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Nokia has launched its new feature phone in India, the Nokia 106 at Rs. 1,399. The new affordable phone from Nokia is now available via the company's online store and is available in three colour variants Black, Red and White. The online site notes that the phone will be delivered in five working days.

Lava Mobiles' new budget smartphone, the Iris 354e, is now listed at an online retailer for Rs. 3,415. As of now, the smartphone is out-of-stock at the e-commerce website, and offers a 'Notify Me' option to consumers. The company is yet to unveil the Iris 354e for the Indian market. The Lava Iris 354e runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and is a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) device, with support for dual standby. It features a 3.5-inch HVGA (320x480 pixels) display. The Iris 354e is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor (unspecified chipset), along with 256MB of RAM.

Nokia has pulled its popular Here Maps from iTunes app store citing iOS 7 as the reason, claiming that it was harming the 'user experience'. The Indian Express reported the news first and notes that Here Maps on iOS had a bug that froze the app when users tried to zoom in and out of the app. Further, the report states that in case the app didn't freeze while trying to zoom in or out, the iOS version of the Here Maps responded strangely and also made it hard to find alternative routes or directions. The report claims that the Here Maps was tested on three Apple devices before being pulled down and it describes the app as 'unusable' on all the devices. The report also cites a statement from a Nokia spokesperson that reads, "We have made the decision to remove our Here Maps app from the Apple App Store because recent changes to iOS 7 harm the user experience. iPhone users can continue to use the mobile web version of Here Maps under m.here.com...

Scientists have developed a new technique which can recover the faces of bystanders from reflections in the eyes of photographic subjects, a development that could help identify criminals. As the most commonly photographed objects are faces, there is potential in mining detailed facial images for hidden information, researchers said. Until now, photographers might reasonably have assumed that their own face was absent from the image. But research, led by Dr Rob Jenkins from University of York overturns this assumption. By zooming in on high-resolution passport-style photographs, Jenkins and co-researcher, Christie Kerr from the University of Glasgow were able to recover the faces of bystanders from reflections in the eyes of photographic subjects. The recovered bystander images could be identified accurately by observers, despite their low resolution. To establish whether these bystanders could be identified from the reflection images, the researchers presented t...

Wicked Leak, the brand that launches Wammy series smartphones in India, has announced the Android 4.4 KitKat update for its Wammy Passion Z+ smartphone. The company revealed that the Android KitKat update will be released and available to existing Wammy Passion Z+ customers on 14 January, 2014. The Wammy Passion Z+ natively ran Android 4.2 Jelly Bean out-of-the-box. Further, Wicked Leak notes that the new customers booking the Wammy Passion Z+ from Friday will receive the smartphone with Android KitKat. With the rollout of Android KitKat, Wicked Leak will become the first domestic handset vendor to release the latest Android OS for its smartphone. However, the company has not detailed plans to roll out the Android KitKat update for other Wammy smartphones. Wicked Leak launched the Wammy Passion Z+ in India at Rs. 15,990 in July this year. The device comes with dual-SIM capabilities with one SIM supporting 3G and other with 2G support. It comes with a 5-inch fu...

'iOS 7 makes your iPhone waterproof' ad a scam dunk. iOS 7 does not magically add waterproofing to your iPhone unlike this scam online depicts. Dunk your phone in water, and it will still break.

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