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Is this the end of cheap smartphones?

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 12, 2011In: Android

Micromax and Spice have raced to the bottom of the smartphone price pyramid. Micromax launched its A60 at Rs 6999, only to be beaten by Spice with its Rs. 5700 phone. These are perfectly good phones in their own way, which come with touch screen... Read more

Here comes the Google+ phone. What’s next? An Angry Birds phone?

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 12, 2011In: Android

We are all too familiar with the Facebook phone and the dedicated Facebook button on two HTC phones – HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha. Those phones have a hardware button which take you directly to the facebook application. Google+ which has launched i... Read more

2011 : The year smartphones beat PCs

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 11, 2011In: Gadgets, Mobiles

Smartphones and tablets together have ushered us in to a new era of computing. The era where we live with our computing devices all the time. Our computing devices are integral part of our body and are almost a prosthetic part. Smartphones with... Read more

Top 10 Android apps in India

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 11, 2011In: Android, Apps

Android is taking off in India. Thanks to a wide range of Android phones available from Rs. 5000 to Rs. 30000, the appetite for Android apps is wide spread. Market place is littered with apps for cricket, Bollywood, news, utility and mosquito re... Read more

A mosquito repellent app [android]

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 11, 2011In: Android, Apps

Anti Mosquito – Sonic Repeller is an Android app in the market place which can act as a mosquito repellent. At least that’s what the app description says. Micromax was supposed to release a phone which can double up as a mosquito repellent. I’m... Read more

Spice to launch MI 720 Android tablet in India

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 11, 2011In: Android, Gadgets

Spice will launch its Android tablet Spice Mi 7210 in August. The tablet will be priced at Rs. 20000 and will run Android 2.3. Spice Mi 720 could be a rebranded DroidPad MI700 which is sold in Malaysia by Spice’s subsidiary CSL. Spice Mi 720 wil... Read more

MSI to launch 2 Android tablets in India

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 11, 2011In: Android, Gadgets

Micro Start International (MSI) will launch two Android tablets in India which are also well priced. MSI Windpad Enjoy 10 and MSI Windpad Enjoy 7 are the two tablets to be launched. Both the tablets will be powered by Android 2.3. MSI Windpad En... Read more

Get local news, deals, events and info with TaazzaGo[Android]

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 11, 2011In: Android, Apps

Taazza is a Bangalore based start-up which is bringing all possible location based services under one umbrella. Taazza’s crawler dubbed as Kaapi crawls new sites and indexes them to keep its database growing and to keep information provided to y... Read more

Summify, best personalized news recommendation app [iPhone]

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 10, 2011In: Apple, Apps

Summify a personalized news recommendation service now has a iPhone app. In a world littered with information streams and twitter fire hoses, Summify is a zen like news recommendation service. Summify recommends 5 news stories for your consumpti... Read more

Hungama releases 2 buggy Android apps. I wonder why…

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 10, 2011In: Android, Apple, Apps

The worst nightmare and the most profound fear for any a software developer is finding bugs in production. The kind of fear Hungama Tech’s developers might be facing right now. Releasing a mobile app into the Android market to me is releasing co... Read more

Gadget news : mTickets for Indian railways, IIT tutor on mobile and Vodafone mobile newspaper

Posted By: TGF Staffon: July 10, 2011In: Mobiles

Mobile is the center of attraction in India. I’m not sure how many businesses revolve around mobile phones. It’s estimated that mobile phone penetration increases earning potential by 5%. No wonder mobile business of all kinds is now 2% of world... Read more

Yay! Mobile industry is 2% of global GDP

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 08, 2011In: Mobiles

Mobile industry globally will be a $1.3 trillion business in 2011. That is 2% of global GDP. Mobile industry in this context defines everything from networks and handsets to apps and data services. Globally there will be 6 billion subscriptions... Read more

Walkman is dead. R.I.P

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 08, 2011In: Gadgets

Sony will pull the plug on disc walkman in September, 2011. Sony has already pulled the plug on the cassette player walkman last year. This brings the complete and consummate death of a iconic music player which gave us the first taste of portab... Read more

How Tesco became number one in Korea with a Smartphone, QR reader and a virtual mall

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 08, 2011In: Mobiles

Selling dishwasher and detergents isn’t exactly the same in Korea as it is everywhere else. Not that Koreans don’t need them but they need them quick and fast without spending much time. Koreans are the second most hard working peopl... Read more

iPad news : iPad 2 jailbreak, 1% of world traffic from iPad, 100,000 apps for iPad

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 07, 2011In: Apple

iPad, whatever you say about it, is still ruling the roost. HP has introduced its TouchPad to lukewarm reviews only to emphasize that iPad beater is a long way away. By that time it’s already time for iPad 3. Here are the three big stories for i... Read more

Google Maps for Android adds transit support for Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi

Posted By: Sriram Vadlamanion: July 07, 2011In: Android, Apps

Imagine loading up an app on your smartphone, enter your destination and sleep comfortably on your next bus journey only to wake up to an alert on your phone that you have arrived at your destination. This is possible with a great software updat... Read more

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