Motorola has launched the Defy XT in India, the third in its Defy series of dust and water resistant Android smartphones to be launched here after the Defy and the Defy Plus. Online retailer Flipkart is retailing it for Rs 15,990. (more…)Google+

The next iPhone, reportedly scheduled to be launched in October, will sport a 3.95-inch display with a higher resolution than the current iPhone 4S. 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple is currently testing two models of the iPhone with a 640×1136 pixel display. While this would ensure that the display remains Retina quality but this would also change the aspect ratio. Since the first iPhone’s launch, Apple has gone with a 3.5-inch display with a 3:2 aspect ratio. If the report is indeed correct, this c...

Karbonn Mobile today announced it will start offering push mail and IM services on its phones starting with the KT 21 Express. The Indian handset vendor has tied up with Emoze, which provides these services to carriers, handset vendors and individuals. We had earlier reported Karbonn could announce such a service.Priced at Rs 4,490, the KT 21 Express features a 7.1 cm QVGA display, Dual-SIM, 3.2 MP camera, FM radio, 3.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot. It also has proximity and motion senso...

And we thought HTC won’t be launching any more Android smartphones for a few months after its One series earlier this year. Seems we are wrong. ITProPortal has scored pictures of an unannounced HTC smartphone, codenamed Golf internally. We are not really sure whether it will be called the Desire C or Wildfire C when it is commercially launched but we do know some of its key specs. Read on for details. (more…)Google+

By the time you read this post, I’d probably be on a plane to London to get my hands on the Galaxy S III. This is by far the most anticipated smartphone (apart from THAT other fruity one) and so far Samsung has done a pretty good job of keeping it a secret. We are hearing that within Samsung too only a handful of people know what the phone looks like, primarily on a need to know basis. The few leaks that have happened so far show the phone in testing cases and there has been not one leak that shows the ...

What do we have here? Had we not known any better, we would have called it the weirdest contraption we have ever seen in our lives on a cellphone, leave alone a smartphone on which rests Intel’s mobile aspirations. This is the battery compartment of the Lava XOLO X900, which according to the product box is manufactured by Intel Semicon. However, if you ask us, this would be the crappiest thing we have ever seen. It even beats the cheap Shanzai phones we get in grey markets. (more…)Google+

Samsung will not be launching the Galaxy Nexus in India, the company revealed via its official Twitter account today. This comes as a disappointment considering it is the only pure Google smartphone that is guaranteed to get future Android updates. (more…)Google+

LG’s first smartphone from MWC is now available for pre-order in India. Online retailer Flipkart is now offering the L3 for Rs 7,949 and is expecting the Android smartphone to be launched later this week. (more…)Google+

Just like we reported yesterday, Nokia has launched the Asha 202 in India for Rs 4,149. The touch-and-type S40 Dual-SIM phone features a 2.4-inch resistive display, 2.0 MP camera, FM radio and a microSD card slot with support for up to 32GB cards. For the first 60 days, buyers can get 40 EA games free for the phone, valued at Rs 4,000. (more…)Google+

Nokia is likely to launch the Asha 202 in India tomorrow. First announced at MWC 2012, the Asha 202 features a 2.4-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen, a 2.0 MP camera, FM radio, a microSD card slot and dual-SIM. Nokia is also likely to bundle 40 free games from EA that can be downloaded from Nokia’s app store.Mary McDowell, Nokia’s EVP for Mobile Phones, let the announcement slip in a Reuters feature on Nokia’s dwindling market share in emerging countries. She said that the company would be ann...

Nokia blew the pants off everyone at this year’s MWC when it announced the 808 PureView with its mind-numbing 41-megapixel camera sensor. We checked out the device ourselves recently and pretty convinced it is the best camera we have seen on a smartphone ever and might even choose it over a high-end stand alone point-and-shoot camera. However, the 808 has a shortcoming – it runs on Symbian, a dated OS that just cannot compete with iOS, Android or Windows Phone OS. At MWC, Nokia had said it will br...

The Xperia S is not only the first Sony branded device but it is also the device that Sony hopes will revive the company’s relevance in the smartphone space. Kaz Hirai has already pointed out mobile is going to be a key area of focus for the company and Sony smartphones will be backed up with content and services owned by Sony Corporation. In our first impressions, we pointed out some positives and negatives of the device, but we took it around for a longer drive. Read on to find out if the Xperia S has wha...