Google on Monday announced an experimental marketplace, called the Patent Purchase Promotion, for those who want to sell-off their patents directly to Google. Company believes that this will help “remove friction from the patent market” and complications of working with “patent trolls”. Continue reading “Google wants to buy your patents with new Patent Purchase Promotion program”
Samsung has expanded its Level series of audio products with two new accessories. The first one is Level On Wireless headphones and the second is Level Link audio adapter.
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Huawei has introduced the Honor 4C, the company’s latest Honor series smartphone in China. It is the successor of last year’s Honor 3C and the design looks similar to the Honor 4X. It has a 5-inch HD display and is powered by Huawei’s own Kirin 620 chipset 64-bit A53 Octa-core processor instead of a Quad-Core Snapdragon 410 chip, other features are similar to the Honor 4X, including Android 4.4 (Kitkat) with Emotion UI 3.0, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, 2GB RAM and 8GB internal memory with expansion slot. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 4C with 5-inch HD display, Octa-Core SoC, 4G LTE announced”
China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd has launched an operating system for internet connected devices, smartphones and TV. The move comes from the company as it wants to take on rivals like Alibaba and Xiaomi.
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Microsoft has begun the transition of Nokia branded stores to Microsoft ones. The world’s first Microsoft Priority Reseller Store was opened today at Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, India by Mr Chris Weber (Corporate VP, Mobile Device Sales at Microsoft).
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While Samsung, Qualcomm, Nvidia and MediaTek use ARM reference designs to make their chipsets, Apple is known for using custom cores for its chipsets. It has been rumoured for a while that Samsung are also working on their own next generation chipset with custom cores. Now it’s naming has been leaked in a document and apparently it will be called the Exynos M1.
Microsoft has lost the latest round in a patent-infringement case against U.S. International Trade Commission. According to the judge, Theodore Essex, Microsoft has infringed two wireless cellular patents owned by InterDigital, which is a company that designs technologies and licenses them to third parties.
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Honor, the global brand under Huawei launched the Honor 4X smartphone in India at a price tag of Rs. 10,499 last month. This is the company’s first budget 4G smartphone to launch in India and it competes with other 4G smartphones such as Lenovo A7000, Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G and YU YUREKA. Is the smartphone worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 4X Review”
SwiftKey has launched experimental Clarity keyboard beta as a part of its new Greenhouse arm, which is a hub for them to test experimental software.
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LG’s Watch Urbane is now available via the Google Store for $349 in gold and silver variants. Urbane is the all metal luxury Android Wear smartwatch that was announced last month.
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Instagram has updated its mobile apps with three new filters and emoji hashtags. The new filters are called Lark, Reyes, and Juno, and are focused on enhancing outdoor photography.
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Previously we reported that Oppo’s upcoming R7 smartphone could feature a bezel-less/ edge-to-edge display. The speculation has now been confirmed by Oppo itself. Continue reading “Oppo R7 with bezel-less display teased officially, Launching next month”
Facebook has introduced free video calling to its standalone Messenger app. Users can now make video calls using data or WiFi on Android and iOS app.
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Xiaomi launched its Mi 4i smartphone in India last week at a price tag of Rs. 12,999. We brought you the hands-on impressions and the unboxing of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a second-generation Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.65 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.1 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 5-inch 1080p screen and runs on MI UI 6 based on Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop). We were not able to achieve the scores that Xiaomi has mentioned on their website, but these are close enough. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4i Benchmarks”
Apple has reported revenue of $58 billion with a net profit of $13.6 billion in their earnings for the financial year Q2 2015 that ended March 28, 2015. Revenues were up 27% and earnings per share up 40% year-over-year. Apple sold 61.2 million iPhones, compared to 43.7 million over last year, representing 40% year-over-year growth, 12.6 million iPads, compared to 16.3 million year-over-year and 4.6 million Macs during the quarter. Continue reading “Apple reports $58 billion revenue in FY Q2 2015, 61.2M iPhones and 12.6M iPads sold”
