Intel, Global computer chip manufacturer which joined with Lava a couple of months back to unveil the world's first Intel Atom Z2460 mobile processor based Smartphone Xolo 900, in India has got into partnership with another Indian handset brand, Karbonn, to launch an Intel based Smartphone by the end of this year. It has been stated by managing director, Karbonn Mobiles that they Mobiles will launch an Intel based Android Smartphone by year end in India. Their R&D team has been working with Intel on this project for quite some time now. Till now no details regarding price or specifications has not been revealed. Many international players like Lenovo and Motorola apart from Indian brands have already started working on devices based on Intel's mobile Atom chips. Users can expect many Intel based devices in the market. By the end of year Motorola’s Intel powered Smartphone’s will be made available to global users. We can hope to see the device much sooner by looking at the Intel's eagerness. Lava Xolo X900 which has Intel processor is getting good response from consumers. 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Z2460 mobile processor with Intel Hyper-Threading technology is used for faster performance with minimal possible compromise on battery life. The Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator on this handset has the capability to support all modern 3D graphics and high quality video playback. The camera used in this handset features a burst mode allowing users to capture ten pictures within a second at 8 megapixel quality
Device Specifications:
• 4.03 inch touchscreen display
• Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities
• Micro HDMI to output high quality videos
• 8 megapixel rear camera
• Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator
• Front facing camera for video calls or video chat

Source : Themobileindian

Nokia, Finnish mobile manufacturer will try to bring the Windows 8 experience to all Lumia series phones with its upcoming Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade. It has been reported by director of smart devices at Nokia India that it's not possible to upgrade the hardware on the devices, to accommodate the new upgrade we will be looking at bringing the Windows 8-like look and feel to our Lumia range of devices with the Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade.
Common set of features for seamless, hiccup-free interoperability is shared between the Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 operating system which has been built using the same core. They also share some more common features in networking, media, and the web browser. They have to face the hardware limitation which will still apply to upgraded Lumia devices. They are expected to miss out on the interoperability front.
Soon Nokia will soon start releasing application upgrades for all existing Nokia Lumia devices. Another upgrade include Nokia live radio, an online song streaming service; upgraded Nokia Drive application with traffic details; the camera application with a set of new functions like best group shot and more. Lumia devices will also get the much awaited Wi-Fi tethering feature which permit users to use their devices to power the internet needs of their other portable devices.

Source : Themobileindian

It has been reported that Samsung's flagship device Galaxy SIII caught fire when the user had kept the phone in his car few weeks’ back. The result of investigation done by Samsung was that Smartphone caught fire not because of any malfunction in the Smartphone which caused the heat but due to exposure of the device to heating in Microwave oven.
The official blog of Samsung, The Samsung Tomorrow cites a report from Fire Investigations UK finding stated that the phone itself was not responsible for generating the heat caused the damage. The user of the phone admitted that Smartphone was inappropriately handled when it got wet accidently. To dry up the wet Galaxy SIII he had placed the device in Microwave in an attempt to catalyze the drying process. Earlier the user claimed that while he was travelling the car some part of the Samsung Galaxy SIII had started melting on its own.

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Samsung, Korean electronics brand has confirmed that it will launch the Windows 8 operating system based tablet in the month of October this year. Tablet based on the upcoming Windows 8 RT platform will be launched. It will be optimized for better touch screen performance along with the inclusion of the 'Metro' style user interface that is similar to the one that is being used on Windows Phone presently. It has been reported that Samsung tablets will be released when Windows 8 itself is unveiled in October. They will enhance Microsoft's continuing bid to get into a tablet market that is dominated by Apple's iPad. Samsung join the bandwagon of Windows 8 based device manufacturers of which HP has already announced to be a part of but HP will only be focusing on Windows 8, Intel processor, based devices in order to maintain its core business.
Microsoft has offered Windows RT access only to limited number of PC makers in order to maintain the quality of devices that will be available in the market. Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments were allowed to design the chips for devices such as tablets, notebooks or hybrid devices like the Asus transformer. Large chunk of the tablets available today are based on the ARM architecture based processor including Apple iPad.

Source : Themobileindian

According to the latest reports the BlackBerry App World has reached three billion downloads since it opened for business back in 2009. This number is rather paltry compared to what Apple and Google have been recording. This is good news we have received from RIM in quite some time. In the last six months one third of the above mentioned milestone has been accomplished. The three billion app downloads include themes and wallpapers.

Source  : Blog.gsmarena