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Sony Xperia C6 with ultra narrow bezel surfaces in new render

Sony Xperia C6 leak

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 Le Max and Le 1s come with Eros Now and Yupp TV in India

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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 Mobile sales down 14.7% YoY in Q3 FY15, expects decrease in smartphone sales

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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 Keyboard 6.2 brings new emojis for Android 6.0.1

New Android Emojis

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 paid over $6 million for security researchers, over $2 million in 2015

Google Security Rewards 2015

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 launches 4G LTE services across 39 towns in Karnataka including Bengaluru

Idea 4G

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”

Vodafone 4G launching in Delhi and NCR on February 3

Vodafone 4G Launch Delhi invite

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”

Lenovo Vibe X3 Benchmarks

Lenovo launched the Vibe X3, it’s flagship smartphone earlier this week at Rs. 19,999 exclusively on Amazon.in.. We already brought you the unboxing and photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 64-bit 20nm processor that has two bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.82GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.44GHz per core with 600 MHz Adreno 418 GPU. It has 3GB of RAM, 5.5-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with Vibe UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.

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Lenovo Vibe K4 Note Camera Samples

Lenovo launched the Vibe K4 Note smartphone in India at Rs. 11,999 recently. We already brought you the unboxing, teardown, benchmarks and the battery life test results, here we have the camera samples from the smartphone. As you might have seen in the teardown, the phone has a 13-megapixel rear camera with Samsung S5K3M2 ISOCELL sensor with 1.12 um pixel size, PDAF, f/2.2 aperture and dual-tone LED flash. It has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with OmniVision OV5693 sensor and f/2.2 aperture. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe K4 Note Camera Samples”

OnePlus 2 16GB version finally launched in India for Rs. 22999

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OnePlus introduced its flagship OnePlus 2 smartphone back in July last year. The 64GB variant with 4GB of RAM went on sale in August for Rs. 24,999, and the company said that the 16GB variant with 3GB of RAM will be available in late 2015, but it didn’t happen. Now it has finally launched the 16GB variant in India. Apart from storage and RAM, other specifications are similar, including a 5.5-inch 1080 pixelsp display, Snapdragon 810 processor, Oxygen OS based on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), fingerprint scanner, 13-megapixel rear camera with Laser Auto focus, Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), dual LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “OnePlus 2 16GB version finally launched in India for Rs. 22999”

Lenovo Vibe X3 Photo Gallery

Lenovo launched the Vibe X3, it’s flagship smartphone yesterday at a competitive price tag of Rs. 19,999. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the hardware walk through of the smartphone in this photo gallery.

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Huawei Honor 5X Photo Gallery

Huawei launched the Honor 5X, the successor of last year’s Honor 4X smartphone in India earlier today at Rs. 12,999. Here we have a quick walk through of the hardware in terms of photo gallery.

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Nokia 230 Dual SIM officially launched in India for Rs. 3949

Nokia 230 Dual SIM

Microsoft introduced Nokia 230 and 230 Dual SIM selfie-focused feature phones with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash back in November 2015. The Nokia 230 Dual SIM went on sale through official Microsoft online store in India last month, today Microsoft has officially launched the smartphone in the country. It has a 2.8-inch (320 x 240 pixels) QVGA LCD screen, polycarbonate frame and sand-blasted aluminum back cover. Continue reading “Nokia 230 Dual SIM officially launched in India for Rs. 3949”

Samsung Q4 2015 profits down 40% YoY, expects tough year ahead

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Samsung has reported its earnings for Q4 2015, in which the company has made operating profit of 6.14 trillion won ($4.4 billion) for the quarter that ended December 31, 2015. It reported revenues of 53.32 trillion won ($50.8 billion) and net profit of 3.22 trillion won (US$ 2.7 billion), down 39.7% year-on-year. It reported 200.65 trillion won ($165.90 billion) in revenue and 26.41 trillion won ($21.84 billion) in operating profits for the whole 2015.

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vivo Y51L with 5-inch display, 7.5mm slim body, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 11980

vivo Y51L

vivo today launched Y51L, the company’s latest smartphone in India. It was introduced as Y51 last month and packs a 5-inch qHD screen, is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 SoC, runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Funtouch OS 2.5 on top, has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “vivo Y51L with 5-inch display, 7.5mm slim body, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 11980”