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Samsung has finally launched the Galaxy Note 3 in India as we reported last week. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was announced at the IFA 2013 and the pre-bookings for it started few days back on the official Samsung eStore. It packs a 5.7-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD Super AMOLED display, powered by 1.9 GHz Octa Core ( A15 1.9 GHz ＋ A7 1.3 GHz) Processor ( and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It has a 13MP rear camera with LED flash and a 2MP front-facing camera. It packs 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory, microSD slot (up to 64GB) and 3200 mAh battery.
It also comes with a stylus pen with Air Command, Action Memo, Scrapbook, Screen Write, S Finder, Pen Window, S Note, Multi Window, new Easy Clip and Direct Pen Input features. It is 8.3mm thick and weighs 168 grams. It has a soft and textured-touch back cover and delicate stitching that differs from all the previous Galaxy Note devices. It has support for 11 regional Indian languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya and Assamese.
It comes with offers worth Rs. 15000 free. It comes pre-loaded with range of applications including Evernote, Dropbox and ...
Samsung plans to launched two new devices this month priced less than Rs. 15,000 in India, according to a recent report from PTI. Samsung launched the Galaxy S4 zoom and the Galaxy S4 mini in India back in July that are price more than Rs. 25,000. The company also launched a range of tablets in the Tab 3 series and the Tab 3 210 went on sale earlier this month. Both these phones are aimed at mid-segment market.
Samsung introduced support for 9 Indian languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati for range of Galaxy smartphones and tablets last month. These languages would be available in these smartphones. The Samsung Country Head (Mobile Business) Vineet Taneja did not reveal the exact pricing for these devices. According to the report, these devices might be priced in Rs. 5,000- Rs. 15,000 range. These devices might come with a large screen, but these are no details about the specifications yet.
Samsung is set to launch the Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy Gear at an event on Tuesday, September 17th, and Samsung is already taking pre-orders for the Note 3.
Source: ET (PTI)
Nokia has just announced the 108, an affordable camera phone. The company announced the 105, an affordable phone at the MWC 2013 earlier this year which sold more than a million in India alone. The Nokia 106 and Nokia 107 Dual SIM was announced recently and the Nokia 108 has similar features that brings a VGA camera at an affordable price point and also comes in Dual SIM variant called 108 Dual SIM that lets you select which SIM card to use when making a call or sending a text message. It has softly rounded corners and raised island key.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hojHCEnaMLw
It has a 1.8″ 65k TFT display, measures 110.4 x 47 x 13.5 mm ans weighs 70.2 grams. It has FM Radio, Bluetooth 3.0 with SLAM that enables multimedia content sharing between phones equipped with Bluetooth, Support for up to 32GB microSD card and a 950 mAh battery that offers up to 31 days standby; up to 13.8 hrs talk time and up to 45 hrs music playback time.
The Nokia 108 comes in red, white, black, yellow and cyan colors with colorful removable back covers and is priced at US$ 28 (~Rs. 1750), excluding taxes and subsidies. It is expected to start shipping in Q4 this year.
Seen as a major move from a small, yet significant new player in the mobile industry, Finalnd's Jolla(pronounced as yo-la) announced today that the Sailfish OS is now fully compatible with Android apps as well as Android hardware. It was already confirmed that Sailfish would run Android apps, but the question was when. Now we know.
Taking advantage of the already robust and immensely popular Android ecosystem is what Jolla have done, on top of the unique UX the Sailfish OS offers. Not only you can download popular Android apps on the Sailfish OS, which Jolla claims, is without any modifications, the operating system is also Android hardware compatible. Meaning Vendors can take Sailfish OS and make devices with their current Android-based hardware implementations. Or one day, you can possibly load Sailfish on your Android phone, if you wish.
BlackBerry 10 was the first major platform to support Android apps in its operating system, alas with some necessary modifications, but Jolla has taken it further with Sailfish, announcing full compatibility in which, you can access all the Android apps without having to wait for modifications by the first party developers. This not only enables Sailfish to have an extremely rich software catalog ...
