Asus Fonepad 7 FE171CG with 7-inch display, Dual SIM and Voice Calling announced

Asus Fonepad 7 FE171CG

Asus has announced Fonepad 7 (FE171CG), a refreshed variant of last year’s Fonepad 7 at the CES this year. It has a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) display and is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Intel Atom Z2520 processor with PowerVR SGX544 GPU, similar to the Asus Fonepad 7 FE170CG that was launched in India last year, but this runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) out of the box, comes with a 8-megapixel or 5-megapixel rear camera, 1GB or 2GB RAM depending on the region. Continue reading “Asus Fonepad 7 FE171CG with 7-inch display, Dual SIM and Voice Calling announced”

Videocon Infinium Z50Q Star, Z40 Lite and Zest Lite listed on official website

Videocon Infinium Z50Q Star

Four new Videocon Android smartphones, Infinium Z50Q Star, Infinium Z50Q Lite, Infinium Z40 Lite and Infinium Zest Lite have been listed on the official website. These have 5-inch FWVGA, 4-inch WVGA and 3.5-inch HVGA displays, respectively. The Infinium Z50Q Star, Infinium Z50Q Lite, Infinium Z40 Lite run on Android 4.4 (KitKat), while the entry-level Infinium Zest Lite runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). These smartphones have dual SIM support, but only the Infinium Z50Q Star, Z50Q Lite and Z40 Lite have 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Videocon Infinium Z50Q Star, Z40 Lite and Zest Lite listed on official website”

Monster sues Apple’s Beats over stealing headphone technology

Apple’s Beats has been sued by audio-equipment maker Monster over stealing headphone technology. The company says that it had played an important role in design and engineering the popular headphones.

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Celkon Campus A400 with 4-inch display, Android 4.4 now available for Rs. 2999

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Celkon Campus A400, the company’s latest entry-level smartphone in the Campus series is now available from HomeShop18. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1GHz processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. Continue reading “Celkon Campus A400 with 4-inch display, Android 4.4 now available for Rs. 2999”

HTC to foray into Connected Devices, partners Under Armour for fitness devices

HTC is expanding into other areas of technology, starting with Connected Devices and Internet of Things. The company will develop both hardware and software for different categories.

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Smartphone benchmarking – what do these numbers mean?

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Off late, we have been receiving a lot of requests from you folks asking us to detail about the smartphone benchmarking. We heard you and today, we try to explain what these numbers really mean to you. Continue reading “Smartphone benchmarking – what do these numbers mean?”

Apple UK market share hits record high

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Shortly after the global launch of the iPhone 6, Apple called its latest smartphone the greatest yet and according to recent figures, this has translated into sales and a noticeable improvement in Apple’s UK market share. Kantar Worldpanel Comtech report that strong sales of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus resulted in Apple’s market share reaching 42.5 percent in November. Continue reading “Apple UK market share hits record high”

Samsung Galaxy Grand Max launched in Korea

Samsung Galaxy Grand Max

After revealing the Galaxy Grand Max (SM-G720N0) in its brochure last month, Samsung today officially launched the smartphone in Korea. The Grand Max has a 5.25-inch HD screen, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The smartphone is just 7.9mm thick. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Max launched in Korea”

Xolo Q700 Club Dust and Water Resistant smartphone launched for Rs. 6899

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Xolo has launched Q700 Club, the company’s first smartphone with IP55 ratings for dust and water resistance. It was introduced last week, packs a 4.5-inch FWVGA display, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has 3G connectivity and dual SIM support. Continue reading “Xolo Q700 Club Dust and Water Resistant smartphone launched for Rs. 6899”

YU YUREKA Benchmarks

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Micromax’s YU launched the YU YUREKA (AO5510), the first smartphone under YU brand last month for Rs. 8,999. We brought you the hands on, unboxing and the photo gallery recently. Here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.54 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.0 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz. It has 2GB DDR3 RAM, 5.5-inch HD screen and runs on Cyanogen OS 11 based on Android 4.4.4 (KitKat). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.

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Kingston introduces UHS-I Class 3 microSD card with 90MB/s transfer speed

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Kingston has introduced its latest UHS-I Speed Class 3 memory card. It offers 90MB/s read and 80MB/s write speed, which exceeds the SD Association’s latest specification release, UHS-1 U3 (Ultra High-Speed Bus, Speed Class 3) rated for 30MB/s read/write, says the company. Continue reading “Kingston introduces UHS-I Class 3 microSD card with 90MB/s transfer speed”

Asus Zenfone 4 and Zenfone 5 get a price cut in India

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Asus Zenfone 4 and Zenfone 5 smartphone have received a price cut in India. The Zenfone 4 (A400CG) was launched in India for Rs. 5,999 last year and the Zenfone 5 was launched for Rs. 9,999 for 8GB and Rs. 12,999 for 16GB. There is no price cut for the Zenfone 4 (A450CG), which still retails Rs. 6,999.  The Zenfone series received Android 4.4 (KitKat) update last year. Check out the new pricing below. Continue reading “Asus Zenfone 4 and Zenfone 5 get a price cut in India”

ZTE Grand S2 Benchmarks

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ZTE launched the Grand S2 smartphone in India at a price tag of Rs. 13,999 last month. We bought you the unboxing and the photo gallery of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) 28nm HPm quad-core Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.15 GHz and has Adreno 330 GPU clocked at 450 MHz. It has a 5.5 inch 1080p display, has 2GB of RAM and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.

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