Nokia announced its first Windows Phone 7 operating system powered smartphones Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 few days back. At the time of launch, Lumia 710 was priced at Rs.18,999 but phone was unable to create hype. Due to low sells then expected Nokia cut phone prices to more reasonable price. Its really a good news for potential consumers of the product, the Lumia 710 is now available on websites such as Flipkart, Letsbuy as well as with a few local resellers for as low as Rs.15,490.

The Lumia 710 is available through these sites with a bill as well as a warranty of twelve months which is normal for other handsets. The main reason behind this price cut is that most of the retailers state that the handset is not popular at all. Phone has decent specifications, design, build quality and long lasting battery. The only problem with it was the limited amount of applications available for download in the market. As Windows Phone 7 operating system is still in its budding stages, and Android has vast varieties of phones with ranging features from different manufactures.

Nokia Lumia 710 Features:

• 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen with a 480 x 800 pixel resolution under Gorilla glass
• Windows Phone 7 OS
• Nokia’s Clear Black Display technology
• 3G, EDGE/GPRS, Wi-Fi
• GPS with A-GPS support for Bing Maps
• Bluetooth with A2DP + EDR, USB 2.0
• 5MP AF camera with LED flash and 720p video recording
• FM radio

With this price drop, the Lumia 710 does seem like quite an attractive option for a would be consumer, that is if WP7 is their choice of operating system. Now we will keep an eye over Lumia 800 price cut.

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Samsung launched its Android Honeycomb powered tablet PC, Galaxy Tab 620 in Indian markets. Company set device price at an MRP of Rs.30,250 although you can buy for RS. 26,499 at Flipkart and Rs. 25,900 at Letsbuy; which is affordable to India consumers. Galaxy Tab 620 is a 7 inch PLS display device with powerful dual-core processor of 1.2 GHz.

Ranjit Yadav, country head, Samsung India said in press release;

“Tablets are uniquely positioned to offer consumers an enhanced converged communications experience and enable them to manage their work and life while on the move. The Galaxy Tab 620 with its powerful processor, next generation OS, stylish design and intelligent value added applications make this a faster, lighter and smarter device.”

Samsung Galaxy Tab 620 boasts of dual cameras with 3MP rear camera and 2MP resolution front camera. Device has 1GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage, Android 3.2 with Touchwiz UX for tablets and HSPA+ connectivity. The 7 inch display features a capacitive touch and a 1204 x 600 pixel native resolution as well. It also comes with IR blaster, voice-calling support as well as DLNA certification. For enterprise customers, the tablet comes pre-loaded with Cisco VPN, Sybase Afaria MDM and Cisco Webex solution preloaded on the tablet.

The tablet features HSPA+ connectivity (Greater then HSPA + 3G) allowing it to get data download speeds of up to 21 Megabits per second which will come in real handy while accessing social media websites or while sharing content on various websites online.

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Samsung has officially announced the successor to its Android powered Galaxy Ace smartphone and the device is known as the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus. The device will be coming to Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa in the first quarter of this year, expected to be launched in February end of early March.

It would be a mid-ranged device (expected prices: Rs. 15,000) which is powered by a 1 GHz processor and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. It has a 5 megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Face and Smile detection, Geo-tagging features. Phone has 512MB RAM and comes with a 1300 mAh long lasting battery.

Other key features include, Samsung’s TouchWiz interface and ThinkFree which will let users edit word and excel documents while on the move. The Galaxy Ace Plus will come pre-loaded with Samsung applications including Social Hub, Music Hub and ChatOn Messenger. It will first launch in Russia, sometime this month and will eventually make it to Europe, CIS, Latin America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, Middle East, Africa and China.

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus main Features:

• Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS with Samsung TouchWiz UI
• 3.65-inch HVGA display (480 x 320)
• 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and LED flash
• 3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
• aGPS navigation support
• Bluetooth 3.0
• 3GB built-in storage and 32GB expandable memory via microSD card
• 512MB RAM
• FM Radio with RDS
• 1300 mAh battery

See Galaxy Ace Plus full specifications here.

