Lenovo has announced that it sold 30,000 units of Lenovo A7000 smartphones in its first flash sale in India on Flipkart today at 2PM. The smartphone was launched in India at an event earlier this month at a price tag of Rs. 8,999. It has a created lot of stir in the smartphone market and has received overwhelming response from the consumers, said the company. Continue reading “30,000 Lenovo A7000 units sold out in 4 seconds, next sale on April 22”
Google has updated Material Design developer guidelines with several new sections and additions to some existing content. These guidelines makes it easier for app developers to tailor their apps to fit the design of the latest version of Android.
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LG has announced Volt, a variant of LG Spirit that was announced ahead of MWC in February. It has a 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display, is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It packs an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1-megapixel front-facing camera. It has 3000mm radius curve offering sleeker, more attractive profile. It also comes with 4G LTE-A support. Continue reading “LG Volt with 4.7-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4G LTE announced”
Xiaomi has released a global beta build of its MIUI 6 ROM for the Redmi 1S smartphone. The company introduced MIUI 6, a major upgrade to MIUI ROM last year, but only few Mi devices such as Mi 4, Mi 3, Redmi Note, Redmi 2 and MiPad run on the stable MIUI 6 ROM. Developer ROMs are available for Mi devices in China, but this is the first time the company is releasing beta version of its ROM for global markets. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 1S gets global MIUI 6 beta ROM”
Microsoft has released Office Delve apps for Android and iPhone. Delve, is a collaboration tool for Office 365 users and the Delve mobile apps are natively written on the respective platform.
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Microsoft has announced Lumia 540 Dual SIM, the latest Lumia smartphone and the successor of last year’s Lumia 535 Dual SIM. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor and run on Windows Phone 8.1 with Lumia Denim. It has a 8-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with wide angle lens. Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 540 Dual SIM with 5-inch HD display announced for $149”
Lenovo has announced A6000 Plus at the Flipkart office in Bangalore during the live flash sale of its A7000 smartphone. The Lenovo A6000 Plus has a 5-inch HD display, 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Vibe UI on top, similar to the Lenovo A6000 that was launched in India earlier this year, but the has RAM and internal storage have been upped to 2GB and 16GB, respectively compared to 1GB and 8GB on the A6000. Continue reading “Lenovo A6000 Plus with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE, 2GB RAM announced for India”
Asus introduced the Zenfone 2 smartphone at CES earlier this year, which will be launched in India in three variant on April 23rd. We brought you the unboxing and photo gallery of the Zenfone 2 ZE551ML recently, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom Z3580 clocked at 2.33 GHz with PowerVR G6430 GPU and has 4GB RAM. It has a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Zen UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.
Samsung is said to be working on the Z1 successor, Samsung Z2 with Tizen OS. Also, the company is developing a global Tizen smartphone.
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Zomato has acquired MaplePOS, a cloud-based point of sale product for restaurants. As a result of the acquisition MaplePOS will be renamed as Zomato Base.
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Nokia has confirmed that it was in advanced talks to buy Alcatel-Lucent. Now, the company has agreed to acquire telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion.
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Apple as acquired Israeli camera technology firm LinX. The financial details of the deal are not disclosed but CNBC says that it is estimated at $20 million.
Founded in 2011, LinX specializes in “multi-aperture imaging technology” for DSLR-quality images. The company’s cameras use multiple sensors to capture both 2D and 3D image. It also creates sensors with multiple lenses to help capture several images at the same time. The pictures can then be blended together into a single image, allowing for changing the image focus afterwards.
Apple confirmed the acquisition with its standard statement when it has bought a company. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,”
In June 2014, LinX announced its first multi-aperture cameras designed for smartphones. LinX cameras are smaller in height than the regular mobile camera, but it delivers better quality and more detailed image. LinX claims that its camera systems also create better images in low light conditions, and faster exposure times in standard indoor light.
Last week, Apple released iOS 8.3 with emoji keyboard, wireless CarPlay and other features. Today, the company has released the beta for iOS 8.4 that relocates Audiobooks to the iBooks app.
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Apple just announced that it’s 26th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) for this year has been scheduled for June 8 till June 12 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. The company would reveal about the future of iOS and OS X at the event. It introduced Swift, a new programming language for OS X and iOS apps last year, this year it is expected introduce new features for Swift. Apple is also rumored to introduce new Apple TV and new streaming music service at this year’s event. This year’s invite says The epicenter of change. Continue reading “Apple schedules WWDC 2015 for June 8”
Soon after Flipkart announced that it is backing out from joining Airtel Zero platform stating that the company is fully committed to the cause of net neutrality, Airtel has issues a statement that Airtel Zero is not a tariff proposition. The statement made by Flipkart regarding their decision not to offer toll free data service to their customers is consistent with our stand that Airtel Zero is not a tariff proposition, said the company. It says that it is merely an open platform for content providers to provide toll free data services on a completely non discriminatory basis. Continue reading “Airtel Zero is not a tariff proposition, says the company after Flipkart backs out”
