The latest market share data for the Chinese market is out and things are looking very interesting. Wrestling back the crown are Chinese companies Xiaomi and Huawei who have taken the top two spots of the nation’s massive mobile market share. Continue reading “Xiaomi overtakes Apple to take the throne of largest smartphone vendor in China”
Asus is all set to join the “Make in India” initiative by starting manufacturing of smartphones in the country. The Taiwanese smartphone maker will foray into contract manufacturing for its mobile phones in India, as per a latest report from IANS.
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Micromax launched the Canvas Sliver 5 Q450 smartphone with just 5.1mm thickness back in June for Rs. 17999. We brought you the hands-on impressions of the smartphone from the launch event. You might have seen new ads on TV featuring the company’s brand ambassador Hugh Jackman. The smartphone finally went on sale recently, and here we have the unboxing.
Skype has expanded its support for free group voice and video calling to Web and Outlook.com. With the latest update, users can add upto 25 people to a voice call and up to 10 to a video call.
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Acer has announced Aspire One Cloudbook 11 and Aspire One Cloudbook 14 , the company latest netbooks in the new Cloudbook series running on Windows 10. These have 11-inch and 14-inch HD (1366×768 pixels) 16:9 LED-backlit displays, are powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Celeron mobile processors with 2GB of DDR3L RAM and eMMC storage of 32GB or 64GB. These also come with 1-year subscription of Office 365 Personal. Continue reading “Acer Aspire One Cloudbook running Windows 10 announced, starts at $169”
Gionee has launched Marathon M4 smartphone in the Marathon series with a 5000mAh battery in India. It packs a 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Amigo UI 3.0. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Gionee Marathon M4 with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE, 5000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 15499”
Google Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to version 45 with a bunch of new features. The mobile browser is getting custom tabs, media playback tweaks and more.
Motorola India has announced that they will start Moto Xpress, a pilot project to offer doorstep home pick up and drop service for their customers in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida starting from this week. The company currently has 160 service centers across the country and it opened Moto Care Service & Experience Center in Bangalore earlier this year. Continue reading “Motorola India announces ‘Moto Xpress’ door step pick up and drop service”
Viber has updated its mobile apps on Android and iOS with a couple of new features. The update that bumps the apps to version 5.5 brings easier video calling, animated stickers, contact sharing and more.
Microsoft announced the Lumia 640 XL back in March at the MWC 2015. It comes in three variants, and the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL Dual SIM was launched in India in April, but the company is yet to launch the LTE version of the smartphone in the country. We managed to get the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL LTE Dual SIM from the US for $175 that converts to about Rs. 11,160. Check out the unboxing.
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Uber has announced that will now accepts debit cards payments in India. The latest move comes from the online taxi hailing company that re-introduced credit card payment mode in the country last month.
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Xiaomi has announced an event on August 13th to introduce MIUI 7, its next MIUI ROM. The MIUI 6 was introduced back in August last year that brought a flat user interface and new features. Even though early versions of MIUI 6 were based on Android KitKat, the latest smartphones such as Mi 4i are running on MIUI 6 ROM based on Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop).
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Google has released Android distribution numbers for June and July. Android Lollipop is now running on 18.1% of Android devices of which 5.0 Lollipop is present on 15.5% of devices while Lollipop 5.1 runs on 2.6%.
Live image of upcoming smartphones from Sony have surfaced in a new leak. The handsets in the image that was leaked by @viziLeaks are claimed to be Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact.
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Motorola launched the Moto G (3rd Gen) smartphone in India last week starting at Rs. 11,999. At the launch the company announced that it will sell back covers and flip covers for the smartphone in several colors separately. The flip covers went on sale last week, now the back covers are also available for sale on Flipkart. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G (3rd Gen) Back Covers and Flip Covers now available in India”
