Rohit Khurana is a professional Technology Blogger from India. He is founder and Editor of Intellect Digest India which is one of the fastest growing online technology publications in India.
Panasonic has launched its first and flagship smartphone in India on 16th May 2013 in New Delhi India. The Phone is called Panasonic P51 which is a mighty phone, in fact in terms of form factor, its quite large with a 5 inch display. The screen of P51 offers a 5 inch touchscreen HD display with a 1280×720 pixels display resolution. The phone is given a premium look and comes with a premium leather Flip cover and a capacitive stylus with it. It has been priced at Rs. 26,900 MRP.
The Panasonic P51 is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad core CP, 1GB or RAM and runs Android Jelly Bean OS right out of the box. It has an 8 Megapixel camera with autofocus and flash along with a 1.3 MP front facing camera. The rear camera as well as front camera are both capable of HD video recording.
Micromax has launched yet another product in the Canvas series after the recently launched Micromax Canvas 3D A115 (see video review). This new Canvas phone is called the Micromax Canvas Doodle A111 comes with a capacitive Stylus with the phone and has a 5.3 inch display with 854×400 pixels resolution and just 9.9 mm thickness. The MRP on the box is Rs. 15999 but the street price or MOP is around Rs. 12999. The phone is available for sale online at Snapdeal already.
Nokia has announced is new Asha 501 globally from India which is one of the largest feature phones markets for Nokia. The new phones use high quality build, strong materials, come with vibrant colour options, expandable memory, capacitive touch screen and high quality cameras. The Asha series get their name from Hindi word “Asha” which means hope, signifying the hope and aspiration from these affordable devices. The Asha series have up to 18% market share in their price segment. The Asha series phones also use Nokia Xpress browser compression technology to speed up browsing.
Nokia Asha 501 Video Review
Features And Specifications
Nokia Asha 501 comes loaded with a large 17 hours battery life, hot-swappable micro-SIM, hardened glass, Capacitive touch screen, Dual SIM,4GB card included, direct social options. Features include swipe features between different screens, Nokia Xpress cloud technology to make web browsing faster. It has been launched in 6 colour options including red, yellow, white, green, blue and black.
The Fastlane technology of Asha offers two different home screen which is one for the social network, updates an notes and other one for Apps. Nokia also claims that the performance of the Asha 501 is one of its USPs. Nokia has SLAM sharing technology for sharing pictures and files which uses Bluetooth transfer with other Asha phones in the proximity with the SLAM feature. This is something parallel to BUMP on iPhone or s-beam on Samsung.
Talking about the software platform, the Asha 501 is based on Symbian S40 platform, which we though is out, but Nokia has given it a second life with the 501. Interestingly, Nokia is branding it as Asha platform.
Nokia Asha 501 offers 3.2 MP camera. The initial model of the Asha 501 is a 2G and EDGE enabled, but Nokia will follow up with newer models with 3G options.
Free Facebook On Nokia Asha In India
Nokia has also tied up with Operators and Facebook to offer Facebook for FREE on certain operator networks like Idea mobile using their Nokia Asha 501. This will give a good boost to the sales of Asha phones and also to operators.
Details Specs
Dimensions: 99.2 x 58 x 12.1 mm; 98 grams
Camera: 3.2 MP
Single SIM standby time: up to 48 days
Dual SIM standby time: up to 26 days
Talk time: up to 17 hours
Additional memory of 4GB (card included in box), expandable up to 32GB
Forty free EA Games downloadable from Nokia Store
Available colours: Bright Red, Bright Green, Cyan, Yellow, White and Black
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Pricing And Availability
Nokia Asha 501 will be available in June 2013 and the pricing will be around Rs. 6000 or USD $99 for global markets.
Lenovo has been riding a high over the last few years, with no signs of slowing down soon. Its notebook business, bought from IBM 8 years ago, is one of the biggest in the world and it has been voted as the second largest notebook vendor of 2012, after HP. While global sales and consumer interest in notebooks has been dwindling, thanks to the rise of tablets, Lenovo has managed to drudge on due to its diverse product offerings, and is looking to oust HP in a bid to gain the title of the biggest notebook manufacturer in the world.
2013: The Biggest Decline Thus Far In Laptop Sales
Fly Mobiles, and India based mobile phone brand today launched 4 new products in India which includes 3 Android based smartphones the F51, F45s and F40 and one Android Tablet the F8 in India. The price of the budget smartphones F40 is Rs. 4500 which is the entry level smartphone and the price of the F8 Tab is Rs. 13499. Check the sections below for details on each of these products.
Fly F51 Features, Specs And Price In India
With 5” WVGA full touch screen, F51 operates on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and 1 GHz dual core processor. It comes with a dual SIM feature, 5 MP rear camera with Flash and 2MP front camera, 1800 MAh battery, Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE and proximity and gravity sensors. All in all, the users get fast browsing experience, longer talktime and bigger display along with playful good looks of the phone. It is priced at Rs. 7790.
Intellect Digest will be bringing you all the details from the Indian launch event of Samsung Galaxy S4 in India. The much talked about Galaxy series smartphone which was unveiled globally at New York in March 2013 is finally coming to India. We will bring you video reviews details of Samsung Galaxy S4 hands on experience very soon.
The Galaxy S4 from Samsung is a step ahead in the evolution from its predecessor the S3 which is still one of the finest and preferred choice in the high end Android phones. The S4 has evolved over the S3 making it more feature rich and immersive. Some of the key elements include an ergonomic and sleek design, some fun camera features like the Double Shot which allows you to take pictures using front and rear camera at the same time. See the following sections for more features details.
Asus India and Intel today launched the Asus Fonepad, a 7 inch Android tablet with 3G and Phone calling functionality in India at a price of Rs. 15,999. The price of the Fonepab is very competitive considering that it offers good specs, 3G and calling functionality in a good form factor.
On the display side, it has a 7 inch HD IPS display with 1280×800 pixels display resolution. The display is 10 point multi-touch touchscreen. It is powered by n Intel Atom 1.2 GHz (Z2420) processor and 1 GB of RAM. It has 8 GB internal memory which can be further increased by adding an additional microSD card. The thickness of the tab is just 10.4 mm and weighs around 340g. It has 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, Dual camera with 1.2 MP front camera and a 3 MP camera at rear. With its large 4270 Lithium polymer battery, it can deliver a battery life of up to 9 hours.