Sony unveiled the Xperia Z Ultra with a huge 6.44-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display and a 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor back in June. Now rumors have started to crop up that LG is also planning to launch a large sized smartphone. According to a report from AndroidSAS, LG is working on a smartphone with a 6.4-inch display with 418 ppi pixel density, a quad-core Snadpragon 800 (MSM8974) processor and 3GB of RAM.
LG unveiled the G2, the company's latest flagship with a 5.2-inch 1080p display and a extremely thin bezel recently. LG Display showed off a 5.5 inch (2560 x 1440 pixels ) quad HD display which we can expect next year, but LG Display has not revealed any other large sized displays recently. According to the rumors it would feature a 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and run on Android 4.4 Kit-Kat.
There are no details about the name or when we can expect it. Since all these are just rumors at this time and no proof to confirm these, we would ask you to take it with a pinch of salt.
As you all know , the FoneArena team was IFA 2013 bringing you tons of content from the German capital Berlin.Just when we thought IFA2013 was coming to an end and we had to pack our bags to fly back home, we got a chance to try out Google Glass and hence we managed to record a demo too! If you are excited about wearable gadgets like smart watches , Google Glass is certainly going to impress you. Glass was launched almost a year ago at Google I/O and is still not available to the general public and it is selectively available only in the US to a hand picked set of developers and partners. So we were super lucky to get hold of one thanks to our friends over at AndroidWorld.it who let us play with their unit. Check out our hands on demo below!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4FlQmzZkmw
And before you even think Google Glass is not cool, here is a really nice press shot which makes the Glass looks like a fashionable gadget!
Google Glass is basically a very modern version of a connected wearable head mounted display. Think of it as something like Google Now on your Android phone suspended in front ...
HTC One Maxx has been rumored for few months now. Even though the leaked press images did not reveal a fingerprint sensor, images of the phone showing off the finger print sensor on the back surfaced last month. Now a weibo user posted images of the phone with the model number HTC 8088 showing off the fingerprint sensor and the contacts for wireless charging on the back. HTC had already made the the HTC One variant, the HTC One mini official in July.
Specifications of the device leaked along with the images already. Now specification of the TD-LTE variant has appeared in China along with the price in a poster which was also shared on wibo that was first reported by ictech. The leaked poster reveals a 1.7 GHz quad-core processor without any specific chip, so it might be a Snapdragon 600 chip similar to the HTC One instead of a Snapdragon 800 SoC. The display resolution is mentioned as 1980 x 1080, which is weird. Other specifications are similar to the earlier leaks.
HTC One Max rumored specifications
5.9 inch 1080p Full HD Display
1.7 GHz Snapdragon 600 SoC or 2.3 GHz Snapdragon 800 processor
Android 4.3
4MP Ultra Pixel rear camera
2.1 MP wide angle front camera
2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage ...
Xolo launched the Q1000S, successor of the Q1000 at a price tag of Rs. 18,999 last month. We brought you the unboxing of the device recently. Here we have the benchmarks of the device. It is powered by a quad-core MediaTek 6589T processor clocked at 1.5 GHz with PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU. Since this has a faster processor, the scores would obviously be better than the MT6589 chip clocked at 1.2 GHz present in the Q1000. The Spice Pinnacle FHD Mi-525 that was launched back in July also has the same chip. The Q1000S has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) OGS display similar to the Q1000, but the device is a lot slimmer and has Let’s find out how this compete with other devices in range of synthetic benchmark tests.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvgvGNtmDVQ
Quadrant Benchmark
The Elife E5 that has a similar processor beats the Q1000S by few points.
AnTuTu Benchmark 3.3
Again the Elife E5 from Gionee beats the Q1000S to grabs the first place in the AnTuTu Benchmark 3.3, but the Q1000S scores better than the Spice Pinnacle FHD.
Vellamo 2.0 HTML5
In the Vellamo 2 HTML5 browser benchmark, the Q1000S is behind the Xolo Play with over 1600 points.
Vellamo 2.0 Metal
The Xolo Q1000S grabs the second spot in ...
Samsung has finally launched the Galaxy Note 3 in India as we reported last week. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was announced at the IFA 2013 and the pre-bookings for it started few days back on the official Samsung eStore. It packs a 5.7-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD Super AMOLED display, powered by 1.9 GHz Octa Core ( A15 1.9 GHz ＋ A7 1.3 GHz) Processor ( and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It has a 13MP rear camera with LED flash and a 2MP front-facing camera. It packs 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory, microSD slot (up to 64GB) and 3200 mAh battery.
