The much anticipated low cost Android tablet, Aakash, which will priced at Rs 3,000, will not be launched this year.

A spokesperson of DataWind, the Canadian company that is manufacturing Aakash, said to The Mobile Indian, “An improved version of Aakash tablet will be available in retail outlets by January end.”

The tablet was to be made available in retail stores by the end of November. The spokesperson said, “The delay in the availability of the tablet has been due to upgradation in the tablet and some unforeseen delay in manufacturing.”

The upgraded version of Aakash powered by Android 2.2 will have a resistive touchscreen, Cortex A8-700 MHz processor with graphics accelerator and HD video processor, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of internal memory.

Other specifications are a one standard USB port, 3.5 mm audio jack, a 7 inch display with 800 x 480 Pixel resolution, resistive touchscreen, GPRS and WiFi support.

Suneet Singh Tuli, chief executive officer of DataWind, had earlier said to The Mobile Indian, “Products from Samsung and Apple are for the elite class and we cannot match them at the price we are offering. We are making good quality products in India for Indians at an affordable price.”

On future course of action, he had said, “We have not set a time frame for future launches but we are working on 9 and 10 inch Android tablets. They will have capacitive touchscreens and we will try to keep them under Rs 5,000.”

Intel, world’s largest chip maker, plans to bring smartphones based on its Atom processors. The smartphones will be based on Android operating system and Atom processor.

Speaking at the Intel cloud summit, R Ravichandran who is Intel’s India and South Asia sales director, said, “Google TV, which uses Intel processors has already debuted. So are Ultrabooks and tablets with Intel processors. Next year, you will see smartphones with Atom cores make their debut,”

Atom based tablets are already available with as many as 35 companies were using the new platform in the first half of 2011 or later. Intel has already said that the devices wouldn’t just be limited to Windows 7 or Intel’s own MeeGo (Now dead) and would use Android as well.

Intel had announced the availability of its first Atom Processor designed for smartphones and tablets in mid-2010.

The chip, which was earlier known as Moorestown, is now called Z600. It provides average 4-5 hours of battery life for cellular browsing or video viewing but over 10 days of standby and about 2 days of audio.

The chipmaker had also claims much better performance than a typical smartphone, with about 1.5 to 3 times more raw computing power as well as a GMA 600 graphics core that supplies more visual details through OpenGL ES 2.0 and hardware video acceleration. It can record video at 720p and play it back at 1080p. Z600 also supports Hyper threading, which means that it behaves like two cores in certain cases. In burst mode, the chip very briefly spikes performance when needed.

To keep the footprint small, Intel is using a full system-on-a-chip with the graphics and most other components built in the chip itself.

Intel is providing different processors to the OEMs (Original equipment manufacturers) – chips up to 1.5 GHz for smartphones and 1.9 GHz for tablets.

Notably, today even Quad core chips are now available for smartphones. It will be interesting to see how Intel manages to compete as a late comer to the space.

Google has already released the Android version optimised for x86 architecture (which is suitable for intel’s processors), which means that smartphones using Atom processors are not that far off.

PC manufacturer Lenovo is all set to launch its Windows Phone based smartphones mid next year.

The company has recently announced three Android based tablets including 10.1 inch S2010, 7 inch screen based S2007 and a 5 inch display bearing S2005. During the launch of the new LePad range of tablets in China, Lenovo’s LePhone product manager Yue Chen told reports that there is a clear schedule for the Windows Phone devices coming next year.
“We are indeed currently considering a Windows Phone-based LePhone product, and we already have a clear release schedule &#151 it will be released during the second half of 2012,” Chen was quoted as saying.

Even though the availability dates of the new smartphone have been disclosed, the technical specifications and more details on the added functionality are still under wraps.

But by far Lenovo has delivered whatever claimed that too at the right time and soon we will see the Windows Phone device coming from this brand as well.

While the whole world waits in anticipation of the first Google made Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, guys in china have managed to create their version of the Android ICS based tablet and honestly it looks impressive as well.

