Archives for 2012

Samsung Galaxy Chat announced, Android 4.0, QWERTY Keyboard

Samsung has announced a new phone in the Galaxy line of smartphones. Recently images of this phone leaked online and today came the official announcement. Don’t expect this as a some high end Galaxy phone, this is a low end device that comes loaded with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and with full ... Read More →

Google kills iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini and others

Google shuts products that didn’t get user traction or products that are redundant from time to time. Last November Google killed Knol, Wave, Gears and Friend Connect, and today Google announced that is is pulling the plug on some more services, the list includes iGoogle, Google Mini Google Talk ... Read More →

Huawei’s Emotion UI now available to customers in China

Huawei’s Emotion UI is now live to customers in China, Huawei first announced about the Emotion UI in May. With Emotion UI Huawei is joining several other Android device manufacturers who have their own UI for example Samsung TouchWiz UI, HTC Sense and LG Optimus UI. ... Read More →

Ice Cream Sandwich is now on 10% of Android devices

The latest numbers from Android developer team shows that the latest Android version Ice Cream Sandwich is now on 10% of Android devices. Google released Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the next version of Android last week at Google I/O. According to the stats posted on Android developer dashboard Ice ... Read More →

Micromax announces Ninja 2 A56 dual-SIM Superfone for Rs 5,999

Micromax announces a dual-SIM Android smartphone Ninja 2 A56. The new phone is the successor to the previously released Micromax Ninja Superfone A50, which came first with the voice assistant AISHA. The official date od the availability is not yet known, but Micromax has listed it’s specifications ... Read More →

Mozilla renames Boot to Gecko to Firefox OS, announces carrier support

Mozilla showcased Boot to Gecko as a alternative mobile operating system completely built around modern web technologies like HTML5. Mozilla CEO hinted in April that the Boot to Gecko devices will be launched in Brazil in 2013. ... Read More →

Upgrade from Windows XP, Vista, 7 to Windows 8 for $39.99

Microsoft announced Windows 8 upgrade plans for PCs running previous versions of Windows as it nears the launch of Windows 8 operating system. As part of the deal users who are running either Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 will be able upgrade to Windows 8 for just $39.99. ... Read More →

Mercury mTab Rio 9.7 inch Android tablet launched in India at Rs 11,999

Mercury has launched a new Android tablet, the tablet mTab Rio is a 9.7 inch tablet running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Mercury has launched Android tablets earlier in the Indian market, the most recent launch is the Mecury mTab Neo2. mTab Rio is priced at Rs. 11,999 for the Indian market. ... Read More →

Windows Phone 8 marketplace launching in 180 countries, in-app purchases coming

Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8 officially last week, and with the official announcement Microsoft is revealing details about the Windows Phone 8 platform on it’s Windows Phone blog. ... Read More →

Google Chrome for iPhone and iPad

Google announced Chrome for iPhone and iPad at Google I/O, Google Chrome is the long-awaited browser on iOS. Google announced Chrome for iOS after Android Chrome is out of beta. Android version of Chrome is available on Ice Cream Sandwich and up, that means little more than 7% of the Android devices ... Read More →