Microsoft has acquired popular third party keyboard app Swiftkey for $250 million, according to a latest report from the Financial Times. Swiftkey specializes in predictive typing which is powered by artificial intelligence.
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STK, popular for its mobile accessories today launched its first ‘explorer camera’ that can withstand extreme outdoor conditions and comes in a tough waterproof case for using it underwater. The waterproof case is water resistant up to 30m. It can record videos at 1080p full HD resolution and is just 58g including the battery. Continue reading “STK explorer action camera with 19 accessories launched in India for Rs. 12499”
India has become the second largest smartphone market in the world, according to Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service. The country surpassed US in terms of active unique smartphone user base with over 220 million users.
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HTC is rumored to introduce it’s flagship One M10 smartphone codenamed ‘Perfume’ with Snapdragon 820 and 4GB of RAM sometime around the MWC 2016 later this month. Today, HTC ROM developer LlabTooFeR said that the company will introduce two new smartphones, one in the Desire 500 series (codenamed A16) and Desire 800 series (codenamed A56) before the One M10 is announced. Continue reading “New HTC Desire 500 and Desire 800 series phones with Android 6.0 expected before One M10”
Facebook has made some changes to its News Feed algorithm, yet again. The social network is tweaking the News Feed this time to eliminate the posts which are not relevant to you.
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LeEco (formerly known as Letv) today announced that it sold 70,000 Le 1s smartphones in just 2 seconds in the first flash sale at 12 noon on Flipkart. The company said that this is a new record in India. Yesterday Flipkart announced that it received over 5,30,000 lakh registrations for the smartphone within 10 days after registration opened. Today LeEco said that the registration number had reached a record high of 605,000 before the sale. Continue reading “70,000 Le 1s smartphones sold out in 2 seconds in first flash sale on Flipkart”
Honor, Huawei’s Smartphone e-brand today announced that it has started selling it’s latest Honor 5X smartphone in India. “Since the start of sales on Flipkart and Amazon, at 12 a.m. on February 1, Honor 5X smartphone has witnessed strong demand, like its predecessor the Honor 4X. Honor 4X units were sold out within a minute of the flash sale, and the model sold over 10 million units globally,” said the company. Continue reading “Honor 5X with metal body and fingerprint sensor goes on sale in India for Rs. 12999”
Worldwide tablet market declined yet again in the fourth quarter of 2015 with 65.9 million units shipped, down 13.7% year over year, according to latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC).This is the fifth straight quarter where tablets have reported a decrease year over year. In Q3, 2015 tablet shipment had declined by 12.6%
OPPO launched the F1, its first selfie-centric smartphone in the new ‘F series’ for Rs. 15,990 last week. We already brought you the unboxing and photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 64-bit processor (Even though CPU-Z shows it has Snapdragon 615) that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.50 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.21 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz, 3GB RAM, 5-inch HD screen and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Color OS 2.1 . Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.
Jet Airways has announced that it will soon introduce a WiFi based in-flight streaming service for passengers. The domestic carrier will bring streaming of movies, TV programmes, a wide genre of music, interactive games, and children’s programmes directly to wi-fi enabled personal devices such as smartphones, tablets and personal laptops of the passengers.
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Google has announced that the February security update for Android has already started rolling out to Nexus devices. The update brings about several bug fixes to 8 Nexus devices.
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Truecaller is the popular phone directory app that allows users to identify unknown numbers, block unwanted calls, and search contact information among people and businesses. The company announced in October last year that it has crossed 100 million users in India. Truecaller has been focusing on tier II and III markets in India. In December Intex teamed up with Truecaller to integrate its service along with the Truedialer app on its Aqua Young smartphone.
Asus today launched its latest Transformer Book T100HA 2-in-1 in India. It was introduced at the Computex 2015, come with Windows 10 out of the box, has USB 3.1 type C port, 10.1-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) HD display, is powered by Intel Atom X5 Cherry Trail processor, is just 8.45mm thick and weighs 580 grams. As usual you get a keyboard dock with a trackpad. Continue reading “Asus Transformer Book T100HA 2-in-1 with Windows 10, USB Type-C launched for Rs. 23990”
NVIDIA was quick on its heels to roll out the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for the K1 Shield tablet. However, the original Shield tablet didn’t get any Marshmallow goodness until now.
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