Nokia Lumia 710 price drops to Rs. 12999

Nokia has cut the price of the Lumia 710 to Rs. 12,999, few weeks before the Lumia 620 goes on sale in India. The Lumia 710 was launched in India for Rs. 19,000 along with the the Lumia 800. It got a price cut to Rs. 15490 in January last year, and later it was sold for Rs. 14,699.

The Nokia Lumia 710 has a 3.7-inch TFT CBD display, powered by a 1.4 GHz processor and runs on Windows Phone 7.5. It would get the Windows Phone 7.8 update soon.

Nokia has also cut the price of the Asha 308 Dual SIM phone and the Asha 309 to Rs. 4934 and Rs. 4539 respectively. The Asha 308 went on sale in India back in October for Rs. 5685 and the Asha 309 was launched at the end of October for Rs. 6349.

HTC Butterfly launched in India for Rs. 45990

HTC has finally launched the Butterfly, their latest flagship Android Smartphone in India. It has a 5.0-inch Full HD (1920×1080 pixels) Super LCD 3 display with 440ppi pixel density and Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection, powered by 1.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with HTC Sense UI. HTC announced the Butterfly for global markets in December, and HTC India started teasing the launch of the phone on their Facebook page couple of weeks back.

Samsung Galaxy Express with 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, Android 4.1 announced

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Express, new Android smartphone in the Galaxy series that comes with LTE support. It has a 4.5-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touch screen display and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. It has a 5MP Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash, 720p video recording 5MP Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash, 720p video recording and 1.3MP front-facing camera and 1.3MP front-facing camera. This comes with Mobile High Definition Link (MHL), Near Field Communication (NFC) with S Beam and AllShare Play.

Samsung Galaxy Expresss pecifications

• 4.5-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touch screen display
• 1.2 GHz dual-core processor
• Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS
• 9.3 mm thick and weighs 139.1 grams
• 5MP Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash, 720p video recording and 1.3MP front-facing camera
• 3.5mm audio jack
• 1GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory, expandable up to 32GB with microSD
• 4G LTE, 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth v 4.0, GPS/GLONASS, MHL and NFC
• 2000 mAh battery

No details about availability and pricing yet.

SwiftKey Flow Beta for Android updated with easier corrections, new languages and more

SwiftKey has updated the SwiftKey Flow Beta app for Android smartphones and Tablets to version 4.0.0.76. This version brings several new features including better predictions, easier corrections, new languages, Berry theme that was introduced in SwiftKey 3.1 and more. The SwiftKey Flow for Android was released last month.

New features in SwiftKey Flow Beta v4.0.0.76

• Predictions (and Flow) now on in most places (exceptions: email fields, passwords, anywhere where the app doesn’t behave itself with SwiftKey, fields offering their own corrections on Android versions
• Easier corrections – just tap on the word and SwiftKey will offer you 3 possibilities
• New languages: Thai, Vietnamese, Bosnian, Albanian, Javan, Sundanese
• Features from SwiftKey 3.1: Berry theme, split layout in landscape on phones, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Hindi, Hinglish, Irish, Macedonian, Spanish (Latin America) and Tagalog
• New layouts for Hindi and Russian
• Ukrainian landscape layout fixed
• Backspacing on to the final word of a multi word prediction (Flow through space) will now give better alternatives
• Typing style now inferred rather than a setting
• Long press delete accelerates after the first word

It also brings several bug fixes. Download SwiftKey Flow Beta for Android Smartphones and Tablets from the SwiftKey website.

Microsoft releases Office 2013 and Office 365 with new subscription models

At long last, the wait is over as Microsoft has finally released their newest Office Suite for the masses.
Today, Microsoft launches its new Office 2013 and Office 365 suites to the regular consumers (the lucky enterprise guys have had it for almost a month now). The unveiling comes directly from Bryant Park, New York City, and marks the beginning of the 60 day trial period of the free preview copies of Office 2013, at the end of which, the software will switch to read-only mode.

With the new Office, Microsoft is trying a new system for charging you, which we feel is rather cool. From now on, you won’t be “buying” Office, but rather “renting” it. You pay a flat month-to-month fee of $10 or just go big and shell out a yearly premium of $100 (a whopping $20 worth of savings). What you get in return is the entire battalion of the Office Suite, along with the ability to use it on up to five machines in your household. Along with that, you also get an additional 20GB of SkyDrive storage along with an hours’ worth of free Skype credit to make global calls.

HTC confirms February 19 press event; expected to launch M7

HTC has sent out invites to the tech fraternity, for an event that will happen in New York and London on February 19. Rumours suggest that we may see the launch of the HTC M7.

HTC has sent out invites for an event that is scheduled for February 19. The event will take place in London and New York. The London event is scheduled for 3:00PM on February 19. The event will take place at the same time in New York (approximately 10AM). In India, it will be approximately 8:30PM on the same day. The invite doesn’t say anything else apart from the date and time.