Dual-SIM Mercury magiQ tablet launched in India for Rs 12,700

The size of the displays of high-end smartphones is increasing by the display, bordering on that of tablets. Such smartphones are commonly referred to as ‘phablets’ due to their form factor. Inspan Infotech, one of the largest IT distribution companies for motherboards and hardware components, is targeting the tablet market with the launch of Mercury magiQ. The 5-inch dual-SIM Mercury magiQ is a confluence of features from both smartphones and tablets.

The Mercury magicQ works on the Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich platform allowing a wide range of Android applications available to the users. This tablet features a 1GHz processor, and also has the ability to offer fast uploads and downloads due to HSPA connectivity available in the device. The tablet comes loaded with 4GB of internal storage, which can be expanded up to 32GB. It has 512MB of RAM. The Inspan Mercury magiQ features a capacitive multi-touch panel, and the brand claims that it offers vivid and clear pictures while viewing movies or doing work.

Inspan claims that the tablet supports 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for a faster transferring of data. Web browsing, internet surfing, emails, chatting and much more is made easier on this tablet due to these features.  Mercury magiQ features dual cameras with a front-facing camera for video chatting and a 12MP rear camera for capturing images and videos. 

One of the major highlighted features of this tablet is the battery. Inspan claims that it comes with a long battery backup, which provides a standby time of up to 15 days, and talk time of up to 13 hours. All this is packed in a mere 140-gram body. It gives the tablet a slim and stylish look. magiQ offers all the features of entertainment that may be essential for a consumer such as built-in FM radio, a speaker phone and flash 10.0 online video.

 

Mercury magiQ comes with a built in accelerometer, GPS-support, Phonebook, call record history, SMS, MMS, e-mail, Push Mail and IM. The dual SIM feature is the specialty of magiQ. It is also designed with multiple I/O ports such as a dual-SIM slot, TF card slot, mini USB port, and 3.5mm audio jack. Its thickness is 11.6mm.

 

"We are aggressively looking forward to get our market share in the tablet market with the stylish and feature rich Mercury magiQ. It has almost all the required features of the hot selling tablets in the market," said Sudhir S, Managing Director at Inspan Infotech. "Our partners will be very happy to introduce Mercury magiQ to their customers," he added.

 

Mercury magiQ tablet is priced in India at Rs 12,700. It comes with a warranty period of one year and is available ex-stock.

10 phones with 3G plus Wi-Fi under Rs. 10,000

The phone market is vast and growing by the day. Today, even for those with a shoe-string budget, the options are many. Of course, you may have to compromise on factors like screen resolution, camera and even media capabilities to certain extent. But if ease of connectivity packaged in an affordable phone is what you are looking for, then the mobile terrain won’t disappoint you. In our quest for sub 10K phones featuring 3G and Wi-Fi, we found more than a handful of phones. We’ve listed here 10 such phones that you can look at starting from the lowest priced one.

Spice Mi-280 :- Rs. 4939

Sporting an attractive price tag, the Spice Mi-280 is apt for those on a tight budget but don't want to compromise on 3G or Wi-Fi. Spice’s Mi-280 is a compact phone with power packed abilities in its own small way. Though cheapest among the lot, its a pretty nifty Android phone running on Gingerbread with a slick interface, some good multimedia capabilities and some neat app support. If you’re looking for a powerful budget phone, then look no further than the Mi-280. 

Here’s a quick look at what it has on the spec sheet:

• 2.8-inch touchscreen display with 320 x 240 pixels resolution
• 3G, EDGE/GPRS and Wi-Fi
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Bluetooth V2.1 with A2DP and USB
• 3.2MP rear camera, 0.3 MP front facing camera
• FM radio
• 134MB internal memory + microSD card support up to 32GB

Google Project Glass - Jumping Video

The ability to digitize a part of our world for accessing all kinds of data based on location and what you’re actually looking at, i.e. augmented reality is no longer science fiction. While mobile applications have been available for some time now, based on AR technology, we as consumers are always “looking” for something more advanced and that’s where Google’s Project Glass (PG) comes into the “pictures” (pardon the puns).

