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Intex Aqua Secure 4G, Fingerprint phone at Rs 6499

May 21, 2016 by computerera

Today Intex Technologies launched “Aqua Secure” 4G smartphone for Rs. 6,499/- into the Indian market. It is another budget phone with a fingerprint sensor, which became the trend in recent days.

Aqua Secure comes with 4.5 inch FWVGA display, 1 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor and 1 GB RAM. This model runs on Android 5.1 Marshmallow operating system. Storage is the major limitation of this low-end phone as it has only 8 GB internal storage.

Nowadays 16 GB internal storage has been considered as the minimum storage for all the models. We can expand storage up to 32 GB with the MicroSD card. But external storage is not at all better solution, because most of the essential apps like Whatsapp, Facebook occupies only internal storage.

This phone supports 4G, LTE, WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, GPS and it has USB Type-C port. VoLTE is the buzz word at present, which helps us to make High Definition voice calls. All the telecom operators in India are going to launch their VoLTE services soon. In this context, this phone is suitable for those who want to purchase a low-end VoLTE smartphone.

Other specifications are 5 MP rear camera, 2 MP front camera for video calling and it sports with 1900 mAh battery which gives 6 hours talk time.

The primary goal of Intex Technologies behind releasing Aqua Secure phone is to provide the latest VoLTE, fingerprint technologies at an affordable price.

Android Instant Apps – run any app without installing them on your phone

May 19, 2016 by computerera

Do you come across with “insufficient storage space” warning while installing any Android app earlier? With the Google’s latest “Instant Apps” technology all those headaches will vanish.

At the I/O 2016 Keynote, Google Announced about Instant Apps concept through which end users can run any apps directly without installing them on their smartphones. It is great news for those who has low storage or for those who wants to test apps and games before installing them on the phone.

Instant Apps feature will support all the existing Android versions from Jelly Bean to Marshmallow. Developers are also no need to write separate code for their apps. They can use the same Android API’s, existing source code and the same project to take benefit from the “Instant apps” feature.

At present Google is working with a limited set of developers for this innovative “Instant apps” feature, later it will expand the concept to the wider range of publishers.

BuzzFeed, HotelsTonight, B&H Photo, Medium, Disney, Zumper are the initial apps that are going to offer “Instant Apps” feature by the end of this year.

So by next year, the feature will be available for a majority of Android apps on Play Store. You can use it from Google Search, SMS, Instant Messenger apps like Whatsapp, etc.; it’s not necessary to visit Google Play Store for this feature.

Rs. 99/- Namotel Achhe Din Smarphone – Here are my doubts

May 19, 2016 by computerera

Since Freedom 251 Launch, few people try to grab the media attention with cheap smartphone ideas. “Namotel Achhe Din” is the latest incident in that category.

Smartphone for Rs. 99/- is highly impossible. The promoter Madhava Reddy knows this. That’s why he specified the original price as Rs. 2,999/- and tricked the customers Rs. 99 as the special introductory price.

Yesterday popular media houses and TV channels in India wrote exclusive articles and specification sheets on their platforms about this Rs. 99 phone. I already fought vigorously on Freedom251 at that time. Coming to this new bogus phone, I decided to be silent. But I got plenty of requests to open up on this latest issue, and that’s why this article is shaped.

I have few doubts about this phone, my questions are..

1. How can the promoter Madhava Reddy offers Rs. 2,999 valued phone for Rs. 99? How he bears the additional financial burden, i.e. Rs. 2,900 for each unit he sells? He didn’t mention any tie-up with bankers and financial institutions or investors support for this. Think how it could be possible?

2. “Pictures shown in the website is for illustration purposes only” – this is the message Namotel website display for “Namotel Achhe Din” model listing? This indicates that they don’t have an idea on the phone prototype they are going to manufacture? Then how can we trust just by seeing the basic specifications?

3. I tried to open the Namotel site today. Whatever the reasons hosting company already suspended the account. You can guess the reliability of the company with this incident.

4. They are asking us to register with bemybanker.com prior to phone booking. You need to submit your Aadhaar details and photo for this. In my opinion, no private firm has right to demand identity details and personal information as a photograph for their business.

So please don’t trust such type of false cheap smartphone tactics.