It also comes with a stylus pen with Air Command, Action Memo, Scrapbook, Screen Write, S Finder, Pen Window, S Note, Multi Window, new Easy Clip and Direct Pen Input features. It is 8.3mm thick and weighs 168 grams. It has a soft and textured-touch back cover and delicate stitching that differs from all the previous Galaxy Note devices. It has support for 11 regional Indian languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya and Assamese.
It comes with offers worth Rs. 15000 free. It comes pre-loaded with range of applications including Evernote, Dropbox and ...
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Gear, the company's first Smartwatch in India as we reported last week. It was announced earlier this month at the IFA 2013 and is a great companion to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that was also launched in India today. It has a 1.63 inch (320 x 320 pixels) Super AMOLED display, powered by a 800 MHz processor and packs a 315 mAh battery. Once you connect it with the smartphone, it gives quick previews of incoming texts, emails and more. If you want to read the whole message, you can simply pick up smartphone, and the Smart Relay feature will reveal the full message on the screen.
It also has a 1.9-megapixel camera with BSI sensor to capture photos and record video at 720p resolution. It features two microphones and a speaker that lets you make hands-free calls and the secondary microphone is useful for noise cancellation. It also has S Voice that lets you create new calendar entries, set alarms, and check the weather using voice commands. It weighs just 73.8 grams.
The Auto Lock feature automatically secures the companion smartphone screen when the Gear is more than 1.5 meters away, and unlocks it when it is near again. Find My Device helps to ...
Asus has finally announced the new Padfone Infinity at an event in Taipei as they promised last week. The new Padfone Infinity is the fourth device in the Padfone series that lets you dock the phone in the Padfone station to convert it into the tablet. The new Padfone Infinity packs a 5-inch Full HD (1920×1080 pixels) IPS display similar to the last-gen device, but this is poweed by a powered by 2.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) out of the box.
Even this has a unibody frame with a brushed metal aluminium finish. It has the same 13 MP camera with LED flash, 1080p HD video recording, f2.0 aperture and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. The rear camera now has a new app with PixelMaster, which combines multiple pixels to form a 3-megapixel image that is sharper and cleaner. It also has the SonicMaster audio technology.
The Padfone dock is same as the last-gen Infinity with a 10.1-inch (1920×1080 pixels) display with anti-finger print coating. So you can use the the new Padfone Inifity with the old one.
New Asus Padfone Infinity specifications
5-inch Full HD (1920×1080 pixels) display at 441 PPI
10.1-inch (1920×1080 pixels) display (Padfone station)
2.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 ...
Oppo, a relatively new player in the Smartphone world, had already impressed us with the beautifully made Find 5, its current flagship device. But as any company that looks to expand its portfolio, Oppo has sought to address the mid-range market, which brings volume as well as the ability to reach more people. The R819 is a step in that direction. Armed with a 4.7 inch 720p display, a super thin 7.3mm profile and an 8 megapixel camera, the device is a decent cut-down in specifications when compared to the Find 5, literally in every sense, including thickness and weight. Oppo is now getting into the very similar yet extremely crowded mid-range category, but does the R819 impress enough to stand out? Read on for our fully detailed review below.
Note: Check out the 360 degree view of the Oppo R819 before proceeding towards the full review!
Design, Build and Ergonomics
Unlike the Find 5 and its minimalistic design, the R819 takes it to a more conventional form factor. With rounded corners and tapered edges, it invokes a "Have I seen this somewhere?" reaction. The device is available only in white and since the bezels are also white, the display, the front ...
FIFA 14 is set for release in the next week across consoles and PC, but today we EA released the FIFA 14 app for iOS as a free app in the App Store, but only in New Zealand. The game has been released as a free game, but to unlock features and extras in-app purchases come into play.
The game comes as a 1.16GB download and requires at least 1.35GB free space on the device for it to be installed. Unlike other EA Games which thwarted the gaming experience with in-app purchases for everything, things seem to have taken a different route this time. There are two types of in-app purchase - one which involves buying in-game currency for unlocking specific features and the other in which the user pays a on-time 5.99$ for "Premium" mode which unlocks kickoff, Manager and Tournament modes.