Project glass has been an intriguing concept, since Google’s fascinating advertorial video for the prototypes made it out, about a month ago. The idea that we could have mobile technology combined with AR tech in a lightweight, wearable module naturally piqued the world’s curiosity. Within the span of its ‘debut’, test results of the Project glass prototypes have been making the rounds as Google employees take the technology to the field. There’s nothing like a field test to give you the right perspective.

Nokia Lumia 900 proves it's hardcore in a nail-biting test

Nokia is currently in that place where they need to prove their mettle to the vast and ever mobile increasing mobile community, if they wish to get back into the game. Currently, the once king of the mobile hill, is running behind the pack and just about managing to stay visible. While they seem to be doing just as well as before in the lower budget segment, their higher end smartphones have been neglected in lieu of Google’s more popular Android platform.

But to prove to the world that their products are just as good as anyone else's, if not better, the Finnish company decided to showcase just how hardcore they can be. With kid gloves off, and to prove that their upcoming Windows smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 900, was as tough as nails the company took things to a very literal stage. As a demonstration to show the world that the Lumia 900’s display was capable of all kinds of pressure, demonstrators took a hammer and nails to it. 

Siri says Nokia Lumia 900 is best smartphone ever

Siri, Siri on the wall, Who's the best smartphone of them all?

Wait for it... Nokia Lumia 900! That's right, if you ask Apple's speech recognition software, Siri, what the best smartphone ever made is, the software betrays its maker and answers Nokia Lumia 900, the Windows Phone device. Siri's answers are based on search results from Wolfram Alpha, which gets its own information from user reviews. The Nokia Lumia 900 is a recently launched device, so it makes sense that there is a plentitude of sources for Siri to say that it is the best smartphone ever. Siri interprets the question as 'best mobile phones by customer review average'. The result even specifies the 4G version, a colour 'cyan' and AT&T.

Karbonn officially launches the A9 Android smartphone

SmartPhone at Decent Price

Karbonn mobile is, like the rest of the local handset makers, cashing in on the Android boom and has only recently launched yet another addition to their Android range of budget smartphones. The Karbonn A9 that’s available on Infibeam.com has just made it out and comes equipped with interesting features that could make it a worthy competitor in the lower budget smartphone segment. Loaded up with a 1 GHz processor, the Karbonn A9 will come with Android Gingerbread aka v2.3.6 as the operating system. Keeping the competition in mind, Karbonn has also incorporated a dual-SIM (GSM + GSM) functionality with the A9 smartphone allowing users to have two numbers run simultaneously on the handset. 

Lava Launches First Intel-powered Smartphone For Rs 22,000

Lava International Ltd has launched XOLO X900, the first smartphone with Intel inside. The mobile phone runs on the Android operating system (OS) and will be available for Rs 22,000. The partnership between Lava and Intel was first announced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona early this year. Let’s have a look at the specifications of the device. The mobile phone has a 4.03 inch TFT LCD capacitive touch screen display (1024×600 pixel resolution) and it runs on the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS (later upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich). The highlight of the device is its processor, which is a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor with Hyper Threading that the company claims will provide faster speeds and better multi-tasking performance. XOLO X900 has 1GB of RAM and comes with 16GB of internal memory.

Fuel Cell aims to charge your smartphone for two weeks

A new portable USB fuel cell has been developed by Lilliputian Systems that aims to keep your smartphone powered for close to a fortnight, without the need for you to go to a wall socket to juice your phone up via a charger. This new fuel cell will be able to charge your smartphone close to a dozen times, before it runs out of battery – following which, you need to purchase a replacement cartridge.With 4G and quad-core madness entering into the arena, the single most important aspect of smartphones that is taking a hit is the battery life. This exact concern is addressed by this new fuel cell. While it cannot keep your phone battery running longer, it definitely can ensure that you can charge it on the go, without the need of finding a power socket.  

