Samsung has opened pre booking for its latest Galaxy phone, the S III in India via its online store samsungindiaestore.com. One has to pay INR 2000 to book a Galaxy S III. Samsung will send a coupon of the same amount to the customer which can be redeemed against the full payment of the phone when its launched for sale (the rumored date is 31-May-2012). Furthermore, users buying the phone within 3 days of the launch will also get a bluetooth headset worth INR 2900 free with the phone.

To book one for yourself, head over to samsungindiaestore.com now.

[via BGR.in]

Samsung has partnered with BigFlix to offer on demand streaming movies to their Galaxy line of products. They have launched an app on the Samsung App Store called My Movies which users of their Galaxy devices can download to watch instant on demand movies from BigFlix.com. Currently BigFlix has about 1000 movies to offer and Samsung is offering the first 2000 hours of streaming to its customers for free, post which it will cost them a subscription fee.

I checked out the app and its as good as a free app can be. The app screws up the video’s aspect ratio and also crashed once while I used it for about 15 minutes on a Galaxy S2. Also, BigFlix doesn’t seem to have a good movie collection. Beware that some of them are inappropriate for children (and are very easy to spot as they apparently fill up the “popular” section).

Nonetheless, its good to see that we are getting such services in India. Now that 3G is a reality in India, people can actually use such services. If you have a Galaxy device and want to download this free app, use the QR code below to download it:

[via BGR India]

With probably the lamest concatenated name ever, Google and Samsung have announced the (duh) Galaxy Nexus, the next pure Google phone from Samsung. With Google’s latest Android version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the Galaxy Nexus features a lot of cool features and an improved UI. Check out the video:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_ke3rxopc&feature=player_embedded

You can check out the phone on the official Google site here. Here is how the phone looks like:

This infographic by Reuters tries explaining who is suing whom for patent issues.

Still can’t understand what’s happening here? Neither do I.

[NPR via Reuters]

So this new service called PYKA solves your train travel woes by calling you (repeatedly)alerting you through an SMS (a call would be better I’d say) a few minutes before the train reaches the destination. This is way better than a preset alarm.

To use this you need to send an SMS to register your mobile number, train number and the destination station code in this format

PYKA <TRAIN-NUMBER> <STATION-CODE> and send it to 92200 92200

Here’s an introduction video which surely cracked us up.

I think it’s high time Indian Railways had their own such service.
If you try out the service, let us know in the comments.

[Via IdeoPhone]