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Thursday, September 5, 2013

New Nokia Asha phones unveiled Asha 308 Asha 309

New Nokia Asha series mobiles launched with low price. Nokia Asha 308 & 309 both has few common features like 3 inch scratch resistant touchscreen, dual sim support, 32GB expandable memory, GPRS, EDGE, stereo fm radio and more.

Timo Toikkanen, Executive Vice President, Mobile Phones, Nokia said, "Our innovative Asha Touch family of devices is designed for people who want a great smartphone experience with lower running costs. By introducing the Nokia Asha 309, we’re expanding our affordable smartphone lineup and bringing a new mobile experience to more people."

Lets see the key features and price of both new Asha phones.

Nokia Asha 308 Key Features:

Dual SIM GSM support
3-inch Capacitive Multipoint-Touch with scratch-resistant display
Nokia Asha Touch UI
Nokia Browser for Series 40
GPS Navigation , Nokia Maps
EDGE up to 236.8 kbit/s , EGPRS 85.6 kbit/s
Stereo FM radio with recording , RDS
2.0 megapixels camera without flash
Sensors : Accelerometer , Light time-out , Orientation sensor
up to 32GB expandable memory
Email: OMA E-mail Notification v1.0, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Nokia Messaging, Gmail, Nokia Mail
Instant Messengers: Google Talk, Yahoo!, Twitter, Facebook chat, MySpace, Windows Live Messenger, Nokia Chat

Nokia Asha 308 price will be around Rs. 5000 in India. (Coming Soon in Nov/Dec 2012)

Nokia Asha 309 Key Features:

Dual SIM GSM support
3-inch capacitive touch screen with scratch-resistant
Nokia Series 40 OS
Nokia Asha Touch UI
Nokia Browser for Series 40
GPS Navigation , Nokia Maps
Stereo FM radio with recording , RDS
Camera without flash
Supports Wi-Fi positioning
Free 40 EA games including Tetris, FIFA 2012, and The Need for Speed The Run
Sensors : Accelerometer , Orientation sensor
EDGE up to 236.8 kbit/s , EGPRS 85.6 kbit/s
up to 32GB expandable memory
Email: OMA E-mail Notification v1.0, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Nokia Messaging ,Gmail, Nokia Mail
Instant Messengers: Google Talk, Yahoo!, Twitter, Facebook chat, MySpace, Windows Live Messenger, Nokia Chat

Nokia Asha 309 price will be around Rs. 5500 in India. (Coming Soon in Nov/Dec 2012)

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

10 New AKAI Mobile Phones Launched in India Price Starts 1895 Rs

AKAI, one of the largest Japanese Consumer Electronics brands with an extensive presence in India announced its entry into the Mobile Handset segment in India today with the launch of 10 exciting new models in the dual SIM (GSM+GSM) category. The innovatively designed handsets are affordably prices between Rs.1895/- to Rs.7995/-.

The range will appeal to consumers across all segments with a special focus on the youth and are currently available across 8000 retail outlets in the country with a targeted increase to 20,000 outlets by end-September 2010. AKAI branded mobile phones will be sold in India through Global Brands Enterprise Solutions Pvt. Ltd., which has the brand rights for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.

AKAI handsets are easy to use, stylish, feature packed and come equipped with features which include Dual SIM, full touch 3-D user interface, wi-fi, long lasting battery, large high resolution QVGA screen, expandable memory, wireless FM with recording, high definition video recording, compatible with social networking sites, E-book compatibility and others providing all the right features for all target groups viz, entertainment, lifestyle, utility and contemporary. The product innovations are spread right from the product features to operation integrations and to service back-ups.

Creating a distinguished niche in the already cluttered space, Pranay Dhabhai, Managing Director, AKAI India said, “AKAI is the first multi-national brand to be introducing a complete range of mobile handsets based on dual SIM platform which is presently dominated by local Indian brands. We have introduced a range of phones that will cater to the requirements of all segments of consumers across categories.

With a legacy of over eight decades of expertise in the consumer electronics industry, AKAI is renowned globally for its value-driven Japanese technology and designs across verticals. We hope to become a prominent player in the Rs. 700 bn mobile handset market in the coming years.

We are expecting an overall turnover of Rs 435 crore by July 2011 and mobile sales are expected to contribute around 40% of the total revenues with targeted monthly sales of One lakh handsets from October onwards."

“The mobile handset market in India is growing rapidly and there is a great demand for quality handsets. With AKAI mobiles now being available in India and with our Global expertise and understanding of Indian consumer needs, we will be giving a tough time not only to the Indian brand dominating the dual SIM segment, but also the other Multi National brands dominating the Indian mobile Industry.

