Recently a good news from Blackberry CEO that Blackberry Messenger or BBM will be coming to multi operating system i.e. Android & iOS phones. Again it will provide an extensive support iOS hardware running iOS 6 and above; same with the Android version but with 4.0 version i.e. Ice cream Sandwich & above. ”It’s time to bring BBM to a greater audience,” CEO Thorsten Heins said in announcing the expansion, “no matter what mobile device they carry.”

The urgency of BBM chats
Multi-person chats
Voice note sharing
BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up groups of up to 30 people and share calendar, photos, files and more.

” Heins went on. He said that BlackBerry 10′s prospects are “so strong that we are confident that BBM can become an independent messaging solution.”

Sony is adding another option to its smartphone lineup with this Xperia A it just announced in Japan. Spotted a few days ago in an FCC filing, the SO-04E will be released on the 17th on NTT DoCoMo.

Japanese carrier NTT Docomo has officially announced the Sony Xperia A smartphone as part of 2013 summer election.

 key specifications

Display: 4.6-inch HD reality display with a resolution of 720×1280 pixels.

Processor: 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 quad-core processor.

Memory: 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage expandable up to 32GB via microSD.

Camera: 13-megapixel Exmor RS autofocus camera with LED flash & VGA front camera.

Connectivity: 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, LTE, NFC.

OS: Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)

The company has added a new smart phone in the canvas series named as A88 Canvas Music. This phone already featured in the  at the Micromax MTV Video Music Awards in Mumbai last month. This phone possess unique application known as Mlive via. which users can download 4 Lakh songs. Micromax has partnered with leading headphones brand JBL to offer a free JBL Tempo headset with the Canvas Music A88.

 Technical Specifications

Display: 4.5-inch display with a resolution of 480×854 pixels.

Processor: 1GHZ Mediatek dual-core processor.

Memory: 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage, 1.93GB user accessible, expandable by up to 32GB via microSD card.

Camera: 5-megapixel rear camera, VGA front camera.

Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, 3G.

OS: Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean).

Battery Capacity: 1,800mAH battery.

Colors:  Pearl White and Midnight Black.

Price: Rs 8,499

“At Micromax, we are continuously channelizing our energies to innovate finest devices that are relevant to our customers. Canvas Music A88 coupled with JBL headset and unlimited songs download via MLive! Application serves as a perfect offering to the youth echoing our vision of providing a fulfilling entertainment experience to all the music and multimedia lovers. Through our latest device, we aim to further build the Canvas success story to unprecedented heights,” commented by Country Head Smartphone Division, Ajay Sharma.

Display: 5.3-inch display with 540×960 pixels resolution.

Recently in world wide smart phones market Samsung has been releasing quite rapidly this new handsets under name ”Galaxy”. This new branding has change the market appearance in a short period of time.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini will come in both Single SIM supported variant and Dual SIM Supported variant. Single SIM variant may have the Quad Core processor, while Dual SIM may have Dual Core processor.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini will have 4 different versions. The Single SIM version with model no. I9190 is the base model. Other 3 devices with model no. I919x. Dual SIM version with I9192, LTE version with I9195 and China version with I9198 model no.

Key Specifications:

Network Supported: GSM (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – GT-I9190), GSM [850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - GT-I9192 (SIM 1 & SIM 2)], HSDPA (900 / 1900 / 2100), LTE – GT-I9195

Display: 540 x 960 pixels, 4.3 inches, Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen

OS: Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean).

Processor: Dual-core 1.6 GHz

Memory: Internal(8/16/32 GB), 1 GB RAM, microSD, up to 32 GB.

Connectivity: GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot,   Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, LE, EDR, NFC, micro-USB

Color: White, Blue, Titan Gray.

Price:  Not Known Yet.

The new Xperia ZR the little sibling from Xperia Z & World’s first water resistant smart phone announced by Sony Mobile Communications. If we compare Xperia ZR  with Xperia Z then the last one is more compact & smaller in design. The new handset can take photos & also can shoot HD videos under water.