Currently, the game is available only in NZ and it is not yet available in any other App Store. The release of its bigger brother - FIFA 14 for consoles and PC is slated for next week and this could mean that this is just another soft launch. Soft launches gives the developers a way to publicly test their ...
Another year, another Nexus smartphone and another bar story. The relationship between bars and yet to be announced phones never ceases to amuse the internet folks. A couple of weeks ago, just ahead of the IFA, Google announced their next version of Android - 4.4 KitKat with some theatrics and "accidentally" showed off the next Nexus smartphone in their video. Recent images from FCC filings have also identified the same device and it shows stronger evidence of a new Nexus device.
Yesterday, a Google employee supposedly left a Nexus 5 device unattended while it was put for charging in a bar(Yes, you heard it right, A bar) and an employee of the bar was able to make a quick video and get a couple of images of the supposed Nexus 5. The images show that the device is quite identical to the one spotted at FCC filings and the one Google showed off in their video. It has the Nexus logo at the back in horizontal orientation and there is a huge camera which was seen in the video. There is a LG logo at the bottom and a Not for Sale text above it. The design language seems to be ...
The two current flagships from their manufacturers, the Sony Xperia Z1 and the Lumia 1020 put up a good fight against each over photography. Sony announced their flagship, Xperia Z1 at the IFA 2013 in Berlin earlier in the month while Lumia 1020 was launched in July. You can check out our quick hands-on comparison video of the Xperia Z1 and Lumia 1020 right below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZilVUVUd8
Sony Xperia Z1 comes with a 20.7 MP camera supported by Bionz Image processor and comes in package that is not so different from the Xperia Z. The Lumia 1020 on the other hand comes with a 41MP PureView camera and looks quite similar to the other Lumia phones in the series. The USP of both these devices is there camera and each of them are equipped with amazing cameras. Like previous Sony flagships, the Xperia Z1 is water and dust resistant.
Sony Xperia Z1 runs on Android 4.2 Jellybean while the Lumia 1020 runs on Microsoft Windows Phone 8 OS. Both the OS are very different in terms of UI and features. Sony's Xperia Z1 is powered by a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 SoC, Adreno 330 and has 2GB RAM while the Lumia 1020 has 1.5GHz ...
Alongside the Galaxy S4 earlier this year, Samsung announced their new range of cases, which included the S-View cover that comes with a unique window on the front. The S-View cover offers a glance at the clock and notifications and was the first to be used in that way. At IFA we managed to grab a look at the official Quick Window case for the LG G2, which comes with a similar touch window in the cover to display information at a glance.
With LG also launching their accessories range, how do the two covers compare?
Both covers feature a window that displays information at a glance - thanks to clever technology allowing both LG and Samsung to turn off the part of screen that is covered, these smart covers can work without effecting the battery life too much. Where as Samsung have gone for the horizontal offering the phone's UI itself, LG have created a custom smart cover UI where you can swipe up and down to go through the options.
On the back, both covers feature cutouts for the camera module and LED flash. The LG Quick Window also has a cut out for the LG G2's power and volume keys ...
In addition to the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear, Samsung announced a third device at the IFA 2013 - Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. The Galaxy Note 10.1 is basically a huge version of the Galaxy Note 3. You can check out our quick hands-on video right below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGlO5XXeD4
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition is the successor of original Note 10.1, but comes with a much better spec sheet. The most notable feature of the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is its amazing high resolution 2560×1600 SC LCD display which we saw in the Samsung Nexus 10. The build quality is similar to the Galaxy Note 3 with a plastic front and a faux leather back.
It features the same Samsung Exynos Octa-core processor clocked at 1.9GHz and also has 3GB of RAM exactly like Galaxy Note 3. Just like Note 3, the Note 10.1 will come with Android 4.3 JB out of the box and feature the very famous S-Pen along with the full set of TouchWiz features and applications. There is an 8MP camera at the back and a 2MP camera at the front.
The specifications of the Galaxy Note 10.1 are as follows
10.1inch High resolution 2560×1600 display
2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 ...
