HTC One X gets unboxed in France:

While most are waiting to get their hands on the HTC One X smartphone, folks at htc-hub.com in France has posted the unboxing video of the Quad-core Android smartphone in the HTC One series that wasannounced at MWC 2012. The box is small and cute and it has 1800 mAh sealed battery and has Micro SIM card slot on the top. The phone has Beats audio support but it comes with normal headphones unlike the exclusive edition announced for Taiwan. Check out the unboxing video below.

BlackBerry Curve

BlackBerry Curve 8520,9360,9380 and Torch 9860 get a Price Cut in India:

If you are looking to pick up a BlackBerry Curve or the full touch BlackBerry Torch 9860 , you can go ahead and get yourself one in India as the 4 models have got a price cut. Well the prices mentioned below are MRPs and you can actually get yourself one at shops for a little cheaper

Model	New MRP	Old MRP	Difference
Curve 8520	8999	10990	1991
Curve 9360	18990	19990	1000
Curve 9380	16990	20990	4000
Torch 9860	21990	29990	8000

This is what RIM India Managing Director Sunil Dutt had to say about the price cuts

Google Maps for Android

Google Maps for Android v6.5 update brings redesigned Navigation screen, public transit features:

Google Maps has been updated version 6.5 that brings redesigned home screen design for Google Maps Navigation (Beta) for Android 4.0 devices and new options to get transit directions for preferred transit mode. The Google Maps has also crossed a new milestone of providing 50 billion kilometers of turn-by-turn directions.

New Airtel Launch

Airtel launches SMS and Talk time offers in Assam and North East:

Airtel has launched new Packs – Message Mania RCV 11 and Talk around the Clock RCV 29 for pre-paid customers in Assam and North East. These packs offer maximum benefit for texting and talking. The SMS pack offers free local and National SMS across all networks and the talk time pack offers free Airtel-to-Airtel calling minutes.

White BlackBerry Bold 9900

White BlackBerry Bold 9900 Giveaway results are out and the winner is ..

Guys and Gals , thanks for the amazing response to the BlackBerry OS 7 Giveaway here on FoneArena . It was your chance to win a shiny new White BlackBerry Bold 9900 . We had over 5000 entries to the contest. We had to remove entries which did not get answers to all the questions right. Some users did not answer all the questions while some did not enter a contact number or Email. We finally arrived at 1459 entries from which the winner was picked in a lucky draw.

HTC to shut down cloud services

HTC to shut down cloud services, asks users to download stored data:

HTC has many new plans this year, one of their plan is to concentrate on less devices and make their Sense platform better, just a while back HTC Sense customers received a mail saying that their cloud services like Contacts, messages, Footprints and call history will be shut down and made offline. The heading says that they are not actually shutting the service down but renovating their cloud service or HTCSense.com.

Carbon for Android previewed on video

Carbon for Android previewed on video , Looks fantastic:

Carbon for Twitter which had made a name for itself on the doomed WebOS platform recently made the jump to Windows Phone 7. Increasing its reach a bit , it is now also making its way to the exceptionally popular Android platform. The developers put up a short video demoing its refreshing new UI today.

Carbon makes heavy use of UI flourishes and comes out looking fantastic though the fancy transition effects could end up coming in the way for heavy users. We’ll report on that after a proper hands on with the app. The app is styled like the latest ICS update for Android and fits right in. Carbon for Windows Phone is priced at $1.99 and we’re expecting a similar price point for the Android app too. Check below for the full demo video.

Nokia Lumia 900

Nokia Lumia 900 coming to AT&T on April 8 for $99.99:

AT&T and Nokia has announced that Nokia Lumia 900 would be available exclusively in the U.S. from them on April 8 for $99.99. Nokia and AT&T  announced the Lumia 900 with AT&T’s 4G LTE support atCES 2012 in January. The Nokia Lumia 900 has 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED display and is powered by a 1.4GHz Qualcomm  Snapdragon S2 processor. It has 8 MP camera on the back with Nokia’s Carl Zeiss optics and a front-facing camera which was missing in the 800. It runs on Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and has 1830 mAh battery.

HTC One X Soon:

HTC One X launching in India in April:

HTC has confirmed on their Facebook page that HTC One X, their first Quad-core smartphone would launch in India in April 2012. HTC announced the HTC One X at the MWC 2012 last month. It packs in 4.7 inch Super LCD HD display as well as a 1.5 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 Quad-Core processor. It runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Operating System with HTC Sense 4 UI and has Beats audio integration.

Google

Google considering sharing revenue with carriers to stimulate Wallet adoption:

Reports suggest that Google might be considering sharing revenues from Google Wallet with AT&T and Vodafone to help stimulate usage. The service currently only works on one network and device ie the Sprint Nexus S 4G. Sprint plans to out 10 more Wallet supported devices later this year.

Revenue sharing comes as a last ditch effort because AT&T and Vodafone are correctly collaborating on a competing service called ISIS. ISIS is already ahead of Google Wallet in terms of partnerships.

Sony Tablet

Sony Tablet S and Tablet P to get Android 4.0 update in April 2012:

Sony has announced that the Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update would be available for SonyTablet S and Tablet P in late April 2012.  This update will also include new features such as camera access from the lock screen, edit photos in the gallery application, taking panoramic pictures and Recopla app that allows users to stream recorded content from a Sony Blu-ray recorder.

Panasonic Eluga

Panasonic Eluga coming to NTT Docomo in Japan on March 29:

Panasonic announced Eluga, 4-3-inch waterproof Android smartphone for Europe at MWC 2012 last month. NTT docomo has announced that it  will be available on March 29th as P-04D in their NEXT series. It would run on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update promised in summer of 2012.

Samsung Galaxy

Samsung Galaxy Note Android 4.0 update to come with Premium Suite upgrade from Q2 2012:

Samsung has announced that they will offer Premium Suite upgrade for GALAXY Note users. This update will include extra multimedia features and a range of new S Pen optimized applications in addition to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).The Premium Suite offers new features and applications exclusive to GALAXY Note and its innovative S Pen such as S Note app, which was introduced with GALAXY Note 10.1 in Mobile World Congress 2012 last month. The S Note is a unique and efficient tool that lets you combine notes or sketches together with web content, images and other digital media into your own personalized storyboards. S Note comes in various ready-to-use templates for a range of tasks including meeting minutes, diary and others.