Vodafone India receives Rs. 47,700 crore in equity infusion from parent

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Vodafone India has announced that it has received an equity infusion of Rs. 47,700 crore from Vodafone Group in the first half of the current fiscal. The telecom operator claims this equity infusion via foreign direct investment (FDI) is largest ever FDI infusion in the country. Continue reading “Vodafone India receives Rs. 47,700 crore in equity infusion from parent”

Xiaomi teases high benchmark score of Mi 5S ahead of Sep 27 announcement

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Xiaomi recently scheduled an event on September 27th in China to introduce its flagship Mi 5S smartphone. Today it has released a new teaser for the smartphone that shows impressive benchmark result of 164119, which is likely on AnTuTu. Continue reading “Xiaomi teases high benchmark score of Mi 5S ahead of Sep 27 announcement”

Google Play Store finally arrives on Chrome OS stable channel

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Google had announced at the I/O developer conference that the Google Play Store and Android apps will be coming to Chromebooks starting from mid-June. The company has now started rolling out Play Store to Chrome OS stable channel.

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Panasonic P77 with 5-inch HD display, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 6990

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Panasonic has launched P77, the company’s latest 4G smartphone with Voice over LTE (VoLTE) support in the ‘P series’. It has a 5-inch HD IPS fully laminated display, is powered by 1 GHz quad-core processor, has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, but it still runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Continue reading “Panasonic P77 with 5-inch HD display, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 6990”

FoneArena JioFanClub LYF Smartphone Giveaway Winner Announcement

Hello readers! After the successful giveaway last month, we ran third LYF Smartphone giveaway last week, teaming up with Jio Fan Club to giveaway a LYF WIND 1 along with free data and calls on Jio till December 31st, as a part of the welcome offer. Today we reveal the luck winner. Before that, we would like to thank all the participants who took their time to participate in this giveaway, the response has been amazing. Are you the lucky winner of the smartphone? Find out below. Continue reading “FoneArena JioFanClub LYF Smartphone Giveaway Winner Announcement”

Google Maps for Android update replaces direction arrow in favor of blue beam

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In a bid to make it easier for users to find directions, Google has updated Maps for Android with a small tweak. Maps will no show your current location with a blue beam.

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BlackBerry and Zimperium partner to offer mobile threat protection for Enterprise and Government

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BlackBerry and and Zimperium, Inc. have partnered to offer comprehensive mobile threat detection, risk analysis and prevention for both iOS and Android devices for enterprise and government customers. Continue reading “BlackBerry and Zimperium partner to offer mobile threat protection for Enterprise and Government”

Snapdeal’s Unbox Diwali sale scheduled from October 2 to 6

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Snapdeal has announced its upcoming sale for the festive season. Dubbed as Unbox Diwali Sale, it will be scheduled from October 2-6th. The sale will see exciting deals and offers across all categories available at Snapdeal.

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Lenovo Z2 Plus with 5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 820 launched in India starting at Rs. 17999

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Lenovo just launched the Z2 Plus, successor of last year’s Z1, as it had promised.  It has a 5-inch 1080p LTPS 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 820 processor, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) with quick focus in just 0.1 seconds and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo Z2 Plus with 5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 820 launched in India starting at Rs. 17999”

Google Pixel and Pixel XL won’t be waterproof, said to be IP53 certified

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Another day another another rumor about the upcoming Google Pixel smartphones have surfaced and the latest one is not something to be excited about.

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HTC Bolt without a headphone jack surfaces in render

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Earlier this week HTC launched two new smartphones but it looks like the company has another one up its sleeve. A render of HTC Bolt smartphone has surfaced which is tipped to be released in the USA by Sprint.
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Apple iPhone 7 Plus Unboxing

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Apple started selling the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus smartphones in over 25 countries from September 16th, after it was announced earlier this month. We managed to get the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus phones from Germany and unboxed it last week, check out the unboxing video of the iPhone 7 Plus. Continue reading “Apple iPhone 7 Plus Unboxing”

Moto E3 Power sales cross record 1 lakh units in a day on Flipkart

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Moto E3 Power, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone with 3500mAh battery was launched in India earlier this week priced at Rs. 7999 exclusively on Flipkart. Today Moto has announced that it has sold 100,000 or 1 lakh units on Flipkart on launch day, which is a new record for Flipkart for the most number of phones sold in a day. Continue reading “Moto E3 Power sales cross record 1 lakh units in a day on Flipkart”

Google Drive gets smarter with support for natural language search

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Google has updated Drive with Natural Language Processing (NLP) in a bid to enhance search. The new features for Drive on web makes it easier and faster to find files.

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