Karbonn launches 5.9-inch Android phone A30 for Rs 11,500 - Specifications, Review and price

Karbonn is ready to strike the indian gadget market with its new age Android smartphone A30. Karbonn A30 has a pretty bigger screen size of about 5.9 Inches. The gadget is available on a price of Rs 11500 in indian online markets like saholic.com.

Karbonn A30 is loaded with an 8 MP rear camera and a 1.3 MP front camera. The phone has a dual sim facility and 32 GB expandable memory. A30 is running on latest version  Android 4.0 aka Ice-Cream Sandwich OS and it is powered by 1GHz dual-core processor.

Key features of Karbonn A30:

• 5.9 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display
• Android 4.0 ICS
• 1 GHz dual-core processor
• Dual-SIM (GSM 3G + GSM 2G)
• 3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, WiFi
• WiFi hotspot, USB tethering
• 8 MP primary camera
• 1.3 MP front camera
• 32 GB microSD card slot.
• Bluetooth
• EDGE and GPRS
• 3.5 mm Audio Jack
• A-GPS with Google maps
• 2500 mAh battery

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Micromax Superfone Canvas2 A110 for Rs 9990 - specifications, price and review

Micromax again reloaded their gadget shelf with the new cheapest fully loaded Micromax Superfone Canvas2 A110. As usual micromax unveiled this smartphone also as a budget phone, even-though it is heavily equipped. Its a dual sim budget smartphone.

Micromax Superfone Canvas2 A110 is available for a price of Rs 9990 in online shoppes like flipkart.com and infibeam.com. The out of stock board in-front of all the major online shops indicates the popularity of Micromax Superfone Canvas2 A110.

Micromax Superfone Canvas2 A110 is equipped with an extra large 5 Inch, 12.5 cm multi-touch screen with a 16.8 million color display, With a super sleek design. When we talk about the processor, A110 has a 1GHz Dual core processor, which lifts it up to the array of top rated powerful gadgets.

Camera is another talkable thing in Superfone Canvas2 A110. A110 is loaded with an 8MP Rear Camera and a VGA front camera and it supports 720p HD video and all the major audio types like MP3,AAC,AAC+, e AAC+, AMR, WB-AMR, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, PCM along with a 3.5mm ear jack.

The gadget is powered by Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 - the latest version of Android OS. It has 2GB internal memory with 4GB ROM and 512 MB RAM. Memory can be expanded up to 32 GB microSD card. Sensors include Proximity sensor , Motion sensor ,Gravity sensor.

When it comes to battery life, just like other high end smartphones  Micromax Superfone Canvas2 A110 also seems to be very stingy, it offers a talktime of 6 hrs.

Micromax Superfone Canvas2 A110 complete Specifications:

Screen Size                        :     12.7 cms
OS Name                          :     Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Processor                           :     1 GHz Dual Core
Rear Camera Resolution     :     8 MP
Front Camera                     :     VGA
Battery Capacity                 :     2000 mAh
Connectivity Options          :     3G , Bluetooth 3.0 , wifi , USB 2.0
Screen Size                        :     12.7 cms
Screen Resolution               :     480*854
Screen Type                       :     IPS
Colour Depth                     :     262K
Video Formats Supported     :     H.264 encoder: baseline HVGA @15fps MPEG-4 Simple / H.263 encoder: 720p@ 30fps/12.5Mbps
Video Resolution                 :     480*854
Video Frame Rate                :     30 fps
Audio Formats Supported     :     MP3,AAC,AAC+, e AAC+, AMR, WB-AMR, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, PCM
FM                                      :     Yes
Battery Capacity                    :     2000 mAh
Standby Time                       :     225 hrs
Talktime                               :     6 hrs
Type                                    :     MT6577
Processor                            :     1 GHz Dual Core
OS Name                            :     Android Ice Cream Sandwich
OS Version                          :     4.0.4
Rear Camera Resolution      :     8 MP
Front Camera                     :     VGA
Flash                                   :     Yes
Autofocus                            :     Yes
Resolution, Recording & Playback     :     3gp,640*480
Frequency Band                    :     GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800
HSPA 2100 MHz
Network                             :     3G
HSPA                                 :     Yes
Wi-Fi                                  :     Yes
Bluetooth                             :     V3.0
Location : GPS                     :     Yes
Connectivity Options          :     3G , Bluetooth 3.0 , wifi , USB 2.0
RAM                                  :     512MB
ROM                                 :     4GB
Internal Memory                  :     2GB
Expandable Memory            :     32GB
Sensors                             :     Proximity sensor , Motion sensor ,Gravity sensor
USB V                                :     Micro USB (5 pin) , USB 2.0
Ear Jack                             :     3.5 mm
Dual SIM Support                 :     Yes

Grab your Micromax Superfone Canvas2 A110 now itself !!!

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India's first Biennale - The Kochi-Muziris Biennale unveiled today

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale - an international exhibition of contemporary art has been unveiled today in kochi, Kerala. Honorable CM of kerala Mr Oomen chandy lighted up the great event in the unveiling program held at parade ground, Fort kochi. For kochi and kerala the coming three months will be the days of art and creativity.

