Karbonn Smart A51 Now Available At ₹3,499

Indian smartphone vendor Karbonn has silently released its new Smart-series Android phone A51 in the country. Currently being sold at various e-tailers including Saholic, the smartphone has been priced at INR 3,499, making it one of the cheapest smartphones from the company.

As the phone is so affordable, the specifications aren’t really fancy. For INR 3,499, you will get Android 4.0, 1GHz processor, dual-SIM support and 3.5-inch HVGA display on Smart A51. The phone also comes with 3.2MP rear camera, VGA front camera, 256MB of RAM, 512MB of storage, microSD card slot and 2G.

In addition, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 1100 mAh battery and microUSB port are present on the smartphone. The phone will be joining the likes of Karbonn Smart A3+, Smart A50, Smart A1+, Smart A1* in the sub-INR 4,000 price-bracket.

Karbonn Smart A51 key specifications

Dual-SIM support

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 2G

3.5-inch HVGA capacitive display

1GHz single-core processor of unknown make

256MB of RAM, 512MB of storage, microSD card slot

MicroUSB port, 3.5mm audio jack

3.2MP rear camera, VGA front camera

Android 4.4 Kitkat Pictures Leaked Online

As we head closer to October, leaks pertaining to Android’s next version 4.4 aka Kitkat have started to appear. In the last few days, two of the alleged Android 4.4 sighting have been recording online, first was a part of Korean IME Google play listing and second is a set of Nexus 4 images with Android 4.4 that have been posted by couple of blogs.

While there is no way to know for sure if any of these leaks is indeed authentic but they are worth sharing.

Talking about the screenshot that appeared in Korean IME Google Play listing first (it has since been removed by Google), this screenshot shows an updated status bar with light gray icons and clock font. This screenshot also shows a debug icon – a piece of pie (Key Lime Pie), suggesting that the device, on which this screenshot was taken, was probably running on a slightly older build of Android 4.4, when Kitkat naming was not official and only a select few in Google knew about it. This particular leak does not reveal much and just hints that we will be seeing some sort of changes in the Android status bar.

Coming to a comparably bigger leak, a tipster has shared multiple images of Android 4.4 running Nexus 4. As you can see in the above images , Google seems to be going for a revamped dialler, messaging app, flatter app icons and a status bar that matches with the colour of your wallpaper or the open app.

Some blogs think that these images are fake and they can very well turn out to be but as they are certainly better than shoddy photoshop jobs that appear now and then as leaked images, we are not so easily ruling them out. Do let us know your thoughts on these images in comments.