Worldwide tablet market grew 11.5% year over year in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14) with shipments reaching 53.8 million units according to a latest report from the IDC.
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Xiaomi appoints Spotify’s Donovan Sung to lead international product development
Xiaomi has hired Spotify’s Donovan Sung to lead international product development, according to a latest report from TechCrunch. The report comes weeks after the Chinese telecom maker hired Jai Mani as lead product manager in India.
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Google Play Books for Android gets Material Design, skimming and browsing features
Google Play Books is the latest app that is being given a Material Design tweak. The Android app for Play Book is being updated with redesigned reading experience that’s optimized for nonfiction books.
Samsung Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 with slim unibody metal design announced
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 smartphones in its new A Series, after several rumors.Both these smartphones have full metal unibody, slim designs. These are Samsung’s slimmest smartphone to date. The Galaxy A5 is just 6.7mm thick and the Galaxy A3 is 6.9mm thick. These are aimed at young and trend conscious consumers, says the company. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 with slim unibody metal design announced”
Amazon Appstore offers over $115 worth apps and games for free for limited period
Amazon Appstore is back with another free apps offer. Today the company has announced that it would offer 39 paid Android apps and games worth over $115 for free on the Amazon AppStore starting Thursday, 30th October to Saturday, 1st November 2014. Last month the company offered 27 apps worth $135 for free . This time it offers some interesting apps like, Endomondo Sports Tracker PRO, Plex and games like Fruit Ninja, World of Goo, Plants vs. Zombies, Sonic Hedgehog 4 Episode I and more. Continue reading “Amazon Appstore offers over $115 worth apps and games for free for limited period”
ADATA UC330 Dual USB Drive for Smartphones launched in India starting from Rs. 550
ADATA Technology, Taiwan-based company popular for its memory modules and NAND Flash products has launched UC330, the company’s latest Dual USB Drive with dual (micro-USB and a USB 2.0) connectors in India. This comes in 8, 16, 32 and 64GB variant and lets you easily transfer data from compatible smartphones or tablets to PCs and Laptops and vice versa. This competes with OTG USB drives from SanDisk, Kingston and Sony in India. Continue reading “ADATA UC330 Dual USB Drive for Smartphones launched in India starting from Rs. 550”
Angry Birds Transformers now available for Android
Rovio, creators of popular Angry Birds game has launched Angry Birds Transformers for Android, couple of after it was launched for iOS, as it promised. This has a different gameplay, compared to other Angry Birds themed games. It has Autobirds, brave band of heroes that features Red as Optimus Prime, Chuck as Bumblebee and more. These have lasers and turn into cars. The Autobirds can’t save Piggy Island on their own – to stop the EggBots they’ll need to join forces with their arch rivals the Deceptihogs. Continue reading “Angry Birds Transformers now available for Android”
Intex to launch new start screen interface for its smartphones based on Start by Celltick
After Karbonn, Intex has partnered with Celltick to launch an intelligent interface for its Android smartphones, based on Start launcher. The company already announced that OEMs can partner with them to create own flavor of Start. Celltick will become the default start screen interface on Intex’s Android smartphones. Continue reading “Intex to launch new start screen interface for its smartphones based on Start by Celltick”
Lenovo completes Motorola acquisition for $2.91 billion
Lenovos’s Motorola acquisition is a done deal. Motorola Mobility is officially a part of Lenovo as the $2.91 billion acquisition that was announced in January earlier this year has been completed.
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Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 with 13.3-inch WQHD display, Windows 8.1 announced
After its 8-inch and 10.1-inch Yoga Tablet 2 models, Lenovo has announced a 13.3-inch model. It has a 13.3-inch (2560 x 1440 pixels) WQHD IPS Display with 178-degree viewing angle and is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom Processor, similar to the 13.3-inch Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 Pro tablet. Continue reading “Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 with 13.3-inch WQHD display, Windows 8.1 announced”
Apple iPhone 6 Review
Is this the same Apple we’ve known for all these years? Well, the company has evolved leaps and bounds after the Steve Jobs era. Apple under the guidance of Tim Cook is doing things that we never thought we will ever get to see from the Cupertino giant.
Starting from a plastic iPhone to all those cheeky ads mocking its competition, we’ve seen it all. Perhaps, the only thing that went missing was a big iPhone, but it’s here today – however, it took a long time coming. Apple always said that they do things their way and don’t care about what other manufacturers are doing, but the time has come where the company has left is arrogance behind and produced a device that most of you were asking for. Continue reading “Apple iPhone 6 Review”
Xiaomi tablet with 9.2-inch display, Snapdragon 410 SoC shows up in benchmarks
Xiaomi introduced their first tablet, the Mi Pad back in May, now a 9.2-inch tablet with 1280 x 720 pixels display and a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU has surfaced on GFXBench database. The tablet that runs on Android 4.4.4 (KitKat), according to the listing, doesn’t have a name yet. This was first spotted by Gizmobic. Continue reading “Xiaomi tablet with 9.2-inch display, Snapdragon 410 SoC shows up in benchmarks”
Flipboard App for Android and iOS gets major overhaul, features Zite powered topics and more
Flipboard has received a major revamp that includes a cleaner look and a bunch of customization tools for better news feed. The version 3.0 focuses on easy content discovery along with few enhancements.
Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides for Android gets Material Design and new features
Google is slowly updating all of its homegrown app with the latest Material Design look from Android 5.0. Today, the company is bringing the Material Design to Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides on Android. We have already seen the Material Design update for Play Store, Play Music and Play Movies and TV.
Google Nexus 9 Hands On and Photo Gallery
Google introduced the Nexus 9 tablet made by HTC earlier this month. The first Nexus 7, its successor and the nexus 10 had screens with 16:9 aspect ratio, but this has a 4:3 aspect ratio, similar to the iPad Mini and the Xiaomi Mi Pad. We got to check out the latest flagship Nexus tablet. Here is the hands-on and the photo gallery.
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