Microsoft invested $15 million in location sharing app Foursquare in February this year. Today, the company has integrated Foursquare’s data into Cortana, its own digital voice assistant.
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Micromax Canvas L A108, the company’s latest phablet has been listed on the official website. It has a 5.5-inch qHD screen, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel fixed focus front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support similar to other Micromax smartphones. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas L A108 with 5.5-inch qHD display, Android 4.4 listed on official website”
Asus launched the Zenfone 6, top-end smartphone in the Zenfone series in India recently. We already brought you the unboxing, benchmarks and the photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have the camera samples of the smartphone. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, BSI sensor, five-element lenses, f/2.0 aperture and comes with optical image stabilization. The whole package is called the “pixelmaster” by ASUS. Continue reading “Asus Zenfone 6 Camera Samples”
LinkedIn has given its mobile apps a major overhaul. The update which aims at making connections stronger, revamps user profiles on mobile. It adds contextal information to the profiles thereby making it easy to initiate conversations with new people.
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HTC is working on a flagship Windows Phone 8.1 handset based on HTC One (M8), according to several reports. Earlier this month @evleaks said the HTC’s W8 Windows Phone handset would feature BoomSound and Duo cameras, similar to the HTC One (M8). According the Engadget’s sources, the device is expected to be called “One (W8) for Windows”. It also says that it would feature voice over LTE, but it is likely to be enabled by Windows Phone 8.1 GDR1 update. Continue reading “HTC One (W8) Windows Phone handset rumored for August 21 launch”
Obi Mobiles, based in Gurgaon announced the launch of India operations back in April. The company is promoted by Inflexionpoint, popular IT supply chain company co-founded by John Sculley, Ex CEO of Apple. The Obi Octopus S520 that was launched earlier this month is the company’s first smartphone. Priced at Rs. 11,990, it is one of the cheapest smartphones powered by a Octa-Core MediaTek processor in India. Check out the unboxing below.
Google is developing a Knowledge graph tool that pulls data from Wikipedia to create interactive timelines based on the item being searched. The feature generates content from Wikipedia in a periodic manner about search queries.
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Samsung launched the Galaxy Tab S 10.5, the company’s latest flagship tablet in the Tab S range in India earlier this month. Even though the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition and the Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 had 2560×1600 WQXGA resolution screens, this is the first time Samsung has used WQXGA Super AMOLED display on a tablet. The main USP of the tablet is its display, and Samsung has implemented new technologies to improve the display. Is this the best high-end Android tablet? Let us find out in the complete review. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Review”
Microsoft has updated Outlook.com for Android with several features. The app now syncs email history and adds the ability to access them in the cloud. The update also adds unlimited syncing of emails and these can be checked even when a user is offline.
Users of Windows Phone devices have long been left out of the fitness bands and wearables group due to lack of official applications on the platform. Earlier this year, Microsoft had claimed that it was working on changing that. With the Windows Phone 8.1 update, the mobile operating system got much improved bluetooth support including much needed Bluetooth LE support which is most important for low power wearables. Fitbit is the first company to take advantage of it. Continue reading “Fitbit comes to Windows Phone 8.1”
Yesterday, there were reports about Google and Motorola working on a large screen Nexus device that is code named Shamu. Today, a new report from The Information is adding more support to the previous report stating that the duo is in fact working on a “phablet sized device”.
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Facebook is killing the ability for users to send and receive message from its mobile app on Android and iPhone. The social network is forcing users to download the standalone messenger app as it is separating it from the main app.
Users of the unlocked HTC One M8 based in Europe are now receiving the Android v4.4.3 update for their devices. This comes only a handful days after US folks got treated to the update.
The update takes the software version to 2.22.401.4, and measures a hefty 613MB. So make sure you’re loaded with either WiFi or a high-speed 3G pack before you head out for the update.
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The duo of China’s Xiaomi and India’s Flipkart is all set to open sale for the Xiaomi Mi3 smartphone later today.
This will now be the second time that the device goes on sale in the country on Flipkart. Earlier, the Mi3 went on sale on the 22nd this month when stocks vanished in a matter of under 40 minutes. Flipkart and Xiaomi would hope to repeat the successful sale sans the server crash that Flipkart had to face.
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Samsung launched the Galaxy K zoom in India earlier this month, exclusively on Amazon.in. As a launch offer, it offers Auto PoP cover worth Rs. 1,999 free with the smartphone . We already unboxed the camera-centric K zoom smartphone, here we have the unboxing of the Auto Pop Cover for the K zoom. Check out the unboxing below. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy K zoom Auto PoP Cover Unboxing”
