Huawei finally launched its Ascend Mate 6.1-inch phablet in India today, and on paper, it has a lot going for it as it has the specs and it has a cracker of a price of Rs 24,900 to back it up. Having said that, it will compete with the mighty Samsung Galaxy Mega, which basically is the most recognisable brand in India, which could make things difficult for Huawei even in the niche 6-inch phablet segment. We went hands on with it to see if it matches up to the Galaxy Mega 6.3. Read on for our ...

Vodafone India has slashed the data tariffs for 2G network by 80 percent. The company will now be charging consumers 2p/10KB instead of the 10p/10KB. The tariff cut is applicable for pre-paid as well as post paid connection. The company believes this move will help it promote the Internet usage. These rates are currently applicable in Karnataka, UP West and Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh circles and will be rolled out nationally in a phased manner. However, the tariff is only valid for those users who don’t subscribe to a monthly data plan. Last year, Vodafone along with ...

Today, Sony launched its latest 4K TVs in India, the Bravia X-series which now offers an 4K experience at smaller 65-inch and 55-inch sizes and more importantly both the TVs are more affordable at Rs 4,04,900 and Rs 3,04,900 respectively. Undoubtedly, 4K resolution automatically means, incredible picture quality, but there is also the question of the content being available, and Sony believes that it can solve that problem too. A couple of days before the launch we were lucky enough to get a very detailed demo of the product, so read on further for our first ...

Earlier today, Huawei launched a new phablet in India called the Ascend Mate. The 6.1-inch phablet enters a mid-range phablet segment where competition is fierce and Samsung is known to enjoy supremacy. So, will Huawei latest offering in India be able to make a mark in Samsung’s territory? We compare it against the recently launched Galaxy Mega 6.3 to find out. The Ascend P6 has been placed just below the Galaxy Mega 6.3 in terms of price, with about Rs 6,000 differentiating the two. The displays on both the device are nearly the same with ...

Whenever one talks about 4K televisions, there are two problems – the price and the content and also in some cases the size. Well, with its new Bravia X-series 4K TVs, Sony is trying to tackle all these problems. The new 4K TVs have been launched in India for rather affordable prices of Rs 4,04,900 and Rs 3,04,900 and are offered in 65-inch and 55-inch variants which obviously helps in driving down prices. Earlier we had seen 4K TVs launched in the country that were in excess of Rs 15 lakh and were bigger than 80-inches. Sony ...

Huawei, as expected, has today officially launched the Ascend Mate in India. The 6.1-inch phablet, which became available on Infibeam last week, will now be available at retail stores across the country for Rs 24,900. The specifications remain similar to the device that was first showcased at CES earlier this year. The phablet flaunts a 6.1-inch IPS (720×1280 pixels) display with Magic Touch technology, similar to the one on Nokia Lumia 920 that allows users to use gloves with the panel. It is powered by a quad-core Huawei K3V2 processor clocked at 1.5 GHz and ...

Global search engine Google is offering a new format in India to advertise products and brands for users, the company’s Indian subsidiary said Monday. “The new format on Google.co.in under ‘product listing ads’ menu will help users to find and compare products and prices with their images and links,” the company said in a statement here. The facility will appear on the right side of the search results page above text ads under product listing. “As millions of shoppers across the country use our search facility to research and find products to buy online or offline, the ...

Roaming charges on any network across the country will now be significantly lowered by up to 57 percent than before with effect from July 1. By ruling out the long time debated ‘One Nation-Free Roaming’ which was proposed in the NTP 2012, the Telecom Regulatory Authority in India (TRAI) has directed all the operators to slash the tariffs on incoming as well as outgoing calls, as well as SMS charges while on roaming. According to TRAI’s directives, the operators have been asked to introduce customized schemes which will lower the call tariffs on roaming through STV or combo vouchers ...

In a move to ensure the Nation’s security, Indian government has reportedly taken a stringent action and has directed all telecom service providers to keep track of the location details of any calls made or registered on their networks. FirstPost has stumbled up on a directive by the DoT which has been sent to all the telecom companies, suggesting that registering the location-based information will be a mandatory part of call data records (CDR) of all mobile users in the country. The action will be effective from mid- 2014. This DoT directive is titled as ‘Amendments to the unified ...

Cashing on the success of the Titanium series of phones, Karbonn Mobiles is reportedly working on the next model in the series and will name it as the Titanium S6. A report by NDTV Gadgets suggests that the smartphone will flaunt a full-HD display offering 1080p resolution and might be introduced in the second week of July. Knowing that the sub-Rs 20,000 market is amongst the most flourishing segments in India, the report also suggests that this phone will be priced attractively within the price range. Moreover, the report has quoted Pradeep Jain, managing director of Karbonn Mobiles saying ...

Sony India has launched what it calls the world’s smallest and lightest 30x optical zoom camera, called the Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V. The camera is available in India for Rs 22,990. In terms of design, the Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V is just 108x64x38mm in size and weighs in at 272 grams. Specifications-wise, the camera sports a 20.4-megapixel that supports a maximum resolution of 5184×2920 pixels with a 1/2.3″ BSI CMOS sensor and 30x Optical Zoom capabilities. The camera features in-built Wi-Fi and GPS and includes 3-axis SuperSteady Shot image stabilization and can shoot at up to 10 frames ...

If you are a college student, then this is the time to purchase a MacBook Pro as Apple is offering massive discounts. As it always does before the beginning of the college season, Apple is offering a discount of Rs 12,000 on the MacBook Pro for students in India. This means the MacBook Pro range now starts from Rs 69,900. The listing also suggests that Apple is offering discounts on other Mac products as well, but those have not been highlighted. Apple says that the offer is valid only for a limited time, which too has not been ...

