Tag Archives: India

The Android One program has just taken its first few steps in India with a great launch involving three new $100 devices. The Android One program is Google’s initiative to offer pure Android mid-range phones for small prices to emerging markets like India. The new Android One line included the Karbonn Sparkle V, Micromax Canvas A1 and Spice Dream Uno. ...

Android One is the budget smartphone line that Google was planning a while back for emerging markets and today (September 15) its launch event took place in India. Sundar Pichai has emphasized the fact that Android One comes as an attempt to offer $100 smartphones for emerging markets with a stock Android experience. Manufacturers like Karbonn, Micromax and Spice Mobile ...

For the past two years, Samsung has been launching an S Duos smartphone each year, and in 2014 the Galaxy S Duos 3 will not be absent from stores. Rumors have confirmed that the Galaxy S Duos 3 is indeed in the works and sports mid-range specs and sadly, low-end features.  What we know about the Galaxy S Duos 3 ...

OnePlus has taken the first steps to renounce the exclusivity of the OnePlus One flagship: it has announced that it will release the flagship in India. That is a big first step if you think about it, and I’m glad that OnePlus has seen that the budget flagship with great specs deserves to be on a free market, not received only ...

Today HTC launched two new smartphones at an event in New Delhi, India: the HTC Desire 616 and the HTC One E8. The first one is a mid-range handset priced at Rs 16.900, the equivalent of $280 while the HTC One E8 is a slightly modified version of the HTC One M8 and will be available for Rs 34.900, the ...

Motorola India announced via Twitter that Android 4.4.4 KitKat  has begun rolling out for the Moto G, Moto E, and Moto X. As with any new update, this may take a while to arrive for everyone, usually up to a week or so. KitKat 4.4.4 will arrive over-the-air (OTA), which means that you should receive a notification as soon as it ...

Indian smartphone company Xolo announced the release date for its first Windows 8.1 handset, which also happens to be the world’s lightest smartphone, weighting mearly 100g. The phone will be released on the 2nd of July but pre-orders were available on Snapdeal for Rs 9999. However, Snapdeal sold out its units and when the product will be made available again the ...

Two companies in India are planing to introduce unlocked smartphones as cheap as $25. These phones are going to run the Firefox OS. This is a browser-based operating system so it runs a version of Firefox that’s light enough to run on mobile phones hardware. It’s basically a stripped-down OS that doesn’t run native apps like the Android OS does, it ...