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Swipe Fablet F1 Dual SIM Phone-Tab Launched With Killer Price Tag

by Ritij Khurana • January 4, 2013

Swipe telecom, a name that most of us might not have really heard in the Indian smartphone market has slowly started increasing its consumer base in India. The California headquartered company has just launched their next flagship Swipe F1 Phablet in India at a price of Rs.9,490 which is Rs.500 up from the pre-order price of Rs.8,990. The Swipe F1 phablet is a 5″ smartphone and shall compete with the Micromax A110 Canvas 2.

Swipe telecom has offered several budget tablets and is now trying to strengthen their phablet arena. The F1 is a dual-SIM 5″ phablet and runs on Android 4.0.4 Ice cream Sandwich with no announcement of a Jelly Bean update and runs on a 1 GHz Dual-core Mediatek MTK 6575 processor and assisting the processor is a 512 MB RAM. These specifications even though are not ground breaking, but still are similar to the rivals and are offered at a slightly lower price point.

Karbonn Velox 8 Android Tablet Launched– Details

by Ritij Khurana • January 4, 2013

Indian smartphone and tablet makers are surely on a roll this year and seem to be raising the bar with every new launch. We have some of the most capable 10″ and 7″ tablets in our markets and it just keeps on getting better and better everyday. From bringing in tablets on a budget, the Indian makers have made the new mantra to be performance on a budget. Karbonn, one of the major players in this regard, seems to be taking the market way more seriously than its competitors.

Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini Gets Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 Premium Suite

by Rohit Khurana • January 4, 2013

The latest release from Samsung in Asia, the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, will be distributed with Android 4.1.2. According to the latest report by UberGizmo “The scaled- down version of the Galaxy S3 will be retailed in countries like Indonesia and Vietnam bearing the Samsung-exclusive Premium Suite, which was absent in the earlier release of the mini.” This report when interpreted clearly states that the new Galaxy S3 will comprise latest feature like Multi-Window view, Group Cast, Smart Rotation, and much more. The Samsung’s Premium Suite at the same time comprises several new tools that will give the users the privilege of customizing their notifications board according to their personal preferences and relish their collection of fresh apps. This Premium suite was earlier implemented in Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note.

Lava ETAB Z7H+ Tablet Launched At Rs. 5499– Details

by Ritij Khurana • January 4, 2013

The Indian mobile and tablet makers seem to be on a roll for quite some time now and with the new year just starting up, they’ve just started launching new products as well. Lava first came on the mobile scenario at a global level when they announced their partnership with Intel to produce Intel powered Android smartphones and the Xolo branded flagship has proven its worth. Lava seems to be in the news once more.

Lava has just soft-launched the successor of their eTab and the newer version has been dubbed as e7H+. They’ve introduced the tablet with Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Indian market is crowded with budget tablets and it shall have a hard time making an impact in the budget tablet market. According to us, it is nothing more than just another tablet and instead it features a processor less capable than the outgoing version. It comes with 1 GHz single core processor whereas the outgoing model featured a 1.2 GHz processor.

Acer Budget Android Tablet In India Under Rs. 8000 Coming In January 2013

by Ritij Khurana • January 4, 2013

Acer has been around in India for quite some time but has never really managed to bring a product to the Indian shores which could set the sales charts on fire. But all that is about to change with Acer well on track of launching a new tablet in India with Android Jelly Bean and that too at a price that will give most of the tablets from the Indian manufacturers a run for their money. It will be named as Acer Iconica B instead of the rumored name B1 and will hit the shelves by the 20th of January 2013. This news comes from a reseller of Acer who has shared this information.

This will be the tablet that will be sold all over the world at a price tag of $99 and is expected to be launched at the CES 2013 which kicks off on the 7th of January. The tablet being launched at a price of Rs.7,999 when it will be sold world over at a dollar less than 100, comes as a welcome news for all the people who were disappointed with the steep price of the Nexus, even though it had a lower price tag all over the world. The Acer India website has listed the device with the name of Iconica B l and as per the listing, it shall be powered by a 1.2 GHz processor and will have a 7 inch screen. And the package shall weigh 320 grams.

Videocon VT10 Android Tablet Launched At Rs.11,200

by Ritij Khurana • December 31, 2012

The Indian handset makers seem to have taken an oath to dominate every aspect of the mobile and tablet market India. Be it the 7 inch tablets or the 10 inch tablets, they’re gearing up to spoil the party of the iPads and the Galaxy Tabs. Videocon, the trusted electronics maker in India just announced their arrival in the budget Android mobile market and as promised at the mobile launch, have announced their 10.1 inch tablet which is on sale now.

The VT10 tablet features a 10.1 inch screen as the name suggests and the screen has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels and is priced at a meager Rs.11,200. It features a 1.5 GHz Dual Core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor which is the most noteworthy feature of the tablet. They’ve used a Qualcomm chipset instead of the budget Mediatek chipset like their competitors and usage of this chipset alone makes it the leader of the pack. It comes with 8 GB of internal storage expandable by 32 GB via a microSD card.

Byond Phablet PIII Launched At Rs. 14499

by Ritij Khurana • December 31, 2012

Samsung seems to be readying up a 6-inch phablet for a CES or a MWC launch and will christen it as their next flagship, the Note 3. But you see, we Indians first started to catch up to the MNCs and then we just went ahead and made a technology reach the market that the Koreans and the Taiwanese were still working upon. Yes we are taking about a mobile phone with a 6 inch screen which Samsung is rumoured to be developing, but Indians have already launched a couple of them with a similar screen size.