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The Sony flagship smartphone is on the way to India. With a teaser on it’s official Facebook Page, Sony Mobile has confirmed that Xperia Z will be launch on March 6th in Indian markets. There is not much information regarding the price of this smartphone, but rumours suggest that the price will be something similar to recently announced HTC Butterfly, which costs Rs. 45,500.

Lava Iris 430 is dual core powered smartphone. It has been showing on Lava Official Website.  It has 4.3-inch WVGA screen and is powered by 1GHz of dual core processor. The rear camera is of 5MP. This dual SIM handset could probably be priced under Rs. 8,000. There are two cameras, one placed on the rear side with a 5MP resolution and another on the front side of VGA resolution. The Lava Iris 430 is 10.55 mm thick. Battery is of 1500mAh capacity with around 4 hours of talktime and up to 390 hours standby time. As for as the Memory is concerned its 512MB RAM and 4GB internal storage with micro SD support. Other features are 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, 3.5mm jack, GPS and micro USB port. The specs seem low end the handset will be priced accordingly. The price tag is not known yet. Lava Iris 430 Specifications : Dual SIM with Dual Standby. 1GHz dual core processor. ICS OS. 4.3 inch capacitive multi touch screen with 800×480 pixels resolution (16M co...

The Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD is the first Android device to come with MediaTek MT6589 quad-core processor, and packs a 720p HD display, not 1080p FHD display. It will also comes with a stylus pen, and an optional flip cover and the device will be offered in multiple colors. There are however few differences which make Alcatel a better buy than the  Micromax A116 , well it also depends on how they price it. Another interesting thing is that the One Touch Scribe HD is slimmer than A116. Scribe is 8.5mm thick whereas the Canvas HD (A116) is 10.7mm thick. The Alcatel HD handset is also available in many colours like pure white, flash yellow, black and flash red. The Scribe HD sports a 5 inch TFT touch screen with 1280×720 pixels resolution (16M colours). The handset weighs 135 grams and supports dual SIM. It runs on the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS powered by a quad core processor clocked at 1.2GHz (probably similar to what is being used on the Micromax A116). Other f...

Best Hindi Typing app  is now available for you at the Play Store. Google finally launches the best Hindi input app for Android. The app is compatible to any droid. You just need to follow the steps mentioned below to activate the app. You can always revert to English. Just one click solution for Hindi. Google Hindi Input  allows you to type messages, update on social networks or compose emails in Hindi on your Android phone. If you can read नमस्ते correctly on your phone, then you may install and use Google Hindi Input, otherwise your phone may not support Hindi. Google Hindi Input Hindi transliteration - Toggle the button “a->अ” on English keyboard to turn on/off transliteration mode. - In the transliteration mode, you can type Hindi word in English characters and the app will convert them to Hindi. - For example, type “Hindi” and then you will get the word हिंदी from a list. English - By turning off the transliteration mode on English keyboard, you can t...

Salora, the renowned TV makers of bygone years are going to step on the Android market with two tablets priced in INR 4,999 and 5,499 respectively. Both the tablets have gorgeous 7 inch displays supporting only Wi-Fi, 4 GB inbuilt memory a 3200 mAh battery and 0.3 megapixel camera in the front side sans any rear one. Anyway both have distinctive aspects of their own. The Cheaper one, the Salora pro tab runs basically on  Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich  operating system while the other one, the Salora Pro Tab HD is quite comfortable with  Android 4.1 JellyBean . Salora Pro Tab The  Salora Pro Tab  contains a 1.5 GHz dual core processor along with 512 MB RAM and a 0.3 megapixel front camera, 3200 mAh battery, inbuilt memory of 4 GB. The display of the very tablet supports WVGA 800×480 pixel resolution. Specs : Android 4.0 ICS Dual Core 1.5 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM 4 GB ROM, micro SD 7 inch WVGA display 3200 mAh battery Salora Pro Tab HD : On...

If you are mulling to buy a mobile phone then get set to shell out more from your pockets as Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, while presenting the Union Budget 2013, has proposed 6 per cent import duty on mobile phones above Rs 2000. Till now, the import duty on mobile phones is just 1 per cent. There, is no change on import duty on phones below Rs 2,000. "Expensive mobile phones i.e. mobile phones which are priced at more than Rs 2,000 will also have to bear higher excise duty of 6 per cent. However, mobile phones which are not more than Rs 2,000 will continue to be levied a concessional excise duty of only 1 per cent," the budget document read. Since most of the mobile phones are imported from other countries both by Indian handset brands as well as MNC brands, the overall price of the handsets are set to increase.

