May, 2012 PayPal policy update for India

As per the latest email which i had received from PayPal, states that they are going to update the policy for Indian users. Basically the new policy states that PayPal from now onwards will consider 4.0% as the currency conversion fee instead of 2.5%. This policy is applicable not only to India but to many other countries also. You should also take it account the fact that PayPal does not accept the actual exchange rate which is prevailing instead it has it’s own exchange rate. This means we will get less money in our Indian currency after this update.

Prices slashed, LG Optimus 3D now at 20K INR

LG Optimus 3D can easily be considered as the big brother to world’s first dual core smartphone LG Optimus 2X. LG Optimus 3D was initially launched at a massive price tag of Rs. 32,000 and after several price cuts due to competition from HTC EVO 3D it finally settles at Rs. 28,000 for quite a sometime.

Galaxy Note users in Europe gets Android ICS update

As per the latest reports floating around the web world, Samsung had finally released ICS update for their Galaxy Note for their users in Germany. Here i am attaching the screenshot in which a user is getting Over The Air (OTA) notification for the latest OS on his/her phone. The size of the update is approximately 319 MB and have some exclusive feature for Galaxy Note.

What is so special in 9000$ OLED TV from Samsung ?

Samsung recently at an event in South Korea confirms the fact that they will be launching the all new 55 inch OLED based HDTV in the second half of present year in South Korea. This new OLED based TV was first showcased at CES 2012. At that event also it drew the attention of all because of it’s ultra slim design and vivid colours. According to Samsung this TV will be the premium of the premium TV’s. This directly indicates that Samsung is interested in capturing the high end TV market and is expected to launch it near Olympics, when the sale of HDTV’s is at peak.

The all new Galaxy S3 unveiled by Samsung at an event in London

Samsung had just announced the launch of it’s much awaited next Galaxy phone today in an event at London. The phone will be named as Galaxy S3 and will be the successor of extremely popular Galaxy S2. Galaxy S3 is being rumoured from past few months by various websites in the form of leaked images and specifications.

HTC One X receives a price cut of Rs. 1900

India’s most popular online retailer Flipkart slashes the price of popular quad core based handset HTC One X. HTC One X was initially launched in India at a price tag of Rs. 37,899. However we can also take into account the fact that one can already purchase the same phone for Rs. 36,000 from some local retailer if he/she knows the concept of bargaining.

India to get Nokia 808 pure view in may

Nokia had officially confirmed from their side that they will be launching Nokia 808 (Pure View) in May, 2012. The countries that are listed for the initial launch includes India and Russia. These countries have large, loyal market for Nokia who had been facing tough competition in mobile arena from player like Samsung and Apple.

Nvidia GTX 690 gaming performance benchmarks leaked

Well we can’t say it as a leak because Nvidia had already revealed their Kepler based Dual GPU GTX 690. But here we got some gaming benchmarks which show a substantial increase in performance over a single GTX 680. This is definitely the most power efficient Dual GPU present yet until AMD launches it’s own 7990 GPU.

Indian version of Galaxy S2 gets the official ICS update

Samsung had recently confirmed the official release of ICS for the Indian version of Galaxy S2 or we can say I9100G. This particular version of Galaxy S2 is somewhat downgraded form of the original Galaxy S2. It features TI OMAP chipset from Texas Instruments and features a under powered GPU as compared to the originals Mali 400 GPU.