Author: Sajin Seethi

Motorola is bringing their latest smartphone the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX to India tomorrow . In a press release that was issued today, Motorola stated that the phone will be available in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand starting tomorrow. Motorola is now expanding their RAZR smartphone portfolio to the South Asian territory with this. 

In India, Motorola RAZR MAXX will be priced at Rs 31,590/- which we think is a great price for the phone. The phone comes with Android 2.3.6(Gingerbread) onboard. It will receive the ICS update over the air very soon as per Motorola. The phone has a 4.3″ Super AMOLED display with 540X960 resolution. A dual core processor clocked at 1.2GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, WiFi, BT, GPS etc. The camera is 8MP with autofocus and LED Flash. It does 1080p videos as well. The front camera is 1.3MP and does 720p videos. However, the striking feature of this phone is the battery. The phone has been equipped with a astounding 3300mAh battery that will keep you going for a really long time. No matter how hard your device, the device will surely keep you going all day long before you start hunting for a power port. 

On the other hand Motorola RAZR V comes with dual core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 4.3inch screen, 8MP front facing camera that does 1080p video, a front facing camera, Ice Cream Sandwich, WiFi, BT, GPS, Radio etc. However, the phone is only equipped with a 1750mAh battery. And hence you’ll see a lesser price which is yet to be announced. The phone will be available during third quarter this year.

Nokia has finally launched the Nokia Pureview 808 officially in India. The phone was expected to enter the market a tad early, but due to some delays the launch was moved to yesterday. The good news is that it’s here. All those smartphone camera fans can now get ready to buy the phone if they are ok with Rs 33,899/- price tag. This is the MRP, so one can get it for cheaper price as well. And of course if you are willing to wait, you can get it for even better price. Price aside, Nokia Pureview 808 is an impressive smartphone. As you know, it has 41MP camera that uses the pureview technology to capture amazing pictures with huge details while still maintaining the size and resolution under decent limits. The Pureview 808 runs Symbian Belle FP1, sports a 4″ screen with Nokia’s Clear Black Display, 41MP Carl Zeiss Optics with Xenon flash, WiFi, BT, NFC, HDMI port, USB OTG, Dolby Digital Plus, GPS and a 1400mAh battery.

The camera on the phone is just amazing. However one may wonder why they should still go for a Symbian after Nokia’s own CEO Stephen Elop announced Symbian as long dead platform. It’s also surprising that why Nokia brought Pureview technology to Symbian and not to their newly wed Windows Phones which has very poor camera performance. Nokia may have plans to bring it to WP, but the question is when ?!! Nokia really doesn’t have good track record in bringing products on time to the market. Besides a 1400mAh battery seems a bit less comparing to other high end phones in the same segment from other brands. Then again Symbian usually delivers good battery life and the OS’ battery management is impressive. However, one may have to actually use the device themselves to see the actual performance of the phone after all the photoshoots with this amazing camera. 

Flipkart already has the phone listed on their website with Cash On Delivery. So are you getting this camera beast ??

Siri: Siri has received some great improvements. She is a sports fan now. Well, at least she’ll bring you scores and even player cards with their details.  So now you can ask Siri which of your favorite two players are smarter etc. Siri is now integrated with Rotten Tomatoes. So she now gets you movie details from there including shows, timings in the local theatre. Siri has also been taught to launch apps. So now you can say, play temple run and Wola !! Temple run launches.

You can also now tweet using Siri. Also many car manufacturers have agreed to include a button in the cars to wake Siri when your phone is docked in the car. So no more glancing at the phone while driving. 

And no more just tweeting. Facebook is now integrated in to iOS 6. Yay !!!

So now you can update status, upload photos, Check in and do just more than that. Even the notification center is now revamped to include the Twitter and Facebook button.

Apple also updated the Phone app. Now you can decline calls with pre-written SMS or just ask the phone to remind you an hour or later. 

Remember those times when Notifications kept on filling up in the center while you were having an important conversation ?? Well, fear no more. Apple has now included a Do Not Disturb feature that will prevent that.

FaceTime is now available over cellular network. So no more WiFi hunting. And, Apple has unified your phone number and Apple ID. So now you can receive communications on all iOS devices regardless of whether it was sent to your number or Apple ID.

Safari also received a couple of updates including photo uploads right from the browser, an offline reading list and smart app banners. The smart banners app lets you quickly download an app of the site you are accessing or simply launch it if you already have it and you can sync the activity so that you can pick up from where you left off.

Photostream now supports shared albums. So now you can share your Photostream events with family and friends.

Mail on iOS received a huge update. Now, you can mark important contacts as VIP so that a star appears next to them for immediate attention.

And the best part is you can import photos and videos in to the mail right while composing a mail. Dear God, Finally !!! They also added pull to refresh to the mail app. 

Apple also introduced a new app called Passbook. “This is a place to collect boarding passes, store cards, and movie ticket apps.” We’re awaiting for more information on this.

Apple also added a new maps app in iOS 6. And let me break it to you right here, it has Siri integration and turn by turn directions. 

The new maps app even works on the lock screen. While driving, you can simply ask where can I get gas etc and it finds quickly. Apple also introduced Flyover feature which gives a 3D view of the towns and cities.

And iOS 6 is available for iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, iPad 2, New iPad and iPod Touch 4th gen.

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Apple app store has 400 million accounts to date. There are over 6,50,000 apps on the app store of which 2,25,000 are specifically for the iPad. Apps have been downloaded from the app store for more than 30 Billion times. Apple has issued over $5 Billion through checks to the developers. Apple app store is now available on 120 countries and 32 countries are being added today. Apple has sold over 365 million iOS devices through March. Almost all users have switched to iOS 5. Apple has made over 1.5 trillion push notifications. Over 10 billion tweets have been sent from iOS which is a feature in iOS 5. Apple’s game center has 130 million game center accounts.