India's 35$ Tablet finally announced. Named Aakash

Indian government's venture to create the cheapest tablet for students has finally been released. The much anticipated tablet is being manufactured by DataWind Ltd..

Government aims to provide 10000 tablets to students of India. Cost of each tablet is announced as Rs.2250 and is said to decrease in the coming days when Indian Government places an order for mass production of this. DataWind's Aakash is only for students and the price is subsidized. DataWind plans to release another version of Aakash, called UbiSlate which will be priced slightly higher than Aakash. DataWind claims to deliver UbiSlate by the end of November.

Ever since the announcement of 35$ Tablet, the processor speed was kept undisclosed. The processor speed turned out to be only 366Mhz. Considering the price of the tablet, this must not be disappointing as it is a value for money tablet. Here is a list of specifications to wrap up.

Aakash features -

a 7" display with resolution 800 x 480 pixels

a 366Mhz Processor

256 MB of RAM

2GB of internal

expandable up to 32 GB through microSD slot

1 standard USB 2.0 Port

Wifi Capability

Battery that lasts 3 hours and

runs Android 2.2 Froyo

Evidently, the tablet will not support HD graphics but the product is quite good for what it is aimed at. May be a disappointment to few people, but this is what you get for what you want to pay.

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Micromax X222 - Cheapest Touch phone

Yet again we are posting another Micromax mobile phone. Micromax has this time come up with the cheapest touch phone in India, the Micromax X222. Micromax X222 is a tiny little phone with dual sim support and costing less than 2k. The phone comes with a 2.4" resistive touch display screen. More features here -

Form Factor	Full Touch Bar Style
Band	Dual GSM Band (900/1800 MHz)
Dimensions	92mm*52mm*14mm
Display	6cms, 65K TFT(240*320 Pixels)
Weight	83gms
Music	Multi Format (MP3, WAV, AMR)
FM Radio	Yes
Camera	VGA
Audio/Video Player	Yes
Expandable Memory	MicroSD (upto 8GB)
Bluetooth	Yes
SMS/MMS/GPRS	Yes
Battery Type	Li-ion 900mAh
Talk Time	Up to 6 hours*
Standby Time	Up to 157 hours*

Price : Rs. 1990

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Vodafone's Android phone - Vodafone Smart VF858

Vodafone has finally joined the race of affordable Android phones with Micromax and other manufacturers with the release of its new Vodafone Smart VF858. Vodafone Smart is powered with a 528Mhz ARM processor and runs Android 2.2 Froyo.



More features of Vodafone Smart VF858 -

• TFT Capacitive Touch Screen, 256k Colors


• 2.8" screen with 240 x 320 pixel screen resolution - 143 ppi pixel density


• Accelerometer and Proximity sensors


• 130 MB internal memory, expandable up to 32 GB through microSD


• GPRS, EDGE, 3G (3.6 Mbps), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wifi - Hotspot


• Price: Rs. 6,695

Vodafone Smart is priced Rs. 6,700.

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Dual Core Android from Micromax - A85

Micromax has played big in the global and Indian market. Creating new records in making the most affordable phones is not new to it. Here's new Micromax A85, phone with dual core 1GHz processor and at a price rumored to be under Rs. 20,000. With this micromax becomes one of the few companies who have released dual core android phones in India with other players like LG and Samsung. The Micromax website doesn't hint anything and even the GSMArena still keeps the status as "Rumored". But the phone is sure to come out sooner or later and going to be a game changer for Micromax.

Micromax A85 will be third in Micromax's Android phone line up after the success of A60 and A70.

The Blurry image of Micromax A80. All that's available (leaked)

Here are some features rumored to come with Micromax A85 -

• TFT Capacitive touch screen, 480 x 800 pixels with 247 ppi pixel density


• Proximity and accelerometer sensors


• 8 GB internal memory, 512 MB RAM, Externally extendable up to 32 GB


• GPRS, EDGE, 3G (HSDPA,  HSUPA)


• Bluetooth, micro USB v2.0


• 5 MP Primary Camera - 2592 x 1944, autofocus


• VGA Secondary Front Camera


• Android Froyo v2.2


• 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 Dual Core Processor


• Li-ion Standard Battery

Enthusiasts are very much looking forward for the release of this power packed device - Micromax A85

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Yet another Tablet - iBall Slide

Back in late 1990's when mobile phones were a new trend, lot of companies poured in with various models. Now you can see the same thing happening in the tablet market. This time iBall has come up with its tablet iBall Slide.

Hrithik Roshan is going to promote this product in India. You can check out the all new iBall Slide @ iballslide.com.

iBall slide runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a 1GHz processor. Specifications -

• 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 Processor

• Full Capacitive touch screen with multi touch support

• 7" WVGA screen with 800 x 480 resolution

• 4400 mAh Battery to give long life of 6.5 hours of audio and 5 hours of video.