The features which were earlier confined only to high end models of global mobile handset brands will now be available on AKAI mobile phones at affordable prices, making them more accessible to consumers especially the youth," he added.

AKAI intends to offer distinct products which are ROHS complied for consumer safety and will come pre-equipped with friendly features complementing the overall brand positioning of High Quality products at smart prices.

Company sees after service to be an area not being focused by local brands and has invested heavily in setting up a complete service network all across India. Company has 465 service centres across length and breadth of India, of which 218 service centres are dedicated to provide Mobile phone service back-up, right from basic servicing to component level repairing. AKAI Mobiles will make significant initial investments and will be setting up its level 4 service centres in Gurgaon.

AKAI India is determined to establishing itself in the Indian Mobile Handset space through the most experienced and dedicated sales and product teams in the industry.

Source: AKAI India

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

iPhone 5 Rumors Persist New Dock Connector Thinner Design

The iPhone 5 rumors are starting to sync, providing a basic outline of what Apple’s next phone might look like.

While it has been previously reported that the new iPhone (or what many assume will be called the iPhone 5) will have a new, smaller dock connector,Reuters is now corroborating these rumors.

The next iPhone will come with a 19-pin connector rather than the 30-pin port on the current iPhone and iPad ”to make room for the earphone moving to the bottom,” two Reuters sources who are “familiar with the matter” said.

Apple has recently moved to a new dock connector on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display and sells an accessory so the new charging port is compatible with older chargers.

The move to use a new dock or charging port would save some space and may also allow the phone to be thinner.

Which brings us to another rumor. Last week The Wall Street Journalreported that Apple will use a new type of thinner screen that will integrate the touchscreen right into the LCD.

On the current iPhone, the touchscreen is a layer on top of the LCD. The new screen technology, which is said to be currently in mass production, would allow the phone to be thinner. Previous rumors also suggested that the phone would have a slightly larger 4-inch display (the current iPhone has a 3.5-inch screen) and use the second generation of Gorilla Glass, the durable glass that covers the current iPhone. That glass is also thinner, although it provides the same level of protection.

Additionally, the next iPhone has been rumored to have LTE and a faster processor and graphics.

Apple is expected to release the next iPhone during the fall, with many reports pointing to October, close to a year after the iPhone 4S was released. The next version of the iPhone software, iOS 6, was previewed in June and is also due out around the same time. Check out some of the new features in iOS 6 here.

Reuters has also reported that Apple’s third-quarter earnings, which will be announced Tuesday, may fall short, as iPhone sales have slowed over the past couple of months as buyers await the new phone. Apple has not said issued any statement about the next version of its iPhone.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Apple cements tablet market lead with new iPad

The third-generation iPad has only a few new features including faster wireless connectivity and a crisper display, but analysts nonetheless expect Apple to dominate the tablet market well into next year.

"I just got hyped into it, I guess," said David Tarasenko, a 34-year-old construction manager who was the first to pick one up from a Telstra wireless store at midnight in Sydney.

The buzz helped propel Apple shares to touch a record high of $600 on the Nasdaq on Thursday, though they later erased gains and were trading at around $585 on Friday afternoon.

In New York, the queues were nothing compared with previous years. "I came by at midnight and nobody was here," said Peter Brown, 51, who owns a marketing and communications company in London and was waiting in line at Apples flagship New York City store on Fifth Avenue.

The new iPad - Apple has refrained from calling it iPad 3 - has faster chips, fourth-generation wireless, a sharper display and a better camera, making it harder for competitors like Samsungs Galaxy, which also lack Apples range of apps and content, to catch up.

On price, too, Apples rivals will struggle to beat it. The new iPad starts at $499 in the United States, 479 euros ($630) in Germany and 42,800 yen ($510) in Japan. Only Amazon Incs far more basic Kindle Fire is significantly cheaper.

Apple will continue to sell the iPad 2 but has dropped its price by $100 to start at $399. Some analysts expect sales of the new iPad to overtake the old. So far, the company has sold 55 million tablets since the first iPad was launched in 2010.

Even in a tough economic climate in some parts of the world, many buyers, like 27-year-old Steve Henry in Paris, said they would scrimp elsewhere if necessary.

"I save money on my other purchases for high-tech shopping," said Henry, a systems engineer at a railway company who was hoping to buy his first iPad mainly to watch films and read during his more than two hours of travel per day.