Recently canonical released the mobile version of it’s  Ubuntu Operating System  for only selected Nexus devices, including  Nexus 4, Nexus 10, Nexus 7  and Galaxy Nexus. Now the company is planning to launch it’s developer preview version of Ubuntu touch Operating System to more devices. The new list includes, device from HTC, Asus, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Huawei. Below is the list of devices which will be getting this update. LG Optimus 4x HD Nexus S Nexus One Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Wifi Asus Transformer Pad TF300T Dell Streak 7 Asus Transformer Kindle Fire 1st Gen Kindle Fire 2nd Gen Kindle Fire HD 7″ Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ Motorola Droid 3 Motorola Droid Bionic Motorola Droid RAZR Motorola Droid 4 Motorola XOOM Sony Xperia S Sony Xperia T Huawei Ascend G300 Samsung Galaxy S III Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) Samsung Galaxy S SCL (GT-I9003) Samsung Galaxy Note II Samsu...

In this years  Mobile World Congress Alcatel made few announcement but  Alcatel One Touch Scribe Easy  is the most disappointing among all.  Alcatel One Touch Fire  with  Firefox OS  impressed all of us. Using minimum hardware they have showcased a beautiful piece of smartphone. ZTE also unveiled  ZTE Open  with similar hardware.  Alcatel One Touch Idol X  phablet is also very impressive. But Alcatel One Touch Scribe Easy gets the JellyBean out of the box but dual core 1.2 GHz processor and 512 MB don’t sound impressive. Is it? I guess no. currently Indian market is flooded with similar specs. Now we see a trend where all manufacturers are using 1 GB RAM in their products. Dual core is okay but RAM needs to be 1 GB to to increase the degree of multitasking in the true sense of the term. Alcatel One Touch Scribe Easy  flaunts 5 inch WVGA display, 4 GB ROM, HSDPA speed up to 7.2 Mbps, essential connectivity features, 5 MP c...

Konka, a consumer electronics company based on China is now entering in Indian smartphone market with a brand new smartphone  Konka Expose W970 . The phone already made available in China. Now it’s coming in Indian market in collaboration with  Mak Mobility . Back in December the vendor promised to invest 30 billion in Indian market. A series of smartphones to come from their house. Now it looks like they have started the roll out. Several other Chinese brands like  Zopo , Umi ,  JiaYu ,  Iocean ,  Mogu ,  Gionee  have announced their flagship models for the Indian market. Now this decisive move from Konka will do nothing but increase the heat of the market. Buyers can get more advantage of this move. Competition is inversely proportional to price but directly proportional to QoC (quality of service). Kanka  is targeting executive, picture and camera, music and fashion/style, all 4 smartphone market. But initially they will launch Kank...

We have the first  Qualcomm Snapdragon 800  driven smartphone. It’s from the house of ZTE, one of the leading Chinese smartphone manufacturers. ZTE is also working on the  NVIDIA Tegra 4 . Sometime soon we may heard about a new one running the Tegra 4. In this years MWC ZTE also unveiled the first Firefox OS powered smartphone ZTE Open. In simple words we can say ZTE is having fun in the middle and doing some fabulous job. Anyway,  ZTE Grand Memo  is a 5.7 inch phablet powered by quad core 1.5 GHz Krait 400 application processor and Aderno 330 GPU. Aderno 330 is so far the most powerful GPU delivered by Qualcomm that supports 2160p video which is double to even Qualcomm Snapdragon 600′s Aderno 320. Also Krait 400 is faster than Krait 300. Therefore, ZTE Grand Memo is faster than  LG Optimus G Pro  or  HTC One  or  ASUS PadFone Infinity . ZTE Grand Memo  sports full HD 1080p display. The giant phablet boasts slimmer profile. I...

Asus joins the quad core shootout with all new  Asus PadFone Infinity ! Like other manufacturers Asus have chosen 5 inch display as standard to showcase their all new beast. Optional dock or PadFone Station is also coming in market to transform the phablet it to a full fledged tablet. PadFone station comes with huge 10.1 inch display and bigger battery as well. Powered by  Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chip the phablet gets 2 GB RAM to exploit which simply increases the degree of multitasking. It’s a new chip from Qualcomm that is used in two recent flagships viz.  LG Optimus G Pro ,  HTC One . Asus PadFone Infinity gets the Android 4.2 JellyBean out of the box. Asus PadFone Infinity  sports 5 inch  Super IPS+ LCD  Capacitive touch screen with 1920×1080 pixels resolution support at 441 ppi and 10 finger multi-touch.  Corning Gorilla Glass  coating on display surface protects the display from external scratches. The phablet is coming with opt...

