Last week Micromax scheduled an event on December 18th to launch their first YU branded smartphone that will run CyanogenMod OS as a part of their exclusive partnership in India. Today Amazon India has announced that the smartphone will be available exclusively available on Amazon.
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Flipkart has secured a fresh round of funding following a report last week. The homegrown e-commerce giant has received $180 million from Hong Kong-based investment firm Steadview Capital, as per a report from The Economic Times.
Worldwide smartphone sales grew 20.3 percent to reach 301 million units in Q3, 2014, according to the latest report from Gartner. The growth was dedicated to strong demand from emerging markets.
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LAVA International just launched Iris Fuel 60, the company’s second smartphone in the Fuel series with a 4000mAh battery that promises up to 32 hours of talk time on 2G. It has a 5-inch HD IPS display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 10-megapixel auto focus rear camera with single LED flash and 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Iris Fuel 60 with 10MP camera, 4000mAh battery launched for Rs. 8888”
Google is rolling out updates to Docs, Slides and Sheets on Android. The latest updates comes to Android after it landed on Google Drive’s iOS apps last week.
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Yesterday, it was reported that the Google Now will soon allow users to control their Nest Thermostat. Today, the Google Now integration for Nest thermostat has officially been announced.
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Microsoft announced in May that it will soon debut Skype translator with real time speech translation by the end of this year. The software giant has kept its promise and rolled out Skype’s real time translator preview.
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Foursquare has officially rolled out iPad app with new features that focuses on travel planning and recommendations. The version 8.5 of the app makes it compatible with iPad’s larger display and shows bigger images.
Lenovo launched the Vibe X2 smartphone in India last month for Rs. 19,999. The Successor of last year’s Vibe X smartphone has the same 5-inch 1080p display and a 13-megapixel rear camera, but this has a sleek design, uses a faster Octa-Core, comes with 4G LTE support and even comes with dual SIM support. Is the smartphone worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review.
Obi Hornbill S551, the company’s budget mid-range smartphone went on sale in India recently for Rs. 9,230. We already brought you the unboxing and photo gallery and its unique features recently. Here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor with Mali 400 GPU. It packs 1GB of RAM and has a 5.5-inch HD IPS display. Let’s find out how it performs in range of synthetic benchmark tests. Continue reading “Obi Hornbill S551 Benchmarks”
Looking at the range of Android Wear smartwatches available on the market, there’s one key similarity between most of them; they feature square watch faces. Back when Google announced the Android Wear OS, they also part-announced the Motorola Moto 360 which features a round watch face and to challenge this, LG revealed the LG G Watch R back at IFA 2014 in September. Having spent two weeks with the LG G Watch R, what do we think? Continue reading “LG G Watch R – it could have been so good”
BT has confirmed that it is in exclusive talks to acquire EE, the UK’s largest market mobile network group but is the buyout good for consumers? Will one of the UK’s largest communications groups buying the largest mobile network result in lower mobile prices in the UK? Continue reading “BT buying EE – is it good for consumers?”
The saga is finally over (well partially at least): as expected, BT have confirmed they are in exclusive talks to buy EE – Britain’s largest mobile network – for the large sum of £12.5 billion. BT have confirmed their period of exclusivity would last for several weeks whilst negotiations took place and is likely to be a blow for O2’s Spanish owners Telefonica who have been trying to offload their UK operation. Continue reading “BT snubs O2, in talks to buy EE for £12.5 billion”
Xolo launched the Omega 5.0 smartphone for Rs. 8,999 earlier this month. We already brought you the unboxing, benchmarks and the photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have the camera samples. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Sony Exmor R sensor, f/2.0 aperture and 1080p full HD video recording. Continue reading “Xolo Omega 5.0 Camera Samples”
