BlackBerry unveils Z30

Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry on Thursday launched the Z30, its latest offering sporting the new operating system 10.2 version in India priced at Rs.39,990.

Aiming to cash in on the festive season demand, the device will be made available in the Indian market by early next week. The company is also offering 12-month EMI options for purchasing the device.

Z30 comes with a 5-inch Super AMOLED display and is powered by a 1.7 GHz processor with quad-core graphics. Other features include stereo speakers, BlackBerry Natural Sound, 2 GB RAM and an internal memory of 16 GB, which can be expanded up to 64 GB.

It sports an 8 MP rear camera and a 2 MP front facing camera.

"BlackBerry Z30 is the ultimate smartphone for the urban youth and consumers who are looking for a bigger screen size, long-lasting battery and a best in class productivity experience," BlackBerry India Managing Director Sunil Lalwani said.

Nokia Lumia 2520 Tablet Announced with Windows RT 8.1 and 10.1 HD Display

Nokia Lumia 2520 Tablet Announced with Windows RT 8.1 and 10.1 HD Display

Nokia has officially announced its first Windows tablet named Nokia Lumia 2520. The tablet comes with a 10.1-inch 1080p Full HD capacitive display with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection and it has 1920x1080 pixels resolution. The device runs on Windows RT 8.1 operating system and powered by 2.2 GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 2 GB of RAM.

Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet features 6.7 MP rear camera with Auto focus, Zeiss optics and 2 MP HD wide angle front camera for video calls. It comes with 32 GB of internal storage and external can be extended with 32 GB with microSD cards. It has the connectivity options are 4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and A-GPS. It packed with massive 8000 mAh battery that provides 11 hours of continous video playback and its charging time is less than an hour.

Lumia 2520 tablet pre-installed with Microsoft apps like Outlook, Office and other services. It has also some unique features including Nokia Story Teller photo app that compiles your photos from facebook and other online accounts, Video Director for advanced video editing, Nokia Music app and Nokia Here Maps app with offline map support.
 
Nokia Lumia 2520 Tablet Specifications: 

Sim CardMicroSim supports 2G/3G/4G LTEOperating SystemWindows RT 8.1 Display10.1-inch 1080p Full HD capacitive touch display with 1920x1080p pixels
protection with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 Processor2.2 Quad-core Snapdragon 800 processorRAM2 GB RAMMemory32 GB internal memory, Expandable up to 32 GBCamera6.7 MP rear camera with auto focus, Zeiss optics
2 MP front facing HD wide angle camera Connectivity4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0,NFC, A-GPSBattery8000 mAh battery Dimensions267 x 168 x 8.9* mm (*volumetric); 615g weight
The Lumia 2520 tablet comes in Red, Cyan, Black and White colors and priced at 499 US dollars. The device will be available from beginning of Q4 2013 and initially available for US, UK and Finland. This roll out for other countries have to wait for some time with this year or later.

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Highest resolution smart mobile

Highest resolution smart mobile

Vivo, the Chinese mobile manufacturing company which had launched the super slim X1 and Xplay is now getting ready to release a smart phone which will be called as Xplay 3S. The most interesting and exciting matter is that this Xplay 3S will be the world's highest resolution and pixel density smart phone. This was announced by the company on Sina Weibo.

The specs as known until now include

5.5 inch quad HD display.2560*1440 pixels resolution.538ppi pixel density.2.3 GHz quad core Qualcomm snapdragon 800 processor chip.

The display size was also not confirmed and it may be changed to a 6.3 inch display. This device also supports the dual mode LTE, so that we can utilize the TDD-LTE and FDD-LTE 4G networks.  Until now only tablets like Nexus 10 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition has the highest resolution of 2560*1600 pixels. If Vivo launches this mobile with the said resolution then it will be a new trend in the smart mobile market and obviously many companies will show interest to make higher resolution smart mobiles. But some people are raising questions like how the images and fonts will be adjusted to such super resolution. Let us see what Vivo will do to show us a higher resolution smart mobile.

Exchange Offer for Lumia mobiles

Exchange Offer for Lumia mobiles

Nokia's Lumia smart mobiles line is slowly increasing their share in the smart mobile market. For the people who are planning to buy a new Lumia device have a new offer now. This offer was being given by the retailer Homeshop 18. But this offer is only for the Indian people and other country people do not have this discount offer. The offer is that we can return our old phone in exchange to get the discount on the new Lumia mobile.

The discount offer will be given only to the people who but the Lumia 520, Lumia 620, Lumia 625 and Lumia 925. People who want to buy other Lumia devices will not have this discount (exchange) offer. The company offers instant discount of Rs 3000 on the Lumia 520, Rs 4000 on the Lumia 620, Rs 6000 on the Lumia 625, Rs 8000 on the Lumia 925 on exchange. With this discount, the price of the Lumia 520 will be Rs 8260, the price of the Lumia 620 will be Rs 11,999, the price of the Lumia 625 will be Rs 15,919, and the price of the Lumia 925 will be Rs 29, 929.

