Facebook testing new ways to customize News Feed on mobile

It looks like Facebook wants its users to have more control over their News Feed. The social network is testing a new feature on mobile Facebook users to pick particular friends and Pages that they’d like to give priority to in their feeds.

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Apple’s 12.9 inch iPad may have Bluetooth stylus, NFC, Force touch and more

Rumors about the next iPad or the “iPad Pro” from Apple has been swirling the online world for some time now. Today, a fresh report is suggesting that the upcoming 12.9 inch iPad will support several new features like Bluetooth stylus, NFC, Force touch and more. ipad-air-photo-gallery-6 Continue reading “Apple’s 12.9 inch iPad may have Bluetooth stylus, NFC, Force touch and more”

YU YUPHORIA leaked images confirm Cyanogen OS 12, HD display and 4G LTE

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YU recently announced that it will launch its YU YUPHORIA smartphone on May 12th. Today, we know that the upcoming model will have HD (1280 x 720 pixels) display, run on Cyanogen OS 12 based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and come with 4G LTE support. The image of the smartphone reveals YU branding on the top, below the earpiece. The Yu Yureka only had Yu branding on the back. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA leaked images confirm Cyanogen OS 12, HD display and 4G LTE”

YU Yureka to be available without registrations on May 6 and May 7

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YU Yureka will be up for grabs without any registration in a two-day open sale on May 6 and May 7. YU on Twitter and Facebook noted that the 48-hours sale on Amazon.in will have ‘no time limits’ to purchase the Yu Yureka smartphone or any pre-registrations for participation. Continue reading “YU Yureka to be available without registrations on May 6 and May 7”

Weekly Roundup: LG G4, G Flex2, Magna, Microsoft Lumia 430, Lenovo A5000, and more

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This time in our weekly roundup of major announcements and launches, we have three devices from South Korean major LG, a convertible tablet-cum-laptop device and a smartphone from Micromax, cheapest Lumia smartphone till date from Microsoft, another addition in Lenovo’s popular ‘A’ series and more here. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: LG G4, G Flex2, Magna, Microsoft Lumia 430, Lenovo A5000, and more”

Lenovo A7000 Benchmarks

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Lenovo launched the A7000 smartphone in India earlier this month for Rs. 8,999. We recently brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by a Octa-Core MediaTek MT6752M processor with eight ARM Cortex A53 CPUs clocked at 1.5GHz. It has 700 MHz Mali-T760 MP2 GPU. It has 5.5-inch HD screen and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Lenovo’s own Vibe UI on top. Let us check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.  Continue reading “Lenovo A7000 Benchmarks”

Meerkat (beta) live streaming app now available for Android

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Meerkat started taking registrations for Android public beta few weeks back, now the beta version of the app is available for download for everyone. The app was launched on iPhone back in February. Twitter’s Periscope live streaming app was launched for iPhone in March, but it is yet to launch on Android. Continue reading “Meerkat (beta) live streaming app now available for Android”

Samsung Pay with smartwatch compatibility is likely to debut in H2, 2015: Report

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According to a Korean publication report on Thursday, Samsung’s mobile payment system Samsung Pay is likely to go live in South Korea and the US in second half of 2015, says Park Jin-young, company’s Managing Director. Continue reading “Samsung Pay with smartwatch compatibility is likely to debut in H2, 2015: Report”

LG G Flex 2 goes on sale in India for Rs. 54990

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LG launched its G Flex 2 smartphone in India at the LG Tech Show in Delhi back in March. Today the company has announced that the second generation G Flex smartphone is available across India. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p curved P-OLED display and the smartphone can bend ranging from a radius of 400mm to 700mm across the front, back, sides and top-to-bottom edges. Continue reading “LG G Flex 2 goes on sale in India for Rs. 54990”

‘Ok, Google’ custom voice actions rolling out for third-party apps

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Back in October last year, Google started asking third-party Android app developers to integrate the ‘Ok, Google’ voice command action for their in-app searches. Now, on Thursday the Search giant announced that the feature has been made available to its “first set of partners”. Continue reading “‘Ok, Google’ custom voice actions rolling out for third-party apps”

YU YUPHORIA launching on May 12

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YU has announced that it will launch its Cyanogen OS-powered YU YUPHORIA smartphone on May 12th. The company already confirmed the launch the smartphone in Q2. Name of the second YU series smartphones was selected through its crowd-sourcing campaign #YUNameIt last month. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA launching on May 12”

Samsung Tizen App Store goes global

Samsung is bringing its Tizen App store to more countries across the globe, as per a latest report from the Wall Street Journal. Currently, Tizen OS based smartphones are only available in India and Banglasdesh but the app store is now expanding to 182 including the US, the UK and China.

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Google to deliver hands free music with Shazam

Google already lets you do lots of day to day tasks with simple “OK Google” voice command. Today, the company has teamed up with third party apps including Shazam in order to launch them directly from Search app.

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Microsoft Band SDK available for developers

Microsoft has released full version of Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Microsoft Band for all platforms. The SDK will allow Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android app developers to start making full-featured third-party apps for the fitness wearable.

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