Samsung Galaxy Note 2 price drops to Rs. 34900

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 has received a price cut and is now available for Rs. 34900. Samsung launchedthe Galaxy Note 2 at a price tag of Rs. 39,900 last September. The Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy S Duos got a price cut earlier today, and the first Samsung Galaxy Note got a price cut back in December.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is the company’s recent flagship device, and it packs a 5.5-inch (1,280 x 720 pixels) HD Super AMOLED display, 1.6 GHz quad-core Exynos processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It also has a new S Pen and comes with S Pen specific apps such as S Note, S Planner, Email with hand-writing integration and S Pen Keeper.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 received the Android 4.1.2 OTA update that brought several new features including Notification Panel, new Notification Toggles, Option to disable  Multi Window, option to disable Brightness Slider from the notification bar  and more.

Online retailer Flipkart has already started selling the Galaxy Note 2 at the new price.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311 now available for Rs. 13900

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311, , Wi-Fi variant of the Galaxy Tab 2 310 is finally on sale from the official Samsung eStore. The pre-bookings for the tablet started last month. The 3G variant, Galaxy Tab 2 310 was announced back in February 2012, and launched in India in May. Other than the 3G support voice calling, other features are similar to the Tab 2 310 including a 7-inch (1024×600) PLS TFT LCD display, 1GHz dual-core processor, 3MP fixed focus rear-facing camera and VGA front-facing camera. The Tab 2 311 comes with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) out of the box. 

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311 specifications

• 7-inch (1024×600) PLS TFT LCD display
• 1GHz dual-core processor
• Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS
• 3MP fixed focus rear-facing camera and VGA front-facing camera.
• 1GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expanadable memory up to 32GB with microSD
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth 3.0 and A-GPS
• 4,000 mAh battery.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311 comes in White and Silver colors and is now available from Samsung eStore for Rs. 13,900. Are you planning to buy the Tab 2 311, the Tab 2 310 or wait for new Galaxy Tablets including the 8-inch Galaxy Note 8.0 expected at the MWC 2013 later this month ?

LG sends out invites for MWC 2013 Media Preview

LG just confirmed its presence at Mobile World Congress 2013 which we did hear about at CES 2013.LG will be showing of its products for 2013 at the first day of the mega event just before the show begins.The invite has the number 4 on the top and we are not sure what LG is trying to convey through it.May be we could see 4 new mobile products from LG Mobile .  LG has been teasing its upcoming products including a new F-series and there have been a lot of rumours about the Optimus G Pro and even a official announcement in Japan

iOS 6.1 Jailbreak evasi0n Now Available for Mac, Windows, Linux

As expected, the iOS 6.1 jailbreak, codenamed “evasi0n,” has been released. Developer team “evad3rs” updated the jailbreak’s websiteearly this afternoon, Eastern time.

The tool is available for OS X, Windows, and Linux, and requires an iDevice that is capable of running iOS 6.1. This list includes:

• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 4S
• iPhone 5
• iPad 2
• iPad (third-generation)
• iPad (fourth-generation)
• iPad mini
• iPod touch (fourth-generation)
• iPod touch (fifth-generation)
• Apple TV (second-generation)

Due to the way that the third-generation Apple TV’s firmware is coded, jailbreak support is unfortunately not available at this time and, in fact, may never arrive.

The evad3rs team suggests that users attempting to jailbreak their device take note of the following factors and recommendations:

1. Perform a full backup of your device and content via iTunes or iCloud before starting the process.
2. Disable the passcode lock if already enabled.
3. Do not attempt to use iTunes or iOS during the jailbreak process.
4. If the process fails, it is safe to reboot the device and restart the jailbreak tool.

If things go significantly awry, you may have to place the device into recovery mode. Apple provides an explanation and instructions for that process.

BlackBerry Z10 – first BB10 phone announced with 4.2inch display

It is finally here – The BlackBerry Z10 in both Black and White, the first BlackBerry 10 phone from Research in Motion which is dropping the RIM branding. The phone packs a nice 4.2 inch display with 356 pixels per inch. In terms of internals , it is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and packs 2GB of RAM. It is powered by the BlackBerry 10 OS.

It packs a 1800 mAh battery under the back cover on the back along with SIM card and microSD card slot. The is a 8 Megapixel camera on the back and a 2 MP camera on the front.The screen is a IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1280×768 pixels.The Z10 packs a sophisticated touchscreen for handling touch input.

BlackBerry Z10 Specifications

• Dimensions:130×65.6x 9 mm
• 4.2 inch 4 point multi-touch IPS LCD Display at a 1280×768 resolution at 356 PPI
• BlackBerry 10 OS
• Dual Core 1.5 GHz processor with 2GB of RAM
• 16GB of inbuilt memory and supports microSD cards upto 32GB
• 8 MP rear camera with auto focus , 5x digital zoom , 1080 video capture and LED Flash
• 2MP front facing camera with 3x digital zoom and 720p digital recording
• Bluetooth 4 , NFC, GPS,
• Dual Band 802.11 WiFi a/b/g/n
• 4G LTE or HSPA+, global roaming support
• Mobile Hotspot
• Battery Life : 10 hours  Talktime on 3G , 305 hours standby on 3G, 316 hours on 2G
• 60 hours of audio playback and 11 hours or video play back
• microHDMI out

BlackBerry Q10 with QWERTY keyboard, 3.1″ 356 ppi screen announced

BlackBerry has announced its new qwerty equipped smartphone, the BlackBerry Q10 which is part of its two pronged approach to market its next generation smartphone OS. Running BlackBerry 10, the phone has a proper physical QWERTY keypad. The back has what the company is calling a glass weave finish.

