Evernote for iOS now supports sketching on notes and split screen for iPad

Evernote has updated its iOS app with a a couple of important features. The latest update that bumps the app to version 7.9 brings support for sketching on notes and split screen for iPad.

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Facebook records $4.5B in revenues, hits 1.01DAU, 1.55B MAU in Q3, 2015

Facebook has exceeded analyst estimates and recorded a whopping $4.5B in revenue for Q3, 2015. The social network reported a 41% year-over-year increase in revenues.

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OnePlus X Benchmarks

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OnePlus launched the OnePlus X smartphone in India last week stating at Rs. 16999, which went on sale today. We already brought you the hands-on impressions, unboxing and camera samples, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974) 28nm HPm Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.27 GHz per core, slightly under-clocked compared to clock speed of 2.46 GHz on the OnePlus One and has Adreno 330 GPU. It comes with a 5-inch (1920 ×1080 pixels) Full HD AMOLED display, has 3GB RAM and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Oxygen OS 2.1 on top . Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “OnePlus X Benchmarks”

TP-LINK TL-WR940N 450Mbps router launched in India for Rs. 2200

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TP-LINK has launched TL-WR940N, the company’s latest 802.11n wireless router that provides up to 450Mbps wireless connection with other 802.11n wireless clients. It has three antennas for better coverage, comes with MIMO & SST technologies for advanced wireless performance and has WPS button for WPA2 encryptions, preventing the network from outside intrusions. Continue reading “TP-LINK TL-WR940N 450Mbps router launched in India for Rs. 2200”

Huawei Kirin 950 Octa-Core 16nm SoC with Mali T880 GPU announced

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Huawei has announced Kirin 950 SoC at an event in Beijing today. It is an Octa-Core SoC with four ARM Cortex A72 Cores that can be clocked up to 2.53 GHz and four ARM Cortex A53 Cores that can be clocked up to 1.8 GHz. It is based on ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture so it can alternate between the Cortex A72 or A53 cores depending on the type of tasks. It has support for Category 6 LTE networks and is built on 16nm FinFET process. Continue reading “Huawei Kirin 950 Octa-Core 16nm SoC with Mali T880 GPU announced”

Vodafone offers 100MB free data for all customers, launches new roaming pack in South this Diwali

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Vodafone India has announced a new offer that lets all users enjoy 100MB of free 2G or 3G data to celebrate Diwali this year. Free data is available only on November 11th and can be activated by sending a SMS DIWALI to 199. You will also get a confirmation SMS about the offer. Continue reading “Vodafone offers 100MB free data for all customers, launches new roaming pack in South this Diwali”

Xolo BLACK 1X Review

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Xolo launched BLACK 1X, the company’s latest smartphone in the BLACK series last week. It is the first Xolo smartphone to come with 3GB of RAM. It also has a 1080p display and comes with 4G support, similar to most of the smartphones in the similar price range. Is the smartphone worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review.

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Acer Liquid Z630s with 3GB RAM, 4000mAh battery and Liquid Z530 launched for Rs. 10999 and Rs. 6999

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Acer has launched Liquid Z630s and Liquid Z530, two new 4G smartphones in India exclusively on Flipkart. The Liquid Z630s packs a 5.5-inch HD screen, is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek MT6753 SoC, packs 3GB of RAM and a 4000mAh battery, while the Liquid Z530 comes with a 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6735 SoC and has 2GB of RAM. Both these have a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. These also have DTS audio. Continue reading “Acer Liquid Z630s with 3GB RAM, 4000mAh battery and Liquid Z530 launched for Rs. 10999 and Rs. 6999”

Infocus launches M260 its first ‘Made in India’ smartphone for Rs. 3999

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Infocus has launched M260, the company’s latest budget smartphone, as expected. It is the first ‘Made in India’ smartphone from Infocus, assembled at the company’s local manufacturing facility at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh. It packs a 4.5-inch FWVGA display, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Inlife UI 2.0 on top. Continue reading “Infocus launches M260 its first ‘Made in India’ smartphone for Rs. 3999”

Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL launching in India in December

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At the Future Unleashed 2015 event in Mumbai today, Microsoft announced that it will launch the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL smartphones in India in December 2015. Both these smartphones were announced at an event in New York City last month and pack QHD AMOLED ClearBlack displays, run Windows 10, come with USB Type-C port, 20-megapixel autofocus rear camera with ZEISS optics, with 5th Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), triple LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. These also come in dual SIM variants that are expected to launch in India. Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL launching in India in December”

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 coming to India by January 2016: Satya Nadella

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At the Future Unleashed 2015 event in Mumbai today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company’s latest Surface Pro 2 in 1 – the Surface Pro 4 will launch in India early January 2016. He said that Microsoft had a lot of demand for Surface devices from India, hence they are finally bringing it.

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Google to give Android One OEMs more flexibility, new low-cost Lava-made smartphone coming soon

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Google and Lava International plan to release a new low-cost Android One smartphone in India in coming months, according to a report from WSJ. With the reboot, Google aims to give users in developing economies an inexpensive way to get online through its Android mobile operating system and win more customers in fast-growing emerging markets, adds the report. Continue reading “Google to give Android One OEMs more flexibility, new low-cost Lava-made smartphone coming soon”

Facebook’s news app Notify tipped to launch next week

In August, it was reported that Facebook will launch a standalone mobile news app. Now, a fresh report from the Financial Times states that the news app will be launched as early as next week and it will be called as ‘Notify’.

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Oppo A53 with 5.5 inch display, 2GB RAM gets certified at TENAA

Oppo A53, a new unannounced smartphone from the Chinese smartphone maker has been certified at TENAA. Two other smartphones, OPPO A53m and OPPO A33m got the 3C certification in China recently. Out of these, Oppo A33m is already certified by TENAA and while the OPPO A53m looks like the variant of the Oppo A53.

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