Zen Ultrafone 502 smartphone

Zen Mobile has discreetly launched the Ultrafone 502 smartphone which is listed on its official site for Rs. 8,999.
The smartphone however is also spotted selling online for a discounted price of Rs. 7,299/-

Talking of the features, the Zen Ultrafone 502 comes with a 4.5-inch qHD IPS display with 540x960 pixels resolution. The hardware of the device comprises a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor coupled with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal memory and expandable upto 32 GB via micro SD card slot. In terms of software, it supports Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean which is quite a treat in this price range.

The phone also has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel user facing camera. For connectivity it offers standard options like Wi-Fi Bluetooth, and GPS/AGPS. The phone also offers 3G connectivity on one of the dual SIM. Other features in the phone includes sensors like ambient light, G-sensor and proximity sensor.

The phone will be up against an array of smartphones from domestic vendors as well as the newly launched Samsung Galaxy Trend and Galaxy Star Pro budget smartphones. The Samsung phones however do not offer similar features than the offerings from the indigenous vendors. The Micromax A47 Canvas Fun, the Xolo Q800 and the Karbonn Titanium S1 will give good competition to this newbie in the 4.5-inch smartphone segment in the price range of Rs. 7,000 to Rs. 9,000/-

iPhone 5s apps crash twice as often as they do on iPhone 5, iPhone 5c

New hardware launches are often plagued with various bugs and errors that are gradually accounted for in the weeks and months following release. Apple's latest smartphones have both received a fair amount of criticism for security breaches and exorbitant prices, but one issue only seems to be present on the iPhone 5s. A report from crittercism which states that programs crash about two percent on the iPhone 5s, as compared to just under one percent on both the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5. 

Crittercism CEO Andrew Levy believes that the reason the iPhone 5s is suffering from this problem on a greater scale than the other iPhone 5 models is that although app developers had access to iOS 7 months in advance, they did not have access to the 5s hardware.The iPhone 5c runs on the same hardware as the iPhone 5, so it was prepared to handle virtually anything the iPhone 5 could run.

As Apple trickles out updates over the coming months, the crashes should become much less common.