HTC Wildfire S launched in India for Rs 14,700

HTC has launched The Wildfire S in India. You can get the phone for Rs. 14,700. HTC has got the pricing bang on.

The HTC Wildfire S runs on Android 2.3.3 GingerBread and has a 5 MegaPixel autofocus camera. You can also record and play HD Videos. The device has a 3.2 inch HVGA display.

HTC has added a host of new features including a new user interface, HTC locations and a new ebook reader and to go with it a new ebook store powered by Kobo.

The HTC Wildfire S will surely attract a lot of attention here in India considering the great features and the apt pricing of the phone.

iPhone 4 Finally Launched in India, Apple ties up with Airtel and Aircel for the time being

Yes, It's finally happened, the iPhone 4 has been launched in India. We at Tech-Keeda though told you that this was happening way back. Check it out here.

Aircel and Airtel have made formal announcements today. There has still not been an announcement from Vodafone yet. Coming to the pricing, well to be honest, the iPhone 4 will surely dig a huge hole in your pocket for sure. For both Aircel and Airtel, the 16GB variant will be priced at 34,500 INR and the 32GB will be priced at 40,900 INR, for prepaid as well as postpaid subscribers.

For Prepaid Customers, these are the plans being offered by Aircel.

For Postpaid customers,

 

 

Although these postpaid plans suggest that you can recover around 50% - 100% of the cost you pay for the phone but then this will benefit people who would normally have such heavy usage.

For Casual users, these plans may not be the best. Airtel has still not come out with their plans.

Apple cuts prices of Mac Desktops by ~15%, looks like India if finally on Apple's radar

Price cut after price cut, launch after launch, looks like Apple has finally started considering India as a potential market(phew).

Apple has dropped the prices of their Mac desktops by ~15%. This is great news for Apple fans.

Apple has recently launched the iPad 2 in India, merely 3 months after its US launch. Going by what Apple has done in the past in India, 3 months is nothing. We waited for the next generation of any device to be launched in US so that the last generation would be dumped in India. Well not any more it seems. India is on Apple's radar now.

In the last post, I told you that Apple is going to launch the iPhone 4 by this month end. There is even better news, rumors have it that the device will be 'factory unlocked'. This means that your iPhone 4 would work with any SIM card and would not just be locked to use only Airtel and Vodafone.

Here's a look at the new and old prices of the Mac desktops.


MODEL OLD PRICE NEW PRICE

Mac Mini 44,900 37,900

iMac 21.5" 74,900 64,900

iMac 27" 1,05,900 91,900


(All Prices in Indian National Rupees)

Acer launches India's first Honeycomb Tablet, also a Dual Screen Notebook

Acer has launched India's first Honeycomb tablet.

Two days back Acer launched their Iconia series tablets in India. The Iconia A500 is the Honeycomb tablet that we are talking about.

The device runs on Tegra2 dual core processor - 1Ghz. It has a 10.1 inch screen. The Iconia A500 has an SD Card slot, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, mini-HDMI port.

One thing in particular that we would like to point out is that the device has a full sized USB port. This is an amazing addition and the device surely does get extra brownie points for this.

The Iconia A500 has a front cam and a rear cam. The front one is a 2 MegaPixel camera and the rear one is a 5 MegaPixel camera.

One thing that catches our eye is that all the devices in this Iconia series look stunning. Just have a look at the pics we have added below.

Apart from the Iconia A500, the other device worth mentioning is the 'Iconia Dual Screen Notebook'. The name is self explanatory, the device has two screens. Just to make it clear, this is more of a laptop than a tablet. There is a virtual keyboard. The specs include 4 GB RAM, 640 GB HDD, Ethernet and Wi-Fi.

As far as pricing is concerned, Acer has got it bang on. The A500 will cost you Rs 27,900 and the 'Dual Screen Notebook' will cost you Rs 69,999

Apple to launch iPhone 4 in India by May end. Airtel already starts pre-registration.

The iPhone 4 is going to be launched in India very soon.

This news has now been confirmed as Airtel has started pre-registrations for iPhone 4.

Airtel has started pre-registrations, interested people can either fill up the form with requisite details or can SMS iPhone4 to 121 for more detals.

