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Asif Iqbal March 28th, 2015 1:35 PM 1 COMMENTS

OnePlus misses its own deadline for rolling out Android 5.0 Lollipop update to the One

After a fallout between OnePlus and Cyanogen regarding the software updates for OnePlus One in India, the smartphone manufacturer had announced that it was working on its own ROM, dubbed OxygenOS. The Chinese smartphone brand promised that it would roll out OxygenOS, which is based on Android 5.0 Lollipop, on March 27. However, that's not happening. It's a bummer that OnePlus couldn't follow up to its self-imposed deadline for the rollout of... Read More

SuperGeek March 28th, 2015 12:31 PM 0 COMMENTS

Celkon Millennia Q450 budget Android smartphone launched in India for Rs. 4,799

The sub-Rs. 5,000 price segment in the smartphone market is catching pace at a pretty brisk pace, we are seeing quite a few launches these days. Celkon, the Indian manufacturer of budget smartphones, has just launched a new device in its Millennia series – the Celkon Millennia Q450 for Rs. 4,799. This dual-SIM smartphone runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat and features a 4-inch IPS LCD display, a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB... Read More

Esmail March 28th, 2015 9:24 AM 40 COMMENTS

TRAI issues consultation paper for regulation of OTT players like Whatsapp

The telecom regulatory authority of India has issued a consultation paper on the regulation of ‘Over the top’ (OTT) players like whatsapp, viber, skype, etc. which provide an alternate means of communication between subscribers by riding on the back of their infrastructure. This paper has been sent to all telecom operators for their consideration and to gather their inputs on the matter and to reach a workable solution for the... Read More

SuperGeek March 28th, 2015 12:05 AM 0 COMMENTS

Xiaomi to sell its smartphones offline through The Mobile Store

Xiaomi has been one of the prime examples of being successful in the smartphone arena through an online-only sales model. India is one of the most important markets for Xiaomi, and its partnership through Flipkart has been going quite smoothly till now. But Xiaomi wants a bigger share of the pie and in addition to online-only sales, it has now entered the offline arena. Xiaomi has now tied up with The... Read More

Tharun G March 27th, 2015 7:39 PM 13 COMMENTS

Analysis: Mobile tariff unlikely to go up after auction

Telecom Spectrum auction is a great success for the Government, it garners around Rs.1.10 Lakh Crore from the sale of mobile phone airwaves after 19 days of fierce bidding. The amount is more than Rs.1.06 Lakh Crore raised during the year 2010. The Finance Minister may happy that one-third of the amount will come to Governments kitty within 15 days and it is very useful for him to reduce the... Read More

Zara Ali March 27th, 2015 6:03 PM 0 COMMENTS

Google Play Store in India now includes Nexus 6, Chromecast, and Nexus 9

Google has broaden the availability of many Nexus and Android Wear devices to India through its online store, the Google Play. Consumers in India can now buy Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Chromecast directly from the Google Play Store. Moreover, it has been marked that the Nexus 9 and Nexus 6 devices, which were formerly listed as ‘coming soon’ on Google Play Store in India, are now available for purchase. Users... Read More

Srikapardhi March 27th, 2015 5:40 PM 5 COMMENTS

Airtel launches 4G services in Bathinda

Bharti Airtel Limited has launched its 4G services in Bathinda. With this, Bathinda has become the 12th town in the state to get Airtel 4G services following Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Phagwara, Kapurthala, Patiala and Moga. Announcing the launch, Manu Sood, Hub CEO –Upper North, Bharti Airtel (India)said, “We are delighted to launch 4G in Bathinda and empower customers with a choice to upgrade to cutting edge... Read More

Esmail March 27th, 2015 5:03 PM 74 COMMENTS

Reliance communications becomes first operator to possess pan India contiguous 800MHz spectrum

Reliance communications have declared that in the recently concluded auction it has emerged as the only operator to now possess Pan India contiguous 800MHz spectrum upwards of 5MHz. Rcom plans to use this spectrum for a large scale FD-LTE rollout. Rcom has licences in 7 circles in 900MHz band which are expiring in December 2015, out of which it has managed to win back 900MHz spectrum in Himachal Pradesh and... Read More

Asif Iqbal March 27th, 2015 4:45 PM 7 COMMENTS

WhatsApp might use Google Drive integration in the future to back up chat history

If you are a WhatsApp user, you must have faced difficulties while backing up chat history and all those attachments inside those threads while switching to a new phone or while formatting your smartphone. One has to manually back up the WhatsApp data, then connect it to a computer or mail the attachment to yourself if you want to back it up, which is a cumbersome processor. Inspite of presence... Read More

Zara Ali March 27th, 2015 4:16 PM 1 COMMENTS

Xolo Win Q1000 now available for pre-order at Rs. 6,999

A month ago Xolo had announced a Windows Phone 8.1 based smartphone, known as Win Q1000, for a price of Rs. 8,499. Now, the device is available for Rs. 6,999 on pre-order exclusively via HomeShop18. The phone comes with a 5-inch HD display, and is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (MSM8212) processor paired with Adreno 302 GPU and 1GB RAM. It sports an 8-megapixel rear camera... Read More

Esmail March 27th, 2015 3:16 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel adds the most number of rural GSM subscribers in Feb 2015

The total rural subscriber base of India as of Feb 2015 stood at 330.34 million.The operator with the largest rural GSM subscriber base is Airtel with 104.93 million users. The net addition of rural subscribers in the month of feb was 4.70 million with 1.44% increase from previous month. The operator with the largest share of new rural GSM subscribers is Airtel with 1.68 million new users. The circle with the maximum number... Read More

Esmail March 27th, 2015 1:38 PM 15 COMMENTS

Spectrum auction 2015: 800MHz band Final list of winning operators

The 800MHz band was the ‘Googly’ of the recently concluded auctions. Before this auction, no other operator had shown interest in bidding for spectrum in this band. The Feb 2012 order in which Supreme Court had quashed 122 newly awarded licences included 21 licences of MTS in 800MHz band. MTS had stayed away from the Nov 2012 auction citing high reserve price of 800MHz band and requested for extension of... Read More