Apple today announced a trade-in promotion offer that would give a minimum Rs 4,000 off if users trade-in their old tablets or notebook computer. BGR India had exclusively reported about this offer earlier in the week and like we reported, the offer is valid on all models of the iPad mini and the 16GB model of iPad with Retina Display. The tablet in exchange should be less than two years old and buyers will get an additional discount if they bring an old iPad. Read on for a list of devices and suggested exchange price, which we had exclusively ...

Micromax is readying its next flagship phone and the successor to its massively popular Canvas HD. A couple of hours back the Indian smartphone vendor put up a teaser image on its Facebook Page revealing its forthcoming phone called the Canvas 4. The teaser image shows the side profile of the Canvas 4 with the line “Can life be endless?” and also mentions that pre-booking for the device will begin later this month on June 28. Micromax has also aired the first teaser ad of the Canvas 4 during the ongoing cricket match between India and Pakistan, which shows the ...

Telenor ASA’s proposal to own 74 percent stake in an Indian telecom company has been approved by the Indian government, WSJ reports. This will now allow the company to increase its stakes to 74 percent in its Indian telecom partner. This, according to the current FDI policies, is the maximum percent of holding allowed for a foreign investor to get in an Indian telecom firm. At present, Telenor operates with an Indian venture named Telewings Communications. The Norwegian company holds 49 percent in this company and the rest of the share is held by Lakshdeep Investments under Sun Pharmaceutical ...

AMD has launched its latest generation A-series ‘Richland’ accelerated processing units (APUs) in India. Originally, these APUs were launched globally at Computex last month. In addition to these, the company has also launched its latest family of FX series CPUs that have SKUs that have 8-cores and have class leading clock speeds of 5GHz. The new A-series APUs combines AMD Piledriver CPU cores with an AMD Radeon HD 8000 graphics stack on an FM2 motherboard infrastructure. The new line includes the A10-6800K, the A10-6700, the A8-6600K and the A8-6500. All the APUs are quad-core and have clock speeds in excess ...

Despite much opposition from telecom companies against the unified license and free roaming across nation policy as proposed in the National Telecom Policy 2012, a committee of eight members will be meeting on June 17 to review guidelines of the NTP. ET is reporting that the meeting will be chaired by the wireless advisor and the agenda of this meeting will include a discussion on implementation of guidelines for unified licenses documented for telecom players as well as to abolish nationwide roaming charges. A couple of days back, MF Farooqui, telecom secretary, had told that that the government is expected ...

India might be the third-biggest nation in the world in terms of its online population with a lot of technological growth potential, but companies like Google are having a tough time here due to poor infrastructure and government policies, Financial Times reports. Rajan Anandan, Google’s MD says, “The single biggest constraint to the growth of the Internet in India is bandwidth. It’s patchy. You don’t have a lot of speed. It is very, very important that we solve the bandwidth infrastructure problems. That is priority number one, two, three and four,” he said. Anandan also blames the ...

Gameloft India has partnered with Nokia to offer its latest sci-fi FPS N.O.V.A 3 to Lumia 920 and 820 users in India as a free download. The game in the meanwhile is available as a paid download on other platforms and will be coming Windows Store as a premium download for other Windows Phone 8 devices in the coming weeks. N.O.V.A 3 is the third iteration of Gameloft’s Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance game series and offers high graphics with a new shadow and light system, particle system and ragdoll physics. Users play through ...

Apart from launching its Kindle eBook readers and tablets in India, Amazon has also started a new promotion where it will give away one eBook for free from its Kindle store everyday. The promotion will last for a fortnight, according to Amazon India. While users from India could purchase and download eBooks from Amazon’s global Kindle store, Amazon is now looking at promoting its India store with this offer. Users of Kindle devices as well as the Kindle app across mobile and desktop platforms can check here for the free eBook of the day. Amazon has launched its Kindle ...

After recently launching their e-store in India, Amazon has now announced the availability of Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle on the Kindle Store at Amazon.in. Last month Amazon had announced that its Kindle devices will be coming to 170 countries, but India was not in the list. The Kindle Fire HD 7-inch model will be available for Rs 15,999 and Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch model will be available at a price of Rs 21,999. The store will also retail Kindle Paperwhite which will be available in both Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G models ...

As we near Samsung’s Premiere 2013 event in London scheduled for June 20, rumors about what devices the company might unveil are steadily picking up pace. The latest to enter the rumor mills is a mirror-less Galaxy camera according to a report on SammyHub. This camera tentatively named as Galaxy Camera 2 and is most likely the successor to the Galaxy Camera launched last year. The camera is said to run on the Android OS and is also said to feature a mirror-less design on the similar lines to the NX300 that was announced in India a couple of ...

Starting July 1, booking train tickets will come handier as the Indian Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will launch an SMS-based service to book train tickets. The services will also be available through a menu-based dialing service (USSD), reports Times of India. This service will enable the feature phones or entry level phones users to get easy access to book tickets through phones. Users will be able to avail this service by registering their mobile number with IRCTC with their bank details, which will later be used for payments through mobile wallet. According to another report by HinduBusinessLine ...

Early in April, Samsung had announced an entry-level phone called the Galaxy Pocket Neo, but hadn’t revealed its price or launch date. We are now hearing that the South Korean company is all set to launch the Galaxy Pocket Neo in India for Rs 7,340. In terms of specifications, the smartphone sports a 3-inch QVGA TFT LCD and is powered by an 850MHz processor paired with 512MB RAM. Other features included on the phone are a 2-megapixel rear camera, 4GB of internal storage that can be expanded using a microSD card and a 1,200mAh battery. Connectivity-wise the ...