Intel introduced Compute Stick, a compact HDMI dongle that runs on Windows 8.1 with Bing at the CES 2015 earlier this year. This tiny dongle will transform your TV or monitor with a HDMI port to a full-fledged PC. The Compute Stick also comes in Ubuntu option. Check out the unboxing.
Worldwide smartphone sales clocked 336 million units by registering a 19.3 per cent an increase of during the first quarter of 2015, according to latest numbers from Gartner.
Micromax has officially launched the Unite 3 Q372 smartphone that went on sale earlier this month. Micromax has partnered with Firstouch for new Unite Messaging Service that lets users to translate and transliterate with patented ‘Swipe’ feature that enables users to communicate in their preferred choice of language. It comes pre-loaded with 10 regional languages that includes, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali and Marathi. Continue reading “Micromax Unite 3 Q372 with Android 5.0, translation in regional languages launched for Rs. 6999”
Despite being the largest cellphone market in the world, the Moto Maker service from Motorola that allows you to customise and buy phones wasn’t available in China until today. Today, at the Lenovo Tech World it was announced that the Moto Maker online digital studio is now available in China.
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Shazam is moving beyond music. The popular music recognition app has launched a new image recognition feature that allows users to scan images.
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HTC announced the One M9 smartphone at the MWC earlier this year. HTC did not release the smartphone in India, instead, it launched the One M9+ smartphone. The HTC One M9 is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 64-bit 28nm processor that has four bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 2.0GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.6GHz per core with 650 MHz Adreno 430 GPU. It has 3GB RAM. It has a 5-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Sense 7.0 UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.
It official, Google search ads will soon feature a “buy” button. Omid Kordestani, SVP and Chief Business Officer, Google has confirmed that the “Buy” button will be soon integrated on mobile search results.
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Google has announced that it will now begin indexing content from iOS apps in mobile search results. The move comes from the company a month after it started suggesting users install Android apps right from its search results.
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Micromax’s YU launched the YU YUPHORIA smartphone, successor of the YU YUREKA earlier this month, which went on sale in the first flash sale today. We already reviewed the smartphone, here we have the battery life test results of the smartphone. It packs a 2230mAh Lithium-Polymer removable battery, smaller than the Yu Yureka’s 2500mAh battery. It also has Quick Charging capabilities that charges the smartphone from 0 to 50% in 45 minutes. It has a 5-inch HD screen and is powered by a Snapdragon 410 SoC. We tested the phone in balanced battery mode, which is the default mode. Let us check out the test results. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA Battery Life Test”
Coolpad Dazen has launched the Dazen 1, a budget smartphone in India along with the Dazen X7. It has a 5.0-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS display, is powered by a Quad-Core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Cool UI 6. It features a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Coolpad Dazen 1 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 6999”
Microsoft has officially launched its Office Lens app for Android. The document scanning app was available in preview but has now landed in Google Play Store.
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Coolpad has entered India with the launch of Dazen X7, the company’s flagship smartphone for India in the Dazen Brand. It has a 5.2-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, is powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat) with Cool UI 6. It has a 13-megapixel auto-focus rear camera with dual LED Flash and a 8-megapixel wide-angle front-facing camera. Continue reading “Coolpad Dazen X7 with 5.2-inch 1080 display, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 17999”
Google is said to announce a new mobile payment service at the I/O conference scheduled on 28 an 29 May. Now a new report from New York Times states that the search giant will launch Android Pay and revamp Google Wallet with different featuers.
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Google had initially sold the Project Tango Tablet Development Kit for US$ 1024 to people who received the invite back in April. But now they have slashed the price in half as it now costs just US$ 512 and is available without an invitation.
Apple is said to be working on a new feature that is code-named “Proactive”. The new tool will take the iPhone beyond its intellectual digital assistant Siri and enhance the user experience on iOS 9, according to 9to5Mac.
Continue reading “Apple working on Google Now rival “Proactive” for iOS 9″
