Nokia Asha 210 revealed - dubbed as the ultimate social phone

Nokia has just announced the Nokia ASHA 210 phone. The phone offers a QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi connectivity and the first of its kind dedicated Whatsapp button. The phone comes in distinct Nokia design and offers a variety of colors to choose from.

The phone also features a 2 MP camera with a dedicated launch button on the front. Also on board is the  Nokia Slam Technology which lets one send files over bluetooth without the need for pairing devices.

For internet, the phone relies on Nokia's Xpress Browser which, like Opera Mini, uses cloud based compression to speed up loading of webpages on slow network connections.

The phone comes in both Single SIM and Dual SIM variants and one gets to choose from yellow, magenta, cyan, black and white colors.

The expected date of launch is Q3 2013 and prices before subsidies and taxes are around $72 (Rs. 3750).

Here you can watch the first hands on video - 

[video width="640" height="360" ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_b1yeSCdhU[/video]

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World's most expensive phone by Stuart Hughes-iPhone 5 Gold & Diamond

This beautiful handset iPhone 5 took 9 weeks of work to re-create the original chasis of the iphone in solid gold all of which was started and finished by hand by Stuart Hughes, a Liverpool-based jeweler had earlier built a diamond iPhone 4, Platinum MacBook Air and Gold iPad 2. Also a full gold dressing for the rear section with the logo in solid gold with 53 flawless diamonds amounting to 1ct . The outside casing of the smartphone is said to be made up for 24-carat gold & the home button consists of 26-carat black diamond. The Apple logo and the corners of the smartphone are built using the white diamonds. The device is encrusted with 600 precious stones, out of which, 53 are housed in the Apple logo at the back. The world's most expensive smartphone was ordered by a Chinese based businessman, who owns the black diamond that went into the construction.

The result was outstanding even down to the precise polishing to reveal its most beautiful harmonious appearance. The handset is 64GB and is available as a ltd edition of only 100.

iPhones are seen as premium products, with price-tags to match. But this phone is not a cup of tea even for cream class. This phone will cost you £10 million (about Rs 83,70,60,000/-)

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Russian market calls for Nokia Lumia 720-Priced higher than expected

Lumia 720 is now available in Russia and it costs much more than expected. Phone is priced at $485(Rs 26700/- approx.). This price is $150 more than what Nokia announced. But in India the phone is available for pre-order at Rs. 18500/-. You can book on Flipkart.com and if you pre-order now, you will also get a 16GB memory card free. You can also pre-order the phone from Nokia’s website but the price won’t be the same. However there is no update when the phone will be shipped. But yes you can expect the same in the third week of April. You can now have colorful Nokia phones again with 5 different color variants viz. Yellow, Cyan, Black, White & Red. The device is also the first uni-body design with micro SD support having 8GB internal memory.

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Mark Zuckerberg praises Google's Android for its open source code. Also, announces Facebook Home and the HTC first

Facebook home has gone official! Come April 12, selected devices will be able to download the app (which is built around "people") from Play Store. The devices include the Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and also the upcoming flagships - HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. More devices will be supported soon.

In his press announcement, Mark Zuckerberg, pointed out how he sees the world using more and more smartphones as years pass by. The present phones are built around apps and Mark thinks that its time that we changed our approach towards how we use our phones.

Facebook home is not just a single app. Neither is it an operating system. Its a series of apps that helps us get the information about people we care about, on our home-screens.

Through a strategic partnership with HTC and AT&T, Facebook has also announced the HTC First - which it says, is the first phone that is optimized for Facebook Home.

Detailed specifications about the phone aren't available yet. The phone goes on sale in the US exclusively on AT&T, for a price of $99.99 on contract. It is available for pre-order now from AT&T's website though shipping will start from April 12.

Facebook Home for tablets is expected to arrive later this year.

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