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Samsung Galaxy View tablet with 18.4-inch display, 4G LTE official

Samsung Galaxy View

Samsung has officially announced Galaxy View, the company’s largest tablet with a 18.4-inch 1080p display, as it promised at the IFA last month. Even though it has a pixel density of just 119 PPI, Samsung says that the screen is optimized for media consumption and the tablet has been designed with a video-centric interface in mind. It has a dedicated home screen for videos showcases from various content services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, all in one place. It also has powerful 4-watt stereo speakers and has nano SIM support offering 4G LTE connectivity on-the-go. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy View tablet with 18.4-inch display, 4G LTE official”

Samsung Exynos 8890 with custom cores for Galaxy S7 said to enter mass production in December

Samsung’s Octa-Core Exynos 8890 SoC also called the Exynos M1 with custom CPU cores surfaced in benchmarks last month. There were reports that Samsung is also testing Snapdragon 820 SoC for the upcoming Galaxy S7 flagship smartphone and it might also release another variant with the high-end Snapdragon processor that will release sometime in the first half of 2016. Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 8890 with custom cores for Galaxy S7 said to enter mass production in December”

Motorola Moto X Style Battery Life Test

Motorola launched the Moto X Style, the company’s high-end smartphone in the X series earlier this month. It went on sale couple of weeks back on Flipkart starting at Rs. 29,999. We brought you the review of the Moto X Style recently, here we have the battery test results of the smartphone. It has a 3000mAh built-in battery, packs a 5.7-inch Quad HD display, is powered by a Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 SoC and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Check out the test results below.

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Toshiba agrees to sell image sensor business to Sony

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Toshiba Corporation today confirmed earlier reports that it will sell CMOS image sensor business to Sony Corporation. It will help it to overhaul its unprofitable semiconductor businesses after the company shared that it overstated earnings by $1.3 billion going back to fiscal 2008-2009. Even though the company did not confirm how much the deal is worth, it is worth around 20 billion yen ($166.15 million) according to Reuters. Continue reading “Toshiba agrees to sell image sensor business to Sony”

14,000 Lenovo Vibe P1m units sold out in 10 seconds in first flash sale on Flipkart

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Lenovo launched the Vibe P1m smartphone in India last week. It went on sale on Flipkart through flash sale at 3PM today. Today the company said that it sold 14,000 units of Vibe P1m smartphones in less than 10 seconds in the first flash sale. It received over 1, 75,000 registrations registrations for the sale, said Lenovo. Continue reading “14,000 Lenovo Vibe P1m units sold out in 10 seconds in first flash sale on Flipkart”

Oppo Neo 7 with 5-inch display, Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 9990

Oppo Neo 7

Oppo has launched the Neo 7, the company’s latest smartphone in India, as expected. It was announced earlier today and packs a 5-inch qHD screen, is powered by an quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS with Color OS 2.1 on top, has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Oppo Neo 7 with 5-inch display, Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 9990”

Xolo BLACK 1X Unboxing, First Impressions and Photo Gallery

Xolo launched the BLACK 1X, the company’s latest smartphone in the BLACK series earlier today, priced at Rs. 9999. It will go on sale on Snapdeal through flash sale starting from November 6th. We got our hands on the smartphone, here is the unboxing and first impressions of the smartphone.

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Xolo BLACK 1X with 5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 9999

Xolo Black 1X

Xolo just launched BLACK 1X, its second BLACK series smartphone, as it promised last week. It packs a 5-inch 1080p display with Asahi Dragon trail Glass protection, is powered by an Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 SoC and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with HIVE Atlas UI on top. Xolo has promised that it will be upgradable to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) in future, but no details about the time frame yet. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) that lets you focus in just 0.15 seconds, LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. Continue reading “Xolo BLACK 1X with 5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 9999”

Huawei Honor Play 5X with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced

Huawei Honor Play 5X

Huawei has announced the Honor Play 5X, the company’s latest smartphone in the Honor Play series in China. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display with 72.5% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 615 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with EMUI 3.1 on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with Sony or Samsung sensor, LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has unibody metal build and a fingerprint sensor 2.0 on the back that can unlock the phone in under 0.5 seconds. Continue reading “Huawei Honor Play 5X with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced”

Apple reports record $234 billion revenue in FY 2015, 231M iPhones, 55M iPads sold

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Apple has reported revenue of $51.5 billion with a net profit of $11.1 billion in their earnings for the financial year Q4 2015 that ended September 26, 2015. Revenues were up 22% and earnings per share up 38% year-over-year. For the fiscal year 2015, Apple reported revenue of 234 billion, up 28%, and 58 billion dollars over 2014. It sold over 300 million devices in the year, including 231 million iPhones, 55 million iPads, and 21 million Macs and increased its global market share for both iPhone and Mac. In FY Q4 2015 it sold 48 million iPhones, up 22% year over year, 9.8 million iPads and 5.7 million Macs. Continue reading “Apple reports record $234 billion revenue in FY 2015, 231M iPhones, 55M iPads sold”

Motorola DROID Turbo 2 with shatterproof display and DROID Maxx 2 announced

Motorola Droid Turbo 2

Motorola has announced the most expected DROID Turbo 2 smartphone along with the DROID Maxx 2. The DROID Turbo 2 is an enhanced version of the Moto X Style that packs a slightly smaller 5.4-inch Quad HD AMOLED 540 ppi display. It also has Moto ShatterShield, the world’s first shatterproof display. Motorola says that the display is guaranteed not to crack or shatter for up to 4 years. It packs a Snapdragon 810 processor, runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) and is upgradable to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). It has a 3760mAh battery, slightly bigger than the Moto X Style and has the same front and rear cameras. The DROID Maxx 2 is a variant of Moto X Play. Continue reading “Motorola DROID Turbo 2 with shatterproof display and DROID Maxx 2 announced”

Jaybird X2 Bluetooth in-ear headset launched in India for Rs. 15999

Jaybird X2

Jaybird has launched X2, the company’s new Bluetooth headset in India through an exclusive partnership with Indian distributor Ferrari Video and its retail brand Headphone Zone (headphonezone.in). It uses Bluetooth 2.1 to connect to other devices and promises 8 hours of play time on a single charge. It has a built-in microphone for calls and a three-button remote.

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Motorola Moto X Style Benchmarks

Motorola launched the Moto X Style, the company’s high-end smartphone in the X series earlier this month. It went on sale couple of weeks back on Flipkart starting at Rs. 29,999. We already brought you the hands-on impressions and the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. The Moto X Style is powered by an 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, a 5.7-inch Quad HD display and runs Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.

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Infocus M260 with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM, Android 5.0 launching this week for Rs. 3999

Infocus M260

Infocus is all set to launch the M260, the company’s new budget smartphone on Snapdeal later this week. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA display, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Inlife UI 2.0 on top. It has a 5-megapixel fixed-focus rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Infocus M260 with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM, Android 5.0 launching this week for Rs. 3999”

Letv introduces uMax120, a 120-inch 3D 4K TV for $78663

LeTV uMax120

Letv today introduced uMax120, the company’s first 120-inch 3D 4K TV at its event in China, along with the Le 1s smartphone. The display panel has 680nit ~ 800nit screen brightness, has 120Hz refresh rate and supports H.265 hardware decoding. It runs on EUI TV UI based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Continue reading “Letv introduces uMax120, a 120-inch 3D 4K TV for $78663”