Airtel 4G trials launched in Shillong, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore and other towns

Bharti Airtel Limited (“Bharti Airtel”), India’s biggest telecommunications company, today launched 4G trials for its customers in Shillong. With this, Airtel 4G trials are now going in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam, Mangalore, Mysore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Vellore, Hubli, Dharwad, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela, Tumkur, Udupi and Manipal. “Airtel 4G enables superfast internet speeds and allows […]

54% of smartphones have shopping apps; Flipkart No. 1 – Survey

All the mobile web traffic sacrificed by Flipkart seems to be paying off, at least in terms of getting users to install the company’s app. According to Nielsen’s latest survey based on real-time mobile data across 8,000 handsets in the country, Flipkart’s mobile app is present on 35% of all phones checked and was the […]

Panasonic Love T10 priced just Rs 3,690, making it one of the best entry-level smartphones in India

Panasonic India launched a new smartphone Love T10 with support for 21 Indian regional languages and priced at just Rs 3,690. Panasonic Love T10, with a 3.5-inch display and 3G, will be available to consumers in India from the last week of July, 2015 in White & Black colors. More phones in the Love series […]

Lava Pixel V1: Android One challenges Lenovo K3 Note and Yu Yureka Plus

It was written off for dead, but Google’s Android One program is back, and with it, hopefully, the fortunes of smaller Indian brands like Lava. The new range of Android One phones, starting off with Lava Pixel V1, will have three key differences compared to their earlier brethren – they’ll all have 4G, they’ll have […]

YES Bank introduces ‘wafer SIMs’ to enable data-less mobile payments

YES BANK, India’s 5th largest private sector Bank, has introduced a service using which any user owning any type of mobile phone with any operator can make mobile payments from anywhere, anytime without internet connectivity in a completely secure manner. For ‘YES PAYMENTS’, the bank has entered into a strategic partnership with TAISYS Technologies. Once […]

HP Study Finds Smartwatches Vulnerable to Attack

HP said smartwatches with network and communication functionality represent a new and open frontier for cyberattack, quoting results of a study. The study conducted by HP Fortify found that 100 percent of the tested smartwatches contain significant vulnerabilities, including insufficient authentication, lack of encryption and privacy concerns1. In the report HP provides actionable recommendations for […]

Gionee F103 – India’s first CDMA-GSM Android phone with 4G, dual-SIM & Worldmode

It’s been months in coming, but finally it looks like dual-mode (or world-mode) GSM-CDMA Android phones are here with the Gionee F103. UPDATE: The model launched in India has CDMA facility turned off. However, HTC has launched the Desire 728g CDMA-GSM mobile phone — based on MediaTek MT6753 — in India at Rs 17,000. Please […]

Samsung Galaxy J5, J7 launched in India, price Rs 12k and 15k

Samsung Electronics India today announced the launch of two new 4G enabled smartphones in the J Series – Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7, making 4G experience more accessible and enjoyable for Indian consumers while expanding its LTE smartphone portfolio to 10. The new smartphones from Samsung are a combination of powerful technology, innovative features and […]