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Huawei Honor 5X with Snapdragon 616, metal body, fingerprint sensor launched for Rs. 12999

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Huawei has launched the Honor 5X smartphone in India, as it had promised earlier this month. It is the successor of one of the most popular Honor 4X smartphone that was launched in India last year and packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display with 72.5% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 616 processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with EMUI 3.1 on top, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 5X with Snapdragon 616, metal body, fingerprint sensor launched for Rs. 12999”

OPPO F1 Plus with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 4GB RAM announced in India for Rs. 26990

Oppo F1 Plus India launch

OPPO today introduced the F1 Plus smartphone in India along with the F1 at its Mumbai event. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display and has 4GB of RAM compared to 5-inch HD display and 3GB RAM on the F1. It has a metal body, Octa-Core processor, 13-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), LED flash and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Color OS 2.1, similar to the F1. Continue reading “OPPO F1 Plus with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 4GB RAM announced in India for Rs. 26990”

OPPO F1 with Snapdragon 616, 3GB RAM, 8MP front camera launched in India for Rs. 15990

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OPPO has launched F1 smartphone in India as it had announced recently. Since it is a selfie-centric smartphone, it packs a 8-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture, 1/4″ sensor and software features such as Beautify 3.0, 8 live color filters, and option to use the screen as a flash light to capture better images in low lighting conditions.  It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.2 sensor, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), LED flash, 5-inch HD screen with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 616 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Color OS 2.1. Continue reading “OPPO F1 with Snapdragon 616, 3GB RAM, 8MP front camera launched in India for Rs. 15990”

BlackBerry Priv Android slider launched in India for Rs. 62990

BlackBerry Priv

BlackBerry has launched the Priv Android smartphone in India, as it had promised. It was introduced back in October last year, packs a 5.4-inch Quad HD AMOLED display, is powered by an Hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor, runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with BlackBerry’s own features and apps, 18-megapixel rear camera with dual tone LED flash, OIS, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.

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LG K Series smartphones – K10 and K4 global roll out begins this week

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LG introduced the K7 and K10 smartphones ahead of CES earlier this month, later the K10 was launched in Korea and the K4 smartphone surfaced on the official website. Today the company has announced that the K10 and K4 smartphone will be rolling out starting this week globally. Both these smartphones run on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Continue reading “LG K Series smartphones – K10 and K4 global roll out begins this week”

iBall Slide Gorgeo 4GL with 7-inch display, 1GB RAM, voice calling launched for Rs. 6999

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iBall has launched Gorgeo 4GL, the company’s latest Android tablet with 4G support in the Slide series. It has a 7-inch (1024×600 pixels) IPS screen, is powered by a 1GHz quad-core 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera that also has an LED flash. It has dual-SIM support, 4G connectivity and voice calling capabilities. Continue reading “iBall Slide Gorgeo 4GL with 7-inch display, 1GB RAM, voice calling launched for Rs. 6999”

Gionee Marathon M5 mini with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4000mAh battery announced

Gionee Marathon M5 mini

Gionee today introduced (Via) Marathon M5 mini in the Marathon M5 series in Nigeria, soon after the India launch of the Marathon M5 Lite. It packs a 4000mAh battery, full metal body, 5-inch HD display, quad-core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor, Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Amigo UI 3.1, 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, similar to the Marathon M5 Lite, but this has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, instead of 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage in the M5 Lite. Continue reading “Gionee Marathon M5 mini with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4000mAh battery announced”

smartbro app for Android lets prepaid users keep track of talktime balance and data usage

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smartbro is a new Android app from startup Optinno Mobitech Pvt Ltd. that helps you save money on prepaid by offering you detailed bill for all your calls and data. It is based on operator popups and uses its own data analytics engine to figure out correct latest talktime balance and automatically shows it on the dialer, before making a call so that you can get an idea on how much balance is left. The company says that it is using proprietary patent pending technology.

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Lenovo Vibe X3 with Snapdragon 808, 21MP camera launched in India for Rs. 19999

Lenovo Vibe X3

Lenovo has launched the Vibe X3, it’s latest flagship smartphone in India, as it had promised. It was announced back in November last year, packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display, is powered by a hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), has a 21-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), dual-tone LED flash, Sony IMX230 sensor, 4K video recording and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe X3 with Snapdragon 808, 21MP camera launched in India for Rs. 19999”

Lava V5 with 5.5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 11499

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Lava has launched V5, the company’s latest 4G smartphone. It has a 5.5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), which is upgradable to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. Continue reading “Lava V5 with 5.5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 11499”

Apple reports record $75.9 billion revenue in FY Q1 2016, 74.8 million iPhones sold

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Apple has reported revenue of $75.9 billion with a net profit of $18.4 billion in their earnings for the financial year Q1 2016 that ended December 26, 2015. Revenues were up 2% and earnings per share, up 7% year-over-year driven by all-time record iPhone sales, all-time record revenue from services, the expanded availability of Apple Watch and the new Apple TV. It sold 74.8 million iPhones, an all-time high, compared to 74.5 million FY Q1 2015, but it is just 1% growth, the slowest since the introduction of the smartphone in 2007. It sold 16.1 million iPads, compared to 21.4 million compared to the same quarter a year ago and sold 5.3 million Macs. Continue reading “Apple reports record $75.9 billion revenue in FY Q1 2016, 74.8 million iPhones sold”

Opera Mini 14 for Android brings support for 13 Indian languages, QR-code reader and more

Opera Mini 14 for Android

Opera has updated its Opera Mini app for Android to version 14 that brings better language support, with 90 languages to choose from. This includes 13 Indian languages – Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. In addition to the improved language support, Opera Mini for Android also gets a QR- code reader and generator and an improved download manager. Continue reading “Opera Mini 14 for Android brings support for 13 Indian languages, QR-code reader and more”

LG Q4 2015 profits up 27% YoY, 59.7 million smartphones shipped in 2015

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LG Electronics has reported revenues of 14.56 trillion won (US$ 12.57 billion) in Q4 2015, a 3.8% increase compared to the same quarter last year with operating profit of 349 billion won (US$ 301.38 million), up 27% from the same period the previous year. For the whole 2015 operating income was 1.19 trillion won (US$ 1.03 billion), compared to 1.83 trillion (US$ 1.58 billion) in 2014 on revenues of 56.51 trillion won (US$ 48.8 billion), compared with 59.04 trillion won (US$ 50.98 billion) the previous year, mainly due to sluggish global market demand for TVs and softer growth of smartphone market. Continue reading “LG Q4 2015 profits up 27% YoY, 59.7 million smartphones shipped in 2015”

OnePlus X gets OxygenOS 2.2.0 update with manual camera mode, USSD bug fix for India

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OnePlus has finally started rolling out Oxygen OS v2.2.0 OTA update for the OnePlus X smartphone, couple of months after it rolled out the OxygenOS 2.1.3 update. This update fixes USSD issues for India finally, so that pre-paid users will now receive USSD notification after a call, SMS and for data usage. The update also adds manual mode that is already present in the OnePlus 2, option to save images in SD card directly in camera, security patches, bug fixes and optimizations. Check out the complete changelog below. Continue reading “OnePlus X gets OxygenOS 2.2.0 update with manual camera mode, USSD bug fix for India”