A Google employee recently made the news for reviewing many USB Type-C accessories on Amazon and writing reviews on them. A few of them got good ratings and reviews while the majority received low ratings and bad reviews including the USB Type-C cable and adapter from OnePlus.
Ringo, a popular international calling app was launched in India earlier this year. Today it has launched local and STD calling in India that lets you call any landline or mobile in the country at a flat rate of 19 p/min, without any additional charges like roaming or top-up cards. “Unlike other VOIP apps in the market, Ringo uses telephone networks instead of phone data or the Internet for a phone call, and thus offers superior calling experience, without any call drops,” said the company. Continue reading “Ringo launches local calling in India at 19p/min, offers 50 minutes of free talk time”
Altec Lansing has launched Mini H2O, Mini Life Jacket 2 and Life Jacket 2, three new Bluetooth wireless speakers that are IP67 rated for Waterproof,Dustproof and Shockproof. These also float in water. These new range of speakers are available exclusively from Flipkart in the first week, and will subsequently be available on all leading online portals, Large Format Stores and various Retail outlets.
If there’s one thing common about Raspberry products, it’s that all are affordable. The Raspberry Pi Model B and other successors cost about US$ 25-30 and is affordable for almost everyone. The new Pi Zero will be even more so as it is priced at just US$ 5.
Continue reading “Raspberry announces the Pi Zero – Available for US$5”
Lava Iris X10, the company’s latest top-end Iris series smartphone has been listed on HomeShop18. It has a 5-inch HD screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lava Iris X10 with 5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE listed online for Rs. 10990”
Huawei has announced Mate 8, the company’s latest smartphone in the Mate series at an event in China, as it promised. It packs a 6-inch 1080p display with 2.7mm ultra narrow frame, 83% screen-to-body ratio and 2.5D glass, is powered by a Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 950 SoC with IntelliSense i5 sensor hub and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with Emotion UI 4.0 on top. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX298 sensor, dual-tone LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), optical image stabilization (OIS) and uses Huawei’s own ISP. It also has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Mate 8 with 6-inch 1080p display, Android 6.0 and fingerprint sensor announced”
Telegram is probably one of the most advanced IM platforms out there and many people consider it to be better than Whatsapp even though the latter has a larger user database.
Continue reading “Telegram rolls out supergroups, admins and other features”
Obi Worldphone, backed by John Scully has launched Obi Worldphone SF1, it’s flagship smartphone in India, as it promised. It was introduced back in August and has a 5-inch 1080p display from JDI, which is slightly raised giving a floating feel, comes with 4G LTE connectivity with support for FDD B3 1800MHz and TDD B40 2300MHz bands for India, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 615 SoC, has a 13-megapixel rear camera, 5-megapixel front-facing camera and a fiberglass body and metal accents at the top and bottom of the phone. It is designed by San Francisco-based product studio Ammunition.
HTC has been having a lot of issues recently, most of them financial and the reason for that is the underwhelming response from customers for its products. They have made some choices in the recent past that aren’t really favoured by the public and now, they are launching a new program to help solve that issue.
Fossil’s first smartwatch powered by Android Wear is called the Q Founder. The smartwatch will go on sale in USA starting from this week.
While the Huawei Mate 8 is just a few hours away from its November 26th announcement, we now have a new benchmark listing of a mysterious Huawei device. The listing could very well be that of the Huawei Honor 5X Plus.
Continue reading “New Huawei device appears on benchmark listing – Could be the Honor 5X Plus”
OnePlus has started rolling out Oxygen OS v2.1.3 OTA update for the OnePlus X smartphone, as it promised couple of weeks back, when it rolled out the OxygenOS 2.1.2 update. This update finally fixes SD card issues, including option to now move apps to and from the SD card, but option to save photos or videos directly to the SD card is not available yet. Continue reading “OnePlus X OxygenOS 2.1.3 update starts rolling out, now lets you move apps to SD card”
Square Enix released Lara Croft GO, a turn-based puzzle game for Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and Windows back in August. Today it has released new The Shard of Life free expansion pack for the Android and iOS users that adds 26 new puzzles to solve, numerous new cursed monsters to battle, two new costumes to earn, artifacts and gemstones to collect. “The free new content will provide hours of additional gameplay for this unique turn-based experience,” said Square Enix.
Greendust, popular for its open-box, refurbished, factory seconds, and surplus products is offering 32GB refurbished Apple iPhone 5 smartphone at a price of Rs. 18,899 today. It comes with a 6 month seller warranty from Greendust. Continue reading “Apple iPhone 5 32GB Refurbished units available from Greendust for Rs. 18899”
HTC on Wednesday announced and showcased its iPhone 6/6s-lookalike HTC One A9 in India alongside the all new mid-range HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM smartphone. While the official pricing isn’t yet disclosed, we think that HTC will not price it beyond Rs. 30,000. The phone will be made available in next two weeks, said HTC at an event in New Delhi. Continue reading “HTC One A9 Hands On and Photo Gallery”
