Ford has announced Smart Mobility plan and an experimental Share-Car project in India. The company has also revealed a total of 25 global mobility experiments in selected countries.
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Verico International, Taiwan-based company popular for its smartphones, tablets and memory products today announced its entry into the Indian market by launching Uni SHAPE 5V3 smartphone by partnering exclusively with Snapdeal. It has a 5-inch qHD display and is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor processor, but this runs on old Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Verico forays into Indian market with Uni SHAPE 5V3 smartphone for Rs. 8999”
The Nokia N1 went on sale in China earlier today and revealed that the Nokia brand still has the market appeal as all 20,000 units in the first batch of Nokia N1 sold out in just 4 minutes after pre-orders opened. Continue reading “20,000 Nokia N1 units sold out in 4 minutes”
Hike Messaging app has acquired US based voice calling company Zip Phone for an undisclosed sum. This is the first acquisition from the messenger that is a product of BSB (Bharti SoftBank, a joint venture between Bharti Group and Japan’s SoftBank).
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Samsung revealed its preliminary earnings guidance that it is expecting 37% decrease in profits for the Q4, 2014. The company stated that operating profit for the October-December period was estimated at 5.2 trillion won (USD 4.7 billion), down 37.4 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2013.
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At end of December, Microsoft was rumored to be working on a new browser for Windows 10. Today, the browser that is codenamed as Spartan has been leaked in screenshots.
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LG has already revealed the vertically curved Flex 2 at CES 2015 and now the company has showed off new prototype smartphone sporting a dual-edge display that is curved on two sides. 
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Asus has announced Fonepad 7 (FE171CG), a refreshed variant of last year’s Fonepad 7 at the CES this year. It has a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) display and is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Intel Atom Z2520 processor with PowerVR SGX544 GPU, similar to the Asus Fonepad 7 FE170CG that was launched in India last year, but this runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) out of the box, comes with a 8-megapixel or 5-megapixel rear camera, 1GB or 2GB RAM depending on the region. Continue reading “Asus Fonepad 7 FE171CG with 7-inch display, Dual SIM and Voice Calling announced”
Four new Videocon Android smartphones, Infinium Z50Q Star, Infinium Z50Q Lite, Infinium Z40 Lite and Infinium Zest Lite have been listed on the official website. These have 5-inch FWVGA, 4-inch WVGA and 3.5-inch HVGA displays, respectively. The Infinium Z50Q Star, Infinium Z50Q Lite, Infinium Z40 Lite run on Android 4.4 (KitKat), while the entry-level Infinium Zest Lite runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). These smartphones have dual SIM support, but only the Infinium Z50Q Star, Z50Q Lite and Z40 Lite have 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Videocon Infinium Z50Q Star, Z40 Lite and Zest Lite listed on official website”
Intel has launched a new HDMI dongle that is actually a Windows 8.1 computer stick at CES 2015. Dubbed as Intel Compute stick, the device was teased in November last year.
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Apple’s Beats has been sued by audio-equipment maker Monster over stealing headphone technology. The company says that it had played an important role in design and engineering the popular headphones.
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Celkon Campus A400, the company’s latest entry-level smartphone in the Campus series is now available from HomeShop18. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1GHz processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. Continue reading “Celkon Campus A400 with 4-inch display, Android 4.4 now available for Rs. 2999”
HTC is expanding into other areas of technology, starting with Connected Devices and Internet of Things. The company will develop both hardware and software for different categories.
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BlackBerry has announced BBM for Android Wear at CES 2015. The popular messaging service from BlackBerry will be available on Android Wear smartwatches early this year.
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Off late, we have been receiving a lot of requests from you folks asking us to detail about the smartphone benchmarking. We heard you and today, we try to explain what these numbers really mean to you. Continue reading “Smartphone benchmarking – what do these numbers mean?”
