We have been hearing a lot of rumours about Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge successor over the past few weeks. Fresh in line is a physical keyboard accessory for the alleged S6 Edge+ that will retail for around 60 Euros. Continue reading “Samsung may offer a 60 Euro worth physical keyboard cover with upcoming Galaxy S6 Edge+”
Airtel has launched its 4G LTE services in Pondicherry. It launched 4G services in 296 towns across India last week, after running 4G LTE trails in the country. Airtel said that it had received great response in Chennai, Vellore, Trichy, Madurai and Coimbatore. Airtel 4G is available to customers across mobile phones, dongles, 4G hotspots and Wi-Fi dongles in the city. For existing Airtel customers, the company is offering a complimentary upgrade to Airtel 4G at same price as 3G. Continue reading “Airtel launches 4G LTE services in Pondicherry”
Huawei was expected to introduce a new Honor smartphone in China today, but it actually announced date for the announcement of its new Honor series smartphone. It will unveil the Honor 7i smartphone on August 20th. The invite translates to you change the vision together. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 7i to be announced on August 20, could feature sliding camera”
Oppo has launched Mirror 5 smartphone, the company’s latest smartphone in India. It was announced last month and packs a 5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) qHD display, is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Color OS 2.1 ROM, has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Oppo Mirror 5 with 5-inch qHD display, 5MP front camera, Android 5.1 launched in India for Rs. 15990”
Xiaomi already announced that it will introduce the MIUI 7 at an event in Beijing, China on August 13th. Today the company has announced the MIUI 7 launch premier in New Delhi where Xiaomi’s Vice President Hugo Barra will demo new features of the MIUI 7. He will also be showing off new features of MIUI 7 global ROM specifically for global MIUI fans at the event. Continue reading “Xiaomi schedules MIUI 7 India launch Premiere on August 19”
Xiaomi’s much-anticipated Redmi Note 2 has been leaked online in purported images of the handset and the retail box. Company is expected to announce the smartphone this week on Thursday on August 13th, alongside the new MIUI 7. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 with MediaTek Helio X10 SoC leaked in live images”
Opera Software has acquired Bemobi, one of the popular subscription-based mobile-app-discovery services in Latin America. Bemobi offers Netflix-like subscription service for premium Android apps. Its proprietary app-wrapping technology allows smartphone owners access to unlimited use of premium mobile apps for a small weekly fee. Continue reading “Opera acquires Bemobi to expand app discovery and monetization services”
Windows RT is dead. That much has been made clear by Microsoft time and time again. The operating system that was expected to become the darling of tablet users seeking productivity found almost no takers. That said, Microsoft has always maintained that it will give the operating system one final update that will bring it closer to Windows 10 in terms of experience. Continue reading “Updated start menu and lock screen coming to Windows RT as part of final update”
Android One didn’t make much of a difference in the Indian market. Devices were decidedly low spec and the competition blew them out of the park in terms of quality, hardware offering just not the stock Android experience. Now, Google is all set to reboot the project. Continue reading “Google aims at launching Android One smartphones priced below Rs. 3000 in India (Updated)”
Xiaomi has officially launched the Redmi 2 Prime, the company’s latest budget smartphone that is Made in India. This smartphone is manufactured at Xiaomi and Foxconn facility in Andhra Pradesh. This is the enhanced version of the Redmi 2 that was launched in the country earlier this year. It has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. Other specifications are similar, including a 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display, 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 and 4G LTE with support for TD-LTE 2300MHz (Band 40) and FDD-LTE 1800MHz (Band 3) for India.
Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime ‘Made in India’ smartphone launched for Rs. 6999”
Xiaomi has just launched its first ‘Make in India’ smartphone dubbed the Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime. The smartphone was briefly listed by Amazon and Flipkart last week revealing all the specifications. Though the Redmi 2 Prime is only a 2GB RAM variant of the original Redmi 2, the highlight of the smartphone is that it has been manufactured in India at Xiaomi and Foxconn facility in Andhra Pradesh.
Qualcomm has announced two new processors, one in the Snapdragon 200 series and other in the Snapdragon 400 series. The new Snapdragon 212 SoC, the company’s latest quad-core processor has multi-mode 3G/4G LTE Advanced and LTE Dual SIM aimed at entry-level smartphones and tablets. It uses the same ARM Cortex A7 CPU seen on the Snapdragon 210, but the clock speed has been increased from 1.1 GHz to 1.3 GHz per core. The Snapdragon 412 quad-core processor uses 64-bit Cortex A53 CPUs similar to the Snapdragon 410, but the clock speed has been increased from 1.2 GHz to 1.4 GHz per core and the memory bandwidth has been increased from 533 MHz to 600 MHz. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 and Snapdragon 412 quad-core processors announced”
Panasonic has launched Eluga Icon, the company’s latest smartphone with 4G support in India. It has a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS OGS display, is powered by a 1.5 GHz Octa-Core 64-bit processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with with ICON UI. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and support for 4G TD-LTE 2300MHz (Band 40) and FDD-LTE 1800MHz (Band 3) for India. It is just 7.9mm thick and has Uni-body design. Continue reading “Panasonic Eluga Icon with 5.5-inch HD display, 4G LTE, 3500 mAh battery launched for Rs. 10999”
Ola has secured $100 million (Rs. 630 Cr) in latest round of funding from Falcon Edge, as per a TOI report. The online taxi aggregator has now reached a valuation of $5 billion.
Continue reading “Ola secures $100 million in funding from Falcon Edge, valuation hits $5 billion”
OnePlus is quickly turning out to be a household name. It just took OnePlus about 12 months to become a hero from a zero. The company’s marketing strategy with all the social media hype and of course, the invite system made sure that the demand was always soaring through the roof.
With their first device, OnePlus set out on a mission – to offer great performance, while still keeping the price tag very affordable. It sounded similar to Google’s Nexus program, but as turns out OnePlus managed to beat the Nexus pricing hands down. It’s still quite hard to figure out how the company is doing that. Continue reading “OnePlus 2 Review”