Lenovo has announced the A1000, S6000 and A3000 android powered tablet at the ongoing MWC (Mobile World Congress). The A1000 and the A3000 will sport a 7 inch screen whereas the S6000 will come with a 10.1 inch display.                                                        Lenovo A1000 Lenovo A1000:   The most entry-level of the bunch, the A1000 is 7-inch slate that packs a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and runs  Android 4.1 Jelly Bean . Lenovo says that the A1000 is ideal for "music lovers" thanks to its front-facing speaks and Dolby Digital Plus audio. The slate also packs 16GB of storage that can be expanded using the included microSD card slot.                                                     ...

We have two new Nokia Lumia devices in this years  Mobile World Congress . We already know that Nokia was readying couple of Windows Phone 8 smartphones and few Asha series smartphones for this years MWC. Now both the WP8 devices viz. Nokia Lumia 720  and  Nokia Lumia 520  are official. Nokia is giving some serious hardware boost in all these handsets. Dual core processor may not sound too impressive to you but remember these are Krait based Snapdragon S4 Plus, very good in business. Lumia 720 gets  Carl Ziess teaser lens  6.7 MP camera with impressive f/1.9 inch aperture. Possibly, it’s a  PureView  camera. But I can’t conform this as it’s not claimed as of now. We also expected Nokia Lumia 1000 with 41 MP PureView camera in this years MWC. But this hasn’t happened for some reason. Nokia Lumia 720  sports 4.3 inch touch screen with  Corning Gorilla Glass 2  scratch resistant coating on display. It comes with 8 GB ROM and mic...

Lately we heard talks that BlackBerry is planning to launch the Z10 model. Infibeam is currently taking pre-orders for this mobile as it will get launched by the 26th February 2013. Hold your hands for other handset as this  BlackBerry Z10  is beautifully designed, light weight and has state-of -the-art features that separate it from other Smartphones. You can pre-order this phone for just Rs. 5,000/-. Hold your breath as this time  BlackBerry  is filled with features you never heard of from any other Smartphone. This mobile is built specially to keep you moving. It has out of the blue initiated a new way to use a Smartphone. And this makes life extremely exciting as you can fiddle with your apps and features simultaneously. You are faster and smarter than anyone else in the crowd. It is time to change, time to pace up and leave the rest behind. It has what most of them don’t. It allows you to do more than you have ever done before with this phone. It keep...

Nokia today announced the Lumia 520, the company’s most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone to date. It sports a 4-inch WVGA IPS LCD capacitive display with Nokia’s super sensitive technology, a microSD card slot, and it will be available in 5 colours: black, white, cyan, red and yellow. The Lumia 520 supports a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, a dual-core 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage and a 1430mAh internal battery. The 520 runs Windows Phone 8 with of Nokia’s exclusive apps onboard, including Smart Shoot, Cinemagraph, Nokia Music and the HERE location apps. It will cost EUR 139 before taxes and subsidies, and will be released in Hong Kong and Vietnam within this quarter before seeing a wider release in Q2 2013.

Nokia has just announced the Nokia 301, a budget phone with Nokia’s widely popular Lumia design language. The Nokia 301 brings the bright colors introduced by the Lumia devices to the budget phone category and brings the Internet to the masses. Offering a 3.5G connectivity, The 301 comes with Nokia’s Xpress Browser which helps save upto 90% of the data usage while offering a rich internet experience including YouTube & WuClip Video streaming. Powered by a 3.2 MegaPixel Camera, the 301 introduces features which were only available on Nokia’s smartphone devices till now. The 301 has a Panorama Mode, Sequential Shot Mode and a very cool Audio feedback based Self Portrait Mode. The Nokia 301 will be available in cyan, black, magenta, yellow and white at an estimated price of EUR 65 in Q2, 2013 in more 120 markets worldwide.

HP, the well known PC and peripheral manufacturer is now entering in to tablet business with a 7 inch Android tablet called as  HP Slate 7 . HP stated manufacturing touch screen hybrid devices but it hasn’t yield any satisfactory result for the US manufacturer so far. That’s the main reason they are now entering touch screen market with more compact and affordable tablets. Currently Slate 7 is coming in market that is priced aggressively to $169 USD. Built on  Android 4.1 JellyBean  HP Slate 7 is powered by dual core 1.6 GHz Cortex A9 processor, 1 GB RAM. HP Slate 7  sports 7 inch FFS touch screen display with WSVGA 1024×600 pixels resolution with 16m color support. This is standard display resolution for all low-cost tablets. Yes, HP Slate 7 is a low-cost tablet priced around $169 which means you can expect the tab at around Rs 9000 in Indian market. Let’s hope retail price is going to be lesser than that. The slate comes with Beats Audio amplified sound sys...

