Samsung eyes 50% share in Indian phone market

KOLKATA: Korean electronics major Samsung is targeting to garner 50 per cent in the overall mobile market in the country.

"We are gaining 10 per cent of the mobile phone market each year. Presently, the market share is 40 per cent. Our aim is to touch 50 per cent next year," Vice-President (Mobile), Samsung Electronics India, Asim Warsi said.

Opening the city's first Samsung branded store here today, Warsi said growth in the mobile phone market in the country was being propelled by smartphones.

UN endorses India’s Aakash outreach

WASHINGTON: India's push to digitally empower millions of its poor students with lowcost , government-subsidized , internet-enabled tablets won UN endorsement on Wednesday despite raging controversy and misgivings on the provenance and pricing of the device.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon personally approved the Indian effort at the UN Headquarters where dozens of envoys from across the world gathered for a peek at the Aakash II device that its makers (British-Canadian-Indian company Datawind) and chief patron (Government of India) say will revolutionize education and commerce.

iPhone 5 goes on sale in the US

The US market was one of the first to get the iPhone 5 on launch day. However, the only devices available until now were locked to carriers and available on contract.

Well, if you stay in the US, you don't have to look at other countries to get your unlocked iPhone 5 anymore. These devices have just hit both the online as well as the Apple brick and mortar stores in the US. The prices for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB iPhone 5 models is $649, $749 and $849 respectively, same as the iPhone 4S before.

These devices will only work on GSM networks, such as AT&T and T-Mobile in the US and will require a nano-SIM. If you order it now the phone will be shipped in one week. You can only order two units per person.

Amazing HTC One X+ Review

Its been a little over 6 months since HTC launched its high end flagship device, the One X and today a spec bumped successor available.

The One X+ keeps all the best features from the One X and brings a modest spec bump to one of our current favorite Android devices. Read on to find out    how the smartphone compares with the competition.  

Samsung Galaxy S Advance to get Jelly Bean in January

Samsung Germany used its Facebook page, to share some valuable info, regarding the Galaxy S Advance Jelly Bean update. The device will receive Android 4.1.2 in January. The update will be supplied both through the Kies software and over the air.

Previously the update was rumored for November. Samsung announced that the Galaxy S Advance will skip ICS altogether and move straight to Jelly Bean instead. The company has also committed to delivering Jelly Bean to a long list of devices in the "coming months".

It seems Samsung is really keen on keeping its customers happy and bringing the latest software to them. And given that after the update the S Advance will probably cannibalize some of the S III mini sales, the company deserves some recognition for this.

Recent Blackberry Promotional Offers

1. Action round the year with free BBM

Devices: BlackBerry Curve 9220 or 9320 (3G) smartphone

End date: 9 Dec 2012

• Buy a BlackBerry 9220 or 9230 (3G) smartphone
• Get new Airtel or Vodafone connection
• Enjoy free BBM for 1 year
• Offer lasts till 9^th December 2012
• To activate on Airtel SMS 'BBM' to 543210
• For Vodafone, auto activation will be done within 48 hours on first SIM inserted

2. One year free BBM plan (Unlimited BlackBerry Messenger + 300 National SMS every month) for first time BlackBerry prepaid and postpaid customers on purchase of 9320 and 9220 devices.

Essential BlackBerry tips to save your time

1. Use the keyboard less

BlackBerry has always had a QWERTY keyboard and you can type everything out in full - but you can save time with the built-in shortcuts. Press space twice at the end of a sentence to get the full stop and an automatic capital on the next word.

Don't bother with apostrophes in words like I'm and isn't (type im and the BlackBerry will correct it for you); there are other handy abbreviations like 'wel' to get 'we'll' and 'il' to get 'I'll' and you can add your own with Options > AutoText.

AUTOTEXT:Speed up typing by creating your own abbreviations and corrections

Blackberry App World to be rebranded as BlackBerry World

Today at BlackBerry Jam Asia , RIM announced that the BlackBerry App World application marketplace would be soon renamed as BlackBerry World as the company is gearing up for the launch of BlackBerry 10 on Jan 30 2013 next year.

Interestingly the company’s annual BlackBerry conference held at Orlando, Floride was known as BlackBerry World till now.

BlackBerry 10 QWERTY Device Now Confirmed

RIM today confirmed at Blackberry Jam Asia that BlackBerry 10 devices will be coming out in both Full Touch and QWERTY editions. This puts the rumours about RIM killing QWERTY keyboard to rest.

RIM is also releasing a new developer device today known as the Dev Alpha C which will be packing a QWERTY keyboard.

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