Recently Samsung launched Galaxy Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit in India and other countries. Now the company announced that these wearable devices support 20 of Samsung high-end devices. There are 20 smartphones and 8 Samsung Tablets in this list. The Galaxy Gear devices offer smart notifications and fitness data. For that, you need to install Gear Manager or Gear Fit Manager applications in your Samsung Galaxy device.
Samsung has launched the new version of their instant messenger called ChatON. The ChatON 3.5, which is the latest version is available for multiple platforms like Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry etc. and allows some cool features. You can now send files of up to 1GB in size using the Chat On messenger, which means you can transfer whole movie file to your friend.
It also capable of doing instant translation between English and Hindi language on the go. The ChatOn can also translate the incoming messages in 14 regional Indian languages. ChatOn can be used for chat with large groups. You can create groups of as large as 1001 members on ChatON. You can do a lot more than just sending text messages using the ChatOn, you can share locations, pictures, videos, files, stickers, animations etc. If you make a goof up in typing with the silly auto-correct keyboards on smartphones, you can also even recall a sent message on ChatON.
Amazon is running Amazon App Sweepstakes contest every week on its website and giving away a smartphone or iPod every week to winners. Last week the prize was Google Nexus 5 for single winner. And form other last two weeks it has given away 10 brand new Apple iPod Shuffle (2GB) to participant. The contest was started on February and until now it has given away 3 Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 along with 3 Sony Xperia M smartphones.
The Airtel Digital TV – Pocket TV app offers you free videos, Anytime TV, trending, movie preview and top videos. To watch live TV on this app you need to enter your registered mobile number or your customer ID of your Airtel Digital TV. Pocket TV app offers more than 150 TV channels right on your smartphone. It is also loaded with 10,000 hours of video. And more than 13 channels are available to watch anytime. For this app Airtel is charging 60 rupees per month.
With the NSA employing all possible measures for mass surveillance of internet data and meta data collection of telephonic conversations of the whole country, the need to tighten the security of our digital lives is at its all time high. Taking a step in right direction, Google has bumped up the security of its most beloved Email service Gmail.
As posted by Nicolas Lidzborski, Gmail’s Lead Security Engineer on Google Blog:
“Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email. In 2010 we made HTTPS the default. Today’s change means that no one can listen in on your messages as they go back and forth between you and Gmail’s servers. In addition, every single email message you send or receive—100% of them—is encrypted while moving internally. This ensures that your messages are safe not only when they move between you and Gmail’s servers, but also as they move between Google’s data centers—something we made a top priority after last summer’s revelations.”
Updated On 20 March 2014
We got a chance to interact with Micromax co-founder Mr. Vikas Jain in New Delhi India at a press conference today where they announced a data bundling partnership with Aircel and Mediatek. On the sidelines of the event, we asked Vikas about the availability of the Micromax Canvas Laptab in India, to which he replied “We will bring it to India in next 45 days”, which means that in the coming fiscal, in around April-May 2014, we should see Micromax launching its first dual boot hybrid table, the Micromax Canvas Laptab in India. More details of the tablet described in the section below. In brief, it is an Intel processor powered 10.1 inch tablet which will be able to run Android Jelly bean and Windows 8.1 OS in dual boot configuration.
Updated on 7th Jan 2014
We have not seen so many devices running dual operating systems in the market officially. Although there are so many software available out there that allows two operating system to run on a system. As we have not seen so much anticipation from Indian site in Consumer Electronics Show , but this time Micromax has done some exiting work. Micromax came out with a pretty nice laptop-cum-tablet hybrid device, and it is running two operating systems on booting. Users will need to reboot the device to switch from windows to android or vice versa. The news was published on Engadget first. The specifications of this device are already out without price and availability. But we will let you update as soon as it will be available in India.
At a press event in New Delhi on 20th March 2014 announced the launch of 4 new products with MediaTek Chipset and Aircel Data and voice packs which offers free data and other benefits to the customers who buy these devices. The four devices announced include 1 data card, 1 Funbook series tab and two phones. To be precise, these are- MMX 377G (Dongle with 14Mbps support), Funbook Mini 410i, A090 (3G Smartphone) and X070 (feature phone with data).
