Huawei has launched the MediaPad Honor T1, the company’s latest tablet in the Honor series. It was announced recently as Honor Tablet and packs a 8-inch HD IPS display with 72% screen-to-body ratio, powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Emotion UI 1.6 on top. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera, 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera, 3G support via SIM card slot and has voice calling capabilities.


Huawei MediaPad Honor T1 Specifications :

• 8-inch (1280 × 800 pixels) IPS display with 160-degree viewing angle
• 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 Processor (MSM8212) with Adreno 302 GPU
• Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Emotion UI 1.6
• 5 MP rear Camera
• 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing Camera
• 7.9 mm thick and weighs 360 grams
• 1GB RAM, 8GB Internal memory, Expandable memory up to 32GB with micro SD
• 3G HSPA+ (with voice calling), Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS / aGPS
• 4800 mAh battery

The Huawei MediaPad Honor T1 comes in silver color and is priced at Rs. 9,999 in India.  It would be exclusively available on Flipkart.



Huawei has launched the Honor 6, the company’s latest smartphone in the Honor series. It was announced in China back in June and has a 5-inch 1080p display, powered by a Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 920 SoC and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Emotion UI 2.3 on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with Sony sensor, LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.




Huawei Honor 6 Specifications :

• 5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) 10-point multitouch LTPS display
• Octa-Core Huawei Kirin 920 processor (4xA15 1.7GHz + 4xA7 1.3GHz)  with Mali T628 GPU
• Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Emotion UI 2.3
• Dual SIM
• 13MP camera with Sony BSI sensor, F2.0 aperture and Dual LED flash
• 5MP front-facing camera
• 3GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory with microSD
• 3.5mm audio jack, IR LED
• 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GHz/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS and NFC
• 3100 mAh battery

India is the fastest growing smartphone market in the world. The country has seen a rise in migration to smartphones from basic feature phones, according to the State of the Android Mobile Web report for India by Opera Software. Opera report further states that 77% of its users in India have a smartphone priced below Rs 10,000. Micromax is the leading smartphone maker with 30% of users followed by Samsung at 25%. However, Samsung takes the number one spot in terms of the top 10 positions in Android handsets used by Opera Mini users and also consume 56% of data on the top 100 Android devices. In comparison, Micromax users consume 21% data.  Moving on, 47% of users are accessing Opera Mini on their smartphones and not the basic Java phones.

Giving insights about user activities on the Opera browser, the report reveals that video consumption is on a rise. Unique user visits to video sites increased by 205% since last year with YouTube leading this category, followed by Dailymotion and Metacafe. The number of Opera Mini users visiting these sites grew by 175%, 450% and 205% respectively in that timeframe.

74% of Indian mobile users on the web are accessing Facebook as seven out of ten pages are of the social network on the Opera Mini browser. Besides social network e-commerce portal have also witnessed a growth of over 240% in Opera Mini users over the last year. Within this category, shopping portals experienced a massive 356% growth in user visits. The most accessed site is Flipkart, followed by Amazon and Snapdeal. Online classifieds websites are also becoming more popular among users. The category jumped 150%, with Quikr in the lead, followed by OLX and Sulekha.

Google Inc launched in India the first smartphones under its Android One project, pricing them at Rs 6,399 ($105) to capture the low-cost segment of the world's fastest growing smartphone market.
The Mountain View-Based company tied up with Indian mobile players Micromax, Karbonn and Spice Mobiles to launch the affordable phones, which are powered by its operating system and aimed at emerging markets.

After launching in India, Google said it plans to expand Android One to Indonesia, Philippines and other South Asian countries by the end of 2014 and in more countries in 2015. Google outlined the pricing and expansion details in a marketing document seen by Reuters. India is seen as a lucrative market for low-cost smartphones because many people are buying the devices for the first time. Just 10 percent of the India's population currently owns a smartphone, brokerage Nomura said in a recent research note, and that figure is likely to double over the next four years.

Google, however, is not the only company jostling for a share of the Indian market. There are at least 80 smartphone brands in India and analysts say the Android One phones must offer customers more than just affordability if it wants to compete with similarly priced devices made by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Motorola and China's Xiaomi.

