ZTE has released Blade A1, its new budget smartphone, which becomes the most affordable smartphone with a fingerprint sensor, beating the UMi Fair that was released in September. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “ZTE Blade A1 with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE, fingerprint sensor announced for $94”
Apple has released open source Swift programming language, as it promised at the WWDC earlier this year. It is available for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. It has also released port that works with the Linux operating system. “As an open source language, the broad community of talented developers — from app developers to educational institutions to enterprises — can contribute to new Swift features and optimizations and help bring Swift to new computing platforms,” said the company. Continue reading “Apple releases open source Swift for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS”
YU started rolling out Cyanogen OS 12.1 update based on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) for its YUREKA and YUREKA PLUS smartphones last month. Today Rahul Sharma, Co-founder and CEO of YU tweeted that Cyanogen OS 12.1 update for the YU YUPHORIA smartphone has been certified by Google CTS and will start rolling out from tonight. This comes months after the company said that it had entered final testing phase. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA Cyanogen OS 12.1 update to roll out starting from today”
Facebook has announced that it has started rolling out new live video feature on their iPhone app. This will allow you to share a live feed from the phone’s camera by tapping the Update Status and selecting the Live Video icon. Live video will be available for a small percentage of iPhone users in the US initially before rolling out globally and other platforms, said the company. This new feature will take on Twitter’s Periscope that is available Android, iOS and more recently Apple TV. Continue reading “Facebook rolls out Live Video broadcasting feature to take on Periscope”
WhatsApp has added tons of new emojis for its Android app, before Android gets these emojis next week starting from Nexus devices, as announced by Google’s new SVP of Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast, Hiroshi Lockheimer. He said that Google has also shared the fonts and tech details with other OEMs so they can update as well. This was first spotted by Android Police. Continue reading “WhatsApp for Android gets new emojis”
BSNL, Aircel, Vodafone and Rcom have joined Airtel and Paytm to offer free talk time and data to help their customers to stay in touch with their family and friends in flood-stricken Chennai. State-run BSNL said that it will offer free on-net local and STD calls as well as free data for 7 days for its pre-paid users. Skype is offering international calls to landlines and mobiles into Tamil Nadu free of charge for the next few days. Continue reading “Chennai Floods: BSNL, Aircel, Vodafone and Rcom offer free Talk Time and Data”
Earlier this week Airtel offered advanced instant talk time, data and on-net calling minutes for its pre-paid customers and Paytm offered Rs.30 worth free talk time for people in flood-stricken Chennai. Now Skype has come forward to offer international calls to landlines and mobiles into Tamil Nadu free of charge for the next few days. Continue reading “Chennai Floods: Skype offers free international calls to landlines and mobiles into Tamil Nadu”
The worldwide wearables market grew 197.6% in Q3 2015, according to the latest report from IDC. The total shipment volume for the quarter came to 21.0 million units up from the 7.1 million units shipped in Q3 2014.
Continue reading “Global wearables market soars 197.6% in Q3 2015: Report”
Yahoo Messenger, the popular IM service that was a hit especially in the late 90s is coming back. Yahoo has revamped its app on mobile ans web and it now focuses on group messaging.
Continue reading “Yahoo Messenger makes a comeback with revamped mobile and web apps”
Online taxi hailing company, Uber has is seeking to raise $2.1 billion in latest round of funding, according to a latest report from Bloomberg. Uber has raised the funding on the same day when the four taxi aggregators created an alliance.
Continue reading “Uber to raise $2.1 billion in funding, now values at $62.5 billion”
Ola, Didi Kuaidi, Lyft and GrabTaxi have teamed up to create a global ridesharing partnership. The four major regional taxi aggregators have formed an alliance in order to offer seamless coverage for travelers in India, China, Southeast Asia and the US.
Continue reading “Ola, Didi Kuaidi, Lyft and GrabTaxi join forces to take on Uber”
Google has launched Cardboard Camera app for Android that will allow you to turn your phone into a 3D virtual reality camera. Available on the Play Store, the app lets you create VR-style photographs.
Continue reading “Google launches Cardboard Camera app to create VR Photos”
Apple is rumored to launch a 4-inch iPhone in early 2016. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a research note regarding the same saying that Apple’s new 4-inch iPhone will come with high specs.
Continue reading “Apple could launch 4-inch iPhone with A9 and Apple Pay in early 2016”
OnePlus has announced that starting December 5 anyone can buy OnePlus 2 without an invite. The Chinese smartphone maker said that it has scrapped the invite system for buying OnePlus 2 forever.
Continue reading “OnePlus 2 to go invite-free forever, OnePlus X goes invite-free Dec.5-7”
Your conversations are about to get more lively and fun as Android is all set to receive a bunch of new emojis. Google has confirmed that beginning next week new set of emojis will hit Android devices.
Continue reading “Android to get new emojis next week, starting with Nexus devices”
