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Oppo’s Pete Lau teams up with Steve Kondik to create the perfect Android flagship

Over the past few months, Oppo has come up as one of the most notable smartphone brands emerging out of China. The company had trumpeted their appreciation for CyanogenMod and made it easy for users to shift to the third party ROM on their phones. However it looks like the company’s VP Pete Lau will be leaving Oppo to launch a new brand in association with Cyanogen’s Steve Kondik. The two are all set to create a new smartphone that will be powered by the CyanogenMod ROM and have high end specifications. Continue reading “Oppo’s Pete Lau teams up with Steve Kondik to create the perfect Android flagship”

Modern Combat 5 optimized for MediaTek MT6592 Octa-Core chip coming in early 2014

Modern Combat 5

Gameloft has partnered with MediaTek to announce that the upcoming Modern Combat sequel would be optimized for MediaTek’s MT6592 Octa-Core chip. This would be first game optimized for the new chip, which would include, enhanced graphics including, water distortion effects, reflections and shadowing. Since it is a fast moving action game, the MT6592 chip would offer continuous scrolling in high definition with attention to detail from soft particle display to enhanced depth of field to create a more immersive experience, says the company. Continue reading “Modern Combat 5 optimized for MediaTek MT6592 Octa-Core chip coming in early 2014”

Sony Xperia Z1 Giveaway Winner Announcement

We started the Asphalt 8: Airborne contest, in association with Gameloft, a fortnight back, and as promised, today we reveal the lucky winner of the Sony Xperia Z1 and more. Before that, we’d like to thank all the participants who took their time to participate in this contest, the response has been nothing short of amazing. A lot of you answered the moderately tough questions, making the contest really competitive, and kudos to that! Out of the many entries, we have selected a number of winners, with one winning the grand prize – Sony Xperia Z1! Are you the lucky one? Find out below.

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Qualcomm Toq Smartwatch will be available for $349.99 starting December 2nd

Qualcomm Toq, a proof of concept Smartwatch from Qualcomm has been given a price tag and an availability date. It is priced at 349.99 USD and is slated to be available for order, starting December 2nd. The smartwatch, which is meant to be a show and tell of Qualcomm tech in the upcoming wearable computing era, uses several of its technologies like Mirasol and WiPower LE. We had taken a hands on look at this device at IFA, Berlin, you can watch the video here –

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Amkette launches All In One Bluetooth Keyboard with support for Android and iOS devices

Amkette Smart All In One Bluetooth Keyboard

Amkette has launched All In One Bluetooth Keyboard with an inbuilt stand. This lets users place their smartphones and tablets on the stand and use it for their emails and notes, while travelling. The keyboard is Bluetooth enabled and is multi-platform compatible and is also portable. The durable keyboard has a metal bottom and comes with hotkeys for Music controls, volume, home, menu and back specifically made for iOS and Android devices. Continue reading “Amkette launches All In One Bluetooth Keyboard with support for Android and iOS devices”

Mercury launches 3G Mifi Router with inbuilt power bank

Mercury 3G Mifi Router

Kobian, popular for its computer peripherals and tablets has launched Mercury 3G Mifi Router with inbuilt power bank. This 3G routers lets you create instant Wi-Fi hotspot by simple inserting a 3G SIM card and also supports connectivity through 3G dongle or LAN wire. It lets you share the WiFi with 8 to 10 users simultaneously. Continue reading “Mercury launches 3G Mifi Router with inbuilt power bank”

How to setup an ad-hoc WiFi network on your laptop for any Android phone without root

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After some digging and going though a lot of paid apps to share WIFI hotspot, I have stumbled upon a very simple way to share your Laptop WIFI as ad hoc (Infrastructure mode) and use it on any Android phone without having to root and install a custom ROM that supports ad hoc like CyanogenMOD.

