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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 game released for Android, iPhone and iPad

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Gameloft has released the The Amazing Spider-Man 2 game for Android and iOS devices as it announced last week, but it is not available for Windows Phone devices yet. It revealed that the game would be coming to Windows Phone in the near future, which might be disappointing for Windows Phone users who were expecting the game. The game is compatible with iPad 2 (or later), iPhone 4s (or later), or iPod touch 5th Generation. It also works with most Android smartphones and tablets. Continue reading “The Amazing Spider-Man 2 game released for Android, iPhone and iPad”

Facebook unveils ‘Nearby Friends’ feature for iPhone and Android

Facebook is rolling out a new feature that will enable users to see which friends are close to you. The feature which is optional will be launched on Android and iOS in coming weeks. Available only in the US, Nearby Feature not only lets you check out nearby friends but also makes it possible to share your exact location with others.

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Flickr 3.0 for iPhone and Android brings new UI, Auto Sync and more

Flickr 3.0 for iPhone and Android

Yahoo has updated their Flickr apps for iPhone and Android to version 3.0 that brings a completely redesigned user interface and has been built from ground up. The iPhone app brings 14 live filters and the Android app has a range of new filters. Both the Android and iPhone apps have new editing tools. Continue reading “Flickr 3.0 for iPhone and Android brings new UI, Auto Sync and more”

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition WiFi gets Android 4.4 KitKat update

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition KitKat

Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.4 (KitKat) update for the WiFi variant (SM-P600) of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition starting from Columbia. Samsung confirmed Android 4.4 update for 14 Galaxy devices in the U.S, including the Note 10.1 2014 Edition, earlier this year. It was launched last year running Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). Sadly the Indian 3G variant (SM-P601) is yet to receive the KitKat update. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition WiFi gets Android 4.4 KitKat update”

Spice Stellar Mettle Icon Mi-506 Unboxing

The Indian market is one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the world, purely driven by the barrage of entry level Android smartphones. The market is so big that even Nokia wanted a slice of it, so it is not surprising to see the unending release schedules the companies resort to. One of them is the Indian manufacturer Spice, known for its low and mid range Android smartphones. In that line, we have here the Spice Stellar Mettle Icon for unboxing. This phone, priced at a low Rs. 6,999 in the market is one of the very few phablet sized devices in that price range. From the front, it unmistakeably looks like the HTC One, sans the loudspeakers. Watch it in action in our unboxing video here –

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Nokia suspends sales of Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet because of charger issues

Nokia Lumia 2520 was a tablet that was announced in Nokia’s Abu Dhabi event in 2013 and ever since, it hasn’t really lived up to the hype. If you were one of the very few who got the tablet, then there is more bad news coming your way.

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Gold LG G3 retail box surfaces, Quad HD display confirmed again

LG G3, the upcoming flagship from the Korean manufacturer would also come in Gold colors, according The Verge who got hold of an image of the LG G3 retail box. Its sources have also confirms Quad HD or 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution display. LG unveiled a 5.5-inch Quad HD (QHD) display last year, the G3 is expected to use the same display.The report also reveals that the front styling of the G3 would be similar to the recently leaked LG isai L24 for KDDI in Japan. Continue reading “Gold LG G3 retail box surfaces, Quad HD display confirmed again”

Toshiba unveils world’s fastest UHS-II microSD memory card

Toshiba has taken wraps off its latest microSD memory cards which the it claims are the fastest in the world. The new cards comply with the UHS-II interface standard, the ultra high speed serial bus interface defined in the SD Memory Card Standard Ver. 4.2.

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Amazon and Samsung team up for custom Kindle for Samsung app, offers free eBooks for Galaxy devices

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Samsung and Amazon have entered into a partnership to launch Kindle for Samsung, a custom eBook service for Samsung Galaxy devices to offer books, newspapers and magazines, including over 500,000 exclusive titles. It would also launch Samsung Book Deals to offer 12 free eBooks a year to Samsung Galaxy smartphone and tablet users through the app. Continue reading “Amazon and Samsung team up for custom Kindle for Samsung app, offers free eBooks for Galaxy devices”

Amazon now automatically saves documents sent to Kindle to Cloud Drive

Amazon has integrated Kindle documents to its own Cloud drive thereby by giving its users 10 GB Amazon Cloud storage, in addition to 5GB of storage. Kindle owners received an email from Amazon informing them that all documents sent to Kindle are now stored on Amazon Cloud Drive.

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Obi Mobiles backed by former Apple CEO John Scully launched in India

Obi Mobiles

Obi Mobiles has announced the launch of its operations in the India after several reports. The company is based in Gurgaon and is promoted by Inflexionpoint, popular IT supply chain company co-founded by John Sculley, Ex CEO of Apple. The OBI Mobiles team is headed by Ajay Sharma as CEO, former head of smartphone division in Micromax and HTC and Neeraj Chauhan, CEO of Inflexionpoint for IT and Telecom supply chain aggregation. Continue reading “Obi Mobiles backed by former Apple CEO John Scully launched in India”

Tencent brings Candy Crush Saga to China in partnership with King Digital Entertainment

candy-crush-saga Tencent, the media and internet giant, is bringing the wildly popular game Candy Crush Saga to China. The game is being brought to Chinese Android devices in collaboration with the game’s creator ie King Digital Entertainment. Continue reading “Tencent brings Candy Crush Saga to China in partnership with King Digital Entertainment”

Lenovo Vibe Z Review

Lenovo Vibe Z, the Chinese company’s flagship smartphone, was launched in India for a price of 35,999 a while back. The phone, also know by its codename K910, is the successor to Lenovo’s K900, the flagship from last year. We had reviewed the K900 and found it to be a really good flagship at that point in time, and it’s not surprising that the Vibe Z is modeled off the same. With improvements on the outside in terms of design and build and on the inside in terms of internals, is the Vibe Z Lenovo’s best offering yet? How does it compare to the newer breed of flagships from other companies? Here is our detailed review of the Lenovo Vibe Z aka K910 to answer those questions.

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Apple reportedly teams up with Shazam to integrate song identification into iOS

Apple has partnered Shazam to work on a song identification tool for iOS 8, according to reports from Bloomberg. The feature will allow users to identify a song using their iPhone or iPad’s microphone. The report states that users will be able to access the song identification feature via Apple’s digital voice assistant, Siri. Hence, Siri will answer once a user asks “What song is playing” as it will generate the data from Shazam which has more than 90 million users.

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Nokia X gets a price cut in India, now available for Rs. 7027

Nokia launched the Nokia X in India last month priced at Rs. Rs. 8599. It received a price cut recently and is available for as low as Rs. 7027. The Nokia X is the first smartphone from Nokia based on Android. It has a 4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) touch screen display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 play (MSM8225) processor and runs on Nokia X software platform based on AOSP Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has dual SIM support and a 3-megapixel rear camera. Continue reading “Nokia X gets a price cut in India, now available for Rs. 7027”