HTC Desire V dual-SIM phone with Android 4.0, Beats audio announced

HTC has announced Desire V, its first Dual-SIM smartphone for Europe and Asia. It is officially announced in Ukraine and Indonesia and features a 4-inch WVGA touch screen display and runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with HTC Sense 4. It is powered by 1GHz single-core Qualcomm processor and has 5MP auto focus camera with LED flash and has Beats audio support. It is 9.3 mm thick and weighs 114 g. HTC has also released Dual SIM (GSM+CDMA) in China with similar specs dubbed as Desire VC.

It has FM radio, 512 MB RAM, 4GB internal, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD. The connectivity features include, 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0, micro-USB, GPS / AGPS, 3.5 mm audio jack.  It would come with 25GB free Dropbox storage that is valid for 2 years.

It would launch in Ukraine and Indonesia for about 325,0000 Indonesian rupiah (~US$ 345) and in China for about 325,0000 Indonesian rupiah (~US$ 318) in July.

Samsung offers additional Rs.1500 coupon for Galaxy S3 Pre-Order Customers in India

Samsung India launched the Galaxy S3 Smartphone in India at Rs.43180 and pre-order customers had to purchase it Rs.42500 which was a little higher than the market price of around Rs.38900.if you were one of the customers who had pre-ordered the Samsung Galaxy S3 on Samsung India’s eStore and purchased it , good news for you. Samsung has sent out mails to customers who had purchased the Galaxy S3 on the eStore with a coupon worth Rs.1500. the company says in the mail that they are “overwhelmed with the response of Galaxy S III on the eStore.”

Samsung has shipped a Bluetooth headset worth Rs.2299 along with the S3 for pre-order customers and has also promised to ship a Flipcover worth Rs.1500 separately. Now the new Rs.1500 worth coupon can be used to purchase any thing on the eStore. Although the bluetooth headset and the Flipcover are a tad over priced ,  early adopters will get stuff worth Rs.3799 and another Rs.1500 discount coupon which brings the effective price of the Galaxy S3 handset to Rs.37200 which is a nice discount from the Rs.38900 market price.

Nokia 110 Dual SIM phone now available in India for Rs. 2259

Nokia 110 affordable Dual-SIM phone is now available in India from online retailer Flipkart. It wasannounced last month along with the Nokia 112. It has 1.8-inch (128 x 160 pixels) D5 TFT display, Dual-SIM support with Nokia’s unique Easy Swap, VGA camera, 32 GB microSD card support, Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR, FM Radio and 3.5 mm AV connector. It is 14.8 mm thick and weighs 80g.

It comes with apps to access Facebook, Twitter and social media networks.The new Nokia Browser consumes up to 90% less data. It also comes with Exclusive 40 Games Gifts from EA from Nokia Store.

It has Loud and clear inbuilt speaker that offers audio output up to 103 phons and comes with 1020 mAh battery that would offer up to 10.5 hours talk time and up to 26.5 days standby.

The Nokia 110 is now available from Flipkart for Rs. 2259.

LG Optimus 3D Max now available in India for Rs. 28990

LG Optimus 3D Max is now available in India from online retailer Flipkart. It was announced at MWC 2012 earlier this year and is the successor of the LG Optimus 3D that was launched last year and it comes with 4.3-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) IPS display with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection that would offer Glasses-Free 3D viewing and is powered by 1.2GHz dual-core processor. It runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and is just 9.6mm thick and weighs 148g with metallic and rounded edges.

It has Dual 5MP Auto focus cameras with flash and VGA front facing camera. It has 1GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory that is expandable up to 32GB with MicroSD. The connectivity features include 3G HSPA+ 21Mbps, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 , aGPS, HDMI via MHL and GPS / aGPS. It has 1,520 mAh battery.

The LG Optimus 3D Max is now available from Flipkart for Rs. Rs. 28,990 which is priced way better than the Optimus 3D that was launched in India last August at an MRP of Rs. 37,000.

Gameloft unveils The Amazing Spider-Man, Asphalt 7: Heat and more new games at E3

Gameloft has unveiled 4 new games at the E3 2012. These games include, The Amazing Spider-Man, Asphalt 7: Heat, Cosmic Colony and Kingdoms & Lords. These games would soon be available on iOS and Android.

The Amazing Spider-Man – It is the official game based on Amazing Spider-Man, one of 2012′s most anticipated super hero movies! that would offer intense web-slinging action.

Apple Files Patent Lawsuit To Ban Samsung Galaxy S3 US Sale

Apple has filed a patent lawsuit against the South Korean company in an attempt to ban Samsung Galaxy S3 sale on the territory of United States.

But this new legal action hasn’t intimidated the South Korea-based smartphone maker, as the company’s officials said that the launch of Samsung Galaxy S3 will go as planned, writes Wall Street Journal.

It’s not the first time when the two companies meet in a court, as there are more than ten suits involving the two smartphone manufacturers, filed in several countries of the globe.