This new handset is based on Android operating system with latest technologies catered from Sony Engineering & some exciting features like a 4.6” HD Reality display, 13 megapixel fast capture camera, Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ S4 Pro quad-core 1.5 GHz processor, and 4G LTE.

“Bringing together the best of Sony’s leading technology, media applications and easy one-touch connectivity with the largest ever range of NFC-enabled accessories, the Xperia ZR delivers the unique smartphone experience that people can expect from Sony,” Director of Xperia Marketing at Sony Mobile Communications, Calum MacDougall.

In recent times Motorola’s mysterious X Phone will be hitting the stores soon. This phone is then following the courtesy of Droid life which gives us a concrete information on this given handset.

Again by FCC report lots of information about this handset has revealed. As per the latest & updated info, this handset has a model number XT1058 & this handset is already pre-equipped with different network bands under AT & T services.Bluetooth 4.0 and a Wi-Fi antenna capable of connecting to 802.11ac bands were some of the connectivity features associated with this handset.

This id the truly the first handset after the two IT giants merger between Google & Motorola, already leaked earlier about its existence & this has been duly proved by the  another AnTuTu benchmark test result. Recently in past also several benchmark tests has been leaked out but all tests & its results has been declared as fake, but recently in one of Japanese blog Ameblo, obake_verizon has been revealed as the code name of this phone, where it shows about the specs & the test results are same as compared to the earlier test result. Motorola XT1055 also another phone model number also earlier appeared on this An Tu Tu web site.

As per rumor in the handset industry the XT1055 smart phone has also revealed Ghost as its code name. This code name is translated from Japanese obake & all the recent X Phone is heading towards all major U.S. carriers like Verizon as well as AT&T. This phone is runned by quad-core 1.7GHz processor and running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean as per recent Benchmark score suggests.

Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Swedish were some of the new 16 languages added by the Google for its Android Based Camera Supported Handsets.

Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish were some of the languages supported by the camera input apps.

French, Spanish, German, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic were the name of some fifty languages already added by Google in its offline translation segment. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were the languages where vertical text translation was allowed through device camera. For download this offline language translation packs, users must click Offline languages section in the app menu.

A free language translation service offered only bu Google under Google Translate between 65 different languages.voice, handwriting, and camera and also enables them to listen to translations spoken aloud via input text from users through Android Translate app.

Philippines will be the first place to showcase Samsung Galaxy Mega phablet duo. On June 15,Mega 6.3 and the Mega 5.8 phones are expected to launch although the pricing is yet to be confirmed.

The Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 features  720p HD Ready& 8 mm thick display. It also contains 1.7 GHz Dual-core processor with 1.5 GB RAM. Other main specs includes 8 megapixel rear camera, 1.9 megapixel front camera, 8GB inbuilt memory, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and 3,200mAh battery.

The  Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 possess a 5.8-inch qHD TFT display. 1.4 GHz dual-core processor is the powered point inside this handset. The battery capacity is 2,600mAh quite a unique spec in this low-mid-range phone. But this phone doesn’t feature LTE, since it contains all HSPA connectivity.

Its the first quad-core phone launched in the market by the company named as Lava. It also features One Glass Solution (OGS) technology being a Q-series phone its possess unique features mentioned below.

Key Specifications:

Display: 4.5-inch qHD IPS display with 245 ppi.

Processor: 1.2GHz quad-core processor with PowerVR SGX544 GPU.

Memory: 1GB of RAM,4GB of internal storage, expandable by up to 32GB.

Camera: 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash & .3-megapixel front camera.

Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G.

Battery Capacity: 2400 mAh battery.

OS: Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean).

Talk Time: 17 h(2G) & 16h (3G).

Stand-by Time: 380h(2G) & 350h(3G).

Price: Rs. 9,999.