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Chinese electronics major Lenovo is reportedly planning to launch the Intel powered smartphone K900 in India by the second week of May.

South Korean consumer electronics major LG on Monday unveiled a new big-screen smartphone called Optimus GK, with features similar to its bigger sibling Optimus G Pro sans the physical form.

While Facebook, the world's most popular social media site, continues to pervade the lives of its 1 billion members through the newly released Facebook Home, in Australia, the site is becoming less popular as almost 400,000 Aussies unfriended Facebook since December 2012.

Micromax A116 Canvas HD, Karbonn Titanium S5 and Lava Xolo Q800 are the top Indian smartphones which have gained popularity in comparison to reigning market leader Samsung's Galaxy Grand.It remains to be seen if the Zen smartphone has enough tricks in its bag to match up to the Samsung's Galaxy Grand and be able to generate good sales like the Indian counter parts.

South Korean consumer electronics giant LG on Sunday announced its first Optimus F series smartphone will be rolle out initially on Monday (29 April) in France and later in South and Central America, Asia and the common wealth of Independent States(CIS) over the next several weeks.

Gameloft, the official gaming partner of the "Iron Man" film franchise has released the "Iron Man 3" mobile game in Google Play store and Apple online store for free. The release took place on the very same day the superhero movie hit global theatres, just a couple of days ago.

Emerging Indian electronics manufacturer Lava Mobiles on Saturday announced that it will launch an Android v4.2 Jelly Bean tablet PC in the first week of May.

Android v4.1.2 update for Galaxy S Advance will be available through OTA (Over-The- Air) or it can also be downloaded through computer via Samsung Kies PC suite or else users can manually go to smartphone’s Setting’s option to check for software update.

HP Slate 7 sports a 7.0-inch WVA LCD screen with 1024x600p display resolution and it runs on the Android mobile OS v4.1 Jelly Bean powered by ARM cortex A9 based dual-core processor with 1.6GHz CPU speed with 1GB DDR3 SDRAM and 8GB SSD memory with options of expanding up to 32GB via microSD card.

IDC (International Data Corporation) claimed that the mobile phone vendors shipped 418.6 million units in 1Q, 2013, of which more than 51 percent of the total phone shipments (to be precise 216.2 million units) were reported to be of smartphones.

Sony Xperia ZR smartphone codenamed Dogo will sport a 4.6-inch HD 720x1280p display powered by a Qualcomm based quad-core processor and also boast a water and dust repellant body case with higher resistant rating than Xperia Z.

Samsung India on Thursday listed the Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet on its eStore for ₹30,900 with special incentives like free Note cover worth ₹2,699 to every consumer who place orders till 30 April.