Gionee Launched 1st Octa-Core Smartphone 2013

India is the first market to enjoy the presence of the Gionee E7 Mini, as the company showcased the device during the India launch of the flagship Elife E7. The E7 Mini features a 4.7 inch HD display and is powered by a 1.7 Ghz Octa-Core processor. The E7 mini has a swapable 13 MP camera with LED flash, like the one we have seen on Oppo N1. E7 Mini has 16 GB inbuilt storage and 1 GB of RAM.

Gionee launched its flagship, the Elife E7 in the Indian market on 24th of December 2013. The Elife E7 will be available starting next week in two variants, 2 GB RAM and 16 GB inbuilt storage at a price of Rs. 26,999. On the other hand, the 3 GB RAM and 32 GB inbuilt storage for Rs. 29,999. However, after the announcement of the Elife E7, Gionee to our surprise also unveiled the E7 Mini.

The Gionee E7 Mini will run on Android 4.2 with company’s own users interface called Amigo. This Dual SIM smartphone will also run on Amigo 2.0 like the Elife E7. The E7 Mini will be available in India by January mid and is priced at 18,999 INR.

Spice launches touch and Qwerty Android phone, Spice Mi-285

Spice has announced a new Android smartphone Spice Mi-285. It is the first touch and QWERTYAndroid phone by Android. Although there is no official announcement, but smartphone is available through online stores for Rs 6,399.

This smartphone is powered by a 650 MHz processor and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. It features a 2.8 inch capacitive dispaly along with a QWERY keypad. This smartphone is a dual sim phone.

It also features a 3.2 mega pixel camea and a front VGA camera. Other feature of this smartphone includes GPS, A-GPS, analog TV, proximity sensor, push email, Gtalk, and 32 GB expandable memory. It supports GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB connectivity.

Mozilla Stops Thunderbird Development

Mozilla has announced that it has stopped the development of Thunderbird. Thunderbird s theemail client that is losing users due to the improved features of mobile mail system.

No new feature will be added to Thunderbird project. But it will still get security updates and bug fixes occasionally.

TechCrunch has also reported this with a letter which was only for “Mozillians” but leaked.

This letter reads,

However, Thunderbird is one of the very few truly free and open source multi-platform email applications available today and we want to defend these values. We’re not “stopping” Thunderbird, but proposing we adapt the Thunderbird release and governance model in a way that allows both ongoing security and stability maintenance, as well as community-driven innovation and development for the product. This will mean an eventual shift in how we staff Thunderbird at Mozilla Corporation – we are still working out details, but some people will likely end up on other Mozilla projects.

Official announcement about the future of Thunderbird will be posted on Monday.

Thunderbird is open-source like other Mozilla projects. So outside developers can still add some features in it and can work together with Thunderbird team. But Mozilla does not want to use its resources on Thunderbird now. They want to use resources in good way as Thunderbird is losing users and losing its charm.

Facebook Is Working On Job Board

According to source, Facebook is now planning to launch a job board with few job posting companies. Facebook is said to have deal with BranchOut, Jobvite and Work4Labs for this new jobboard.

New reports says tha job posting business is growing and was worth about 4.3 billion last year. So most of the companies aregetting a job board. LinkedIn is also growing as a professional job board, so Facebook do not want to lose this market. BranchOut, Jobvite and Work4Labs are some growing job posting websites.

Read: LinkedIn’s Competitor Branchout hits 25 Millions Users

This new job board will not built by Facebook and it will list jobs from third party websites. Wall Street Journal also reported the Facebook does not have plans to monetize the service initially.

Last year in October, Facebook initiated the hob hunting move by teaming up with the US Department of Labor and three employment-related agencies to decrease the unemployment in US. At the time, Facebook said that the “partnership will explore and develop systems where new job postings can be delivered virally through the Facebook site at no charge.”

If this news is true, this job portal will create a trouble for LinkedIn, Monster.com and other popular job posting boards.

This news is running on various news sources, but no one from Facebook is ready to comment on this. No one from the partner company also want to tell anything about this. So we have to wait for few days more. If the news is true, it will not take enough time to make the job board live.

