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Mobile App Permissions: Biggest Reason For Malware On Android [Study]
Market moves where the customers are. If there are no customers for a product it will get discontinued howsoever good it might be. There are many examples for this including the recent Google Reader.
Unfortunately, along with the market,…
Bharti Airtel & Google Join Hands To Bring Internet Services Free To Mobile Users
Telecom Operators in India are going all out to increase the popularity of Mobile Internet. There have been many such instances previously where operators have tied up with popular internet messaging & social media companies to bring…
Idea Cellular Follows Airtel & Vodafone. Slash Data Rates by 90%
Vodafone was first to slash their 2G data rates 4 days back, Bharti Airtel soon followed and now Idea has slashed its Data Tariffs across eight circles.
Idea Cellular subscribers will now be able to access 2G data at 2 paise per 10 KB –…
Gaana Updates Android App, Brings Paid Features Like Offline Listening, 320kbps Downloads
Gaana seems to be aggressively capturing the online & mobile music streaming market. Last week they announced launch of an interesting online Karaoke app called SingAlong, and now they have updated their Android App to Version 2.0,…
Oppo, the Apple of China to Enter India With Find 5!
Oppo is that to China what Apple is to USA and Oppo has decided to enter the Indian smartphone arena and it has chosen its flagship device, the Find 5 for doing so.
The Oppo Find 5 will be made available in India courtesy of AndroidGuruz…
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales: Chinese handsets double their Market Share, Android Surges
Asia Pacific was the only region where sales of Mobile phones witnessed growth, compared to all other regions where it declined according to Gartner Worldwide mobile phone sales report for first quarter of 2013.
Asia Pacific region alone…
Fly debuts 4 New Smartphones – A Little Too Late Perhaps?
Fly Mobiles has launched 3 new Android smartphones and a tablet in Indian market and a tablet. While the smartphones are priced between Rs. 4500 and Rs. 12500, the tablet is priced at Rs. 13500.
Here are details of new smartphones!…
Swype Keyboard Finally Out Of Beta; Supports Urdu, Tamil, Hindi and Hinglish!
Quick info first: Swype keyboard is a Android Keyboard app, priced Rs 53.83, and is available on Google play store right now. The app has a free 30 days trial and you can install it from here.
Little History: In the year 2008, Swype…
Samsung beats Nokia to become largest Mobile Phone seller in Urban India
Samsung was already the largest Smartphone seller in India, but now, they have also overtaken Nokia in overall Mobile phone market share in India.
According to mobile market tracker data released by GfK-Nielsen, Samsung’s overall market…
Nokia Launches Asha 210: Qwerty Phone with Dedicated Whatsapp button
Few days back Nokia had given feelers of an impeding launch of new Asha series phone, and today it is out. Nokia has announced launch of Asha 210, a qwerty phone with world’s first dedicated WhatsApp button.
Nokia’s Asha series phones…
A Smartphone for Blind – World’s first, in India by Indian!
Smartphones have evolved by leaps and bounds and currently can be said as the technology with the most impact on the society.
It has not just combined multiple gadgets like alarm clock to radio to music player into one but has also given…
Indian Mobile Users’ Wishlist from Telecom Companies
Indian Telecom Industry is now the fastest growing sector, as mobile usage is witnessing staggering growth rate of 16.7% with revenues of more than 3 Lakh crores. Due to this incredible success story, Telecom Industry is now India’s third…
Brand Perception- Samsung didn’t win by making better phones than Nokia.
There are downfalls and then there is what happened to Nokia. There are rises and then there is what happened with Samsung.
Nokia was once synonymous with a mobile. I do not even know what company my landline phones belonged to-…
DND Manager App: Report Spammy calls / SMSes to Operator with ease!
Even today after nearly a year since I have registered with Do Not Call registry, I still get Pesky marketing calls and Spam messages on my mobile phone. And, as far as I know, most of you get it quite frequently as well.
Initially, when…
Media Consumption on Mobile Devices in India [Report, Infographic]
It goes without saying that Mobile Devices have changed the way we consume Media. Just a few years back, Television was our main channel to consume media followed by Newspapers, magazines and Radio. However, with smartphones and tablets on…
Idea launches Wi-Fi services in 5 Indian cities
Idea Cellular, India’s fourth largest mobile service provider in India has introduced Wi-Fi services in 5 Indian cities of Pune, Ahmedabad, Cochin, Vizag and Hyderabad. Although most telecom providers do provide data plans through dongle,…
Live Stream IPL Matches with nexGTv
IPL 2013 is round the corner and its popularity has been growing especially on Internet and mobile. Every year more number of people are watching IPL live on their mobile devices. Infact, if you compared the ratings for TV, they have been…
Micromax Canvas HD A116 Review [After week’s usage]
There have been thousands of reviews on the internet of the new (much fancied) Micromax A116 Canvas HD phone. So, why the hell am I writing another one?
Well, very few of them have actually used it for a week and then reviewed it. So…
Indian Mobile Handset Market Insights Report [Infographic]
As expected, Micromax is rising on the charts. According to a recently released report, Micromax was the second most researched handset brand after Samsung in Feb 2013, while Micromax A110 Canvas 2 was the most researched handset model in…
Google’s Hindi transliteration keyboard for Android, Just WOW…
How many of smartphone users out there have managed to write hindi words on your Android smartphones? Very few that too using some workarounds. But Google’s launch of Hindi keyboard as well English to Hindi transliteration keyboard has made…