Samsung Galaxy S3 launch: Samsung unwraps latest Galaxy rival to iPhone - Galaxy S3

Samsung Electronics unveiled a new top-of-the-range Galaxy smartphone in London on Thursday, updating the most direct rival to Apple's iPhone with a larger touch screen and more powerful processor.

The South Korean technology group, which overtook Finnish company Nokia as the world's biggest cellphone maker earlier this year, said the new Galaxy SIII model would go on sale in some markets in late May and around the world from June.

The blue lights in the launch venue downtown London, echoing the cold rainy day outside, and the background sounds of nature, which Samsung said inspired the design, resulted in a fairly muted atmosphere in the room.

You can now wirelessly charge your phone at a distance of 40mm

The Wireless Power Consortium has announced that the Qi open wireless charging standard is now capable of providing full support and compatibility for longer-distance magnetic resonance technologies. Qi is the global standard for wireless power and charging. Devices are charged just by placing them on, or near, any Qi-enabled surface. Any Qi-enabled device works with any Qi charger, regardless of brand or manufacturer, making charging simple and convenient. Qi is supported by a quickly expanding list of over 100 industry-leading companies and is increasingly integrated into mobile phones, accessories, and public spaces in the US, Japan, China, and Europe.

Samsung announces NX1000, NX20 and NX210 cameras with built-in Wi-Fi

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies has announced three new compact system cameras (CSC) from their NX series that feature built-in Wi-Fi connectivity: the NX1000, NX210 and NX20. The innovative additions to Samsung's NX range represent the future in CSC technology: SMART cameras with in-built Wi-Fi technology that allow users to connect to wireless networks without any additional cards or devices. Full Wi-Fi connectivity is complemented by a wide range of features, continuing the innovation of the NX series since the launch of the NX10 in 2010. The NX20 costs $1,100 ( 53,900), the N210 costs $900

( 44,100) and the NX1000 is priced at $700 ( 34,300).

Samsung NX20

New iPad will officially launch in India on the 27th of April

While the new iPad may have been launched just over a month in the US and a handful of other countries, the third generation tablet from Apple is yet to officially land on a number of shores across the world with India being one of them. The wait for the latest slate from Apple appears to be coming to a close with Apple announcing that the device will officially come to India along with a number of countries next week.

As per the announcement from Apple, “The new iPad, the third generation of its category defining mobile device, will arrive in South Korea and 11 additional countries on Friday, April 20. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina display, Apple’s new A5X chip with quad-core graphics and a 5 megapixel iSight camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video.

Samsung Galaxy S III rumoured to support wireless charging

The rumour mills continue to churn speculations about, what’s possibly the mobile industry's most anxiously awaited Android. There’s a good reason for all this excitement as Samsung’s previous two Galaxy S smartphones have been huge successes, so there’s a lot of pressure on Samsung to raise the bar one more time. The Galaxy S III was a no-show at MWC, but that’s only becoz Samsung will be hosting their own event on March 22nd, where in all prob.,the S III will be revealed. Coming back to our latest rumour, the new droid is said to support wireless charging, and none of that last-gen inductive charging nonsense.

Genius launches Ring Style Media Pointer with in-air mouse function

Inspan and Genius seem to be on a roll. The latest to emerge into the Indian market from Inspan, under the Genius label is the new media pointer designed in a ring style. Claiming to the first in the world, the Ring Style Thumb controller/ media pointer has been aptly crafted for business, travel, education and i-users, says the company. Point in style Light in weight, the ring presenter is a human-oriented ring style air-presenter with mouse functions. It incorporates the U.S patent design (No 7298362 B2) touch control air-presenter technology, and brings complete access to control powerpoint slides, play (F5)/exit, last/next page, left button and laser pointer anywhere in the room when doing a presentation. Besides, Ring presenter features in-air mouse function, enabling actual mouse functions, such as cursor movement, left/middle/right buttons, dragging and 4-way scrolling.

