Microsoft is preparing tablet version of its Office on Android tablets, according to a report from The Verge. The company is seeking beta testers for the same and has posted a sign-up page where individuals and companies can register their interest in testing pre-release versions of Office.
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Earlier this year Opera introduced Sponsored Web Pass, new mobile internet packages to consumers that lets operators team up with advertisers to sponsor mobile internet access for a limited time, free of cost. Today Idea Cellular has teamed up with Opera Software and Quikr, popular online mobile classifieds portal to offer sponsored mobile data through Sponsored Web Passes for its customers in India. Idea tied up with Opera earlier this year to launch Idea Web Pass. Continue reading “Opera Sponsored Web Pass with free mobile internet access launched in India on Idea”
Android Wear apps have paved their way to Google Play Store. Smartwatches running on the latest Android Wear are already flooding the markets and to use them efficiently, Google has released few apps that support Android Wear.
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Airtel today launched its new 3G dongle that would offer download speeds of up to 21.6 Mbps on 3G. This lets users create a Wi-Fi hotspot easily by plugging it into a laptop, phone charger or a car stereo. This can be shared with up to 5 devices simultaneously. It also has a microSD card slot and comes with SMS support. This dongle is manufactured by ZTE. Continue reading “Airtel launches 21Mbps 3G dongle, offers cashback for postpaid plans”
HTC has announced the HTC One (M8) dual SIM, the dual SIM variant of the HTC One (M8) that was unveiled earlier this year. Other than the dual SIM support, all the other features are similar to the single SIM variant, including a 5.0-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display with Corning Gorilla glass protection, quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, Android 4.4 (KitKat) with the new HTC Sense 6.0 UI. Continue reading “HTC One M8 dual SIM with Snapdragon 801, Android 4.4 announced”
Google has announced a major update to Google Play Services to all the Android devices worldwide. The 5.0 update to Google Play Services brings support to Android Wear. This will bring new APIs that will let developers connect their apps to wearable devices running Android Wear. It will also allow them to easily sync information between their phone apps and wearable devices.
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Microsoft and Canon have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement. The company did not disclose the exact term of the deal but said that both will share intellectual property on a “broad range of products and services,” including those for certain digital imaging and mobile consumer products.
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LG L90 Dual, the company’s top-end smartphone in the L Series III lineup went on sale in India earlier this year. The L90 Dual has a 4.7-inch qHD IPS display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Google’s custom skin on top. It also has LG Knock Code, a new customizable option to unlock the phone by tapping the lockscreen number of times in number of ways. Check out the unboxing video below. Continue reading “LG L90 Dual Unboxing”
Earlier this week Amazon India said that it would bring the Samsung Galaxy K zoom to India exclusively. Amazon India has just announced that the camera-centric smartphone would be available for pre-order on its website for Rs. 29,999 starting today midnight. It would launch in India exclusively on Amazon.in on July 9th, 2014 and the pre-orders will ship on the same date.
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LG G3 Prime, an enhanced variant of the LG G3 has been rumored to be in the works for quite sometime now. UA Profile of the LG smartphone with the model number LG-F460L and codenamed Tiger has surfaced online that shows APQ8084, Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 SoC onboard. The LG-F460L that ends in L is expected to head to Korean operator LGU+. The LG-F460S, another variant that is expected to head to SK Telecom (SKT) has passed Bluetooth certification. Continue reading “LG G3 Prime with Snapdragon 805 UA Profile shows up, passes Bluetooth Certification”
The Xolo Q1010i got the Android 4.4 (KitKat) update few days back. Today Xolo has released the Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) update for the Xolo Q1010 as it promised in May. The Xolo Q1010 was released back in February running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Xolo promised Android KitKat update for a range of older devices including, Q700S, Q3000 and more. Hope Xolo would roll out the KitKat updates for its older devices soon since it already started selling smartphones running Android 4.4 out of the box. Continue reading “Xolo Q1010 gets Android 4.4 KitKat update”
Swipe launched the Konnect 5.0, its first smartphone in the Konnect series recently priced at Rs. 8,999. We already brought you the unboxing and the benchmarks of the device, here we have the complete review of the smartphone. The specifications of the smartphone is better than its competitors in this price range. Is the smartphone worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review. Continue reading “Swipe Konnect 5.0 Review”
Oppo made its Indian debut not too long ago, and has been consistently bringing in all the devices from its international portfolio here. After the Oppo N1, the next flagship device(s) to land here in India are the Find 7a and more importantly, the Find 7. Both these devices were announced for the Indian market, with prices at Rs. 31,990 for the Find 7a and Rs. 37,990 for the Find 7. The major differences between those two? The display, and the amount of RAM, with the rest of them only minor. The Oppo Find 7 is truly a successor to the Find 5 though, as the Find 7, much like its predecessor, has one of the firsts in the world, when it comes to the display. But quad HD resolution on a 5.5″ screen with the latest Snapdragon processor also qualifies the Find 7 for the top end competition, which includes the likes of LG G3. With that said, we have it here in the retail form, and here is our unboxing treatment of the Find 7, to give you a fairly decent look at the hardware as well as the software –
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Google added SMS integration to Hangout last year in October. The feature that was launched to encourage use of Hangouts allowed users to get their Hangouts instant-messages sent them over SMS in case they don’t have an internet connection.
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Shopping on Twitter might be a reality soon. The micro blogging site is testing a “Buy Now” button that will enable users to buy things directly from the platform.
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