Samsung launched the Galaxy A5 (2016), after more than a year of launching its first Galaxy A5 smartphone in its ‘A series’ in India. On paper, specifications of the new A5 smartphone are way better than its predecessor. Even the new A5 is priced at Rs. 29,400, more than launch price of the first A5. Is the Galaxy A5 (2016) worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review
Opera has updated its beta app for Android to version 36 that brings several new features, including a new tab switcher with a modern look and a better underlying structure to allow optimized resource management. Opera says it is still working on perfecting it, but it it asking beta testers for their feedback. The update also lets you make progressive web apps easier to find on the web. It will automatically allow compatible web apps like the Flipkart Lite to be added to the home screen.
Press image of the HTC 10, the company’s upcoming flagship smartphone has surfaced for the first time, thanks to @evleaks. It shows its unibody metal build, similar design as the HTC One A9 on the front, fingerprint sensor embedded into the home button along with the capacitive touch buttons on either sides and a large front camera sensor. It is missing the usual dual front-facing boomsound speakers.
OnePlus has started rolling out Oxygen OS v2.2.1 OTA update for the OnePlus 2 smartphone. This update brings RAW support in its own OnePlus camera app. You can enable option to save RAW image from the camera settings. Few months back Oxygen OS 2.1.0 brought RAW image support for 3rd party camera apps. The update also improves Bluetooth and Ultra SIM compatibility, fixes occasional image corruption issue in OnePlus Camera and more. Continue reading “OnePlus 2 Oxygen OS 2.2.1 OTA update brings RAW support in OnePlus Camera”
Samsung just sent press invites for the launch of its flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones in India on March 8th. Both these smartphones were announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, pack a 5.1-inch Quad HD and 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED always-on displays, respectively. In India the variants will likely be powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 8 Octa 8890 SoC, instead of Quad-Core Snapdragon 820 processor. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge launching in India on March 8”
Earlier this week live images of Huawei’s upcoming P9 smartphone with dual rear cameras surfaced. Now the press shots of the smartphone have surfaced in China. This reveals the smartphone’s slim profile, it’s metal body, power button, volume rockers and SIM slot located on the right side. Continue reading “Huawei P9 new renders surface, shows its slim metal body, dual rear cameras”
Microsoft has updated its Hyperlapse app for Android that finally gets option to save the recorded videos to microSD card on compatible devices. It also gets option to save 1080p videos in compatible devices. Both these features can be enabled from the settings. If you can’t enable, then the feature is not available for your device.
HTC’s upcoming flagship smartphone codenamed ‘Perfume’ will launch as HTC 10, according to @evleaks. This was already teased in a teaser image and a video. He also said that even though the name of the phone has 10, it will not run Windows 10. Continue reading “HTC One M10 flagship smartphone could launch as HTC 10”
Xiaomi launched its Redmi Note 3 smartphone in India yesterday starting at Rs. 9999. We already brought you the benchmarks of the Helio X10 version of the Redmi Note 3, here are the benchmarks of the Snapdragon 650 version. It is powered by an Hexa-Core Snapdragon 650 28nm processor with four smaller ARM Cortex A53 core clocked at 1.4GHz per core and two bigger ARM Cortex A72 cores clocked at 1.4GHz per core. It has 600MHz Adreno 510 GPU. We have the 3GB RAM version, but the phone also comes in 2GB of RAM version. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with MIUI 7 on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Benchmarks – Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650”
Samsung introduced T3, it’s latest palm-sized, external solid state drive (SSD) with USB 3.1 Type C support at the CES 2016 earlier this year. It launched it in India yesterday. It is compatible with a range of USB supported devices, including the latest Android smartphones and tablets, and computers with Windows or Mac OS. Continue reading “Samsung T3 portable SSD with support for Android launched in India starting at Rs. 10999”
After the successful Echo virtual assistant that was introduced back in 2014, the company has introduced its successor, Amazon Tap in the form of a portable speaker and Echo Dot, which is a tiny disk. The Amazon Tap has dual stereo speakers with Dolby processing that promises crisp vocals, extended bass response, and 360° omni-directional audio. It also has a built-in battery that promises up to 9 hours of continuous playback. Continue reading “Amazon Tap and Echo Dot Alexa-enabled devices introduced”
Lava has launched Iris Fuel F2, the company’s latest smartphone in the Fuel series with a 3000mAh battery that promises up to 31 hours of talk time on 2G. It has a 5-inch FWVGA IPS display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with single LED flash and VGA front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and has 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Iris Fuel F2 with 5-inch display, 3000mAh battery launched for Rs. 4444”
Samsung launched the Galaxy A5 (2016) smartphone last month for Rs. 29,400. We recently brought you the unboxing, benchmarks and camera samples, here we have the battery life test results of the smartphone. It packs a 2900mAh built-in battery with support for Samsung’s adaptive fast charging that can charge the phone fully in about an hour. It has a 5.2-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, is powered by 1.6GHz Octa Core Exynos 7580 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) Battery Life Test”
Xiaomi launched its mid-range Redmi Note 3 smartphone at the Mi Bluetooth speaker in India at an event earlier today. At the launch event Hugo Barra, Vice President of Xiaomi Global said that its flagship Mi 5 smartphone will launch in India in April. He said that the 20000mAh Mi Power Bank will launch in India soon and all the attendees of the event get a free Power Bank. But no details about the price yet.
Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 5 launching in India in April, 20000mAh Mi Power Bank coming soon”
Xiaomi launched its latest Mi Bluetooth speaker at the Redmi Note 3 launch event in India. The compact speaker was introduced back in September last year, looks like a small pencil box has a full metal body and weighs just 270 grams. It has a built-in microphone so that you can use it for calls when it is connected to your smartphone. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Bluetooth speaker with aluminum body launched in India for Rs. 1999”
