Nokia India today announced a partnership with New India Assurance, a government owned Insurance undertaking that will let new smartphones buyers purchase an insurance plan right from the Nokia store itself. The cost of insuring the handset will be 1.25% of the device’s price or Rs. 50, whichever is higher. The coverage will include external and internal damage from accidental drops, liquid damage and theft among other things.

This facility will be available at Nokia Branded Retail stores in Delhi (NCR), Jaipur, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Cochin starting …

In what can only be described as example of extreme out of the box thinking, Nokia’s gone ahead and released a #2InstaWithLove app. The app adds a filter and turns your photo into a Polaroid with the hashtag #2InstaWithLove imprinted, this photo can then be shared on social networks. Instagram has for long been one of the most demanded apps for Windows Phone, and one would have expected Microsoft and Nokia to have engaged the Facebook owned company behind the scenes to get them to do a Windows Phone app, …

Camera phones have been around for ages, so the concept of sharing photos and videos digitally is not new at all. But over the years the most popular way of sharing photos continues to be email. There is Facebook, but for times when you want share only with a select few most people choose email. Things like private albums in Flickr and Picassa exist, but that’s not exactly being intuitive.
The problem with email, and even Facebook is that you are bound by the their interface, there is no room to becoming …

In an effort to help answer questions that consumers might have about the Lumia 920, and to educate them on why a Lumia is better, Nokia India has just launched the ‘Switch To Lumia Hub‘ on their Facebook page. The hub includes tons of videos highlighting the device’s functionality, a section pertaining to what the people are saying about the device on Twitter and finally an area to guide consumers to their nearest Nokia store should they want to buy one.

Next, there’s also a ‘Ask Sid’ section on Nokia India’s website …

Stephen Elop in his Mobile World Congress keynote recently announced that Windows Phone Store had crossed 130,000 apps, an impressive number on its own. But compared to both Android and iOS which are around the 700,000 mark, the number seems low. Does this mean you shouldn’t buy a Windows Phone because it doesn’t have ‘apps’? To see if this was the case, I did an unscientific test. I picked up my iPhone 5 which has tons and tons of apps installed, and started comparing its app selection to the Windows …

We’ve already heard from Samsung that Tizen powered devices are coming in 2013, and from the look of things it seems the OS development is on track. The Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and source code has just been released and is available for download from the Tizen.org website. According to the technical steering group, Tizen 2.0 represents a major milestone for software developers and device vendors and includes many new features and improvements over Tizen 1.0 released in April, and Tizen 2.0 alpha in September, 2012.

Tizen is primarily an HTML5 centered operating …

Zomato is the go-to app if you’re looking for food. It detects your location and gives you the names, menus, photos and contact details of restaurants around you. You can sort by price, whether they deliver, distance and even search for places to eat in other localities. Recently, Zomato has expanded to other countries apart from India, and covers 70,000 restaurants across India, United Kingdom, UAE and Sri Lanka. If its available in your region I recommend you give it a shot.
Another feature that they’ve recently rolled out is titles. …

While Book My Show has had a Windows Phone app for a while, it sadly did not work with Windows Phone 8. Fortunately a brand new version of the app has just been rolled out and it takes advantage of all the new WP8 features – better multitasking, wallet, speech and lock-screen integration.

The app launch/resume times are very fast and it feels even more responsive. The app’s updated description says that you can even search for movies from the homescreen using speech. For e.g.: You can just search for a …

Microsoft’s just released a brand new lens called ‘Blink‘ that lets you take a burst of images before you even press the shutter, and continues to capture pictures after you’ve taken your shot. The result is that you have a selection of photos capturing the moment and you can then select the best one.

There’s no option to save all the shots you’ve taken, and you’re restricted to choosing a single image. However, you can come back to the app later and change your selection. Thus if you like more than …

One of my favourite WhatsApp features is the ability to share your location, telling a friend where you are has never been easier. Once the location has been received you can simply jump into the maps app by clicking on the location so received, and get directions. This worked very well before iOS 6, and Apple’s infamous Maps app came along. As things stand, while there is a Google Maps app for the iPhone, but clicking on the view location in WhatsApp only lets you navigate using Apple Maps – …