Nokia preparing a PureView camera for Lumia handsets

The most talked about handset at this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona was undoubtedly the Nokia 808 PureView. This handset even managed to overshadow the quad-core beasts that rolled out from stables such as HTC and LG making one believe that camera optics can possibly dethrone speedy processors. At the time of the unveiling at MWC, Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President of Nokia Smart Devices, said, “Nokia PureView imaging technology sets a new industry standard by whatever measure you us. People will inevitably focus on the 41 megapixel sensor, but the real quantum leap is how the pixels are used to deliver breath-taking image quality at any resolution and the freedom it provides to choose the story you want to tell.” However, that is not the only aspect of this handset people are focusing on. Another point of concern for some is that it runs on a Symbian operating system as opposed to the Windows Phone platform that is being used by Nokia in recent times. But Harlow has now revealed that the brand indeed has plans for launching a Lumia handset with the PureView technology.

Nokia unveils the Asha 303 the First Touch & Type , Qwerty Phone - Specs and Price

Nokia has announced the launch of its first Touch and Type QWERTY device with Nokia Music Unlimited on the Series 40 platform, the Nokia Asha 303. The device runs on a powerful 1GHz processor and has 3G capabilities to deliver faster Internet and social networking experience. The phone also comes pre-installed with their Nokia browser that allows for quick and localized Internet access by compressing web pages by upto 90 percent. Along with an extension of its other 3G HSPA phones, the Nokia 303 also provides ‘live updates’ on the homescreen for all social networking addicts.

Intex launches new touch phone, the Sense

Intex Technologies, one of the companies dealing in IT hardware, consumer electronics and mobile phones have launched "The Sense" – a touchscreen phone with a 3.2-inch display. It comes with the Intex Application Store, the WStore, and is preloaded with 41 International and popular games (Doodle Jump, Angry Birds, Gears of War, Need for Speed, Gogo Box, Guns & Glory, etc). The phone is also a good option for avid book readers, as it has some books stored inside, ranging from classic to fiction and from thriller to general science. Additionally, the user can save upto 500 books in the secondary storage of the phone. It has an inbuilt memory of 79 MB and comes with a 4GB microSD card.

INTEX - THE SENSE

BSNL to launch Penta T PAD IS 701R sports Tablet for Rs. 3,250

Yet another one joins the race. Bhartiya Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) have confirmed that they will soon launch their tablet trio in the market, in partnership with Noida-based, Pantel. However, the most interesting part is that the cheapest of these tablets would cost a user all of Rs.3,250, placing it just a few notches above UbiSlate 7, the commercial version of the Aakash tablet. The tablet, called BSNL Penta T PAD IS 701R sports a 7-inch display, and will essentially be an Android 2.3-based device. Reportedly, the tablet will be powered by a 1GHz processor and will come with 256 MB of RAM. Customers, according to the report will be able to enjoy special data plans and 3G services from BSNL, which the company will bundle with the tablet during sale. Click here, to know the features of the tablet. 

                        BSNL Penta T PAD

Google Glasses may Launch in India Costing About Smartphone Price

It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. Search engine giant Google is developing a pair of electronic glasses that can stream information directly to the user’s eyes in real time.

The glasses, to be launched by the end of the year, will be more like smartphones with the lenses serving as a kind of see-through computer monitor.

Loaded with a low-resolution, built-in camera, the Google glasses “will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby,” a New York Timesreport said.

“You will be able to check in to locations with your friends through the glasses,” a Google employee told the Times. Google would not confirm whether the ultra-modern eyewear is in development.

The report also says that the state-of-the-art spectacles, not designed for constant wear, will display information via a heads-up display “in an augmented reality view, rather than as a Web browser page like those that people see on smartphones.”

iPad 2 vs. Kindle Fire: Top Consumer Gripes [VIDEO]

When shopping for a tablet, consumers often compare specs and the benefits of each device, including screen size and resolution, processor speed, battery life and software. But sometimes a gadget’s biggest draw — or its most exasperating feature — doesn’t make the spec list.