Just two weeks after Apple released gold iPhone 5s, Samsung has announced in United Arab Emirates that they will soon be offering two new gold colored Galaxy S4 phones. However, we are doubtful that these golden beauties will ever make it to US and European markets.
Blackberry India has announced a festive offer for the Blackberry Z10 smartphone in India. The company is calling it a limited period offer where you can buy the Z10 for just INR 29,990 ($480). Blackberry launched Z10 in India with whopping price of $720.
The company says that their scheme is in line with their commitment to the Indian market. Here is the press release.
Until now, we only had scanty knowledge of the upcoming Asus’ Padfone (thanks to evleaks), but that the company has made it official, we have its detailed specs, release date and pricing information as well. Slated to be launched in early November 2013 in Germany (and other parts of Europe) and US.
As expected, the Asus Padfone Infinity is a world class phone. It features a 5 inch corning gorilla glass display that packs full HD 1920×1080 resolution. Inside the shell, it features Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor operating at 2.2 GHz clock speed backed by Adreno 330 GPU. The SoC has 2 gigabytes of RAM and 16 gigabytes of flash memory. The latter can be expanded further via microSD card slot and if you want more, Asus gives you another 50 gigabytes of webstorage for 2 years, free of charge. The battery capacity, according to spec sheet is 2400 mAh, which is enough to last for up to 19 hours of talk time in 3G networks. Located at the back of the smartphone is a 13-megapixel camera with pixel master technology, auto focus and LED flash. The front camera has 2 megapixels. The PadFone supports 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac WLAN standards, and comes with Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and fast LTE with up to 150 Mbit / s. Asus says that the Padfone Infinity weighs 145 grams and measure 143.5 x 72.8 x 8.9 millimeters.
HTC is on the verge of releasing Android 4.3 for the HTC One, but it will be a bloated one, which means it will come pre loaded with HTC Sense bloated UI and usual unwanted HTC stuff. Fortunately, thanks to XDA, there are myriad ROMs that give you vanilla stock android experience. Heck, there are some that are pre rooted, deodexed! Now, there is one that is vanilla + Android 4.3 = just what the doctor ordered!
Merger with MS does not Nokia is done with the Asha. In fact, Folks at evleaks have suggested that Nokia is on the way to release another Asha called 500, which was previously rumored as Orion. The phone will be released in 2013. The picture given below clearly shows it will have dual SIM like the rumored Lumia 720.
Many phones come with just place for one SIM slot, but folks at evleaks and XDA phoneprouser have suggested that the company is actually working on a dual SIM phone called Nokia Asha 500. While Microsoft has canceled some of the upcoming Asha devices, a new one is still on the way. The 501 has been on sale since June and has enjoyed handsome sales.
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Just around a year back, Google acquired the popular mobile office suite, QuickOffice. Back then, the app became available for free to Google Apps for Business users and now, Google has made it available for free to its all users. Today’s update also gives the QuickOffice a Drive-esque icon and it now works on both tablets and phones.
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Factory images for the just released minor Nexus 7’s WiFi update that was given to the Android 4.3 build JSS15R is now available. Binaries have been made available too for your downloading and hacking pleasure.
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Samsung is a large Korean company that makes myriad electronics including televisions, phones, refrigerators, microwave ovens and so on. Believe it not, company’s actual money-making machine is their mobile devices division. Samsung’s sales and operating profit history describes the role of mobile devices in making Samsung financially strong. Almost half of the total turnover and 70 percent of operating profit comes from mobile devices. The graph also shows that the revenue growth in recent years is primarily due to increased sales of the phone.
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Monster has released a couple of new tablets in the market, M7 and M10. As expected, both run Android operating system and are perfect combination of sound, style, HD video, and high performance audio. Here are the specifications of Monster M7 tablet – 1.5GHz dual core processor, Android operating system, HD 1280×800 resolution screen, Bluetooth 4.0 with Time CorrectTM, Micro USB input, 3.5mm headset jack, Mini HDMI, GPS, front (2.0MP) and rear (5.0MP) cameras, 16GB storage with 1GB DDR3 memory, Micro SD expansion slot and up to 8 hours of battery life.
