Thursday, 13 March 2014

Micromax Canvas Knight: Detailed features

The Canvas Knight is one of the most talked about Micromax high end smartphones in its Canvas series. It was launched last week and is available exclusively on the domestic handset maker's official website for Rs.19,999.

The Micromax Canvas Knight sports a full aluminium body casing adding style, oomph and sturdiness. The new smartphone with 5-inch IPS display comes with a MediaTek 2GHz Tru Octa-Core MT6592T processor packed with a 2GB RAM.
In a press release, the company said, "With a 16MP Rear Camera paired with OmniVision's CameraChip sensor and a new generation M8 Largan Lens, users can record videos with a resolution of 1920X1080 at a speed of 30 frames per second. The rear camera comes with voice command capabilities wherein all a user needs to do is say 'Cheese' or 'Capture' to click images while on-the-move. It also delivers a full HD 1080p video recording and playback functionalities."

The Canvas Knight comes with the unique 'Camerazzi' camera feature which offers a host of innovative functions including 360 Degree Panorama, Cinemagraph and Object Eraser.

The Canvas Knight A350 is power packed with 2350 mAh battery, and equipped with 32GB of internal storage. It runs on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean that gives access to unlimited applications which can be downloaded via the pre-loaded Google Play Store.

Commenting on the launch, Mr. Rahul Sharma, Co-Founder, Micromax said, "With the launch of Canvas Knight, our first Octa-Core smartphone, we have yet again raised the bar of affordable innovation in the country".

Key features:

MediaTek 2GHz Tru Octa-Core MT6592T processor

12.7 cm (5") SHARP FHD IPS display

1920x1080 443ppi resolution

16MP Rear camera with OmniVision CameraChip sensor and M8 Largan Lens with voice command & 8MP Front Camera

Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean

Camerazzi Camera Feature

Yamaha Music Amplifier

2350 mAh battery

32GB Internal Memory

Full HD 1080p video recording & playback

Smart Gestures - Proximity Answer Phone, Upside Silent, Upside Speaker and Proximity Dial Phone

Available in Black, Black & Gold and White & Gold

BBM, Hike, GetIt, Truecaller, Spuul, Kingsoft Office Suite, Opera Mini, M!Live, M!Vault, M!Security, Games - RealSteel WRB, Where's My Perry and Where's My

Shah Rukh Khan gets 7 million followers, trends on Twitter

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has touched a new benchmark on his Twitter fan following which has risen to seven million.

The 48-year-old actor has beaten his competitors including Salman Khan (6.38 million) and Aamir Khan (6.16 million) on the micro-blogging site.

His fans celebrated his 7 million followers by trending #SRK7Million on Twitter. Coincidentally (or deliberately) 'Salman The Real Life Superhero' was also trending at the same time.
The Chennai Express star is one of the most frequent users of the popular social networking site. Shah Rukh, who joined Twitter in 2010, has posted 6,753 tweets so far.

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

All New HTC One specs leak with its sales guide

The All New HTC One is going to be unveiled on March 25 in London, so leaks and rumour have started to give details of the HTC's upcoming flagship.
The latest leak of its sales guide provides details about its key features. If it is to be believed, the All New HTC One will come with a 5-inch display. Its processor will be a quad-core 2.3 GHz Snapdragon 801 with 2GB RAM. As per the leak, it will have a 2,600 mAh and microSD slot to expand its memory. It is said to be coming with 16GB internal storage.

The latest leak also suggests that the All New HTC One will be equipped with a dual 5-megapixel rear camera having dual-LED flash. It will also have a 2.1-megapixel front snapper.

The All New HTC One seems to be almost similar to the HTC One. However, there is no official word on this from the Taiwanese manufacturer.

Missing Malaysia jet LIVE updates: Search for missing Malaysian plane widened to Andaman Sea

Search widened to Andaman Sea
Authorities today said a missing Malaysian plane with 239 people aboard may have changed course before losing contact, as multinational search operations were widened to hundreds of kilometres from the original radius to cover the Andaman Sea.

"The RMAF does not rule out the possibility that the aircraft made turn-back before it disappeared from the radar and this is why the search and rescue operation had been widened to a larger area to include waters off Penang," Malaysia's Air Force (RMAF) chief General Rodzali Daud said.

"This resulted in the search and rescue operations being widened to the vicinity of the waters (off the west coast of Malaysia)," he said.

The Beijing-bound Boeing 777-200 plane had 227 passengers on board, including five Indians and one Indian-origin Canadian, and 12 crew members.

The search for the missing plane entered the fifth day, as 34 planes, 40 ships and teams from ten countries are scouring the waters on the plane's flight path and beyond to find it.

