Lumia 1020 Up For Pre Order in India (hint: Expensive!)

Last week, Nokia launched the Lumia 1020 windows phone in India, but for some reason, they did not announce its pricing. Nokia told us that they would be announcing it on October 10, but now, we have spotted that the phone is up for pre order from the Nokia’s own online shop for an unreal price tag of INR 49,999 (USD 810). This uber camera phone will go on sale on October 11, 2013.

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Telstra: Free Galaxy Gear with Note 3 Pre Orders

Telstra is offering a free Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch to those customers who pre order the Galaxy Note 3 phone on certain 24 month contracts. This offer is available to only those people who pre order it via Telstra’s website. Also, you to enroll yourself under plans where you have to shell out $80 or more.

Telstra Free Galaxy Gear with Note 3 Pre Orders

So, for instance, let’s say, you go for the Telstra’s 80 dollar Every Day connect plan. Then, you would be paying additional $8 monthly phone charge for 24 months, bringing the total to $88 / month. This plan will give you $800 worth of calls, MMS messages, unlimited SMS messages and 1.5 GB of data per month as well.

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Galaxy Gear Apps Review

At the Galaxy Gear’s announcement, Samsung stated that the Galaxy Gear smartwatch (that right now works only with the Note 3), would launch with more than 70 apps (which are available through Samsung apps). Folks at droid-life have received a review unit from Samsung and they comment that only few of the important apps have been made available that includes Evernote, Path, Snapchat, Vivino and some more. Downloading apps to your Samsung galaxy gear sounds very easy – just open up the gear manager app on your Note 3, and open up Samsung Apps. Here are few of the screenshots of Samsung Apps user interface.

Galaxy Gear Apps Review

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Galaxy Note 3, Gear Launched in Singapore

Samsung has launched 32GB version of Galaxy Note 3 in Singapore. It is available for 1048 Singaporean dollars, with no contract. The phone is available in white and black colors at all network providers and electronics stores. Along with the Note 3, Samsung has also launched Gear, a watch that works Note 3. It will be available for S$ 488 in first week of October 2013.

Galaxy Note 3, Gear Singapore

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Nokia Lumia 625 vs Lumia 920

The 625 should be on par with the 920 for battery life, because they both have 2,000 mAh. The screen sizes are very similar — I have held the 920 (4.5 in.) in hand with a HTC One (4.7 in.), and the One’s screen barely looked larger to me. Also based on what a lot of reviews are saying, the 625’s screen isn’t that great nor does it have the useful sunlight readability that the 920 has.

Nokia Lumia 625 vs Lumia 920

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