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The Nokia Asha 200 and Nokia Asha 201 are closely related pair of messaging phone , which are cheap phone targeted at the mass market. All features of the  both phone are same, the only deference between these two set is – the Asha 200 is a dual-SIM handset, where the Asha 201 is a single-SIM handset.

The Nokia Asha 200 and 201 are not a smartphone but both devices are series 40 featured  phones run simple JAVA application, also they comes with pre-installed software like a music player, a web browser, an email client , social networking support and support Nokia life tools.

The Asha 200 can handle two SIM at a time, and five different SIM cards can be managed with built-in SIM Manager . The second SIM slot on the side of the phone is a  hot-swapped slot, which is a pretty cool feature of that phone. Of course, this feature is not  in 201, but oddly the same cost of both 200 and 201,

Both phones comes with  a large 1430 mAh battery that gives 7 hours talk time and 36 days standby time,  which is pretty cool. Expected 200 and 201 measures 115 x 61 x 14mm and weighs 105 grams. Both handsets come in a very wide variety of colors.

If you are looking for a cheap phone like a BlackBerry,then these phones will be a good alternative, especially Nokia Asha 200 with dual SIM. Nokia  Asha 200 And Nokia Asha 201 are expected in fourth quarter of 2011  .

When we come at specifications of Nokia Ahsa 200 and Asha 201, the dimension are 115 x 61 x 14 mm and weight 105 grams, both  are dual band GSM device, the screen is a 2.4 inch 320 x 240 pixel TFT display , mini QWERTY keypad, a 2.0 megapixel camera with video capture capability, stereo FM with a 3.5 mm jack, a microSD slot for external memory and Bluetooth. And  these comes with EDGE technology for  faster internet browsing.

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Samsung heats up the smartphone market by announcing dual-SIM low-end smartphones. Leading mobile phone manufacturing company planning to launch two Galaxy phones with dual-SIM, dual stand-by capabilities and named them as; Galaxy y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos. Here are the detailed  specifications for Galaxy Y Duos phone.

Size

Display

Ringtones

Memory

Data Network

Camera

Features

Battery

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Vodafone India launched ‘Vodafone Smart’, a low cost 3G Android smartphone. This phone is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S1 processor and Android 2.2.1 OS(Froyo), 528 MHz ARM processor.

The handset is priced at Rs 4,995 only. Vodafone Smart’ is designed for tech savvy users providing access to new-gen mobile apps, games, internet and social networking platforms on-the-go. The device comes with a two-year warranty and packs many Android applications. ‘Vodafone Smart’ comes with built-in features like 2.8 inch capacitive touch display, 2 mega pixel camera, Video recording and MP4/3GP playback, up to 32GB expandable Memory (2GB card Free), Stereo FM and MP3. It will be available at all leading retail outlets, Vodafone stores and Mini stores across India.

Vodafone Smart Key Specifications:

Android 2.2.1 operating System
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor
2.8” Capacitive QVGA touch screen
High speed 3G HSDPA 3.6 Mbps,
Wi-Fi and a-GPS support
2 MP Camera with Zoom
Android Market place for millions of third party apps

Company’s chief marketing officer, Kumar Ramanathan said: “Urban Indian youth is brand conscious and has shown a great response to smartphones. Vodafone Smart is one such smartphone with its stylish looks, smart features and a host of exciting apps and 3G connectivity at an affordable price.”
“Globally, smartphones have become a versatile tool for mobile computing, communications and multimedia entertainment. This device fully uses Vodafone’s high-speed 3G HSPA network to cater to increasing demand in India for a compelling ‘Internet on-the-go’ experience,” said Sandeep Sibal, country manager.

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MAXX Mobiles has introduced a full touch-screen projector phone – the MAXX Focus MTP9. This is the first ever full touch screen smartphone that has a built-in projector. The phone features a 208 MHz processor and the King Movie player application that compresses the actual video size to 1/10th without compromising with video quality.

The handset has a 5 megapixel camera, 2.8 inch screen, 208 MHz processor, and even a free projector stand.  It supports MP4 as well as 3GPP formats and comes with 1GB of built-in storage and 4GB micro SD included. External storage can be extended up to 16GB of storage. Its 1200 mAh battery is enough for a day long audio and video experience. But the phone battery has only 4hrs and 30 min of talk time power which will frustrate some of its customers.

