Qualcomm today announced that it has appointed Larry Paulson as vice president and president of Qualcomm India. He will report directly to Jim Cathey, senior vice president and president of Asia Pacific and India. He has more than 20 years of experience in strategy, R&D, customer development, product marketing and technology creation. Continue reading “Larry Paulson appointed as Qualcomm VP and President of Qualcomm India”
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Kayak, the global travel search engine has officially announced its entry into the Indian market. The company lets people people search, plan and manage their travel. Kayak claims to operate with more than 40 international sites in 20 languages and powers 1.5 billion queries annually for travel information and displaying results from hundreds of airlines, 900,000+ hotels, along with rental cars, holiday packages, activities and millions of verified reviews. Continue reading “Travel search engine Kayak enters India”
Indian Railways has launched new IRCTC Rail Connect app that will replace the previous IRCTC app that was launched back in 2014. Indian Railways E-ticketing System caters to over 10 lakhs passengers daily (comprising 58% of total reserved passengers), said Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu launching the app. Continue reading “Indian Railways launches new IRCTC Rail Connect app for Android”
Earlier this week two foldable smartphones – Galaxy X1, Galaxy X1 Plus with model numbers -SM-X9000 and SM-X9050 surfaced in China. Now a new report from South Korea says that the Samsung is expected to release more than 100,000 units of these devices in Q3 2017.
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Xiaomi is reportedly working on Mi 6, successor of the Mi 5. A new leak has revealed that the Mi 6 will come in two variants – one with dual curved display and other with a flat screen display. The Xiaomi Mi 6 could have 4G of RAM and a flat screen display, while the Mi 6 Pro could have 6GB of RAM and a curved display. It looks like Xiaomi is taking cue from Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.
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HMD Global introduced the Nokia 6 smartphone exclusively for China a few days back. At the announcement, the company said that the phone will go on sale in China sometime in early 2017. Today jd.com has started taking pre-orders for the smartphone for the sale on January 19th. Continue reading “Nokia 6 will go on sale in China on January 19”
Fitbit has acquired smartwatch maker Vector for an undisclosed sum. As a result of the acquisition, Vector Watch team and its software platform will become a part of Fitbit. The latest acquisition comes from Fitbit only a month after it acquired Pebble smartwatch maker.
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Xiaomi has partnered with B2X, leading provider of customer care for smartphones for after sales service in India, couple of years after signing a partnership in Europe for after sales support for Mi accessories. B2X has rolled out a comprehensive service offering to 31 walk-in service centers across India, providing premium face-to-face support. Continue reading “Xiaomi ties up with B2X for after sales service across India”
HTC is expected to announce HTC U Ultra at an event on January 12th. A bunch of live images of the HTC U Ultra have surfaced in a new leak. According to the images, it looks like the phone will sport a secondary display that we have already seen on LG V10 and LG V20. Continue reading “HTC U Ultra live images surface hinting at secondary display”
The Chinese handset maker Lenovo just launched P2 smartphone in the Indian market exclusively on Flipkart. The successor of Vibe P1 was initially showcased at IFA 2016 in Berlin along with K series smartphones. We have unboxed the phone and here are our first impressions. Continue reading “Lenovo P2 Unboxing and First Impressions”
Lenovo just launched P2, the company’s latest ‘P Series’ smartphone and the successor of last year’s P1 smartphone in India, as it has promised. It packs a whopping 5100mAh battery with support for 24W quick charge. It promises up to 10 hours of usage in just 15 minutes of charge and can fully charge in under 90 minutes. You can also charge other phones using the phone and it also features one-key power saver, which puts the phone in ultimate power saver mode. It promises up to 32 days of standby and up to 78.69 hours of talk time on 4G.
Google is out with its monthly Android distribution chart which is also the first one of 2017. Android Nougat 7.0 is still crawling at 0.5%, up just 1% from last month. However, Android Nougat 7.1 has made its debut in the chart at 0.2%. This means the Google’s latest Android OS is currently available only on 0.7% of all Android devices. Continue reading “Android Nougat now on 0.7% of Android devices, Froyo finally bids adieu”
WhatsApp has finally added GIF search support for Android beta. The Facebook owned messaging service first added an option to send videos as GIF in August following which it allowed sending of GIFs that are saved on your device. Now, you can will be able to search different types of GIFs right within the app itself. WhatsApp for iOS already has this feature since November last year.
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