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Ravpower Wireless Charger Unboxing

Wireless charging has been spearheaded by the Qi Wireless Power Consortium for quite a while now, and we have seen phone manufacturers implement the standard in many of their high end phones. On the other hand, we have the wireless chargers being manufactured by a large number of companies, including phone manufacturers themselves, slowly building up the momentum. Technically, it isn’t completely wireless right now, as the charging pads need to be connected to the power plug for it to work. But that hasn’t stopped many manufacturers from making all kinds of wireless charging pads. One of them is Ravpower, who makes the Qi-based wireless charging pads. We had taken a look at their “Dynamo on the go” with our unboxing video, watch –

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AOC launches 21.5-inch and 23.6-inch multi-touch monitors in India for Rs. 24990 and Rs. 28990

AOC 72 Series multi-touch monitors

AOC India has launched two new multi-touch Full HD monitors for PCs. The i2272PWHUT (21.5”) and i2472PWHUT (23.6”) WLED-backlit monitors have 1920×1080 pixel resolution IPS screen with 178-degree wide viewing angles and 10-point multi-touch input. These have adjustable stand offers 60 degree lean back experience, has built-in speakers, microphone and a 720p HD webcam for video conferencing. These are also Windows 8 certified. Continue reading “AOC launches 21.5-inch and 23.6-inch multi-touch monitors in India for Rs. 24990 and Rs. 28990”

Samsung makes Tizen SDK for Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo available starting today

Samsung announced the successor of their original Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the MWC 2014 earlier this year – Gear 2. Samsung ditched Andriod for Tizen as a platform for their smartwatch and introduced two variants – Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Samsung has made available the Tizen SDK for Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo for developers and they can access it from https://developer.tizen.org/.

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Leaked LG wearable envisions a colourful alternate way to carry a stylus

LG might be working on the Google Smartwatch for all we know, but it seems like they are trying their hand at some other wearable products as well. evleaks has posted the image above, which looks to have a colourful wearable capacitive stylus that can bend. While we have no exact details for this product, it does look like an accessory at best, for the phone as well as for us. At a glance, it will look like a wrist band, but the next moment you can whip it out and start taking notes on your large screen phone. The tip of the stylus reminds us that this is definitely of the capacitive type, which means that it can work for a product like, lets say, the iPad too.

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MTS launches Super Unlimited MBlaze data plans starting at Rs. 999

MTS MBlaze

Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) that provides telecom services under MTS brand has launched new Super Unlimited data plans for high usage MBlaze customers in India. This is available for new post-paid and pre-paid customers. It provides at least 300% more value than plans offered by competition, says the company. Continue reading “MTS launches Super Unlimited MBlaze data plans starting at Rs. 999”

Motorola Moto X coming to Flipkart starting at Rs. 23,999 from March 19th

Motorola Moto X is a phone that has been hard to find outside the States, but things are changing soon. Motorola launched the budget range Moto G in India last month exclusively via Flipkart and it went on to become its most sold smartphone ever. After the hugely successful Moto G launch, Flipkart teased that they were the exclusively bringing in another Motorola device – Motorola Moto X. After a week of teasing, Flipkart has finally announced via their Twitter account that the Motorola Moto X would go on sale on March 19 and will be available for Rs. 23,999.

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Apple introduces 8GB iPhone 5c, Cheap just got cheaper

Apple took the road not taken by introducing two new iPhones in late 2013 when it announced the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Both the phones were quite different as iPhone 5s came with brand new specifications, a fingerprint scanner and a dual tone flash while the iPhone 5c was just the iPhone 5 in a brand new plastic casing. Word in the tech industry was that the “c” in iPhone 5c stood for cheap, but it actually stood for colors.

