For all those Indians excited to buy Aakash tablet, well the wait is over now. Aakash tablet is on sale now online and you can purchase it online by paying Rs. 2500.It is available on their official site aakashtablet.com. But data wind will be selling just 30,000 pieces so hurry up and grab it. This aakash is definitely going to be the first tablet for many people. There is no payment option available and this tablet is available only on cash on delivery and after ordering it will be delivered to your home in just one week.

The version which is being sold now is having 366Mhz processor with a 7 inch display and Android version 2.2.It is having 2100 Mhz battery which is reported to have a backup of just 1.2 hrs. But if you can wait then you can get a better version. Ubislate 7 which is a upgraded version of Aakash will be on sale late in the January which is having much faster 700 Mhz processor and Android 2.3 with 3200 Mhz battery. Ubislate 7 will be having a price tag of Rs. 2,999.Ubislate 7 will be having both wifi and GPRS that means it can also serve you as phone. This thing is missing from current selling version.

 DataWind’s CEO Suneet Singh” This is a made-in-India product. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this.’ He adds, ‘The final goal is to either provide the same features at a lower cost or provide better functionality and features at the same cost.”

The official site is receiving huge traffic and sometime server goes down also.This is obvious due to heavy heavy demand of users. So you have to be fast to get Aakash.

I would suggest you to wait a little bit for Ubislate 7 and with just Rs. 499 extra you will get a far better tablet.

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Top 5 Tech sites

A  lot of tech sites are created everyday but only few survives and most of bloggers give up in the everyday increasing competition. But there are some sites that tech maniac visit everyday. These are the standards for other tech blogs. Here is a list of top 5 tech blogs based in Google PR,Technorati authority and alexa ranking. Probably most of you are familiar with these blogs -

1. Mashable.com-Without any argument it is definitely the best tech blog today. With a Google page rank 8 and alexa rank 184 and technorati authority of 861 this is the standard to compare any blog. Pete Cashmore is the CEO and founder  of New York. The blog is updated daily with social media news, tech news and some other entertaining posts. I don’t think there is any tech maniac unaware of this awesome blog.

2. Techcrunch.com-Even this superb site is not that far behind mashable. I was confused between two thinking which one is better. I personally like techcrunch more than mashable but due to technorati authority and alexa ranking, I have to go with mashable. Techcrunch is having 853 technorati authority and alexa ranking of 241.Michael Arrington’s techcrunch has a lot to learn from for the newbie.

3. Gizmodo.com-Another great site concentrating more on latest gadgets launchings and gadgets reviews. With Google PR 8,technorati authority 843 and alexa ranking 607 this is a must visit website for every gadget maniac who want to be updated with the latest happenings in gadget world.

4. Engadget.com-A great tech site with alexa rank of 339 and Google PR 8 with technorati authority 834.Engadget is not that far behind from other tech giants. This sites provides the in depth review of android devices and also other gadgets. Overall a cool site to plat with.

5. Arstechnica.com-This websites also managed to make in the list of top 5 tech blogs even in the heavy competition in the everyday growing tech sites on www. With a Google PR 8,alexa rank 1770 and technorati authority 806.A nice site but lags behind when you compare it with the above mentioned site.

So just have a look on these sites and decide which one is better?

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Apple to have MS Office Suite in 2012

Finally the Microsoft Office is coming in iOS on 2012.But whether this will work for Microsoft, or not still remains a topic of discussion. May be its too late for Microsoft. The reason is obvious. There are already a lot of quality Office suite available for iphones and ipads like Quick office and documents to Go, which are having a lot of reputation in Office suites in mobile platforms. Both of these provide creating, editing and exporting of Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. Apart from these two Apple is already having its own office suite-iWork. iWork is only for iPads.

A Microsoft solution would have the advantage of working natively with Office files in the way the company that created them intended, however. That would mean no minor formatting oddities to occasionally iron out when you shift back to Office, and maybe even tight, wireless integration with Office on the Mac or PC, as well as Office 365 on the web.

The cost of the MS Office Suite is said to be around $10 which is same as iWork. But it will be the first official Office suite for Apple users. So definitely it would be somewhere better than the others. And of course you will have to pay the same for other suites so why not try the official one.So just wait for 2012 and lets see what’s there in Microsoft Office 2012 for iOS.

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iPhone 4S comes to India

Finally the wait is over. The record breaking Apple’s iPhone 4S is ready to rock the Indian smartphone market. iPhone 4S which sold over  4 million units within first 3 days of its launch will be available in the Indian market from November 25 .Many Apple Indian fans were waiting for this phone since its launch in US market. The phone is available on preorder on the websites of Bharti Airtel and Aircel.But surprisingly the price of this phone is very high. iPhone 4S in India is about 35% costly than than In USA. Apple sales its phones in all countries at some higher rate than in USA but 35% increase was unexpected. Although sites like eBay. in  are selling it 10% less than its launching price.

The cheapest 16GB version of this phone comes at 44,500 Rs. You will have to pay Rs. 50,900 for 32 GB version while the high end 64 GB version costs you Rs. 57,500.With the launch of this device the prices iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G S have also been revised. Even these will cost you more. This phone is not having international warranty so you can’t purchase it from international shopping sites.This phone is available on Airtel and Aircel carriers other users will have to change their service providers.

Whatever may be the price Apple maniacs will definitely but the phone and the newly introduced feature SIRI will surely boost the sales.With a lot of other high end devices already available in the market,It will be interesting to see the public response for iPhone 4S.

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How will Nokia Survive?

The war of smartphones is really getting hotter now. Apple was clearly the leader and unbeatable before the launch of android OS by Google. According to the share of various companies in  smartphone industry Andriod Tops the list. An Year ago Android’s share in the smartphone market was 25%,Apple’s iOS share was 17%,Nokia’s Symbian had a share of 36%,RIM had 15% share. But now Nokia’s share has a free fall.Their share  in smartphone industry is 17% showing a downfall of huge 19%.Apple’s share reduced to 15% and RIM’s share reduced to 11%.Now 50% smartphone are running on Android. Apple’s share doesn’t fall a lot thanks to the record selling of Apple iPhone 4S.Apple managed to sell more than 4 million units of this within first three days of its launch.

Clearly, Android gain was on the cost of Symbian. Now the question is how will Nokia survive in smartphone war? Nokia has already announced that its future smartphone will be Windows based and not on the outdated Symbian based.Nokia is about to launch Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 running Windows 7.5.The sales of these phones will decide the future of Nokia in Smartphone market.Initial responses are good for Lumia 800 as Nokia has got a lot of preorders for Lumia 800.Hopefully Nokia will do well to survive as smartphone geeks would also love to see the red hot competition.

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