Alcatel OneTouch Pop S3, Pop S7, Pop S9 LTE smartphones and Pixi 7 tablet announced

Alcatel One Touch Pop S3, S7 and S9

Alcatel OneTouch has unveiled three new LTE smartphones in the Pop series, the Pop S3, Pop S7 and the Pop S9. It has also unveiled the Pixi 7, a 7-inch WiFi-only tablet. The Pop S3 has a 4-inch WVGA screen, S7 has a 5-inch qHD IPS screen and the Pop S9 comes with a 5.9-inch HD IPS screen. All these are powered by quad-core processors. Continue reading “Alcatel OneTouch Pop S3, Pop S7, Pop S9 LTE smartphones and Pixi 7 tablet announced”

Samsung unveils Exynos 5 Octa 5422 and Exynos 5 Hexa 5260 chips

Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5422

Samsung has unveiled its new Exynos 5 Octa chip, 5422 and its first Hexa-Core chip, Exynos 5 Hexa 5260 at the Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. These chips are based on ARM big.LITTLE technology, similar to the Exynos 5410 and 5420 chips unveiled the last year, these also include Heterogeneous Multi-Processing that can run combination of up to eight or six cores, respectively, to provide optimum performance. Continue reading “Samsung unveils Exynos 5 Octa 5422 and Exynos 5 Hexa 5260 chips”

LG L65 Hands on

LG had announced its third iteration of the budget friendly L series just prior to the MWC 2014. At the MWC 2014, LG had showcased these products and among the recently announced devices was the LG L65. LG L65 is a typical midrange offering keeping in mind the budget buyers. It comes with a layer of LG UI features over midrange specifications.

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Idea Cellular ties up with Opera to launch Idea Web Pass

Idea Web Pass

Vodafone launched the Opera Web Pass for their users in India earlier this week. Today, Idea Cellular has tied-up with Opera Software to launch Idea Web Pass, that lets users enjoy customized, time-based mobile internet packages within the Opera Mini browser. Idea and Opera joined hands to launch a Co-branded version of Opera Mini for Idea Customers, back in 2012. Continue reading “Idea Cellular ties up with Opera to launch Idea Web Pass”

LG L70 Hands on

Just before the MWC 2014, LG had announced three smartphones in the LG L series – LG L40, LG L70 and LG L90. As you can see, the LG L70 is the mid-range offering among the three, in terms of features, size and pricing. At MWC 2014, LG showcased its recently announced devices and we managed to spend sometime with the LG L70 smartphone.

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GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2014 Winners announced, HTC, Nokia win awards

GSMA Awards 2014

The GSM Association has announced the winners for the 19th annual Global Mobile Awards at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Last year the Galaxy S3 bagged the award, this year HTC One was awarded the best smartphone of the year, even though it had tough contenders such as Samsung Galaxy Note 3, iPhone 5S, Nokia Lumia 1020 and the LG G2. Nokia bagged two awards, the Lumia 520 bagged the award for the best low-cost smartphone of the year, competing with phones like Sony Xperia E and Samsung Galaxy Young. Nokia 105 won for the best entry-level or feature phone of the year. Continue reading “GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2014 Winners announced, HTC, Nokia win awards”

Acer Liquid Z4 Hands on and Photo Gallery

Just ahead of the MWC 2014, Acer announced a couple of smartphones that it would showcase at the MWC 2014 show floor. Among the Android smartphones that it announced,the Acer Liquid Z4 is an interesting budget smartphone with entry range specifications. As a typical entry range device, it is powered by a MediaTek processor.

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Acer Liquid E3 Hands on and Photo Gallery

Just ahead of the MWC 2014, Acer announced a couple of Android smartphones and it is showcasing them at the MWC 2014 show floor. Among the smartphones that it announced, the Acer Liquid E3 is one and it fits quite well in the range of mid-range Android smartphones quite well. It is powered by the very familiar MediaTek processor and comes with the same hardware specs that most mid-range phones have along with a few tricks up its sleeve.

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Nokia Lumia Icon Hands on

At MWC 2014, both Microsoft and Nokia were present. Microsoft gave a few updates regarding their progress on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 while Nokia announced a series of Android running budget smartphones. At the Pepcom event, Microsoft and Nokia had a booth where they had showcased the Nokia Lumia Icon which is a 5inch version of the company’s latest flagship – Nokia Lumia 1520.

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ZTE Nubia 5S Mini Hands On and Photo Gallery

ZTE, a leading Chinese smartphone manufacturer, has a booth at the MWC 2014 event in Barcelona and they are showcasing their latest smartphones. ZTE had launched a mini version of their flagship – ZTE Nubia 5S sometime in December and now, they are here at MWC 2014 to showcase the products to global consumers.

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ZTE Nubia 5S Hands on and Photo Gallery

ZTE is one of those Chinese manufacturers which competes at the highest level. ZTE is present at the MWC 2014 event in Barcelona and they are showcasing their smartphones and they have on display, their current flagship – ZTE Nubia 5S. The ZTE Nubia 5S has top of the shelf specifications and is fully equipped to compete with the big boys like Samsung, Sony and LG in terms of specs.

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Nokia X series smartphones get Truecaller Caller ID app

Truecaller Nokia X

Nokia announced its X Series smartphones, the Nokia X, X+ and XL running on Android. These phones are based on Android AOSP with Nokia’s custom platform on top. Yesterday, SwiftKey announced that the Swifkey keyboard would be available for the Nokia X series of smartphones for free. Today, Truecaller has announced that the Truecaller Caller ID app would be available for Nokia X smartphones from the Nokia Store. Continue reading “Nokia X series smartphones get Truecaller Caller ID app”

Allwinner UltraOcta A80 Octa-Core SoC with 64-core PowerVR G6230 GPU announced

Allwinner A80

Allwinner Technology has announced its UltraOcta A80 processor with PowerVR G6230 64-core GPU. It has four ARM Cortex-A7 and four Cortex-A15 CPU cores based on ARM big.LITTLE architecture and also has Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) that would let each CPU to be switched on or off as needed and also enables the use of all physical cores at the same time.

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MediaTek MT6752 Octa-Core 64-bit SoC with LTE announced

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MediaTek unveiled its quad-core 64-bit LTE SOC, MT6732 earlier this week, today the company has announced MT6752, the company’s latest Octa-Core LTE SoC at the Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. It is pin compatible with the quad-core MT6732 chip. It has eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 Cores and Mali-T760 GPU and is aimed at Super-mid market.
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BlackBerry Q20 with 3.5-inch touch screen, QWERTY keyboard announced

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BlackBerry has also announced the BlackBerry Q20, the company’s latest BlackBerry 10 smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard. It has hardware keys for Menu, Back, Send and End and a Trackpad, similar to the BlackBerry Q10. It has a 3.5-inch touch screen display, that is the largest display ever on a QWERTY BlackBerry smartphone. Continue reading “BlackBerry Q20 with 3.5-inch touch screen, QWERTY keyboard announced”