Hyundai to launch new Verna in India

Hyundai has plans of launching its facelifted Verna in India.Hyundai Verna is a mid-size sedan that is based on the concept of ‘large on the inside and compact outs’.The new Verna has already made its appearance in the Korean car market and now it is finally coming to india.

The New Hyundai Verna features a revised front face with more agressive overall exterior look. Styling upgrades on the facelifted Verna include a pair of redesigned headlights, new signature grille with two bars and Hyundai logo placed at the top.

There is also a sportier front bumper with redesigned fog lights. Styling changes at rear include redesigned tail-lights and redesigned rear bumper.The company launched Verna back in 2005, Since then the car has not received any major change in looks.The car faces hard competition from the, Maruti Suzuki SX4, Honda City, Ford Fiesta, and the Linea from Fiat, but has a different place for itself.

It is expected that Hyundai India may bring this updated model in India by early 2010 or by mid 2010.  As fas as engine is concerned it will powered by the same 1.6-litre engine with the VTVT (Variable Timing Valve Train) technology. It generates a peak power of 103.2 ps at 5,000 rpm and a maximum torque of 14.9 kgm at 3,000 rpm.

Maruti To Launch Ritz

India’s largest car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki India Limited, is now ready to launch Ritz which is aimed to target the B-segment customers. Maruti plans to launch Ritz on the 15th of May. Maruti Ritz has cleared whole vehicle test that was conducted by ICAT (International Centre of Automotive Technology) at its test centre in Manesar and got approval to launch. The car would be launched with two engine options, one with a 1.2 liter, 1197cc, K12M petrol engine and second one is 1.3 liter Multijet diesel engine with a 5-speed manual gearbox. Ritz has been already launched in Europe and has replaced Maruti Wagon-R there. The expected price of this new car will be in the range of Rs. 4.0 – 5.5 lacs.

Hyundai i20 Brochure

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Hyundai i20 made it’s debut at the Paris Motor Show 2008. Similar to its predecessor i10, the i20 will be manufactured exclusively in India and exported to other countries.

The i20 has been launched in 3 variants in India:

• i20 Magna
• i20 Asta
• i20 Asta(O)

The only difference in Asta & Asta(O) is that the O variant comes with side and curtain airbags which is a first for a car in this segment in India.

It has been initially launched with 1197cc Kappa petrol engine with 79 Bhp of maximum power and 110 Nm of torque. Hyundai is also planning to launch a CRDi variant in March/April 2009.

The 1.2 Kappa engine is peppy with a 12.9 second 0-60 time. The engine has been tuned for minimum emissions & maximum economy.

SAMSUNG INSTINCT – The iPhone Clone

Samsung recently launched it’s iPhone look alike the “SAMSUNG INSTINCT“

The Instinct, has an advanced responsive touchscreen that reacts in response to your touch and also works with a stylus.

You can do more and faster with the Instinct. You can upload, download, browse and send pictures with high-speed wireless connectivity.

Take and share pictures and videos any time with the 2.0 megapixel camera.

Microsoft’s Upcoming Operating System – MIDORI

Microsoft is working on a new operating system codenamed as Midori, that will eventually replace Windows as we know it.

When and how Microsoft will roll out Midori is still a mystery.

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Google Chrome

Google recently launched its own web browser, So I thought of writing on it.

I just downloaded and installed the google chrome and i could not wait to write my first post from the new web browser. I found it is easy to use, it has all the eesential features of a good web browser like Opera or Firefox.Though the UI looks Great it looks like it is based on windows vista …… i did not find much difference in terms of speed when compared to mozilla firefox and the file menu bar is missing in the browser to give it a better look …… when you open a new tab we can see the recently browsed sites as screen shots……… and also you can see the bookmarks which is similar to mozilla firefox.

Have a look at the snapshoot which i took from my PC:

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iPhone 3G Over Nokia N96

Nokia released its new model N96 in India yesterday with high media coverage. There has been a big time comparison of Nokia N96 Vs iPhone 3G. The journalists call the N96 the “iPhone killer”. To figure out more information, I did a bit of search on net and this is what I found.

Dimensions

Nokia N96: 103mm high, 55mm wide and 20mm thick, weighs 125g.

iPhone 3G: 115.5mm high, 62.1mm wide and 12.3mm thick, weighs 133g.

Winner: Apple iPhone 3G

Display

Nokia N96: 2.8″ QVGA non-touch display.

iPhone 3G: 3.5″ multi-touch display.

Winner: Apple iPhone 3G

Operating System

Nokia N96: S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2.

iPhone 3G: Apple OS X

Winner: Draw

Storage Capacity

Nokia N96: 16GB, plus a hot swappable microSD memory card slot.

iPhone 3G: 8GB and 16GB

Winner: Nokia N96

Camera

Nokia N96: 5.0-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and inbuilt flash, video is shot at 30fs at a 640 x 480 resolution.

iPhone 3G: 2.0-megapixel camera, with geo-tagging and third-party application integration.

Winner: Nokia N96

Media Player

Nokia N96: MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA audio formats, MPEG-4 and WMV9 video formats, and DVB-H

iPhone 3G: iPod functionality, AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, m4v, mp4, and .mov.

Winner: Nokia N96

Connectivity

Nokia N96: 3G HSDPA, plus integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

iPhone 3G: 3G HSDPA, plus integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Winner: Even

GPS

Nokia N96: A-GPS, plus Nokia Maps application.

iPhone 3G: A-GPS

Winner: Nokia N96

Battery Life

Nokia N96: Close to four hours’ talk time, stand-by is 220 hours, video playback is five hours, music playback 14 hours.

iPhone 3G: Up to five hours of talk time using 3G, or 10 hours using 2G, standby is 300 hours, five hours of 3G internet use and six hours of Wi-Fi internet use, seven hours of video playback and up to 24 hours of audio playback.

Winner: iPhone 3G

As you know, N96 is the first ever mobile device to offer a memory size of 16GB expandable to 32 GB through an external micro SD card (Hot Swap Supported!). You could store more than 60 hours of videos and movies with high quality.

You may be amazed at iPhone’s trendy looks and features. But think if you really need to go for one as it doesn’t support Bluetooth(see above). t only connect to a Bluetooth hands-free headset, so no A2DP stereo Bluetooth, file transfers or internet sharing. Pictures you take can be emailed to friends, but not sent directly to another mobile device. Similarly, there is no video capture and FM radio. Coming to price, both are priced crazy! On top of this, there will be data subscription charges from the telecom service providers.. Do you really need one of these?

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