Oppo Find 7a Hands On

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While Oppo’s flagship device ie the Find 7 clearly stole the show, they also announced a ‘lower’ spec variant of the phone that will be making its way to India shortly. Despite being the lower spec variant, to call it a mid range device would be unfair as it’s specs rival current flagship devices. Alongside the Find 7, we spent an extensive amount of time with the Find 7a as well and here we make an effort to bring you our first impressions of the device.  Continue reading “Oppo Find 7a Hands On”

Motorola Camera now lets you capture images with volume keys, Gallery and Assist gets new features

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Motorola has updatedits apps for Moto X, Moto G and Droid phones with new features. The new update for the camera app (v3.2) lets users with Moto X, Moto G, or Droid Ultra capture images using volume keys, instead of touching the screen. Motorola has offered 48 updates since the Moto X launch in August, says the company. Continue reading “Motorola Camera now lets you capture images with volume keys, Gallery and Assist gets new features”

Gionee Elife E7 Photo Gallery

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Gionee unveiled the Elife E7, the company’s first Snapdragon 800-powered smartphone in India few months back. It went on sale in India recently, starting at Rs. 26,999. We already brought you the unboxing and the benchmarks of the device, here we have the photo gallery of the smartphone, so that you can look at the device from all the angles. It has a gorgeous 5.5-inch (1920  x 1080 pixels) Full HD IPS  display based on One Glass Solution technology from JDI with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It has a 2.33mm ultra-narrow frame. It is powered by a 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) with Amigo 2.0 UI on top. Continue reading “Gionee Elife E7 Photo Gallery”

Nokia X Videos – Multitasking, Custom Launchers, Sideloading APKs and In Depth UI Walkthrough

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It just feels like yesterday, when almost all of us were in denial that a Nokia Android phone could exist, but Nokia has put forward its boldest bet ever, especially at a time when it has been acquired by Microsoft, a company that has been at odds with Google since forever. Anyways, the device was revealed to much excitement and curiosity at the Mobile World Congress event, and eventually arrived in India just few weeks later. We had unboxed the device and also showed you how to root it and get Google Play services and apps on it, but as you might have guessed by now, we were curious to find out more about the device over the course of our usage. So we made a few videos to showcase what we found and learnt, skip past the break to find them.

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Google Search for Android gets voice actions to launch camera

Google Search for Android Record Video and Take a Photo

Google has added new voice commands to Google Search for Android that lets you launch the camera app to take a photo or record a video by speaking respective commands. Google Search already has an option to open apps just by saying “Open Instagram” or “Open Facebook”. With the new “take a photo” or “take a video” commands, Google Search will launch the camera app in the preferred mode. Continue reading “Google Search for Android gets voice actions to launch camera”

Facebook testing a persistent notification bar for your Android device

Facebook continues to push its mobile first approach and is currently testing a new feature on the Android version. Facebook now wants to be always on with a persistent notification bar that displays your display picture and provides direct access to your newsfeed, friend requests, messages and notifications.

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Micromax partners with Aircel and MediaTek for bundled offers on smartphones and tablets

Micromax, Aircel, MediaTek partnership

Micromax has partnered with Aircel and MediaTek to offer data and other benefits with Micromax devices including smartphones and tablets powered by MediaTek chips, Micromax dongle and data-enabled feature phones. These offers would be initially available across four Micromax devices – MMX 377G data card, Funbook Mini 410i tablet, A090 and X070 smartphones. These include data benefits for all these devices, cheaper local and STD call rates and WAP content worth Rs. 10,000 with these phones and the tablet. The offers are almost equivalent to cost of these devices, says Micromax. Continue reading “Micromax partners with Aircel and MediaTek for bundled offers on smartphones and tablets”

Samsung Gear 2 and Gear Fit get priced officially

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Samsung unveiled the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit at the MWC 2014 last month. Samsung has revealed the pricing for the Gear 2 and the Gear Fit at an event in Taiwan. Samsung Galaxy Gear got priced at Rs. 22,990 when it launched in India last year. Samsung assured that the successor would be priced reasonably. The Gear 2 has been priced at NT$ 8,990 (Rs. 17,980 approx) and the Gear Fit is priced at NT$ 5,990 (Rs. 11,980 approx). Pricing for the Gear 2 Neo is not available yet.

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Micromax Canvas Knight Camera Samples

Micromax has taken the approach of making its products talk rather than holding events and the Micromax Canvas Knight is one such device. The choice of Knight as a name does justice mainly because of its supreme build quality and appearance. Until now, the build quality used to be of concern to buyers, but with Canvas Knight, that wouldn’t be a problem. Micromax almost took care of everything in Knight – ranging from choice of design, build, display and camera.

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Sony Xperia E1 goes on sale in India for Rs. 8980

Sony Xperia E1

Sony launched the Xperia E1 and Xperia E1 dual in India earlier this month. The Xperia E1 dual went on sale in India at a price tag of Rs. 9,400, now the Xperia E1 is now available from online retailer Infibeam for Rs. 8,980. It has a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It has a 3-megapixel rear camera, but lacks a front-facing camera. Continue reading “Sony Xperia E1 goes on sale in India for Rs. 8980”

Huawei launches new Wi-Fi Data Cards in India priced between Rs. 1899 and Rs. 4999

Huwei E303FH and E3531 data cards

Huawei has launched seven new WiFi Data cards under Laptopi-Fi, Power-Fi and Mobi-Fi categories. The lineup includes, Laptopi-Fi plug-and-play data cards E5220 and E515, Power-Fi data cards, E8231 and E8221, which can work with external power source for connectivity and the Mobi-Fi devices E5220, E5151 and E5730 with built-in battery. Continue reading “Huawei launches new Wi-Fi Data Cards in India priced between Rs. 1899 and Rs. 4999”

Moto 360 compatible with Android 4.3 and higher version devices

Moto 360

Made of stainless steel, the Moto 360 Android Wear watch is designed to communicate and look good on the wrist while it does that. In a hangout broadcasted live on Motorola’s YouTube Channel, Jim Wicks, Lead Designer of the Moto 360, disclosed few features of the Android-wear watch, on Wednesday. Continue reading “Moto 360 compatible with Android 4.3 and higher version devices”

OnePlus One features complete, but the first look is still elusive

OnePlus is a new company from China with executives from Oppo and they claim to be working on the “perfect” smartphone. Instead of revealing the smartphone first, OnePlus has been slowly, but steadily building hype around their product – OnePlus One. OnePlus One is supposed to be the perfect smartphone that they are building and they have tied up with CyanogenMod Inc to provide the OS for them.

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How to root Nokia X and install Google Play Apps

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We had unboxed the Nokia X a while back, right after it launched in India. Only a few weeks back, Espoo’s first bold entry into the low end Android smartphone segment was revealed at MWC. The phone might be running Android, a Google owned entity, but is completely devoid of anything that resembles Google services. Nokia completely forked the open source variant of Android, just like Amazon did, by choosing not to include Google services and apps, which are obviously a conflict of interests for the company. But being open source, the malleable Android is always willing to bend to our will, and soon enough, enterprising developers who got their hands on the Nokia X, devised a way to install Google apps and services onto this neat little device. We followed their path, and made a video, so that willing users can take advantage of it too –

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Huawei drops plans for its dual boot Android and Windows Phone devices

Last week, Asus dropped its dual boot tablet – Transformer Duet owing to pressure from Google and Microsoft. It looks like that was just a sign of things to come. Today, Huawei, a Chinese manufacturer has announced that it is dropping its plans to build a Android and Windows Phone smartphone.

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