The best of Android is now not only available in the United States and Europe but also has finally landed here in India. I think we don’t need any introduction for the handset. Nexus 4 the wildly popular hardware which has been designed by LG under the nexus series from Google has now arrived in India for 25,999 INR.
Nexus 4 was launched last year in September 2012 only for US and UK markets by Google at a brilliant price tag of $299 for 8 GB model and $349 for 16GB model. The fire sale couldn’t match the stocks and ultimately lots were kept on hold. Even Google didn’t expected general masses to be interested in buying this developer’s paradise. With its great success, they planned to make it available to others parts of the world and here we see it in India today.
Panasonic has launched its first and flagship smartphone in India on 16th May 2013 in New Delhi India. The Phone is called Panasonic P51 which is a mighty phone, in fact in terms of form factor, its quite large with a 5 inch display. The screen of P51 offers a 5 inch touchscreen HD display with a 1280×720 pixels display resolution. The phone is given a premium look and comes with a premium leather Flip cover and a capacitive stylus with it. It has been priced at Rs. 26,900 MRP.
The Panasonic P51 is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad core CP, 1GB or RAM and runs Android Jelly Bean OS right out of the box. It has an 8 Megapixel camera with autofocus and flash along with a 1.3 MP front facing camera. The rear camera as well as front camera are both capable of HD video recording.
Nokia today on 14th May 2013 at the global event in London announced the successor to its award-winning flagship, the Nokia Lumia 925. Lumia 925 is a new interpretation of popular Lumia 920.
The Nokia Lumia 925 introduces a metal design and showcases the latest PureView camera innovation, new features and third party applications coming to the Nokia Lumia range. The Nokia Lumia 925 includes the most advanced lens technology and next generation imaging software to capture clearer, sharper pictures and video, including the best low light images. The Nokia Lumia 925 also introduces the new Nokia Smart Camera mode, coming as an update to all Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphones. Nokia Smart Camera offers an easy way to capture ten images at once and edit the pictures with options like Best Shot, Action Shot, and Motion Focus for creating the perfect high quality image which answers to all those S4 and HTC’s camera advancements.
Micromax has launched yet another product in the Canvas series after the recently launched Micromax Canvas 3D A115 (see video review). This new Canvas phone is called the Micromax Canvas Doodle A111 comes with a capacitive Stylus with the phone and has a 5.3 inch display with 854×400 pixels resolution and just 9.9 mm thickness. The MRP on the box is Rs. 15999 but the street price or MOP is around Rs. 12999. The phone is available for sale online at Snapdeal already.
Wickedleak has been slowly and steadily giving itself a strong footing in India by bringing some more than value for money products to the Indian market, and after the Wammy Desire tablet became a hit amongst the Indians, the company has launched the Wammy Desire II. The tablet has some real good internals and the price tag seems just too less for the specs on offer. It has been priced at Rs.9,999 and now let us talk about the specs of the tablet.
Nokia has announced is new Asha 501 globally from India which is one of the largest feature phones markets for Nokia. The new phones use high quality build, strong materials, come with vibrant colour options, expandable memory, capacitive touch screen and high quality cameras. The Asha series get their name from Hindi word “Asha” which means hope, signifying the hope and aspiration from these affordable devices. The Asha series have up to 18% market share in their price segment. The Asha series phones also use Nokia Xpress browser compression technology to speed up browsing.
Nokia Asha 501 Video Review
Features And Specifications
Nokia Asha 501 comes loaded with a large 17 hours battery life, hot-swappable micro-SIM, hardened glass, Capacitive touch screen, Dual SIM,4GB card included, direct social options. Features include swipe features between different screens, Nokia Xpress cloud technology to make web browsing faster. It has been launched in 6 colour options including red, yellow, white, green, blue and black.
The Fastlane technology of Asha offers two different home screen which is one for the social network, updates an notes and other one for Apps. Nokia also claims that the performance of the Asha 501 is one of its USPs. Nokia has SLAM sharing technology for sharing pictures and files which uses Bluetooth transfer with other Asha phones in the proximity with the SLAM feature. This is something parallel to BUMP on iPhone or s-beam on Samsung.
Talking about the software platform, the Asha 501 is based on Symbian S40 platform, which we though is out, but Nokia has given it a second life with the 501. Interestingly, Nokia is branding it as Asha platform.
Nokia Asha 501 offers 3.2 MP camera. The initial model of the Asha 501 is a 2G and EDGE enabled, but Nokia will follow up with newer models with 3G options.
Free Facebook On Nokia Asha In India
Nokia has also tied up with Operators and Facebook to offer Facebook for FREE on certain operator networks like Idea mobile using their Nokia Asha 501. This will give a good boost to the sales of Asha phones and also to operators.
Details Specs
Dimensions: 99.2 x 58 x 12.1 mm; 98 grams
Camera: 3.2 MP
Single SIM standby time: up to 48 days
Dual SIM standby time: up to 26 days
Talk time: up to 17 hours
Additional memory of 4GB (card included in box), expandable up to 32GB
Forty free EA Games downloadable from Nokia Store
Available colours: Bright Red, Bright Green, Cyan, Yellow, White and Black
Developing story.
Pricing And Availability
Nokia Asha 501 will be available in June 2013 and the pricing will be around Rs. 6000 or USD $99 for global markets.
Acer was the first company to bring a budget tablet in the form of Acer Iconica B1 and the company has just announced the cheapest quad core tablet offering from a MNC, the Iconica A1. The budget tablet has 7.9 inch screen which has a resolution of 1024×768 pixels. It will come in two guises, Wi-Fi only and 3G+Wi-Fi. Also there will be two memory options, 8GB and 16GB with the latter being the dearer option.
