Last week, Nokia India has launched two more Lumia devices in India strengthening its Lumia portfolio with new Nokia Lumia 925 and Lumia 625 which have been priced at Rs. 33499 and Rs. 19999 respectively at their best buy price. Along with these two phones, Nokia also launched set of sound accessories from Coloud including three headseats callsed Boom, Knock and Pop which are specially designed for Nokia Lumia series with matching colour tones and build.
Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 the second device in the Galaxy Mega series after Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3. It was announced this summer along with Galaxy Mega 6.3 after the Samsung Galaxy S4 launch. Galaxy Mega 5.8 is a phablet device from Samsung in a compltely new series called as Mega. As the manufacturer says don’t go just big go mega, we also thought to tried to go mega with this device. After a week of using the device as the primry handset here are our take on why should one go for not just big. Read more in the review below.
With the advent of 3G calling tablets started by Samsung with the Galaxy Tab, every tablet manufacturer is trying to add more USPs to their product and get their device up in the market. Following the trend Mercury mTAB Star, a new 7-inch tablet has been launched in India by Kobian for the masses.
Gionee the chinese manufacturer which lately arrived in India has been flooding the Indian market with their devices. Recently they had launched P1 the dual core budget Android and now its successor is already here. Gionee on August 27, 2013 launched the P2 which will be the successor of the P1 which was launched earlier in April. P2 will be having definitely some improvement over P1 but the SoC will be the same. Infact the camera is too the same. Gionee P2 has been designed to compete with the recently launched low budget Androids running Jelly Bean 4.2 that come for about 5k price range.
Micromax, an Indian mobile brand is making waves across India and has also tested waters overseas in some of the international markets. Founded in 1991, Micromax was a computer hardware distributor initially and entered the mobile phone business in 2008. Since its inception as a mobile phone brand it has been on a gradual growth path and Canvas series of products have accelerated the growth and improved the brand image drastically especially after the Canvas 2 A110. The first mobile phone from Micromax was X1 which had super long battery standby of up to 30 days which then followed many more phones and they never looked back. They launched many smartphones in budget segment followed by Tablets in Funbook series which were marketed heavily with the educational angle of the affordable tablets. In this article, we talk about the popular Canvas series and how it changed the image of Micromax and in fact the Indian smartphone industry by starting a war for affordable smartphones in India.
Micromax is going in different direction starting the launch of Canvas 4, which is a good direction in our opinion- which is improving on its own product’s quality. Rather than putting all its money on more fancy specs, now Micromax is going for better build quality products and better features in the Canvas series. Most of our readers were disappointed with Micromax Canvas 4 A210 as it did not offer much different specs compared to Canvas HD A116, but in reality, Micromax has offered something which was missing on its previous phones, is the solid metallic build quality which makes the Canvas 4 special.
With Micromax Canvas Doodle 2 A240, Micromax has continued one more step in direction of improving on product quality. The Doodle 2 is not a revolutionary device, but with a metallic build and features which it offered on the Canvas 4 A210, the Canvas Doodle 2 A240 is set to attract more refined buyers or you can say buyers who are looking for more reliable devices.
Windows Phone has emerged in the market as the third most popular mobile operating system after iOS and Android. After WP8, Microsoft was succesfully able to overtake BlackBerry OS and baged the third position. Nokia out of all Windows Phone OEMs has a major role in its success. They have been developing apps for their devices which made Windows Phone usable and appealing apart from what Microsoft has been doing. Lumia 520 the below 10k Windows Phone which makes it the best deal for the price. Want to know why? Read our review below.