The Cupertino-based company filed the suit on Thursday, in a Californian court, accusing Samsung thatthe user interface of their flagship smartphone is infringing two Apple patents.

New iPhone 5 Video Confirms Bigger Display And Longer, Unibody Case

Today we get to see a new video with the alleged iPhone 5 back case. ETradeSupply have uploaded a video on Youtube where one of their team members is holding the case of an Apple smartphone.


This could be back the new iPhone 5, the iOS smartphone that might see the light of day this fall. The guy in the video makes a detailed presentation of the new iPhone 5 case and he insists that the new smartphone will sport a 4-inch display, 0.5-inch bigger than the one installed in the iPhone 4S.

The new video have unveiled that Apple has changed the design of the iPhone 5, now with a bigger hole for the camera, probably an 8 megapixel unit, a HDMI out, a new dock connector and a repositioned audio jack.

If the case is the real deal, then the new iPhone 5 would be thinner than its successor, just like we’ve told you in some previous articles. The new Apple gadget seems to be about 20% thinner and definitely taller than the iPhone 4S.

Google Warns You When The Government Is Spying On You

Google just launched a program that warns, us, the users about the “state-sponsored attacks.” Therefore, each time a user is trying to access an account that is under the thread of a state-sponsored or phishing attack a message will appear saying “We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer” or “Warning: Phishing (web forgery) suspected.”

The new warning system introduced by Google is capable of detecting certain types of government-tied attacks, displaying a notification banner that contains a link that will redirect you to a webpage where you will be taught how to improve the security of your personal data.

Three UK now selling HTC Desire C

If you are one of the Android faithful over here in the United Kingdom, and prefer HTC handsets to Samsung, and have been awaiting the arrival of the HTC Desire C to be offered by Three UK, you just might like to know that Three UK has now made the Android packing HTC Desire C available to purchase.

The HTC Desire C according to the guys over at 3g, is available on Three UK in both black andwhite as a free smartphone when signing up with Three UK with tariff pricing starting off at £13 per month on the Unlimited Internet 100 plan for which you get 100 minutes, 5000 texts, and all you can eat data over a period of 24 months with an estimated delivery date of the 7th of June.

Droid RAZR ICS 4.0.4 update arriving possibly on 12th

If you are over in the good old US of A and happen to own theMotorola Droid RAZR on Verizon, and have been patiently awaiting the arrival of the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update to hit your Droid RAZR, then you might like to know that the word is the Android 4.0.4 update could arrive in a few days time.

According to the guys over at Ubergizmo, the word is a source within the Big red has told the guys over at Cnet that the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Verizon Motorola DroidRAZR will finally arrive as of the 12th of this month.

However, of course one must realise that at time these unnamed insider sources can be somewhat unreliable, and word has come down before that the ICS update would hit the VerizonMotorola Droid RAZR soon in the past, but as yet hasn’t become a reality, so with that in mind there could be a possibility that the 12th of June is the date, but for now this should be treated as pure rumour.

Apparently according to said unnamed sources, the reason behind the delay in delivering the Android 4.0.4 update to the Verizon Droid RAZR is because they decided to bump up the update from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4, still as the 12th if roughly only a week away it wont be too long before we know for sure if the Verizon Droid RAZR will finally see the update. Are any of our Verizon Droid RAZR owning readers fed up with waiting for this update, if so feel free to express your annoyance to our comments area below.

HTC One smartphones to be PlayStation Mobile certified

During the E3 conference in L.A, Sony has confirmed that they have signed HTC to their PlayStation certified program, a program that will mean some PlayStation games will come to the HTC One range of smartphones so theirAndroid handset owners can get their gaming action on with such PlayStation games as Crash Bandicoot.

According to the guys over at Pocket-lint, the lineup of HTC devices that will gain PlayStation certification includes the HTC One X, HTC One S and HTC One V, although Sony nor HTC have stated on whether other HTC smartphone will also benefit from PlayStation certification.

Windows Phone 8 Apollo Preview Release Date Is June 20th

The time has come for Microsoft to officially announce that Windows Phone 8 Apollo is ready for preview release, which will be unveiled on June 20th, at an official Microsoft event.

Two weeks from now the Redmond-based company will reveal its new mobile operating system, confirming or dismissing all the Windows Phone 8 Apollo rumors that surfaced on the web lately.

We are expecting a platform that will allow Nokia, Microsoft’s biggest partner on the smartphonemarket, to finally develop a dual-core handset, probably sporting a 720p display. It will be interesting to see what terminals will be showcased along with with the Windows Phone 8 preview and Nokia, HTC and Samsung will certainly be the first companies to demo such smartphones.

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Release Date Is October, Sports 5.5-inch Display

Rumor has it that Samsung Galaxy Note 2 release date was already scheduled for October. It seems that the popularity of Samsung Galaxy Note convinced the South Korea-based company to start working on a new gadget centered on the same audience.

