Garmin vivofit 2 fitness band announced

Garmin vivofit 2

Garmin today announced the vivofit 2 fitness tracker, successor of the first vivofit at the CES. It also has interchangeable accessory bands in several colors and variants. It has move bar on its always-on display and also features audible alerts that remind users when it’s time to get up and move. Continue reading “Garmin vivofit 2 fitness band announced”

JBL Reflect Aware earphones with ANC, Reflect Response BT and Synchros S210BT with motion control announced

JBL Reflect Aware

HARMAN, popular for its global audio products today introduced new JBL earphones at the CES 2015. The JBL Reflect Aware is the world’s first sport headphone with ability to mix ambient sounds with active noise cancelling performance. This doesn’t require battery and draws power through Lightning Connector or Micro USB and features Ambient Aware technology. Continue reading “JBL Reflect Aware earphones with ANC, Reflect Response BT and Synchros S210BT with motion control announced”

YU YUREKA Photo Gallery

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Micromax’s YU launched the YU YUREKA (AO5510) smartphone running Cyanogen OS last month for Rs. 8,999. We already brought you the hands on impressions from the launch event and unboxing few days back. Here we have the hardware walk through of the smartphone in the form of photo gallery.

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Nokia 215 and 215 Dual SIM affordable internet-enabled phones announced

Nokia 215

Microsoft Devices today announced Nokia 215 and 215 Dual SIM, the company’s most affordable internet-enabled handsets. The Nokia 215 and the 215 Dual SIM have a 2.4-inch (320 x 240 pixels) QVGA LCD screen, Opera Mini browser, built-in MP3 player, FM Radio, 2G (EDGE), Bluetooth 3.0 with Slam sharing feature and a VGA rear camera without flash and a built-in torchlight. These are 12.9mm thick and have a curved design. Continue reading “Nokia 215 and 215 Dual SIM affordable internet-enabled phones announced”

Dell Venue 8 7840 with 8.4-inch Quad HD display now available in the US for $400

Dell Venue 8 7840

Dell introduced Venue 8 7840 tablet, world’s thinnest tablet at just 6mm thickness, back in September last year. Now the tablet is available for purchase in the US from BestBuy. As we already know, the tablet 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 and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Dell Venue 8 7840 with 8.4-inch Quad HD display now available in the US for $400”

Lenovo S580 Benchmarks

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Lenovo launched the S580 smartphone last month exclusively on Snapdeal for Rs. 8,999. We already brought you the unboxing and photo gallery of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 200 Processor with four ARM Cortex A7 cores clocked at 1.19 GHz per core and has Adreno 302 GPU. But the CPU-Z and other benchmark apps show that it has a Adreno 305 GPU. It has 1GB RAM, 5-inch HD screen and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) OS. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “Lenovo S580 Benchmarks”

Sony MDR-EX31BN Bluetooth Noise Cancelling earphones launched for Rs. 5490

Sony MDR-EX31BN

Sony has launched MDR-EX31BN, the company’s latest Noise Cancelling Bluetooth earphones in India. It has 13.5mm sound driver unit that delivers high quality, powerful sound by the integration of high quality digital noise cancellation capability for crystal clear output, says Sony. It works on one-touch connectivity with NFC and is capable of drastically reducing noise disturbances since it has built-in noise cancellation.
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ARCHOS 50 Diamond 4G smartphone, 80b Helium 4G tablet and more announced at CES

ARCHOS 50 Diamond

ARCHOS, has announced a range of 4G smartphones and tablets at CES 2015 starting at under 80 Euros. This includes the top-end Archos Diamond 50 smartphone in the Diamond series and 80b Helium 4G tablet in the Helium series. Check out the specifications of these devices below. Continue reading “ARCHOS 50 Diamond 4G smartphone, 80b Helium 4G tablet and more announced at CES”

Nvidia Tegra X1 Mobile Super Chip with 256-Core Maxwell GPU announced

NVIDIA Tegra X1

NVIDIA has announced the Tegra X1, the company’s latest mobile processor at the International CES 2015 in Las Vegas. It is the successor of last year’s Tegra K1 chip and is based on NVIDIA Maxwell architecture. This 8 CPU cores the includes four ARM Cortex A57 CPU cores and four ARM Cortex A53 cores. It has 256-core Maxwell GPU that promises much better GPU performance than Tegra K1 at the same power of less than 10 watts. Continue reading “Nvidia Tegra X1 Mobile Super Chip with 256-Core Maxwell GPU announced”

Xiaomi sold 61.1 million smartphones in 2014, revenues up 135%

Xiaomi Mi 4-4

Xiaomi today announced that it sold 61.12 million smartphones in 2014 and has exceeded its 60 million target. This is a 227% increase compared to its sales the previous year. It sold 26.1 million smartphones in first half of 2014. Continue reading “Xiaomi sold 61.1 million smartphones in 2014, revenues up 135%”

Xiaomi Redmi 2 with 4G LTE, 64-bit Snapdragon 410 SoC announced

Xiaomi Redmi 2

Xiaomi has announced the Redmi 2 4G smartphone in China as expected. It has the same 4.7-inch HD screen present in Redmi and Redmi 1S, but this is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with MIUI 6 on top. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.

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Acer Liquid Z410 budget 4G smartphone with 64-bit SoC announced

Acer Liquid Z410

Acer has announced Liquid Z410, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone ahead of CES 2015. It has a 4.5-inch qHD screen, is powered by a 64-bit SoC with Mali-760 GPU (MediaTek MT6752 likely) and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera with 80-degree wide-angle lens. It has front-facing speaker and DTS digital audio support for enhanced audio output. Continue reading “Acer Liquid Z410 budget 4G smartphone with 64-bit SoC announced”

LG CES 2015 teaser confirms G Flex 2

LG Flex 2 CES 2015 Teaser

LG Electronics just released its CES 2015 teaser video that reveals several products, including its most expected LG G Flex successor with a curved screen. Looks like reports about the G Flex 2 announcement at CES 2015 were true. Check out the official teaser video. Continue reading “LG CES 2015 teaser confirms G Flex 2”

Oppo R5 Unboxing

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Oppo introduced the Oppo R5 (R8106) , the company’s slimmest smartphone at an event in Singapore back in October. It was launched in India last month for Rs. 29,990. We already brought you the photo gallery of the smartphone from the announcement. Here we have the unboxing of the smartphone.

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E FUN Nextbook Android 5.0 and Windows 8.1 tablets announced

Nextbook Ares Android 5.0 2-in-1

E FUN, popular for its tablets has introduced new Nextbook Android tablets running Android 5.0 and Windows 8.1 tablets for CES 2015. This includes 4G/LTE tablets, Intel-powered Android 2-in-1 tablet with keyboard and a Windows 8.1 tablet. Continue reading “E FUN Nextbook Android 5.0 and Windows 8.1 tablets announced”