Korean Smartphone giant Samsung launch one more Galaxy handset in market, Korean handset maker Samsung Electronics on Monday announced the launch of its Galaxy Grand Quattro, priced at Rs. 17,290.
With a 4.7-inch display, the dual-SIM handset is powered by 1.2GHz quad-core processor, has Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) operating system and a 5 megapixel camera. It comes with an internal memory of 8GB.

“Following the success of the Galaxy Grand introduced in January this year, we are confident that the Galaxy Grand Quattro will meet the needs of consumers looking for the ‘Grand’ experience in a slightly smaller display,” Samsung Mobile Country Head Vineet Taneja said in a statement.

With the launch of this device, Samsung now has a portfolio of 14 Smartphones priced between Rs5,990 and Rs41,500, he added.
As a special introductory offer, the device will come with a digital wallet of Rs3,000 valid for 90 days applicable on games.

Its range of Galaxy devices includes Galaxy S, Galaxy SII, SIII and now SIV, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy Y.

Key Specifications of Galaxy Grand Quattro:

Body: 133.3 x 70.7 x 9.7 mm (5.25 x 2.78 x 0.38 in)
Weight: 143.9 g (5.04 oz)
Display: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 480 x 800 pixels, 4.7 inches (~199 ppi pixel density)
Memory: Card slot: microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal: 8 GB, 1 GB RAM
Camera: Primary 5 megapixel, 2592×1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, front VGA camera
OS: Android OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), Qualcomm MSM8625Q Snapdragon 200, Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A5
Battery: Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery

HTC and Facebook unveiled the new Facebook-HTC First smartphone. HTC First is a new integrated Facebook phone that is going to use the newly-revealed Facebook Home user interface.
The Facebook-inspired HTC First phone comes preloaded with the newly-announced Facebook Home, a new user interface overlay that replaces the Home screen of select Android smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One, HTC One X and HTC One X+ with Facebook’s software.

The HTC First smartphone features the Snapdragon 400 dual-core processor and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS. The device features a 4.3-inch display with 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. It has a 5-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture, a flash, and 4G LTE from AT&T.

HTC first will also come preloaded with Instagram, and will come in four different body colors. This mobile phone will be sold exclusively by AT&T in the United States for $99.99 with a 2-year contract.

HTC First Specifications

• 4.96 x 2.56 x 0.35 (in) (LxWxT)
• 4.3 inch, HD 720p, 341 PPI
• Weight: 4.37 oz
• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
• Facebook Home UI
• Qualcomm 8930AA, dual core 1.4 (Snapdragon 400 MSM8930)
• Internal storage: 16GB, available capacity varies (this spec suggests different editions are on the way)
• NFC, Bluetooth 4.0
• 5-megapixel camera on back, 1.6-megapixel camera on front, both front and back with BSI sensor
• 2000 mAh battery

BBC World Service take one more step in its content availability in Hindi. For this BBC launch new free Android App in Hindi. Free app offers easy access to news content from BBC Hindi. This app available on Android smartphone v 4.1 and above.

BBC Hindi Editor, Nidheesh Tyagi, claimed, “The bbchindi.com mobile audiences are growing steadily. The traffic to the bbchindi.com mobile website has risen by more than 330 per cent in the past year, and accounts for nearly a third of our total direct traffic to the website – up from about a fifth a year ago. The development of apps such as these improves the user experience of a greater number of Hindi-speakers, wherever they are, as they come to the BBC news and information via their mobile phones.”

Stories, offered via the new BBC Hindi Android app, are arranged into categories, including Top News Videos and Picture Galleries, India, International, Entertainment, Sport and Science.
The BBC Hindi app can be downloaded from the Google Play store

Idea Cellular the leading telecom service provider has extended its services in the smartphone market and launched the Zeal, a dual-SIM Android smartphone running on Android for Rs. 5,390.

If you are searching Android under-price Rs10,000. This might be your choice.Let check the specification of Zeal, the Zeal has a 3.5-inch display with a 320×480 pixel resolution. It runs on the older Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread OS. The rear of the smartphone houses a 3MP shooter. The Zeal also has 256MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM with expandable storage up to 32GB via a microSD card slot. It runs on a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

The Zeal also supports Wi-Fi, A-GPS, MP3 Player, Bluetooth, and built-in social media apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, unlimited SMS/MMS and phone directory, and pre-loaded apps such as Google, YouTube and Idea TV.
The Zeal comes with a bundled data plan. For a pack of Rs. 261, Zeal users can get 1GB of free data every month for first 3 months, and free Idea TV for first 3 months.

  There is good news for all Hindi lover. Google has just released a new app called Google Hindi input app which allows users to type in Hindi on their Android smartphones.

Now Android user can update their profile, Compose emails in Hindi also. But before using this app it is necessary that your Smartphone support Hindi reading. For instance, if you can read  नमस्ते as is correctly on your phone, then go ahead and install the app Google Hindi. The app also allows Hindi transliteration.

step for typing  in hindi:
• Toggle the button “a->अ” on English keyboard to turn on/off transliteration mode.

• In the transliteration mode, you can type Hindi word in English characters and the app will convert them to Hindi.

