Nokia in its official US Youtube channel posted a cryptic video spanning 15 sec. The video has the title " Have you heard what's coming ". With the sound of an accelerating car in the background a message fades in saying "See and hear what you’ve been missing,"  The video ends with the logos of Nokia and Windows Phone. This conforming it will be a phone.

Probably this can be next flagship device of Lumia line up. Series of leaked details suggests that it can be Lumia Icon aka Limia 929.

Source: Youtube

Google and Bharti Airtel collectively announced a new program called Free Zone aka free internet in India.

As being the 2nd largest Telecom market in the world and recently in India mobile internet traffic has surpassed desktop, With all this Google is eyeing to engage more users in its services. This program was launched in Philippines last year.

How Free Zone works:

Airtel mobile customers can access the service by visiting g.co/freezone or airtel.in/freezone. People can access Google services like Gmail,Google+ and Google search for free of cost. Only the first page of a website linked from search results is provided at no data cost. While surfing a green bar will be displayed at the top of the browser indicating free zone is applied at that moment.

Downloading an attachment from Gmail and accessing web pages other than listed in the search result will cost you. A warning will be displayed  if you are accessing a page that cost.

Google play so called Google store for android apps, books, music, videos and games got published with a new cool design. This design is now available to smartphone and tablet users.
The motive for this new design is to help users finding content quick and easy.

Today we’ve started rolling out a redesigned Google Play store on Android phones and tablets that is simple, clean and — most importantly — helps you find great entertainment, fast. – android blog

Via Official Android Blog

Long rumoured ‘Facebook phone’ is not actually a phone, but it is an overlay of apps over android platform called Facebook Home because it replaces boring android Home screen with cover feed containing status with background cover image of the person whom you are viewing status.
The new user interface is very cool, you can watch it below

In all the ages information (knowledge) is one of the most valuable assets of human being. Throughout our lives we have many sources of knowledge. Wikipedia will be one of those information source mutual for majority of the people.

Wikipedia zero is an initiative by Wikimedia foundation provides free access to Wikipedia on mobile devices (without data charges) in developing countries.

Objective:  "to reduce barriers to accessing free knowledge"

WP Zero is already active since 2012 in many developing countries and has provided free access to almost 230 million mobile users around the world.

Are You a Facebook user having a smartphone running iOS or Android then you have an update to your fb messenger app.
Facebook begin this year with two major upgrades to its Messenger app for Android and iOS.
One is, now you can send voice messages to your friends.

Users can tap the “+” button then hold the “record” button to record a message. Releasing the button immediately sends the message. Sliding your finger off the button cancels the message.
 
The second feature is VoIP (Voice over IP) calls.
VoIP calls feature is not available to all users at the moment as the company is still testing its functionality, It is available only to Canadian users with iOS devices.
 
As promised by Mark Zuckerberg (Killer Stuff in Mobile on the way), the company is focusing on mobile communications.
Recently Facebook opened up its messenger app to non-users using their name and phone number. This is all to stand the competition from other messaging services like WhatsApp.
 
Facebook also recently launched Poke, a SnapChat competitor that lets users send photos, videos or text messages that disappear after several seconds.
 
With this new VoIP calls feature Fb is going to challenge the mobile networks because calling is default action done through phones.Even Though internet data plans are largely dependent on Mobile Networks, This is going to have an affect in some part.

For a company like Facebook where communication is something that has to be worked on seriously, strategies have to be made to make interaction better.

Boasting a mere 47.6% near that of a 50% Androids Gingerbread Still Dominates Android Distribution based a data from a 14 day period ending on December 3, 2012. Ice Cream Sandwich holds  a 29.1 mark putting it second place.

Unfortunately for developers who have to keep all these versions in mind, even the ancient Android 2.2. or Froyo is still very alive and present on 9% of devices, while Android 2.1 Eclair powers 2.4% of all Android devices.
What make of these Stats?

Check Out More at Android Developers.