April 13th, 2014 2:41 AM 6 COMMENTS

Amazon Might Launch Its First Smartphone In June With 3D Capabilities

Starting its venture into hardware with e-book reader Kindle, Amazon hasn't looked back. It's hardware efforts have been very well received, be it Kindle PaperWhite or Kindle Fire. After launching Kindle Fire, it was widely guesstimated that Amazon might enter the smartphone market to compete with Google, Microsoft and Apple. Instead, last week, they entered into media streaming box business with Amazon Kindle Fire TV. Just like Xiaomi, Amazon sells its... Read More

April 11th, 2014 11:11 AM 0 COMMENTS

Mobile Handset Vendors & OEMs Pushing Telcos For Faster 4G LTE Rollout In India

Multiple mobile handset vendors as well as OEMs are in collaboration with telecom operators in India for faster 4G LTE network rollout. India uses TD-LTE technology for the deployment of 4G networks over Band 40 (2300 MHz). Earlier, this technology was being used only by China and India but now, more and more countries in Asia are adopting it due to its lower cost of deployment when compared to LTE FDD. [caption... Read More

April 8th, 2014 11:00 AM 9 COMMENTS

Qualcomm Finally Announces 64-Bit Snapdragon 808 and Snapdragon 810 High-End Mobile Processors

After Apple released 64-bit processor based iPhone 5S to everyone's surprise, Qualcomm felt like it was on the backfoot in the mobile processor market, so much so that it hit them in the gut and they were totally unprepared for it. back then, Qualcomm's CMO Anand Chandrashekhar went on to say that 64-bit processor is a gimmick. But yesterday, Qualcomm has finally unveiled its first high-end 64-bit mobile processors (also... Read More

April 7th, 2014 6:11 PM 42 COMMENTS

EXCLUSIVE: Reliance Bringing Moto G CDMA Version To India Under Zero Plan EMI Scheme

Looks like we can't get enough of Motorola related news today on TelecomTalk. We have discovered (via a tipster) that Reliance is in a plan to offer the CDMA version of the ultra-popular Motorola Moto G in India under its ZERO PLAN EMI scheme. According to the details found on the official portal of Reliance Communication, this Moto G will be an 8GB version and a non SIM based device.... Read More

March 28th, 2014 1:28 AM 24 COMMENTS

Why we think Samsung Galaxy S5 is way overpriced: An overview

Samsung has just launched the Galaxy S5 in India and it has stated that the smartphone will be launched between a price of Rs 51,000-53,000 and that has made us believe that the device is overpriced beyond expectations. The device should have been pegged around Rs 45,000 which would have made a lot more sense but at this price point, buying a Galaxy S5 just does not make any sense... Read More

March 12th, 2014 1:40 PM 10 COMMENTS

McAfee To Offer Free Mobile Security Solution for Android and iOS mobile devices

McAfee will be now offering free mobile security solution for Indian users who are on Android and iOS mobile devices. The latest mobile security trends report by McAfee found that around 82% of apps track users and 80% of apps collect location information – invading our privacy successfully! Additionally, McAfee’s recently unveils that 98% of polled Indian respondents use smartphones to take pictures and more than 66% of polled respondents claimed... Read More

March 11th, 2014 4:26 AM 75 COMMENTS

Reliance Launches new range of HTC CDMA+GSM smartphones under zero plan

Reliance communications has after a very long time launched a new innovative product for its CDMA services, till now their focus was revolving only around their GSM and 3G offerings which was evident from their launch of zero plan for iPhone 5S, 5C and Nokia Lumia series. Now Reliance has extended the zero plan to CDMA services as well with the launch of 4 dual sim HTC smartphones Desire XC,... Read More

March 4th, 2014 8:36 PM 15 COMMENTS

Reliance Launches ZERO PLAN – EMI Schemes for Nokia Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1320 Windows Phone with Unlimited Call, SMS & 3G data

Reliance Communications (Rcom) today launched ZERO Plan – EMI scheme for  Nokia Lumia 1520 and Nokia Lumia 1320 ( Nokia's flagship windows smart-phones) wherein customer can buy these phones with Zero Down Payment with true Unlimited Call, SMS and 3G data usage. Earlier Rcom launched similar schemes for Apple iPhone 5S, iPhone 5S and the iPhone 4S in India as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk. Reliance Communications (Rcom) has announced... Read More

March 2nd, 2014 11:51 AM 23 COMMENTS

Airtel’s Mistakes in 4G/LTE Business Should not be Repeated by R-Jio

Airtel, country's largest mobile service provider is not able to make its 4G services profitable after almost 2 years of the launch of 4G services. In April, 2012 Airtel became India's first operator to launch 4G/LTE services. Starting from Kolkata, which was the first city of the country to see mobile services in 1995, Airtel expanded its 4G services in Bangalore, Pune and Chandigarh but Airtel's 4G is never be a... Read More

February 25th, 2014 10:57 AM 4 COMMENTS

BlackBerry Messenger – BBM for Windows Phone, Nokia X ‘Forked Android’ Smartphones by July-September

BlackBerry announced that BBM will be made available to Windows Phone and Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL customers in July-September this year. BlackBerry Messenger - BBM is a premier mobile messaging platform that offers best-in-class collaboration tools such as BBM Groups, BBM Voice and BBM Channels. BBM users rely on the privacy, immediacy and control that are at the core of BBM. “BBM continues to grow in popularity... Read More

February 14th, 2014 11:04 AM 6 COMMENTS

Airtel Officially Launches 4G on Mobile at 3G Prices for Customers in Bangalore

Now Airtel customers in Bangalore on Apple iPhone 5s or 5c will be able to experience 4G on their mobile at the current 3G prices. Customers have to just change their existing SIM to a 4G SIM to start enjoying 4G on mobile without any need to migrate from their existing data plan. We also did a hands on airtel 4G on mobile during its initial days. Airtel mobile customers... Read More

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