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Round 1 – Sony Xperia C vs Gionee Elife E6 #Smartfone13

Hello readers! Welcome to the first round of Fonearena’s Best Budget Smartphone Competition. Fonearena is conducting one of a kind smartphone championship where you get to make your favorite smartphone win. This year we are conducting two championships – one for the flagships and one for the budget mid-range smartphones. Among the four interesting first round battles, we have the one between Sony Xperia C and Gionee Elife E6 right now.

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Round 1 – Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos vs Intex Aqua i7 #Smartfone13

Hello readers! Welcome to the first round of Fonearena’s Best Budget Smartphone Competition. Fonearena is conducting one of a kind smartphone championship where you get to make your favorite smartphone win. This year we are conducting two championships – one for the flagships and one for the value for money budget smartphones. Among the four interesting first round battles, we have the one between Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos and Intex Aqua i7 right now.

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Best budget smartphones of 2013 Competition

The year 2013 has been great for the smartphone market, especially the Indian smartphone market. The year 2013 saw the rise of numerous Indian manufactures thanks to “open-source” Android operating system. Towards the end of 2012, only Karbonn and Micromax had established their grip in the mid-range smartphone segment with value for money smartphones. The year 2013 helped the Indian manufacturers expand their market share by offering Full HD display smartphones with Quad-core processors for affordable price points.

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Lenovo P780 Review

Lenovo P780 was launched recently in India. The Lenovo P780 resembles most mid-range phablets in India because of its internal specifications, but differs from the crowd thanks to a couple of special features. One among its unique feature is that Lenovo P780 comes with an enormous 4000mAh (which according to a Lenovo Ad will help you last a week in an island). Another differentiating factor that bolsters its position over the other mid-range smartphones is its solid build quality.

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Oppo R829 image surfaces online

The sheer volume of Chinese manufactures has seldom helped us in remembering them, but among them a few companies do stand out and one among them is Oppo. Having produced only a handful of smartphones so far, Oppo have “made it large” because of their hardware and design language in their phones. Oppo have just launched their Oppo N1 and today we have images of what is probably the company’s next smartphone – Oppo R829. Via their Weibo account, Oppo have posted the image of this new device and according to Oppo’s Brand Ambassador – Kedros Ng, this device is the Oppo R829. The naming convention makes us inclined to think that this is the successor of Oppo R819 which we reviewed earlier.

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Motorola Moto G Camera Samples

Motorola Moto G is the device that is expected to take the Indian entry range smartphone market by a storm. This is mainly because of the features that Motorola Moto G offers for its price. Moto G is expected to arrive for a price of Rs. 12,000. Some of the features that the phone offers for its entry range include a 4.5inch 720p display and a Quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor.

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LG G Flex Camera Samples

When Samsung announced the world’s first curved display smartphone, we expected the entire tech industry to follow. Though the form factor has little practical usage, every company had to prove that they were indeed capable of producing a curved display smartphone with no practical use. LG, Samsung’s rival from homeland to International market, were the next to follow with LG G Flex. LG proved me wrong about the practical usage part as their LG G Flex was capable of being bent(unlike Samsung’s curved smartphone – Samsung Galaxy Round) and also came with a special material at the back that allowed automatic healing of scratches.

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LG G Flex Photo Gallery

Samsung was the first company to announce and launch a smartphone with a curved display – Samsung Galaxy Round. Soon after that, LG announced their curved display phone – LG G Flex. However, despite coming late to the party, LG equipped their G Flex with features like a bendable display and a bendable body. In addition to the bendable nature of the phone, it comes with a special material at the back that can heal the scratches that the phone suffers. This is one of a kind innovation from LG and pretty soon we can expect this ability to feature in most smartphones.

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Motorola Moto G Photo Gallery

Motorola Moto G will be the first Motorola device to be launched in India after a long hiatus. Motorola Moto G was unveiled in Brazil recently and it was specifically made keeping in mind two markets – India and Brazil. The Motorola Moto G that will be coming to India will include dual SIM functionality and is expected to be priced around Rs. 12,000 making it one of the affordable mid-range phones. Though a low price point doesn’t necessarily guarantee a product’s success, the Moto G’s value for money and the features it offers for the price are expected to sweep away the Indian market.

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Spice Pinnacle Stylus Review

Spice announced their Spice Pinnacle Stylus Mi 550 phablet sometime back in October. Spice Pinnacle Stylus falls perfectly in the mid-range phablet segment with similar specifications like the many other devices that crowd the budget range, however it sports a stylus which was seen in Micromax’s Canvas Doodle 2. Spice Pinnacle Stylus is available for Rs. 15,000 and lets check out if it is worth buying or not.

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Lenovo P780 Camera Samples

Lenovo P780 was recently launched in India and we brought you the unboxing followed by the photo gallery of this beautiful phone. Lenovo P780 has midrange specifications that includes a quad-core processor from MediaTek, 720p display and an 8MP camera. Sometime back we reviewed the Lenovo K900 and we were quite impressed by its 13MP camera and now lets check out how this camera performs.

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Android 4.4+ KitKat will not ship with a browser, OEMs have to license Google Chrome or develop own browsers

Android is currently the number one smartphone OS in the world and as we all know Google owns Android(literally). However, because of various patent issues, Microsoft are reported to be making more money from Android than Google. This has been a huge problem for the search engine giant and they are working on it in their own terms. Android is open source and so every manufacturer forks Android and uses it, but they have to license Google Apps from Google. In the recent times, Google has been trying to distance itself from Android and trying to create a brand of its own which is profitable for them. This was evident when they renamed Android Market as “Google Play Store”.

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Google Nexus 5 Display Comparison with Samsung Galaxy Note 3, HTC One and LG G2

Google launched their latest flagship smartphone – Google Nexus 5 and like most flagships of the later half of 2013, it is equipped with a Full HD display and is powered by Snapdragon 800 SoC. The 720p HD display on the yesteryear flagship – Google Nexus 4 definitely wasn’t the best display we have seen and we are going to see if things got better atleast in the Google Nexus 5. Google Nexus 4 was made by LG and it was based on their Optimus G smartphone and the trend continued this year as Google Nexus 5 is based on LG G2 and is manufactured by LG.

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Xolo Play Tab 7.0 Photo Gallery

Xolo announced their Xolo Play earlier this year which was the first device by an Indian manufacturer to sport the NVidia Tegra 3 chipset. The Xolo Play was all about gaming and Xolo decided to make it bigger and hence we have the Xolo Play Tab 7.0. The Xolo Play Tab 7.0 is the Xolo Play T1000 with a larger 7inch display. In terms of specifications, it is on par with Google Nexus 7 that was released last year.

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Lenovo P780 Photo Gallery

Lenovo P780 was launched recently and you can check out our unboxing post here. Lenovo P780 belongs to the class of MediaTek MT6589 powered 5inch phablets with HD displays. What sets it apart from the other phones with similar features is its solid metal build quality and its huge 4000mAh battery(its steep price too).

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As I have mentioned before, the phone stands out because of its solid build quality but is on the heavier side. On the front, we have the stylish earpiece above the display and three capacitive touch keys below the display. The front and back material are fused together by a silver colored metal ring that houses the 3.5mm audio jack and the power lock button on the top and the volume rocker on the right side.

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On the back of the phone, you get a solid metal material at the center that can be removed. Removing the metal cover, you can see the non user removable 4000mAh battery above which we have a couple of slots of SIM cards and a microSD card slot.

The phone looks gorgeous, but feels heavy and you will know more in our complete review which we will be putting up soon. Meanwhile, you can check out the entire photo gallery right below.