Apple Watch reportedly launching next week in India, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus expected in October

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Apple is planning to launch the Apple Watch in India next week, according to a report from ET Tech, citing senior trade officials as sources. The report also says that the latest iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus smartphones are expected to launch by October 10th or 11th, a month ahead of Diwali. Apple is looking to triple the sales of the new iPhones during the festive quarter, October to December, says the report. To remind you, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were launched in India on October 17th, 2014, a month after they were announced. Continue reading “Apple Watch reportedly launching next week in India, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus expected in October”

iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus tipped to sport 2GB RAM while iPad Pro could have 4GB RAM

Apple announced the next generation of iPhones and iPads earlier this week. Now an Apple Support employee has shared some details about the internal specs of the iPhones on Reddit.

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OnePlus One 64GB Sandstone Black now available on Snapdeal

OnePlus One was launched exclusively on Amazon.in in India. Back in June, OnePlus started selling the smartphone on Flipkart, today the company has partnered with Snapdeal to sell the smartphone. With Snapdeal’s vast network, the smartphone will be available for over 20 million registered users across over 5000 towns and cities, said the company. Continue reading “OnePlus One 64GB Sandstone Black now available on Snapdeal”

Uber signs MoU with Tamil Nadu Government to add over 30K drivers

Continuing its aggressive expansion and investment in India, online taxi hailing service Uber has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Tamil Nadu government to create over 30,000 jobs.

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Gionee teams up with Foxconn and Dixon for mobile handset production in India

Gionee had announced in July that it will foray into contract manufacturing of smartphones in India. Today, the Chinese smartphone maker has teamed up with Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer and Dixon technologies for the same.

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Periscope live streaming app finally gets landscape support

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Periscope was launched for iPhone back in March and it arrived for Android in May. Twitter had been adding new features for Periscope every few weeks, since the launch, now it has finally added support for landscape mode. If you watch a landscape stream in portrait mode, it will not be available in full screen, as you can see in the image below. It also adds few more features such as share indication in your home feed, mutual follow for Android and more. Continue reading “Periscope live streaming app finally gets landscape support”

Samsung Galaxy J2 with 4G LTE announced in India for Rs. 8490

Samsung Galaxy J2 India launch

Samsung today introduced the Galaxy J2, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone in India, according to a report from The Hindu Business Line. The smartphone is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, packs 1GB of RAM and has new ultra data saving mode that would compress the data across all contents such as videos, photos, media, most apps and websites to save data up to 50%. This is similar to Opera Max that was launched in India in June.  Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy J2 with 4G LTE announced in India for Rs. 8490”

Meizu schedules event on September 23, new flagship “Pro 5” expected

Just yesterday, Meizu President and Co-founder Bai Yongxiang confirmed that its next flagship phone will have a 1080p display. Now, a couple of leaks and teaser are stating that the Chinese smartphone maker is set to announce a new phone on September 23.

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Rovio releases Nibblers puzzle game for Android, iPhone and iPad

Rovio Nibblers

Rovio, creators of popular Angry Birds games has released Nibblers, a new puzzle game for Android and iOS platforms. It was soft launched in Canada, Finland, New Zealand and Australia earlier this year, now it’s available worldwide. The theme of the game is similar to Candy Crush. You need to match similar fruits to earn points, in addition this has lizards and some obstacles. Continue reading “Rovio releases Nibblers puzzle game for Android, iPhone and iPad”

HERE Maps for Android beta now lets you share your route

HERE Maps released a beta program for Android in July and has been updating the app with periodic updates. Today, the HERE Android beta app has received an update that lets you share your route.

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Samsung Galaxy S7 with 5.7-inch QHD display, Snapdragon 820 surfaces in benchmarks?

Samsung Galaxy S7 AnTuTu leak

Samsung smartphone codenamed Lucky-LTE surfaced on Geekbench yesterday with Exynos 8890 Octa-Core SoC. Now the same smartphone has surfaced on AnTuTu (Via) with a Snapdragon 820 SoC. This reveals that Samsung is testing both the Exynos 8890 or Exynos M1 with custom CPU cores and Snapdragon 820 on a prototype smartphone that could be Galaxy S7. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 with 5.7-inch QHD display, Snapdragon 820 surfaces in benchmarks?”

Jolla releases preview of Sailfish OS 2.0

Jolla has announced the early access availability of Sailfish OS 2.0, the next generation version of Sailfish OS. The software update, distributed first to more advanced users updates the current Jolla smartphones with the new and refreshed Sailfish OS 2.0 user interface.

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