Xiaomi certainly has ambitions beyond the low end of the Indian market, but its bread and butter so far has been the sub-Rs. 10,000 segment. The launch of the outrageously powerful Redmi 1S was perhaps the most disruptive event in the entire Indian mobile market in all of 2014, and even with competitors coming in, there has been no shortage of demand. Hundreds of thousands of units were sold before... 

WhatsApp’s voice calling feature is now available to all Android users. The world’s most popular messaging app with over 700 million monthly active users only introduced this feature recently and rolled it out gradually to its Android users. If you are not an Android user, you’ll just have to wait a little longer to get this feature. But if you use Android, and haven’t yet activated... 

Google has finally announced Android 5.1 Lollipop which should start rolling out to Nexus devices later this week. However, there is nothing to be much excited about as the release mostly focuses on bug fixes which were introduced with Android 5.0 Lollipop. There are four new features that come along with it, worth mentioning. Android 5.1 Lollipop Important Features Multi-SIM support – If one... 

Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch at its Spring Forward event held in San Francisco. The smartwatch will come in whooping 34 variants at the starting price of $349, which will go up to $10,000 depending on the variant. For all those who are eying upon owning it as soon as possible, the pre-orders will commence from April 10 along with a preview of the smartwatch at selected retail stores. The Apple... 

Microsoft India on Saturday announced a ‘Smart Exchange offer’ for its existing Asha consumers to upgrade to the newly launched Lumia 435 Dual SIM smartphone. The exchange offer is valid from March 7 till April 15 or till stocks last, and can be availed from authorised retail stores across the country. Users of Nokia Asha 500, Asha 501, Asha 502 and Asha 503 will get an assured discount... 

InFocus, a US-based company, has entered the Indian market with its first smartphone, the M2. The InFocus M2 smartphone is now exclusively available via Snapdeal at Rs. 4,999. The company in a press statement has announced that the InFocus mobiles are manufactured by Foxconn, one of the largest manufacturers in the world. The InFocus M2 features InLife UI on top of Android 4.4 KitKat. The handset comes... 

A new Lava budget smartphone, the Iris 325 Style is now available to buy via an e-commerce website. The Lava Iris 325 Style has been priced at Rs. 2,599. At the time of writing, the company hadn’t yet listed the new Iris-series smartphone on its website; though we can expect an announcement about the smartphone in the coming days. The Lava Iris 325 Style is a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) device which runs... 

Lenovo-owned firm Motorola has launched its latest budget smartphone in India, the Motorola Moto E (Gen 2), priced at Rs. 6,999. The smartphone will be available available from midnight Wednesday via Flipkart – the firm’s exclusive online retail partner. Unfortunately, the company will not be launching the Motorola Moto E (Gen 2) LTE in India alongside the 3G-only variant, and said it will... 

Asus at CES 2015 revealed the ZenFone 2 promising a March release date for the handset. The Taiwanese company, as promised, on Monday announced the Asus ZenFone 2 in Taiwan and also unveiled new variants of the handset. According to a Korean publication, apart from Taiwan, the ZenFone 2 will be available in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and France starting in March while other countries such as Italy... 

We were afraid that Nokia’s glory days were well and truly over, when it announced the sale of its entire handset business to Microsoft. The Finnish giant defined generations of mobile devices, especially in India. As we moved from basic bricks that made only voice calls to smartphones with cameras and Internet connections, chances are we all owned a number of Nokias along the way. As it turns... 

iBall’s yet-to-be-launched Android 4.4 KitKat-based smartphone dubbed the iBall Andi 5M Xotic is now available via an online retailer at Rs. 8,950. The smartphone was first teased by the company earlier this month, and has still to be officially launched with pricing and availability details. On Monday, Mumbai-based retailer Mahesh Telecom had also tipped the launch of the iBall Andi 5M Xotic... 

BlackBerry at MWC 2015 on Tuesday announced a new full-touchscreen mid-range 4G LTE smartphone dubbed the BlackBerry Leap at $275 (approximately Rs. 17,000). The phone, targeted at young mobile professionals, will launch in April in the US. Its release in other markets has not yet been detailed. The single-SIM BlackBerry Leap runs on company’s native BB10 (version 10.3.1) operating system. Upfront,...