LG unveiled the L Fino and L Bello, budget Android smartphones with 3G support in the L series few weeks back. LG also showcased these smartphones at the IFA, today the company announced that it would roll out both these smartphones globally starting this week. Both these smartphones run on Android 4.4 (KitKat) and have G3-like rear buttons and premium UX software features. Continue reading “LG L Fino and L Bello global roll out begins this week”
Google has acquired Polar, an online polling company for an undisclosed sum. Polar is a startup that allows anyone to create a visual poll for their website or app.
Continue reading “Google buys online polling service start-up Polar”
Alcatel launched the Pop 8 S tablet at IFA along with a couple of other smartphone and tablets. We got our hands on the device at the event and here is the sneak peak of the device along with photo gallery. Continue reading “Alcatel OneTouch Pop 8S Hands On and Photo Gallery”
Micromax launched the Canvas Nitro A310, the company’s latest high-end Canvas smartphone earlier this week. We brought the unboxing and the photo gallery of the Canvas Nitro recently, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a 1.66 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor which has 8 ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs and is based on 28nm HPM. It has a Mali 450-MP4 GPU, comes with a 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). We already have quite a few smartphones in India powered by the same Octa-Core chip. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 Benchmarks”
Yahoo has rolled out New Digest App on iPad that delivers twice daily digests, each consisting of eight to 12 stories based on the day’s biggest headlines.
The new version will also include a weekly video segment from anchor Katie Couric, recapping one news story from the past week. Yahoo launched the News Digest app in January this year. It is a product of Summly acquisition made by the company last year. The News Digest app was first available on iPhone and launched on Android later in May.
The app also brings a couple of additional features for the iPad. For starters, it has been optimized for a tablet and provides a beautiful landscape experience. Users can now customize the time of receiving the news update as per their convenience. They can choose anytime between 6am to 10am for the morning digest and 5pm to 9pm for their evening digest. Prior to this, these news updates came at a fixed time – 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Finally, after reading daily digest, users can further dig in for extra content on topics including technology and entertainment. You can download the Yahoo News Digest App for iPad from the Apple App Store.
via: Yahoo Blog
Intex has launched Aqua 4X, the company’s latest budget smartphones in the Aqua series. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. Continue reading “Intex Aqua 4X with 4-inch display, Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 2999”
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact that was unveiled earlier this month at the IFA 2014. The pricing was revealed as 429 GBP in UK, and online retailer Clove started taking pre-orders for the smartphone 432 GBP including VAT, now it has announced that the price of the Xperia Z3 Compact has been slashed to 349 GBP (US$ 560 or Rs. 34,460 approx) including VAT and 290.83 GBP (US$ 470 or Rs. 28,710 approx) excluding VAT. It would go on sale later this month. However, the official Sony Mobile store in UK is still taking pre-orders from the smartphone at 429 GBP. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z3 Compact up for pre-order in UK at 349 GBP”
HTC previously dismissed rumors about its plans on working on a smartwatch. According to a new report, HTC is still working on a smartwatch, which is expected to be announced in early 2015, according to a report from CNET.
Continue reading “HTC reportedly working on smartwatch, due early 2015”
Few months after releasing the Amazing Spider-Man 2 game, Gameloft has released Spider-Man Unlimited, an endless runner for Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms as it promised. The game is available for free, but it comes with in-app purchases. In this new game, you need to help Spider-Man defeat the new Sinister Six as they use a dimensional rift to create an army of themselves to take over Manhattan. Continue reading “Spider-Man Unlimited game released for Android, iOS and Windows Phone”
Sony has announced that its will not add further Android updates to Xperia L, M, C and SP. That means that for those of you who own these smartphones, an Android update will not be issued.
Continue reading “Sony Xperia L, M, C and SP not getting Android KitKat update”
HTC has launched Lock Screen Sense 6 app on the Google Play Store. With the new app, users can swipe right on the Lock Screen to jump straight into BlinkFeed, or swipe left to access the Widget Home or to the previous app. In addition, notifications, clock and weather are displayed on the lock screen.
Continue reading “HTC Sense 6 Lock Screen app hits Google Play Store”
Xiaomi has announced that 40,000 units of Remi 1S smartphones would be available in their third flash sale in India, similar to the first two Redmi 1S sale. It took 4.2 seconds for the company to sell all the units and in the second sale that happened earlier this week on September 9th, it took 4.5 seconds. Continue reading “Another 40,000 Redmi 1S units will go on sale in India on September 16”
SanDisk is one of the first companies to introduce new technologies in the market. The company introduced the world’s largest capacity microSD card for smart devices earlier this year, which was launched in India few months back. Now the company has announced 512GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I SD memory card for DSLR, advanced digital or HD video cameras, which is the world’s highest capacity SDXC card till date. Continue reading “SanDisk 512GB Extreme PRO SDXC world’s highest capacity SD card announced”
Google was planning to bring Android apps to its Chromebooks for quiet some time now. Today, the company has finally taken its first steps and announced four Android apps for their Chromebook.
Continue reading “Android apps like Vine, Evernote and more land on Google Chromebooks”
Earlier this month Microsoft China accidentally teased Windows 9 with a logo. Today, an array of leaked screenshots of the next iteration of Windows has been published by two German website WinFuture and Computerbase.
Continue reading “Leaked Windows 9 screenshots show redesigned Start Menu, new features and more”
