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ZTE nubia Z11 mini with 5-inch 1080p display, 16MP camera, fingerprint sensor announced

ZTE nubia Z11 mini

ZTE today announced nubia Z11 mini, the company’s latest  mid-range smartphone in the nubia series in China, as expected. It has a 5-inch Full HD display with 2.5D arc glass, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 617 SoC and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with new nubia UI 3.9.6. It has 16-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) that lets you focus quickly and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “ZTE nubia Z11 mini with 5-inch 1080p display, 16MP camera, fingerprint sensor announced”

Samsung Galaxy C7 SM-C7000 with Snapdragon 625, 4GB RAM, 16MP camera surfaces

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Samsung Galaxy C5 (SM-C5000) with Snapdragon 617 and 4GB of RAM surfaced in Geekbench listing a few days back, now the Galaxy C7 (SM-C7000) with Snapdragon 625 SoC and 4GB of RAM has been leaked by AnTuTu. The Samsung Galaxy C-Series smartphone are expected to come with a metal body, but still don’t have images of any of these upcoming C-Series phones yet. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy C7 SM-C7000 with Snapdragon 625, 4GB RAM, 16MP camera surfaces”

LeEco Le 2 Pro with 5.5-inch Quad HD display, Snapdragon 820, 6GB RAM surfaces

Le Eco Le 2 Le 2 Pro

LeEco Le 2 with a Helio X20 got certified by TENAA in China recently, now the LeEco Le 2 Pro (X820) with 6GB of RAM and Snapdragon 820 SoC has surfaced on GFXBench and Geekbench benchmarks. It also coincides with earlier rumors that revealed a 5.5-inch Quad HD screen 21-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It is also expected to come with a fingerprint sensor and come with metal body.

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Apple schedules WWDC 2016 for June 13 in San Francisco

WWDC 2016

Apple just announced that it’s 27th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) for this year happens from June 13th till June 17th. This time it is holding the event at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium instead of Moscone West. The company would reveal about the future of iOS and OS X at the event, including iOS 10, OS X 10.12 and also new watchOS and tvOS update. This year’s invite is simple with colorful letters that look like coding lines. Continue reading “Apple schedules WWDC 2016 for June 13 in San Francisco”

TP-LINK Archer C50 802.11ac Dual Band router launched for Rs. 3599

TP-LINK Archer C50

TP-LINK has launched Archer C50 (AC1200) Dual Band Wireless Router in India.  It leverages the 802.11ac technology and has two external antennas promising stable wireless connections and optimal coverage. It also has USB Port that lets you share a printer locally and also share files & media with networked devices or remotely via FTP server. Continue reading “TP-LINK Archer C50 802.11ac Dual Band router launched for Rs. 3599”

Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Camera Samples

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Lenovo launched the Vibe K5 Plus smartphone in India last month, which went on sale exclusively on Flipkart few weeks back. We already brought you the unboxing and benchmarks of the smartphone, here we have the camera samples from the smartphone. The Vibe K5 Plus has a 13-megapixel rear camera with single LED flash, Omnivision OV13850 sensor, f/2.2 aperture, 5P lenses and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.

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Reliance Jio launches 8100 km BBG cable system

Reliance Jio new logo

Reliance Jio today announced the launch of 8,100 km cable system, the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG). BBG will provide direct connectivity to South East Asia and the Middle East, then onward to Europe, Africa and Far East Asia through seamless interconnection with existing cable systems.

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Airtel launches 4G LTE services in Chidambaram, Sriperumbudur and Karaikudi

Airtel 4G

Airtel today announced that it has commercially launched its 4G LTE services in Chidambaram, Sriperumbudur and Karaikudi in Tamilnadu. It was  the first operator to launch 4G in Tamilnadu back in June 2015. Airtel 4G is available to customers across mobile phones, dongles, 4G hotspots and Wi-Fi dongles in the towns. For existing Airtel customers, the company is offering a complimentary upgrade to Airtel 4G at same price as 3G. Continue reading “Airtel launches 4G LTE services in Chidambaram, Sriperumbudur and Karaikudi”

Android N will support pressure-sensitive displays, deeper virtual reality integration

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Google released Android N Developer Preview 2 last week that brought several new features, including launcher shortcuts, Vulkan API and Unicode 9 emojis. Launcher shortcuts lets developers to define shortcuts, which users can expose in the launcher to help them perform actions quicker. It will also support pressure-sensitive screens that are currently found in very few Android devices and will also offer deeper virtual reality integration for developers, according to new details.

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Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) Review

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Samsung launched the Galaxy J3 (2016), it’s new 4G smartphone with new S bike mode in India for Rs. 8,990 couple of weeks back. It has almost similar specifications as last year’s Galaxy J2. Is the successor worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review.

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Intel Apollo Lake platform for affordable notebooks and tablet PCs announced

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Intel announced its Apollo Lake platform, successor of the Cherryview platform, aimed at affordable all-in-ones, miniature PCs, hybrid devices, notebooks and tablet PCs at the IDF in Shenzhen last week. Based on 14 nm process technology, it will feature a new x86 microarchitecture named Goldmont that promises improved CPU performance, as well as a new graphics core that features Intel’s ninth-generation architecture (Gen9) currently used in Skylake processors for hardware-accelerated 4K video playback from hardware decoding of HEVC and VP9 codecs. Continue reading “Intel Apollo Lake platform for affordable notebooks and tablet PCs announced”

YU YUREKA NOTE with 6-inch 1080p display, fingerprint sensor launched for Rs. 13499

YU YUREKA NOTE

YU has officially launched the YUREKA NOTE, after it went on sale recently. It has a 6-inch 1080p display, is powered by a 1.5GHz Octa-Core MediaTek processor, has 3GB of RAM, 13-megapixel rear camera, 8-megapixel front-facing camera and 4G LTE connectivity. It has a fingerprint sensor on the back Continue reading “YU YUREKA NOTE with 6-inch 1080p display, fingerprint sensor launched for Rs. 13499”

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update starts rolling out in India

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Android 6.0.1 India

Samsung has finally started rolling out Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) update for the Galaxy Note 4 smartphone in India. The Galaxy Note 4 smartphone was launched in India running on Android 4.4 (KitKat) back in October 2014. It got the Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update back in April last year. Now it has got the Marshmallow update directly, skipping Android 5.1 (Lollipop), after an year in the country. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update starts rolling out in India”

Samsung SM-C5000 C-Series smartphone with Snapdragon 617, 4GB RAM surfaces

Samsung CM-C5000, the company’s upcoming C-Series smartphone surfaced in an import listing few weeks back. Now the smartphone has surfaced in Geekbench benchmark listing. Earlier listing revealed a 5.2-inch display for the smartphone, but it didn’t reveal the display resolution. The new listing reveals details about the processor and RAM. Continue reading “Samsung SM-C5000 C-Series smartphone with Snapdragon 617, 4GB RAM surfaces”