Meanwhile, Vietnam has said it is scaling back search operations in its waters. "We've decided to temporarily suspend some search and rescue activities, pending information from Malaysia," deputy minister of transport Pham Quy Tieu said, adding that boats were still searching the area.

Confusion over plane's path

Malaysia's air force chief has denied saying military radar tracked a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner over the Strait of Malacca, adding to the mystery surrounding the fate of flight MH370, which vanished on Saturday with 239 people aboard.

A massive air and sea search now in its fifth day has failed to find any trace of the Boeing 777, and the last 24 hours have seen conflicting statements and reports over what may have happened after it lost contact with air traffic controllers.

Malaysia's Berita Harian newspaper on Tuesday quoted Air Force chief Rodzali Daud as saying the plane was last detected by military radar at the northern end of the Strait of Malacca at 2.40 a.m. on Saturday, hundreds of kilometres off course.

"I wish to state that I did not make any such statements," Rodzali said in a statement on Wednesday. The air force chief said he had merely repeated that military radar tracking suggested the plane might have turned back.

A senior military officer who had been briefed on the investigation told Reuters on Tuesday that the aircraft had made a detour to the west after communications with civilian authorities ended.

"It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," the officer said.

Malaysian authorities have said previously that flight MH370 disappeared around 1.30 a.m., roughly midway between Malaysia's east coast town of Kota Bharu and southern Vietnam, about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.

The Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels, runs along Malaysia's west coast, while Kota Bharu is on the northeast coast.

After the comments from the officer, a non-military source familiar with the investigations said the reported detour was one of several theories and was being checked.

If the plane had made such a detour it would undermine the theory that it suffered a sudden, catastrophic mechanical failure, as it would mean it flew at least 500 km (350 miles) after its last contact with air traffic control.

A spokesman for the Malaysian prime minister's office said on Wednesday he had not been informed by the military of evidence showing the plane had recrossed the Malay Peninsula to reach the Malacca Strait.

"The people I checked with were not aware of that," spokesman Tengku Sariffuddin Tengku Ahmad told Reuters.

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Meera Chopra close to sis Priyanka, miffed with Parineeti?

Actor Meera Chopra has said her actor cousin Priyanka Chopra is always ready to help her in her Bollywood career and she shares "emotional bonding" with her. Meera revealed that she was close to Priyanka but not to her another cousin actor Parineeti.

Ever since Meera, who has acted in several south films, wanted to work in Bollywood and there were reports of the sibling rivalry as both Priyanka and Parineeti used to snub her.

Parineeti even went on to say that Meera isn't family but a distant relative. Meera said Parineeti's remarks against her are "unwarranted and stupid".
"We all have been brought up together 20 years ago. We used to stay together. All brothers were close to each other before they split and brought up in different cities. Parineeti is young, Priyanka and I are of same age.. We are close," Meera said.

"When she (Parineeti) talks like thatâ€¦ I think it is stupidâ€¦ Why would you talk like that. It doesn't disturb me as I don't have any emotional connect with her. I don't remember the time spent with her," she said.

But if such statements would have come from Priyanka then it would have definitely bothered Meera as they share a close relationship.

Meera revels Priyanka was angry as to why she did not show her anything about her upcoming film 'Gang of Ghosts'.

Nargis Fakhri not part of Shaukeen remake anymore

As is always the case with actors the moment they become hot in Bollywood, the issue of 'dates' cropped up here too.

It is being reported that right a month before the film - a remake of Shaukeen - was scheduled to hit floors, Nargis Fakhri was dropped. The shooting of the film is reported to begin in Mumbai on April 15, with the crew scheduled to fly out to Mauritius on April 20.

And while Nargis had earlier comfirmed her dates for the film, she later called the makers asking to readjust them since she'd already given those dates - between April 20 and 27 - to a Hollywood film, reports add.
Murad Khetani, the co-producer of Shaukeen, has reportedly claimed it was impossible for him and the other makers to go on waiting for the actress considering the cast of the film was already teaming with Bollywood biggies like Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher. Annu Kapoor and Piyush Mishra are also reported to be part of the cast.

It's not hard to imagine that Nargis' Hollywood aspirations got in the way of her Bollywood movie. Khetani reportedly even added that for Nargis it was the Hollywood movie that was priority. Ouch!

Nargis has reportedly confirmed the news.

Shreya Ghoshal, happy birthday!

Considered one of the most melodious singers of this generation, the beautiful Bong babe turns 30 today

Considered one of the most melodious singers of this generation, the beautiful Bong babe turns 30 today
Born on March 12, 1984 Shreya Ghoshal made her mark in the Bollywood music scenario very early in her life. She started her singing career at the age of 16. She won the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma, hosted then by Sonu Nigam, and got a quick break in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas. She catapulted to fame by being the voice of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Madhuri Dixit-Nene Read More...