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ZTE aims for India with five new smartphones

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
05.20.13 | No Comments

ZTE, one of China’s biggest telecom and mobile phone makers, plans to sell five new smartphones directly to India. This is the first time ZTE has marketed phones specifically for the Indian market. The five phones are priced from US$105 to US$270 according to The Next Web. ZTE is in it ...

Tags: India, phones, smartphones, ZTE
Indian-made Aakash 2 budget tablet launches today, costs $21

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
11.12.12 | No Comments

On India's National Education day, which is today, the mega-cheap and cheerful budget tablet the Aaskash 2 launches for the price of US$21. It's an exceptionally vanilla tablet but one that costs less than the price of two happy meals. For US$21, which is roughly the price of a cab fare ...

Tags: 7-inch, Aakash 2, India, Tablet
Samsung denies India the Galaxy Nexus

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
05.04.12 | 2 Comments

The Galaxy Nexus won't be sold in India, with Twitter being the platform Samsung decides to break the bad news on. India seems like a strange country to isolate from Samsung's flagship Android 4.0 smartphone users. One user demanded an answer and Samsung shot back. @TifosoTuli The Galaxy Nexus will not ...

Tags: Galaxy, India, Nexus, S III
Nokia’s PureView 808 41Mpx phone launches first in Russia, India

By Staff Reporter
05.03.12 | Comments Off

The PureView 808, Nokia's 41-megapixel snapper plans to launch this month in India and Russia. Nokia mentions "select markets" but outside of Russia and India, no other country is mentioned. For the uninitiated, the PureView 808 is all about it's high-def camera. The 41-megapixel sensor, combined with the Carl Zeiss lens and ...

Tags: cameraphone, India, launches, nokia, PureView 808, Russia
HCL launches two great new budget tablets, starts at US$160

By Martin Carstens: Staff reporter
04.03.12 | Comments Off

Budget tablets are a dime a dozen these days, but it's interesting to watch companies push them into new market segments. With the rise of the iPad it seems that tablets will soon be commonplace in the classroom. HCL agrees. The Indian company announced two new low cost tablets –- ...

Tags: HCL ME U1, HCL MyEdu Tab, India
Aakash-II set for 2012 release

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
02.20.12 | Comments Off

Remember the Aakash, the “world’s cheapest tablet”? It’s inching ever closer to a worldwide release date thanks to new developers C-DAC and ITI jumping in to take over where Datawind Ltd, previous manufacturers of the Aakash, failed. An improved version of the Aakash, or the UbiSlate is set to release ...

Tags: Aakash, Android, India, Tablet, UbiSlate
India to monitor BlackBerry communications

By Staff Reporter
10.28.11 | Comments Off

In an effort to better its Blackberry services RIM has set up a new monitoring facility in Mumbai. The Canadian manufacturer, along with the Indian government will now conduct surveillance checks. Sources say that RIM opened the centre this year in order to deal with the requests from the Indian Intelligence ...

Tags: blackberry, India, monitoring, RIM
India unveils $45 Akash tablet

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
10.05.11 | 14 Comments

A US$45 tablet is now a reality, thanks to Indian ingenuity. The tablet launches this week and its hope is to bring the digital age to millions of students across India. The “Akash” or “Sky” is to be launched in New Deli by Kapil Sibal, the Human Resources Development Minister. The ...

Tags: Akash, India, Tablet
Can India produce the world’s cheapest tablet?

By Staff Reporter
12.10.10 | 2 Comments

The Indian government won headlines around the world when it unveiled a prototype $US35 tablet computer in July, but questions are now growing over whether the project will become a reality or not. At the computer's launch, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal vowed "the solutions for tomorrow will emerge from ...

Tags: 35 dollar tablet, India, Kapil Sibal

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