Mobile Hunt

Korean manufacturer, LG has officially announced its LG Optimus 3D, their first glasses free 3D smartphone which was first revealed during the Mobile World Congress earlier this year.

The device is the latest addition to its famous Optimus series which also includes the dual-core powered LG Optimus 2X.
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Finnish cellphone maker Nokia unveiled its N9 smartphone in Singapore on Tuesday, its only bet on the MeeGo platform.

The commercial launch will be later this year, CEO Stephen Elop said. Nokia dumped plans to use MeeGo in its future smartphones when in February it picked Microsoft’s Windows Phone as its future software choice, but it decided to unveil one of the models it was working on before closing the business line.
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Motorola India recently announced that the very first tablet device to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb will be available in the Indian market later this month.

Though the company has not yet been specific about the release date for the tablet device, we expect it will make an appearance sometime in the last week of June.
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Nokia has unveiled its C2-03 model, a touch-and-type interface device combining a touchscreen and a keyboard, as part of its strategy to reach new users in emerging markets.

Mary McDowell, executive vice president in charge of low- end mobile phones, said the dual-SIM model will be “affordably priced” and feature maps and location-based services. McDowell, speaking at an event in Singapore, said the phone won’t require a data plan and that its location will be transmitted through wireless towers.
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Mobile handsets manufacturer Micromax today said it has launched its first push-email (ezmail) phone — Micromax Q80.

The smartphone is a 3G and Wi–Fi enabled QWERTY phone with an optical track pad. Micromax Q80’s main feature Ezmail is a push email service from Micromax that allows the users to receive their mails instantly. Q80 is a dual SIM phone which is designed to run both 3G and 2G enabled SIMs.
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Research In Motion launched BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in India on Wednesday.

BlackBerry PlayBook displays an ultra-portable design and weighs a pound. It boasts a 7″ screen and a 1 GHz dual-core processor. It runs on the new BlackBerry Tablet Operating System (OS). The device also features multitasking dual high-definition (HD) cameras for video recording and video conferencing.
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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has unveiled two new Android models in a bid to grab more of the burgeoning smartphone market.

Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Lang announced in Singapore that the company plans to launch the Xperia Ray and Xperia Active models during the third quarter.
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Yes, you read that right. According to cellphone dealers, Apple is “re-launching” its two-year-old iPhone at a price of Rs 19,990 in India. The move is likely to counter cheap Android smartphones that have flooded the market recently. This particular version of iPhone will come with 8GB internal storage.
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Rapid price drops have ignited demand for mid-range Android smartphones. Although we are yet to see a 1Ghz phone under Rs 15,000, Huawei’s Ideos X5 stands apart by offering a larger display than the competition. The X5 has a solid construction all around with a curved top and bottom that makes it easy to slide into a pocket.

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