Cellphones Watch

Apple products have always managed to create a buzz worldwide months before they are introduced in market. The release of iPhone 4S was much of a surprise for Apple fanatics, who had their eyes set on the iPhone 5. Apple is mum about the features of its yet-to-be-released smartphone, the iPhone 5. There are rumors about the look & unique features that new Apple phone would come with, but no surety of course. Numerous predictions have been made about the iPhone 5 and after conducting a thorough research & facts check, we have made a list of possible features that iPhone 5 might come with. So, here we go: Screen Size –   Rumors are there that the new iPhone might come with 4.3 inch screen. Since Apple is not so fond of big screens and has stuck with 3.5 inch display, there are more chances of a 4 inch device to be introduced.   Another issue is the screen resolution. If Apple prefers to stick with 3.5 inch display, the resolution will be same 960x640 pixels Ret...

The series of new launches, mobile OS upgrades, and tremendous improvement in hardware specs have altogether made 2011, a great year for cellphone industry. We witnessed a tough competition between Android , iOS, and Windows 7.5 Mango in the last quarter of the year. 2012 has already arrived, but the fight is still on. The enthusiasm to come-up with a better & more powerful device has increased even more. So, what is the year 2012 going to unfold for the gadget lovers? Which much-awaited devices are going to get launched this year? Let’s try to sneak into the world of mobile phones & make a wish list of devices we would like get our hands-on. Though, no official specs info has been revealed by manufacturers, we are only talking about the news spread in cellphone industry. Samsung Galaxy SIII After the tremendous success of Galaxy SII in 2011, Samsung is all-set to introduce the new Galaxy SIII. The phone will be bundled with latest Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich. Other h...

The Indian mobile maker Spice has recently launched a touchscreen Android phone Mi-350 in market. In no time, Mi-350 became popular because of being bundled with good features at an affordable price. Mi-350 is an Android Gingerbread phone with features such as 3.4 inch capacitive touchscreen, 3.2MP front & VGA secondary camera, 3G, Wi-Fi, and 32GB expandable memory. Everything about the phone is good except the experiment Spice has done with the chipset. Mi-350 is the first device that comes with Mediatek MT6573 chipset. It is because of the chipset, this Android Gingerbread phone won't let you use Skype. A lot of customers are talking about this problem, but no solution to this problem has been found out till date. Overall performance of the phone is good. Click here for a detailed review of Mi-350. Websites like Saholic are giving a good deal on this product by selling it for Rs.8,501.

The online shopping trend is about to explode. With so many retailers and even big brands following the same trend, we can say that eCommerce is going to be the next boom in the industry. However, online shopping is still in an evolving stage in India. I am amazed to see how dramatically the number of online shoppers is increasing in the country. It was estimated that air and rail tickets of whopping INR 30 crore are sold online everyday. Online shopping is hassle free and yes, we all are slowly adopting this trend. What are those “good things” about online shopping, which make it so addictive? Let’s talk about them: You Get More Options Just Google about a particular product you want to purchase and thousands of results will be displayed on the screen within a few seconds. Suppose you want to buy a leather jacket, you can go through each web page, see the collection, and decide if you want to go ahead with the payment procedure. And the best part ...

BlackBerry Torch 9860 RIM has finally introduced the much awaited BlackBerry Torch 9860 in India. The phone has also been launched as Torch 9850, which is a US version with CDMA/EVDO support.  Running on BlackBerry OS 7.0, the phone has a 3.7 inch capacitive touchscreen display and a resolution of 800x480 pixels. The specs are somewhat similar to the recently launched Torch 9810 but the sliding physical QWERTY keypad is missing in this BlackBerry. The impressive thing about new Torch 9860 is the powerful 1.2GHz processor and 768MB RAM that will make your browsing and application access experience faster. The 5 megapixel camera with LED flash will not disappoint you, as BlackBerry phones even with 2MP camera click decent pictures. The UI is more fluidic and new BlackBerry browser is undoubtedly faster than earlier versions. There’s support for recording and playing HD videos @720p. I wish the phone had support full HD video playback, i.e. 108...

