Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

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Nexian NV-45 with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3799

Nexian NV-45

Nexian launched the Nexian Air Chromebook in India earlier this year. Now it has launched the Nexian NV-45, a budget Android smartphone exclusively on Flipkart. It packs a 4.5-inch FWVGA display with Dragontrail Glass protection, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7731 processor, runs on Android 4.4.2 (KitKat), has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 3.2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Nexian NV-45 with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3799”

Microsoft Lumia 550 with 4.7-inch HD display, Windows 10, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 9399

Microsoft Lumia 550 Dual SIM

Microsoft has launched the Lumia 550 smartphone in India. It was announced back in October at the Lumia 950 event, and packs a 4.7-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.1GHz quad-core Snapdragon 210 processor, runs on Windows 10, has a 5-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has 4G LTE connectivity, comes with Dual SIM support and is 9.9mm thick.  Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 550 with 4.7-inch HD display, Windows 10, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 9399”

Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 7999

Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton

Videocon Mobiles has Infinium Z55 Krypton, the company’s latest 4G smartphone in the Infinium series. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor, runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 4G LTE connectivity with support for TD-LTE 2300MHz (Band 40) and FDD-LTE 1800MHz (Band 3) for India. Continue reading “Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 7999”

Intex Aqua Star 4G with 5-inch HD display, iData Saver launched for Rs. 6499

Intex Aqua Star 4G

Intex has launched Aqua Star 4G, the company’s latest 4G smartphone with new iData Saver feature powered by Opera Max. Samsung launched the Galaxy J2 with Ultra Data Saving mode powered by Opera Max. Intex becomes the first Indian brand to integrate Opera Max’s functionality into its operating system on its 4G smartphone. This feature will reduce data consumption by up to 50% on images, webpages and streaming, especially with image-heavy audio & video apps, such as Instagram, YouTube, Gaana and Saavn. Continue reading “Intex Aqua Star 4G with 5-inch HD display, iData Saver launched for Rs. 6499”

Microsoft Translator for Android, iPhone, Apple Watch and Android Wear get new conversation feature

Microsoft Translator Translation

Microsoft Translator app for Android, iPhone, Apple Watch and Android Wear have been updated to support new conversation feature so that it can translate face to face conversations in a more natural way by simultaneously using your smartwatch and phone. It uses the same Microsoft Translator speech translation engine that powers Skype Translator and is optimized for translating full conversations, not just short sentences. Microsoft Translator app for these platforms were released back in August. Continue reading “Microsoft Translator for Android, iPhone, Apple Watch and Android Wear get new conversation feature”

Evernote to pull the plug on Skitch for Android, iOS and Windows

Skitch 3.0 for iPhone and iPad

Evernote today announced that it will pull the plug on its standalone apps such as Skitch for Windows, Windows Touch, iOS, Android, Evernote Clearly and Evernote for Pebble starting today. However the Skitch for Mac app will continue to be available and supported. It acquired Skitch, a popular image annotation application back in 2011 and launched the app for Android, later it was launched for iPad and iPhone. Continue reading “Evernote to pull the plug on Skitch for Android, iOS and Windows”

Kult 10 Benchmarks

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Kult, a new entrant in the Indian market launched its Kult 10 smartphone earlier this week for Rs. 7,999. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a Quad-Core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.3GHz per core and has Mali-T720 MP2 GPU. It has 3GB of RAM, 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “Kult 10 Benchmarks”

TP-LINK TL-PB2600 compact Power Bank launched in India for Rs. 799

TP-LINK TL-PB2600

TP-LINK has launched TL-PB2600, its new 2600mAh compact power bank that has a lipstick design and weighs just 68 grams so that you can carry it easily in your pocket. It has protection against damage caused by short circuit, over-voltage, over-current, over-charge, over-discharge and over-heating. The company says that it has up to 90% energy efficiency rate. Continue reading “TP-LINK TL-PB2600 compact Power Bank launched in India for Rs. 799”

Lenovo Vibe P1m Benchmarks

Lenovo Vibe P1m Benchmarks_fonearena

Lenovo launched the Vibe P1m smartphone with a 4,000mAh battery in India in October for Rs. 7999 exclusively on Flipkart. We already brought you the unboxing and the battery test results of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. The Vibe P1m is powered by a Quad-Core MediaTek MT6735P 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 988MHz per core and has Mali-T720 MP2 GPU. It has 2GB RAM, 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Vibe UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe P1m Benchmarks”

Qualcomm is renaming Snapdragon 620 and 618 to Snapdragon 652 and 650

Qualcomm Snapdragon

Qualcomm has announced that it is renaming Snapdragon 620 and 618 to the Snapdragon 652 and 650, respectively. Both these were introduced earlier this year and have LTE support, including Global Mode RF360 support. Reason for the change in name is to better reflect the positioning and capabilities of these two processors since the Snapdragon 620 and 618 have significant user experience and performance advantages compared to other 600 tier processors 615, 616 and 617. Continue reading “Qualcomm is renaming Snapdragon 620 and 618 to Snapdragon 652 and 650”

Intex Aqua GenX with 5.5-inch 1080p display, metal body, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 13299

Intex Aqua GenX

Intex has launched Aqua GenX, the company’s latest top-end smartphone in the Aqua series. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display, is powered by an Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 SoC and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with Samsung Sensor, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Intex Aqua GenX with 5.5-inch 1080p display, metal body, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 13299”

YU YUTOPIA with 5.2-inch QHD display, Snapdragon 810, 4GB RAM launched for Rs. 24999

YU YUTOPIA

YU just launched YUTOPIA (YU5050), the company’s flagship smartphone, as it promised. It has a 5.2-inch (1440 x 2560 pixels) Quad HD IPS display with 91% NTSC color gamut from Sharp, is powered by an Octa-Core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and runs on Cyanogen OS 12.1 based on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). It features a 21-megapixel auto focus rear camera with dual-tone LED Flash, Sony Exmor RS IMX230 sensor, Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a full metal body and a fingerprint sensor on the back. Continue reading “YU YUTOPIA with 5.2-inch QHD display, Snapdragon 810, 4GB RAM launched for Rs. 24999”

Flappy Bird creator releases Swing Copters 2 for Android, iPhone and iPad

Swing Copters 2

Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen’s .GEARS released Swing Copters game for Android and iOS platforms last August, now its sequel has arrived for both the platforms. In this game you need to control a pilot equipped with a copter-hat to fly through obstacles to get points, similar to the first one, but this adds new obstacles such as swinging hammers. It also has more characters and there is a story for them, but this game will be much more challenging, says the team. Continue reading “Flappy Bird creator releases Swing Copters 2 for Android, iPhone and iPad”

Airtel launches 4G LTE services in Sri City

Airtel 4G

Airtel has launched its 4G LTE services in industrial township of Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, commercially. Airtel launched 4G services in 296 towns across India in August. Airtel 4G is available to customers across mobile phones, dongles, 4G hotspots and Wi-Fi dongles in the city. Airtel has become the first telecom services provider to introduce super fast 4G speeds in Sri City. It kicked off Project Leap, network transformation program in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Circle earlier this month. Continue reading “Airtel launches 4G LTE services in Sri City”