Spice Stellar 518 with 5-inch display, 4000mAh battery now available for Rs. 7799

Spice Stellar 518

Spice Stellar 518, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Stellar series with a whopping 4000mAh battery is now available from online retailer Saholic. It has a 5-inch FWVGA screen, powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. As usual it has dual SIM support and comes with 3G connectivity too.  Continue reading “Spice Stellar 518 with 5-inch display, 4000mAh battery now available for Rs. 7799”

SwiftKey for Android finally gets Material Design themes

SwiftKey Material Design Themes

Months after launching its own store called SwiftKey Store for themes, SwiftKey has finally released two new themes based on Google’s Material Design for its Android Keyboard. These two premium themes are called Material Dark and Material Light. These are inspired from the Material Themed Android L keyboard, but it has own unique SwiftKey touch, says the company. Continue reading “SwiftKey for Android finally gets Material Design themes”

Microsoft Lumia brand official, to replace Nokia Lumia soon

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Microsoft finished its deal of acquiring Nokia’s Devices & Services business earlier this year, after it was announced in September 2013. After some reports and some hints, Microsoft has officially announced that the Nokia Lumia brand will be replaced to Microsoft Lumia in coming weeks and months. Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia brand official, to replace Nokia Lumia soon”

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Unboxing in India – Snapdragon 805

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Samsung usually launches Exynos variant of their flagship devices in India, but this time it decided to launch the Snapdragon variant of the Note 4 smartphone. We recently brought you the unboxing of the Octa-Core Exynos variant (SM-N910C) of the Note 4, here we have the Snapdragon 805 variant (SM-N910G) for unboxing. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Unboxing in India – Snapdragon 805”

Android Wear update brings GPS support and offline music playback

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Sony introduced the SmartWatch 3 at the IFA last month, which would launch later this month. This this is the first Android Wear Smartwatch to come with built-in GPS support. Google has announced a new Android Wear update that would make use of GPS in the Sony SmartWatch 3 and also brings offline music playback in all the Android Wear watches. Continue reading “Android Wear update brings GPS support and offline music playback”

Sony SmartWatch 3 up for pre-order in the US for $249.99, shipping October-end

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Sony introduced the SmartWatch 3, the company’s first Android Wear-powered smartwatch at the IFA last month. At the announcement Sony just said that it would go on sale later in Autumn 2014 without any price tag. Now the company started taking pre-orders for the smartwatch  at Verizon Wireless in the U.S, which would ship by October 30th. It is priced at $249.99 ( Rs. 15,299 approx.). Sony says it would go on Google Play Soon in select countries. Continue reading “Sony SmartWatch 3 up for pre-order in the US for $249.99, shipping October-end”

LG G Watch R to roll out globally starting from November

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LG G Watch R rolled out in Korea last week, today the company has announced that it would roll out in Europe starting from November.  It was unveiled ahead of IFA and has a 1.3-inch (320 x 320 pixels) P-OLED Display, powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and is based on Android Wear platform. It has photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor to measure heartbeats. Continue reading “LG G Watch R to roll out globally starting from November”

LG NUCLUN Octa-Core processor announced, debuts in G3 Screen smartphone

LG NUCLUN

LG just announced NUCLUN (pronounced NOO-klun), the company’s first SoC targeted at high-end smartphone. It is an Octa-Core processor with four 1.5GHz cores ARM Cortex-A15 cores and four 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A7 cores. It is based on ARM big.LITTLE technology for better multitasking capabilities and even has  LTE-A Cat.6 support  for maximum download speeds of up to 225Mbps. Continue reading “LG NUCLUN Octa-Core processor announced, debuts in G3 Screen smartphone”

Facebook Rooms anonymous app released for iPhone

Facebook Rooms

After Paper, Slingshot and Mention, Facebook has released Room, an anonymous chat app for iPhone developed by Facebook Creative Labs team. As the name suggests, it’s a chat room app that was popular a decade back. It lets you create rooms for the things you’re into, and invite others. You can add text, photos, videos and more. Continue reading “Facebook Rooms anonymous app released for iPhone”

Xolo Q2100 Camera Samples

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Xolo launched Q2100, the company’s first Android smartphone with a fingerprint sensor earlier this month. We brought you the unboxing and benchmarks of the smartphone recently, here we have the camera samples. The Q2100 has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with Exmor R sensor, f/2.0 aperture and dual LED flash. Continue reading “Xolo Q2100 Camera Samples”

New Dell Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets now available in India, starts from Rs. 11999

New Dell Venue 7 and 8

Dell introduced new Dell Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets running Android 4.4 (KitKat) back in June. Now these tablets are available in India from official Dell website. The Venue 7 has a 7-inch HD (1280×800) display, powered by a dual-core Intel Atom (Z3460) processor, while the Venue 8 comes with a 8 inch full-HD (1920×1200) display and a dual-core Intel Atom (Z3480). Both the tablets have 1 GB RAM with 16GB inbuilt storage that can be expanded upto 64GB via microSD slot. Continue reading “New Dell Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets now available in India, starts from Rs. 11999”

Nokia Lumia 930 Unboxing

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Nokia launched the Lumia 930 smartphone in India earlier this month at a price tag of Rs. 38,649. The Lumia 930 comes to India months after the launch in several countries. It has a 5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) full HD ClearBlack AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 3 protection, powered by a 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and runs on Windows Phone 8.1 OS. We got to check out the smartphone, here is the unboxing. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 930 Unboxing”