Alibaba is investing $575 million in Paytm, according to a latest report from The Economic Times. The Chinese e-commerce giant is investing the sum in Indian e-commerce company and digital payments company, One97 Communication.
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OnePlus has sold close to one million units of OnePlus One in 2014. The Chinese smartphone maker made its debut in April 2014 with its critically acclaimed OnePlus One.
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Micromax’s YU launched the YU YUREKA (AO5510), the first smartphone under YU brand last month for Rs. 8,999. We brought you the unboxing, photo gallery and benchmarks of the smartphone recently. Here we have the battery test results of the smartphone. The YU YUREKA has a 2500mAh removable Lithium-polymer battery. It is powered by a Octa-Core Snapdragon 615 processor, has a 5.5-inch HD display and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Check out the battery test results below.
Samsung may launch Windows powered smartphones this year, according to a new report from Korea Times. The report said that the company is currently testing stability on Windows 8.1 devices.
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Buying a new phone can be a daunting experience – especially if you are looking to buy one on contract – and dealing with sales people, advice from your friends and family and working out where to buy from can often take weeks of research and deliberation. Then comes the decision on whether to buy online or buy from a retail store and each has their pros and cons – here’s some things to consider when deciding whether to buy online or in-store. Continue reading “Online vs In-Store – Buying a phone in the UK”
CyanogenMod has officially added support for Android One smartphones. This means users can install official builds of CyanogenMod 11 based on Android 4.4 KitKat.
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Huawei is working on a mid range smartphone that will reportedly sport a 64 bit MediaTek processor. The company’s next smartphone, Huawei G628 was spotted in China as per a new leak.
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Micromax’s YU plans to sell 10,000 units of YUREKA smartphones on its first flash sale on January 13th, tomorrow at 2PM on Amazon.in, according to a report from PTI (via ET). The company has received over three lakh registrations for the smartphone, and it had to close the registration a day before the actual date of December 25th due to tremendous response, said Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma to PTI. Continue reading “10,000 YU YUREKA units to go on sale on Jan 13th, receives over 3 lakh registrations”
Xiaomi is expected to announce its flagship device this week. It was touted that the Chinese smartphone maker will launch Redmi Note or Mi 5 but a teaser from the company along with specs leak from @upleaks has almost confirmed the launch of Redmi Note 2 on January 15.
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Google is planning to bring an important update to its Translate app for Android that will allow it to auto-recognize languages and translate them into text in real time, according to a latest report from New York Times.
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Samsung has official announced the Galaxy A7, the company’s latest smartphone in the A series with a metal unibody design and 6.3mm thickness. It has a 5.5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC in the dual SIM variant and the single SIM LTE variant is powered by s Exynos 5430 SoC. Even the dual SIM Snapdragon variant comes with LTE support depending on the market. It runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Samsung’s own UI on top. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A7 with 6.3mm slim metal unibody design officially announced”
Lenovo just sent out press invites for the India launch of A6000, the company’s latest budget smartphone with 4G connectivity. It was announced at the CES earlier this week and packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Vibe UI on top. Continue reading “Lenovo A6000 4G smartphone launching in India on 16th Jan under Rs. 10000”
Oppo launched the Oppo R5 (R8106), the company’s slimmest smartphone in India last month for Rs. 29,990. We already brought you the photo gallery of the smartphone from the announcement and the unboxing recently. Here we have the benchmarks of the Oppo R5. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.54 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.0 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz. It has 2GB DDR3 RAM, 5.2-inch 1080p screen and runs on Color OS 2.0 based on Android 4.4 (KitKat). We had already seen some smartphones powered by the same Snapdragon 615 chip, including the YU YUREKA. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.
OmniVision Technologies introduced OV23850, its 23.8-megapixel camera sensor in the PureCel-S series aimed at high-end smartphones, few months back. At the International CES 2015, the company has announced its partnership with Wavelens to bring autofocus (AF) technology that utilizes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS). Continue reading “OmniVision partners with Wavelens to bring MEMS-based Autofocus to its 23MP camera sensor”
vivo launched Y15 entry level smartphone last month in India for Rs. 8,990 (MRP). We have seen the unboxing of the phone now lets take a look at the hardware in out the photo gallery. Continue reading “vivo Y15 Photo Gallery”
