Samsung Galaxy E5 Photo Gallery

Samsung Galaxy E5_fonearena-01

Samsung launched the Galaxy E5 smartphone in India for Rs 19,300 earlier this month. The phone has a uni-body design and is another device from company’s E series of smartphone. We have already seen the unboxing of the phone, now lets take a look at the hardware of the phone in this photo gallery. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy E5 Photo Gallery”

Samsung Galaxy A5 Camera Samples

Samsung Galaxy A5_fonearena-05

Samsung launched the Galaxy A5 smartphone with all metal build and 4G connectivity in India earlier this month for Rs. 25,550. We already brought you the unboxing, photo gallery, benchmarks and the battery test results, here we have the camera samples. The Galaxy A5 has a 13-megapixel sensor with f/2.0 aperture.  It has several modes such as HDR, panorama, shot & more, Rear-cam selfie, beauty face and more. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A5 Camera Samples”

Samsung Galaxy E5 Unboxing

Samsung Galaxy E5_fonearena-03

Samsung launched the Galaxy E Series smartphones in India earlier this month. Priced at Rs. 19,300, the Galaxy E5 is a bit cheaper than the Galaxy E7 that costs Rs. 23,000. The design language of the E series is similar to the A series, including a uni-body design, but these don’t have all metal build. Check out the unboxing below.

Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy E5 Unboxing”

Microsoft Office for Android tablets exits preview, available for download

Microsoft Office for Android tablet has come out of preview phase after three months. Word, Excel and Powerpoint can now be downloaded for Android tablets.

Android office tablet
Continue reading “Microsoft Office for Android tablets exits preview, available for download”

Oppo R5 Review: Fashionably thin

Oppo R5

When touchscreens happened, the keys disappeared, and suddenly, we had a lot of sleek devices, telling us science fiction-to-fruition is indeed possible. It was simple, you didn’t need depth for even the thinnest of keyboards and it was just a screen and glass on top of other complicated electronics. So, then thinning of the other parts and refinement of the glass (did you know, Gorilla Glass 2 had a 20% reduction in thickness vs 1?) were the subsequent steps to get the slimmest device possible, and it seems the Chinese have broken new ground.

Continue reading “Oppo R5 Review: Fashionably thin”

Samsung Galaxy S6 and S Edge will likely support Gear VR: Report

We have seen too many reports on the specs and features of the Galaxy S6. Now a latest one from SamMobile is stating that Galaxy S6 and S Edge will be compatible with Samsung Gear VR headset.

samsung-gear-vr-hands-on-5  Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 and S Edge will likely support Gear VR: Report”

Meizu m1 with 5-inch HD display, 64-bit quad-core SoC, 4G LTE announced

Meizu m1

Meizu has announced Meizu m1, the company’s latest budget smartphone in China. It has a 5-inch (1280 x 768 pixels) IPS display, is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6732 64-bit processor with ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit CPUs and Mali-T760 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 Kitkat-based Flyme OS. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Meizu m1 with 5-inch HD display, 64-bit quad-core SoC, 4G LTE announced”

Motorola smartphone sales cross 3 million in India, to open experience zones

Moto X 2014_fonearena-01

Motorola has announced that it has sold 3 million Motorola smartphones in India till date. This includes all the Motorola smartphones in Moto G and Moto X series and Moto E. Back in November 2014 Flipkart announced that it sold 2.5 million smartphones in India. It took about 2 months for the company to sell half a million smartphones. Continue reading “Motorola smartphone sales cross 3 million in India, to open experience zones”

10,000 units of YU YUREKA sold out in 3 seconds in 3rd sale

YU YUREKA_fonearena-11

YU today announced that it has sold 10,000 units of YU YURKA smartphones in just 3 seconds in the third flash sale on Amazon.in. It sold 15,000 units of Yureka smartphones in 4 seconds in its second flash sale last week. Next sale is scheduled for next Thursday, February 5th at 2PM. Registrations for the next sale will begin at 5PM today on Amazon. Users will have to register to participate in the weekly flash sale and registrations of previous sales will not be valid for future sales, said the company. Continue reading “10,000 units of YU YUREKA sold out in 3 seconds in 3rd sale”

Xiaomi to sell smartphones via its own website in India

Xiaomi is putting all its forces together towards being the leading smartphone maker in India. A latest report from PTI is stating that the Chinese smartphone maker will start selling smartphones from its own portal in the country.

Xiaomi Redmi Note-13 Continue reading “Xiaomi to sell smartphones via its own website in India”

Moto E 2nd Gen running Android 5.0 Lollipop surface in renders

Motorola Moto E 2nd Gen leak

Renders of the second generation Moto E has surfaced online. Android Police has got hold of these images that shows a smartphone with a similar design of the Moto E that runs Android 5.0 (Lollipop). This doesn’t have a front-facing speaker, but has a front-facing camera that was not present in the first generation Moto E. The rear camera doesn’t have a flash, but the phone has a secondary microphone next to the camera. Continue reading “Moto E 2nd Gen running Android 5.0 Lollipop surface in renders”

LG Q4 2014 profits up 28% YoY, 15.6 million smartphones shipped

LG G3 Stylus Gold_fonearena-03

LG Electronics has reported revenues of 15.27 trillion won (US$ 14.06 billion) in Q4 2014 that ended December 31st, 2014, an increase of 4.9% compared to the same quarter last year with operating profit of 275.1 billion (US$ 253.31 million), an increase of 28 percent from the same period the previous year. Net profit for the fourth quarter showed a net loss of 205.7 billion won (US$ 189.41 million) primarily due to the write-off resulting from the closure of LG’s plasma TV operations, said the company. Continue reading “LG Q4 2014 profits up 28% YoY, 15.6 million smartphones shipped”

Samsung’s Q4 2014 profits down 27%, mobile revenue down 21% YoY

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Charcoal Black_fonearena-02

Samsung has reported its earnings for Q4 2014, in which the company has managed to make operating profit of 5.29 trillion won ($4.9 billion) for the quarter ended September 30, 2014, down 27% from 8.31 trillion won compared to the same quarter last year. It has reported net profit of 5.35 trillion won ($4.9 billion) on revenues of 52.73 trillion won ($48.6 billion), down 10% compared to the same quarter last year, up 11% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ). Continue reading “Samsung’s Q4 2014 profits down 27%, mobile revenue down 21% YoY”