Acer has announced Iconia Tab 7 tablet at the New York event along with the Iconia One 7. The Acer Iconia Tab 7 A1-713HD comes with a 7-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) IPS anti-fingerprint display, powered by a 1.3 GHz MediaTek MT8382 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. Continue reading “Acer Iconia Tab 7 with 7-inch display and voice calling announced”
Google’s Nexus line up of phones have be popular and successful for a long time now. But, as per reports the internet giant is gearing up to replace the Nexus brand to maintain the reign in Android ecosystem. According to a latest report from The Information, Google is planning to replace the current Nexus series with high end Android Silver phones.
Acer has just announced the Iconia One 7 (B1-730) at an event in New York. It was leaked recently and packs a 7-inch (1280 × 800 pixels) HD display, powered by a 1.6 GHz dual-core Intel Atom Z2560 with PowerVR SGX544 GPU and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS that is upgradeable to Android 4.4 (KitKat). . It has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. Continue reading “Acer Iconia One 7 with 7-inch HD display, Intel Atom Z2560 processor announced”
LG unveiled the G Pro 2, the company’s latest phablet back in February ahead of MWC 2014 and it started rolling out in Asia starting from last month. Now Manish Khatri from Mahesh Telecom reports that the G Pro 2 (LG D838) would be priced at Rs. 49,900 (MOP) in India and the MRP would be Rs. 51,500. Stocks are expected in a few days, so the official launch would not be far. Continue reading “LG G Pro 2 might launch in India for Rs. 49900”
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy K zoom, the company’s latest camera-centric smartphone with a 20.7-megapixel at an event in Singapore few hours back. We got some hands-on time with the camera phone. Even though it has 10x optical zoom like the S4 zoom, this has a new retracting lens technology to make the phone’s body slim at 20.2 mm (16.6mm at its thinnest). It has the usual Samsung home button and the capacitive touch buttons. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy K zoom Hands On”
The recent trend among Chinese manufacturers of including a high resolution front camera seems to have caught up to Nokia and they are probably preparing their next smartphone with a more conscious effort for the front facing camera. Nokia has always been concentrating on the rear camera of its smartphone in the recent years and as we saw with the HTC One M8, popular brands are starting to weigh the importance of front facing camera.
Continue reading “Upcoming Nokia ‘Superman’ Windows Phone will help you take ‘Super’ selfies”
Geeksphone is lowering the price of its multi-OS smartphone Revolution from May 1. The Spanish smartphone maker announced the smartphone that runs on Android and Mozilla was first announced in January this year.
Continue reading “Geeksphone Revolution receives price cut, to get Cyanogenmod 11”
The Huawei Ascend G730 that was announced at the MWC 2014 earlier this year and the Ascend Y600 that was unveiled earlier this month have been priced in India on the official Huawei India website. The Ascend G730 has a 5.5-inch qHD screen and the Y600 comes with a 5-inch FWVGA display. Both these phones are powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) with Huawei’s own Emotion UI on top. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend G730 and Ascend Y600 get priced in India at Rs. 13999 and Rs. 8999”
Worldwide tablet shipment hit 57.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, as per latest report from Strategy Analytics. The global tablet shipment saw 19 percent from 48.3 million in Q1 2013. As expected Android maintained the top spot and grabbed 65.8% of the global tablet market up from 53 percent a year ago.
Continue reading “Android reigns with 65.8% of global tablet market share in Q1 2014: Report”
Gionee launched the CTRL V4 in India back in June last year, now the CTRL V5 is available from official Gionee India eStore. It has a 4.7-inch (960 ×540 pixels) qHD display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 2MP front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support with dual standby. The official website listing was first spotted by MakTechBlog. Continue reading “Gionee CTRL V5 with 4.7-inch qHD display, quad-core processor goes on sale in India for Rs. 12999”
LG Electronics has announced their earnings for Q1 2014, in which it has reported net profit of 92.60 billion Won (US$ 86.62 million) with operating profits of 504 billion Won (US$ 471.47 million). Mobile communications sector earned revenues of 3.41 trillion Korean Won (US$ 3.1 billion), a 6% increase YoY, but sales decreased by 5% QoQ. Operating profit increased due to the launch of G Pro 2 in the domestic market and more efficient marketing spending, LG said.
Continue reading “LG reports Q1 2014 earnings, ships 12.3 million smartphones, confirms G3 launch for Q2”
It seems like Google is on a buying spree when it comes to patents. Recently, the search engine giant acquired Foxconn patents related to communication technology. Today, news is surfacing that Google has filed a patent to enhance its flagship wearable technology Google Glass.
Continue reading “Google Glass with dual lens expected soon?”
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) today cleared the 3G intra-circle roaming agreements signed between Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular by saying that the 3G intra-circle-roaming (ICR) does not violate the Unified Access Service Licence (UASL) license, reports ET. It has also quashed all penalties imposed by the Department of Telecom (DoT) on these operators last year.
Continue reading “TDSAT allows 3G Intra-circle roaming pacts between Airtel, Vodafone and Idea”
HTC M8 Ace surfaced in an image from @evleaks earlier this month. Now engadget reports that the HTC M8 Ace, a variant of the HTC One M8 will come with plastic unibody build instead of aluminium build. The HTC M8 Ace would have a 5-inch 1080p display and would be powered by a 2.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor similar to the One M8, according to the report. Continue reading “HTC M8 Ace to reportedly come with plastic build and lower price tag”
Blackphone will feature Nvidia’s Tegra 4i chipset to handle application processing and the connectivity. Announced at the MWC 2014, the phone which is touted as the most secure phone. SGP, a joint venture of Silent Circle and Geeksphone have developed the Blackphone which went for pre order in February 24 costs $629 and will ship from June in US and Europe.
Continue reading “Blackphone to be powered by Nvidia Tegra 4i processor”