Click this link For detailed specification and pricing options.

This Java Enabled phone comes along with pre-installed social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter & Yahoo. Java games can be download to entertain you. For browsing experience company patch this phone with Opera Mini browser. How ever phone supports only GPRS connectivity not even EDGE; may 3G will be included in next versions of MAXX phones.

Phone comes only in Black and Silver colored models. Wire-free FM support is a plus point for this phone. Not a recommended phone but you may buy this phone to experience pocket sized projector facility within your phone.

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Tata Sky in partnership with Ericsson has launched its Video on Demand (VOD) service in India. Tata Sky’s DTH high definition TV customers are benefitted with this service. This new service will offer almost a thousand movies and TV series of various genres and languages.

Few days before, Airtel launched its radio channel service, iRadio to Airtel Digital TV subscribers. Now its turn for Tata to provide its users the best in television technology. This new service is based on a Media Delivery Network (MDN) which is a media-centric content delivery, distribution and management solution from Ericsson. It will use Ericsson’s WatchPoint Content Management System, Xport Time-Shifted TV and Xport Producer storage encoding. The company will also provide operation and maintenance for this new service from Tata Sky.

It will also include a ‘catch up’ function which will enable customers to watch TV shows they missed within five days of their transmission.

Tata Sky + HD customers should connect their set top box to their broadband connection via an Ethernet cable to access the VOD service. A customer can then select his choice of video from the title based search function.

The service is for free for the first month after which customers will have to pay for downloading movies while the catch up TV will be available for free. Pricing information are not provided yet. Stay tuned with us to get price quotes and other useful information.

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Google’s Android Market has exceeded 10 billion app downloads with its three-year-old app store growing at 1 billion app downloads per month. Chu, director of Android developer ecosystem, thanked Android developers for creating the apps, saying they are continuing to push the limits on what’s possible. Android Market was launched in October 2008 and is the closest rival to the Apple App Store, which reached 10 billion downloads in January this year–less than three years since it debuted. In July, Apple said total downloads surpassed 15 billion.

It took Google’s Android Market 20 months to reach its first 1 billion app downloads. 2nd billion milestone took another 5 months to complete, and now 1b app downloads every month and growing. Record says that every Android smartphone is equipped with 50 apps, as there are 200 million Android devices out there.

In order to celebrate the milestone, Google is partnering with some Android app developers (like EA, Gameloft, Glu Mobile and others) to offer a bunch of apps each day for 10c each. The promotion will go on for the next 10 days. Everyday around 10 new apps were discounted.

Todays(7th Dec) 90% off on apps has some good selections:

• Swiftkey X Keyboard
• Asphalt 6 HD
• Color & Draw for Kids
• Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro
• Fieldrunners HD
• Great Little War Game
• Minecraft
• Paper Camera
• Sketchbook Mobile
• Soundhound Infinity

You can hit up the 10 Billion Apps promo section of the Android Market to see the choices each day.

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We have covered Nokia Lumia from the very first day it was announced by Nokia. Now this Windows Phone 7.5 based Nokia smartphones, Nokia Lumia  are not very far before they hit the Indian market. Nokia India has now started taking pre-orders for the Nokia Lumia 800 and It is already known that the device will be available in the market sometime in mid-December.

Lumia is the very first Windows Phone 7.5 powered Nokia device. This smartphone has a 1.4 GHz processor and differ from non-Lumia smartphones as it include free access to Nokia Drive and Nokia Maps application. Phone delivers beautiful all-screen design, friendly and social behavior, very fast response with powerful hardware, browse fast with Internet Explorer 9. Carl Zeiss lenses give this phone a photography loved device.

Actual prices for the Nokia Lumia 800 will fall in 25K to 30K category. Lumia 800 can be pre-ordered with a fee of Rs. 3000 and Lumia 710 for a deposite o Rs.f 1000 from the nearest store.

Preorder your Nokia Lumia device from the official pre-booking page.

Nokia Lumia Introduction Video:

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