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Reliance-Samsung 4G Phones At Rs.5,500

by Ritij Khurana • March 8, 2013

4G technology is not at all popular in the country because the 4G devices cost quite a lot and the cheapest 4G enabled smartphone in the country is Sony Xperia Ion which costs around Rs.27,990 and the cost of using 4G services is quite steep as well. But all that is set to change when Reliance will announce their partnership with Samsung regarding the usage of 4G in the country and providing cheaper handsets which are 4G enabled.

None of the companies are commenting on this deal as of now but the insider reports state that Reliance-Samsung partnership will be officially announced via a soft launch in the summer of 2013 in Delhi and Mumbai with the full-fledged launch and announcement due for December 28, the birth anniversary of Late Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of the Reliance group of Industries.

Lava Q Series Quad-Core Smartphones

by Ritij Khurana • March 8, 2013

Lava Mobiles has been launching budget smartphones in India but those have been dual-cores and single core smartphones whereas the competition, Karbonn and Micromax primarily have already introduced quad-core offerings. And now they are looking to enter the quad-core smartphone segment with the Q series of smartphones under their Xolo brand’s name. Xolo branded smartphones with Q series will be the budget quad core offerings from Lava.

The first smartphone in the series will be the Q800 which will be the quad core version of the A800. It will be powered by a 1.2 GHz quad core MediaTek MTK 6589 chipset which also powers the Micromax A116. The smartphone will have a screen size of 4.5 inches and this is area where peope might choose to go either ways. Some might like the compactness of the 4.5 inch screen whereas others might like the bigger screen the Micromax A116 will have on offer.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Smart Pause And Smart Scroll Screens Leaked Before Launch?

by Ritij Khurana • March 8, 2013

As the launch of the Galaxy S4 is nearing, Samsung is finding it pretty hard to keep the details of the next flagship under the wraps. Now the screenshots of the upcoming Samsung flagship have emerged and they suggest that the SmartScroll and SmartPause features that Samsung has been getting patented in Europe and America will make their way on to the Galaxy S4 and the features are then going to trickle down to the Galaxy S3 as well.

SmartScroll feature will track the movement of your eyes and the what you can see on the screen will scroll automatically in accordance with your eyes. The SmartPause feature is something that will be active at the time of you watching a video and the smartphone will pause the video when you look away from it. These features will join the Smart Stay feature that made its debut on the Galaxy S3.

Next Gen iPads Launch In April 2013, iPhone 5S In August 2013

by Ritij Khurana • March 8, 2013

Apple has been shortening the life cycles of its products by launching their next generations even before an year is completed. This may result in customers resenting to them but Apple always finds new customers for themselves. Now the latest report that has come in that the next generation of the iPad will be launched as soon as in April with the iPhone 5S to follow in August.

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Idea 3G Zeal Smartphone Launched At Rs.5,390

by Nitesh Rathore • March 8, 2013

Indian mobile network operator turned mobile manufacturer Idea recently launched their sixth smartphone in market. They are calling it Zeal. This device runs on android version 2.3 Gingerbread. This device comes with the decent specification and with a special offer too. Free Idea TV and 1 GB free internet on the smartphone for 3 months may be boost the selling of this device. Zeal sports an 3.5 inch screen with 320 X 480 pixels resolution. This screen is comes with 260K colours. It can give good experience while browsing, watching videos and images on this device. The screen on this device is capacitive.

Zeal comes with Li-Ion 1300 mAh battery that can power up this device up to 4 hours on 3G and up to 7 hours on 2G. It has 3 Megapixel camera that can record MPEG 4 & HVGA videos. It has an 3.5mm audio jack.

Swipe Halo Value Tab Launched At Rs. 6990- Features and Details

by Ritij Khurana • March 8, 2013

Swipe Telecom, the California based electronics maker has been on a launching spree in the Indian market for a while and going ahead with that, has launched a budget tablet, named the Halo Value which will sell for Rs.6,990. The company launches tablets under the Halo range of tablets and the latest member of the Halo family will be on sale at the time you would be reading this news and you can order it of Swipe’s e-store right away.

The 7 inch tablet has a display resolution of 480×800 pixels and runs on Android Jelly Bean. It will have the dual SIM functionality and will have the calling ability via 2G for both the SIMs. You can also connect with your friends through video calling courtesy the VGA camera in the front and you also get a 2 MP rear snapper as well. The budget tablet will have a 1.5 GHz processor as its heart to give it the ability to run your applications.