Microsoft and Micromax have been having talks on a partnership for quite some time and looks like the talks have ended positively for micromax. India’s newest hardware partner for Microsoft will be Micromax as they will be bring more cheap and affordable Windows 8.1 handsets to the Indian market. This along with the announcement of the free licensing of their OS for those devices 9″ and less would prove to be a great plus for the Indian market.
After a more than 5 months Samsung has decided to update the Exynos 5 Octa 5410-powered variant of the Galaxy S4 via an OTA update of Android 4.4.2. The update will include features such as music album art on the Lock Screen, improved UI, new launcher settings menu and stability updates. After using the phone I can say for sure, Damn the phones much smoother. It would take some time before we can be sure of how the update has improved the overall UX ! That will be covered maybe in a week or two.
The update is a 353.59MB download and do think about downloading it ASAP !
The India based e-commerce company flipkart, reaches $1Billion annual GMV (Gross Merchandise Value). Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, the former Amazon employees who founded Flipkart in 2007, expected to reach this goal only in 2015. The company had a GMV of $10Million in march of 2011 and from then on grew 100X pretty quickly.
In an interview,Binny Bansal said
“With this scale, we are in a much better position this year to explore acquisitions across the areas we have identified,… India, especially, is extremely different from the rest of the world. Consumer maturity is at a different stage, transport/logistics is still largely disorganized, the tax structure is different,…We understand and have solved for these uniquely Indian problems and the kind of data we have with us today in terms of consumer preferences and market needs puts us way ahead of others, at least in the domestic ecosystem.”
Google announce that the maps service will now extend indoor as well. The company claims that there are 75 places that can be accessed as of now using this feature. The service also extends over 22 countries.
“We launched indoor maps in countries like the US earlier. Now we are bringing it to India. We worked with mall owners and authorities that manage a place to get the floor plans and location details and have added that information to Google Maps, For now we are starting with 75 places. But as we get feedback from consumers and work with more partners, we hope to add more places.”
-Suren Ruhela, director and product manager, India Google Maps
The 75 places are mostly shopping malls but museums and convention halls also find a mention in the list.
“Malls are getting bigger and there are occasions when we are looking for a shop and can’t find it. Through the indoor maps feature, you can locate the shop with help of your phone. You don’t have to go all the way back to a mall’s main gate to look for the floor plan,”
-Suren Ruhela
According to a Google spokesperson
“In some locations, you’ll have the option of using the indoor My Location feature to help you navigate your way inside. Where available, the familiar ‘blue dot’ icon can help indicate your approximate location in order to help you more easily find your way. This means that when you move up or down a level in a building with multiple floors, the map will automatically update to display which floor you’re on. At these locations, you can also access indoor walking directions to help you get to where you need to go more quickly,”
The maps are available immediately through an update to the Maps application on android and iOS.
Source: TOI
This is the Xperia… ummm no, apple… no no nooo.. Micromax Canvas Knight (That reaction when a team of designers manage to merge the design of an iPhone and a Xperia Z2 ! Woah..)Ahem.. Anyways, This is Micrmax’s first entrance into the Octa-core family of phones with a 5″ 1080p display that packs the 2GHz octa-core processor from MediaTek ,coupled with an ARM Mali450 graphics and 2GB RAM. 16MP rear camera that comes with OmniVision’s CameraChip sensor and the M8 Largan Lens.
Aaah… WOW you say ??? hate to burst your bubble but unfortunately it will only come preinstalled with Android 4.2 Jellybean (no.. NOT 4.3… not yet).Althoug, a Yamaha Amplifier for enhanced audio output seem’s to be a good addition.A 2350mAh battery powers all of this.
Well all in all, this phone will set you back Rs.20,000 ($325).
The Galaxy S4, One of Samsung’s best sellers last year seems to going down in terms of price. The phone that cost nearly Rs.42,000 ($680) at the time of launch is now cut down to Rs30,000 ($485) in the Indian market. While this seems to be a compelling value, it could also point to the fact that the newer Galaxy S5 that was announced at Mobile World Congress 2014 might not be prices as high as expected. There seems to be a good possibility that the phone may cost along the $700 price tag rather than the rumored $1000 price tag.
April 11 will be the day that we can expect to see the phone in the market and it might have some value after all. HOPEFULLY
Blackberry’s flagship phone of 2013 the Z10 was initially priced at Rs.43,490 (701.276 US Dollar) in India. No one bought the phone, well at least not in the masses. Blackberry now seems to be clearing the trash by dropping the price to a mere Rs 17,990 (290.089 US Dollar) !!!
The phone runs the latest BlackBerry 10 OS version 10.2.1 , powered by a 1.5GHz dual core processor with 2GB of RAM and an internal storage of 16GB with the option for expansion by 32GB (microSD). It also features a 4.2″ 720p panel and all this backed up by a 1850mAh battery.
Price @ Poorvika : Price: Rs.17,990
Motorola’s flagship Phone the MotoX has seen success across the United states. The phone though a flagship was never a “On paper” device, with the X8 Chip that housed of Dual-core 1.7 GHz Krait CPU, Adreno 320 GPU, a natural language processor and a contextual computing processor. The phone didn’t need to have high end specs to still perform flawlessly is what Motorola was going for and they proved it. The Motorola MotoX had all the Android updates it needed a month after the release of the AOSP code and also beat the Nexus 4 on getting the update.
Now, this amazing phone is soon to be available in India in a few weeks. However the Moto Maker is something that the folks in India may not receive at launch but it maybe coming to India soon, however there is no word on that just yet.
For a complete spec rundown of the phone click here.
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