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Huawei Ascend P6S to pack an Octa-Core chip

Huawei Ascend P6S

Huawei Ascend P6, the company’s latest flagship smartphone that was launched in India last month featured an 1.5 GHz quad-core Huawei K3V2 processor. Now the company’s president has revealed on Weibo that it is planning to release the Ascend P6S with an Octa-Core K3V2+ processor. Smartphone with a model number P6 S-U06 appeared on a benchmarking website last month. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend P6S to pack an Octa-Core chip”

Xolo Q2000 Unboxing

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Xolo Q2000 is a dual SIMphone with a massive real estate of 5.5 inch touch screen. Quad-core 1.2 GHz processor powers the phone. Here’s a black Xolo Q2000. The Phablet is priced at Rupees 14,999 and was launched earlier this month. Check out the unboxing below.

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Intex to launch a 6-inch HD smartphone with 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor

Intex has announced that the company has tied-up with MediaTek again to launch India’s first smartphone featuring MediaTek’s MT6592 True Octa-Core processor. The upcoming Intex smartphone doesn’t have a name yet, but it would feature a 6-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display and run on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It would feature a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera similar to the Aqua i7. Continue reading “Intex to launch a 6-inch HD smartphone with 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor”

LG Nexus 10 (2013) images and specs surface, Snapdragon 800 processor and 3GB RAM

Nexus 10 2013 leak

Samsung made the first Nexus 10 tablet, and the next-gen Nexus 10 tablet was rumored to be manufactured by Asus that both the Nexus 7 and the Nexus 7 2013. A new reveals that the tablet would be manufactured by LG. The Nexus 10 (2013) has appeared on a listing by retailer Tesco before it was pulled, thanks to a reddit user who has the screenshot of the page that reveals the specifications of the tablet. Another Reddit user revealed Telefonica press render. Both the images look similar with a large loudspeaker grill on the top. Continue reading “LG Nexus 10 (2013) images and specs surface, Snapdragon 800 processor and 3GB RAM”

Apple reportedly buys PrimeSense for $345 Million for 3D motion tracking tech

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Apple has acquired PrimeSense, Tel Aviv-based company popular for its 3D sensing tech for $345 million, according to a report from Israeli financial news site Calcalist. PrimeSense technology is powering the Microsoft’s Kinect, AVA By iRobot used in healthcare, Qualcomm’s Vuforia AR technology and more. The company also sells 3D Sensors, which is being used in over 24 million devices, says the company. Continue reading “Apple reportedly buys PrimeSense for $345 Million for 3D motion tracking tech”

Does the Moto G lack the WiFi Hotspot feature ?

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We were all excited about the Motorola Moto G which is a $179 unlocked Android device with some really impressive specs for a phone in that price band. It is even coming soon to India as early as Jan 2014. But today something caught our attention on twitter. While responding to a user’s query , Motorola’s official account did mention that that the Moto G does not have the WiFi hotspot feature ! Now this is interesting because the Moto G runs on pretty much stock Android with no custom skin . But Google did disable WiFi hotspot in the Nexus 7 3G 2012 edition so this is not something totally new. This might be a move to prevent backlash from American carriers as they would require a tethering plan for the same. But the device itself costs only $179 without a contract so paying a premium for a tethering plan does not make any sense.

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Twitter partners with Star Sports to offer in-stream videos on mobile

Starsports.com and Twitter have partnered to offer in-stream videos on starsports.com for Twitter users, without leaving Twitter. As part of the partnership, whenever a link to starsports.com is tweeted, Twitter users on mobile will have the option to download the starsports.com application. Once the mobile application is installed, they will be able to open the app directly by clicking the tweeted link, to watch the video. Continue reading “Twitter partners with Star Sports to offer in-stream videos on mobile”

Intex Aqua i7 Review

The mid range smartphone market in India is insanely competitive to say the least. We have been seeing tons of companies make affordable phones with some of the specifications that are usually only reserved for the top end phones. But due to the same cut throat competition, we have also been seeing many similar devices, with common attributes like the display and the chipset. In that sense, the current market trend is this – a 5 inch 1080p display and a MediaTek 6589T processor. The Gionee Elife E6, the Micromax Canvas Turbo and of course, the Intex Aqua i7 are all part of this trend, improving upon the 720p screen based phones earlier. But is it really worth the effort and upgrade? We find out in our review and are going to see if the Aqua i7 delivers the usual promise of “more for less”.

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