Download: Olacabs (Android) FIND A CAB IN INDIA

Finding a cab in any crowded city is one cast-iron bitch. However, with the Olacabs app for Android, booking a taxi is now a matter of swiping a finger across your smartphone. Touted as the first of its kind in India, this app will also be launched for iPhone next week, followed by a Blackberry version in a month. Not only can you book the closest cab registered with Olacab, but the app also allows you to track its movement on a map, along with details such as booking confirmation, name of the cab driver, vehicle number, distance, and time taken to reach the user's location.
Registered users can also maintain a credit balance with Olacabs and use the service through the app as and when needed, without having to pay for the trip. Unlike existing cab services such as Meru, its GPS location sharing obviates the need to waste time speaking to customer care. The cab driver knows exactly where to find you, and you have a clearer estimate of when the cab will reach your location. Taxis affiliated with Olacabs are outfitted with Android phones that provide navigation and serve as fare meters. This way, the cab driver doesn't have to ask the customer for directions, thanks to the wonders of GPS.
Olacabs is operational in Mumbai at the moment, and will launch in Delhi and Bangalore later this month. The service is planned to be introduced in 10 cities across India by the end of the year. Those without smartphones can also book Olacabs through the phone or online.

 

Developer: Olacabs
Version: 1.0.0.6
Size: 797 KB
Price: Free
Platform: Android
Download Page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.olacabs.customer

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KDDI offer Kyocera Urbano Progresso speaker-less smartphone

KDDI au, the Japanese mobile operator will start selling the new Android smartphone on May 31 (this Thursday), the Kyocera Urbano Progresso. Most interesting point, this Kyocera handset doesn’t have a usual traditional speaker but using Smart Sonic Receiver tissue-conducting technology. It is basically making whole screen its speaker that vibrates the screen by a piezo-electric actuator motor.
Kyocera Urbano Progresso smartphone packs a 4-inch touchscreen OLED Luminous display with resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, a 1.4GHz Snapdragon S2 dual-core processor, and 1GB of RAM. This smartphone runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

The Urbano Progresso bring 4GB of internal memory expandable with MicroSD card (up to 32GB), a rear 8-megapixel autofocus camera, a 0.3MP front-facing camera, and Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi tethering (up to eight Wi-Fi-ready devices). Moreover, 4G WiMax is also supported by Urbano Progresso and capable to reach 40Mbps downlink speed, while uplink speeds of 15.4Mbps.
Coming in metallic orange, silver and metallic pink colors, dimensions of Kyocera Urbano Progresso are 125 x 64 x 10.8 mm and weighs 139 grams. Its 1,500mAh battery is enabling up to 530 minutes of talk time, 360 hours of standby.

The HTC‘s first dual-SIM smartphone HTC Desire V

The HTC‘s first dual-SIM smartphone for European market, the HTC Desire V has just officially announced in Ukraine. This smartphone is works in GSM/GPRS/EDGE and HSPA, while one SIM card is support for HSDPA. Coming with a bigger than Desire C, the HTC Desire V dual-SIM smartphone has measures 118.5 x 62.3 x 9.3 mm and weighs 114 grams.

Its feature is also better than Desire C, which sports 4-inch touchscreen display with resolution of 480 x 800 pixels (instead a 3.5 inches on Desire C). New smartphone boasts a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM7227A processor with Adreno 200 graphics accelerator. Moreover, the dual-SIM HTC Desire V brings 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of internal storage. Beside expandable through a MicroSD card, it offers 25GB of free cloud storage space on Dropbox.
Running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system with HTC’s Sense 4.0 user interface, other feature is GPS, FM radio, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, and Beats Audio. In term of connectivity, there is a USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack, Bluetooth 4.0, and Wi-Fi.

Nokia 808 PureView launched in India for Rs 33,899

This is one of the most anticipated phone of this year which has a humongous 41 megapixel camera.

Nokia's most anticipated smartphone - the Nokia 808 PureView, has been launched in India. The smartphone which has a humongous 41 megapixel camera is available from today for users to buy. Nokia has also tied up with the Airtel under which the teleco is offering the handset with some bundled offer.
The Nokia PureView 808 smartphone features a single-core 1.3 GHz mobile processor with 512 MB RAM. The 41 megapixel camera in Nokia 808 incorporates a new technology called PureView which is jointly developed by Nokia and Carl Zeiss. Bearing the f/2.8 aperture, the 41 megapixel camera will come with Xenon flash and promises 7728x5354 resolution images in 16:9 formats.

