Nokia to upgrade N8 and E7 to Anna in July

Indian users will have to update their smartphones using the Nokia Ovi suite as Indian telecom service providers still do not provide support for over the air updates.

Nokia N8 and E7 smartphones will be upgraded to the Symbian Anna operating system in the month of July this year, the Finnish handset maker has said in an official Facebook post.

The update will be available over the air internationally but Indian users will have to update their smartphones using the Nokia Ovi suite as Indian telecom service providers still do not provide support for over the air updates.

It is expected that Nokia India will also make the update available for Indian users at the same time but looking at the past updates it is expected that the update might get a slight delay.

Either with or after the Anna update, Nokia will also upgrade the camera of its flagship smartphone, the N8. With this update, the Nokia N8 will get newer video recording capabilities, with continuous auto focus, while recording HD 720P video. Besides, N8 users can record videos in 30 frames /second as opposed to present 24 frames/second.

As reported by 'The Mobile Indian', the Upgrade to Symbian Ann will be a voluntary upgrade and user who wish to upgrade their smartphones to this operating system can upgrade, rest of the user will be given continuous support for the present Symbian S60 ^3 as usual.

Lava to launch Android phone in the next two months

Lava says that it is coming late to the party as it wanted to bring a high quality, high specification product to market. The phone is likely to be slightly more expensive than similar devices from Micromax and Spice.

Lava Mobile, an Indian handset maker, is set to launch its first Android phone in the country within the next two months.

The phone is likely to feature the latest version of Android. It is to have a capacitive touchscreen and good music capability. Sunil Raina, director of marketing, Lava Mobile, told 'The Mobile Indian', "We are late as we wanted to bring a high quality specification-rich Android phone to the market. We are more or less ready with the product and we will soon launch it."

Although he refused to divulge the details, he said music will be one of the strong points of this phone. Lava Mobile has tied up with SRS Labs, which is an industry leader in surround sound, audio and voice technologies. Lava mobile phones will likely feature SRS WOW HD technology.

The phone will also have a better processor compared to other Android phones from Indian brands. Most low-end Android phones have a 600 MHz processor.

On the pricing front, Sunil informed us that the phone will be slightly more expensive than the current crop of Indian Android phones owing to better quality and features, but the price difference won't be significant.

We expect this phone to have at least a 3.2 inch capacitive touchscreen, 800 MHz processor, and probably the latest version of Android, 2.3.

Lava also plans to launch Android tablets in the second half of this financial year.

However, no details of the devices are available yet.

HTC Sensation now in India for Rs 32,700

The Android 2.3 based phone is HTC's first ever phone to feature a 1.2 Ghz processor supplied by Qualcomm and HTC Sense 3.0 user interface.

HTC today unveiled its latest smartphone, the Sensation, in India and has priced it Rs 32,700. The HTC Sensation was unveiled on April 12 in London.

The Android 2.3 based Sensation is HTC's first ever phone to feature a 1.2 Ghz processor supplied by Qualcomm and a whole new interface with the latest HTC Sense 3.0.

The HTC Sensation has a 4.3-inch 960 x 540 capacitive touchscreen with Gorilla Glass, an 8 megapixel autofocus rear camera with dual-LED flash and 1080p HD video recording, a VGA front-facing camera,Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, 1 GB of internal storage, 768 MB of RAM, microSD card support, and a 1520 mAh battery.