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ZTE Blade Qlux 4G India’s most affordable 4G smartphone launched for Rs. 4999

ZTE Blade Qlux 4G

ZTE has launched Blade Qlux 4G, the most affordable 4G smartphone in India, as expected. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6732M SoC and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 4G connectivity with support for both 1800 MHz (Band3 ) and 2300 MHz (Band 40) for India. Continue reading “ZTE Blade Qlux 4G India’s most affordable 4G smartphone launched for Rs. 4999”

Wickedleak Wammy Hero Windows 8 Tablet with 3G launched for Rs. 8990

Wickedleak Wammy Hero

WickedLeak has launched Wammy Hero, the company’s first Windows 8 tablet. It has a 8-inch (1280×800 pixels) IPS screen and is powered by an quad-core Intel Atom Z3735G processor. It has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Specifications of this tablet are similar to the Notion Ink Cain 8 that was launched last year. Continue reading “Wickedleak Wammy Hero Windows 8 Tablet with 3G launched for Rs. 8990”

LINE Music streaming service launched in Japan

LINE Music

LINE corporation, popular for its messaging service has launched LINE Music in Japan. It has a catalog of over 1.5 million tracks from top labels including Sony, Universal, and Japan’s Avex. It plans to expand the catalog to 5 million tracks by the end of 2015 and 30 million by 2016. Line messenger users can also send tracks and playlists to their contacts.

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Xiaomi Mi 4i Dark Grey goes on sale through Mi India website on June 16

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Xiaomi launched the Mi 4i smartphone in India for Rs. 12999 back in April. Even though the smartphone comes in white, blue, yellow and pink colors, only the white color was launched in India initially. Now the company has announced that it will launch the Dark Grey version of the smartphone in the country starting from June 16th through Mi India website. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4i Dark Grey goes on sale through Mi India website on June 16”

Dell Venue 8 7000 series Android tablet launched in India for Rs. 34999

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Dell introduced Venue 8 7840 in the 7000 series, as the world’s thinnest tablet at just 6mm thickness, back in September last year. It went on sale in the US earlier this year. Now the company has launched the tablet in India. It has a 8.4-inch (2560 x 1600 pixel) OLED display, is powered by a 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 processor with PowerVR G6430 GPU. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera, two Intel RealSense Snapshot Depth Cameras for depth mapping, measurements and 3D editing and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.

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Apple Music signup page starts showing up on iOS 8.4 Beta, starts at Rs. 120 for India

Apple Music

Apple announced Apple Music, its own music streaming service at the WWDC earlier this week. Apple started rolling out fourth beta of iOS 8.4 to developers recently that adds revamped Apple Music app. New popups for Apple Music sign up pages have started showing up for developers. It is even showing up for developers using the latest iOS 8.4 beta in India that reveals the pricing for individual plan as Rs. 120 ($2 approx.) per month and Rs. 180 ($3 approx.) per month for a family plan that provides service for up to six family members. Apple offers 3 months of free Apple Music trail. Continue reading “Apple Music signup page starts showing up on iOS 8.4 Beta, starts at Rs. 120 for India”

ZTE to launch a new 4G smartphone in India soon exclusively on Amazon

ZTE 4G phone India teaser

ZTE has started teasing the launch of a new 4G smartphone in India soon. The smartphone will be exclusive to Amazon. The teaser just shows only the right side of the smartphone. The teaser says A GOOD KIND OF TORNADO IS COMING YOUR WAY. Continue reading “ZTE to launch a new 4G smartphone in India soon exclusively on Amazon”

Gionee Elife E8 with 6-inch Quad HD display, 24MP camera, fingerprint sensor announced

Gionee Elife E8

Gionee has announced Elife E8, the company’s latest smartphone in the E series. It has a 6-inch (2560 x 1440 pixels) AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by a 2 GHz Octa-core MediaTek Helio X10 (MT6795) 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop with Amigo UI 3.1 on top. It has aluminum magnesium alloy frame. Continue reading “Gionee Elife E8 with 6-inch Quad HD display, 24MP camera, fingerprint sensor announced”

Gionee Marathon M5 with 6020mAh battery announced

Gionee Marathon M5

Gionee just announced the Marathon M5, the company’s latest smartphone in the M series with a 6020mAh battery using two 3010 battery cells. Gionee promises up to 62 hours of standby even if the phone has only 5% of power left. It has fast dual charging chips and can also be used to charge other devices. It has unibody metal build with a narrow frame and is just 8.5mm thick (4.75mm edge), even though it packs a huge battery. It has a 5.5-inch 720p Super AMOLED Plus display and is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor. Continue reading “Gionee Marathon M5 with 6020mAh battery announced”

Microsoft introduces 5200 mAh, 9000 mAh, and 12000 mAh power banks

Microsoft DC-33 9000 mAh power bank

Microsoft has announced DC-32 5200 mAh, DC-33 9000 mAh and DC-34 12000 mAh portable power banks. These have dual USB ports to charge two devices at a time. These power banks can hold their charge for months at a time and still have up to 80% capacity after several months, says the company. Continue reading “Microsoft introduces 5200 mAh, 9000 mAh, and 12000 mAh power banks”

Lenovo PB1-770N with 6.8-inch display, 3500mAh battery gets certified in China

Lenovo PB1-770N

Lenovo PB1-770N, a new phablet from the company has been certified on TENAA (Via) in China. According to the listing it has a 6.8-inch 1080p screen, is powered by a 1.5GHz Octa-Core (MediaTek likely) processor, runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo PB1-770N with 6.8-inch display, 3500mAh battery gets certified in China”

BlackBerry Oslo surfaces in new live images

BlackBerry Oslo leak

BlackBerry Oslo showed up in a render back in April. Now N4BB has got hold of live images of the smartphone that has a similar design as the BlackBerry Passport. As we already know, the smartphone has a 1440×1440 pixels LCD Screen, will be powered by Snapdragon 800 SoC with 3GB RAM and run on BlackBerry OS 10.3.2. Continue reading “BlackBerry Oslo surfaces in new live images”

Coolpad Dazen X7 Benchmarks

Coolpad launched the Dazen X7 smartphone in India last month. We brought you the hands-on impressions and its unboxing recently, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a Octa-Core MediaTek MT6595M processor which as four ARM Cortex-A17 cores clocked at 2GHz per core and four ARM Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 1.69GHz per core, based on ARM big.LITTLE and 28nm HPM process. It has PowerVR 6200 GPU, 2GB RAM comes with a 5.2-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat) with Cool UI 6 on top.

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Aircel launches ‘Five States, One Rate’ offer with free roaming in South

Aircel has launched a new Five States, One Rate offer that lets customers in South enjoy free incoming calls and 1p/s for all outgoing ( local and STD) calls when roaming in Aircel network in five states – Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala. It will be useful for Aircel customers in the south, travelling between these states. Continue reading “Aircel launches ‘Five States, One Rate’ offer with free roaming in South”

Anand Chandrasekaran joins Snapdeal as Chief Product Officer from Airtel

Anand Chandrasekaran

Last month there were reports that Anand Chandrasekaran, Chief Product Officer at Bharti Airtel has put his papers. Today Snapdeal has announced that it has appointed Anand Chandrasekaran as Chief Product Officer. He has over 15 years’ experience in delivering products and revenue in mobile, search content and big data. Continue reading “Anand Chandrasekaran joins Snapdeal as Chief Product Officer from Airtel”