Sharp today announced its entry into the Indian cellphone market by announcing four phones. Well, the phones are not available yet but we are told that they will be before the end of the year. The wares are priced between Rs 6,499 and Rs 17,999 and all of them are multimedia phones. On the extreme [...]

Mark this one as unconfirmed but we are hearing from multiple sources that Motorola might be prepping to launch the Droid X in India. Of course, it won’t get get launched as the Droid X (that’s Verizon branding) and might get the Milestone X brand in India. The launch might be slated for later this [...]

This is going to be a really brief post. We have just received an update for the Gmail app on Android. In brief, we can see a few design changes that make it easier to reply to mails without having to scroll to the end of the mail, a pet peeve of ours. The new [...]

We had earlier reported about Tata DoCoMo’s 3G tariff plans. Now check out the tariffs for some of its 3G VAS offerings. All video calls will be charged at 5 paise per second. Its Mobile TV service is priced at Rs 99 per month. We are not sure at this point of time but we [...]

As expected, Dell announced a couple of Android smartphones suited for emerging markets like India. The two phones – XCD28 and XCD35 – run on Android 2.1 and are expected to be updated to Android 2.2 in the future. Priced aggressively at Rs 10,999 and Rs 16,999 respectively, it seems Dell is pushing hard to [...]

Rovio, the developers of runaway hit game, Angry Birds, has just unleashed a big update for its Android version that not only fixes a few bugs but also adds a completely new episode. The bugs fixed include support for QVGA displays, blank screens on Android 1.6 devices and white lines on some devices. The new [...]

Yesterday, the Financial Times published a report about HTC’s plans to launch an app store of its own. The report is based on a couple of sources that claim HTC is hiring staff for the online application store including content editors. The store would have e-books, newspapers and magazines apart from apps. The team would [...]

Lemon Mobiles has announced that they will very soon launch a 3G phone – the W100 – for just Rs 3,500. The homegrown vendor has promised that the Lemon W100 will be available in the Indian market by the end of this November. Detailed specs of the Lemon W100 are not yet available but yes [...]

We have finally received official word from Tata DoCoMo regarding its 3G tariff plans and it seems like the carrier is banking upon a strategy of flat rate plans for cellphones and tiered plans for data cards/Internet Tablets. There are four plans for cellphones starting from Rs 500 and going up to Rs 2,000. For [...]

Tata DoCoMo, which became the first private GSM carrier to launch 3G services in India has announced the tariff plans for its 3G offerings, according to Telecom Talk. Video calls will be charged at 66 paise per minute and ’3G Life Plans’ will start from Rs 350 for prepaid users and Rs 500 for postpaid [...]