LG has announced LG Ray X190, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone with an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a 5.5-inch HD on-cell display, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592M processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It packs a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, comes with dual SIM support and has 3G connectivity. Continue reading “LG Ray with 5.5-inch HD display, Octa-Core SoC, 8MP front camera announced”
HTC on Wednesday evening in Delhi showcased its two new smartphones – the HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM and the iPhone-lookalike HTC One A9. Both the phones will go on sale in next two weeks and the pricing will be disclosed closer to the launch, said company at the event. Continue reading “HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM Hands On and Photo Gallery”
HTC today announced the One A9 and Desire 828 dual sim smartphones in India. The first smartphone in the new One A series was unveiled last month, and packs a 5-inch 1080p AMOLED display, Octa-Core Snapdragon 617 processor, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with HTC Sense UI on top, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), RAW image capture and an Ultrapixel front-facing camera. The Desire 828 was introduced in China earlier this month, packs a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display, is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek MT6753, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization (OIS) and an Ultrapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “HTC One A9 and Desire 828 dual sim announced in India, coming mid-December”
Last month Google announced Accelerated Mobile Pages, its new open source initiative to improve the performance of the mobile web pages. Now the company has announced that first accelerated pages will come sometime in early 2016, so all the traffic from Google Search will go to Accelerated Mobile Pages. This competes with Facebook Instant Articles that was launched earlier this year for iPhone. It was also launched for Android users in India this month. Continue reading “Google to launch Accelerated Mobile Pages in early 2016”
Lenovo launched Vibe S1, the company’s latest selfie-focused smartphone in India earlier this week, exclusively on Amazon.in, priced at Rs.15,999. We recently brought you the unboxing and the first impressions and photo gallery of the Midnight Blue version, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. The Vibe S1 is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek MT6752 processor with eight ARM Cortex A53 CPUs clocked at 1.69GHz per core and has Mali-T760 MP2 GPU. It also has 3GB of RAM, comes with 5-inch Full 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 Vibe S1 Benchmarks”
HP seem to be on a streak in terms of smartwatches. First, they partner with Movado to release their BOLD Motion smartwatch and now, they are apparently partnering up with Titan to produce smartwatches as well.
Continue reading “Titan to enter the smartwatch business – Partners with HP”
Twitter has announced native video support for Twitter Kit. This means that users will be able to enjoy Twitter videos and GIFs without having to leave their app or launch the Twitter app.
Microsoft has introduced Nokia 230 and 230 Dual SIM, two new selfie-focused feature phones with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. It also has premium looks since it has a polycarbonate frame and sand-blasted aluminum back cover. The phone is 10.9mm thick and weighs just 91.8 grams. Continue reading “Nokia 230 and 230 Dual SIM with 2MP front camera with LED flash announced for $55”
The Vine app is now making its way to users of the Apple Watch which means that you have one more way to watch your favorite Vines.
Continue reading “Vine app now available on your Apple Watch”
The Huawei Mate 8 is shaping out to be a beast of a smartphone. Now, with these newly surfaced photos, the smartphone seems to be even more interesting as it has a nice sleek design with a high screen to body ratio.
Continue reading “Official Huawei Mate 8 photos surface online”
InFocus launched M808 smartphone in India along back in July, now the smartphone is on sale in the country from Snapdeal. It packs a 5.2-inch 1080p display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6753 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Inlife UI. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “InFocus M808 with 5.2-inch 1080p display, metal body goes on sale in India for Rs. 12999”
The touchscreen on a smartphone is probably the biggest consumer of battery life compared to other components and devices. This is why despite manufacturers trying their best to increase capacities, the battery life still remains poor especially since the display size and resolution too keep increasing.
Continue reading “Smartphones screens of the future will require barely any power”
International Data Corporation (IDC) has announced that 28.3 million smartphones were shipped to India in the third quarter of 2015 that ended September 30th. This is up 21.4% from 23.3 million units for the same period last year, said the report. It also said that one out of 3 smartphones shipped in India in Q3 2015 were 4G-enabled. Samsung is still the top smartphone vendor in the country by shipments with 24% market share, up 1% compared to the last quarter. Continue reading “Indian smartphone market grows 21.4% YoY in Q3 2015, driven by budget 4G smartphones”
Lenovo launched Vibe S1, the company’s latest selfie-focused smartphone in India earlier this week, exclusively on Amazon.in, priced at Rs.15,999. We recently brought you the unboxing and the first impressions of the Vibe S1 smartphone, and had brought you the photo gallery of the Pearl White version from IFA back in September. Here we have the photo gallery of the Midnight Blue version. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe S1 Midnight Blue Photo Gallery”
We had already seen the new Samsung Galaxy A7 (SM-A7100) smartphone in several benchmark listings, now the smartphone has been certified on TENAA (Via) in China. It shows the design of the smartphone for the first time, which is similar to the Galaxy S6 series with a glass back and curved sides with a metal frame. Even though it has the same 5.5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display present in first Galaxy A7, the successor has a slightly curved glass on the front.
