HTC 8X now available for Rs.34,149 at online retailer Saholic

It is the third week of November and as we were expecting, the Windows Phone 8X by HTC has gone on sale in India.

 

The Windows Phone 8X by HTC or popularly referred to as HTC 8X is now available for prospective users to grab on online retailer Saholic for Rs.34,149.

The HTC 8X is a signature Windows Phone 8 smartphone which was unveiled back in September and was announced for launch in India earlier this month. It is the first Windows Phone 8 smartphone to hit the shelves in the Indian subcontinent.
 

The HTC 8X packs in the following specs:
 

• 4.3 inch Super LCD 2 720p display
• Gorilla Glass Protection
• Polycarbonate Unibody design
• 1.5 GHz Dual-Core Snapdragon S4 chipset
• 1 GB RAM
• 16 GB Internal storage
• Windows Phone 8 OS
• 8 MP camera with f/2.0 aperture
• 2.1 MP front facing camera
• Beats Audio
• Dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, NFC
• Bluetooth 2.1, microUSB

 

For the given price tag HTC has priced the 4.3-inch smartphone aggressively and this would indeed put pressure on Nokia to price its Nokia Lumia 920 at a competitive price.
 

So if you were waiting for the HTC 8X, it could be all yours for Rs.34,149 from Saholic.

HTC Desire SV goes on sale in India for Rs.21799

HTC had at the beginning of the month announced the launch of a dual-SIM Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running HTC Desire SV for the for the Indian subcontinent.

 

And today, the 4.3-inch smartphone is available for prospective users to buy for Rs.21,799 from online retailer Saholic.

 

The HTC Desire SV comes loaded with the following specifications:
 

• 4.3-inch Super LCD 2 display
• Display resolution of 800 x 480 pixels
• Powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor
• 768 MB RAM
• 4 GB internal memory
• Expandable to 32 GB via microSD Card
• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS
• HTC Sense 4.1 UI
• 8 MP Autofocus Camera with LED Flash with an aperture of f/2.2
• Beats Audio
• microUSB v2.0, Bluetooth 4.0
• Wi-Fi, 2G, 3G connectivity
• 1620 mAh battery

The owners of HTC Desire SV will get 25 GB of Dropbox storage for 2 years. The smartphone will be available Radical Yellow and Stealth Black for Rs.21799.

Sony readying new flagship to take on iPhone 5 & Galaxy S III, looking at WP8 too

Sony Mobiles is indeed having a tough time in the mobile phone market and the company knows about it, but is not losing hope.

 

Sony’s Mobile’s sales head Dennis van Schie has in an interview to FTD said that Sony “will create, in the near future, a flagship model that can compete with Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy S III.”

This is indeed a bold statement and we really hope that Sony keeps up with its words. In the recent months, we have heard about two smartphones that the company is working on.
 

One is the Sony C650X codenamed Sony Odin and another smartphone, the C6603 Sony Yuga which is is expected to arrive with a 5-inch Full-HD 1080p display and which has also been pictured earlier this month.
 

No more details were revealed by van Schie but he said that the flagship will run on Android OS. He also said that Sony is keeping a close watch on as to how Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 OS is doing in the market and if the OS succeeds, Sony “will not be caught off-guard”.
 

It would be interesting to see as to how Sony fares in the market with its new flagship which we can expect to be showcased in early-2013.

BSNL CDMA users can now make Unlimited Local and STD Calls with STV 650 & 850

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced the launch of two Special Tariff Vouchers (STVs) for its Prepaid CDMA users in Tamil Nadu & Kerala telecom circle.

 

The two STVs will allow BSNL CDMA users to make unlimited Local calls and unlimited STD calls to BSNL and numbers of other networks.

First up is the STV for Unlimited local calls which is priced at Rs.650 and will allow BSNL CDMA users to make Unlimited Local calls to BSNL and other numbers free of cost and without any FUP. This STV arrives with a validity of 30 days.
 

Next up is the STV which will allow CDMA BSNL users to make Unlimited Local and STD calls to any number all over the country with any charge. This STV is priced at Rs.850 and with a validity of 30 days.
 

BSNL has announced the launch of these two STVs for a promotional period which will end on 09-02-2013.