"The initial pricing never sticks but it'll be tough for them to compete if they don't come down further," said Neil Shah, research director for devices and ecosystems at Hong Kong-based technology research agency Counterpoint Research. In June, Google had announced the launch of the Android One project, which aims to boost demand for low-end Android smartphones by vastly improving their quality. Currently, many cheap emerging market smartphones run different and somewhat customised versions of the Android operating system, which along with the many variations in hardware make apps on those phones prone to glitches.

Google is bringing Polar over to Google+ in the hopes that the team behind the popular opinion-tracking service will be able to heat up Google's social network.  While it remains to be seen just how Google's latest acquisition might best fit into the Google+ experience, Google's David Besbris, vice president of engineering, told the Wall Street Journal that Polar's team will work to make Google+ more user-friendly on mobile devices.

Polar's current line of business, which it will be shutting down at the end of the year, is just what its name suggests: easy-to-use polls that can be filled out via various Web services and apps. We're not talking about surveys filled with hundreds of options. Rather, Polar's offerings are more of the "Do you like Mario or Luigi?" variety.

"Polar started with the simple idea that everyone has an opinion worth hearing. Since then one in every 449 Internet users told us what their opinion was by voting on a Polar poll. Our deepest thanks go out to each and every one of you," reads Polar's description. Polar was founded approximately two years ago by Luke Wroblewski and Jeff Cole—the former previously the co-founder and chief product officer of Bagcheck, and the latter the co-founder of Patients Like Me.

As part of the company cozying up with Google, Polar is releasing a series of articles Wroblewski wrote about mobile and multi-device design as a free iBook and PDF document. It's also a bit of a tease of Wroblewski's expertise in the area; he previously wrote a book about app design called "Mobile First," which has since become a bit of a Silicon Valley buzzword.
"Each version is filled with nuanced user interface design details and big-picture thinking on mobile and multi-device design for PCs, tablets, TVs, and beyond. It's our hope that some of our experiences, insights, and missteps, will ultimately help you with the product journey you're on now or will be in the future," Wroblewski wrote.

Given that the flood has uprooted communication modes in Jammu & Kashmir, making the area almost inaccessible, Google has launched several tools, to help gather and relay information about people affected by the devastation.

Here are some of the tools Google has been working on:
Google Person Finder, a web application that allows individuals to post the details of, and search for the status of, family members or friends affected by the disaster. If you’re worried about someone in the disaster affected area, then click on “I’m Looking for Someone” and type in their name. If you want to let people know you’re safe, or if you have heard from someone in the disaster affected area, then click on “I have information about someone” and put in their names and details.

As the number of names and records increases, the tool will make it easier for those who are safe to pass on their status to people worried about them. It is available in both English and Hindi.


We’ve also made Person Finder available on mobile phones. You can request status via SMS by sending the message “Search”, followed by the person’s name i.e. “Search” , to the number 9773300000 . For example, if you are searching for Rohan Gupta, send the message “Search Rohan Gupta”

To make emergency information available immediately, we have also launched a Onebox on Google Search in Hindi and English. This provides helpline information of the Army, Home Ministry, and NDRF Control Room, listed below:
Emergency Army Helpline:(+91) 011-23019831
Home Ministry Helpline:(+91) 011-23093054 · (+91) 011-23092763 

Opera Software has released a report stating that Opera Mini mobile browsers used 75% less mobile data in the first half of the year and claims to have saved Rs. 350 million monthly in mobile Internet bills. The report claimed that the Opera Mini users nationwide have saved Rs 2.1 billion in total in the first six months of 2014.

Opera Mini users on Java-based phones saved an average of 81% in mobile data each month, while smartphone users saved about 69%, the report said. Among smartphone users, those on Android phones clocked an average of 68.5% savings per month, while iOS users saved about 62%.

The report is based on aggregated information obtained from the Opera Mini servers.

Opera Mini is compatible with over 3000 mobile devices, ranging from basic Java phones to the latest Android and iOS smartphones.

“These substantial savings were achieved with the help of Opera Mini’s advanced compression technology, which shrinks webpages down to as little as 10% of their original size, reducing data consumption by up to 90%,” the report added.

India's third-largest telco Vodafone on Wednesday launched Vodafone R206Z, a high speed 3G Mobile Wi-Fi dongle to offer Internet experience to its data customers on the go. Vodafone 3G mobile Wi-Fi provides data transfer speed up to 21.1 Mbps and is available for Rs 2,399, the company said in a statement.

