Sony Xperia E1 Dual review: Consider if music is priority, and not the camera

Consider if music is priority, and not the camera !!!
Name: Sony Xperia E1 Dual
Price: Rs 8,210
Rating: 4/5
Specs: 4-inch display, Android Jelly Bean, 3MP camera, 1.2GHz dual core processor, 512 MB RAM, 4GB internal storage, micro SD card slot, Bluetooth, 3G, WiFi, 1700 mAh battery, 120 g

Sony's Walkman series of phones has been popular, and now the company is back with a dedicated Walkman key on its new affordable smartphone, the Xperia E1. Packing in a four-inch display, the WVGA resolution (800 x480 pixels) is somewhat lacking in brightness and colour. The power key and volume controls are on the right edge, and the Walkman key and the 3.5-mm jack are at the top. The charging port is on the left panel. The E1 feels bulky, with its 12mm thickness, and has a slightly rough finish at the back.

Sony is pitching it as a value-for-money smartphone, and has added features to live up to its promise. To start with, it's a dual SIM phone. It runs Android Jelly Bean, and is powered by 1.2GHz dual core processor from Qualcomm. The 512 MB of RAM is on the lower side, but it manages to launch all the apps without crashing. It can handle basic gaming, but don't expect it to handle heavy games. Browsing on Google Chrome was smooth.

The biggest highlight of the Xperia E1 is the Walkman app. If you use a good pair of headphones, the sound output is impressive. The Walkman app launches a feature-rich music player. For example, the ClearAudio+ mode produces a more refined and clear sound, while the xLoud feature raises the volume. The phone also packs a 3MP camera, which is somewhat underwhelming, as images have a lot of noise. The Xperia E1 comes with 4GB internal storage, of which only 2GB is user accessible. However, it can be expanded by using the micro SD card slot. When fully charged, the battery was good enough for a day, and ran low by the end of the day.

HTC launches its cheapest smartphone Desire 210 at Rs 8,700

Screen size- 4 inches

Android's Jelly Bean platform

Dual GSM SIM

5 megapixel main camera and a VGA camera on the front.

                                      With an aim to more than double its market share in two years in India, smartphone maker HTC on Monday announced global launch of its lowest priced smartphone Desire 210 for Rs 8,700 in New Delhi.

"In the last 12 months or so we have been thinking about to come up with sub-Rs 10,000 product for Indian market ...if we are able to be succesful on that front it could be taken outside as well, in not just emerging market but sometime industrial economies as well," HTC President for Global sales and CFO Chialin Chang said.

He said that current market share of HTC is estimated to be around 6-7 per cent.

At Rs 8,700 price point, the 4-inch HTC Desire 210 will see competition from mobile phones like Nokia Lumia 520, Nokia X, Samsung Galaxy S Duos.

Built on Android's Jelly Bean platform, the dual GSM SIM smartphone Desire 210 has 5 megapixel main camera and a VGA camera on the front.

Besides this, HTC announced launch of its latest premium smartphone HTC One M8 for Rs 49,900 which has gesture base control on which it has high hopes globally for increasing market share. The global market share of HTC is estimated to be around 2 per cent.

"Desire 210 shipment will start from May 2 while M8 will be available across stores in India from May 7," Chang said.

HTC One M8 has 5-inch full high definition display and supports up to 209 GB of storage.

HTC unveiled its third smartphone with 5.5 inch screen size Desire 816 which supports GSM, CDMA and 3G network for Rs 23,990. This phone has 13 MP main camera and 5 MP front camera.

"HTC 816 will be shipped to India in May," HTC's Senior Director for Asia Product Marketing Darren Sng said.

Early this month, HTC unveiled Desire 310 for 11,700 which was its lowest priced phone before Desire 210.

Start living in a world through Glass.!!!!!

