OnePlus slashed the price of OnePlus One smartphone in a experimental flash sale last week. Today the company has announced that it is slashing the price of both the 16GB Silk White and 64GB Sandstone Black variants permanently, which now cost $249 and $299, respectively. This price cut is available only through company’s global portal OnePlus.net. Continue reading “OnePlus One gets a $50 price cut permanently, now starts at $249”
HTC E9st, a variant of HTC One E9 smartphone has been certified on TENAA (via) in China. Instead of a One E9’s 5.5-inch 1080p screen, this one has a 5.5-inch 720p display, but it has the same 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and an ultrapixel front-facing camera, similar to the One E9. It runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Sense UI. Placement of the front and rear cameras have changed compared to the One E9. Continue reading “HTC One E9 variant with 5.5-inch HD display gets certified in China”
Tata Docomo has launched Photon Max Wi-Fi Duo that has a 4400 mAh battery power bank, offering Wi-Fi connection on-the-go for up to 5 devices and also lets you charge other devices. It even has a microSD expansion slot that lets users create a MicroSD Cloud enabling Internet storage, sharing and access remotely. Photon Max Wi-Fi Duo uses Max technology which gives three times faster speed than Plus technology, says the company. Continue reading “Tata Docomo Photon Max Wi-Fi Duo with built-in 4400mAh power bank launched for Rs. 2899”
InFocus, a US-based smartphone company entered India with the launch of budget M2 smartphone in March. Later it launched the M330 smartphone in April. Today the company has announced that it has sold 1 lakh units of these two smartphones on Snapdeal within three months. Continue reading “InFocus smartphone sales cross 1 lakh in India”
Ultimate Ears, a brand of Logitech has launched UE BOOM, its new battery-powered 360-degree wireless speaker in India. It has specially developed acoustic skin that is both water and stain resistant. You can connect two UE BOOMs together using the free UE BOOM app for Android or iOS that lets you play them in either stereo-to-stereo mode or traditional left/right stereo mode. The app also has five-band equalizer to tweak the mids, highs and lows, and the speaker will remember it. Continue reading “Logitech’s Ultimate Ears launches UE BOOM 360-degree wireless speaker for Rs. 14995”
Oppo announced the N3, successor of Oppo N1 back in October last year. It was launched in India earlier this April at Rs. 42,990. We already brought you hands-on impressions and the photo gallery of the device from the event last year, here is the unboxing.
The Department of Telecom (DoT) issued letters of intent (LoIs) recently to Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications and Reliance Jio Infocomm, who won spectrum in auction earlier this March, according to a report from the ET. At the end of the recent auction for 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz spectrum, government got bids worth Rs 1.098 lakh crore. Continue reading “Spectrum allocation for 2015 auction winners expected soon”
Sony launched the Xperia M4 Aqua Dual, a mid-range waterproof (IP65) and dustproof (IP68) smartphone at Rs. 24,990 last month. We brought you the hands on and unboxing recently. Here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.46 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.0 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz. It has 2GB DDR3 RAM, 5-inch HD screen and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Dual Benchmarks”
Uber is back with another limited period offer, this time for Chennai users. It is offering 50% off on four rides everyday for this week during business hours (between 12 PM and 4 PM), in Chennai, which is a total of 20 rides. This offer is valid from today, 8th June 2015 to Friday, 12th June 2015. Continue reading “Uber offers 50% off on four rides a day during business hours till June 12 in Chennai”
Coolpad launched the Dazen X7 smartphone in India last month. We brought you the hands-on impressions and photo gallery of the smartphone from the launch event, here we have the unboxing.
Samsung introduced the Galaxy Core Prime 4G smartphone at the Samsung Forum 2015 in Bangkok earlier this year. The smartphone is now available online from Indiatimes Shopping. It has a 4.5-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit processor and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Core Prime 4G now available in India for Rs. 9750”
Microdia, a California-based company introduced 512GB Xtra Elite microSDXC UHS-II card at the Computex 2015 this week, which becomes the world’s highest capacity microSD card. SanDisk introduced a 200GB microSDXC UHS-I card earlier this year at the MWC. Some companies like HTC and LG says that their high-end smartphones support expandable storage up to 2TB, which is the maximum capacity a microSD can offer currently. Continue reading “Microdia 512GB Xtra Elite microSDXC world’s highest capacity SD card announced”
Intex Technologies has launched Aqua 4G+, the company’s first 4G smartphone. It has a 5-inch HD display with scratch-resistant Dragontrail glass, is powered by 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has live camera filter , front and back camera simultaneous shot PIP mode and Slow Motion Video recording.
Continue reading “Intex Aqua 4G+ with 5-inch HD display, Android 5.0, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 9499”
Google has started rolling out Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) update for the Android One smartphones – Micromax Canvas A1, Spice Dream UNO Mi-498 and Karbonn Sparkle V in India. These smartphones received Android 5.1 (Lollipop) update directly from Android 4.4 (Kitkat), back in March. Continue reading “Android One smartphones get Android 5.1.1 OTA update in India”
Samsung is working on Galaxy S5 Neo (SM-G903F), a new smartphone in the Galaxy S5 series, according to SamMobile. The design, including the dimensions and most of the specifications of the S5 Neo will be similar to the Galaxy S5, but this will be powered by a new 1.6GHz Exynos 7580 Octa-Core 64-bit processor with Mali-T720 GPU. This Exynos chip was leaked in GFXBench on a TCL P650M smartphone. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo with new Exynos 7580 processor leaked”