Yesterday  ZTE Open  was spotted running brand new  Firefox OS . Now  Alcatel One Touch Fire  is officially unveiled packed with the same operating system. Without any surprise specs are horrible. How does it sound when you hear a smartphone is equipped with 1 GHz Cortex A5 single core CPU, 256 MB RAM, 3.2 MP fixed focus camera, 512 MB ROM? I guess not interesting at all! Is it so? But Mozilla and the OEMs are trying to prove us wrong. That’s the main reason they have started using outdated hardware to show that the Firefox OS can run with this hardware whereas Android needs way more upgraded hardware for best output. You don’t need to be too worried as  Alcatel One Touch Fire  is heading to China, Latin America followed by Europe. There is no certainty when it’s coming to India. I am afraid to say if this is priced around Rs 4000 it’s okay in Indian market. Otherwise, no luck here! Am I right? Or you want me to prove wrong by purchasing this o...

Alcatel was known for a large part of its history as a low end handset maker and now it’s starting to operate in the higher end area, years after being bought by an Asian firm. Today, at MWC 2013 in Barcelona they’ve unveiled a very hot model, with high end specs, called the One Touch Idol X. Alcatel One Touch Idol X  is the first full HD phablet that equips a quad core processor. Currently the craze of  full HD smartphones  is very high in market. Therefore, all manufacturers have started showcasing their high-end products in one of the largest tech festivals; it’s none other than  Mobile World Congress  held in Barcelona Spain. Anyway, Alcatel is not known for producing high-end devices. This time they have opted for MediaTek MT6589 which is not too powerful but a decent one to be exact. There is a 13 MP rear camera that records full HD video. I haven’t mentioned that Alcatel One Touch Idol X is built on Android 4.2 JellyBean. This is also a prett...

Huawei Ascend P2 , the next flagship smartphone from the giant Chinese smartphone manufacturer is now official. It gets some fire-power but disappointed many of us as there is no full HD display. We were expecting this to happen as all leaks were suggesting that it is going to have HD 720p display. However, it’s still a good choice. In-home  K3V2 chip  with 1.5 GHz quad core Cortex A9 ensures fair amount of performance enhancement especially when the RAM is 1 GB. Nowadays we see 2 GB RAM is a must for a flagship but Huawei is planning to tighten the budget. That may be the reason they have avoided full HD display and reduced RAM to 1 GB. Earlier in CES Huawei unveiled  Ascend D2  with full HD display, 2 GB RAM and same K3V2 chip. There is a 13 MP camera rear shooter that records full HD video at 30 fps. Dedicated hardware key for the camera is an added bonus. Normally, we don’t see this in modern smartphones but it’s good to have one. It comes only with 16 GB ...

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0  is now official! Rumor mill will stop as the official spec sheet is here. Galaxy Note series has been a super success for Samsung. It stands after the ‘S’ series. Let’s hope the trend will continue as upcoming Galaxy S4 dominates the rumor mill and I expect it to go beyond expectation as the release date comes closer. Anyway, there is a huge difference between 8 inch Galaxy Note and 5 inch Galaxy S4. Three variants of  Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0  will be shipping in market; one Wi-Fi only, Wi-Fi, 3G only and 3G/4G LTE with Wi-Fi. Out of the box all three variants will get Android 4.1.2 JellyBean OS and TouchWiz UI. It’s in-home  Exynos 4412 Quad again, the same chip that runs Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S3 and several other high-end Samsung products. This time quad Cortex A9 cores are clocked at 1.6 GHz. Oh yes, 2 GB RAM is there to ensure faster multitasking and extreme gaming experience. Note 8.0 flaunts 8 inch TFT LCD WXGA resolution is at 189 p...

Ubuntu Phone Experience , an app launch to have experience of Ubuntu OS on your Android device. The app creates a sidebar which lets you to glide your finger on the left side which will provide options to toggle between your favorite apps. The OS is likely to arrive on Galaxy Nexus from this February. When you slide your finger from the left edge of the screen, a side bar will be seen which will contain the shortcuts of various apps. If you slide back to the edge of the screen, you will notice a ‘ Cancel ’ option. You can swift swipe from the left edge to right edge to go to the home. When you lift the finger from the area 1 when the sidebar is pulled out, it will be cancelled and sidebar will hide itself. When you lift the finger from area 2, the app near your finger will launch and when you lift your finger from the position 3, you will go to the home screen. You can see the image above. May be after few time your sidebar will stop appearing, this cou...