Nokia rolling out Windows Phone 7.8 update

Nokia has announced that the much awaited Windows Phone 7.8 update started to rollout to older Lumia handsets running Windows Phone 7.5.

The Windows Phone 7.8 is now available for unlocked Nokia Lumia 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900 and brings resizable Live Tiles, daily Bing wallpapers, child lock screen security, internet sharing, imaging enhancements and new apps like Contact Share, Play To and Nokia City Lens.


To update your phone just connect it to your computer via Zune for PC, or the Windows Phone app for Mac and follow the onscreen instructions.

No word yet when other OEM's like HTC and Samsung will start the rollout.

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.

iOS 6.1 jailbreak may come as soon as this Sunday

The Super Bowl is coming this Sunday and what better way to celebrate it than by jailbreaking youriPhone 5′s newly downloaded iOS 6.1 update? Via 9to5Mac, it seems that iOS hacker extraordinaire MuscleNerd on Monday started teasing a release for an iOS 6.1 jailbreak this coming Sunday.9to5Mac says that MuscleNerd and his Evad3rs Jailbreak Team have been working for months on a jailbreak for iOS 6.1 using Apple’s (AAPL) developer betas, but the group had decided to wait for Apple to release the final version of iOS 6.1 so that the company wouldn’t “have time to fix the security holes they used to hack the devices.”

Nokia and Airtel launch co-branded version of Nokia Xpress Browser

Bharti Airtel and Nokia has launched a customized version of Nokia Xpress Browser for the Airtel customers with Nokia Asha and select Series 40 devices.  The Nokia Xpress browser usually comes pre-loaded on Asha phones, but the new co-branded version would offer the Airtel subscribers and enhanced experience, by providing them with one-click access to Airtel’s premium mobile internet services and easy discoverability of rich content on-the-go. Airtel launched co-branded version of Opera mini for their customers last year.

The Nokia Xpress Browser offers faster, cheaper and 85% more efficient mobile browsing compared to conventional browsers. It offers popular services like search, rich web apps and social networking. It also has Download Manager that lets you save music, video or pictures and the One-click share lets you share favorite web links, pictures, videos with friends on social networks.

The new customized Nokia Xpress browser would be rolled out over the coming week in an automatic update for the Airtel consumers using compatible Nokia mobile phones.

Apple releases iOS 6.1 for iPhone , iPod touch and iPad

Apple has just released the iOS 6.1 software update for the iPhone , iPad and iPod touch. The update just showed up on my iPhone 5 and was about 100MB in size. It looks like an update to fix a lot of bugs.

Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.1.2 OTA update now rolling out in India

Samsung has finally started rolling out the Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) update in India. The Samsung Galaxy S3 was launched in India in May last year running Android 4.0 ICS, and it got the Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) update in November last year. Samsung detailed premium suite features in the Android 4.1.2 update for the Galaxy S3 last month.

End of an era, Nokia 808 PureView to be the last Symbian phone

Two years later, the burning platform is officially no more. As part of its Q4 financial results, the Finnish smartphone manufacturer announced that the  Nokia 808 PureView is the last Symbian phone. Nokia managed to sell close to 2.2 million Symbian phones presumably spurred by demand for the camera powerhouse that is the 808.

“The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia.”

Stated in the financial report, Nokia makes it clear that the company will no longer be developing any phones based on the archaic operating system. Sales have been dropping steadily for Nokia’s S60 based phones making the company go through a tough transitioning period to the equally unstable Windows Phone platform. While the company has managed to sell 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in Q4 2012, Windows Phone market share remains alarmingly low. It is a bit sad to witness the demise of what was one of the first smartphone operating systems but seeing that it just couldn’t compete with modern day competitors, the 808 seems like a fitting end. So long Symbian !

Nokia Lumia PureView Windows Phone with 41MP camera rumored to debut at MWC 2013

When the first PureView device, the Nokia 808 PureView was announced it was rumored that the first Windows Phone running device with similar tech inside it won’t be announced anytime soon. Fast forward to 2013 and we have the first rumors of Nokia EOS which is said to be the codename for a Lumia device equipped with a sensor similar to the Nokia 808.

The Verge reports that the handset codenamed EOS will be pitched as a high end Lumia handset and will be built using Aluminum instead of the polycarbonate found on the latest range of Windows Phone devices. The 41 MP sensor on the smartphone will enable oversampling and lossless zoom as seen on the 808. This is to be quite different from the PureView implementation seen on the Lumia 920 which features OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) for jerk free video recording. The inbuilt OIS also enables improved low light photographs. There have been some rumors that suggest that PureView phase 3 technology might be a combination of the oversampling and optical image stabilization but this remains to be seen. The handset might be showcased during MWC next month alongside a Lumia 920 replacement called the Catwalk which will also feature an aluminum body.

[Via - Verge]

BlackBerry World Conference renamed as BlackBerry Live

RIM has announced that the BlackBerry World conference would be renamed as BlackBerry Live from this year. At the BlackBerry Jam Asia last November, RIM announced that the BlackBerry App World application marketplace would be rebranded to the BlackBerry World, which had seen the transitionstarting from yesterday with Videos and Music expected soon.

The BlackBerry 10 devices would be unveiled on January 30th at various event simultaneously in multiple countries worldwide. The BlackBerry Live annual conference is scheduled for 14th to 16th May 2013 in Orlando, Florida.

At the BlackBerry Live conference, RIM would show off BlackBerry 10 platform demonstrations, insights about the technology for developers and tell more about the future of  BlackBerry. Registrations for the conference will open soon.

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