainers here, outpacing the market growth itself with 108.6 and 130% growth respectively. With the success of the blockbuster Nexus 4 for LG and improved sales of the Lephone in China for Lenovo, the marketshare dynamics have changed significantly. LG and Lenovo, in combination, own almost 10% of the market now. ZTE and Huawei have been keeping their sales steady, while lesser known vendors too are slowly creeping into the ...
I was in New York city recently for an event and managed to get hold of the recently launched Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition for unboxing as I'm a huge fan of devices running stock Android and the Galaxy S4 has some great internals and a full HD Super AMOLED display. Samsung's TouchWiz UI on top on Android does offer some useful features but it does come at a cost in terms of free space on the device and
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0m1kmTfGhE
Above is the unboxing video of the package which arrived from the Google Play store. The box looks a lot similar to the regular Galaxy S4 which ships with Samsung's Touchwiz UI.
In terms of the specs , this Galaxy S4 is almost identical to the Galaxy S4 in USA and slightly different from the version sold in India but the huge difference is the plain vanilla Android OS instead of any Touchwiz UI layer. The absence of TouchWiz is both a good and bad thing but mostly good. This Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505G Google Play Edition is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor running at 1.9 GHz. This phone offers very good LTE support in the US on T-Mobile and AT&T ...
NTT Docomo has started testing their enhanced Xi (read “Crossy”) LTE service that would offer download speeds of up to 150 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 50 Mbps. The first trial run would being in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture from July 30th . Apart from improving the LTE service NTT Docomo has expanded their current 112.5 Mbps Xi LTE service to more than 130 cities in Japan as of this month. NTT Docomo launched the first Xi LTE service back in December 2010 that offered download speeds of up to 75 Mbps. It was upgraded gradually.
Here is a table that lists the milestones in Docomo's LTE Data Transmission Speeds
In South Korea SK Telecom and LG Uplus launched LTE-Advanced which offers speeds up to 150 Mbps. Even Samsung launched the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset and the LG G2 would also feature LTE-Adavnced support. SK Telcom believes that it would offer speeds of 500 Mbps by 2015. Probably NTT Docomo would also offer higher speeds at that time.
The commercial launch of NTT Docomo's 150 Mbps Xi LTE service is expected in Japan, starting in parts of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya this October 2013.
Intex Technologies has launched the Cloud X3, the company's latest entry-level Android smartphone. It has a 3.5-inch (320 x 480 pixels) capacitive multi-touch display, dual SIM support and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Intex has partnered with MediaTek for the launch and the smartphone is powered by a 1 GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6572 chip that has integrated Wi-Fi, FM, GPS and Bluetooth. Intex is the first smartphone maker in India to introduce a smartphone with this chip.
The MediaTek MT6572 chip has a Cortex A7 CPU sub-system with speeds up to 1.3GHz based on leading 28nm process technology that makes the device power efficient. The phone comes with dual SIM support with dual standby, has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel rear camera. The phone has glossy finish and curved design.
Intex Cloud X3 specifications
3.5 inch (320 x 480 pixels) Capacitive touch screen display
1GHz dual-core MT6572 processor
Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS
Dual SIM (GSM+ GSM)
2MP rear camera
0.3 MP (VGA) front-facing camera
2G EDGE/GPRS, WiFi,Bluetooth, GPS
3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
256MB RAM, 115MB user memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
1450 mAh battery with up to 6 hours of talk time and about 200 hours of standby time
The Intex Cloud X3 comes in White & Black colors and is priced at Rs. ...
Samsung has been enabling its tablets with calling functionality ever since the first ever non-Apple tablet released, the company's own Galaxy Tab. While the original Galaxy Tab didn't have an ear piece to enable phone-like calling, it did have the support. Tab 2 310, its successor on the other hand had an ear piece to let people use it like a phone. Various other manufacturers then warmed up to this idea and released their own calling tablet much to the critics' ridicule, but a market was definitely there. On that note, Samsung launched the Note 8.0 at the Mobile World Congress this year, and introduced a WiFi as well as a cellular version with calling.
We had reviewed the WiFi version earlier and now we are going to see how the cellular version is different and what its extra features are. Is the calling version really that useful on a 8 inch tablet? Lets find out.
Note: The Galaxy Note 510 is the cellular version of the Note 8.0, literally everything except the below discussed text is same. Do read the complete review of the Galaxy Note 8.0 WiFi version here before proceeding to the review.
Usability
The first constraint we faced was usability. ...
The State Bank of India has launched their official State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone devices. This app lets you login to your account, trasfer funds, pay bills, book train tickets and lots more. There is a bit of registration process before you can use the app. The State Bank Freedom app was released for Android back in 2011 and for iPhone back in 2012.
Features of State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone
Funds transfer (within SBI or other Bank's account)
Immediate Mobile Payment Services (IMPS) : Fund Transfer, Merchant Payments 24 x 7
Enquiry Services (Balance Enquiry / Mini statement)
Cheque Book request
Demat Account Enquiry
Bill Payments (Utility bills, Credit Cards, Insurance premium), Donations, Subscriptions
Mobile Top up
M-Commerce (DTH Recharge of Tatasky, BigTV, SunDirect, DishTV, DigitalTV and Videocon d2h connections, SBI Life insurance premium, etc.)
Booking of train tickets over the IRCTC portal through IMPS
Download State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone (7.5 and later) from the Windows Phone Store for free.
Intex had launched several Android smartphones in the Aqua series last year and earlier this year. It launched the Aqua Wonder quad-core, the company’s first quad-core smartphone back in April. The Aqua I-5 that was launched last month is their flagship Android smartphone with a 5-inch qHD display. We brought you the unboxing and the benchmarks recently. The phone is priced at Rs. 11,690, cheaper than most of the similar range Android smartphone powered by a quad-core processor. Is it worth the price ? Let's dive into the review to find out.
Unboxing
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUYp9cKLB4
Box Contents
Intex Aqua I-5 smartphone
2000 mAh battery
micro USB Cable
2-pin charger adapter
Headset
Screen guard
Flip Cover
Warranty card
User Manual
Hardware
The Intex Aqua i-5 has a 5-inch IPS display at a resolution of 960 x 540 pixel at 220 PPI pixel density. The display is based on one-glass solution (OGS) technology that reduces the phone’s thickness by reducing the air gap between the touch sensor, display and the cover glass. The display is bright and has great viewing angles. Since it is glossy, it is a finger print magnet.
There is an ear piece on top along with a 2-megapixel camera. The Proximity and Ambient light sensors are present next to the camera.
Below the display there ...
