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Celkon CT722 with 7-inch display, Intel Atom x3 SoC launched for Rs. 4999

Celkon CT722

Celkon launched CT722, the company’s latest tablet powered by Intel Atom SoC earlier this week. It has a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) display, is powered by a Quad Core Intel Atom X3 C3230RK processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It comes with a 3.2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and has a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It has single SIM support, 3G connectivity and has voice calling capabilities. Continue reading “Celkon CT722 with 7-inch display, Intel Atom x3 SoC launched for Rs. 4999”

Asus ZenFone 2 Laser 6 with 6-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM launched in India for Rs. 17999

Asus ZenFone 2 Laser 6

Asus launched the Zenfone 2 Laser in India at the ZenFestival. The Zenfone 2 Laser 5.5 (ZE550KL) went on sale in September, and the Zenfone 2 Laser 5.5 (ZE550KL-1B122IN) went on sale in October, now Asus has launched the Zenfone 2 Laser 6 (ZE601KL) in India. It packs a 6-inch 1080p display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 616 SoC, runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Zen UI 2.0 on top. It has dual SIM support and 4G LTE connectivity. Continue reading “Asus ZenFone 2 Laser 6 with 6-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM launched in India for Rs. 17999”

ZTE Blade A1 with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE, fingerprint sensor announced for $94

ZTE Blade A1

ZTE has released Blade A1, its new budget smartphone, which becomes the most affordable smartphone with a fingerprint sensor, beating the UMi Fair that was released in September. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “ZTE Blade A1 with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE, fingerprint sensor announced for $94”

Apple releases open source Swift for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS

Apple Swift

Apple has released open source Swift programming language, as it promised at the WWDC earlier this year. It is available for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. It has also released port that works with the Linux operating system. “As an open source language, the broad community of talented developers — from app developers to educational institutions to enterprises — can contribute to new Swift features and optimizations and help bring Swift to new computing platforms,” said the company. Continue reading “Apple releases open source Swift for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS”

YU YUPHORIA Cyanogen OS 12.1 update to roll out starting from today

YU started rolling out Cyanogen OS 12.1 update based on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) for its YUREKA and YUREKA PLUS smartphones last month. Today Rahul Sharma, Co-founder and CEO of YU tweeted that Cyanogen OS 12.1 update for the YU YUPHORIA smartphone has been certified by Google CTS and will start rolling out from tonight. This comes months after the company said that it had entered final testing phase. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA Cyanogen OS 12.1 update to roll out starting from today”

Facebook rolls out Live Video broadcasting feature to take on Periscope

Facebook for iPhone Live Video

Facebook has announced that it has started rolling out new live video feature on their iPhone app. This will allow you to share a live feed from the phone’s camera by tapping the Update Status and selecting the Live Video icon. Live video will be available for a small percentage of iPhone users in the US initially before rolling out globally and other platforms, said the company. This new feature will take on Twitter’s Periscope that is available Android, iOS and more recently Apple TV. Continue reading “Facebook rolls out Live Video broadcasting feature to take on Periscope”

WhatsApp for Android gets new emojis

WhatsApp for Android Emojis

WhatsApp has added tons of new emojis for its Android app, before Android gets these emojis next week starting from Nexus devices, as announced by Google’s new SVP of Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast, Hiroshi Lockheimer. He said that Google has also shared the fonts and tech details with other OEMs so they can update as well. This was first spotted by Android Police. Continue reading “WhatsApp for Android gets new emojis”

Chennai Floods: BSNL, Aircel, Vodafone and Rcom offer free Talk Time and Data

mobile-network-mast

BSNL, Aircel, Vodafone and Rcom have joined Airtel and Paytm to offer free talk time and data to help their customers to stay in touch with their family and friends in flood-stricken Chennai. State-run BSNL said that it will offer free on-net local and STD calls as well as free data for 7 days for its pre-paid users. Skype is offering international calls to landlines and mobiles into Tamil Nadu free of charge for the next few days.  Continue reading “Chennai Floods: BSNL, Aircel, Vodafone and Rcom offer free Talk Time and Data”

