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ZTE AXON MAX with 6-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 617, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced

ZTE AXON MAX

ZTE has introduced AXON MAX, the company’s latest smartphone in the AXON series in China. It packs a 6-inch 1080p AMOLED display with 2.5D curved glass, is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with MiFavor 3.5 UI. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) for quick focus in just 0.1 seconds and a 13-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has a fingerprint sensor on the back and comes with USB Type-C reversible port.

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BlackBerry reports $89M loss in Q3 FY2016, PRIV to be available in 31 countries by Feb 2016

BlackBerry Priv

BlackBerry today reported a net loss (GAAP) of $89 million or $0.17 per basic share for the third fiscal quarter 2016 that ended November 28, 2015 on revenues (GAAP) of $548 million. Cash and investments balance was $2.71 billion at the end of the fiscal quarter, including the impact of the recent acquisitions of AtHoc and Good Technology at a cost of $636 million, said the company.

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Samsung Galaxy On5 Review

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Samsung launched the new ‘Galaxy On’ series of smartphones, Galaxy On5 and Galaxy On7 with 4G support in India last month. The Galaxy On5 is the affordable model of these two, which is priced at Rs. 8,990. We reviewed the Galaxy On7 recently. Is the Galaxy On5 worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review.

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Samsung Galaxy Note5 128GB Winter Special Edition released in Korea

Samsung Galaxy Note5 128GB Winter Special Edition

Samsung introduced Galaxy Note5 smartphone back in August in 32GB and 64GB variants. At that time said that it doesn’t have plans to launch 128GB variant of Galaxy Note5. Today it has introduced the 128GB Winter Special Edition of the smartphone in Korea. It also comes with Gear VR in the package. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note5 128GB Winter Special Edition released in Korea”

YU YUTOPIA Photo Gallery

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YU launched YUTOPIA (YU5050), the company’s flagship smartphone yesterday, priced at Rs. 24,999. We brought you the unboxing earlier today, here we take a quick look at the hardware of the smartphone in the form of photo gallery.

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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories released for iPhone and iPad, coming to Android soon

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

Rockstar games has launched Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories game for iOS devices. It was originally released for PlayStation Portable back in 2005 and was released on PlayStation 3 in 2013. The game has several enhancements for the iOS platform, including real time lighting and shadows, upgraded textures and art, greater draw distance, performance enhancements for touch-based gaming including updated analog steering and rebalanced targeting, cross-platform cloud saves via Social Club, support for Apple’s 3D touch and more, said the company. Rockstar games has announced that the game will be available for Android soon. Continue reading “Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories released for iPhone and iPad, coming to Android soon”

Belkin Road Rockstar 4-Port car charger launched in India for Rs. 2999

Belkin Road Rockstar

Belkin India has launched Road Rockstar, a 4-Port car charger that lets up to four passenger to simultaneously charge their smartphone or tablets. It comes with a 6-foot cable, 2 front USB ports for charging devices at a shared 2.4A, while the back ports supply 2.4A per port for charging two devices, including tablets. Continue reading “Belkin Road Rockstar 4-Port car charger launched in India for Rs. 2999”

Nexian NV-45 with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3799

Nexian NV-45

Nexian launched the Nexian Air Chromebook in India earlier this year. Now it has launched the Nexian NV-45, a budget Android smartphone exclusively on Flipkart. It packs a 4.5-inch FWVGA display with Dragontrail Glass protection, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7731 processor, runs on Android 4.4.2 (KitKat), has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 3.2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Nexian NV-45 with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3799”

Microsoft Lumia 550 with 4.7-inch HD display, Windows 10, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 9399

Microsoft Lumia 550 Dual SIM

Microsoft has launched the Lumia 550 smartphone in India. It was announced back in October at the Lumia 950 event, and packs a 4.7-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.1GHz quad-core Snapdragon 210 processor, runs on Windows 10, has a 5-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has 4G LTE connectivity, comes with Dual SIM support and is 9.9mm thick.  Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 550 with 4.7-inch HD display, Windows 10, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 9399”

Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 7999

Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton

Videocon Mobiles has Infinium Z55 Krypton, the company’s latest 4G smartphone in the Infinium series. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor, runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 4G LTE connectivity with support for TD-LTE 2300MHz (Band 40) and FDD-LTE 1800MHz (Band 3) for India. Continue reading “Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 7999”

Intex Aqua Star 4G with 5-inch HD display, iData Saver launched for Rs. 6499

Intex Aqua Star 4G

Intex has launched Aqua Star 4G, the company’s latest 4G smartphone with new iData Saver feature powered by Opera Max. Samsung launched the Galaxy J2 with Ultra Data Saving mode powered by Opera Max. Intex becomes the first Indian brand to integrate Opera Max’s functionality into its operating system on its 4G smartphone. This feature will reduce data consumption by up to 50% on images, webpages and streaming, especially with image-heavy audio & video apps, such as Instagram, YouTube, Gaana and Saavn. Continue reading “Intex Aqua Star 4G with 5-inch HD display, iData Saver launched for Rs. 6499”

Microsoft Translator for Android, iPhone, Apple Watch and Android Wear get new conversation feature

Microsoft Translator Translation

Microsoft Translator app for Android, iPhone, Apple Watch and Android Wear have been updated to support new conversation feature so that it can translate face to face conversations in a more natural way by simultaneously using your smartwatch and phone. It uses the same Microsoft Translator speech translation engine that powers Skype Translator and is optimized for translating full conversations, not just short sentences. Microsoft Translator app for these platforms were released back in August. Continue reading “Microsoft Translator for Android, iPhone, Apple Watch and Android Wear get new conversation feature”

Evernote to pull the plug on Skitch for Android, iOS and Windows

Skitch 3.0 for iPhone and iPad

Evernote today announced that it will pull the plug on its standalone apps such as Skitch for Windows, Windows Touch, iOS, Android, Evernote Clearly and Evernote for Pebble starting today. However the Skitch for Mac app will continue to be available and supported. It acquired Skitch, a popular image annotation application back in 2011 and launched the app for Android, later it was launched for iPad and iPhone. Continue reading “Evernote to pull the plug on Skitch for Android, iOS and Windows”

Kult 10 Benchmarks

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Kult, a new entrant in the Indian market launched its Kult 10 smartphone earlier this week for Rs. 7,999. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a Quad-Core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.3GHz per core and has Mali-T720 MP2 GPU. It has 3GB of RAM, 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “Kult 10 Benchmarks”