OnePlus appoints Vikas Agarwal as General Manager for India

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Back in August OnePlus said that it’s looking for an executive who could lead its operations in India. Recently the company has announced that it has appointed Vikas Agarwal as the manger of OnePlus India. Last week the company said that it there will be India-specific invite system to purchase the smartphone once it rolls out in India. Continue reading “OnePlus appoints Vikas Agarwal as General Manager for India”

Google launches Indian Language Internet Alliance, introduces Hindi Voice Search

Google Indian lanugage Internet Alliance

Google today launched Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA), a group formed to promote growth of Indic-language content online, at an event in India. Google hopes to enable 300 million Indian language speakers to become highly engaged Internet users by 2017. Google rolled out Hindi language Voice Search in India few months back, today it launched it in the country officially, and also demoed it at the event. Google Search lets users enable voice search in five languages, out of more than 50 supported languages and dialect. Continue reading “Google launches Indian Language Internet Alliance, introduces Hindi Voice Search”

Motorola Moto X (2014) Unboxing

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The Motorola Moto X (2014) is the latest flagship smartphone from the company. We brought you the complete review of the smartphone and the benchmarks. Here we have the unboxing of the smartphone. Check it out below. Continue reading “Motorola Moto X (2014) Unboxing”

Motorola Moto X (2014) Benchmarks

Motorola Moto X 2014 Benchmarks

Motorola launched the new Moto X in India back in September for Rs. 31,999. We brought you the complete review of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a  Snapdragon 801 processor with four 28nm HPm Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.46 GHz and has Adreno 330 GPU. It has a 5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) AMOLED display and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS. Check out the benchmarks below.  Continue reading “Motorola Moto X (2014) Benchmarks”

Apple iPhone 6 battery test

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Apple iPhone 6 the company’s next generation smartphone was launched in India few weeks back starting at Rs. 53,500. We reviewed the smartphone earlier this week, and you can check out the iPhone 6 review here. We introduced our battery test recently, and brought you the battery test for the Galaxy Alpha smartphone last week, here we have the battery test results for the smartphone. Continue reading “Apple iPhone 6 battery test”

HP, Michael Bastian introduce the MB Chronowing Smartwatch

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Months after the announcement, Hewlett-Packard has introduced its MB Chronowing Smartwatch, designed by Michael Bastian. This looks like a normal analog watch, but it is actually a smartwatch that can connect to your smartphone to notify you with mild vibrations when you receive texts, emails or notifications, has stop watch, syncs your calendar and can also be used to control music on your smartphone. Continue reading “HP, Michael Bastian introduce the MB Chronowing Smartwatch”

100,000 Redmi 1S units to go on sale on Nov 4, will be pre-added to carts for some who repeatedly tried and failed

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Xiaomi is bringing another 1,00,000 units of the Redmi 1S smartphones for India on November 4th. As a surprise, the company has announced that, lucky fans those who tried to buy Redmi 1s and failed, will find the device added to their cart on Flipkart on November 4th. It did the same thing for Mi 3 during Diwali, but it only offered 25,000 units for lucky ones. This time it did not announce how many lucky fans would get their Redmi 1S smartphone in their cart automatically.

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Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for Exchange and other email accounts now available

Gmail 5.0 for Android

Details about Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for IMAP, POP3 email accounts like Yahoo and Outlook surfaced couple of weeks back. Even a promo video of the new Gmail app showed up. Now Android Police has got hold of the APK of the Gmail 5.0 app that brings all these new features, including support for Exchange accounts. Continue reading “Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for Exchange and other email accounts now available”

BBM for BlackBerry 10, Android and iPhone gets Timed Messages, Message Retraction and more

BBM Timed Messages

BlackBerry has rolled out an update for its BBM app on BlackBerry 10, Android and iPhone that gets new privacy features such as  Timed Messages feature that lets you set a timer to control how long messages and pictures you share with contacts can be viewed and Message retraction feature that lets you cancel the message in case if you had sent it to the wrong person. Both these features were rolled out for limited beta users on Android and BlackBerry 10.  Continue reading “BBM for BlackBerry 10, Android and iPhone gets Timed Messages, Message Retraction and more”

Sony reports Q2 FY14 results, 9.9 million smartphones shipped

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Sony Corporation today reported net loss of 85.6 billion yen ($785 million) for its second quarter of the financial year 2014 that ended September 30th. Even though it shipped 9.9 million smartphone in the quarter, mobile communications division has reported an operating loss of 172 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for the quarter.

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Google Camera updated with Material Design, Android 5.0 Lollipop compatibility

Google Camera 2.4.023

Google Camera app version 2.4.008 that was present in the Android Lollipop Developer Preview has Material design elements. Today Google has updated the Google Camera app to version 2.4.023 on the Play Store that brings the same material design elements to the app. This update also brings compatibility with Android 5.0 (Lollipop) that would roll out for Nexus devices in coming weeks and includes some improvements and bug fixes. Continue reading “Google Camera updated with Material Design, Android 5.0 Lollipop compatibility”

Sennheiser MM 30G in-ear headset launched in India for Rs. 3990

Sennheiser MM 30G

Sennheiser has launched MM 30G, the company’s latest in-ear headset created for Samsung devices. The ear-canal design of the headset passively attenuates ambient noise and has high-end dynamic speaker for a bass driven stereo sound. It has compact in-line remote control for volume control, music or call control and integrated microphone for voice calls.

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Lava Iris Fuel 50 with 5-inch display, 3000mAh battery launched for Rs. 7799

Lava Iris Fuel 50

LAVA International has launched Iris Fuel 50, the company’s first smartphone in the new Fuel series with a 3000mAh battery that promises 1.5 days of battery life. It has a 5-inch FWVGA IPS display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera with dual LED flash and 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Iris Fuel 50 with 5-inch display, 3000mAh battery launched for Rs. 7799”

Samsung Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 with slim unibody metal design announced

Samsung Galaxy A5

Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 smartphones in its new A Series, after several rumors.Both these smartphones have full metal unibody, slim designs. These are Samsung’s slimmest smartphone to date. The Galaxy A5 is just 6.7mm thick and the Galaxy A3 is 6.9mm thick. These are aimed at young and trend conscious consumers, says the company. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 with slim unibody metal design announced”