Intex has launched Cloud FX, the company’s first smartphone running on Firefox OS, as it promised back in June. It has a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, powered by a 1GHz processor, has a 2-megapixel rear camera and comes with dual SIM support, similar to the Firefox reference design that was unveiled earlier this year. It has 2G (EDGE) connectivity.

The  Firefox OS is based on HTML5, has Adaptive App Search or the Single Window Search and comes pre-loaded with Facebook, Twitter and more apps. It also has Firefox marketplace to download more apps. Spice launched the Spice Fire One Mi-FX 1, it’s first Firefox OS smartphone last week priced at Rs. 2,299.

Intex Cloud FX Specifications

• 3.5-inch (320 x 480 pixels) HVGA capacitive touch screen
• Firefox OS
• 1 GHz Processor
• 128MB RAM, 46MB internal memory, expandable memory with microSD
• Dual SIM (2G + 2G)
• Dimensions: 115.9x62x11.8mm; Weight: 104g
• 2MP rear camera
• 2G (EDGE), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
• 1250mAh

The Intex Cloud FX comes in black and white colors and is priced at Rs. 1,999. It is available for purchase exclusively on Snapdeal. It comes with 1GB of free data from Aircel per month for three months.  Aircel subscribers can SMS ‘INTEX’ to 121 to avail the offer.

Xolo has unveiled the Q610s smartphone, successor of Q600 that was launched back in May. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA On-cell IPS display and has a compact body with width of just 64.3mm, height of 128mm and screen-to-body ratio of more than 74%. Compared to 129.9x 65.9mm in terms of height and width of the Moto G that also has a 4.5-inch display, this is more compact. The Broadcom processor that was present in the Q600s has been replaced by a quad-core MediaTek MT6582M processor. It runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat).



Moreover other specifications are similar to the Q510s IPS that was unveiled last week, the includes a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, VGA front-facing camera, 1GB RAM and 8GB of internal storage with expansion slot. It has 1700 mAh battery. It has leather-like back cover.

Xolo Q610s Specifications

• 4.5-inch (480 x 854 pixels) capacitive touchscreen IPS display
• 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582M processor with 416MHz Mali-400 MP2 GPU
• Dual SIM with Dual Standby
• Android 4.4 (KitKat)
• 5MP camera with LED Flash, 1080p video recording
• 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera
• Dimensions: 128 x 64.3 x 9.3 mm
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS
• 1GB RAM, 8GB of internal memory, 32GB expandable memory with microSD
• 1700 mAh battery

The comes in Black color and is priced at Rs. 7,499 Rs. 7,099. The official launch is expected soon.
Update: Now the smartphone is listed on the website at Rs. 7,099, compared to the older price of Rs. 7,499.]

LG has unveiled two new smartphones, L Fino and L Bello in the L series. These run on Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) and comes with premium UX features, similar to the LG G3, as it promised recently. The L Fino 4.5-inch WVGA IPS screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor, comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. The L Bello has a 5.0-inch FWVGA IPS screen, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1-megapixel front-facing camera. These have Touch & Shoot, Gesture Shot,  Knock Code and also has support for QuickCircle Case. These have a similar design as the G3 with rear buttons.

LG L Fino Specifications

• 4.5-inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display
• 1.2 GHz quad-core processor
• Android 4.4 KitKat
• 8MP rear camera with LED flash
• 0.3MP front-facing camera
• 1GB RAM, 4GB Internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
• Dimensions: 127.5 x 67.9 x 11.9mm
• 3G (HSPA+21Mbps), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS
• 1900 mAh battery

LG L Bello Specifications

• 5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display
• 1.3 GHz quad-core processor
• Android 4.4 KitKat
• 8MP rear camera with LED flash
• 1MP front-facing camera
• 1GB RAM, 8GB Internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
• Dimensions: 138.2x 70.6x 10.7mm
• 3G (HSPA+21Mbps), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS
• 2,540 mAh battery

The LG L Fino comes in White, Black, Gold, Red and Green colors and the L Bello would be available in White, Black and Gold colors. These smartphone would roll out in 3G markets in Latin America starting this month, with countries in Europe, Asia, and CIS to follow. Pricing would be available at the launch. LG would showcase these smartphones at IFA 2014 next month.

