Micromax the Indian device manufacturer has added one more budget smart phone to their android lineup, the Micromax Smarty A30 which is priced at ₹3999 from the online retailer Flipkart. The A30 Smarty 3.0 sports a 3-inch TFT capacitive touch display and runs on a 832MHz Broadcom Processor with 256MB RAM and 512MB of internal memory with external storage expansion options up to 32GB via microSD card. It comes with a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash.
Gadgets
Smartphone
Spice Dual SIM Budget Android Phone Mi 352 Launched At Rs. 4634
by Hans Gogia •
Spice Mobiles have been manufacturing a lot of budget devices considering the needs and mentality of the Indian Market. Therefore they have launched yet another budget Android smart phone called the Spice Mi 352 with a price tag of Rs. 4,634. It features a dual SIM standby running on Android v2.3 that is Gingerbread and powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and has 256MB of RAM. Other than this, Mi 352 also features a 3.5-inch capacitive touch display with 480 x 320 pixels resolution, 3MP rear camera, built-in 512MB storage, expandable storage up to 16GB and 1300mAh battery.
Tablet PC
HCL ME Y3 7-Inch Android Tablet Launched– Features And Price
by Ritij Khurana •
The Indian tablet market is seeing new entrants each day in the budget segment and there are pretty much a lot of confusing options out there to give you a hard time deciding which one to buy. Also every android powered tablet which is present has similarly specced rivals present in the market and every device needs to have something unique to have an edge over the rest. And the latest entrant to this segment is the HCL ME Y3 tablet.
The USP of the 7 inch tablet is that it is a dual-SIM tablet and does not really have a competition in the dual-SIM arena from a renowned tablet maker but the Lenovo A2107 which is priced at Rs.13,999 whereas the offering from the Indian computing giant retails at Rs.11,999. The tablet will offer the ability to make voice calls from both the SIM cards as well as let you use data packs from both the SIM cards which makes it a compelling buy given that the rates of data packs are seeing new heights in the country.
Smartphone
Lava To Launch 6 Xolo Android Phones Between 3.5 to 5 Inch Screen Size
by Ritij Khurana •
The Indian smartphone segment is pretty hot right now and according to the announcement we have for you today, things are going to get hotter from here on. The Xolo brand from the stable of Lava mobiles, is all set to launch 6 mobiles in the Indian market by mid-February. We recently brought you the the tory of Lava launching Iris N501 and now this announcement. They seem to be on an announcement spree.
Sunil Raina, business head, Xolo at Lava International has given a statement to our friends at TheMobileIndian.com which reads,”In the next 30 days we will be launching five ICS based and one Jelly Bean based handset in the market. They will have mix of Intex, Qualcomm and MediaTek processors with display size varying between 3.5 – 5 inch.” These mobile phones will be priced between Rs7,000-Rs.25,000.
Smartphone
Lava Iris N501 5-Inch Android Phone Launched In India
by Ritij Khurana •
The homegrown mobile and tablet manufacturer, Lava mobiles came to the rescue of Intel when MNCs like Samsung, Apple and Nokia did not agree to partner with Intel for their mobile processors. The partnership brought out a smartphone which was difficult to compete with, even by the smartphones from the Koreans and the Finns. But then again, you can’t depend entirely on just one smartphone and Lava realizes that very well.
As long as we are talking about realization, we would like to tell you that Lava seems to have realized the importance of the 5 inch phablet segment which is gaining popularity with each passing day and have launched a 5 inch Android phablet named the Iris N501. The phone comes at a price tag of Rs.9,999 and shall compete with the likes of the Micromax Canvas II, Zync Z5 dual core, Intex Aqua 5.0 to name a few and other 5 inch phablets from Indian and Chinese manufacturers which retail at a similar price point.
Smartphone
Zopo Leader Max ZP950 5.7 Inch Phablet With 720p HD Display Launched
by Ritij Khurana •
Zopo, the leading Chinese mobile company has just made its foray in the Indian smartphone segment and is looking to take on the Indian mobile giants who have taken a huge share of the mobile market in India. Zopo has just launched a 5.7 inch phablet in the market and has priced it at a price point which appears to us is a bit optimistic for a brand which still has not gained a lot of popularity with the Indian consumers.
The smartphone has been priced at Rs.15,999 and can be pre-booked from the company’s Indian website. Zopo Leader Max ZP950 is the name and the 5.7 inch HD display comes with a screen resolution of 1280×720 pixels and is an IPS display which makes it one of the best displays on offer currently in the budget smartphone segment and it has another segment first, it runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which is not on offer currently in any other smartphone segment.
Tablet PC
Lenovo IdeaPad A2107 Launched At Rs. 13999– Details
by Ritij Khurana •
Lenovo, the name that reads performance computing in a finer print has just launched the first budget tablet from their stable in the Indian market and this tablet comes as quite a relief from the budget tablets on offer. The Ideapad A2107 is the name and the tablet comes at a pocket-friendly price tag of Rs.13,999 and is readily available on e-commerce websites and the Lenovo stores all over the country.
The Ideapad comes with a dual-SIM functionality which most of the budget brands have failed to provide despite all their smartphones having a dual-SIM functionality on offer. The tablet has a handy 7 inch LED capacitive screen and will support register a touch at 7 points. The screen has a display resolution of 1024×600 pixels and 320 nits brightness is on offer for that crisp display.
