Since BT confirmed they were in talks to buy EE and not O2, there’s been a lot of rumours that Three UK owner Hutchinson Whampoa Limited (HWL) would attempt to acquire O2 in a bid to strengthen its UK position. This morning the company have issued a press release confirming they are in exclusive talks to buy O2 UK from Spanish parent Telefónica, S.A. in a deal worth £9.25 billion. Continue reading “Three UK to buy O2 UK for £9.25 billion”
Samsung has been working on a new wearable health sensor for the past two years. The engineers at Samsung’s C-Labs have announced that they are working on a wearable that has the ability to detect strokes in the wearer.
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OnePlus has launched its OnePlus One smartphone in Indonesia. It has partnered with Lazada to sell the smartphone in the country. This is the first market that OnePlus has entered in Southeast Asia, said the company. It was launched in India last month, and is still in huge demand. Continue reading “OnePlus One launches in Indonesia”
Microsoft has introduced the next version of Office that is dubbed as Office 2016. The next version of its fully-featured Office suite of desktop PC applications will be released later this year.
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More images of the upcoming HTC One M9 has been leaked. This time the phone images are less blurry and shows that the power button has been moved from the top of the device to a more accessible location on the right side near volume rockers.
Lenovo launched the S580 handset from its S series last month in India for Rs. 8,999. The budget smartphone was launched exclusively on Snapdeal. Lenovo S580 comes pre-installed with Lenovo’s proprietary DOit apps for seamless data sharing, security and syncing and other features. Let’s take a detailed look of the phone in this review. Continue reading “Lenovo S580 Review”
Vodafone India today announced that Sunil Sood will replace Marten Pieters as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Current CEO Marten Pieters will step down as Managing Director and Chief Executive of Vodafone India from 1st April 2015, however he will continue to remain on the Board of Vodafone India in a non-executive capacity, said the company. Continue reading “Sunil Sood to replace Marten Pieters as Vodafone India CEO”
Amkette has launched a super slim power bank for mobile phones. The 6.7mm 2500mAh mobile power bank can be used for Android as well as an iPhone.
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HTC is all set to launch Desire 626, a new smartphone in the Desire 600 series. Press images and complete specifications of the smartphone have been leaked by @upleaks. According to the leak, the smartphone would come with a 5-inch HD display and would run on Android 4.4 Kitkat with HTC Sense UI on top. It would get Android 5.0 update later, says the leakster. It would come with a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “HTC Desire 626 press images, specifications leaked”
Earlier this month, Twitter started rolling out “While You Were Away” feature for some users. Today, the micro blogging site has officially launched the feature for iPhone users.
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Dropbox has finally made its way to Windows Phone Store. The much anticipated app for the popular cloud storage service will be now work on Windows phone and tablets.
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Micromax’s YU has announced that it sold 15,000 units of Yureka smartphones in just 4 seconds in its second flash sale on Amazon.in. In the first sale 10,000 units sold out in 3 seconds. The website did not crash after the sale opened, like the first sale. Some managed to order the smartphone, but most users couldn’t get the smartphone and were added to the waitlist, which didn’t open up. Continue reading “15,000 YU YUREKA smartphones sold out in 4 seconds, next sale on Jan 29”
Acer has launched two new Chromebooks that are designed specially for students. The 15-inch (C910) and 11.6-inch (C740) Chromebooks are the latest ones from Acer that will withstand daily damage.
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YotaPhone with dual displays was launched in India on Flipkart back in October at a price tag of Rs. 23,499. It has got a huge price cut to Rs. 17,999 in one month after the release. Now the smartphone has received price cut of Rs. 5,000 and is available for Rs. 12,999 from Flipkart. The YotaPhone has a 4.3-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) LCD multi-touch main screen and a 4.3-inch (360×640 pixels) E-Ink rear screen. The phone also has special YotaPhone gestures and Put2Back applications for the back screen. Continue reading “YotaPhone gets another price cut in India, now available for Rs. 12999”
WhatSim, a SIM card that lets users access the popular mobile-messaging service WhatsApp all over the world has been launched. The SIM card will allow users to connect WhatsApp to any of 400 operators in 150 countries.
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