YU started a contest last week to find a name for its upcoming Cyanogen-powered YU series smartphone . Today it has revealed that Project Caesar will be called YUPHORIA that has been selected through its crowd-sourcing campaign #YUNameIt. It received 1,00,000 entries, out of which 5 names (YUPHORIA, YUKNIGHT, YUNICORN, YUNITY, YOUTH) made it to the voting stage from 4th to 6th April. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA is the name of YU’s Project Caesar smartphone”
HTC has launched Desire 626G+ dual sim, the company’s latest smartphone in the Desire series in India. It has a 5-inch HD IPS display, powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with HTC Sense on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 1080p video recording and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “HTC Desire 626G+ dual sim with 5-inch HD display, Octa-Core SoC launched in India for Rs. 16900”
Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has launched Jio Chat, a new chat apple for Android and iOS platforms. In addition to instant messaging, the app also offers voice & video calling, one-to-one & group chats, conference calling, stickers and Channels that lets you follow your favorite brands. Continue reading “Reliance Jio launches Jio Chat with messaging, voice and video calling for Android and iOS”
UC Web is bringing the first public beta of its UC Browser for PCs in international markets. The company is known for its popular mobile browser.
Continue reading “UC Browser coming to desktop in public beta”
Apple has clocked $1 billion in revenue in the Indian market for the fiscal year 2014-15, according to a report from The Times Of India. The company has reported a good revenue owing to strong sales of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
Continue reading “Apple hits $1 billion in revenues for FY 2014-15 in India”
OPPO has finally launched the OPPO N3 smartphone in India. It was unveiled last year at an event in Singapore and packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display, features a 16-megapixel 206-degree motorized rotating camera that can rotate to 0.012 degrees accurately to capture selfies easily. It is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor and runs on Color OS 2.0 based on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Continue reading “OPPO N3 launched in India for Rs. 42990”
Google Search app for Android is expanding its nicknames feature to more users. As the name suggests, Nickname allows users to add a nickname to people in your contact list.
Continue reading “Google app for Android brings wider release for nicknames feature”
Huawei SnapTo, a new budget smartphone is now available order in the US from Amazon. It has a 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a Snapdragon 400 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It doesn’t have dual SIM support, but it comes with 4G connectivity. Continue reading “Huawei SnapTo with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE available for pre-order in the US for $179.99”
More details about Samsung’s upcoming smartwatch are out. The latest report from SamMobile says that Samsung is calling this smartawatch as Gear A.
Continue reading “Samsung Gear A smartwatch to support 3G and calling functionality”
OnePlus today announced that it has decided not to increase the price of OnePlus One in India even after the Indian government has increased the excise duty on mobile phones imported into India. The company recently increased the price of both the 16GB and 64GB models in European countries that uses euro as currency as a result of falling value of the Euro. Continue reading “OnePlus will not increase the price of OnePlus One in India”
HTC has finally made the One M9+ official at the launch event in Beijing, China. It has the same unibody metal build similar to the One M9, but this comes with a better 5.2-inch Quad HD screen and has a fingerprint sensor below the display for secure lock and payments. It has multi-directional sensors that lets you place your finger on the sensor in any direction to unlock your phone, says HTC. Instead of Snapdragon 810, this has a 2.2GHz Octa-Core MediaTek Helio X10 (MT6795T) Octa-Core 64-bit processor. It runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop with HTC Sense UI on top. It also has China Sense for Chinese customers that lets you set different themes and also create themes. Continue reading “HTC One M9+ with 5.2-inch Quad HD display, Fingerprint reader announced”
Following acquisition rumors since last month, Snapdeal has officially scooped up popular mobile payment service FreeCharge. Both the companies did not disclose the financial details of the deal but one person familiar with the deal said the acquisition cost is $450 million paid through a mix of cash and equity.
Continue reading “Snapdeal acquires mobile recharge service FreeCharge”
Microsoft launched the Lumia 640 XL and the Lumia 640 yesterday here in India at a price of 15,799 and 11,999 respectively. We were there at the launch and now we have a photo gallery comparing the hardware of the two devices for you.
Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 640 vs Lumia 640 XL Photo Gallery”
It seems like Google is working on a teleconferencing service. Dubbed as GMeet, the service will allow users to schedule or join a conference call with just one click.
Continue reading “Google working on teleconferencing tool GMeet”
Asus already announced that it will be launching the Zenfone 2 smartphone in India in the last week of April. It also announced that it is launching all the three variants – ZE500CL, ZE550ML and ZE551ML in India. Today the company has sent out invites for the launch of the Zenfone 2 in India, which is scheduled for April 23rd.
Continue reading “Asus Zenfone 2 launching in India on April 23”
