Samsung’s Galaxy S5 is the hottest upcoming model in the smartphone, but there is still some confusion about its launch date. While the tech community agrees that the smartphone will be launched in the first quarter of 2014, there is still some confusion about exactly when it will be unveiled. Until now. Doon-hoon Chang, Samsung’s vice president of design strategy, has cleared the air on... 

MediaTek is quickly establishing itself as one of the most popular chipset vendors but it has only been associated with value-for-money devices. What it’s bringing to CES will help it break away from that image and even jump on the wearables bandwagon. One of the key components is the MT6290 modem. Built on a 28nm process, the modem supports LTE Cat. 4, meaning it can achieve downlink speeds... 

In a fresh setback for British telecom giant Vodafone which is embroiled in talks with the government to settle a Rs 20,000 cr tax spat over the 2007 Vodafone-Hutchison deal, the income tax department has issued a demand notice of Rs 3700 cr against the MNC’s Indian arm on Wednesday, two people familiar with the development told ET NOW. “A final assessment order and a notice of demand seeking... 

As the 2014 parliament elections as well as  state elections in many parts of the country are approaching, every possible connection between these elections and marketing is being explored. For these elections, Narendra Modi is a man you can love or hate but can’t ignore. Keeping his popular status quo in mind, a series of Android based handsets called Smart Namo, has been conceptualized. Now... 

India’s first 4G service provider Bharti Airtel all set to launch its 4G LTE service for mobile customers wherein airtel 4G users can enjoy fourth generation mobile service over LTE enabled smart-phones. According to our exclusive sources Airtel will officially launch 4G LTE services on Mobile Phone by the end of December, 2013 (expected in 3 weeks from now).As of now Airtel 4G services providing... 

State-owned Pan India 3G Mobile service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has entered into a strategic alliance with Datawind, the company behind the low-cost Aakash and UBiSlate tablets to launch four co-branded 2G and 3G Android tablets with bundled data offers. Datawind along with BSNL will shortly roll out a slew of BSNL co-branded Android tablets which include UbiSlate 7C+, UbiSlate 7CX,... 

Samsung had announced that the upgrade cycle for its Galaxy Grand smartphone would officially end with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. The last major update for the device is now seeding in Russia and the South Korean manufacturer is expected to roll out the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean ROM globally in the coming days. The latest update for the Samsung Galaxy Grand brings cool features such the lock screen widgets,... 

LG uncovered its new smartphone beast, the G2 an NYC press event yesterday. Back then LG focused more on the ultra-slim bezel, the impressive design and the lengthy list of hot features of the smartphone, but didn’t say anything about pricing. Well, thanks to some online retailers that information is no longer a mystery. The LG G2 has been spotted on a German retailer and according to the listing,... 

Vodafone has been globally active in Automotive Telematics and in lines with this, it has launched Mahindra’s connected car Reva e20 in April this year. In continuation to this endeavour, Vodafone is now bringing it to India. As such, head mobility of Vodafone will be releasing the cost effective and robust vehicle tracking technology at the forthcoming 3rd national conference – Telematics India... 

Smartphone sale is booming in India and an increasing number of people are getting hooked to them, demanding seamless connectivity anytime, anywhere. Looking at the recent trends in Q2 2013, India stood out as the world’s third largest smartphone market with total smartphone shipments at 9 million. According to the report by Canalys, Samsung took over a third of the Indian smartphone market in Q2... 

Sony has established itself as one of the Android manufacturers most committed to the open source software over the past couple of years. The company has always been quick to release the firmware files has pushed AOSP ROMs to a number of its devices – most recently the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL and Xperia Tablet Z flagships. Now the company has open-sourced the Xperia Z Ultra software, even though... 

Only a week after beta 4 was released, we welcome beta 5 of the upcoming iOS7. As usual, there is no public changelog, so we are on our own to spot the differences. Early birds report they are experiencing a much smoother sailing with this one even though start-up times are noticeably longer. Also, all settings icons are now redesigned, along with the in-call icons and the slide-to-power-off slider...