• By turning off the transliteration mode on English keyboard, you can type in English.

Typing in Hindi keyboard

• Toggle the globe button to switch between English and Hindi keyboard.

• Consonants are alphabetically ordered into 2 pages. Press the paging button “1/2” “2/2” to navigate between pages. Long press the character key to select various forms in the popup.

In addition to providing a regular Hindi keyboard (below, right) which takes up multiple pages of letters, this app also offers a transliteration keyboard. For the layman, transliteration involves converting text from one character set to another, though not actually translating the words themselves. What this means is that bilingual speakers can type Hindi words using English characters and the words will appear in the Devanagari script. For example, type “namaste” and you’ll see “नमस्ते.”

After many speculations, Samsung finally unveiled its Galaxy Note 8.0 on Sunday, a day ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona beginning on February 25.

The eight-inch tablet powered by a 1.6GHz A9 quad-core processor. It runs on Android 4.1.2 Jellybean version and sports a 5 megapixel rear camera and a 1.3 megapixel front camera.
The tablet with phone call capability is an S Pen enabled tablet that has a WXGA TFT screen with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels. It has 2GB RAM and will come in- 16GB and 32GB variants with an expandable memory of up to 64 GB.

Its connectivity options include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4 & 5 GHz), Wi-Fi Direct, AllShareCast, BT4.0, and USB2.0.

Key Specifications of Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0:

• 8-inch TFT display with 1280 x 800 pixels (WXGA) resolution, 189 ppi pixel density
• Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) OS
• S Pen Integration
• Voice Call support over GSM network
• Exynos SoC with 1.6GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU
• 2GB of RAM, 16GB/32GB internal storage with microSD card expansion support
• Bluetooth 4.0, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS/A-GPS, USB 2.0
• IR port with Smart Remote support
• 5MP rear camera, 1.3MP front camera
• Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Proximity Sensor
• 4,600mAh Li-Ion battery
• Dimensions: 210.8 X 135.9mm
• Weight: 338 g

Micromax’s  is ready with their first quad core processor Smartphone, A116 Canvas HD, has officially out on sale in India.  The phone with price tag of Rs 13,990 will currently be available only through the company’s website.

Let’s take a view of Micromax Canvas HD Specification. The phone have a 5 inch touchscreen, is powered by MediaTek’s MT6589 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and is run on Android Jelly Bean 4.1.

Its HD screen has a resolution of 1280×720 pixels and a colour depth of 16.7 million, providing the user with superior graphics and HD viewing experience. Supported by a 2000mAh battery, the phone will be delivered between 5-7 working days.

The phone decorated with an 8MP rear camera with LED flash, multiple camera settings, 4X zoom and auto focus. It is 3G enabled, with memory expandable up to 32GB.

Micromax with its aggressive strategy of launching 30 smartphones this year to expand the portfolio of handsets and tablet PCs is set to give tough competition to the other mobile maker gaints.

The Canvas HD smartphone will be in the “phablet” category — a cross between a phone and a tablet.

Sony had announced its latest flagship smartphones Sony Xpera Z and Xperia ZL at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013.This latest smartphone of Sony soon available in Japan.According to some other popular website this smartphone should be available in Europe by the end of February. There are rumours doing the rounds this smartphone will cost 529 pounds without contract. Even Sony Mobile India has listed Xperia Z and Xperia ZL smartphones on their website as well and as per our sources the smartphone should be available by March 2013.

Sony Xperia Z smartphone comes with 5-inch LCD TFT touchscreen Reality display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. Sony has also Mobile Bravia Engine 2 to the display to make pictures more brighter and sharper. The other specifications include 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage, which can be expanded by up to 32GB via microSD card. The smartphone also comes with 13-megapixel rear camera and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The Xperia Z is IP55 and IP57 certified, which means it is dust and water resistant.
Sony Xperia ZL is a design variant of the Xperia Z, sporting similar specifications in a smaller form factor.

Sony Xperia Z specifications

• 5-inch full-HD display
• 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor
• 2GB RAM
• 13-megapixel rear camera
• 16GB internal storage (expandable by 32GB)
• Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Wi-Fi
• Android 4.1

At the end of year everyone make list of their achievements. After Apple which is releasing a list of what it considers to be the best iOS apps of 2012.Now it a turn of Google who made list of Android apps of 2012.
Google doesn’t assign any particular ranking to these apps, so none of them are supposed to be considered “better” than the others.
The majority of them are free to install, save for just one app on the list. In no particular order, here are

Google’s best Android apps of 2012:

• Evernote
• Zappos
• Pinterest
• Grimm’s Snow White
• Expedia
• Pocket
• Ancestry
• Fancy
• Mint.com Personal Finance
• SeriesGuide Show Manager
• Pixlr Express
• TED

If you are HTC one X or One X+ user and you are irritate about your camera which affecting your mobile Battery life.This time HTC release Update for camera.

The update weighs in at about 3.42 MB and supposedly optimises battery life with better camera behaviour when it’s in standby. I’m not entirely sure if you’ll see a massive change in battery life after this one, but if you use the camera as much as I do, you should hopefully see slight improvements.