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Apple discontinues iPad 2, brings back iPad 4 with Retina Display starting at $399

Apple introduced the iPad Air with a Apple A7 64 bit processor, M7 motion co-processor and a slim design last October. At the same time it discontinued the 4th generation iPad with Retina Display, few months after the launch and reduced the price of iPad 2 to $399. Today, Apple has decided to discontinue the 3-year old iPad 2 to bring back the 4th generation iPad with Retina Display. Continue reading “Apple discontinues iPad 2, brings back iPad 4 with Retina Display starting at $399”

Microsoft Surface 2 with LTE announced, priced at $679 for the 64 GB version

After confirming the presence of a mobile-enabled version in the works when launching the Surface 2, the Redmond giant has finally taken the wraps off Microsoft Surface 2 with LTE 4G on the AT&T network, retailing at a price of 679$ for the 64 GB version. The Surface was Microsoft’s first play as a PC hardware company. The first product, called Surface RT, was largely a flop due to poor usability and performance, and even took a write down in the company’s earnings. Surface 2, the successor, was launched almost an year later, with good reviews and better reception from consumers, but still not as popular as Microsoft would like. Touted as a portable productive machine, the Surface 2 in its initial variants lacked a LTE chip for mobile data, which was apparently a highly requested feature, and hence we are seeing it now, in the form of the slightly modified LTE variant of the Surface 2.

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Reliance Jio ties up with Viom Networks to share telecom tower infrastructure

Reliance Jio Infocomm, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has entered into a pan-India tower infrastructure sharing agreement with Viom Networks, a joint venture of Tata Teleservices and SREI Infrastructure to use the latter’s telecom infrastructure with a footprint of over 42,000 telecom towers for their 4G roll out. Viom Networks is India’s largest independent telecommunications infrastructure company. Continue reading “Reliance Jio ties up with Viom Networks to share telecom tower infrastructure”

Microsoft launches Office Lens document scanning app for Windows Phone

Microsoft Office Lens for Windows Phone

Microsoft made OneNote for Windows free and launched its first Mac client recently. It also introduced Office Lens for Windows Phone that scans your documents and save it as editable format in OneNote. This uses OneNote’s cloud-based optical character-recognition (OCR) software and the new OneNote Service API to make it a editable text. It also trims, enhances and makes pictures readable. Continue reading “Microsoft launches Office Lens document scanning app for Windows Phone”

OneNote for Windows goes free, Mac client and new APIs introduced

OneNote, the note taking application that lives inside the office suite has now been unbundled on Windows and made free for the desktop, like it has been on other platforms and even the Windows Store. Talking of platforms, Microsoft has also just introduced OneNote for Mac, which has been a long standing request from Office for Mac users. The client will work just like the Windows client, with access to the OneDrive cloud, the familiar arrangement of notebooks and all the tools OneNote is known for. Apart from this, Microsoft has also opened up new APIs for OneNote, with which one can develop apps supporting the service and the cloud.

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LG G Pro 2 global roll out begins starting from Asia

LG G Pro 2 Asia roll out

LG unveiled the G Pro 2, successor of the G Pro ahead of Mobile World Congress last month. It went on sale in Korea at the end of February, even before it was showcased at the MWC. The company today announced that it has started selling the smartphones in Asian markets including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippine, Vietnam and Indonesia. It was showcased at the LG Tech Show 2014 event in India earlier this month, but the company did not reveal the launch date of the yet. Continue reading “LG G Pro 2 global roll out begins starting from Asia”

Angry Birds Epic arrives on Apple App Store in few countries

Last week, Rovio teased that they were introducing an Angry Birds themed RPG game and that it would be called Angry Birds Epic. Today, the game has gone live in App stores of countries like New Zealand, Australia and Canada. This is just a soft release and when the game is ready, it will be available for everybody across Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Microsoft Windows Store.

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Facebook Messenger for Android and iPhone gets free voice calling in India

Facebook Messenger for iPhone got free voice calling feature in the US and Canada back in February 2013. It rolled out for Android users in Canada in March, it rolled out in the US and in 24 countries in April last year. You can make calls only to Facebook Messenger users on iPhone and Android over 3G or WiFi. It is not available for Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone that was launch recently. The Free call option is grayed out if you can’t call the person. This was first spotted by AndroidOS. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Android and iPhone gets free voice calling in India”