Cars of the Year out by CarDekho Awards 2013

After what seemed like a perennial wait, has finally come the day when India's leading automotive portal, CarDekho, has declared the CarDekho Awards 2013. The awards that were totally based on viewers' choice, were presented by Berkshireinsurance.com and co-sponsored by Sterling Holidays.



Extremely glad is CarDekho as a team to have received mighty response from its fans, who have supported us with around 3,29,434 casted votes. What makes the happy moment happier is the fact that this is the first time that CarDekho has ever held such award. The voting lines were opened since 7th January this year and got closed on 7th this month. Voters were given a wide range of categories to vote under and an equally large number of cars to be voted for. All the 10 different categories covered almost all the segments of cars available in India, letting people give their choice of the most popular and the best of a particular segment. Hatchbacks, premium hatchbacks, sedans, SUVs, UVs, luxury cars, manufacturers were covered with many cars as per CarDekho's data. Since, this has happened to be the very first time for CarDekho, the gigantic number of votes has quite enthused energy in the team for all such future endeavors. The voting will thus put emphasis on the features that car-lovers, enthusiasts, buyers prefer to buy thus giving a hint to the car manufacturers. Below we mention the category-wise cars from every segment that were voted the highest by our esteemed fans.

2013 CarDekho Awards' Category Winners:

Most Popular Hatchback: Hyundai i10

Most Popular Premium Hatchback: Maruti Suzuki Swift

Most Popular Sedan: Hyundai Fluidic Verna

Best Sedan 2012: Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire

Most Popular SUV: Mahindra XUV 500

Best SUV 2012: Renault Duster

Most Popular Utility Vehicle (UV): Toyota Innova

Most Popular Luxury Car: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque

Best Luxury Car 2012: BMW 6 Series Coupe

Manufacturer of the Year: Maruti Suzuki

Other than this, what holds much excitement is the prize announcement for some of the lucky voters. To encourage voting were also announced prizes for some lucky voters. Here, we would like to bring to notice that the lucky voters have been selected randomly. The luckiest of all voters will win the exciting top prize, an Apple iPad Mini. The other decided prizes for voters include a total of 5 iPod Shuffle for those who would win the second prize; there will be 10 third prize winners, all of whom would receive two nights-three days vacation packages; and a total of 50 fourth prize claimers who win car accessories. Congratulations to all those who win. To inform all the winners, CarDekho team puts in efforts to mail each and every winner on their personal mail ids congratulating them and giving details of their respective prizes. Log into your email id now! Those of you who cannot wait to receive the mail or if by any chance have not yet received the mail, please click awards.cardekho.com.

Also, it can be discussed at forum.cardekho.com

Apple iPhone 5 expensive than Blackberry Z10 and LG Nexus 4

Great start for this new year as the Blackberry mobiles has pushed a high end smartphone to its smartphone lineup and named it as Blackberry Z10. This device is is well developed with the latest and greatest mobile advancements, elements to provide outstanding user experience. Today along with the latest Blackberry Z10 operating system, the company has also announced the long awaited Blackberry 10 operating system. Well, the Canadian company is expected to acquire good response with the launch of this current OS. Well, the Research in Motion is expected to develop this smartphone with the latest Blackberry operating system in order to directly compete with the Android and iOS in the smartphones like Apple iPhone 5 and LG Nexus 4. Comparing the prices of these three smartphone, Apple mobiles has placed the iPhone 5 price quite higher at Rs. 43,990, while, the Blackberry Z10 price is to be around Rs. 30,000.

Comparing the display, the Blackberry has worked very hard in this to ensure great viewing experience to the users. The device sports 4.2-inch LCD display with 1280x768p resolution at 356 PPI. While, the Nexus 4 from LG mobiles will have a 4.7-inch IPS display with 1280 x 768 pixels resolution at 320 PPI which is also quite strong. The display of the iPhone 5 is quite smaller with 4-inch IPS display with 1136 x 640 pixels resolution at 326 PPI. All these smartphones are packed with a similar rear camera of 8 megapixels to provide excellent photographic experience to the consumers. On the other hand the Blackberry device will has a front facing camera of 2 megapixels to provide great video calling ability. While the Google device and Apple iPhone will also packed with a front facing camera with 1.3 megapixels and 1.2 megapixels respectively.

Great advantage with this blackberry Z10 is that it is packed with a user removable battery of 1800 mAh capacity. While, the iPhone 5 from Apple mobiles will houses a 1440 mAh capacity non removable battery and the Google smartphone will carries a 2100 mAh capacity non removable battery. Both the Blackberry and LG devices will be packed with a 2GB of RAM memory to ensure high performance to the users. While, the Apple smartphone will come wit only 1GB of RAM memory. The Blackberry handset will be powered with a TI OMAP 4470 1.5GHz dual-core processor and Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960 dual-core processor. The Google Nexus 4 will be supported with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 1.5 GHz quad-core processor to ensure high performance. On the other hand the Apple also deliver high processing speed with its Apple A6 1 GHz dual-core processor.