LG has announced that the Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE has been cancelled. They have cited an unspecified hardware issue to be the cause for cancellation.
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Google to combine all its cloud services, names VMWare co-founder as cloud chief
Google has announced that it will combine all its cloud businesses, including Google for Work, Cloud Platform, and Google Apps, under a single company. It acquired bebop, a startup founded by Diane B. Greene, who is also the co-founder and former CEO of VMWare. Google has named her the head of its cloud business, and she will remain on the Google board, said the company. bebop is a development platform that makes it easy to build and maintain enterprise applications. Continue reading “Google to combine all its cloud services, names VMWare co-founder as cloud chief”
Huawei Mate 8 with Kirin 950 SoC, 4GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks and live images
Huawei Mate 8 codenamed NXT-AL10 has appeared on AnTuTu revealing most of its specifications. It will be powered by Huawei’s latest Kirin 950 Octa-Core SoC that was introduced earlier this month. In AnTuTu, the 4GB RAM variant scores 79131 points, beating its competitors. It scores roughly between 76,000 and 79,000 points, according to AnTuTu. Kirin 950 has up to 2.3 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex 72 CPU + up to 1.8 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex A53 GPU and Mali T880 GPU.
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Xiaomi MiPad 2 with slim metal body teased ahead of Nov 24 announcement
Xiaomi recently scheduled an event on November 24th, to introduce a new product. Lin Bin, co-founder and President of Xiaomi already said that more than one product will launch at the event. He posted a teaser image of the Redmi Note 2 Pro smartphone in Golden color recently, few hours back he posted an image of a tablet on weibo, which is likely to be the upcoming MiPad 2. It appeared on Geekbench last week, revealing some specifications. Continue reading “Xiaomi MiPad 2 with slim metal body teased ahead of Nov 24 announcement”
MACOOX EX1 is a smartphone with a 9000mAH battery
If you probably thought that smartphones don’t have large enough batteries then MACOOX is a brand that agrees with you. They have announced the EX1 smartphone which has a battery capacity that is probably bigger than the capacity of most portable battery packs that people carry.
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Exynos 7580 powered Samsung Galaxy A7 spotted on AnTuTu
Up until now, the upcoming update to the Samsung Galaxy A7 was believed to be packing a Snapdragon 615 processor, similar to the first version that was launched earlier this year. Now, a new listing on AnTuTu shows that there could be another version, one that is packing an Exynos 7580 processor.
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LG Pay mobile payment service announced
LG today announced LG Pay, its own mobile payment service, after Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay. The Korean giant has partnered with Shinhan Card and KB Kookmin Card to prepare for the launch of LG Pay in South Korea soon. LG did not announce when it will roll out the mobile payment service in Korea or other markets. The company said that it will run trails of the new payment system with the credit card companies before launching it. Continue reading “LG Pay mobile payment service announced”
Ola secures $500 million in funding, now valued at over $5 billion
After last month’s report that Ola had secured an investment of an undisclosed amount from Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Kuaidi, Falcon Edge, GIC, Tiger Global Management, and SoftBank are other investors, the company yesterday confirmed $500 million in Series F funding, which now values it at over $5 billion. Continue reading “Ola secures $500 million in funding, now valued at over $5 billion”
Pepsi Phone P1s official – 5.5-inch 1080p display, 4G LTE and fingerprint sensor for $110
After several leaks, Pepsi has officially introduced the the Pepsi Phone P1s in China. It features a 5.5-inch (1080 x 1920 pixels) 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor and runs on dido OS based on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a aluminum unibody design and even has a finger print sensor on the back. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera on the back and 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Pepsi Phone P1s official – 5.5-inch 1080p display, 4G LTE and fingerprint sensor for $110”
Obi Worldphone SF1 launching in India this November
Obi Mobiles, backed by John Scully got re-branded to Obi Worldphone back in August. It even introduced two new smartphones – Obi Worldphone SF1 and SJ1.5 designed by San Francisco-based product studio Ammunition. These phones were launched in Vietnam and Dubai recently, today the company said that Obi Worldphone will launch in India this month, but only the Worldphone SF1 is expected. Obi said that it has partnered with Qualcomm, Dolby, Sony, Corning Incorporated, Google, MediaTek, Japan Display, Inc. and Samsung for these smartphones. Continue reading “Obi Worldphone SF1 launching in India this November”
Google Search now includes results from other apps, lets you stream content without installing
Google has announced that it is rolling out new feature for the Search on Android that will now show content from apps even if you don’t have them installed. Google added ability to search through applications and show them in the results back in 2013. This lets users to search for something inside their application directly from Google Search Continue reading “Google Search now includes results from other apps, lets you stream content without installing”
Vodafone’s new RED Family Plan lets you share data and calling minutes with up to 5 members
Vodafone India today launched new RED Family@99, an integrated value package that lets you share data, local and STD calls and SMS with family members, thereby offering the convenience of a single telecom connection for the entire family. The RED Family@99 for postpaid, allows you to share their plan with a family member and/or add devices at an additional cost of just Rs.99 per month. Continue reading “Vodafone’s new RED Family Plan lets you share data and calling minutes with up to 5 members”
TP-LINK Archer D20 802.11ac Dual Band ADSL2+ Modem Router launched for Rs. 4999
TP-LINK has launched Archer D20 (AC750) Wireless Dual Band ADSL2+ Modem Router in India. It has a clam shell design with two external antennas, comes with Wi-Fi 802.11ac standard and has wireless data transfer rate of up to 750Mbps with 300Mbps over 2.4GHz and 433Mbps over 5GHz. It also has USB slot that lets you connect and access hard-disk or printer wirelessly. Continue reading “TP-LINK Archer D20 802.11ac Dual Band ADSL2+ Modem Router launched for Rs. 4999”
Bing v6.0 for iOS brings a new homepage and one tap feature
Microsoft has just released v6.0 of Bing for iOS, and it brings around a new homepage layout as well as a one tap search features.
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Samsung Galaxy On5 Benchmarks
Samsung launched the Galaxy On5, its latest ‘On series’ smartphone with 4G support in India earlier this month, priced at Rs. 8990 exclusively on Flipkart. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by a quad-core quad-core Exynos 3475 28nm processor with four ARM’s Cortex A7 CPUs clocked at 1.3GHz and has Mali-T720 GPU. It packs 1.5GB of RAM, has a 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with Samsung’s own UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores and also check out the gaming review, in which it scored 3.5/5 stars. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy On5 Benchmarks”