Sometime back Karbonn announced its A9 dual-sim Android smartphone, which flaunted relatively solid specs for in an affordable package and now the device is available with online retailer Infibeam for Rs 8,999. (more…)

Peripheral maker Kobian has launched its iXA Android tablet in India for Rs 3,999. The company is targeting the tablet at students and the masses. Bookings for the iXA tab open on May 23. (more…)

The jury hearing Oracle’s case against Google has found Google’s Android infringes on Oracle’s copyrights regarding its Java programming language, Reuters reports. The jury, however, could not conclude whether Google had the right to use it under fair use/ Oracle claims losses arising out of the fact that Google did not license the copyright elements of Java and then gave out Android for free, making it difficult for Oracle to license it to potential smartphone vendors.Google’s lawyers...

DataWind has announced that the users of Ubislate tablets will be able to use the tablet in English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi and various other languages. The tablet maker has entered a strategic alliance with Reverie Language Technologies to ensure that the Ubislate tablets will offer support for the above mentioned multi-lingual support for its Indian and international customers. (more…)

Gameloft, one of the leading game developers in the mobile space has announced that mobile versions of Men in Black 3 and Asphalt 7: Heat are slated to be released soon.Men in Black 3, is not only heading to Android smartphones, but also iOS. MIB 3 will be a premium free title which basically means that the game will be available for download on the Google Play market for free, but it will have in-app purchases, a form of monetization that is quite successful for Android developers.  Men in Black 3 will rele...

The Samsung Galaxy S3 was perhaps the most anticipated smartphone of the year, maybe even more so then the next iPhone. But after Samsung unveiled the final device, many people were left underwhelmed as the device did not turn out to be the revolutionary game changer everyone thought it to be. If anything, HTC with its One X won the industrial design battle, amongst the Android flagships. However, we do believe the Galaxy S3 suffers from the same syndrome as the iPhone 4S. Many things were rumored, but few ca...

Later today Samsung will unveil its flagship smartphone for the year 2012 in London. In fact the launch is only six hours away at the time of writing this article. Samsung has done pretty good job of keeping things hidden and till now we yet to see a conclusive leak. But there are few things we expect, read on to find out more. (more…)

Today RIM has not only shown its new Cascading UI for BlackBerry 10 but it has also unraveled what all is in store for its next generation Operating System which should be launched later this year. The Canadian vendor has been working on BB 10 for about an year-and-a-half and today CEO Thorsten Heins has described how the UI will let you float through applications which will keep running in the background. (more…)

LG today announced its cloud service which will sync with your three devices namely your LG Android smartphone, your LG compatible TV and your desktop. This service will be able to stream all your content on the TV which was stored in your handset or on your desktop. Users will first be required to download the LG Cloud Android app from the Google Play or from the LG Smart World. The same app should be downloaded on the desktop or your laptop so that LG’s server can then sync all your stored stuff on yo...

After the HTC Salsa and the ChaCha phones, news is abuzz that Taiwanese handset vendor HTC is currently developing another Android smartphone in collaboration with Facebook. We had known since last year that such kind of a phone was in the works but a recent DigiTimes report has mentioned, this unnamed handset is expected to be launched in the third quarter this year at the earliest. While these previous models had a dedicated Facebook button but this upcoming model, as mentioned in the report, will feature s...

Yesterday, Samsung took to Twitter and posted Destination: tgeltaayehxnx. After a bit brainstorming we figured that the word tgeltaayehxnx is an anagram for ‘ the next galaxy’. The teaser website is currently showing a countdown, which ends later today. We are expecting Samsung to drop a few hints of what we can expect from the Galaxy S III. (more…)

Last week we reported that a fake version of Angry Birds Space was doing the rounds on the Internet. And now it is time for the same to be repeated with Instagram. Security firm Sophos is reporting that if Android users download Instagram from untrusted sources then they run the risk of getting their smartphone infected. Once installed, the app will send background SMS messages to premium rate services earning its creators revenue. Sophos says the malware appears on a Russian website and feigns as the officia...