(Deal Alert) Samsung Galaxy S4 Now Available At Rs 17,999 on Amazon

Samsung is now selling the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500) smartphone on Amazon in India for Rs. 17,999. It was originally launched for Rs. 41,500 in India back in April 2013. It got several buy back offers and EMI schemes in India soon after the launch and received a price cut to Rs. 29,499 in March last year. It is listed at Rs. 21,900 on the official Samsung eStore, but it is currently out of stock there.

The Galaxy S4 packs in a 5-inch Full HD (1920×1080 pixels) Super AMOLED display, 1.6 GHz Quad-Core processor and it event got Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update in India recently. It has a 13MP auto focus rear camera with LED flash and 2MP front facing camera. It has 2GB RAM, 16GB of internal memory and comes with a 2,600 mAh battery. Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo (GT-I9300I) got a price cut to Rs. 12499 in India last month.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is now available in both Deep Black and Frost White colors from Amozon.in for Rs. 17999. You also get a Amazon.in Gift Card worth Rs. 1,000 with the purchase.

Videocon To Launch 4G Services at 2G/3G Rates In UP East,UP West and Bihar by this Year end

Videocon Telecom on Thursday said it has plans to invest Rs. 1,200 crores over three years on high-speed 4G mobile services to be launched in UP and Bihar by December at rates at par with 2G and 3G Internet services.

The company will also offer 4G mobile Internet plans bundled with mobile devices in these service areas.

“We have partially launched our 2G services in UP East, UP West and Bihar service areas. Our plan is to launch 4G services across select cities starting December with an investment of Rs. 1,200 crores spread over three years,” Videocon Telecom Director and CEO Arvind Bali told PTI.
The company has selected telecom equipment firms Huawei and Nokia Networks as its technology partner to launch 4G service in 29 cities across these service area and Deloitte as its consulting partner.

Telecom equipment companies claim to have achieved 4G mobile broadband speed of about 68 megabit per second (Mbps) in India. At a speed of 1.5Mbps, a user can watch high definition video without any buffering which is similar to watching video on television.

At a speed of 68Mbps, a video equivalent to general Bollywood movie can be downloaded in about 2 minutes.

“We will offer 4G mobile broadband at par with 2G and 3G rates in 29 cities. People will be able to make voice calls using the broadband that will be offered to them. We are going to deploy Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology for this. In rest of the cities we will offer 2G service,” Bali said.

The company will use its entire spectrum in 1800MHz band that it won in November 2012 auction for 4G service. The frequency that the company holds has most developed ecosystem of 4G services both in terms of equipments and consumer devices.

Videocon has permit to operate in 7 service areas – Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar (including Jharkhand), Uttar Pradesh East and West but was operating only in four service areas.

Among the other opportunities, Bali said the company will have intra-circle roaming (ICR) arrangements with other players for 4G data, which could come as an added business line for them and as a barter for voice ICR.

The Punjab telecom arm of Videocon in January got pan-India Internet service provider licence. The company has plans to prioritise its ISP rollout in these circles to offer Wi-Fi to reduce loading its 4G data services.

Asus Introduced Zenfone 2 ZE500CL with 5-inch Display 1.2Ghz DualCore Intel Processor 2GB RAM 4G Android 5.0

Asus has introduced Zenfone 2 ZE500CL, a smaller 5-inch variant of the 5.5-inch ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML) announced at the CES last month. This was showcased

at an event in Taiwan recently, but it is not listed on the official website yet, so the specifications might not be completely correct.

It runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) out of the box and the design of the smartphone is slightly different from the 5.5-inch Zenfone 2 variant. Most of the specifications of the smartphone are different compared to the the ZE551ML model that includes a 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Intel Atom Z2560 processor, comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.

Asus Zenfone 2 ZE500CL specifications

5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) display with Corning gorilla glass 3 protection
1.2 GHz dual-core Intel Atom Z2560 processor
2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 64GB via micro SD
Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
8MP rear camera with LED flash
2MP front-facing camera
10.9 mm thick and weighs 155g
4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
2500 mAh battery
The Asus Zenfone 2 ZE500CL will go on sale in Taiwan on March 9th along with the ZenFone 2 ZE551ML model. No details about the pricing, but this should definitely be cheaper than the 5.5-inch Zenfone 2 model.

SAFAR Android App To Help Check Air Quality in New Delhi and Pune

Do you live in New Delhi or Pune and wonder about the air quality in your city or area, there is now an Android app to check out the Air Quality Intex (AQI) and Particulate Matter (PM) details.

Dubbed as SAFAR (short for SYSTEM of AIR POLLUTION monitoring and FORECASTING) Air, the app has been jointly developed by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and uses data from Metropolitan Air Quality and Weather Service of Ministry of Earth Sciences to show the current AQI and PM details. It also provides next day’s forecast.

Released on February 16 in Google Play, the SAFAR Air app can be downloaded for free.

SAFAR was originally started ahead of the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010 as a website. It is aimed to provide air quality data for all major metropolitan cities in the country. To collect this information, SAFAR has set-up around ten monitoring stations in Delhi and Pune to gather data on air quality every five minutes.

The app will add support for Mumbai sometime in April or May 2015, followed by Chennai and Kolkata in 2017.

App features

Colour-coded Current Air Quality Index (AQI) and Particulate Matter (PM) details
One day forecast for AQI and PM
Details about AQI index and the colour-codes
Option to select city and city-regions

Micromax Bolt A82 with 5-inch Display 1.3Ghz DualCore Processor 3G Android 4.4 Now available At Rs 5,499

Micromax Bolt A82, the company’s latest smartphone in the Bolt series running Android 4.4 (KitKat) is now available on Homeshop18. It has a 5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6572 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera.

It has 3G connectivity, dual SIM support, 512MB RAM, 4GB of internal storage with expansion slot and a 1800 mAh battery. It also has support for 20 Indian regional languages & English. All the specifications of the smartphone are similar to the Micromax Bolt A069 that went on sale last year, the only difference it that the Bolt A82 comes with 3G support.

Micromax Bolt A82specifications

5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display
1.3GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6572 processor
512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
Android 4.4 (KitKat)
5MP rear camera with LED flash
0.3MP front-facing camera
Dual SIM with dual standby
3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
Dimensions:  147 x 75 x 9.3mm
3G, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
1800 mAh battery
The Micromax Bolt A82 comes in Grey color and is priced at Rs. 5,499.