UMI X1 Android Phone With HD Display and Dual Core Processor Launched At Rs. 9999

by Ritij Khurana • February 5, 2013

It’s raining mobiles. The Indian smartphone market is heating up like a brick factory with each passing day and the latest company to enter the budget smartphone business in the country is UMI mobiles which is a Chinese mobile brand and is not the first Chinese company to enter in the lucrative smartphone business in the country. And the company has chosen to target the likes of the Karbonn A21, Micromax A110 and iBall Andi 4.5 with its first offering, the UMI X1.

The UMI X1 is powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich when every new handset out there will be launching with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and the smartphone comes with a 4.5 inch HD capacitive display with a screen resolution of 1280×720 pixels and is possibly the best screen available for a price of Rs.9,999 at which it retails. The budget smartphone will be powered by the MediaTek MTK6577 1 GHz dual core processor which has been there in almost every budget dual core handset.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 To Be Price Under Rs. 10,000

by Ritij Khurana • January 31, 2013

Samsung is all set to rival the computing giants all over the world in the budget tablet offering segment and as far as India is concerned, they might just start the onslaught from India. Samsung is planning to launch the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 3 for a Micromax and Karbonn rivaling price of under Rs. 10,000 or as the world would get it, for $149. The tablet will be pitted against the likes of the Asus MeMo pad and Acer Iconica B1 on the global frontier.

Samsung will be launching the 7 inch budget tablet at the MWC 2013 most probably and it will come Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box. Samsung launched the previous generation of the tablet at the MWC in 2012 which makes it the perfect place to launch the product this year as the tablet has had a life cycle of a complete year. The Galaxy Tab 3 is expected to be on the shelves all over the world by June 2013.

Micromax A54 Smarty Launched At Rs.4599

by Ritij Khurana • January 29, 2013

Micromax disclosed their plans of launching 30 new devices for the Indians this year and as per their promise, they’ve started the onslaught. First was the Micromax A116 and now they’ve laid their eyes on the budget smartphone segment. Micromax has just launched Micromax A54 Smarty and even though Micromax has not released it officially, but it has made its way on to the online stores and is listed as In Stock so you can lay your hands on one too.

Micromax A54 is priced at Rs.4,599 and can be bought from flipkart. The budget smartphone runs on a relatively old Android version which is the Android 2.3 Gingerbread but ICS at this price would have been too much to ask for. The device comes with a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive display with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. The heart is a single core 1 GHz Qualcomm processor which will give it enough processing power to give the budget smartphone users enough capabilities to multitask.

HCL ME Y3 7-Inch Android Tablet Launched– Features And Price

by Ritij Khurana • January 21, 2013

The Indian tablet market is seeing new entrants each day in the budget segment and there are pretty much a lot of confusing options out there to give you a hard time deciding which one to buy. Also every android powered tablet which is present has similarly specced rivals present in the market and every device needs to have something unique to have an edge over the rest. And the latest entrant to this segment is the HCL ME Y3 tablet.

The USP of the 7 inch tablet is that it is a dual-SIM tablet and does not really have a competition in the dual-SIM arena from a renowned tablet maker but the Lenovo A2107 which is priced at Rs.13,999 whereas the offering from the Indian computing giant retails at Rs.11,999. The tablet will offer the ability to make voice calls from both the SIM cards as well as let you use data packs from both the SIM cards which makes it a compelling buy given that the rates of data packs are seeing new heights in the country.

Lava To Launch 6 Xolo Android Phones Between 3.5 to 5 Inch Screen Size

by Ritij Khurana • January 20, 2013

The Indian smartphone segment is pretty hot right now and according to the announcement we have for you today, things are going to get hotter from here on. The Xolo brand from the stable of Lava mobiles, is all set to launch 6 mobiles in the Indian market by mid-February. We recently brought you the the tory of Lava launching Iris N501 and now this announcement. They seem to be on an announcement spree.

Sunil Raina, business head, Xolo at Lava International has given a statement to our friends at TheMobileIndian.com which reads,”In the next 30 days we will be launching five ICS based and one Jelly Bean based handset in the market. They will have mix of Intex, Qualcomm and MediaTek processors with display size varying between 3.5 – 5 inch.” These mobile phones will be priced between Rs7,000-Rs.25,000.

Lava Iris N501 5-Inch Android Phone Launched In India

by Ritij Khurana • January 20, 2013

The homegrown mobile and tablet manufacturer, Lava mobiles came to the rescue of Intel when MNCs like Samsung, Apple and Nokia did not agree to partner with Intel for their mobile processors. The partnership brought out a smartphone which was difficult to compete with, even by the smartphones from the Koreans and the Finns. But then again, you can’t depend entirely on just one smartphone and Lava realizes that very well.

As long as we are talking about realization, we would like to tell you that Lava seems to have realized the importance of the 5 inch phablet segment which is gaining popularity with each passing day and have launched a 5 inch Android phablet named the Iris N501. The phone comes at a price tag of Rs.9,999 and shall compete with the likes of the Micromax Canvas II, Zync Z5 dual core, Intex Aqua 5.0 to name a few and other 5 inch phablets from Indian and Chinese manufacturers which retail at a similar price point.

Zopo Leader Max ZP950 5.7 Inch Phablet With 720p HD Display Launched

by Ritij Khurana • January 20, 2013

Zopo, the leading Chinese mobile company has just made its foray in the Indian smartphone segment and is looking to take on the Indian mobile giants who have taken a huge share of the mobile market in India. Zopo has just launched a 5.7 inch phablet in the market and has priced it at a price point which appears to us is a bit optimistic for a brand which still has not gained a lot of popularity with the Indian consumers.

The smartphone has been priced at Rs.15,999 and can be pre-booked from the company’s Indian website. Zopo Leader Max ZP950 is the name and the 5.7 inch HD display comes with a screen resolution of 1280×720 pixels and is an IPS display which makes it one of the best displays on offer currently in the budget smartphone segment and it has another segment first, it runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which is not on offer currently in any other smartphone segment.