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Intex has launched a 4G enabled smartphone with Sailfish OS 2.0, called the Aqua Fish. The smartphone is priced at Rs 5,499, and is available in orange color.     At the MWC earlier this year, Intex unveiled a Sailfish OS 2.0 based smartphone, the Aqua Fish. The company had then revealed it will be launching the smartphone in India ‘within a few months’. Now, Intex has officially announced the launch of the Aqua Fish in India. Priced at Rs 5,499, the smartphone will be available via ebay.com. It will soon be available through Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon in the coming weeks. Interestingly, it took about one year for Intex to commercially launch the Sailfish OS based smartphone after announcing a partnership with Jolla in July 2015. The company had initially aimed to launch a Sailfish OS based smartphone in November last year. Intex had said it would launch an under Rs 10,000 smartphone with 4G connectivity and Sailfish OS. Intex also happens to be Joll...

Reliance Jio announced four of its Flame Android smartphone models at an affordable price of Rs 2,999 that come with free Jio services for three months. Taking the smartphone war to an entirely new level, LYF, the smartphone brand from Reliance Retail, on Thursday announced four of its Flame Android smartphone models at an affordable price of Rs 2,999 that come with free Jio services for three months. The four models on which LYF is offering the competitive price are -- Flame 3, Flame 4, Flame 5 and Flame 6 -- and every user buying these phones will get access to the entire range of Jio services. “This makes LYF India’s most affordable 4G VoLTE smartphone and opens the doors to a digital life for millions of consumers in the country,” the company said in statement. The voice over LTE is a technology that enables the device to provide advanced features such as faster call setup, high-definition (HD) voice and video calling, seamless switching between voice and video ...