Micromax is the leading mobile phone vendor in India based on shipments, according to a report from CounterPoint Research. Last week’s Canalys report revealed that Motorola overtook Nokia to become the fourth largest smartphone vendor in India in Q2 2014. According to the CounterPoint Research report, Indian mobile phone market grew 2% annually and smartphone segment grew 68% annually. Continue reading “Micromax overtakes Samsung to become leading mobile phone vendor in India in Q2 2014”
Mobile gamers all around have a lot to look forward to later this year. 2K Games, the studio behind the hit franchise, BioShock, today announced that the first game in the franchise will be making its way over to the iOS platform. The company says that BioShock on the iPhone and iPad will be a premium game and hence will carry a price tag that will be anywhere from $10 to $30 Continue reading “Bioshock 1 headed to the iPhone and iPad later this year”
Like every year, Samsung will announce the next generation of the Galaxy Note 4 later this year. Following tradition, it was expected that the Korean giant would launch it at IFA and right on cue, Samsung has started sending out invitations for its Galaxy Note 4 launch event ahead of IFA in Berlin.
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Live images of the Black Samsung Galaxy Alpha showed up last month. It was said to come with aluminium build on the sides, now new images of the white variant of the Samsung Galaxy Alpha has surfaced on a weibo, showing off the phone’s brushed metal frame on the sides of the phone. It also has shiny chrome rim around.
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Photos of an alleged iPad Air 2 rear shell have leaked online. The images show a rear shell with a redesigned speaker grill and a relocated rear microphone next to the camera.
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Google is reportedly preparing a tool that will allows Nexus 5 owners to get customized cases for their phone. Dubbed as ‘Google Workshop’ the tool will also offer a live wallpaper as per users choice along with the case.
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Milagrow has launched M2Pro 3G Call, new range of tablets. The Milagrow M2Pro 3G Call 8GB comes with a 6.5-inch WVGA screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core MediaTek processor, has a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. Both the Milagrow M2Pro 3G Call 16GB and 32GB variants have 7.9-inch (1024 x 768 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. All these run on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean).
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Nokia Networks has topped China Mobile’s quality assessment of its commercial TD-LTE network. The company is touted to report best network performance as well as the fastest network implementation across the top 10 provincial capitals in China.
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Celkon has launched Signature Two A500, the company’s new budget smartphone in the Signature series in partnership with Flipkart. It has a 5-inch FWVGA screen, powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. Continue reading “Celkon Signature Two A500 with 5-inch display, 1GB RAM, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 5999”
GOQii, the relatively new smart fitness band maker has received a funding from new investors including WhatsApp’s Neeraj Arora and Amazon’s Marco Argenti.
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Obi Mobiles launched the Octopus S520, the company’s first smartphone last month. We already brought the unboxing of the Octopus S520 smartphone, 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 “Obi Octopus S520 Benchmarks”
Vine has improved the video recording quality on its Android mobile app in the latest update. Prior to this update, video recording quality on the app was quiet poor.
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LG’s G Watch is amongst the first Android Wear running devices out there and has achieved moderate success amongst the enthusiast circles. With early adoption comes a bit of a risk though and this was witnessed by an increasing number of users in the form of corrosion buildup on the POGO pins located at the back of the watch. LG is now pushing out a software update to fix this hardware issue. Continue reading “LG G Watch software update to fix hardware corrosion issues”
The US President Barack Obama has signed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act into law. This essentially means that it is now legal to unlock a cell phone in the United States.
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China’s Rikomagic announced it’s MK902 II TV box some time back, but it’s yet to see light of day with expectant buyers queuing up. However, from what we’re hearing, this is all set to change.
Continue reading “Rikomagic’s Rockchip RK3288 powered MK902 II Android box will ship mid-August”