More than 80 artists from various parts of the world is participating in this event, among that 44 were from our India and among 22 will be from our kerala itself. Indian and international artists will exhibit their artworks across various mediums like film, installation, painting, sculpture, new media and performance art etc.


Biennale is not simply an exhibition of creativity, It deals with each and every sides of art including its effort, implementation, management, marketing etc. There will be talks, seminars, screening, music, workshop and other educational activities for different ages of people...

In association with biennale, there will be gazal nights, film shows, dramas etc.. In short biennale will add colors to the sky of kochi.

Exhibitions will be held in locations across kochi, muzris and its surrounding places. Kochi Durbar Hall, fort kochi Aspin wall House, pepper house, moythu heritage, kashi arts cafe, parade ground, mattancheri bazar road, old dock are some of the main spots of event.

At last on 13 march 2013 the first biennale of india will pull down its curtain.

For more details: http://kochimuzirisbiennale.org

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Facebook launched messenger app for Android

Facebook, the social network giant launched their messenger app for android phones. At first the service is available only for the users in India, Indonesia, Australia,South Africa and Venezuela and later on to other countries.

With new messenger you can send messages directly to your friends on their mobile contacts and it offers the facility to connect not only the facebook friends but with all other contacts in your phone using your current mobile data plan. Facebook has been already came in tie up with all the major devices and carriers for their messenger service.

Users can create a new messenger account using just their name and phone number, so that they can start instant messaging with their phone numbers in the contact.

Even if you do not have a messenger app in your phone, don't worry,You can receive the chats and messages through your Facebook account from anywhere in the world. For that you have to do is just confirm your mobile number with your Facebook account.

So keep in touch with your friends using the new Facebook messenger app.

More details: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger

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Google Fiber - A Broadband initiative from google

Google made its steps into the basic needs of internet industry by the implementation of Google fiber, the worlds fastest broadband internet connection. Google fiber offers a 100 times faster internet compares to today's broadband connections.

But all the non Americans should wait a little more to get this magic internet at their home. Google successfully implemented and made available their service in Kansas city  of USA and they will expand their network to some more cities like Westwood and Mission woods in coming days .

Google offers a magic speed of 1GB for upload and download with their internet initiative where we can avail the service by selecting any of the three plans in their shelves. Gigabit+TV, Gigabit Internet and Free internet are the available plans of google fiber.

Gigabit+TV package is available for a price of USD 120/month and it includes Nexus 7 tablet + 1 TV Box + Storage Box + Network Box + 1TB Google Drive + a handfull of world wide TV channels.

Gigabit Internet is available for USD 70/month where it include a network box and a 1 TB storage space in cloud-GDrive and a Chromebook starting at $249 as an optional add-on.

And the Third and last package "Free Internet" is something great, Where we can access this terribly faster internet free of cost by spending an initial set up fee of $300 as onetime or as an installment of $25/month for the first 12 months.

For more details: https://fiber.google.com/about/

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Micromax Funbook Pro for Rs 9999 - price and Review

After the great success of their 7 inch tablet, micromax launched latest version of funbook named Micromax funbook pro. As the name suggests, its a pro model of the earlier version of funbook. Micromax Funbook pro has a 10 inch multi-touch capacitive screen with better technical specifications.

As same as the earlier models, micromax launched funbook pro also as a budget tablet. Micromax funbook pro is available for a price of Rs 9999 on websites like snapdeal.com.

Funbook pro has an inbuilt storage capacity of 8GB/1GB DDR3 and can be extended up to 32 GB using micro SD. It comes up with the latest version Android 4.0.3 Ice-Cream Sandwich Operating System and powered by powerful Cortex A8,1.2 GHz Processor.

Micromax funbook pro is specially designed to meet high quality multimedia specifications.  It offers an HD - 2160p video playback along with HDMI Port ver 1.4.

Technical specifications

• HD-2160p Video Playback
• HDMI Port
• Cortex A8,1.2 GHz Processor
• Memory 8GB/1GB DDR3
• 25.6 Cm (10.1)Capacitive Touch Screen
• VGA front facing camera
• Battery 5600mAH
• Android 4.0.3 Ice-Cream Sandwich Operating System
• Connectivity 3G Dongle Support via USB,Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, USB 2.0 

More details available on http://www.micromaxfunbook.com/features-pro.html

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Attach large files up to 10GB in Gmail using google Drive

Attaching larger files with emails was one of the major limitations faced by most of the internet users. But some of the third party website like sendthisfile.com offers a provision to exchange larger files between the users.

Now google came up with a way to attach larger files with their email with the support of their cloud storage service GDrive. Earlier it was limited to 25MB which was too little for its users.

Google allows their gmail users to attach files up to 10GB with their email using google drive, moreover users can set file permissions on the attached if there exist more than one recipient.

The facility to attach such kind of files will be only available with the new compose box interface already launched. You can see "plus" sign at the bottom of the new compose box, while it will expand and show the google drive logo on mouse over, where you can select gdrive and get listed with your files in it.

Try out and enjoy the new stuff!!

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