People like to share everything on Facebook but they have to go on other website for job listing and search. After this job board, they will not have to leave Facebook. This will also increase user engagement on website and profits to the partner websites.

What do you think about this move? Tell use via your comments.

BlackBerry App World Crossed 3 Billions Downloads

Although, BlackBerry is struggling in smartphone market, but there is a good news from app world. BlackBerry has just announced that its app market now has more than 3 billion apps downloads from BlackBerry app world.

If you think that these numbers are not impressive, you should know that last announcement was made back in April when RIM has announced 2 billion app downloads. Getting more than 1 billion app downloads in just 2 months is really impressive growth.

RIM said, “three billion app downloads averages out to over 2.5 million downloads each day. What’s even more important – and impressive – is that the number of daily downloads continues to increase. It took 786 days to reach the one billion mark, 210 days to reach two billion, and only 176 days to reach the three billion number.”

One more thing to note that these number are only for official BlackBerry Store. It does not include downloads from third party stores. There are many third party stores which offers BlackBerry appsfor downloading directly from the web.

RIM has also announced that BlackBerry app store has more than 90,00 apps to download. While it was only 70,000 three months back. Moreover, RIM insisted to thanks those more than 28,000 BlackBerry App World vendors and the app store’s team for this notable achievement.

RIM has also announced that it has around around 78 million BlackBerry subscribers. But these numbers are decreasing due to many service outage problems in past. Company is trying its best to increase subscribers. But most of its efforts failed. Its tablet Playbook was also fail to attract users and lost market share. For Indian subscribers, company had also cut the price but low cost Indian companies got more attention of users.

RIM is also working on BlackBerry 10 OS which was earlier expected to hit the market by the end of the this year. Later RIM announced that it will come in the first quarter of next year. 

Sony Xperia Miro | Tech World

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Sony Xperia Miro

Sony Xperia Miro- Full Phone Specification

Sony is launching  Sony Xperia Miro. Sony Xperia Miro has been announced in June 2012 and expected realease would be around third quarter Q3 of 2012. It is a single GSM SIM phone with Touch Sensitive Control.  Sony Xperia Miro is a multitouch phone that is upto 2 fingers. It has 5 MP Camera with features like Geo tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection and 3D sweep panorma.  Like every Sony phone it is also coming with Sony XLOUD Audio.

Sony Xperia Miro is a middle range Andriod phone that is based on Andriod OS Ice cream Sandwitch. It comes with Facebook integration. It comes with Custom Notification Lights.

Expected price of Sony Xperia Miro would be around Rs 18,000 in India that is about 400 US Dollars.(Approx).

Sony Xperia Miro full phone features you will find below.

                                                          

Network
2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100 - ST23i
Built
Dimensions	113 x 59.4 x 9.9 mm
Weight	110 g
Display
Resolution	320 x 480 pixels
Display Type	LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Camera
Camera	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Zoom	Yes
Secondary	Yes, VGA
Video Recording	Yes, VGA@30fps, continuous autofocus, video light, video stabilizer
Battery
Type	Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Talk Time	Up to 5 h (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)
StandBy Time	Up to 470 h (2G) / Up to 545 h (3G)
Multimedia Management
Music Player	Yes
Music Formats	MP3/eAAC+/WAV player
Video Formats	MP4/H.263/H.264 player
Fm Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
Connectivity
Wlan/Wi-fi	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
GPRS	Up to 86 kbps
Edge	Up to 237 kbps
3G	Yes
USB	Yes, 3.5 mm Jack
Browser	HTML5, Adobe Flash
Software
OS	Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
CPU	800 MHz Cortex-A9
GPU	Adreno 200
Java	Yes
Games	Yes
Memory
Internal Memory	4 GB storage (2.2 GB user available), 512 MB RAM
Extensible Memory	microSD, up to 32 GB
PhoneBook	Yes
Call Records	Yes
Messaging
SMS	Yes
MMS	Yes
E-Mail	Yes