It's been almost an year since Windows Phone 8 launched, but the growth has seen a spike only recently, with the Nokia Lumia 520 becoming the most popular Windows Phone, not just in India, but the world. India has definitely been a tough market to crack for anything other than Android. Even with the huge marketing and retail push by Nokia, the most trusted brand in India for quite a number of years, Windows Phone is just at 5.4% of the whole Smartphone market. With iOS and BlackBerry contributed even lesser, Android rules the market with more than 84% marketshare at least.
The second place has been maintained for the past three quarters but the only thing that is new, is the marketshare value which has increased 60% QoQ. The Windows Phone platform has actually outgrown the market at 60% which is an increase above the ~55% growth the Indian market boasts. Nokia now has a wide portfolio of Lumia devices in India, right from Lumia 520 to Lumia 925 and soon the Lumia 1020, but even with this portfolio, the company has struggled to gain marketshare in double digits. We expect that Microsoft will be putting its marketing muscle behind ...
Nokia has released the above picture on its social media channels, signaling an event in the middle east(likely Dubai or Abu Dhabi) on October 22nd, presumably for the Lumia 1520 Phablet and the Nokia Sirius Windows RT tablet launch. This news comes after rumours that Nokia might delay or cancel some of its products after the Microsoft deal, which makes some sense as some products may overlap within the same company, but if the teaser is to be believed, we will definitely see the Lumia 1520 at least, with the Sirius launch now a big question mark.
The Lumia 1520 is purportedly the company's first phablet sized device, with a 6 inch screen and a 1080p display. We had already seen various leaks detailing the device, which supposedly runs on a Snapdragon 800 processor, with Windows Phone GDR3's extra column of tiles and other new additions. There is also a 20 megapixel camera that is supposedly inside this device, which is also christened with the PureView name. The specifications seem to be nice, but the teaser reveals nothing other than the date, so we are not really sure what Nokia is upto with regards to other devices, nor can we notice ...
Gionee launched the Elife E5 in India back in July. We brought you the unboxing of the device last week. Here we have the benchmarks of the device. It is powered by a quad-core MediaTek 6589T processor clocked at 1.5 GHz with PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU. Since this has a faster processor, the scores would obviously be better than the MT6589 chip clocked at 1.2 GHz present in the Elife E3 that we reviewed back in June. It has a 4.8-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) Super AMOLED Plus display and runs on Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean). Let’s find out how this compete with other devices in range of synthetic benchmark tests.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adQvcYVNzV4
Quadrant Benchmark
The Gionee Elife E5 tops the Quadrant Benchmark when compared to other quad-core smartphones in the similar range.
AnTuTu Benchmark 3.3
Again the Elife E5 tops the AnTuTu Benchmark 3.3 with over 16k points.
Vellamo 2.0 HTML5
The Elife E5 scores over 1600 points in the Vellamo 2 HTML5 browser benchmark.
Vellamo 2.0 Metal
It scores 582 points and tops the Vellamo 2 Metal CPU subsystem performance test.
Linpack Single Thread
It clocked around 44 MFLOPS in the linpack single thread benchmark.
Linpack Multi-Thread
It clocked around 132 MFLOPS in the linpack multi-thread benchmark.
NenaMark 2
It tops the NenaMark 2 GPU benchmark by clocking ...
Sony has finally launched the Xperia Z1, the company's latest flagship smartphone in India as they promised. It was announced at the IFA earlier this month has a 5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Triluminos Display with with X-Reality engine, powered by 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 20.7-megapixel rear camera with Sony G lens with a 27mm wide angle f/2.0 aperture custom 1/2.3″ Sony Exmor RS image sensor, BIONZ image processing engine, 1080p video recording and a 2-megapixel 1080p front-facing camera.
It has IP55 / IP58 rating for dust and water resistance and comes with range of camera applications including Social live to broadcast live from the phone to Facebook, Info-eye which is a visual search application that offers info about landmarks, books and more from the live camera, the Timeshift burst mode takes 61 images in 2 seconds before and after you press the shutter and the AR effecsts act as a overlay a selection of fun, customizable animation using Sony’s AR augmented reailty tech. We went hands-on with the smartphone at the IFA 21013. Check out the hands-on below. Also check out the Xperia Z1 photo gallery. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg51DR0cqC4 It comes bundled with ...
