BoxTV Partners With Sony And Disney For Providing Entertainment Content In India

by Ritij Khurana • February 25, 2013

BoxTV, the video streaming service has just announced their content agreements with the Sony Pictures Television and Disney UTV to provide the users of their service with some premium titles. BoxTV’s service lets you stream blockbuster movies, TV shows, short films and documentaries to your devices through a web browser. The application is India-centric and has been made keeping the average Indian in mind. Its being said that BoxTV is the NetFlix of India.

BoxTV is now available for public access. BoxTV has on offer around 17,000 hours of media content with top movie titles available being Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Men In Black, Shaw Brothers, Prince of Persia, The Sixth Sense, Resident Evil and the daily show buffs are not left behind as well with the availability of 5,000 hours of TV content which includes popular titles likes Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Hannah Montana, Desperate Housewives and Scrubs. And this is not all. Regional media content Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Bhojpuri and Bengali is up for grabs as well.

BoxTV has inked down a partnership with India mediahouses as well which include has UTV Motion Pictures, Shemaroo Entertainment Rajshri Entertainment and Everymedia Technologies for providing BoxTV with Bollywood and Regional media content. These partnerships are in addition to the main partnerships of the folks back at BoxTV with Sony Pictures Television, Disney UTV and Celestial Entertainment for poviding the users with their does of Hollywood entertainment.

Lava Iris 502 Launched At Rs. 8499 – Features and Details

by Ritij Khurana • February 25, 2013

LAVA has been going all guns out in the past couple of months in Indian smartphone and tablet arena with a new launch coming up every week almost. They also have launched a campaign under which they will be launching a new device every Friday The latest launch from the company is the LAVA Iris 502 which sits below the Iris 501. LAVA has been following the policy of using two brands-Xolo and Iris for their smartphones which is doing pretty well for the brand.

The Iris 502 will come with a 5 inch capacitive display which is similar to the one found on the 501. The only major difference between the 501 and 502 is the fact that the 502 comes with a single core processor instead of the dual core processor that the former has. Also, the newer entrant runs of Android Jelly Bean whereas the 501 runs on Ice Cream Sandwich. The company’s latest budget offering gets 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz single core processor.

Nokia Lumia Smartphones Prices Will Be Reduced?

by Ritij Khurana • February 24, 2013

Nokia has quite a lot of hopes from the Windows Phone platform and Microsoft also realises the importance of their partnership with Nokia since the Windows Phone platform has seen a huge boost from the day Lumia range of smartphones have hit the stores. In a bid to further boost up the sales of the Lumia range of devices, which are Nokia’s only ray of hope, Nokia intends on making the Lumia in the country slightly more affordable because the current top end devices come at quite a steep price tag.

Videocon A27 4 Inch Display Android Phone Launched At Rs.5,999

by Ritij Khurana • February 24, 2013

Videocon is looking to increase their market share in the budget smartphone arena in the country and has just launched the Videocon A27 and the device will have 3G connectivity as one of its main selling points as it comes at a price tag of a mere Rs.5,999 and not many devices in that price bracket have 3G on offer as a connectivity option. The dual SIM smartphone is now up for grabs and can be bought from retail stores and e-commerce websites. And it can be bought in black and white colour options.

Apple Launches Apple TV In India At Rs. 8295

by Ritij Khurana • February 21, 2013

Apple has started seeing India as one of their most important markets(finally), and India now gets the products from the stable of Apple pretty much at the time of the global launch. The company recently announced the iTunes store for the Indian music lovers and now they have gone on to launch their Apple TV service in the country. It comes at a slight premium over other media streaming services but then it’s Apple and they deserve a bit of a premium. Apple TV has been priced at Rs.8,295 in India.

Apple TV has been officially launched by the company in the country with their website getting updated regarding the same with the product hitting in the retail stores in next 7-10 days. Most of us are unaware of this service so let us explain to you what exactly is the Apple TV. Apple TV is essentially a media streaming gadget which will let you steram content from popular media streaming websites like YouTube, Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Vimeo. But the device has no storage capacity.

Penta T-Pad WS707C By Pantel-BSNL Launched At Rs. 7,999

by Ritij Khurana • February 21, 2013

Pantel technology’s collaboration with BSNL has resulted in quite a lot of budget tablets making their way to the Indian markets and the partnership has just resulted in another budget tablet being made available to the Indian consumers. Penta T-Pad WS707C is the name and it is a 7-inch budget tablet which comes with sim card for voice calling functionality and gets 2G support as well. And the device can be all yours for a price of Rs.7,999.

The budget tablet will run on the latest iteration of Android which is Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and the screen will have a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. The budget tablet will be powered by a 1 GHz Cortex A9 single core processor and the multi tasking abilities will be enhanced by the 1 GB DDR3 RAM present on board. A Mali 400 GPU will be taking care of your graphic intensive games and applications. Internal storage stands at 8GB with the option of expanding it to 32 GB being made available via a microSD card.

Iocean Mobiles To Launch Smartphones In India

by Ritij Khurana • February 21, 2013

The Chinese electronics manufacturers are aware of the high competition they have at their home turf and are now looking to bring this competition to Indian shores. The latest entrant in the Indian smartphone market is another Chinese electronics maker, Iocean. So what do they have in them which is different from the rest would be your first question and they intend on answering this question with their flagship device for the Indian market.

Shenzen Iocean Mobiles will launch a Quad-core smartphone in the Indian market and they have tied up with a Chennai based distributor which will be responsible for the company’s smatphones reaching one and all.