With an aim to enhance its photo offerings further, Dropbox has acquired Bubbli for an undisclosed sum. It is a 3D photo startup that enables users to create 360-degree photo “bubbles,” with sound. In other words the app incorporates 3D technology into 2D photos.
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Back in December last year HP launched three tablets in the US, including the HP Slate7 Plus at a price tag of $149.99. Now the company has launched HP 7 Plus, a WiFi-only tablet in the US at even cheaper price tag of just $99.99 (Rs. 5875 approx.). It has a 7-inch (1024 × 600 pixels) multi touch LED-backlit IPS display, powered by a 1 GHz quad-core Cortex A7 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 2-megapixel fixed-focus rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “HP 7 Plus tablet with 7-inch display launched in the US for $100”
Microsoft’s plans for introducing a smaller version of the Surface were killed off at the last minute, according to a report from Bloomberg. Initial reports claimed that Microsoft was all set to introduce a 8 inch Surface tablet, tailored for note taking. It was definitely in a bid to compete against all the other small tablets, but Satya Nadella, the Chief Executive Officer at Microsoft, and Stephen Elop, heading the Devices and Services group, had apparently decided to kill the “almost-ready” tablet since it purportedly didn’t prove to be different enough to be a hit, in their eyes. That’s obviously a bold position, considering the product was reportedly in the works already.
What Microsoft really announced – Surface Pro 3 with a 12″ screen
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LG G3 with OIS in camera and unique brushed metal finish is gearing up for its upcoming release on May 27th. FCC filing of the much awaited phone reveals two variants of the G3 – D850 and D851. Both these models had made a pit stop at FCC for certification process.
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Qualcomm introduced its Vuforia Augmented reality technology few years back and demoed some applications based on it. The Qualcomm Vuforia would get a new Smart Terrain feature with Vuforia 3.0 SDK, a 3D reconstruction capability. The Vuforia object recognition technology would also be available soon to select developers in a beta program. Continue reading “Qualcomm Vuforia gets Smart Terrain vision, demoed in new mobile app”
Google has updated Chrome for Android with a bunch of features and UI improvements. For starters, Chrome now supports multi-window devices including the support for folders within the Chrome OS Launcher. This will enable users to organize their apps properly. The version 35.0.1916.122 includes the ability to undo a tab close.
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We know that Samsung is working on a Active version of the Galaxy S5. Earlier this month photos of Samsung Galaxy S5 Active and specifications were leaked via FCC documents. Soon, rumors about the Samsung Galaxy Prime started floating around. A most recent video leak shows a Galaxy S5 handset with an all-aluminum back panel-a design feature. Its boasts of a similar design to the S4 Active that was launched in December last year. The Galaxy S5 Active shown in the video carries the model number SM-G870A and is an AT&T model. Galaxy S5 is dust and water resistant phone, so it will be interesting to see what kind of features will the Galaxy S5 Active have.
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HTC M8 Prime that has been rumored for the past few weeks has surfaced in a 360-degree render from @evleaks. According to recent leaks from the leakster @evleaks, the HTC M8 Prime is made of unique aluminum-silicon material, has Cat. 6 LTE support and would be the first HTC device to run on new Sense 6.5. Check out the leaked render of the phone in 360-degrees. Continue reading “HTC M8 Prime render, M8 Ace with curved body surfaces”
Google has given Google+ on Android a massive makeover with a revamped user interface and several new features. The tech giant has introduced a new feature that organizes and manages your vacation photos.
Dubbed as Auto Awesome Stories, the feature combines photos and videos and transforms them into a photo album. It automatically pulls data from geo-tags on photos, landmark detection, location history, and other photo analysis tricks to make various slides for Stories. In addition, Auto Awesome Movies which is available on iOS and web allows you to automatically mix together photos and videos to make quick and fun highlights.
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Gunnar Optiks is a specialized eyewear company that makes glasses for geeks who sit in front of the computer. For us, gaming is a huge pastime, we can’t deny that, and with it increasingly going mobile, we thought it’d be nice to show you a product that’s tailor made for making your eyes feel better. After all, we are staring at computer screens in many form factors all day, and some might have actual problems with that, like tearing, irritation and all sorts of burning sensations, so here is an unboxing video –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsg0f5Rhp2c
Lava had launched their Iris Pro 30 sometime in January earlier this year and now they have launched a slightly toned down version of it in the form of Lava Iris Pro 20. The Lava Iris Pro 20 retains the distinctive iPhone like build quality, but comes with a relatively low resolution qHD display and a toned down 0.3MP front camera instead of the 3MP camera in the Iris Pro 30.
The Nokia Lumia 630 is the first Windows Phone 8.1 device to launch in the market, including in India, where it has been launched in the Dual SIM flavour, another first. Priced at Rs. 11,500 for the MRP, the device seeks to occupy the place between the 525 and its predecessor, Lumia 620, but sports much improved specs on the inside, keeping things a bit similar on the outside. This new device is set to be the first of hopefully many dual SIM Windows Phone devices from Microsoft, which might make things interesting in the Windows Phone market. Anyway, we have got the Indian retail version of the Lumia 630 and here is the unboxing video of it, with a detailed overview of the device hardware –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u7QUp8VSRI
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The Surface Pro 3 has officially been unveiled at Microsoft’s event today, in New York. The latest addition to the family of Windows 8 powered devices from the company has decidedly gone larger with a 12 inch screen, gotten a lot thinner at 9.1mm and relatively lighter at 800g, for its size. This will officially succeed the Surface Pro 2, which was just a rehash of the original, with improvements mainly under the hood, and of course, the kick stand. The Surface Pro 3 on the other hand, is almost a whole new device, with a shift in ideas and it is indeed pushing the message of a “laptop” replacement a lot harder this time. How? Here is a promo video to get you upto speed, and do go past the break for all the new additions, detailed in text –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7rSZT_77E
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Microsoft is all set to unveil its new Surface devices at an event in New York today. Looking from some of the pictures being tweeted from the event, a lot of decorations at the site are related to inking, which is rumoured to get a huge push in the company’s latest push in the tablet market. This means that the Redmond company will unveil the 8 inch variant of the Surface with special inking capabilities, like a Wacom digitizer with stylus on the Surface Pro. Microsoft Research is said to have orchestrated a push for digital inking across microsoft’s services and devices, and we might just start seeing this vision take form, at this live event. If you’re interested on having a look at all the new devices Microsoft is set to launch, here is the live stream – Continue reading “Watch Microsoft unveil new Surface devices live”
Nokia X, the company’s first Android smartphone based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) was launched in India back in March. Nokia X+ and the Nokia XL were launched in India earlier this week. A render of the upcoming Nokia X2 smartphone has surfaced on a Chinese website along with AnTuTu scores that reveals that is has a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 (MSM 8210) processor. All the X series devices are powered by 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 play (MSM8225) SoC. Continue reading “Nokia X2 Android smartphone with dual-core Snapdragon 200 SoC, home button reportedly in the works”