Today we live in a world filled with quad-core smartphones and handsets with 1080p screens, but it certainly didn’t start out that way. The first smartphone was announced at COMDEX on November 23rd of 1992, making last Friday the smartphone’s 20th birthday.

The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was a massive device with a battery guzzling design, and its processor was quite laughable by today’s standards at just 16MHz. Other specs included a 4.5-inch B&W 160×293 LCD display, stylus support for touch input, 1MB of RAM, 1 or 1.8MB memory card support, and a nickel-cadmium battery. Other capabilities included the ability to make phone calls, add contacts, task lists, check “mail” and use third party apps. When it came to installing new apps? You did that using special PCMCIA cards through the bottom of the device.

The IBM Simon Personal Communicator would finally arrive to the market in 1994 for BellSouth (Now AT&T) customers in their 15-state network and cost $899 with a two-year contract. By the time the phone was being phased out of the market, it had dropped to $599 and had managed to sell about 50,000 handsets after around six months on the market.

Looking back at this ancient smartphone, it’s hard not to laugh a little, though at the time it likely served its user quite well. In IBM’s defense, this was certainly an impressive device back in 1994 and in many ways it is still somewhat similar to the basic idea of what a smartphone is today: a touchscreen device that works with apps to help make our everyday lives easier.

Contention in the Asian smartphone market has never been greater. Justified as local  brands such as Micromax and Xolo are gaining popularity, new entrants much as Motorola, Asus and Xiaomi hit also created quite a bombinate. But does that ungenerous Samsung's status in the Indian market is nearing its end? Good, several of the past industry studies jazz suggested the unavoidable. And now, a new document by research resolute IDC reveals Samsung maintains the top part in the Asiatic smartphone marketplace but is nearly followed by the topical brand Micromax.

According to IDC, Samsung held the top office with 17% marketplace deal in June someone of 2014, closely followed by Micromax with 14% and Nokia 10%. "Piece Samsung has held on to its body item in the marketplace, it is notable that Micromax is growing faster. Samsung needs to preserve to speech the low-end of the industry aggressively, and also needs a smash product at the top end to regain force," says IDC evil chairperson and indiscriminate handler Southwestward Assemblage Jaideep.

IDC in its inform points out that Micromax had dethroned Nokia to clutch the 2nd job and ensured a countrywide gap between the 2nd and 3rd positions. The investigate faithful also highlighted the localized vendors are breaching a new entry-level price repair almost every quarter.

"These devices are not panoplied with inebriated end specifications and RAM is typically 256 MB. This ultra low value divide may not safe a viable choice to the restate buyers, but it entireness well on the targeted segment," says IDC India Major Activity Psychiatrist Karan Thakkar said.

Microsoft owned Nokia was rumored to be working on a selfie centered smartphone under the codename ‘Superman’. First images of the phone with 5MP front facing camera have surfaced in a new leak. The photo of the Lumia 730 or the selfie phone were obtained by WP Central that shows the phone in green color. The same color scheme can be spotted on previous Lumia devices. The phone will sport a 4.7-inch 720p touchscreen and a 2000 mAh battery, said the report. Other specifications of the internal hardware of the phone are not known yet.

The device is also apparently running a new version of Nokia specific software, called “Lumia Debian Red”. According to WP Central this could be company’s version of the Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 that is expected to be available to the general public later this year. Also, this might be a codename for the update as firmware names go in alphabetical order, starting with A for Amber, Black, Cyan and now D for Debian Red, said the report.

It isn’t clear what the new update will add in terms of features. The Lumia 730 looks like a successor of Lumia 720. Last month Lumia 830 was spotted with ‘Nokia by Microsoft’ branding. Meanwhile, earlier this week, Microsoft released first Windows 8.1 update for developers.

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Nokia screw created an push gathering model that can be victimised to dictation your smartphone using unremarkable trouble, same penalization, reciprocation or steady your tune.

The aggroup of researchers misused Zinc pollutant to create a voltage by converting vitality from move into electrical vigour, in the create of nanorods. Scientists were fit to gather forcefulness and generate a elated voltage using the Nanorods. They can respond to movement and change created by everyday unbroken, similar penalization or voices. Electrical contacts on both sides of the rods can then be utilised to glean the emf to bid a sound.