A couple of days ago Samsung unveiled the official figures regarding the sales of their Galaxy line-up and Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 were leading the pack with a total of 50 million units shipped so far, while Samsung Galaxy Note ended up in the hands of 7 million users

ASUS Transformer Book With Windows 8 Officially Unveiled At Computex 2012

ASUS Transformer Book is one of the gadgets that was intensely teased by the Taiwanese company a few days ago. The device is a notebook-tablet hybrid that will be available in three size versions, 11.6-inch, 13-inch or 14-inch.

Computex 2012 event is on-going in Taiwan, the homeland of ASUS where the computer manufacturer brought new products that aim to stimulate the public’s reaction. ASUS Transformer Book stays design line launched with by the company with Transformer and Transformer Prime: a tablet with a dock-in keyboard transforming the gadget into a netbook in no-time.

Jailbreak 5.1.1 Untethered Using RedSn0w 0.9.12b1 Released

Jailbreak 5.1.1 Untethered Using RedSn0w 0.9.12b1  by using the below easy jailbreak. The new RedSnow 0.9.12b1 now does not require to enter the DFU mode, instead you will just press jailbreak button and the 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak will complete within few minutes like in Absinthe jailbreak tool.

As mentioned on the official blog, the latest redsn0w 0.9.12b1 allows owners of A4+earlier devices to install rocky-racoon two different ways:

• backup/restore method similar to Absinthe and cinject
• its traditional limera1n-based ramdisk install.  If you have a lot of media on your A4 device (music, movies, TV shows, etc), then the ramdisk method is preferrred because it avoids any possibility of later problems related to syncing to iCloud (including Photo Stream and Music Match).  The ramdisk method is not available for A5 devices or later because limera1n can’t be used.  If you’d like to use redsn0w’s ramdisk method, just be sure to put the A4 device in DFU or Recovery mode before starting redsn0w (otherwise it will immediately start to use the backup/restore method).

Cydia Tweak – SpotLock

SpotLock Cydia Tweak allows you to lock your device when you swipe to the spotlight page in your homescreen. Now you can lock your device without pressing the power button.

Check the video review after the break.

There are no options to configure and no icon is added on the springboard. To disable the tweak simply uninstall it. If you don’t use spotlight page you may find this tweak very useful.

SpotLock jailbreak tweak is available in Cydia under the BigBoss repo for free.

Paid Apps For Free Downloader Installous 5 Released

For many of you who don’t know about the Installous, Installous is an excellent place where you can find tons of paid apps for free. If you are not willing to pay for any app which you need then you can use a Cydia app called Installous. Before installing and downloading paid apps for free you have to understand that this is unethical and to a certain level illegal also because the server providing  paid apps for free is violating the copyright law. I am only mentioning the software here for learning purposes so that if someone still wants to download paid apps for free he can use this software.

Some of the new features include BitTorrent downloading support, support for the new iOS notification system, and several improvements for filehost compatibility

How to install Installous 5 on iOS 5.1 iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch

Note: To install Installous Cydia App you need to jailbreak your iphone, iPod or iPad, click here to go to the tutorila onHow to jailbreak iOS 5.1 and iOS 5.1.1.

You can follow my guide on How to add sources to Cydia and give the source address http://cydia.hackulo.us when asked and install as mentioned in that tutorial after adding the source you will find Installous 4 or Installous 5 in the sources just tap and install it. Now you can download paid apps for free of any value if available at the server.

New Telecom Policy approved, Roaming charges to be abolished

The Cabinet has approved New Telecom Policy 2012 that would let telecom users avail free roaming across the country. It would also offer Full Mobile Number Portability (MNP) that would let the customers retain their number even if they shift from one circle to another, anywhere in the country without any extra charges.

This would introduce single license across India under a new unified licence regime and the operators doesn’t need separate license. Under this licensing regime, licence has been delinked from spectrum to reduce different licenses.

The new policy would separate licences and airwaves, allowing carriers to share airwaves. There is no time frame when the new policy would be implemented. Pricing and spectrum allocation would be announced later.

Google Maps event scheduled before WWDC, Expected to reveal new 3D mapping features

t is widely believed that Apple will dump Google Maps and announce an in-house solution at their annual WWDC event later this month.

RIM wins lawsuit over BBM Trademark

Research in Motion (RIM) has won the law suit that lets them to continue using the BBM name for itsBlackBerry Messenger service. Last December, BBM Canada, a broadcasting company filed a lawsuit against RIM to stop RIM from advertising the service using the shortened name. RIM lost it’s BBX trademark last year and changed it to BlackBerry 10.

BBM Canada was started as Bureau of Broadcast Measurement in 1944, which changed the name to BBM in 1960s, later to BBM Canada in the 1990s. RIM launched the BlackBerry Messenger in 2005 and started using shortened form BBM since 2010.

The federal court has ruled in favour of RIM, stating that BBM Canada is in broadcasting industry and RIM is in wireless telecom industry, which are in different industries.