New Delhi: China's Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology. The company says the device, at 6.18 mm thick, is the world's slimmest. it weighs just about 120g. The phone has a 5 megapixel front-facing camera, designed for taking "selfies", or pictures of the owner...
10:19 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: Following a string of leaks over the last few days, HTC has finally unwrapped its new smartphone - the Desire 200. The phone has a 3.5 inch HVGA display and is powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Running Android with HTC Sense, the phone has 512MB RAM. The HTC Desire 200 has an internal storage of 4GB. The phone has an expansion card slot that supports...
06:20 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: Huawei launched the Ascend Mate smartphone with a 6.1-inch 720p display in India. The phone has a Gorilla Glass display for scratch resistance. Running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, the Huawei Ascend Mate is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor and 2GB RAM. It supports 1080p video recording and playback. One of the highlights of the phone is its 4050 mAh battery. The smartphone is claimed to...
03:17 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: Micromax has started teasing its upcoming Canvas 4 smartphone. The teaser videos posted on Micromax's YouTube channel reveal that the phone will come with a 13 megapixel rear camera with an LED flash.Also, the Micromax homepage states that pre-booking for the Canvas 4 smartphone will begin from June 28. The phone is likely to come with an HD display.However, Micromax has still not outed the price and availability...
11:20 AM, Jun 18, 2013
San Francisco: Longer-lasting batteries are crucial for a new crop of wearable computers whose rise may upend Apple and Google's dominance of mobile devices, two of the field's pioneers say. Wearable devices - from bracelets that monitor physical activity and sleeping patterns to clothing with built-in sensors and Web-ready glasses - may mark the next big technology shift, just as smartphones evolved from personal computers. That transition has put the...
10:27 AM, Jun 18, 2013
Suwon: Samsung Electronics plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed, the head of its mobile business said on Monday. J K Shin, also co-chief executive of the world's biggest technology firm by revenue, said the phone would be sold in South Korea as early as this month. Samsung was in talks with several overseas carriers to...
02:52 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Seoul: Analysts fell under Samsung Electronics's marketing spell when they made what they now admit were hopelessly optimistic forecasts for its smartphone sales. Samsung's huge share of the high-end smartphone market also persuaded some analysts to downplay industry data pointing to a fast-saturating segment, a reality that is already eating into sales of Apple's iPhone 5. Woori Investment & Securities, one of South Korea's largest securities firms, cut its outlook...
07:36 AM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: Samsung's recently launched oversized phablet - the Galaxy Mega 6.3 - is now up for pre-order on the e-commerce site Flipkart.com for Rs 30,990. The phablet will be available by the end of June. The website lists that the device will be available by the "5th week of June". Interested buyers can also pre-book the Galaxy Mega 6.3 phablet on the Samsung India eStore. While Flipkart mentions the...
02:34 PM, Jun 16, 2013
Mumbai: HTC has let the cat out of the bag. For long, we have had to rely on leaks and unconfirmed specs when talking about the HTC One mini or M4, the device's codename. But HTC has confirmed the existence of the phone after publishing its User Agent Profile (UA Prof) file. UA Prof files are specifications files usually released by the company, even though it is not a necessary...
12:21 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: Extending its smartphone portfolio, Lava has announced the launch of its new flagship smartphone - Lava Iris 504q. The smartphone features a 5-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, and includes gesture controls. The gesture motion feature allows users to interact with the phone just by waving your hand in air. It can be used for clicking photos, changing tracks, tuning FM channels and browsing gallery...
10:37 AM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: Amidst Nokia's endeavours to match wits with rivals Apple and Google, a new report from Financial Times claims that the Finnish manufacturer is all set to dump its legacy Symbian software. If the report is to be believed, Nokia will stop shipments of its Symbian smartphones this summer and will bet its future entirely on Microsoft's Windows OS. "The Finnish group will bring to an end deliveries of...
06:39 PM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: Samsung has introduced yet another Galaxy S4 variant - the Galaxy S4 Zoom - which has a 16 megapixel CMOS sensor with 10x optical zoom. It includes Xenon Flash and a zoom ring. According to the company, when you're in the middle of a phone call and you see something you absolutely have to share, a quick twist of the Zoom Ring will activate the In-Call Photo Share...
03:01 PM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: Lemon Mobiles launched a full high definition (HD) smartphone A4 for Rs 17,999 which sports a 13 mega pixel rear and 5 mega pixel front camera. The phone, part of its aspirational series, has a 1.2 GHz Quad Core processor and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system. It has a 5-inch display. Fastrack Communications, the makers of Lemon Mobiles, is targetting to more than double its turnover to...
11:17 AM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: Unveiled last month, the Sony Xperia ZR is now available on the e-commerce site Snapdeal.com for Rs 29,990. Visually, the Xperia ZR has quite a bit in common with the current Xperia Z and ZL, with the circular lock button on the middle of the side of the device, the volume rocker below that and a dedicated camera button near the bottom. It has a 4.55-inch capacitive touchscreen,...
05:32 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Mumbai: Intex Technologies said it expects to sell 20 lakh smartphones this fiscal as it expands its portfolio by launching 20 new devices in the next quarter. "The smartphone penetration is growing and is encouraging for handset companies like us to innovate and bring offerings that combine latest technologies and features at affordable prices," Intex Technologies GM (Mobility Division) Sanjay Kumar Kalirona told PTI. The IT hardware maker aims to...
05:10 PM, Jun 10, 2013