As of now, no information on exact release date and pricing have been made public.

According to some rumors, Apple could launch The iPhone 4 in India as soon as this month end(may end).

As far as pricing goes, The iPhone 4 will cost you anywhere in upwards of Rs 30,000 for the 16GB device.

We will keep you updated as and when any more official statement is made by Apple.

HTC to launch 7 android devices in India, including HTC Evo, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Sensation

The HTC Wildfire S will be launched in India in May.

HTC has a long list of Android devices lined up for the Indian markets. Its believed that besides The Wildfire S, HTC will launch 7 Android devices in India which includes The HTC Evo and The HTC Sensation.

The Sensation is the flagship phone of HTC and its definitely one to look out for.

These devices will be priced in the higher segment, prices will start from Rs 15,000 upwards for the HTC Wildfire S.

Twitter buys TweetDeck for $50 Million

TweetDeck is one of the most popular twitter clients. Almost one-third of twitter users use TweetDeck to tweet. Twitter must have thought that its not a good idea to let TweetDeck enjoy so much autonomy, hence this buy-out was inevitable.

TweetDeck was initially in talks with UberSoft. UberSoft is a company that has been on a buying spree of late. The company has been buying many twitter clients in the recent past.

The exclusivity deal with UberSoft ended this April and hence, TweetDeck could respond to the offer made by Twitter. UberSoft was ready to pay around $30 Million for TweetDeck whereas Twitter is paying nearly $50 Million.

There were speculations that UberSoft may start a rival micro blogging site to compete with Twitter and with all these popular third party Twitter clients with it, Twitter must have taken this a big threat.

Hence Twitter was ready to pay nearly $20 Million extra.

BlackBerry PlayBook and Motorola Xoom to be availale in India very soon.

After the launch of the iPad 2 in India, other manufacturers are gearing up to launch their tablets in India pretty soon.

Apple caught everyone off guard by launching the iPad 2 within 3 months of its US launch.

The BlackBerry Playbook which received a pretty ordinary response from reviewers is already available for pre-order on HomeShop18.

The Motorola Xoom, which is a honeycomb tablet and has received outstanding reviews from people all over the world is also available for pre-order on HomeShop18.

These two tablets will definitely eat into Apple's share of the tablet market in India. The iPad 2 went out of stock in India in just 1 day of its launch, we don't expect anything like that to happen with any of these two tablets, but still the Xoom will catch a lot of eye balls.

In terms of pricing too, the iPad seems to have an upper hand over the PlayBook. The 16GB model is priced at Rs. 32,999, 32GB is priced at Rs. 39,299 and the 64GB model is priced Rs. 45,999.

The 32 GB model of Xoom would cost you Rs 38,500. These prices are obviously more than what you would pay when the devices are actually launched and available off the shelves in India.

An official statement from both BlackBerry and Motorola is expected in the coming days.

What's wrong with Sony? Attack after attack, Customer Details being Compromised.

Barely a few weeks ago, gamers were trying to find out as to why The Sony PlayStation Network was down for so long. Little did they know that Sony had intentionally shut down The PlayStation Network because there had been an attack on the network by hackers.

The PlayStation Network had been down from April 20 and Sony made a public statement about the incident on April 28. The 8 day gap makes one believe that the attack was pretty severe.


Following the security breach by hackers, it came to be known that around 77 Million users personal details including name, addresses, birth dates and the most crucial, credit card information had also been stolen.

A few days later, some security researchers made claims that a list of 2.2 Million PlayStation Network users credit card details were up for sale. Claims were made that the hackers even tried to sell the stolen data back to Sony but Sony refused.

As expected, Sony has rubbished these claims as being false.

If all this wasn't enough, Sony was hit by another attack in which it is believed that details of 25 Million more Sony customers has been compromised.

Interestingly, this breach happened a day before the PlayStation Network breach, but came to light only after a review took place because of that breach.

This breach happened on the Sony Online Entertainment PC games Network. Apart from 25 Million existing customers, records of around 10,000 customers were stolen from an outdated database. It is believed that in this attack, debit card details of customers in Austria and Germany had been stolen.

Sony is having to face flak from all corners owing to all these breaches. The SOE(Sony Online Entertainment) Network has also been shut down for the time being.