Xiaomi India website goes live ahead of launch

Popular Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi is expected to make its debut in India very soon. Ahead of the launch, its website has gone live that proves to be rather short on details but does help create a bit of buzz around the launch. Xiaomi is also making its presence felt via their official Facebook page.

Xiaomi India Website

The launch of the website and the company’s India specific social properties makes us believe that Xiaomi devices might go on sale sooner than the Diwali time frame that has been hinted at previously. The news follows the company’s appointment of Manu Kumar Jain as General Manager, Xiaomi India. Continue reading “Xiaomi India website goes live ahead of launch”

BlackBerry Z3 launching in India on June 25th

BlackBerry Z3

BlackBerry is all set to launch the BlackBerry Z3, the company’s latest BlackBerry 10 smartphone in India next week. The company has sent us press invite for the launch event scheduled for June 25th. The invite just reads it would unveil the next generation BlackBerry 10 device. Since the company already launched the BlackBerry Z30, it is clear that it is BlackBerry Z3 that would be launched in a week.  Continue reading “BlackBerry Z3 launching in India on June 25th”

Airtel launches 4G on mobile in Kolkata

Airtel logo

Airtel launched its 4G LTE services starting from Kolkata, back in 2012. Today it has launched 4G on mobile in the city. Airtel would also offer live demos in Airtel’s company operated stores and also let users to upgrade to 4G SIMs. It offers separate 4G packs for prepaid customers and offers Airtel myPlan, customizable plans for postpaid customers that has myBoosters with 4G benefits. Continue reading “Airtel launches 4G on mobile in Kolkata”

Unicode Consortium unveils 250 new emojis that focus on objects

The Unicode Consortium has just updated the Unicode Standard with new emojis, characters and symbols. The latest version 7.0 will bring 250 new emoji characters to iOS, Android and Windows Phone smartphones. This is possible as Apple, Google and Microsoft are among the nine full members of the Unicode Consortium.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 vs Apple iPad Air Display Comparison

Samsung announced a pair of Super AMOLED display tablets on June 13th and among the two, the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is the bigger one and is the one that competes with Apple’s iPad Air. The 10.5inch Super AMOLED display on the Tab S is absolutely gorgeous and we put it next to the iPad’s Retina display.

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Facebook for iPad updated with trending topics, videos, games sidebar and more

Facebook has revamped its iPad app with various features and focus on games. For starters, the app gets sidebar similar to the web which helps content discovery of games and other entertainment apps.

Facebook for iPad

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Xiaomi to launch 4G smartphones soon, says president Lin Bin

Xiaomi Lin Bin

Xiaomi introduced the Redmi Note in Taiwan yesterday, which will go on sale in the country starting from June 27th through e Commerce site PChome. At the even Xiaomi co-founder and President Lin Bin had said that the company plans to launch 4G smartphones soon, according to a report from Focus Taiwan. Continue reading “Xiaomi to launch 4G smartphones soon, says president Lin Bin”

Sony launches ‘Live on YouTube’ camera app exclusively for Xperia Z2

Sony is putting more power into the Xperia Z2 with a new camera app. Dubbed as Live on YouTube, the app enables users to broadcast a live streaming event straight from their Xperia device.

Sony Xperia Z2 Live on YouTube
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Panasonic to launch ELUGA series of smartphones in India soon

Panasonic India Eluga Teaser

Panasonic India has announced that it would launch Eluga range of smartphones soon. The Panasonic ELUGA waterproof Android smartphone was announced back in 2012 for the European markets. The company also introduced ELUGA Power with IP57 rating for dust and water resistance for Europe soon after. Continue reading “Panasonic to launch ELUGA series of smartphones in India soon”

BBM for BlackBerry updated with support for BBM Protected, new emoticons and more

BBM 10.3 for BlackBerry

BlackBerry introduced BBM Protected, its secured enterprise messaging solution in eBBM suite yesterday. It also updated BBM app for BlackBerry 10 and BB OS devices that brings support for BBM Protected, chat wallpapers in BBM Shop, 16 new emoticons and more. BBM for iOS and Android got these new features recently. Continue reading “BBM for BlackBerry updated with support for BBM Protected, new emoticons and more”

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 vs Apple iPad Mini Display Comparison

Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 recently. One of the most important features of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 is the high resolution 8.4inch Super AMOLED display with a pixel density of 359ppi. The display is absolutely gorgeous and we are putting this SuperAMOLED display against the iPad Mini’s Retina display and lets check out how they compete against each other.

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Facebook Paper for iPhone gets trending section, hashtags and more

Facebook has updated Paper for iOS with several features. Launched in January this year, the app is getting the popular trending section which shows the topics that people are talking about at that moment. The feature shows 10 news topics are being shared on Paper in real-time.

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Samsung Galaxy Core 2 Duos and Galaxy Pocket 2 Duos with Android 4.4 leaked

Samsung Galaxy Core 2 Duos leak

Press images and the specifications of the Galaxy Core 2 surfaced back in April on a Russian website. Recently Galaxy Core 2 Duos and Galaxy Pocket 2 Duos surfaced on a Vietnamese website before it was pulled. According to the leak, the Galaxy Core 2 would have a 4.5-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) LCD capacitive touch screen display and would be powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor. Earlier leak revealed that it would have 512 MB RAM, but according to new leak it would have a 768MB RAM. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Core 2 Duos and Galaxy Pocket 2 Duos with Android 4.4 leaked”

Google announces certified partners for ‘Glass at Work’ program

Google  introduced its ‘Glass at Work’ program in April that aimed at bringing enterprise apps to Glass. Today, the company has announced first batch of partners viz, APX, Augmedix, Crowdoptic, GuidiGO and Wearable Intelligence. These companies will help create new Glass-powered innovations for businesses.

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Oppo R1 Unboxing

Oppo R1-1

Oppo launched the Oppo R1 (R829), successor of last year’s Oppo R819 in India April in India priced at Rs. 26990. We even went hands-on with the smartphone at the MWC 2014 earlier this year, even before it launched in India. Oppo has concentrated more on the build quality and the design of the smartphone to make to better than the R819. Check out the unboxing below. Continue reading “Oppo R1 Unboxing”