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Huawei opens new R&D center in Bangalore by investing over US$ 170 million

Huawei R&D facility Whitefield Bangalore

Huawei today announced that it has launched its new Research & Development center in Whitefield, Bangalore. The one million sq. ft. campus built on a 20 acre land will accommodate up to 5,000 engineers and includes an R&D Block, customer experience center, large cafeteria, multilevel car park and residential block for expat employees, said the company. Huawei has invested over US$ 170 million (Rs. 1051 crores approx.) in building the new campus in Bangalore. Continue reading “Huawei opens new R&D center in Bangalore by investing over US$ 170 million”

Swipe AssistX powered by Haptik to offer on-the-go customer support

Swipe Haptic

Swipe Technologies has announced that it has partnered with with Haptik Inc. to introduce first of it’s kind in-built Chat Solution to Swipe customers with a simple message on AssistX powered by Haptik. Swipe Telecom is also the first ever company to enable Cash On Delivery purchases of their phones/tablets with a simple message on Haptik itself, said the company. Continue reading “Swipe AssistX powered by Haptik to offer on-the-go customer support”

Spice Android One smartphone launched in Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Nexian Journey One

Spice has announced that it has launched its Android One smartphone in Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka today in association with Google. It has launched its Android One smartphone under the brand name Nexian Journey One which runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). The Lollipop update offers improved battery life, enhanced security features and smarter notifications. Continue reading “Spice Android One smartphone launched in Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka”

OnePlus One to get SwiftKey keyboard integration with upcoming OTA update

SwiftKey One Plus One

OnePlus has partnered with popular keyboard app creator SwiftKey to integrate SwiftKey keyboard with the upcoming CyanogenMod 11S update later this month. This enables users to switch to Swiftkey keyboard easily without the need to download. Swiftkey lets you type in up to three languages at once without switching settings and it even has new material design keyboard themes. Continue reading “OnePlus One to get SwiftKey keyboard integration with upcoming OTA update”

Sony Mobile sales up 28.7% YoY in Q3 FY14, 11.9 million smartphones shipped

sony-xperia-z3-camera-highlights copy

Sony Corporation has reported its revenues for third quarter of the financial year 2014 that ended December 31st. Sales increased to 2,557.8 billion yen ( US$ 21,139 million), an increase of 6.1%. It shipped 11.9 million smartphone in the quarter, compared to 9.9 million the previous quarter and 10.7 the same quarter the previous year, which is a 11% increase. The mobile communications division has reported sales of 429 billion yen (US$ 3,545 million) for the quarter, a 28.7% increase year-on-year and income of 9.3 billion yen ( US$76 million U.S. dollars).

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Gionee to introduce new ultra-slim smartphones at MWC 2015 on March 2

Gionee Elife S5.1_fonearena-05

Gionee has announced that it will unveil new ultra-slim smartphones at the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona next month. It unveiled the Elife S5.5 that was 5.5mm thick and introduced the Elife S5.1 that even entered into the Guinness book of world records in September since it was the slimmest smartphone at that time at just 5.1mm. The company haven’t announced how thin its upcoming smartphones would be. Continue reading “Gionee to introduce new ultra-slim smartphones at MWC 2015 on March 2”

HTC Desire 626 gets certified in China, specifications detailed

HTC Desire 626 leak

Press images and specifications of the HTC Desire 626 smartphone leaked few weeks back, now the smartphone has been certified in China on TENAA with model number D626w. According to the listing the smartphone has a 5-inch HD display, 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a 1.7GHz Octa-Core processor but comes only with 1GB RAM and 8GB RAM, unlike 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage as rumored earlier. Continue reading “HTC Desire 626 gets certified in China, specifications detailed”

Lenovo S90 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 2GB RAM goes on sale in India for Rs. 19900

Lenovo S90

Lenovo S90, the company’s latest smartphone in the S Series is now available in India from the official Lenovo Store. It has announced back in November last year as Sisley S90 in China and packs a  5-inch HD Super AMOLED display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Vibe 2.0 UI on top. It looks similar to the iPhone 6. Continue reading “Lenovo S90 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 2GB RAM goes on sale in India for Rs. 19900”

YU YUREKA gets first Cyanogen OS bug-fix OTA update

YU YUREKA XNPH05Q Cyanogen OS update

YU has rolled out the first Cyanogen OS update, XNPH05Q for the YUREKA smartphone in about three weeks after the smartphone went on sale, as it promised at the launch. As you can see from the screenshot, the incremental update brings security fixes and improvements for the proximity sensor and dual SIM functionality. Continue reading “YU YUREKA gets first Cyanogen OS bug-fix OTA update”

Samsung Galaxy E5 Benchmarks

Samsung Galaxy E5 Benchmarks_fonearena-01

Samsung launched the Galaxy E5 smartphone in the E series in India last month for Rs. 19,300.  We brought you the unboxing and the photo gallery of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks. It powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) SoC that has four ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs clocked at 1.19 GHz per core and Adreno 306 GPU clocked at 400 MHz, similar to other A and E series smartphones.  It has 1.5GB RAM, 5-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) display and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Let’s check out the performance of the smartphone in a range of synthetic benchmark tests. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy E5 Benchmarks”

Android One smartphones in India will get Lollipop update in the “next few weeks”: Google

Android Lollipop

Google today released three new Android One smartphones with three new partners in Indonesia running Android 5.1 (Lollipop) out of the box when users in India with Android One smartphones are eagerly waiting for the Lollipop update. Today Google India announced that it will be rolling out the Lollipop update for the Android One smartphones in the next few weeks. Google already promised to offer software updates for Android One devices for two years after its release. Continue reading “Android One smartphones in India will get Lollipop update in the “next few weeks”: Google”

Google Android One expands to Indonesia, releases three new smartphones running Android 5.1 Lollipop

Evercoss One X, Mito Impact and Nexian Journey

Google just announced that it will launch Android One smartphones in Indonesia later this month. Google launched Android One smartphones in India back in September last year and it expanded to Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka last month. Indonesia becomes the fifth country to get Android One smartphones officially. Continue reading “Google Android One expands to Indonesia, releases three new smartphones running Android 5.1 Lollipop”

AOC E40 with 4-inch display, Android 4.4 announced for Rs. 5299

AOC E40

AOC has announced E40, the company’s latest entry-level Android smartphone. It has a 4-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It has a dual SIM support and come with 3G connectivity. Continue reading “AOC E40 with 4-inch display, Android 4.4 announced for Rs. 5299”

Samsung starts mass production of world’s first ePoP memory for smartphones

Samsung ePoP memory

Samsung today announced that it has started mass producing of world’s first ePoP (embedded package on package) memory. This is a single memory package that includes a 3GB LPDDR3 DRAM, 32GB eMMC (embedded multi-media card) and a controller to be  used in high-end smartphones saving approximately 40 percent of space. Continue reading “Samsung starts mass production of world’s first ePoP memory for smartphones”