Some U.S. retailers offered special deals. At Target, customers who traded in their working iPad 2 could receive up to $350 in store credit, a spokeswoman said.

MARKET LEAD

Tablet sales are expected to increase to 326 million by 2015 with Apple largely dominating the market, according to research firm Gartner. By then tablets could rival sales of desktop computers, which Gartner expects to total 368 million units this year.

The enduring popularity of Apple products, and stock, have provided Chief Executive Tim Cook, who took over after the death of Steve Jobs last year, with a good start. The stock has jumped 45 percent this year to a market value of about $550 billion.

Canaccord Genuity analysts raised their target price on Apple stock to $710 from $665. Dickie Chang, an analyst with technology research firm IDC, said Cook will need to do more in future to keep up the companys astonishing momentum.

"The iPad is already a pretty mature product and its hard to revolutionize it any further," he said. "I think he may have to come up with another product to mark his stamp. That could come in the form of launching a smaller iPad with a longer battery life, for instance."

UBS raised its target price to $675 from $550, and said the expected launch of the redesigned iPhone 5 in October was the big catalyst ahead.

Apples top manufacturer is Foxconn Technology Group, whose factories in China are under scrutiny over labor practices. Small groups of labor activists tried to draw attention to the issue at stores in New York and San Francisco, where Apple employees handed out umbrellas to customers waiting in the rain.

Charlotte Hill, a representative of change.org, called for better worker protection. "We are hoping Apples workers and people higher up in the corporate chain will hear us," she said in San Francisco, where about 200 to 300 people had lined up prior to the opening of the downtown store.

Amanda Bell, a law student and part of a group of protesters in New York, said: "There is a cognitive dissonance for most people between loving the product and hating the way its made."

SMUGGLERS

The new iPad went on sale on Friday in 10 regions including Britain, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Switzerland. Most of the countries outside the United States do not yet have the faster, fourth-generation telecoms networks that the new iPad supports, but that did not stop Apples fans.

"Ive come from Russia to buy an iPad for my three-year-old son David," Oleg Konovalov, a newspaper salesman, told Reuters in Tokyo. "Everyone in Russia wants an iPad, but to buy it there I will have to wait several months."

"This reminds me of the time 30 years ago when I waited 8 hours in the cold to see Lenins Mausoleum."

In London, 21-year-old Piotr, who works at noodle bar Wagamama, said: "Its not for me, its to sell. I will bring them to Russia to sell them."

In the Chinese city of Shenzhen, people keen to get their hands on the new iPad waited for them to be smuggled across the border from Hong Kong.

"We dont have iPad3s yet, but some will arrive later in the day when the students deliver them to us. Well have more supplies over this weekend," said a store operator in Shenzhen.

"Customs has become stricter, but if you take one at a time across the border, thats still pretty safe. At most theyll ask you to take it out of the box to prove that its for self use."

Online reviews of the new iPad overwhelmingly praised Apple for its improved screen resolution. "My epiphany came when I placed my iPad 2 next to the new model, with the same text on the screen. Letters and words that had seemed sharp on the older model five minutes earlier suddenly looked fuzzier," said one reviewer.

Shintaro Aizawa, 16, who waited 15 hours outside a Tokyo store, said: "After this, well, Ill first of all open it up and check its as beautiful as I thought. Then Ill get some sleep."

GOLD STANDARD

As consumers lined up around city streets to buy the iPad, one firm that took the new device apart said Qualcomm Inc, Broadcom Corp and Samsung Electronics had all held on to their prized roles as key parts suppliers.

The inner workings of the iPad are similar to previous models, based on a "teardown" by a tinkerer from California gadget-repair firm iFixit, who queued up in Australia to get one of the new tablets and quickly took it apart for a Web blog.

IFixit said the iPads display appears to be from Samsung, Apples closest rival in the tablet market. It includes a Qualcomm LTE cellphone chip and a Qualcomm wireless modem for 3G and 4G. Broadcom supplies a semiconductor handling wireless tasks like WiFi and Bluetooth, according to iFixit.

Other technology partners include ARM Holdings Plc, Toshiba Corp, Elpida Memory Inc, Avago Technologies Ltd, Triquint Semiconductor Inc and Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc.

Analysts said Cupertino, California-based Apple sometimes uses more than one supplier for a part, so what is found in one iPad may not be present in others. Still, teardowns are a key source of information for investors and the appearance of unexpected chips can move stocks. ($1 = 0.7651 euros = 83.2900 Japanese yen)

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The network has new photos of the iPhone 5

For the second time this week there are pictures online of the new iPhone 5. Just yesterday we told you about the aluminum prototype fifth-generation smartphone. And today there are new pictures, no longer a prototype, and the fifth this iPhone!

