At Mobile World Congress 2015 today, Huawei have introduced the TalkBand B2, the successor to the Talkband B1 which debuted at last year’s conference. The TalkBand 2 is the second generation of Huawei’s fitness band / smartwatch line and introduces many welcome improvements over last years’ model. Continue reading “Huawei TalkBand B2 announced”
Acer has unveiled Liquid Leap+ Smart Activeband at the ongoing MWC 2015. The latest wearable connects with all main supported operating systems like Windows, Android and iOS.
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Acer has announced Liquid Z220 and Liquid Z520, two new budget Android smartphones in the Z series ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 in Barcelona. The Liquid Z220 is the company’s first budget smartphone with Android 5.0 Lollipop. It has a 4-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor and comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera with 89-degree wide-angle lens. The Liquid Z520 has a 5-inch FWVGA display, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core quad processor and comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera. Both these smartphones have a 2-megapixel front facing and dual SIM support.
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Acer has announced Liquid Jade Z, the successor of last year’s Liquid Jade smartphone ahead of MWC 2015. It has a 5-inch HD IPS display based on Zero Air Gap technology with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 13-megapixel rear camera with f/1.8 aperture and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat), similar to the Liquid Jade, but this is powered by a faster 1.5 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6732 with 4G LTE support and has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Acer Liquid Jade Z with 5-inch HD display, 64-bit quad-core SoC and 4G LTE announced”
Huawei announced the Ascend G7 smartphone at the IFA last year. We brought you the hands-on impressions of the device from the event, here we have the unboxing. It’s not available in India yet, and this is the UK unit, which costs about 149.99 GBP in the country.
Motorola India recently partnered with Airtel to offer free data for Moto E, Moto G (2nd Gen) and Moto X (2nd Gen) users. Airtel pre-paid users get free data for two months, while post-paid users get bill discounts per month for 2 months on subscription of 3G and 2G data packs. This offer is available for both existing and new Motorola smartphone users, but it can be activated only once on an IMEI. Continue reading “Motorola Moto E, G (2nd Gen) and Moto X (2nd Gen) users in India get up to 2GB free data from Airtel”
Huawei already confirmed that it will be introducing its first Android Wear smartwatch at the MWC this year. It has been teasing the smartwatch on its social channels, now the first images of the smartwatch have been spotted at the Barcelona Airport by TechHive and Android Central. It will be called Huawei Watch and looks exactly like an analog watch in its design.
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Smartphone, technology aficionados as well as regular readers of the site know that the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) is just around the corner. From the 2nd March to 5th March with pre-events scheduled for the 1st as well, the upcoming week is going to be a cornucopia of smartphone goodness and we’re on ground already to bring you the latest on the latest! With the tone set, we thought it right to bring you a quick rundown of the latest buzz from Barcelona about what to expect. So without further ado, here’s the top five announcements we expect from MWC 2015. Continue reading “MWC 2015 is here, What to expect?”
Xolo has launched A1010, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the A series. It has a 5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) FWVGA IPS display, is powered by a 1GHz dual-core Mediatek MT6572 processor with Mali 400 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat).There is a 5MP rear camera with LED Flash and a VGA font-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Xolo A1010 with 5-inch display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 5499”
BlackBerry launched the BlackBerry Classic smartphone with full QWERTY physical keyboard back in December last year. Now it has launched a camera-less version of the smartphone for Verizon Wireless in the U.S. This lacks both the 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera and LED Flash and the 2-megapixel front facing camera. This non-camera model will help people in enterprise businesses use the BlackBerry Classic, since some companies restricts smartphones with a camera and also encourage BYOD culture. Continue reading “BlackBerry Classic Non Camera variant introduced”
Panasonic Eluga U2, successor of last year’s Eluga U has been launched in Taiwan. It has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Panasonic Eluga U2 with Android 5.0, Snapdragon 410, 4G LTE launched in Taiwan”
Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have shown themselves again before the launch on March 1st at MWC. This time the official images of the phones have leaked.
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With an aim to take strong steps against curbing online abuse and harrasment, Twitter has updated its policies and procedures. The micro blogging site has rolled out new tools for the same.
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Uber has slashed fares for the low-cost uberX and its cheapest uberGO service across India. uberBLACK has also received a price cut in some cities. Some cities get 25% price cut and some get 30%, 35% and even 40% price cut. Base fare is somewhat the same in most cities, but cos per kilometer has been reduced drastically. Check out the chart below for detailed fares. Continue reading “Uber slashes fares by up to 40% across India”
Silent Circle has acquired Geeksphone in order to give full control over the Blackphone project. The duo had partnered to launch the privacy focused Android smartphone last year at MWC.
Continue reading “Silent Circle buys Geeksphone, will unveil more device at MWC”
