Motorola launched the new Moto X in India back in September for Rs. 31,999. We brought you the complete review of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a Snapdragon 801 processor with four 28nm HPm Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.46 GHz and has Adreno 330 GPU. It has a 5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) AMOLED display and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS. Check out the benchmarks below. Continue reading “Motorola Moto X (2014) Benchmarks”
Apple iPhone 6 the company’s next generation smartphone was launched in India few weeks back starting at Rs. 53,500. We reviewed the smartphone earlier this week, and you can check out the iPhone 6 review here. We introduced our battery test recently, and brought you the battery test for the Galaxy Alpha smartphone last week, here we have the battery test results for the smartphone. Continue reading “Apple iPhone 6 battery test”
Months after the announcement, Hewlett-Packard has introduced its MB Chronowing Smartwatch, designed by Michael Bastian. This looks like a normal analog watch, but it is actually a smartwatch that can connect to your smartphone to notify you with mild vibrations when you receive texts, emails or notifications, has stop watch, syncs your calendar and can also be used to control music on your smartphone. Continue reading “HP, Michael Bastian introduce the MB Chronowing Smartwatch”
Xiaomi is bringing another 1,00,000 units of the Redmi 1S smartphones for India on November 4th. As a surprise, the company has announced that, lucky fans those who tried to buy Redmi 1s and failed, will find the device added to their cart on Flipkart on November 4th. It did the same thing for Mi 3 during Diwali, but it only offered 25,000 units for lucky ones. This time it did not announce how many lucky fans would get their Redmi 1S smartphone in their cart automatically.
Details about Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for IMAP, POP3 email accounts like Yahoo and Outlook surfaced couple of weeks back. Even a promo video of the new Gmail app showed up. Now Android Police has got hold of the APK of the Gmail 5.0 app that brings all these new features, including support for Exchange accounts. Continue reading “Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for Exchange and other email accounts now available”
BlackBerry has rolled out an update for its BBM app on BlackBerry 10, Android and iPhone that gets new privacy features such as Timed Messages feature that lets you set a timer to control how long messages and pictures you share with contacts can be viewed and Message retraction feature that lets you cancel the message in case if you had sent it to the wrong person. Both these features were rolled out for limited beta users on Android and BlackBerry 10. Continue reading “BBM for BlackBerry 10, Android and iPhone gets Timed Messages, Message Retraction and more”
Sony Corporation today reported net loss of 85.6 billion yen ($785 million) for its second quarter of the financial year 2014 that ended September 30th. Even though it shipped 9.9 million smartphone in the quarter, mobile communications division has reported an operating loss of 172 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for the quarter.
Continue reading “Sony reports Q2 FY14 results, 9.9 million smartphones shipped”
1Password for iOS is getting few enhancements and features in latest update. The 5.1.1 version of the 1Password iPhone and iPad app gets Touch ID support.
Continue reading “1Password for iOS gets Touch ID support and improved lock screen”
Google Camera app version 2.4.008 that was present in the Android Lollipop Developer Preview has Material design elements. Today Google has updated the Google Camera app to version 2.4.023 on the Play Store that brings the same material design elements to the app. This update also brings compatibility with Android 5.0 (Lollipop) that would roll out for Nexus devices in coming weeks and includes some improvements and bug fixes. Continue reading “Google Camera updated with Material Design, Android 5.0 Lollipop compatibility”
Google is updating a bunch of new features to Wallet. One of the key features is the ability to add money to your Wallet through recurring bank transfers.
Continue reading “Google Wallet adds recurring bank transfers, low balance alerts and more”
Sennheiser has launched MM 30G, the company’s latest in-ear headset created for Samsung devices. The ear-canal design of the headset passively attenuates ambient noise and has high-end dynamic speaker for a bass driven stereo sound. It has compact in-line remote control for volume control, music or call control and integrated microphone for voice calls.
Continue reading “Sennheiser MM 30G in-ear headset launched in India for Rs. 3990”
Android co-creator Andy Rubin has decided to leave Google, as per latest report from the Wall Street Journal. The report said that he will be moving on to launch a hardware startup incubator.
Continue reading “Android co-creator Andy Rubin leaving Google to start hardware incubator”
Skype has updated iPhone app with an array of features based on user suggestions. The app gets an improved chat experience as chats will now load quickly after tapping a new message notification.
Continue reading “Skype for iPhone updated with faster chat and photo saving feature”
LAVA International has launched Iris Fuel 50, the company’s first smartphone in the new Fuel series with a 3000mAh battery that promises 1.5 days of battery life. It has a 5-inch FWVGA IPS display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera with dual LED flash and 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Iris Fuel 50 with 5-inch display, 3000mAh battery launched for Rs. 7799”
Worldwide tablet market grew 11.5% year over year in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14) with shipments reaching 53.8 million units according to a latest report from the IDC.
Continue reading “Global tablet market soars 11.5% in Q3 2014: IDC”
