Ei8t Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 The day has finally come - Olive have announced the release of the OliveSmart V-S300, India’s first 3G HSPA+ phone and more importantly, India's first smartphone that will be powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread. We’d been thinking about Gingerbread ever since we’d caught wind of Olive launching a smartphone, but we’re elated it has now come true. Smart Move, Olive The OliveSmart V-S300 will be powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 CPU and an Adreno 205 GPU – which makes it identical to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (the PlayStation Phone), so you know it’s pretty powerful. Not as powerful as the Tegra 2 powered phones, but it’s powerful nevertheless. Other features include a 4.1-inch multi-touch capacitive touchscreen at 480x800, 3G and HSPA+ connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, a 5 Megapixel auto-focus camera with flash, 1400mAh battery and memory expandable to 32GB. Apart from this, the phone will also support 720p video playback and recording, noise cancellation with the help of two microphones, will have an HDMI port, etc. Check out the full list of specs below. 3G HSPA+ 900 / 1900 / 2100 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 processor Adreno 205 GPU Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread) 122 x 66 x 9.9 mm in size 4.1-inch, 480 x 800 WVGA display Supports 720p HD video 5MP+ VGA (Front camera), with 720p video recording LCD capacitive touch screen with Multi-touch interface Accelerometer sensor, Proximity sensor Fluence noise cancellation Dual microphone for advanced echo & noise cancellation 3.5 mm headset jack 2GB Storage Memory + 512 MB RAM + microSD, up to 32GB BT/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi/HSPA+14.4 Mbps; SMS, MMS, E-Mail, Push Mail, IM GPS, Digital compass, Google Maps, MapMyIndia Music Player, MP3 ringtones HDMI Type D Port DLNA for remote playback of HD content and Live TV "We are pleased to introduce a breakthrough convergence device which is more than a conventional smartphone and offers cutting edge services that will appeal to generation-Y. This device promises to be a game-changer with its rich looks and advanced features like 3G HSPA+, Android Gingerbread, Adobe Flash (10.1), DLNA, HD video and surround sound," said Arun Khanna, Olive Telecom Chairman, commenting on the launch. The OliveSmart V-S300 is being launched in association with Aircel and will be priced under Rs. 20,000. While this honestly sounds too good to be true, we certainly hope it is, because this will spark a downward trend in smartphone prices. Either way, we’re just glad we’re getting our hands on Gingerbread. Source How's the Adreno 205 GPU? Even Samsung Ace have the same GPU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shantz Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Adreno 205 is pretty decent. It's the one in T-Mobile G2 as well. Performance wise it is close to SGX540 (maybe slightly less). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Wright Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 (edited) That phone's demo version is running Froyo as of now. I just hope they don't f**k up, and manage to get Gingerbread on it before the release next month. Edited February 9, 2011 by Phoenix Wright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfrag Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Source How's the Adreno 205 GPU? Even Samsung Ace have the same GPU Samsung Ace doesn't have the same GPU. IIRC, it has a much lower end chip, compared to the Olive phone. The Olive phone has the same chip that's present in the Desire Z, Xperia Play, to name a few devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Two Andorid Phones to Lookout for Olive Unveil the OliveSmart V-S300 http://tech2.in.com/india/news/smart-mobile-phones/olive-unveil-the-olivesmart-vs300-indias-first-android-gingerbread-phone/191972/0 Samsung Galaxy Ace http://tech2.in.com/india/news/smart/samsung-galaxy-ace-available-on-flipkart-for-rs-14990/191602/0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayush12ice Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 is the desire z still worth buying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 is the desire z still worth buying? for a 25k price tag, i think it is on the higher side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulovski Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Talking Tom Cat - right now my favourite app. Slice It is also keeping me busy in meetings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayush12ice Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 talking tom is awesome fun!!! saw it on a friend's phone.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Talking Tom Cat - right now my favourite app. Slice It is also keeping me busy in meetings. It's the only thing that keeps me awake during TQM classes lol. talking tom is awesome fun!!! saw it on a friend's phone.. Haha, Talking Tom cat. Damn bugger repeats everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'AL' Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 is the desire z still worth buying? if you dont care much about the keyboard you will be better off buying the motorola defy( similar specs and it will be getting the froyo update soon and it approximately 7-8k cheaper) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ayush12ice Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Haha, Talking Tom cat. Damn bugger repeats everything. curse in hindi, that is the most fun. me n my friends were sitting in our convocation n we were super bored, talking tom came to the rescue if you dont care much about the keyboard you will be better off buying the motorola defy( similar specs and it will be getting the froyo update soon and it approximately 7-8k cheaper) i do care :| Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Samsung galaxy Ace is now available in Bangalore for 15K..... pretty decent pricing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 These days I just don't feel like reading the newspapers much, but I kinda read anything that pops up in the news app on my phone. I wanted something with a bit more of an Indian touch to it, and I downloaded the AG Indian Newspapers app listed here on the first post. However, I don't quite see the draw of this app cos it pretty much shows me the entire web page of whichever news paper I chose in the mobile format. SO I was on the prowl for an app that would pick out specific stories from all these papers and put them in a list within the app itself with a synopsis under it, and I found this ---> http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/news_and_magazines/india-news_owkp.html ("india news"). Has some issues on Gingerbread with the text on the categories page showing up with the bottom 20% or so cut off, but you can easily make out what it says. Still I found it pretty nice that it had the gist of the story in the app itself. Kept me awake during the TQM class today. First non-game app that has done that. lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 I don't know how this happened but yesterday Google Voice (which I never started / left running) sucked my battery dry real quick. I'm on a Gingerbread Nexus S on Paul's modaco r10 ROM (2.3.2). I've frozen Voice via Titanium Backup cos I'm not really expecting any calls from the US or messages via Google Voice for now. Battery usage details and chart: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfrag Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Google Voice used more than Display. lol!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 Google Voice used more than Display. lol!!! I was like when I saw it lol. Anyway, I've installed the 1.2.2 BFS version of Netarchy's kernel. Clocking it at 1300/1000 using SetCPU and 200/400 (Screen off profile). Pretty snappy now. Launcher Pro has some notable quirks atleast for me on gingerbread. It needs to Force Close once in the beginning before it runs smooth. And then there are some widgets that won't refresh on occasion unless you remove them and put them back. Noticed this happen with Beautiful Widgets' Weather and twitter and facebook among others. But much much better than that unoptimized ADW anyday. I have one problem of late though. Don't know whether it's because of this r10 ROM or the Kernel. Or perhaps my cell phone provider's fault. My phone sometimes suddenly shows NO SIGNAL and goes into kind of an airplane mode. Sometimes I do have signal shown completely and the messages won't get sent at all (tried using the stock messaging app as well as Handcent but no luck). A reboot fixes this, so I'm reasonably sure this has something to do with the ROM and not the phone (never had this problem before). In this situation if you try clicking "Airplane Mode" (after holding the power button down) it shows as if it's switching over to airplane mode but doesn't switch to it, and the option gets grayed out and you can't press it the next time you hold down the power button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 Punishment for all your sins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayush12ice Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 so desire z guys Yay or nay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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