Samsung will announce a new Gear smartwatch that will support NFC based mobile payments, as per a report from Reuters. The South Korean company is expected to launch the smartwatch in second half of the year.
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Netbooks have traditionally been slow and clunky. Marketed as the most affordable way to consume the internet, they were too slow and only mildly productive, when in reality they were used purely for consumption due to their powerlessness. Tablets quickly replaced them to become the new Netbook-style consumption device. But tablets aren’t even mildly productive, they’re just not meant to be, because of the lack of a proper input device that required precision. Some companies tried to solve this problem.
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One of the old ones, HTC remains as one of the few smartphone manufacturers that have been able to stand the test of time. Brand loyalty and genuinely well built, pioneering products that consumers want have guaranteed that so far. When the HTC One launched, it was widely regarded as the best phone around. Fast forward an year and HTC mixed it up yet again with the One M8 that brought along a somewhat gimmicky depth sensor but pushed the design and build further ahead. But if the recent financial reports and consumer sentiment are anything to go by, it seems that HTC is running out of steam. The recent release of the One M9+ has a lot riding on it’s shoulders. Is it good enough to stem the tide and bring new consumers into the fold? We find out in our review. Continue reading “HTC One M9+ Review”
InFocus, a US-based smartphone company entered India with the launch of budget M2 smartphone in March. Later it launched the M330 smartphone in April. Today the company has announced that it has sold 1 lakh units of these two smartphones on Snapdeal within three months. Continue reading “InFocus smartphone sales cross 1 lakh in India”
Ultimate Ears, a brand of Logitech has launched UE BOOM, its new battery-powered 360-degree wireless speaker in India. It has specially developed acoustic skin that is both water and stain resistant. You can connect two UE BOOMs together using the free UE BOOM app for Android or iOS that lets you play them in either stereo-to-stereo mode or traditional left/right stereo mode. The app also has five-band equalizer to tweak the mids, highs and lows, and the speaker will remember it. Continue reading “Logitech’s Ultimate Ears launches UE BOOM 360-degree wireless speaker for Rs. 14995”
SwiftKey has updated iPhone app that brings a range of new emojis to the popular third party keyboard. The latest update bumps the SwiftKey app to version 1.3.3.
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Oppo announced the N3, successor of Oppo N1 back in October last year. It was launched in India earlier this April at Rs. 42,990. We already brought you hands-on impressions and the photo gallery of the device from the event last year, here is the unboxing.
Google will not collect any transaction fees from credit card companies for Android Pay transactions, according to a latest Wall Street Journal report.
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The Department of Telecom (DoT) issued letters of intent (LoIs) recently to Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications and Reliance Jio Infocomm, who won spectrum in auction earlier this March, according to a report from the ET. At the end of the recent auction for 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz spectrum, government got bids worth Rs 1.098 lakh crore. Continue reading “Spectrum allocation for 2015 auction winners expected soon”
Nokia had launched the Z launcher for Android in June last year following which it was available for download in beta. Today, the mobile launcher has been updated with widget support.
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Sony launched the Xperia M4 Aqua Dual, a mid-range waterproof (IP65) and dustproof (IP68) smartphone at Rs. 24,990 last month. We brought you the hands on and unboxing 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 1.46 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-inch HD screen and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Dual Benchmarks”
Uber is back with another limited period offer, this time for Chennai users. It is offering 50% off on four rides everyday for this week during business hours (between 12 PM and 4 PM), in Chennai, which is a total of 20 rides. This offer is valid from today, 8th June 2015 to Friday, 12th June 2015. Continue reading “Uber offers 50% off on four rides a day during business hours till June 12 in Chennai”
Samsung Galaxy Tab S2.8 has been spotted at FCC after visiting Chinese TENNA last week. The tablet which first surfaced in February is just 5.5mm thin.
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Earlier in March this year, it was reported that Samsung is working on foldable smartphones that will be ready by 2016. Now a fresh report states that the South Korean company has patented the technology behind foldable display.
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We all know that Apple is expected to launch its music streaming service at its upcoming WWDC on June 8. Now, Sony Music CEO Doug Morris has further confirmed this news in a latest interview.
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