1.4 billion mobile handsets were shipped in 2010. Of which 302 million were smartphones. 302 million smartphones are equivalent to the weight of 460 blue whales. If you stack them up, the would be taller than empire state building by 7372 times.... Read more
If Android plays the volumes, iPhone plays the revenues. iPhone a single phone model has raked in a lot of moolah for Apple. Now Apple has so much cash that it has surpassed the US treasury in liquidity. As for Android, it’s not making as much m... Read more
Where is the Indian tax payer money going? It’s going to buy some fancy Apple and Samsung tablets for our politicians, more precisely, Rajya Sabha members. A whopping Rs. 50000 has been allocated to each member for purchasing a tablet. Now which... Read more
Reliance Communications has launched its 3G Android tablet at a price of Rs. 12999. The tablet is powered by Android 2.3 operating system, has a 7-inch touch screen and comes bundled with Reliance 3G data plans. Reliance 3G Tablet comes with 512... Read more
Karbonn mobiles which is making a lot of noise in the mobile handset arena, is coming up with its own tablet called K-pad. The pricing and other details aren’t known yet for Karbonn K-pad but as per Sushir Hasija of Karbonn Mobiles, the tablet(s... Read more
Gaana.com, a popular Indian music streaming site, has gone with HTML 5 for iPad. As per Digital Inspiration, the site doesn’t yet work on Android tablets but works on iPad only. Instead of releasing an app for each OS platform, going with HTML 5... Read more
ICICI Bank has mobile banking facility for a while now. It has already released an iPhone app and an Android app. I have seen both the Android app and the iPhone app and they behave the same. The screenshots provided for this review are for iPho... Read more
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an iPhone app called FBI Child ID. The app lets people search for missing kids in case of the eventuality. FBI app is a free download and works on iPhone and iPad. This happens to be FBI’s first... Read more
I know a coin collector is called as a numismatist. Not sure if we have a name for someone who collects phones and especially Nokia phones. Let’s stick with Nokistamatist until Oxford comes up with a word. Richard Dorman (@Sheridan01) has collec... Read more
How do you sell mobile phones to an island nation with a 1340 km long coast line? Target the coast line. Micromax has targeted the people who depend on the coast line, the fisher folks, to sell its mobile phones. In Sri Lanka, Micromax is launch... Read more
Salora International’s maiden entry to the mobile handset space is with a feature rich, Salora SM401. The phone is dual SIM (of course) phone with 2.2 inch TFT display, 1.3 megapixel camera and costs Rs. 2499. Salora SM401 comes with an answerin... Read more
The famous children story house has decided to get cozy with technology. Geodesic, the holding company of Chandamama, has launched a iPhone and iPad app. The app is a 20 MB download from the iTunes store and works on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch... Read more
Logitech comes with nice keyboards and mice every now and then. To cash in on the Android tablet deluge, Logitech has decided to release a mouse exclusively for Android tablets. The mouse costs $49 and pairs with the Android tablet over Bluetoot... Read more
Intex which has brought us projector phones and mobiles for blind people is bringing a noise canceling dual SIM phone. Intex IN 4666 features noise cancelling technology and costs Rs. 3500. Intex IN4666 has a full QWERTY keypad and it looks incr... Read more
A phone once lost is lost forever. For the most part that is. A new Android app is all set to change that. A lost Android phone can still be tracked and be re-united with the rightful owner. There’s a whole lot of luck involved but in today’s wo... Read more
Huawei Vision is a Android 2.3 powered phone from Huawei. It will come to India by December as per TheMobileIndian. Huawei Vision has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth and WiFi. Vision comes with... Read more
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