An exciting move, Google has acquired Sparrow, a popular email client for OS X and iOS. According to the latest report of The Verge acquisition cost Google under $25 million. If you have any doubt whether this move will somehow result in a better version of the app then you are in for disappointment. This is basically a talent acquisition; Google will be using the expert team behind the excellent Sparrow app to improve their own email client. No new features will be added in Sparrow. You can also forget about that iPad app that was supposedly in the works. This move has been criticized by those who purchased and have been using this app for a while now. Although the apps are good but there won’t be any further improvements in it.  Users can buy this app from the App Store.

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Indian mobile phone maker, Intex Technologies has unveiled its first 7 inch Android tablet, called Intex i-Buddy. The 7 inch Android 4.0 tablet is very slim and lightweight and comes with leather cover with attached keyboard. The tablet is priced at Rs 6,490.

Device Specification:

• 9mm thickness
• Android Ice-cream Sandwich 4.0 OS
• 1 GHz processor
• 512 MB DDR3 RAM
• 7 inch multi touch screen
• Support Adobe Flash 11.1
• 32 GB external storage
• 3G dongle via a USB port
• Front facing camera
• 3 hours battery life
• 316 grams  lightweight
• Champagne color

This tablet has 12 months warranty and is available with 15,000 dealers and 1000 distributors. You can  buy this tablet from any of the 60 exclusive Intex retail stores, called Intex Squares. This is the second tablet from Intex launched in March this year.

Source : Themobileindian

New low cost tablet has been unveiled by Pantel Technologies called Pantel T-Pad IS701C. Earlier Pantel Technologies launched its tablets in partnership with BSNL. The new Android tablet is priced at Rs 4,999. But it is criticized by the users due to the delayed delivery of its tablets. Pantel will prefer to sell this tablet through retail stores also apart from selling it though BSNL network which is also offering special plans with Pantel tablets.

Device Specification:

• 1GHz processor
• 7 inch 800X480 pixel based TFT LCD capacitive multi-touch screen
• Ice Cream Sandwich Android operating system (OS)
• WiFi device
• 3G USB dongle support
• USB 2.0 port and  micro USB port
• 0.3 megapixel front camera
• 6 hours battery back-up
• 512 MB DDR III RAM
• Internal storage of 4 GB
• 720p HDMI port

Source : Themobileindian

According to the latest reports Samsung will not only unveil the Android Jelly Bean operating system update for its Galaxy SIII Smartphone but also for the Galaxy SII handsets.  As stated by sources that Samsung is planning to roll out the Android Jelly Bean 4.1 upgrade in late August or early September this year for the Galaxy SIII.
Samsung is also testing the Android Jelly Bean on many devices which includes Samsung Galaxy SII Smartphone. It is expected that the upgrade will be a appreciated by Galaxy SII users globally.

The website also hinted that samsung is planning for upgrading other high end Android devices to Android Jelly Bean 4.1. When talking about high end devices then Galaxy Note comes at the top position. Galaxy Tab 7.7 has an equal chance to be upgraded to Android Jelly Bean. Still the final decision has to be made by the company.

Source : Themobileindian

Recently Google declared Nexus 7 tablet has been made available in markets like the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia in two versions - one with 8 GB and the other with 16 GB internal memory. Google had anticipated that Nexus 7 to be a super seller, but it turns out that users prefer 16 GB version of the tablet over the 8 GB version. Device storage seems to be the first option of users over cloud storage.
The main motive behind having a limited on device storage on 8GB Nexus 7 was to promote users to shift to cloud based storage services with much emphasis laid on cloud based services such as Google Music, Docs, Mail and Drive. As of now buyers are not convinced with this idea.
According to the Media reports t in most markets the 16 GB version of Google Nexus has run out of stock and retailers have stopped taking orders for buyers while 8 GB version is available in plenty.

Device Specification:

• 1.3 GHz quad core Tegra 3 processor
• GeForce 12 core graphics processor
• 1 GB of RAM
• 1280 x 800 pixel IPS 7 inch display
• Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities
• Nine hours battery backup
• Android Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) operating system
• Intelligent keyboard that predicts words as you type them
• Offline voice recognition for typing
• Support  18 languages

Customer interest shows that hardware storage still rules the game. Google will now be desperately making up for the increase in demands with more and more 16 GB version tablets being sent to the markets. Lets see that whether Google be interested adding more storage to the Nexus 7 tablet or perhaps a Micro SD card slot or will they stick to the clouds, awaits to be seen.

Source : Themobileindian