In an important announcement at Google IO on 25th June 2014, Google Announced Android One, a budget smartphone series which will be manufactured and sold by partners like Micromax, Karbonn and Spice Mobiles which are all from India. The Android One budget or affordable series of mobile phones by Google are truly targeted at masses with a under US $100 or under Rs. 6,000 price tag.
BlackBerry took wraps off their latest mid range offering today, the Blackberry Z3. It is focused on providing enterprise level security as well as great media experience on a large display with a mid range price tag. BlackBerry Z3 sports a 5 inch display, 1.2 GHz Dual Core CPU, 1.5 GB RAM and a primary camera with 5 MP resolution topped with Blackberry 10 OS version 10.2.1. Read on to find out the detailed specifications, features, pricing and availability.
Blackberry Z3
Naaptol.com introduced a new Android smartphone in India. The new smartphone Swipe Konnect 4E is exclusively available in India only on Naaptol.com for price INR 3,499. The new smartphone Swipe Konnect 4E launched under Swipe’s Konnect series exclusively.
So after the big announcement in Windows Phone segment, the top second smartphone vendor Micromax came up with another Android smartphone launch Micromax Canvas Gold A300. The smartphone is only forth from the company, running latest operating system Kitkat 4.4 out of the box. The previous smartphones running Android 4.4 Kitkat were Micromax Canvas Unite 2, Micromax Canvas Engage and Micromax Canvas Entice. And if we consider the online listed correctly the new Android smartphone sports some high-end specifications as well like full HD IPS display and Sony Image sensors inside it.
Karbonn Titanium S9 Lite listed on online retailor website Snapdeal with price tag of INR 8,999. The newly launched Karbonn Titanium S9 is the lite variant of last year launch Karbonn Titanium S9 which was price INR 19,990. According to Snapdeal the MRP of the device is INR 9,990 but the website is offering the device with 10% of discount.
Micromax and Microsoft has partnered to launch a lineup of Windows Phone for India. What is even more interesting is that these phones will be powered by Qualcomm processors and not by Mediatek as opposed to what we have seen in the Android series phones from Micromax till now.
Micromax will bring an entire range of Windows Phones from Micromax which runs on Windows Phone 8.1 OS. This Windows phone range will be named under Micromax “Canvas” series only, which is hugely popular sub-brand of phones by Micromax with a lot of popular android phones in Indian market.
Xolo Win, a windows tablet, was announced at CES has finally been launched in India via Flipkart. The 10.1-inch tablet from Xolo priced INR 19,990, listed on Flipkart with only Black variant and runs on latest operating system Windows 8.1 out of the box from Microsoft.
