BBM for Android and iOS Officially available

Smartphone company Blacberry relaunched their Blackberry Messenger or BBM after the launch was delayed a month ago due to some issues. They released the BBM in a phased manner then. The app was launched for iOS and Android on Monday and was download 5 million times within 8 hours which was announced in a twitter post.

To install BBM you can directly go to their website www.bbm.com or you go to respective stores for Android go to Google Play and for iOS(iPhone) you can go to iTunes and download it.

When you install the app it asks you for email address and then after few days Blackberry will contact you for approval of the account to start messaging. This doesn't apply to those people who have already signed up at BBM.com which were about 6 million, they get to use the facility immediately.

BBM for Android is specified only for devices running Android 4.0 or above and also few devices are not compatible for the app. For iOS it is only available for the iPhone. Blackberry is yet to release the app for Windows and other Apple products.

Lava launched its 7-inch Lava Ivory Tablet

The Indian smartphone company recently announced the release of their new Tablet in their e-tab series. It is the E-Tab Ivory Tablet with 7-inch screen. The tablet is available across the country at the price tag of Rs. 10,199.

As stated it has a 7-inch screen with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels and equipped with a dual-core MediaTek processor running at 1.2GHz. It has a RAM of 1GB and has Powervr SGX531 GPU for an awesome gaming and video experience. The gadget comes with the internal memory of 4GB. As usual as in a tablet Ivory Tablet has WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. The device also supports 3G calling and has dual-sim slots for calling.

The camera equipped in the device is of very low quality, that is a rear camera of 2 Megapixels and a front VGA camera for video calling.  It has a good 3000mAh Li ion battery. It runs on Android 4.1 (Jellybean) OS and comes with pre-installed apps like WhatsApp, OLX, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and games like NFS HD and Total Recall HD.The device is 10.8mm thick and it has a Silver color metallic finish with a white Bezel.

The device is not recommended by us as there are other tablets in market at this price range which are much better. If you want a dual-sim tablet then its a go for you.

Google announced their new Chromebook

There were set rumors for the announcement of new Chromebook by Google. They finally announced it on Tuesday.

Google announced it this morning in an even the new laptop in the series which is the HP Chromebook 11. It is launched at the cheapest price than any other in the Chromebook series at the cost of $279 on the official website. As the name suggests it has an 11-inch screen with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixel with IPS display panel with 176 viewing angle. It runs on the Samsung's dual core Exynos processor which is usually used in smartphones. They are also giving 100GB of free Google Drive storage for 2 years with the device with this they give 60-day trial to use whole of the Google Play Music All Access.

The design of the device is quite attractive. It has a magnesium chassis built for a strong built and has no visible screws,vents or speakers which makes it look cleaner. It has a small built, weighs about 1.04kg and is 0.69 inches thin. It is available in 6 different colors including black and white.

It comes equipped with 2GB DDR3 RAM and 16GB SSD. They promise a battery backup of about 6 hours. As promised the device can boot up within 10 seconds. It also has the new Bluetooth 4.0 with WiFi at dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n equipped in it. The device can be charged via the normal Micros USB which is used by other Smartphones. It has a combined headphone/microphone jack which is again used by other Smartphones but for a laptop its a bit disappointing. It comes with two USB 2.0 port.

Google is yet to announce the price for 3G and 4G/LTE model. It will be having a Micro-SIM slot for the function.