HTC has outed yet another Android smartphone, this time in the starting range, the Desire 200. The phone is among the cheapest to ever come out from Taiwan and has a design inspired from the HTC flagship, the One. The phone has a 3.5 inch display with resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. Under the screen is a 1Ghz single-core SnapDragon S1 processor and 512 [...]

As of now, perhaps the most important aspect of gaming, the price had been unknown. In recent days however, the official figures were released and now the price of game titles has been taken off the covers too. According to Microsoft, the price of the Xbox One game titles will be $60, for the most of the part at least. This means that if you [...]

After multiple leaks and teases, Huawei has finally launched its Ascend P6 smartphone. The phone is crowned the title of the world’s slimmest smartphone with its 6 mm profile. The design of the phone is a bit close to the iPhone so lawsuits may follow the release, but nonetheless looks really striking with its glass panels and aluminium sides. Dual-sim support is there too. The [...]

Samsung is planning to launch another variant of its Galaxy S4 flagship smartphone, this time with better connectivity options. The new S4 will be the first phone to use the advanced version of LTE (long term evolution) connectivity. The revelation was made during an interview by the Samsung co-chief executive J.K. Shin. The new LTE-Advanced 4G technology will be twice faster than the current LTE [...]

PTCL has announced this new offer which will allow its customers to use EVO free of charge for one whole month. This offer is available on all new sales and anyone buying new EVO device can enjoy one free one month. Offer is valid till August 20th, 2013. Below are further details about the offer: This offer is only valid for new sales This offer [...]

Warid Telecom has announced the lucky winners of its ‘Reload offer’.  The winners of the daily prize of rupees Rs.100,000 are: Mr. Adeel Aslam from Lahore and Mr. Muhammad Nadeem from Faisalabad. Winners were presented cheques by Pakistan’s leading television and theater actor Mr. Sohail Ahmed, famously known as Azizi co-host of prime time TV show. Warid reload offer was launched on the 3rd of [...]

LG Electronics (LG) has continued to push the barrier in consumer electronics with the launch of its flagship 2013 Smart models in Home Entertainment and Appliances at a grand event. At the heart of LG’s innovative new smart features include the 55-inch Cinema 3D Smart TV (55LA8600), the Linear Door-in-Door refrigerator and the 6 Motion™ Direct Drive washing machine. In combination with LG’s signature technologies, [...]

Furqan Qureshi, PTCL Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP) commercial has reaffirmed that PTCL stands committed in bringing the benefits of Information Communications Technology (ICT) to all segments of the country. He expressed these views while speaking at a telecom conference, themed ‘Next Wave in Telecommunications – The Digitized Society/Consumer’. The conference is an annual platform that gathers telecom and IT experts from the industry, the [...]

Warid Telecom, one of Pakistan’s leading telecoms providers, recently held a blood donation drive at their office on the occasion of “World Blood Donors Day”. Warid employees generously donated blood to show their support for this noble cause and to celebrate ‘World Blood Donors Day’ which is observed annually across the globe on the 14th of June. Warid Telecom, as part of its CSR program, [...]

Mobilink Foundation has partnered with the Pakistan Life Saving Foundation (PALS RESCUE) to enhance the response time and coordination of Lifeguard teams at Sand spit and Hawks Bay beaches, in Karachi. Mobilink Foundation has provided 150 handsets with connectivity to help rescue patrols perform efficiently.The handsets will be provided to lifeguards who patrol Karachi’s beaches to prevent drowning and related injuries. Omar Manzur, Head of [...]

Smartphone makers are pushed by American officials to come up with a mechanism which will ideally make smartphones useless and just a piece of plastic if it is stolen. Move is aimed at discouraging the smartphone theft and making it almost useless to steal a smartphone. Officials driving the campaign have met Samsung, Apple and Microsoft – who account for 90 percent of smartphone market [...]

I’ve always been a Microsoft guy when it comes to computing & even for the smartphones, their products have always attracted me,. Although they never became my top choice. In game consoles, however, the scenario is a bit different. My favourite consoles have been Sony’s and I even developed a liking for Nintendo’s products but never did I get such feelings for the Xbox, mainly [...]

By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar We live in a time where ‘google’ happens to be amongst the first 100 words a child learns – a time where we do not have to extend our hand to make a friend, just the tap of our finger is enough. Today, a  whole universe of information is available at our fingertips and an entire network of people, known [...]

Zong recently organized a blood donation drive at its various offices in Lahore and Islamabad. Donors including Zong employees and top management enthusiastically participated in the blood donation drive being held on the World Blood Donation Day 2013. It merits mentioning here that Zong recently signed a memorandum with Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS), a humanitarian relief organization. Under the agreement, Zong helped PRCS by [...]

Huawei has recently soft launched its first 6.1″ phablet, Ascend Mate in Pakistan. The device was one of the main attractions of CES this year and held the title of the biggest phablet until Samsung announced the Galaxy Mega. Ascend Mate specifications: 6.1″ large IPS capacitive touchscreen with 720×1280 pixels resolution. Corning Gorilla Glass protection, can be used with gloves HiSilicon K3V2, Quad-core processor clocked [...]