Xiaomi Mi Note Benchmarks

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Xiaomi announced Mi Note, its top-end smartphone last month. We brought you unboxing and first impressions of the smartphone and also its photo gallery recently, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by quad-core Snapdragon 801 (MSM 8274AC) 28nm HPm Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.46 GHz power core with Adreno 330 GPU and 3GB of RAM, similar to the Mi 4. It has a 5.7-inch full HD display and runs on MIUI 6 based on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Note Benchmarks”

Motorola Droid Turbo / Moto Maxx launching on Flipkart in India soon

Motorola Droid Turbo Flipkart Teaser

Flipkart just teased a new Motorola device launch on their social channels. The teaser has a Motorola logo and captions Get your life Turbocharged. Accelerated Performance. Ballistic Nylon Fairing. Revving in soon. The Motorola Droid Turbo was introduced back in October last year for Verizon Wireless in the U.S. Later it was introduced as Moto Maxx for global markets. Since the Droid Turbo is only for the U.S. the device which will launch in India will be Moto Maxx. Continue reading “Motorola Droid Turbo / Moto Maxx launching on Flipkart in India soon”

Dropbox update adds ability to open shared links on Android and iOS

Dropbox has updated is mobile apps on Android and iOS that allows users to open shared links directly in the mobile app. When you open a shared link on your mobile device while running the latest version of Dropbox, you will be able to open the file or folder directly inside the app, giving you a full view of documents and photos.

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vivo X Shot X710 Unboxing

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vivo entered into the Indian market few months back with the vivo X5Max with 4.75mm thickness. The company also launched a range of smartphones along with the X5Max that includes the vivo X Shot X710. The X Shot has top-end specifications and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash for capturing better selfies. There is a dedicated shutter button as well. It also has support for 4G LTE bands (TDD B40 2300MHz and FDD B3 1800MHz) for India. Check out the unboxing of the smartphone. Continue reading “vivo X Shot X710 Unboxing”

Xiaomi Mi Note Photo Gallery

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Xiaomi announced the Mi Note last month in China. The flagship smartphone from the company is priced at 2299 Chinese Yuan for the 16GB variant and the 64GB variant costs 2799 Chinese Yuan . We brought you unboxing and first impressions of the smartphone recently, here we have the photo gallery. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Note Photo Gallery”

Qualcomm Snapdragon 620, 618, 425 and 415 SoCs with LTE announced

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Qualcomm has announced Snapdragon 620, 618, 425 and 415 chipsets in their Snapdragon 600 and 400 lineup. All these chips have LTE support,including Global Mode RF360 support. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 620 is an octa-core chip with 4 ARM Cortex A72 CPUs and 4 ARM Cortex A53 and CPUs, and the Snapdragon 618 is a hexa-core chip with 2 ARM Cortex A72 CPUs and 4 ARM Cortex A53 and CPUs. Both the Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 and 415 are octa-core chips with 8 ARM Cortex A53 64-bit CPUs. Both these have Adreno 405 GPU. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 620, 618, 425 and 415 SoCs with LTE announced”

Sony’s new high-tech hamster wheel aims to get you fit

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Rather than introduce a new smartphone every six months, Sony has adopted a yearly cycle for updates and as part of this, is increasing the marketing activity around its current flagship, the Xperia Z3. One of the impressive devices introduced last year, the Xperia Z3 is being dubbed as the ultimate fitness companion and now Sony’s taken this one step further with a high-tech hamster wheel.  Continue reading “Sony’s new high-tech hamster wheel aims to get you fit”

Asus Zenfone 2 ZE500CL with 5-inch HD display, Android 5.0 surfaces

Asus Zenfone 2 ZE500CL

Asus has introduced Zenfone 2 ZE500CL, a smaller 5-inch variant of the 5.5-inch ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML) model that was announced at the CES last month. This was showcased at an event in Taiwan recently, but it is not listed on the official website yet, so the specifications might not be completely correct. Continue reading “Asus Zenfone 2 ZE500CL with 5-inch HD display, Android 5.0 surfaces”

Micromax Canvas Pep Q371 with 4.5-inch display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 5999

Micromax Canvas Pep Q371

Micromax has launched Canvas Pep Q371, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Canvas series. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat), similar to the Canvas Xpress A99 that was released couple of months back. It has a 5-megapixel fixed focus rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel VGA front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support similar to other Micromax smartphones and also has 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Pep Q371 with 4.5-inch display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 5999”

Samsung introduces first eMMC 5.1 flash memory

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Samsung has announced that it has started developing industry’s first eMMC (embedded multimedia card memory) 5.1 flash memory. This is based on the eMMC 5.1 standard approved by JEDEC recently. Sequential reads and write speed of Samsung’s 64GB eMMC 5.0 flash memory were 250MB/s and 90MB/s respectively. Samsung’s 64GB flash memory based on eMMC 5.1 would offer sequential write speed of 125MB/s, faster than eMMC 5.0. Continue reading “Samsung introduces first eMMC 5.1 flash memory”