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Micromax A54 Smarty Launched At Rs.4599

by Ritij Khurana • January 29, 2013

Micromax disclosed their plans of launching 30 new devices for the Indians this year and as per their promise, they’ve started the onslaught. First was the Micromax A116 and now they’ve laid their eyes on the budget smartphone segment. Micromax has just launched Micromax A54 Smarty and even though Micromax has not released it officially, but it has made its way on to the online stores and is listed as In Stock so you can lay your hands on one too.

Micromax A54 is priced at Rs.4,599 and can be bought from flipkart. The budget smartphone runs on a relatively old Android version which is the Android 2.3 Gingerbread but ICS at this price would have been too much to ask for. The device comes with a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive display with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. The heart is a single core 1 GHz Qualcomm processor which will give it enough processing power to give the budget smartphone users enough capabilities to multitask.

Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini On Sale In India In Grey Markets At Rs. 18,000

by Hans Gogia • January 29, 2013

Samsung Galaxy SIII mini, the budget and smaller variant of the record breaking Samsung Galaxy SIII is now available in India. Samsung officially has not launched in India yet but the device is available from the grey market for around Rs. 18,000.

Samsung Galaxy SIII mini measures 121.6 x 63 x 9.9 mm and weighs in at 111.5 g. It features a 4-inch Super AMOLED display with a WVGA resolution of 480×800 pixels running on a 1Ghz NovaThor U8420 processor with 1GB RAM. The device comes in 16GB and 32GB models with expandable storage up to 32GB via a microSD card slot. The smart phone runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and is powered by a 1500 mAh battery. Apart from the above mentioned features, this handset comes loaded with sensors for accelerometer, gyro, proximity and compass.

Karbonn S1 Titanium With Quad Core Processor And qHD Display Launched At Rs. 10,990

by Hans Gogia • January 29, 2013

After Micromax Canvas HD, Karbonn Mobiles has too secretly announced its quad core android S1 Titanium. According to the website, Karbonn S1 Titanium is a 1.2 GHz quad-core powered and dual-SIM Android smart phone measuring 66x 134.6×9.25 mm that will be running the latest v 4.1 codenamed as Jelly Bean powered by a 1600 mAh battery and 1GB RAM. The device will be sporting a 11.4 cm high qHD display with 540×960 pixels resolution.

Samsung Note 8.0 With S-Pen Launch At MWC 2013– Details

by Hans Gogia • January 27, 2013

Samsung is planning for yet another addition to its NOTE series line up, that is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 GT-N5100. According to the exclusive leaks by Sammobile, Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will be a 8.0-inch tablet alike its predecessor Note 10.1 with HD display and S Pen stylus.

Sammobile has also reported that this 8.0-inch tablet is codenamed Kona and will feature 8-inch Super Clear LCD display with 1280×800 pixel resolution. It is also expected to house a quad-core Samsung Exynos 4 Quad 4412 mobile processor paired with 2 GB RAM. Samsung will offer Galaxy Note 8.0 in two models – WiFi Only (GT-N5110) and WiFi+3G (GT-N5100). This tablet will measure 7.95 mm and weigh about 330 grams – almost as much as the iPad Mini.

Micromax A30 Smrty Dual SIM Phone Launched Under Rs. 4000

by Hans Gogia • January 27, 2013

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.

Spice Dual SIM Budget Android Phone Mi 352 Launched At Rs. 4634

by Hans Gogia • January 27, 2013

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.

HCL ME Y3 7-Inch Android Tablet Launched– Features And Price

by Ritij Khurana • January 21, 2013

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.