• Connectivity through Wifi, Bluetooth and 3G via Datacard

• 2.0 MP Front Camera for Video calling and conference

• USB Host and OTG ports to connect pen drives and to the PC

• 8 GB Built in memory. Expandable up to 32 GB with microSD Card

• HDMI Output Port

The tablet is going to support 3d games and high quality video play back.

The phone is priced Rs. 13995 in India.

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Facebook phone - Vodafone Blue

Vodafone and facebook came together to launch the facebook phone in India. Named Vodafone Blue, the facebook phone comes with dedicated buttons and customized interface to support facebook. Vodafone Blue has features which makes users easy to update status, share photos, comment and for easy browsing of facebook. The mobile contacts sync with the facebook profile.

Vodafone Blue also comes with application, Palringo Chat Suite which supports gtalk, AIM, iChat, Facebook Chat, ICQ and more.  Other applications include an email client (with POP3 and IMAP support) and Opera Mini web browser.

With all these features, facebook phone, the vodafone blue, comes for a price under Rs. 5000.

Vodafone blue features -

• a 2.4"  TFT display with 320 x 240 pixels


• QWERTY Keyboard layout


• 40 MB internal memory. MicroSD expandable up to 16 GB


• GPRS and EDGE support


• Bluetooth v2.1, USB v2.0


• 200 Mhz Processor


• FM Radio with 3.5mm audio jack


• Audio/Video Formats : mp3, aac, wma, mp4, h.263


• Price: Approximately Rs. 4750

Even though called as the Facebook phone, the only way to connect to internet is through GPRS, EDGE. There is no 3G nor WLAN support which is quite disappointing but with such a price tag, it is what we pay for.

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Yet another Projector phone - Micromax X40

When the big brothers of mobile industry stays away from projector phones, here comes Micromax's new projector phone Micromax X40. After Intex, Spice and G'Five, Micromax debuts its first projector phone. X40 has more features than just the projector. It comes with support to read multiple office format documents like Word, Excel, Powerpoint and even PDF.



Phone features -

- Dual SIM Capability

- a QVGA 2.4" screen 240 x 320 pixels with 262k colors.

- 2 MP camera with resolution 1600 x 1200 pixels

- Bluetooth and USB connectivity

- WAP, GPRS, EDGE support

- FM Radio,  MP3 Player

- 80MB inbuilt memory expandable upto  4 GB

- Multi format document reader supporting Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF documents

- Preloaded applications like Facebook,  Nimbuzz, Opera Mini, Snaptu, Mundu Radio etc..

Price: Approximately Rs. 4800

The phone also comes with a portable Tripod and Transceiver. Price looks competitive to its specifications.

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Nokia announces budget phones Nokia 100 and 101

Nokia has announced two new phones Nokia 100 and Nokia 101. Nokia though fails to compete with the higher end phones with its Symbian, it is doing quite well in budget range mobile phone segment. Nokia 100 and 101 look identical but Nokia 100 is totally a basic phone with not much features.

Nokia 100 and Nokia 101 are aimed for the population that travels and finds difficult to recharge the battery every often. Nokia claims that these two phones are going to give a 35 hours stand by time.

Nokia 100

Symbian Series 30 Operating System

1.8"  TFT display with resolution 128 x 160 pixels with 65k colors

500 phone book contacts

FM Radio

Torch Light

Price: Approximately Rs. 900

Nokia 101

Symbian Series 30 Operating System

1.8"  TFT display with resolution 128 x 160 pixels with 65k colors

Dual SIM ( but not Dual Stand-by)

MP3 Support

FM Radio

3.5 mm Audio jack

Memory Slot - Memory expandable up to 16GB

Price: Approximately Rs. 1200

With this Nokia 100 probably becomes the cheapest phone to be released in India.

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RIM announces Blackberry Curve phones

Research In Motion has announced three new phones to the Blackberry Curve series. Blackberry Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370. All the three phones are identical in looks and almost similar in features except for the network capability and the built-in memory. Blackberry Curve 9370 is capable of both CDMA and GSM connectivity with 1GB built-in memory while the other two, Blackberry 9350 and Blackberry 9360 support only CDMA connectivity with 512MB of built-in memory.

All the three phones have -

• A 2.44" display with 480 x 360 Resolution


• 512 MB of RAM


• 800 MHz processor


• BlackBerry OS 7.0


• 5MP Camera with LED Flash and resolution 2592х1944 pixels


• VGA Video recording


• Bluetooth, Wifi 802.11n, A-GPS and NFC

The three phones are expected to arrive at the end of September 2011 and aimed to be available at lower prices.

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