Kitguru.net news site published a series of photographs in which, according to the editorial of the website shows the iPhone 5.

Photo web site is obtained from a single trusted source. This man is devoted to the affairs of Apples Far East.

The photographs clearly show that the diagonal of the new iPhone will be greater than that of his predecessors. Also pokazan19-pin port, replacing the 30-pin dock connector. It is this replacement connectors for several months to discuss all and sundry.

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

LG Optimus Vu review The New Challenger

LG may have given up on tablets, but not on the Optimus Vu - its halfway between a phone and a tablet, a hybrid of form factors that we like to call "phoneblets". The Samsung Note was one of the first, but that doesnt mean it can have the market all for itself. The LG Vu pairs the big screen with a handy stylus to enhance tasks like note taking, something that can be a chore on a normal thumb-operated handset.

The dedicated Notebook app lets you create elaborate, multiple-page notes with images and text, or you can just hit the QuickMemo key, which snaps a screenshot and lets you scribble on it - you can screenshot a website, a part of an email, a document, an image, and just about anything else.

This makes the Optimus Vu a handy tool for putting down reminders or helping you communicate with others - its much easier to explain what you need when you can take a screenshot and sketch your idea over it. Once youre done, sending the image via email, Dropbox, a social network or another channel is just a tap away.

The phoneblet sure has a lot going for it, but its not all sunshine and roses - you can go ahead and copy our notes on where it scores and where it misses.

Key features

Dual-band CDMA, 1x EV-DO, HSDPA and LTE connectivity
5" 16M-color capacitive HD-IPS LCD touchscreen of XGA resolution (768 x 1024 pixels)
LG Rubberdium stylus and QuickMemo button
Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread
Dual-core 1.5GHz ARM Scorpion processor, 1GB of RAM, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon chipset
32GB of inbuilt storage
8 MP autofocus camera, face detection and geotagging
1080p @ 30fps video recording
Front facing 1.3MP camera, video calling
Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
NFC connectivity
GPS with A-GPS
microUSB port (charging)
Stereo Bluetooth v3.0
MHL TV-out
Polaris Office document editor
Smart dialing, voice dialing
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
DivX/XviD video support
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
Dolby Mobile and SRS sound enhancement
Stereo FM radio with RDS
T-DMB TV tuner
Main disadvantages

microSIM cards only
Runs older Android 2.3 Gingerbread
Wide form factor needs getting used to
4:3 aspect ratio not a good fit for video watching
No microSD card slot
With a rich app package, the Optimus Vu has solid business credentials. It features the Polaris Office document editor and an app that can automate backups (with an option to encrypt them).

You also get an NFC app, with which you can easily share your contact details, web site, memos, scheduling info and more. You can share it directly with another NFC-enabled device or write the info to NFC tags that you can hand out to people.

The extensive connectivity options go on - you get fast data connections over LTE, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi Direct, then theres the fun stuff like DLNA and a T-DMB TV tuner (ok, thats a Korea-only feature).

Were not counting on the LG Optimus Vu being very pocketable, but well be putting the screen under a microscope (even literally) to find out if its worth the tradeoff. Well also look at the rest of the hardware and rummage through the retail box - all thats coming up.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Aroma D110 New Dual SIM Mobile by Aroma Mobiles

Aroma Mobiles, a new entrant in the mobile handset market, has announced the launch of the D110. A slim stylish phone, this trendy new model will set the bar for all others to follow.

The D110 has Dual SIM facility with 1.3 MP Camera, long lasting battery and multi-format music player. In addition one can also enjoy Bluetooth with A2DP Support, Stereo FM Radio with recording, Video Player and a Recorder. With a capacity of 1000 contacts … no storage issues!!

You will never be away from your friends with its GPRS/WAP2.0 and MMS facility. Aromas D110 comes preloaded with Facebook and MSN Messenger…. Stay connected at all times.

Speaking on the launch of its latest model, Pawan Chadha (Director- Sales, Marketing & Service), Aroma Mobiles and Accessories Pvt Ltd, said, “India has been one of the fastest-growing markets in the mobile handset industry over the past few years.

We, at Aroma, are constantly striving to provide the young, tech savvy individual with a cost effective yet tech superior handset. Priced at Rs 2699, D110 has all that a person can want in a mobile and lot more."

Source: Aroma Mobiles

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