Lenovo launched the Vibe X3 smartphone in India at Rs. 19,999 last week. We already brought you the unboxing and benchmarks of the smartphone, here we have the battery life test results. The Vibe X3 packs a 3500mAh Lithium-Polymer built-in battery, slightly larger than the 3300mAh battery on the K4 Note. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, is powered by a hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Check out the test results below.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google has exceeded Wall Street expectations and recorded $21.3 billion of revenue with profits of $4.9 billion for Q4 ended December 31, 2015. With the strong revenues, Alphabet is now worth around $568bn, compared with Apple, which has a value of $535bn.
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Google is planning to tighten its grip around the Nexus line of smartphones and tablets. The company is apparently looking forward to take Apple-like approach and control the design and build of the Nexus phones, according to a latest report from The Information.
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Lenovo launched Vibe K4 Note, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone and the successor of last year’s K3 Note in India recently at Rs. 11,999. Even though it has a 5.5-inch display and offers Dolby Atmos audio experience, similar to the K3 Note, this has a completely different design and also includes a fingerprint sensor. For the price, specifications of the smartphone look good on paper. How about the overall experience? Let us find out in the complete review.
Xiaomi and Meizu, two popular Chinese smartphone brands are entering the US market. Both the companies have partnered with US Mobile to bring some of their devices to the country. US Mobile is a prepaid carrier that uses T-Mobile’s network for service.
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India has become a hot bed for mobile manufacturing plants, buoyed by a positive response from mobile phone makers to Governments ‘Make in India’ initiative. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the country is now producing 100 million mobile phone units.
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Motorola launched its ShatterShield display device – Moto X Force – in India on Monday, which according to company is “world’s first shatterproof display smartphone”. Continue reading “Motorola Moto X Force Hands On and Photo Gallery”
WhatsApp has joined the billion users club. The Facebook owned messaging service now has over 1 billion monthly active users which translates to one in seven people on Earth. WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum announced the latest milestone via an official post on Facebook.
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Here we bring you the first ever FoneArena Daily that gives you a quick roundup of today’s technology news. Check out the video below and also let us know your opinion in the comments section.
Gionee has launched P5W, the company’s latest budget smartphone. It was introduced back in December last year and packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6735, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Gionee P5W with 5-inch HD display launched in India for Rs. 6499”
iBall has launched Cobalt 5.5F Youva, the company’s latest 4G smartphone in the Cobalt series. It packs a 5.5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1GHz quad-core 64-bit processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera (enhanced to 13-megapixel using software) with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera (enhanced to 8-megapixel using software). Continue reading “iBall Cobalt 5.5F Youva with 5.5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 8999”
China has something called 3C (China Compulsory Certification) that phones have to pass through in order to be approved for sale in the country. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge just passed through the same.
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Motorola today launched the Moto X Force, it’s high-end smartphone with Moto ShatterShield, the world’s first shatterproof display in India, as it had promised. It was announced back in October last year as the global variant of the DROID Turbo 2 and packs a 5.4-inch Quad HD AMOLED screen, is powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor, runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) and has a 3760mAh battery. At the announcement Motorola said that the display is guaranteed not to crack or shatter for up to 4 years. Continue reading “Motorola Moto X Force with 5.4-inch QHD shatterproof display launched starting at Rs. 49999”
Panasonic has launched hi-resolution HD5 headphones and BTD5 Bluetooth headphones in India. The company claims that the new headphones offer superior sound quality and portability.
LeEco (formerly known as Letv) launched the Le 1s smartphone in India last month at a price tag of Rs. 10,999. Flipkart today announced that it has received over 5,30,000 lakh registrations for the Le 1s smartphone within 10 days after registration opened. Flipkart said that this broke the previous record by getting nearly 10,000 more registrations. Continue reading “LeEco Le 1s receives over 5.3 lakh registrations on Flipkart in 10 days”
