Nokia 107 dual-SIM feature phone available online for Rs. 1,779

Nokia's new feature phone, Nokia 107, is now available in India via online marketplace Snapdeal for Rs. 1,779.

The Nokia 107, unveiled along with the Nokia 106 in August this year, features dual-SIM support (GSM+GSM) and alphanumeric keyboard. The feature phone weighs 75.8 grams and measures 47.5x112.9x14.9 mm. It has a 1.8-inch display, and comes with 4MB of RAM, microSD slot that supports storage up to 16GB.The phone does not have camera. The phone houses a 1020mAh battery, which is rated to deliver 12 hours of talktime and 576 hours of standby. It is available in two colours – red and black. Prior to the 107, Nokia has launched a slew of ultra low-cost phones. Nokia recently announced the 108, which sports 2MP camera, 4MB of RAM, supports expandable memory up to 32GB using a microSD card, Bluetooth, FM Radio, music player and a 950 mAh battery.

In September, Nokia introduced the 114, which featured support for Urdu language, dual-SIM support, 32GB expandable memory and VGA rear camera. The phone is priced at Rs. 2,579.

Nokia has also launched the 105, priced at Rs. 1,249. The feature phone has a 1.4-inch display with a 128x128 pixel resolution. The Nokia 105 has an 800mAh battery and Nokia says that the phone will last for 12.5 hours of talk time and 842 hours of standby time.

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Spice Launches Two Budget Smartphones, Stellar Glamour And Smart Flo Space

Spice Mobiles has launched two budget Android smartphones in India, named Smart Flo Space and Stellar Glamour. The Smart Flo Space smartphone has been priced at Rs 3,799, while the Stellar Glamour costs Rs 5,999. The Spice Flo Space Mi-354 features a 3.5-inch display with a resolution of 320×480 pixels. It is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor coupled with 256MB RAM. It packs a 3-megapixel rear camera along with an LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It also runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The device includes 512MB internal storage that can be expanded up to 32GB through a microSD card. It is backed by a 1450mAh battery. Spice Stellar Glamour has a 4-inch display, runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) with dual-sim functionality and is powered by 1.2GHz dual-core processor and comes with 4GB onboard storage and 512MB RAM, with support for microSD cards up to 32GB. It comes with a 5MP camera and LED flash on the back and 1.3MP in front. This smartphone’s connectivity suite has features like 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 and microUSB. Powered by a 1,400mAh battery, this phone supports changeable back covers in red and blue colours. Commenting on the launch, TM Ramakrishnan, CEO – devices, S Mobility, said, “We have witnessed massive growth with low-cost offerings and delivering the best Android experience without sacrificing on performance or features. These products position themselves as premium budget phones with enhanced features and better than what competition is offering. This latest offering by Spice is a perfect amalgamation of functionality, style & entertainment.” Both the devices come preloaded with Spice Cloud app that provides consumers free Cloud backup with 2GB data storage and access to user photos, documents, music, videos and contacts across the devices, along with security and anti-theft features. Also, on the Spice Facebook page, the company is offering 6 months EMI payment option with no interest, no processing fee and no down payment for selected devices.

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Celkon Launches The Campus A63 In India For Rs. 4499

Celkon today launched the Campus A63 in India. It has been priced at INR 4,499 and will be available in the market beginning today. The Campus A63 runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system and is powered by a 1.2 GHz Dual Core processor with 256MB of RAM. The Campus A63 sports a 4-inch WVGA display with a resolution of 480×800 pixels. The phone features a 3.2-megapixel rear camera and a front-facing camera. It runs on a 1,500 mAh battery and has a microSD card slot that supports 32GB of memory. Apart from being a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) supported smartphone like other domestic devices, it also supports a regular connectivity options like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, but lack 3G support. Celkon is also expected to launch more device in its Campus series in the coming weeks including the Campus A60, A20 and A10. Stay tuned for more details.

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Blackberry Z30 Compared Alongside Z10 And Q5 In New Leaked Images

Blackberry has still not confirmed anything about the rumored Blackberry Z30 but that has not stopped more rumors to pop up online. CrackBerry has posted new images that show the to be announced BlackBerry Z30 phone pictured alongside the company’s flagship touchscreen smartphone Z10 and the most affordable BlackBerry 10 device, the Q5. The Z30 features the biggest display on a BlackBerry device launched till now. The image shows three devices Z30, Z10 and Q5 kept alongside. The above image reveals that the smartphone’s screen will display 5 rows of icons and not just 4 much like the BlackBerry Z10. The image(below) of the rear panel of the BlackBerry Z10 and the alleged Z30 show that the latter will feature a textured back.

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MediaTek Unveils Quad-Core MT8135 big.LITTLE SoC

Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek is looking to make its presence better known, and to that end, the company has announced its new quad-core MT8135 processor for high-end tablets. It consists of four cores in total. Two Cortex A15 cores are paired with two Cortex A7 core in ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture. However, unlike the Exynos 5 chipset, the configuration here is called big.LITTLE MP, which allows both Cortex A15 and Cortex A9 clusters to work simultaneously. This makes it essentially a quad core processor (and that is just what MediaTek is touting it as). The new configuration is also said to make the processor more efficient than current chips using big.LITTLE architecture. The firm’s MT8135 SoC will use Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR G6200 GPU, which supports OpenCL GPU computing. Imagination Technologies said the PowerVR Series 6 GPU used in the Mediatek MT8135 SoC uses its tile-based deferred rendering architecture. The firm also touted support for Miracast, giving tablets that use the chip the ability to stream content to supporting televisions. Mediatek could in theory use the MT8135 SoC to power Windows tablets, especially since the PowerVR Series 6 GPU supports DirectX 10.1. However it is far more likely that the chip’s OpenGL ES and OpenGL support will be used along with OpenCL and Renderscript. The benchmarking scores provided by MediaTek for the chip, also puts it ahead of both Exynos 5 in the Nexus 10 and Tegra 3. No word on pricing or availability yet.

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Sony Announces Android 4.3 Update For Select Xperia Devices

Sony Mobile officially confirmed the upcoming availability of the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system for some of its latest Xperia smartphones out there, including the Xperia Z and Xperia Z Ultra. A post on the company’s blog says it is “already getting stuck in” and is working to develop updates for the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia Tablet Z, Xperia SP and Xperia Z Ultra. Some older Xperia phones running Android 4.1 are still under examination. There’s a possibility that at least some of them will be updated straight to Android 4.3, but no names have been confirmed yet. Sony, however, is not known for being quick with Android rollouts so customers will probably need to be patient once again. Back in December 2012, the company promised Android 4.2 updates for 10 of its 2012 Xperia range, and that process was only completed last month. It admits that the Android 4.1 upgrade “process hasn’t been as succinct or as timely as you might’ve expected”, which leads us to believe that this may happen once again with the roll-out of the third Jelly Bean iteration. With Android 4.3, many of the updates appear to be under the hood. Among the front-end changes is the addition of a Multi-User Restricted Profiles feature. Sony posted a video of the Xperia Tablet Z already running the AOSP version of Android 4.3, as they previously did with 4.2.

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