Google has ramped up its hardware offering on Google Glass. The company has doubled the RAM in Glass and now the devices will ship with 2GB RAM which was earlier only 1GB.
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With an aim to boost its mobile video ad offering, Opera Software has acquired mobile video advertiser AdColony. The deal was closed at $350 million of which $75 million in cash and potential earn-out payments of up to $275 million.
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Samsung announced its first Tizen based smartphone Z earlier this month. Today, photos of Samsung ZeQ have surfaced via FCC who had approved the smartphone in December last year. The photo of the device that was first spotted by SamMobile shows NTT Docomo variant that was set for launch in Japan.
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Microsoft’s mobile division signaled the continuation of its Android range of devices with the announcement of Nokia X2 yesterday. The latest Android device from the company not only sports new hardware on the inside, but also runs on the 2.0 version of the X Platform, a forked variant of Android that debuted with the original. It’s basically a heavily skinned OS based on AOSP, without Google Play services, and now it looks more like Windows Phone than ever. This is thanks to the 2.0 update’s visual improvements including a new quick settings menu, an app list and a multitasking switcher that has taken advantage of the new hardware home button freeing up functions for the back button. This new hardware level change has rendered the older range Nokia X, X+ and XL devices incapable of this upgrade, says Nokia in its latest blog.
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BlackBerry has launched the BlackBerry Z3, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Z series, as we reported last week. It was announced earlier this year at the MWC and is one of the first BlackBerry smartphones made by Foxconn. It packs a 5-inch qHD screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and 1.5GB RAM. It runs on the latest BlackBerry 10 OS, comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.1-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “BlackBerry Z3 launched in India for Rs. 15990”
Huawei has officially announced it high-end smartphone the Honor 6. The phone boasts of a 5 inch 1080p display which covers 75.7% of the front thereby leaving only 2.86 mm of bezel.
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Chinese chip vendor Spreadtrum Communications today introduced SC883XG, a TD-SCDMA / GSM / GPRS / EDGE multi-mode quad-core smartphone platform with 28nm process technology.
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Nokia has released Imaging and SensorCore software development kits (SDK )for Nokia Lumia handsets. The company had announced the release of beta version of Nokia Imaging SDK 1.2 in April at Build 2014. Today, it is announcing the official release of the SDK whic is ready for the converged Windows platform. 
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Microsoft is putting more power into Lumia Windows phones by updating Nokia camera app. The version 4.7.2.5 now adds support for living images that will allow users to click images in a GIF-like format. These photos are then added with a background score and hence turn them into videos.
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Micromax launched the Canvas Knight A350 earlier this year running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Soon after the launch Unite 2 A106, its first smartphone running Android 4.4 (KitKat), Micromax released Canvas Entice A105 and Canvas Gold A300 running Android 4.4 KitKat out of the box. Now it is advertising on its Facebook and official website that the Canvas Knight comes with Android 4.4.2 (KitKat). Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Knight A350 now comes with Android 4.4 KitKat”
Spice Retail Limited has launched Spice Stellar 600, the company’s first smartphone running Android 4.4 (KitKat). It surfaced online earlier today as Stellar Mi-600 and packs a 6-inch (960 x 540 pixels), powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 3.2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby, similar to other Spice smartphones. Continue reading “Spice Stellar 600 with 6-inch qHD display, Android 4.4 officially launched for Rs. 9999”
Most of the Indian mobile users have a tough time asking for something to their personal mobile voice assistant due to their Indian accent. Thanks to Google, they will not have the problem henceforth as the company has added support for Indian dialects and accents to Google Voice.
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There’s no doubting the fact that phablets have gained consumer approval and are now considered a mainstream category of devices. HTC has so far kept its distance from these large screen devices with the One Max being its largest smartphone till date. With the Desire 816, HTC is bringing it’s A-Game to the mid range. As the upper end of smartphones hits a plateau, it is the mid range that is proving to be rather interesting. In our review we take a look at the HTC Desire 816 in a bid to determine if the handset really does fulfill all our desires. Continue reading “HTC Desire 816 Review: Sum of all Desires”
Google is adding improvements in to Google Play Games with several features, according to Android Police. For starters, Play Games is getting Quest notifications that will alert the player whenever new quests are available, send notifications letting them know a quest has started and also when the quest was completed. Helping developers expand on the use of quests within games is a great move by Google.
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Samsung has announced Galaxy S5 Sport for Sprint in the U.S. It’s a variant of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Active with slight changes in the design and new colors. Otherwise it has similar hardware keys, IP67 water and dust resistant and specifications as the S5 Active including a 5.1-inch full HD (1920×1080 pixels) Super AMOLED display, 2.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor and it runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Samsung own UI on top. Unlike the S5 Active, this is not shockproof. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport announced for Sprint”
