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Zen Ultrafone 504 with 5-inch display, Android 4.2 now available for Rs. 7299

Zen Ultrafone 504

Zen Ultrafone 504, the company’s latest budget smartphone with 3G support is now available from Saholic. It has a 5-inch WVGA screen, powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support with dual standby. The Zen Ultrafone 502 with a 4.5-inch qHD display was launched last year. Continue reading “Zen Ultrafone 504 with 5-inch display, Android 4.2 now available for Rs. 7299”

TSMC switching to 8 inch processing for TouchID sensors

TSMC or the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is responsible for manufacturing Touch ID sensors for the Apple iPhone. Apple had previously contracted TSMC to produce fingerprint sensors at their 12 inch processing facility using a 65nm process. Due to risks associated with the 12 inch Wafer Level Packaging (WLP) process, the production yield has so far been limited to between 70-80%. This is set to change. Continue reading “TSMC switching to 8 inch processing for TouchID sensors”

MediaTek MT6595 Octa-Core chip with built-in 4G LTE announced

MediaTek True Octa-Core

MediaTek has just announced MT6595, the world’s First 4G LTE Octa-Core Smartphone SOC with ARM Cortex-A17 CPU that was announced today. This uses PowerVR Series6 GPU and not the Mali-T720 GPU that was announced along with the Cortex-A17. This has H.265 H.265 Ultra HD (4K2K) video record & playback. It uses ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture along with MediaTek’s CorePilot technology for Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) that uses all the eight cores. Continue reading “MediaTek MT6595 Octa-Core chip with built-in 4G LTE announced”

ARM announces Cortex-A17 processor with Mali T720 GPU aimed at mid-range smartphones and tablets

ARM Cortex A17

ARM today announced the Cortex-A17, the company’s latest processor that would offer 60% more performance than the ARM Cortex-A9 processor. It is paired with ARM Mali-T720 GPU that has Open GL ES 3.0 support. The Cortex-A17 is based on 28nm process technology and ARMv7-A architecture. It can go up to 2GHz per CPU and supports ARM big.LITTLE processing using the CoreLink CCI-400 Cache Coherent Interconnect. Continue reading “ARM announces Cortex-A17 processor with Mali T720 GPU aimed at mid-range smartphones and tablets”

Broadcom announces new dual-core LTE chips aimed at sub $300 LTE smartphones

Broadcom LTE SoC

Last year Broadcom announced the BCM23550 quad-core SoC aimed at entry-level smartphone, that is seen on the Xolo Q1000 Opus. The company has announced dual-core M320 LTE SoC aimed at sub $300 (Rs. 18,000 approx.) smartphones. The company has introduced a turnkey reference platform for OEMs. These chips might cover most LTE bands, including Band 40 that is available in India. Continue reading “Broadcom announces new dual-core LTE chips aimed at sub $300 LTE smartphones”

Motorola Moto G Flip Shell in White – Pictures and Video

The Moto G Flip Shell is Motorola’s take on the flip cover that is oh-so-popular in the Indian market. After unboxing the Indian retail version of the dual SIM Moto G, we took the normal shell for a spin and also tried out the new Flip Shell. The white flip shell we bought has a really cool texture on its back and even has magnets to close the front cover, which will offer protection. We found it to be of really high quality, so take a look at how it fits on the Moto G in this video –

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Nokia’s Android phone will reportedly be revealed at MWC 2014

Rumoured to be a successor to the Asha series of devices, Nokia is apparently preparing to launch its Android-based low cost devices at the Mobile World Congress event this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The phone had repeatedly leaked out, with images of hardware and images of software, which point to a phone with a Windows Phone-like UI and Android underneath, enabling it to run Android apps. The “forked” Android OS, developed by Nokia, will feature Microsoft’s services prominently, not Google services or Play, which means that there will still be a distinct lack of Google apps on the platform. Previously brushed off as a improbable launch, especially after the Microsoft acquisition, it seems like the Nokia X aka Normandy will possibly be making a N9-style debut at MWC this year.

