HTC Sensation XL now in India – Costs INR 40,000

The 4.7-inch touchscreen [480 x 800 pixels] HTC Sensation XL with Beats Audio is now available in India for Indian Rupees 40,000.

The 4.7-inch touchscreen [480 x 800 pixels] HTC Sensation XL with Beats Audio is now available in India for Indian Rupees 40,000.

Two new budget smartphones have arrived on the scene in India – the Idea Blade costing 7,992 and Idea ID 280 priced at Rs 5,850. Both have been launched by Idea Cellular.

LG has launched the Optimus Pro and Optimus Net in India costing Rs. 9,599 & Rs 10,999 , respectively. You can also buy these phones from Reliance 3G.

The Micromax A85 Superfone is now available in India for Rs 19900. The standout feature on this Android 2.2 smartphone, according to the company, is Gesture Control. The phone understands hand gestures and lets you control phone features with some style.

Airtel and Aircel are the two wireless providers in India that will bring the Apple iPhone 4S to the people. November 25th is the date when the 4S starts selling officially.

Huawei has introduced the MediaPad tablet and two smartphones in India. These are the Ideos X3 and the Sonic. All three Android devices will be able to enjoy the Huawei Cloud+ cloud storage service worth 16GB of data; Huawei is in a partnership with wireless provider Aircel for the tablet and two smartphones. Aircel will [...]

The Transcend MP300 digital music player is all set for an India debut according to the company’s Facebook page. No word on cost and exact release date. The MP300 will be available in 4GB and 8GB storage configurations that will be priced accordingly.

The HTC Radar running Windows Phone 7.5 is now available for purchase in India, it costs Rs 23990 and can be bought from online retailers Flipkart and LetsBuy. It’s a hefty price given that most smartphones that make a mark in India are either mid-priced or budget devices.

Milagrow, based in Gurgaon, has launched a tablet that it chooses to call a “TabTop PC” and will be selling the device in two models – 16GB costs Rs 25,000 and the 32GB version is priced at Rs 29,500.

The LG Optimus Net, a budget Android smartphone, has been launched in India. There is no official word from LG as yet but the handset has appeared on online retailer sites and is pegged at Indian Rupees 9,999 or around $200.

Seagate India has launched an ultraslim portable hard drive – the GoFlex. This 2.5-inch thin hard drive can hold 320GB of data, is USB 3.0 compliant, compatible with USB 2.0, and priced at Rs 4,500. Compatible with both Windows and Apple OS. Can be used interchangeably between the two without formatting.

Spice has announced that it will be launching a feature-packed smartphone, the Mi 410 in the first week of June for its Indian consumers. This smartphone will cost Rs. 15,000. You get a good deal as far as specs and features are concerned. The 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen [480 x 800 pixel resolution] phone comes with [...]

G’Five of Shenzen, China is going to introduce a tablet in India soon. Details about the tablet are not confirmed but one hears that it will be an Android 2.1 tablet costing around Rs 10,000 or around $225. It’s cheap, no doubt but is that kind of money worth spending on a tablet that will [...]

Samsung has announced that the version 2.0 of their Bada OS will be launched first in India in July. The proprietary operating system from Samsung does not enjoy the popularity of Android and is found mainly in the entry- to mid-level smartphones released by the company.

LG will be launching a high-end, premium segment smartphone – the Optimus 2X. The phone, powered by an Nvidia Tegra-2 processor, is the first dual-core smartphone to make an appearance in India. The smartphone should be available from the third week of April and will be followed by the Optimus Black which will be released [...]

LG has announced that the “yet-to-be-globally-released” Optimus Pad tablet could see an India debut in June. That’s still a long way off but enthusiasts are bound to take notice.

The Samsung Galaxy 551 smartphone has appeared as “in stock” with Indian online retailer Flipkart for Rs 12,799. The phone has a listed price of Rs. 15,930. The Galaxy 551 is almost identical to the Galaxy 3 except that it has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The phone is powered by a 667MHz processor and runs [...]

In what could be a push for broadband and indeed 4G initiation in India, Reliance Infotel has announced plans to launch a tablet priced a mere Rs 8000. That’s a genuinely low-cost device and could boost mass-market adoption of tablets in the country.

Here’s a tablet, ostensibly low-cost, and meant to give Android and tablet use a push in India. But at a price of Rs.13,999, is the ZEN “The Master” Pad really cheap? As an aside, as with the Olive Pad, this one too most probably has its hardware from China (maybe shipped assembled from there), uses [...]

The Samsung Wave II S8530 smartphone has been freshly launched in India and will cost you Rs 18,999. The phone weighs a mere 135g and measures 123.9 x 59.8 x 11.8mm. It is powered by a 1GHz processor, runs Samsung’s proprietary Bada OS, and its 2GB of internal memory is expandable to 33GB via microSD.

An HTC smartphone, the Smart F3188, is now available in India and will cost you Rs 7500. Not exactly cheap, it’s $200 in American currency, for some pretty ordinary specs. Who puts a smartphone in the market these days with only 300MHz of processing power? And what’s the Brew Mobile OS about? 256MB RAM leaves [...]

Motorola has introduced the QUENCH XT5 smartphone in India and it is set to cost Rs 15,990 in retail outlets and Rs 2,000 less if purchased through wireless carrier Aircel.

The HTC HD7 smartphone running Windows Phone 7 OS will be available in India from next week. It will cost Indian Rupees 30,000. The phone features a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen and has a 1GHz processor under the hood. Unlike the European version that comes with 8GB built-in storage, the Asian release of the HD7 will [...]

The LG GM730 smartphone has been launched in India and can be yours for a price of Rs 19,500. Not exactly a low-cost device here, if only the processor packed more punch it would have been worth the price. The 3-inch TFT touchscreen has a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and features an “S-Class” [...]