Xiaomi set to launch Indian smartphone market in the next week. It was also reported that the vendor has tied up with Flipkart to sell its devices exclusively in the country.

Report from Xiaomi said -

“A big thank you to all Mi Fans who showed your support and joined Mi at the start of our incredible journey. We have something special for YOU, do come back on 11 July 2014 for the announcement post.”

Xiaomi is expected to bring at least two smartphones in next two to three months in India.

Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s vice president revealed that the vendor is planning to sell its smartphones with aggressive pricing via its own e-commerce website, similar to what it does in China.

Earlier this week the company announced that it sold 26.1 million smartphones in first half of 2014, exceeding the combined sales of both 2012 and 2013. It launched in Malaysia and the Philippines earlier this year and plans to expand to Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico by the end of 2014.

Indian technology start-up MoFirst has plans to launch regional-language based smartphones, whose patent technology allow users to change languages with just a swipe, across India by March 2015.

MoFirst Solutions Co-founder and CEO Rakesh Deshmukh said -

“Language is one of biggest barriers thats prevents people from using mobile phone functions exhaustively. We have launched and tested response to smartphones that supports Gujarati language. By March 2015, we will launch phones for all regional languages.

Our swipe technology helps customer to communicate in regional as well as in English even if they don’t know one of these languages. A message typed in a regional language can be translated to English by swiping a finger from left to right and transliterated by swiping the finger from right to left.”

The company has plans to launch Firstouch phones in Hindi and Marathi in July, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali by September, Kannada and Malayalam by November and rest of the regional languages by March 2015. MoFirst is scheduled to out 10 different versions of the Firstouch regional smartphones priced between Rs 3500 and Rs 12500. The specifications and features will also vary depending upon the model of the phones.

The Xbox One will be available in India from September 23 at prices starting Rs 39,990. The Xbox One with Kinect will cost Rs 45,990.

Anshu Mor, Microsoft India’s Director – Interactive Entertainment Business said -

In the release, Mor said another exciting programme will be Gold Rush where fans can win a great prize pack featuring real Gold and a Collector’s Edition Titanfall pack for just being on Xbox Live Gold. “In addition, if you purchase a 12 month Xbox Live Gold subscription before 30th of June 2014 you will be entitled to the Xbox One downloadable version of Ryse: Son of Rome, and Killer Instinct Ultra Edition Add-ons worth $100 value,” Mor added.

Features of Xbox One are -

• TV with HDMI pass-through
• Apps like Skype, Twitch and Machinima
• Voice support on the Kinect
• Gesture Controls
• Biometric Sign-In
• Controller Paring
• Instant Personalization
• Instant Scanning of QR codes

A mysterious Motorola handset bearing model number XT912A was spotted at the GFXBench. Interestingly, the device is said to have a 5.2 inch display with full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels.  Further, the smartphone runs on the yet to be announced Android v4.4.3. While this could easily be a successor to the Moto X, it could also belong to Motorola Droid range of smartphones.

The Motorola XT912A is said to be powered by the  along with  and . Also expected is a 12 MP rear facing camera and a 2 MP front facing camera. From all this we can conclude that the handset is definitely a high-end device.

Expected specs for the device:

Processor: 2.3 GHz quad core Snapdragon 800

RAM: 2 GB

Internal Storage: 32 GB

Rear Camera: 12 MP

Front Camera: 2 MP