Chennai Floods: Skype offers free international calls to landlines and mobiles into Tamil Nadu

skype

Earlier this week Airtel offered advanced instant talk time, data and on-net calling minutes for its pre-paid customers and Paytm offered Rs.30 worth free talk time for people in flood-stricken Chennai. Now Skype has come forward to offer international calls to landlines and mobiles into Tamil Nadu free of charge for the next few days. Continue reading “Chennai Floods: Skype offers free international calls to landlines and mobiles into Tamil Nadu”

Opera Coast browser for iOS gets Snapchat-like news feed

Opera Coast 5.0 for iPhone

Opera has updated its Coast browser for iPhone and iPad to version 5.0 that brings for you feature that aggregates articles from your favorite sites into one tile on your home screen. “It gives you a personalized, fast, and customizable news experience right inside the browser,” said the company. Continue reading “Opera Coast browser for iOS gets Snapchat-like news feed”

Panasonic Eluga Mark with fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 11990

Panasonic Eluga Mark

Panasonic has launched Eluga Mark, the company’s latest smartphone with 4G support in India. It has a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display, is powered by a 1.5 GHz Octa-Core 64-bit Snapdragon 615 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It 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 TDD-LTE 2300MHz (Band 40) and FDD-LTE 1800MHz (Band 3) for India. It is just 8.2 mm thick and has fingerprint sensor that allows single touch access where users can configure up to 8 different finger prints at a single point of time. Continue reading “Panasonic Eluga Mark with fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 11990”

YU YUTOPIA launch postponed to Dec 17th, one more thing to launch alongside

YU YUTOPIA launch invite Dec 17

[Update – Dec 12: YU has sent out invites for the launch of YUTOPIA smartphone on December 17th.]

Yesterday YU announced that its YUTOPIA smartphone will launch at an event on December 7th. Today the company has announced that the flagship smartphone will now be launched on December 17th. YU’s Co-Founder and CEO, Rahul Sharma tweeted that YU plans to announce something special with YUTOPIA, but it is not clear if it will be a new accessory or another smartphone. Continue reading “YU YUTOPIA launch postponed to Dec 17th, one more thing to launch alongside”

Chennai Floods: Paytm offers free instant talk time worth Rs. 30

Paytm-Logo

Earlier today Airtel announced that it is offering free instant talk time, calling minutes and free data for its pre-paid customers in flood-stricken Chennai. Now Paytm has come forward to offer Rs. 30 worth of talk-time instantly free of cost that can be available by calling 18001030033. You can call the toll-free number and share the mobile number that need to be topped-up. Paytm said that the idea is to enable people to stay in touch at this time of natural distress. Continue reading “Chennai Floods: Paytm offers free instant talk time worth Rs. 30”

TCL Play 2 and Play 2C with 5-inch HD display, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced

TCL Le Play 2

TCL today introduced Play 2 and Play 2C, two new budget 4G smartphones in China. Both these smartphones have a 5-inch HD display, fingerprint sensor on the back that lets you unlock the phone in just 0.5 seconds and IR sensor to control home appliances. The Play 2 is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 617 processor, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The Play music 2C is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 SoC, has 8-megapixel front and rear cameras with LED flash. Both these smartphones have titanium alloy frame and 4G LTE connectivity. Continue reading “TCL Play 2 and Play 2C with 5-inch HD display, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced”

vivo Y51 with 5-inch display, 7.5mm slim body, 4G LTE official

vivo Y51

vivo Y51, the company’s entry-level 4G smartphone has gone official (Via) in China, after it got certified on TENAA last month. It packs a 5-inch qHD screen, is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 SoC and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Funtouch OS 2.5 on top. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “vivo Y51 with 5-inch display, 7.5mm slim body, 4G LTE official”