With the new PureView Pro imaging technology, the company has managed to use a technique of over-sampling for crystal-clear and noise-less 5 megapixel images. The imaging capability of Nokia 808 is further aided by the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which uses a special algorithm which combines seven different pixels in to a one better pixel.
The camera of Nokia 808 PureView also supports up to 4x digital zoom without compromising on the quality. It also allows capturing full 1080p HD videos at 30 frames per second with up to 3x zoom while for the 720p HD resolution one can go up to 6x zoom.
Nokia 808 will come with Symbian Belle feature pack 1 operating system and will also feature Dolby Mobile Plus for 5.1 channel surround sound playback. Nokia has packed a 1400 mAh battery which promises 11 hours of battery life on EDGE and 6.5 hours of battery life on 3G networks.

SOURCE MOBILEINDIAN

Tegra 3-based $200 Acer Iconia A110 tablet unveiled at Computex 2012

Windows 8 powered devices may be the highlight of Computex 2012 but there was one underdog unveiled at the event that caught everyone’s eye.

Christened the Acer Iconia A110, the Android 4.0 ICS-based  tablet boasts of some impressive specifications under the hood. The A110 has a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024x600, boasts of an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor under the hood, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage and HDMI out. The device also has a front facing camera but no rear facing snapper.

The best feature of the Acer Iconia A110 is that it is priced at $200, which directly translated is roughly Rs. 11,000.

We have seen some pretty impressive tablets launch in India in the sub Rs. 15,000 category, but the Acer Iconia A110 blows them all out of the water, on grounds of sheer specifications. The device could truly become a game changer and may just become the go-to-device for people looking for an entry-level tablet with good specifications. This however will be a reality only if the device is a good performer in real world conditions.

The Verge had some hands-on time with the device at Computex 2012 and ran a few benchmarks on them. The device performed better than the currently available Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 but was out performed by the Asus Transformer Prime and the HTC One X. The A110 may not be the slimmest budget tablet in the market but its form factor is acceptable nonetheless.

“Our strategy on Android is simply to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought out to market at the $199 price point, and the way we do that is a platform we’ve developed called Kai.” Said Mr. Csonger at a May Acer shareholder’s meeting.

He continues to say, “So this uses a lot of the secret sauce that’s inside Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a tablet at a much lower cost, by using a lot of innovation that we’ve developed to reduce the power that’s used by the display and use lower cost components within the tablet.”

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Can Windows 8 tablets help Acer catch up to the iPad ?

Struggling PC maker Acer unveiled new two Windows 8 tablets that come with attachable keyboards, reports PC World.
The Taiwanese PC maker launched the products at a press conference one before the Computex show is set to begin in Taipei. The Computex is the second largest electronics show in the world.
The two tablets launched are Iconia W510 and the Iconia W700. Both run on Windows 8 OS. The Iconia W510 has a 10.1-inch touchscreen, plus detachable keyboard dock can be connected to the tablet for optimal typing. A big plus is that it extends the tablet’s battery life up to 18 hours and can be used as a stand. The W510 tablet thus has a tri-mode feature, wherein users can touch, type and view on the tab.

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Engadget reports that the Iconica W700, has relatively massive 11.6-inch full HD (1920 x 1080) display with touch support for up to 10 fingers, and ships with a cradle that positions the device at 70 degrees for landscape viewing or 20 degrees for touch use. It offers more than 8 hours of battery life and also includes a trio of USB 3.0 ports, along with Dolby Home Theater for enhanced audio.
Both tablets, however, are built with Intel microprocessors. The price for the tablets has not been revealed.
World PC sales have stalled since Apple’s 2010 launch of the slickly designed iPad made personal computing and the Internet even more portable for consumers.
The onslaught of the iPad and a host of imitators has cut deeply into the revenues of Acer which has slipped to the world’s fourth largest PC vendor from No 2 amid stalled sales.

Samsung Launches Its GALAXY S III In India For Rs 43,200

 

After a month of speculation regarding its launch date, Samsung has finally brought its flagship Android handset, the Galaxy S III to India. Reportedly, it predecessor has sold more than 20 million devices worldwide, so expect this handset to be a bigger hit among the Android fans.

As reported earlier, it's powered by a quad-core 1.4 GHz Exynos 4212 chipset. Gaming will be taken care of by the Mali 400MP GPU. The phone features a 4.8" Super AMOLED screen with pixel dimensions of 1280x720. Other specs include an 8 MP main and a front 1.9 MP camera, 1 of GB RAM, 16 \ 32 \ 64 GB internal storage, microSD card slot, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, micro-USB port with MHL and USB-OTG (On the Go) support, 3.5 mm jack, 2100 mAh battery, and a standard set of sensors. The device measures 5.4" (l) x 2.8" (w) x 0.3" (9 mm) (d) mm, and tips the scales at 133 grammes.

The GALAXY SIII runs on Ice Cream Sandwich with a TouchWiz 4.0 UI flavour. The gadget offers S Voice feature that will probably take on Apple's Siri. The device's MRP is Rs 43,200, but the actual selling price will be slightly lesser.