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Spice Smart Flo Mi-351 Launched For Rs.3,699

by Ritij Khurana • February 18, 2013

It is the era of the quad-cores and the octa-cores but the segment which brings in the maximum amount of volumes is the budget smartphone segment. Spice Mobility, the company which started out as a telecom service provider in the country is now very well on route of competing with the Indian electronics manufacturers. The company has been constantly launching more and more budget smartphones in the Indian market and the latest one to join the ranks is the Spice Smart Flo Mi-351 and comes with a price tag of Rs 3,699.

The budget device comes with a 3.5 inch capacitive display and has a dual-sim support like every budget offering out there in the market. It will run on a slightly older version of Android, Android 2.3 Gingerbread and will derive the processing power from a 1 GHz single core processor which would be complemented by a 256 MB RAM and 512 MB of internal storage. The device offers some pretty decent specs for the price it asks.

Aakash 2 Tablet At Rs. 1500 For Students

by Ritij Khurana • February 18, 2013

The Indian government might just increase the subsidized price of the country’s cheapest tablet, the Aakash 2 from the current Rs.1,130 to Rs.1,500. The country’s President, Mr.Pranab Mukherjee had launched the Aakash 2 back in November at a price of Rs.1,130 for the students at a subsidized price whereas the commercial version of the tablet started selling as the UbiSlate 7Ci at a price of Rs.4,499. The country’s Telecom and IT minister, Mr.Kapil Sibal has been the one to make this announcement.

A couple of days ago, Mr.Kapil Sibal stated to the reporters that, “I asked Rajat Moona (director general, C-DAC) to help us in Aakash. Let us take that Aakash to the people of this country for a sum of Rs 1,500. Each student must have a Aakash in his/her hand so that they can see the world with it,” Now what we infer from this is that either the government intends on increasing the subsidised price of the slate or Rs.1,500 would be the price tag of the next generation of tablet.

Swipe MTV Volt 6 Inch Dual SIM Phablet Video Review And Details

by Ritij Khurana • February 18, 2013

Swipe, the California based electronics manufacturer ventured into India in July 2013 with three Android tablets and then went on to launch smartphones in the market as well. And now, they’ve entered into a partnership with one of the most popular youth centric channels in the country, MTV and has launched the first smartphone under the new branding, the Swipe MTV Volt which is a 6 inch Android based phablet and will retail at a price of Rs.11,999.

Swipe MTV Volt Video Review

Micromax A65 Smarty Launched- Features and Price

by Ritij Khurana • February 18, 2013

Micromax has been the face of the budget mobile phones for a while and now have become a face of the smartphones on a budget. Staying true to their tagline, Nothing like anything, Micromax has just launched their Spreadtrum’s processor based Micromax A65 Smarty which is the latest member of the Smarty family of smartphones from Micromax. The device is launched right after the launch of the A54 and has been priced quite competitively. Micromax A65 will retail for Rs.4,999.

A 4.3 inch capacitive display with a resolution of 800×480 pixels will adorn the front of the smartphone and such a big screen at this price point is something we have not seen yet from other Indian smatphone makers and Miccromax might just get the first mover advantage once more in this aspect. It has a dual sim support and 1GHz Spreadtrum processor based on Cortex A5 architecture which would offer decent performance since the device would ship with 512 MB of RAM.

Spice Stellar Mi-530 Launched

by Ritij Khurana • February 18, 2013

Spice Mobility has just launched their next flagship, Spice Stellar Pinnacle Mi-530 at a price tag of Rs 13,999. The Android based smartphone comes with a 5.3 inch screen which is the biggest from the house of Spice and the USP of the device will be the 5MP front camera which has not been offered even on the high end smartphones by the MNCs, let alone the Indian giants like Micromax and Karbonn.

Spice Stellar Pinnacle Mi-530 comes with a 5.3 inch qHD IPS display of resolution 960 x 540 pixe;s and the device has a 3G support for both the sim cards it can accommodate It is powered a 1.2 GHz dual core processor and finally to the relief of the budget smartphone buyer has a RAM of 512 MB. But then again, it misses out on the latest version of Android which is the Jelly Bean and instead ships with Android 4.0 ICS.

EKEN Leaport Budget Android Tablet Launched In India

by Ritij Khurana • February 18, 2013

There is not a single electronics manufacturer which does not realize the importance of the Indian market if they plan on being a global success. And the latest company to venture into India to satiate the hunger of the Indians on the technology frontier, is the Hongkong based electronics company EKEN Electronics who have just launched their budget tablets in the Indian market at an event held in Kochi.

‘EKEN Leopard’ will be the name of the range of tablets and they will be priced between Rs.6,900 and Rs.11,999. “India is an exploding market with huge potential for cost effective tablets. This factor influenced us to launch quality budget tablets in India and this will enable computing advantage to everyone”, is what Edison Chang, CEO EKEN Electronics had to say through a press release after the launch of the tablets and the message pretty much conveys the company’s intent.

Lava Xolo X500 Android Phone At Rs.8,999

by Ritij Khurana • February 18, 2013

Lava came to the rescue of the tech giant Intel when most of the companies did not come forward to come into an alliance with them to use their chipsets. And Intel made sure they treated the budget Indian brand well. They brought in the high end Xolo X900 in association with LAVA but the brand did not have a very high aspirational value and the high end smartphone did not find many takers.

But Intl promised budget offerings in the later stages of association and those are the ones which Indians like to lay their hands on the most. And if a budget handset comes with the branding of something as big as Intel, sales numbers are surely going to go out of the ceiling. ava is all set to launch the Android powered Lava Xolo X500 which will be powered by the Atom Lexington Z2420 which Intel had showcased at the CES 2013.