The device – Tustime T1002, does not feature any spectacular specifications, but it features a Tegra 2 dual core processor and the latest build of the Google Android ICS 4.0. The device shows some class as well with its metallic body and a slim profile to entice the customer as well.

The device features a 1 GB of DDR 2 RAM and 16 GB of internal memory along with 3G and WiFi support.

The company Trust Time has not revealed any pricing details for the Tustime T1002 tablet but it is taking pre orders for the tablet for delivery which is expected to begin as soon as the first Android ICS 4.0 based tablet, i.e. the Asus Transformer Prime, hits the markets.

Dolphin HD Browser has got a new update which brings new privacy friendly Webzine opt-in feature along with some nifty improvements.

The confirm dialog box, which appears when one taps Back button to exit the browser, has now been disabled. Clearly, you save one tap and microsecond.

One of the significant improvements comes in the form of Encryption of data. Previously, Dolphin HD browser would save data on the SD card and left it un-encrypted.

Webzine feature of the Dolphin HD browser offered a toggle option which was more of an opt-out previously. Several bugs related to the Dolphin Connect feature were also fixed by this update.

Dolphin HD browser offers modern day features for smartphones like Gesture shortcuts, Speed Dial, Tabbed browsing, Menu Bar and Side Bar. Until the Chrome web browser is ported for the Android smartphones, this web browser will continue to lure several users.

The Dolphin HD Browser v7.2 is available for download from the Android Market.

Nokia’a latest Windows Phone based smartphones &#151 Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, have finally been announced for India and will be available in next ten days through Nokia Priority stores which has started accepting preorders for the devices.

“Users just have to pay a booking amount of Rs 1,000 to own Lumia 710, 800 after 10 days,” said a Nokia Priority store customer care executives to The Mobile Indian.

While other Nokia Priority Store executives said that the minimum booking amount could vary from Rs 500 to Rs 3000 at different stores.

On pricing of the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 phones, the executives said, “As of now we don’t have the final pricing but the device is expected to be around Rs 30,000.”
According to media reports, the Lumia handsets would be priced around Rs 19,000.

Lumia 800 features a 1.4 GHz application Processor and 512 MB of RAM that will power Windows Phone Mango 7.5 operating system. The device uses the native Windows user interface with live tiles, and works smoothly.

Nokia Lumia 800 has an 8 Megapixel snapper encrusted with Carl Zeiss optics with a dual LED flash capable of recording 720p HD videos. In terms of hardware, the smartphone is almost identical to the Samsung Omnia W but has internal storage capacity of up to 16 GB as compared to 8 GB on the Omnia W.

Nokia Lumia 710, on the other hand, is an entry level Windows Phone from Nokia. It has got exchangeable back covers and will come in black and white varieties, with the choice of black, white, cyan, fuchsia and yellow back covers.

Its 3.7 inch screen offers an 800 x 480-pixel Resolution with a ClearBlack TFT, which Nokia says, is good for readability in sunlight. At the rear, there’s a five-megapixel auto-focus camera with an LED flash. The camera can also shoot HD video at 30 frames-per-second.

Social networking has been taken care with full integration of Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In, which also allows easy photo-sharing. Like all Windows Phone devices the default Browser is the Internet Explorer 9.

Poonam Pandey, who shot to lime light when she promised to strip if India won the cricket world cup, is now set to shed her clothes for a mobile game.

A US based developer of Android mobile casino games, who also makes games for iPhone and iPad, has approached Pandey for the strip poker game.

Poonam will be appearing in an Android and iOS based version of mobile Strip Poker, and will strip her clothes as the player clears different levels of the game.

Poonam Pandey told casino gambling news “Yes, I have signed a contract with an American company. They will first show my video and then the game starts. As the player starts clearing various levels of the game, I will start stripping.”

She went on to add: “I don’t mind stripping, but to what stage I will be doing it, I can’t say that now. However, reaching the level where I will have to strip fully may be really tough.” The game featuring the model is expected to make an appearance at a number of international and Indian mobile casinos.

The international exposure will surely boost Pandey’s career and help her reach never-before-seen heights.