The scientists started by spraying a colour of liquid zinc pollutant onto a impressionable lamination, that they placed in a "mixture of chemicals" and heated to 90ºC (194ºF), which caused the zinc pollutant to acquire into an array of nanorods. The nanorod artifact was then set between two electrical representative sheets. The researchers mature a cost-cutting framework that allowed them to use passable aluminium icon instead of Metallic.

The example energy-harvesting instrumentality is about the size of a Nokia Lumia 925, and can generat up to quintet volts using "ordinary accent racket" much as interchange, penalization and voices, which is enough to train a movable phone.

Released by Google in October 2013, Android KitKat is slowly but surely embracing more and more devices, as manufacturers are striving to provide updates to keep users happy. According to Google data gathered between August 5 and August 12, KitKat now runs on 20.9% of all Android devices. KitKat was at 17.9% in July, and 13.6% in June, so its steady growth is obvious.

While we now have fewer devices running Jelly Bean when compared to last month, this version of Android (including 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3) is still the most widely used, being found on 54.2% of devices. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich currently powers 10.6% of Android devices, while 13.6% are stuck running 2.3 Gingerbread. Last on the list, still giving life to 0.7% of devices, is the very old Android 2.2 Froyo. Other Android versions, like Honeycomb or Éclair, are not listed because they account for less than 0.1%.


It will be interesting to see how things stand after Google launches the brand new Android L (currently available as a Developer preview for select Nexus devices). Let's hope the upgrade process won't be a painfully long one - though we're afraid that this is exactly what will happen in the case of some manufacturers.

Microsoft just announced the Nokia 130 and 130 Dual SIM, most affordable Nokia phones with built-in video and music player. These have 1.8″ (160 x 128 pixels) TFT displays, run on Series 30+ OS and features FM Radio, similar to the Nokia 108 Dual SIM that was launched back in October in India. These have Bluetooth 3.0 with SLAM that enables multimedia content sharing between phones equipped with Bluetooth, but lacks a rear camera. These are ‎13.9mm thick and weighs just 68 grams.

The Nokia 130 Dual SIM comes with dual SIM support. Both these have a 2G connectivity, micro SD card support up to 32GB, built-in LED flashlight on the back, 1020 mAh battery that promises up to 13 hours talk time and up to 46 hours of playback time.The Nokia 130 and Nokia 130 Dual SIM comes in Red, White and Black colors and is priced at just 19 Euros (Rs. 1,550 approx / US$ 25) before taxes and subsidies. These phones would be available sometime this quarter. As usual, the dual SIM variant has been listed on official India website, so we can expect the phone here soon.

PowerSquare, Inc., a fast-growing startup in the wireless power industry, today announced the launch of its patent-pending Adaptive Position-Free (APF) system that simultaneously refuels multiple Qi-compatible devices. Developing technology that charges more than one device, on a large surface, in any position, has been a key challenge for the ever-evolving wireless power industry. Technology solutions today, however, often leverage expensive multiple-coil systems. As a result, companies cannot go to market with these products and leave them as proof of concept.

“The PowerSquare team is thrilled to launch our Adaptive Position-Free system. The wireless power ecosystem now has a cost-effective way to collaborate and deliver greater innovation around existing standards to consumers,” said Pavan Pudipeddi, CEO of PowerSquare. “Our goal is to partner with developers and create a range of marketable, consumer-friendly devices. With combined experience of more than 50 years, the PowerSquare team has been part of the industry’s evolution. We look forward to playing an integral role in its growth moving forward.”

The company will launch its Qi Wireless Charging Pad, the first PowerSquare branded, APF-based consumer product by December 2014. PowerSquare executives have already contributed to some of the wireless world’s biggest milestones, including the first mobile USB fast charger and the first smartphone embedded with wireless power. They have served a wide range of roles at technology giants including Texas Instruments, Analog Devices and National Semiconductor (acquired by Texas Instruments in 2011 for $6.5 billion).

PowerSquare is a member of the Wireless Power Consortium, the global organization striving to make Qi the worldwide standard for wireless charging. The WPC is composed of more than 200 companies that serve the mobile phone, electronic, battery, wireless power, semiconductor, infrastructure and component marketplaces. PowerSquare’s goal to partner with the ecosystem and develop quality APF-based products helps further the WPC’s objective to improve the wireless power industry.