Samsung Galaxy Xcover 3 rugged Android smartphone announced

Samsung Xcover 3

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Xcover 3 rugged smartphone in the Xcover series official, after it leaked in live images earlier this year. It is water resistant to a depth of one meter for up to 30 minutes with IP67 certification, dust proof and even meets the US Military Standard MIL-STD 810G to withstand a fall of up to 1.2 meters. It has a 4.5-inch WVGA (480 × 800 pixels) display, is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat), which is upgradable to Android 5.0 (Lollipop) in future. It has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and 2-megapixel secondary camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Xcover 3 rugged Android smartphone announced”

HERE Maps released for iPhone

HERE Maps for iPhone

HERE has launched the HERE Maps for iPhone finally. Unlike the HTML5-based maps that was released back in 2012, the is a full app that has been created from the ground up. Apart from the walking, transit and driving directions and full turn-by-turn voice guidance with spoken street names, this also has offline mode that lets you use all these features offline. HERE Maps was released for Android last year and it came out of Beta last month.

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Huawei Watch UK and European Pricing Revealed

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Wearables was a key subject at MWC 2015 this year with new devices from the likes of HTC, Acer and Samsung alongside several new wearables from Huawei, including the long-awaited Android Wear smartwatch. From our time in China with Huawei, we already knew that an Android Wear smartwatch was in the works but when it was finally revealed, we realised that this wasn’t your average Android Wear smartwatch. Continue reading “Huawei Watch UK and European Pricing Revealed”

World’s first Google store launches in London

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Apple already have several around the world, Samsung are getting in on the act and Microsoft have their stores in the US as well so it’s only fitting that the world’s number one search company, Google, has joined in the act with the opening of its first global retail store in London. Continue reading “World’s first Google store launches in London”

HTC Desire 820s dual sim now available in India for Rs. 24490

HTC Desire 820s

HTC Desire 820s dual sim, a variant of the Desire 820 smartphone is now available in India, according to Mumbai-based retailer Mahesh Telecom. It has a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) display, Android 4.4 Kitkat OS with HTC Sense 6 UI on top, features a 13-megapixel rear camera, 8-megapixel front-facing camera and dual-front-facing BoomSound speakers, similar to the Desire 820, but it is powered by a 1.7GHz Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6752 processor instead of Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor. It has Dual SIM support and 4G connectivity. Continue reading “HTC Desire 820s dual sim now available in India for Rs. 24490”

Eddy Cartoon Network Creativity and Ben 10 tablets for Kids launched for Rs. 8990 and Rs. 9990

Eddy Cartoon Network launch

Metis Learning’s Eddy has partnered with Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) to launch Creativity and Ben 10 tablets for children. The Creativity tablet comes pre-loaded with hundreds of activities, apps and videos designed to nurture creativity in children and the Ben 10 tablet is designed to provide hours of learning and entertainment to kids with 1,000 minutes of Ben 10 content, thousands of books and world’s best learning games, says the company. Continue reading “Eddy Cartoon Network Creativity and Ben 10 tablets for Kids launched for Rs. 8990 and Rs. 9990”

Android Wear could get gesture control and WiFi support in new update

Android Wear is expected to get a couple of important features in next update, as per a report from The Verge. The new update will bring gesture control and WiFi support to Android Wear.

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Kingston launches limited edition microSD cards in India for Cricket World Cup 2015

Kingston Limited Edition microSD starsports pack

Kingston Technology has launched Limited Edition microSD cards in India for cricket fans for this Cricket World Cup 2015. Each pack of these limited edition microSD cards have a code that allows the users watch Live ICC World Cup 2015 on starsports.com and hotstar for 7 days. Continue reading “Kingston launches limited edition microSD cards in India for Cricket World Cup 2015”

Google likely to include ‘Multi-Window’ support in future Android updates

It seems like Google might add a Multi-Window’ support in future Android updates. The possibility of the new feature has been spotted on Google’s AOSP framework commit.

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Xiaomi Redmi 2 India launch scheduled for March 12

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Xiaomi has finally confirmed the launch of its Redmi 2 smartphone in India tomorrow, March 12th. The Redmi 2 is the successor of Redmi 1S that was launched in India for Rs. 5,999. The Redmi 2 packs a faster 64-bit Snapdragon processor and also comes with 4G LTE connectivity. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 2 India launch scheduled for March 12”

HTC One E9 gets certified in China, images surface

HTC One E9 TENAA

HTC smartphone codenamed A55 that surfaced last month has now been certified in China on TENAA as HTC One E9pw. This shows the smartphone in White Gold color with usual dual front-facing speakers. It also confirms the 5.5-inch display and its dimensions, but the display resolution is not confirmed yet. Earlier rumors revealed that it will have a Quad HD screen and will powered by a MediaTek MT6795 64-bit Octa-Core SoC.  Continue reading “HTC One E9 gets certified in China, images surface”