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Micromax Canvas Duet 2 with 5.3-inch HD display, Dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) launching soon for Rs. 15790

Micromax Canvas Duet 2 box

Couple of months back Micromax and MTS partnered to launch the Micromax Canvas Blaze MT500 Dual SIM (CDMA+GSM) smartphone. The Micromax Canvas Duet 2 would be the company’s first smartphone in the Canvas series with dual SIM GSM and CDMA support. According to Manish Khatri from Mahesh Telecom, the smartphone would be priced at Rs. 15,790 and would go on sale later in a couple of days. Recently an unofficial Micromax blog leaked the retail box of the smartphone, which revealed the specifications of the smartphone. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Duet 2 with 5.3-inch HD display, Dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) launching soon for Rs. 15790”

Motorola Moto G Shell: Lime Yellow, in pictures and video

Having just unboxed the Motorola Moto G, the Indian retail version that supports two SIMs, we also got to try the new Moto G shells. We had ordered them separately from Flipkart, the normal coloured replacement shell for the back and the Flip shell that protects the back AND the front. But first, lets talk about the normal shell. We have got a bright lime yellow shell that looks dashing on the otherwise boring black Moto G we bought. Check how it looks, on video, skip past it for pictures and thoughts –

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Our Moto G Review

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Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 to be priced reasonably

Samsung launched their first smart watch – Samsung Galaxy Gear back in IFA 2013 alongside their current flagship – Galaxy Note 3. A couple of weeks remain for MWC 2014 and there are clear indications that Samsung will unveil their next generation Galaxy S series flagship – Galaxy S5 at MWC 2014. Apart from the obvious fact, Samsung is also rumored to be launching their next version of smart watch – Galaxy Gear 2 at MWC 2014.

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Motorola Moto G Dual SIM Unboxing in India, with Google Glass

The dual SIM Motorola Moto G has taken over India ever since it was officially launched here. It was sold out in less than an hour, and a lot of buyers were left frustrated with delays, but it still has quickly become the most popular mid range phone in the market. We had ordered the 16 GB Moto G immediately after the Flipkart pages went up, and got it delivered soon. So, here’s our unboxing of the device, with a small twist. You must have known that we have the Google Glass with us, so we took it for a POV spin in the Moto G Unboxing, you can watch the video here –

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Xolo Q1100 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 400 processor, Android 4.3 launched for Rs. 14999

Xolo Q1100

Xolo has launched the Q1100, the company’s latest smartphone in the Q CORE series. It appeared on the official website last week and packs a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display based on One-glass-solution, powered by a 1.4 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 (MSM8228) processor with Adreno 305 GPU and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It comes with an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, BSI 2 sensor and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Xolo Q1100 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 400 processor, Android 4.3 launched for Rs. 14999”

HTC reports Q4 2013 financial results, revenue drops to NT$42.9 billion

HTC just published its financial reports for the third quarter of 2014 and has unfortunately reported yet another decline in sales. The company reported revenues of NT$42.9 billion. This is a substantial year on year drop from the NT$60 billion reported in Q4 2012. The 28% drop amounts to a drop of about USD 0.6 billion YoY in terms of revenue.

HTC’s operating margin was reported as -3.7 percent with a quarterly profit of NT $0.31 billion. HTC has forecast even lower revenue for Q1 2014. The company expects to make about NT$35 billion in the first quarter of 2014. This can be accounted to the lack of new launches especially in the upper end segment. We reported earlier that HTC plans to make a broader push towards strengthening their lower and mid range product portfolio. Continue reading “HTC reports Q4 2013 financial results, revenue drops to NT$42.9 billion”

Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini A200 Benchmarks

Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini Benchmarks

Micromax launched the Canvas Turbo Mini A200, a variant of the Canvas Turbo A250 last month. We brought you the Canvas Turbo Mini unboxing last week. Here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. The Turo mini is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor with Mali 400 GPU. It packs 1GB of RAM and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). Let’s find out how the Canvas Turbo mini performs in range of synthetic benchmark tests. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini A200 Benchmarks”

Flappy Bird is no more, pulled from Android and iOS stores

The very infamous Flappy Bird was introduced to smartphones and tablets back in 2013, but it gained widespread popularity only in the past couple of weeks. Ever since, almost everybody was complaining about the game saying that it was tough to play. A lot of raging tweets and posts filled social media. All these voices seemed to have reached the developer Dong Nguyen as he tweeted over the weekend saying that the game would be taken down within 22 hours.

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