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

iBall Slide Gorgeo 4GL

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

smartbro for Android

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

OnePlus X Oxygen OS 2.2.0

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”

iBall Slide 3G Q45i with Intel Atom x3 processor and voice calling launched for Rs. 5999

iBall Slide 3G Q45i

iBall has launched the Slide 3G Q45i, the company’s latest Android tablet in the Slide series. It has a 7-inch (1024×600 pixels) IPS screen, is powered by a quad-core 64-bit Intel Atom x3 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing camera. It has dual-SIM support, 3G connectivity and voice calling capabilities.

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Vodafone launches 4G LTE services in Kolkata

Vodafone 4G Kolkata

Vodafone has launched its 4G LTE services in Kolkata after a month of launching its 4G services in Kerala. It was launched in Mysore earlier this month. It is based on 1800MHz FDD-LTE band 3 and is built on a strong fibre backhaul. Vodafone 4G is available in BBD Bag, Park Street, Alipore, Ballygunge, Salt Lake Sector 5, Airport and EM bypass in the circle and the roll-out will be completed across all parts of Kolkata by June 2016 in a phased manner. Continue reading “Vodafone launches 4G LTE services in Kolkata”

Lenovo K5 Note with metal body, Helio P10, fingerprint sensor, 3500mAh battery announced

Lenovo K5 Note

Lenovo has announced K5 Note, the successor of the K4 Note that was launched in India recently, after it got certified by TENAA. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), similar to the K4 Note, but this is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P10 processor. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a aluminium unibody design and fingerprint sensor on the back that can detect fingerprints in just 0.3 seconds. Continue reading “Lenovo K5 Note with metal body, Helio P10, fingerprint sensor, 3500mAh battery announced”

Airtel launches 4G LTE in Manjeri, Tirurangadi and Thalaserry, now in 50 towns in Kerala

Airtel 4G

Airtel has commercially launched its 4G LTE services in Kochi in Manjeri, Tirurangadi & Thalaserry in Kerala. With this Airtel 4G is now present in 50 towns in Kerala. It launched 4G services in 296 towns across India earlier back in August last year. It was launched in Kochi in the same month and in Thiruvananthapuram in September. Airtel 4G is available to customers across mobile phones, dongles, 4G hotspots and Wi-Fi dongles in the city. 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 in Manjeri, Tirurangadi and Thalaserry, now in 50 towns in Kerala”

Lenovo Vibe K4 Note Battery Life Test

Lenovo launched the Vibe K4 Note smartphone in India at Rs. 11,999 recently. We already brought you the unboxing, teardown and benchmarks of the smartphone, here we have the battery life test results. The K4 Note packs a 3300mAh (Rated) / 3400mAh (Typical) built-in battery, larger than the 3000mAh (Typical) / 2900mAh (Rated) battery on the K3 Note. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz Octa-core MediaTek MT6753 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Check out the test results below. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe K4 Note Battery Life Test”

Lenovo Vibe X3 with Snapdragon 808, 3GB RAM, 21MP camera launching in India on January 27

Lenovo Vibe X3

Lenovo has started teasing the launch of its high-end Vibe X3 smartphone in India, which is scheduled for January 27th. It was announced back in November last year along with the Vibe X3 Lite, packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display, is powered by a hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 21-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) to focus quickly, dual-tone LED flash, Sony IMX230 sensor, 4K video recording and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.
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