Google Glass is a project started by Google that is intended to bring hands-free display technology to the general public. By utilizing voice commands, users can interact with their Google Glass device to get information from their phones, participate in Google+ Hangouts or to get information from the internet. With a wireless data connection, Google Glass adds an augmented-reality overlay to whatever you're looking at, automatically bringing up relevant information from various Google sources. This is still a prototype project, but Google hopes to bring it to consumers sometime in 2013.
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Wearable smart-devices represent the next stage in mobile computing and Google Glass is the most hotly-anticipated gadget in that space. It is not an extension of your Android smartphone or tablet, but is a whole new gadget in itself that can perform various day to day tasks, without you ever moving your hands. 

The computing headgear unveiled at a Google launch event in 2012 has created lot of excitement. However, though most have read and heard about the Google Glasses, there are only a few who know what it can exactly do. So, here is a look at seven cool features of Google Glass.

Record videos, take pictures

Just say the word and Google Glass will take a picture or record a video – you will never have to touch the hardware. The photos and videos will be stored on the 4GB flash memory of the device, and can also be shared on social networking websites or emailed.

Show messages

Google Glass will show you text messages as well as emails you receive and allow you to reply to them via voice commands.

Find information

If you are in the habit of Googling things a lot, you will find that your task has been made easier by the new Glass. You simply need to ask a question and the device will pull the answer from the internet. For example, you can ask when Taj Mahal was built or to give you a few photographs of the monument and the device will provide appropriate replies on the small screen in front of your eye.

Show maps

The widely used Google Maps are integrated into Glass, so that users will be able to chart the course of their journey or look up locations or establishments via voice commands.

Live video sharing

Google Glass can show the world what you are seeing – live! If you are attending a family function, your child’s school play or a concert, you can share the feed with your friends and family in real-time and make them a part of the experience.

Translate

This is a neat feature that may come in handy when you travel abroad. You simply need to ask Google Glass to translate a phrase or sentence from one language to another and it will speak that out.

A day with google glass !!!!

Nokia X Android phones officially its something !!!!!!

                                                      It's in the process of being bought by Microsoft but that isn't stopping Nokia launching a line of Android-based smartphones.

Announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, the new family of products will be called Nokia X.

A mid-range device featuring a 4-inch screen atop a 1GHz dual-core CPU from Qualcomm, paired with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of on-board storage (expandable up to 32GB). There will also be an X+ device with additional storage and an XL device, which is physically larger.

However, this is not a standard Android phone. Unlike well-known products such as those from Sony, HTC and Samsung, this model uses the open-source Android code as its base, but not its front end. Like Amazon's Kindle Fire, this means the code underneath the user interface is Android but it does not resemble a typical Android phone. In fact, Nokia has styled it to look a lot like Windows Phone, in part to make "migration" from Nokia X to Lumia more welcoming down the line.

                                   As such there's no Google Play store. However, the "overwhelming majority of Android apps" will be supported via third party app stores, according to a Nokia spokesperson briefing Wired.co.uk, and "hundreds of thousands" will be available to download immediately. Nokia X devices will include Nokia's own app store that provides a curated storefront for Android software downloads, and others such as the popular Yandex app store can be installed. Microsoft apps including Outlook and Skype will also be installed by default, alongside Facebook, BBM, Opera web browser, Sim City and Vine.

                                   A reason given for such an atypical appearance choice for Android was for simplicity's sake, Nokia says. The company aims for its user interface, called Fast Lane, to make Android more user-friendly to those buying their first smartphone. So while price- and specifications-wise the first Nokia X device would sit alongside the likes of the Huawei Ascend Y300, it's not fair to see them as direct competitors given the Huawei's use of the full Android interface.

Nokia is aiming for this family of Android devices to help it connect "the next billion people to the cloud" in areas such as China, Russia, South America and other regions seeing a rising adoption of smartphones. As such, although a spokesperson confirmed Nokia plans to bring the X line to western Europe "eventually", it is not a goal for launch in March.

North America, Japan and Korea are also out of luck -- the Nokia X line will not launch in these areas at all.