Nokia made available its second Android smartphone Nokia XL in India. The Nokia XL is available at its online store at price INR 11,489. The dual SIM smartphone is available only in Green colour right now and will be shipped in five business days. The Nokia XL was announced at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona along with Nokia X and Nokia X+.
Huawei announced a trio of Android smartphone. Huawei Honor 3C, most affordable in all three smartphone is priced at INR 14,999. The Honor 3C was announced last year in December along with Huawei Ascend G750. While Huawei Ascend G6 was announced at MWC of this year. With these devices Huawei expanded its portfolio in mid-range segment. The smartphones will be available in coming weeks in the market. All three smartphones running different versions of Android along with Huawei’s own User Interference Emotion 2.0 on top of these smartphones. Honor 3C and Ascend G750 runs on slightly older version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, but the Ascend G6 runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.
Sony launched a new device in Japan, the Sony Xperia A2 internationally known as Sony Xperia Z1 Compact. The pricing of the device is still unknown though. The device will go on sale from June in Japan, but no word on pricing and availability in the international market. The Xperia A2 surfaces on the Japanese website of NTT DoCoMo. The smartphone is launched ahead of its international launch of Xperia Z2 Compact. The smartphone has some similar specifications that we have seen on Sony Xperia Z1 Compact. The both devices have same display size and screen resolution, same battery and nearly same thickness too. The Xperia A2 has been listed in five colours Lavender, White, Grey Black and Orange colours.
The Moto G was the biggest success in the history of Motorola. Motorola said that Moto G is the bestselling smartphone in company’s history. The features that Moto G offers at very competitive price, it becomes best budget smartphone. But the lack of micro SD card support and no LTE support also disappointed many users and they argued about it too in different mobile forums. Motorola on the other hand, providing best features at reasonable price and giving good services, it did not stop there; it took the feedback of users and comes with an updated version of Moto G. At the launch event of Moto E, Motorola also announced a updated version of Moto G, brings LTE support to smartphone along with micro SD card support too.
With recent update Whats app the most popular messaging service added a new privacy feature in it. Now with a new update, release few days back, one can control the appearance of their last seen, profile photo and status. With the new privacy feature user has now control of their last seen, profile pic and status to whom they want to let it see. The privacy is the biggest issue with software and apps todays. The new privacy feature let you hide your last seen, profile photo and even status from everyone, from your contacts and from nobody.
Karbonn India announced that its first hexa core processor smartphone will exclusively available on Amazon.in from May 20. But Amazon will start taking pre-orders from Tuesday as it announced today. The 5.5-inch smartphone Karbonn Titanium Hexa was announced last month in March and at that Time Company said that it will make available the device in the end of April. The dual SIM smartphone is priced at INR 16,990. And as a promotional offer, Karbonn is also giving buyers a bundled free Plantronics Bluetooth Headset to each who buys the device from Amazon. The device would come pre-installed with Amazon shopping app too.
Earlier, Apple iPhone 5C 8GB variant was gone on sale UK, France, Germany, Australia and China due to rapid response and growth in the sale of this colourful iPhone in these markets. So now Apple getting the same growth in India with iPhone 5C. To make this device more popular and increase its share in Indian market, Apple is bringing the 8GB variant of iPhone 5C to Indian market too in coming week. Right now Samsung has the highest share in Indian smartphone segment with a market share of 38.9%,followed by Micromax with 19.1%, Karbonn with 6.9%, Lava with 6.1% and Nokia with 5.3%. Apple has 2.4% market share in India.
