Lenovo launched Vibe K4 Note, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone and the successor of last year’s K3 Note in India recently at Rs. 11,999. Even though it has a 5.5-inch display and offers Dolby Atmos audio experience, similar to the K3 Note, this has a completely different design and also includes a fingerprint sensor. For the price, specifications of the smartphone look good on paper. How about the overall experience? Let us find out in the complete review.
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Gionee has launched P5W, the company’s latest budget smartphone. It was introduced back in December last year and packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6735, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Gionee P5W with 5-inch HD display launched in India for Rs. 6499”
iBall has launched Cobalt 5.5F Youva, the company’s latest 4G smartphone in the Cobalt series. It packs a 5.5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1GHz quad-core 64-bit processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera (enhanced to 13-megapixel using software) with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera (enhanced to 8-megapixel using software). Continue reading “iBall Cobalt 5.5F Youva with 5.5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 8999”
Motorola today launched the Moto X Force, it’s high-end smartphone with Moto ShatterShield, the world’s first shatterproof display in India, as it had promised. It was announced back in October last year as the global variant of the DROID Turbo 2 and packs a 5.4-inch Quad HD AMOLED screen, is powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor, runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) and has a 3760mAh battery. At the announcement Motorola said that the display is guaranteed not to crack or shatter for up to 4 years. Continue reading “Motorola Moto X Force with 5.4-inch QHD shatterproof display launched starting at Rs. 49999”
LeEco (formerly known as Letv) launched the Le 1s smartphone in India last month at a price tag of Rs. 10,999. Flipkart today announced that it has received over 5,30,000 lakh registrations for the Le 1s smartphone within 10 days after registration opened. Flipkart said that this broke the previous record by getting nearly 10,000 more registrations. Continue reading “LeEco Le 1s receives over 5.3 lakh registrations on Flipkart in 10 days”
After the leaked screen-grabs from the official video, Samsung has officially announced its Galaxy Unpacked 2016 on February 21st in Barcelona, before the MWC show floor opens on February 22nd. As we already know, the Korean giant is expected to announce its flagship Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge smartphones at the event. According to recent rumors, it is not expected to announce the Galaxy S7 edge+ at the event. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2016 set for Feb 21 in Barcelona, Galaxy S7 and S7 edge expected”
Sony Xperia C6, successor of last year’s Xperia C5 Ultra has surfaced in a new render from @OnLeaks, who says that the render is based on raw factory schematics. The new leak shows the phone in Grey, White and Rose Gold colors. According to the image, the phone is expected to come with ultra narrow bezel. The Xperia C5 Ultra has a 6-inch 1080p display with just 0.8mm slim bezels, so the bezels on the C6 might be less than that. Continue reading “Sony Xperia C6 with ultra narrow bezel surfaces in new render”
LeEco (formerly Letv) launched its flagship Le Max and mid-range Le 1s smartphones at an event in India last week. At the event the company announced several partnerships, including integration with content providers Eros Now for Video-on-demand (VOD) and with YuppTV for TV content streaming. Continue reading “LeEco Le Max and Le 1s come with Eros Now and Yupp TV in India”
Sony Corporation today reported its revenues for the third quarter of the financial year 2015 that ended December 31, 2015. Sales increased 0.5% year-on-year to 2,580.8 billion yen (US$ 21,507 million) compared to the same quarter last year. Operating income increased 20.1 billion yen year-on-year to 202.1 billion yen (US$ 1,685 million). Sony shipped just 7.6 million smartphones in the quarter compared to 11.9 million in Q3 FY14. Continue reading “Sony Mobile sales down 14.7% YoY in Q3 FY15, expects decrease in smartphone sales”
SwiftKey has added support for all the new 184 emojis for devices running on Android 6.0.1 in the latest version 6.2 update. These emojis include, volleyball, taco, middle finger, champagne bottle, as well as new faces for sickness, thinking, and rolling eyes. The update also brings currency input for several countries, improved typing behaviour when backspacing and several other fixes. Check out the complete changelog below. Continue reading “SwiftKey Keyboard 6.2 brings new emojis for Android 6.0.1”
Google has announced that it had paid over $6 million for security researchers through its Vulnerability Rewards Program since 2010. Last year it paid more than 300 different security researchers more than $200,000 for finding more than 750 bugs and vulnerabilities in Chrome and other Google Products, including largest single payment of $37,500 to an Android security researcher. Continue reading “Google paid over $6 million for security researchers, over $2 million in 2015”
Idea Cellular has launched its 4G LTE services across 39 towns, including Bengaluru in Karnataka, after it launched 4G services across five states in South India – Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana last month. Earlier this month It launched 4G services in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Punjab regions. Continue reading “Idea launches 4G LTE services across 39 towns in Karnataka including Bengaluru”
After successfully launching 4G LTE in Kerala, Mysore and Kolkata, Vodafone is all set to launch its 4G services in Delhi and NCR on February 3rd, Wednesday. Naveen Chopra, Chief Operating Officer, BJAS Murthy, Operations Director – North and Apoorva Mehrotra, Business Head – Delhi & NCR will be present at the launch event. The company started issuing 4G-ready SIM cards in Delhi & NCR region through Vodafone stores last week. Continue reading “Vodafone 4G launching in Delhi and NCR on February 3”