Cellphones have become an integral part of our life. We need our phone when we leave for office, go on a vacation, and even in our bathroom. Technology has evolved and so have the features in our mobile phones. There was a time when mobile phones were only used for making/ receiving calls, that too at high tariffs. We can now send SMS/MMS, browse Internet, watch movies, play music, and even monitor our heart beats through the cellphone. “We always desire for more” and of course, “necessity is the mother of invention”. There are lot many features and apps, we are craving for our cellphones to come with. A very good friend of mine asked what all things I would love to have in my mobile phone and my wish list was pretty long. Here are a few of my demands that I would want to share with everyone:   I have a problem with thickness of the phone Yess, we all love slim bodies. No doubt about it. I want my phone to be extremely sleek. Have heard that...

Symbian is a mobile operating system owned and maintained by Nokia. It was originally owned by Symbian Ltd. and Nokia took over the company in the year 2008. Programmed in C++, Symbian has received lots of revisions and improved versions in the past few years.  Nokia has come up with 4 versions of Symbian, after it acquired Symbian Ltd. The journey from Symbian 1 to Symbian Anna has seen a remarkable improvement. So, what are the basic differences and enhancements introduced in these versions? Symbian^1 - It’s the incorporation of Symbian OS and S60 platform (5 th edition). Symbian^2 – The first royalty free open source version of Symbian, it was adopted by DoCoMo and Sharp for their smartphones in the year 2010. Symbian^3 – Released in 2010, Symbian^3 is also known as the next generation smartphones OS. Evolution from Symbian^1 to Symbian^3 While Symbian^1 had only one customizable home screen, Symbian^3 made it possible for the user to ha...

With every mobile phone brand coming up with one or the other enhanced camera feature in their device, buying the right camera phone is surely a confusing thing for the consumer. So, what are those features that make a camera phone, a smart camera phone?   Does Megapixels Really Matter? Yes, but that doesn’t mean you will have to buy a phone with 12 megapixel camera. Most of us don’t know that we need higher megapixels in case we want to take poster print of photographs. Number of megapixels determines how an image will look when it will be printed in large size. If you will take a large print out of image captured from camera that doesn’t have enough megapixel, result will be a blurred image. Another thing to keep in mind is that editing or cropping images clicked from low megapixel camera will be lead to fuzzy results. Camera phones with fixed focus will not capture quality pictures because the lens will cover anything that will fall in the...

First reported in Apple iPhone 4, "death grip" can muffle the wireless signals of the phone it's held in a certain way (like in landscape mode). Got my hands on HTC Sensation a few days back, and came to know how the phone can actually get a noticeable signal loss even when the Wi-Fi speed is pretty decent. Watching YouTube videos in portrait mode was a smooth experience, but the moment I switched to landscape mode and clicked on a video, all I got was a lot of buffering time. HTC's back cover could be the reason behind death grip. This removable cover is made of metal but there are plastic areas in between to work as antennas for the phone. If your hand by chance covers these plastic pieces, the result  would be a drop in the signal receptivity of the phone. You might face the death grip problem while browsing Internet on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth connectivity or when you are listening to radio. If we keep aside the problem of death grip, Sensation is a good phone. It...

Mobile phones or any electronic item is prone to get damaged by water. If by chance, your cellphone gets wet, it means the loss of money as well as important data stored in the phone. There are a few waterproof phones like Motorola Defy available in market, which are especially designed for a rough usage. But, it is true that no one would own a phone just because of just one characteristic and people do have different choices, when it comes to buying a mobile phone. Fine, you are not in the league of those who own a waterproof phone. But, you can adopt some simple measures to protect your mobile phone from water: Prefer Using Handsfree: One of the basic tricks, but comes handy is most of the situations. Talking through handsfree will save the phone from getting wet in mild rains. Look Out for Waterproof Accessories: The market is flooded with accessories that are made to protect the mobile phone from water. There are various  online stores  that are offering silicon...