The terms and conditions are first the company men will contact us and will ask details about our old phone and they will send an Rs 200 gift card to us to compensate the courier service for sending our old phone. We will receive our new Lumia device after the conformation of our old device and then in return we should send our ID proof to the mentioned company address within four business days.

The list of smart mobiles which can be exchanged can be seen

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New Smartphone from T-Mobile

New Smartphone from T-Mobile

T-Mobile, the network carrier had released the pricing details Alcatel ONE TOUCH Evolve & Fierce just a day ago. Now this carrier company has revealed the details of another budget smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Light. With the announcement of this smart phone it seems that both Samsung and T-Mobile were concentrating on the budget smart phones.

The specs given by Samsung to this budget model include

4 inch WVGA display.800*480 pixels resolution.1.4 GHz quad core processor.1 GB of Ram.8 GB internal storage.Micro SD card slot.5 mega pixel rear shooter with LED flash.VGA quality front shooter.1800 mAh capacity battery.

This device runs on Google's Android 4.2.2 Jelly bean operating system and has basic connectivity options like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. This smart device support T-Mobile 4G network and have Wi-Fi calling feature. The other details regarding the price and launching date on their network were not revealed by T-Mobile and we can expect them in a few days.

Samsung group is the South Korean multinational conglomerate company situated mainly in Samsung town, Seoul. Samsung Electronics, Samsung Industries, Samsung C&T etc are part of this group. Samsung GALAXY is a series of Android operating mobile computing devices designed, manufactured and marketed by Samsung electronics. Samsung has released tablets, phablets and smart phones under Galaxy series. Samsung has released Galaxy S4, Galaxy S4 Active and Galaxy tab 3 in this July. Samsung Galaxy note 3 which is the new phablet from galaxy series is released recently.

Vodafone India has announced AppStar, an annual developer contest

By Kul Bhushan

Winners will stand a chance to participate in the international round that will be held in Kenya.

Vodafone India has announced AppStar, an annual developer contest to encourage local adoption of mobile internet by focusing on the developer ecosystem. The operator says the move is aimed at providing a platform for all mobile app developers to showcase their talent to a global audience.

Vodafone says the AppStar contest will benefit the developer community as well as bring to the customers many unique local apps that generally get lost in the open market app stores. These apps will help the customer discover the many uses of mobile internet apart from plain-vanilla Internet browsing.

The Vodafone AppStar contest will be held at two levels - India and international. For India specific contest, there are three categories in which one can participate - Best Game, Best Utility, Best Local Language App. The contest also aims to encourage apps which work in local conditions (like feature phones, local languages, etc). The winners of India round will stand a chance to participate in the international round that will be held in Kenya.

The contest is open for anyone who has the capability to develop a cool app in any of the listed platforms - BlackBerry, Android, J2ME, Windows Phone, iOS. Vodafone AppStar provides an open platform to all developers (including an established company, student, hobbyists or a freelancer).

To participate in the contest, one will have to submit this idea on the contest website. The winner for this category will be decided based on the number of votes that the particular idea will generate.

To participate in the contest, for both submitting an app or the dream app idea, and to get more details, log on to www.vodafoneappstar.com

Xolo Launched Play Tab 7.0 with Tegra 3 Processor for Rs.13000

Xolo Launched Play Tab 7.0 with Tegra 3 Processor for Rs.13000

Xolo has launched its first Tegra 3 processor powered tablet called Xolo Play Tab 7.0 in india.

The company already launched its frist Xolo Tab 8 with 3G voice calling last month and now released second one without 3G voice calling. The Xolo Play Tab 7.0 features a 7-inch IPS LCD display with the resolution of 1280x800 pixels. The tablet runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system and powered by 1.2 GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 Processor.
Read also:Micromax Funbook Mini P410 with Dual Sim 3G Tablet available for Rs.8820

Xolo Play Tab 7.0 comes with 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of inbuilt memory and external memory up to 32 GB. The device sports 2 MP front facing camera but there is no rear camera. It has the connectivity of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and microUSB. It packs with 4000 mAh Li-Po battery that provides 8 hours music playback time. It also has HD playback of videos and Nvidia Tegra games support through Tegra Zone similar to Xolo Play Tab 8.0.

Xolo Play Tab 7.0 Specifications:
Operating System Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS
Display 7-inch IPS LCD display with 1280x600 pixels
Processor 1.2 GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor
RAM 1 GB RAM
Memory 8 GB internal memory, Expandable up to 32 GB
Camera 2 MP front facing camera, no rear camera
Battery 4000 mAh Li-Po battery
Connectivity Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB
Others 1080p full HD video playback support
Dimensions 10.6 mm thickness, Weight: 338 grams

Xolo Play Tab 7.0 Price & Availability:
Xolo Play Tab 7.0 will give you best performance for gaming and it's first tablet in Play series after the Xolo Play T1000 smartphone. It is priced at Rs.12999 and it will be available on retail stores across India from this week.

Check Xolo Play Tab 7.0 official site
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