Motorola appoints Amit Boni as General Manager for India

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Motorola Mobility has appointed Amit Boni from within the company as the General Manager of India operations. He joined Motorola Mobility in early 2010 taking charge of GTM strategy and sales operations for the Asia region. As a general manager, he will lead the team across the country and be responsible for the Go-to-Market strategy, said the company. Continue reading “Motorola appoints Amit Boni as General Manager for India”

Apple iPhone 6 / iPhone Air with 5.5-inch display reportedly delayed due to battery design issues

Apple is said to release the iPhone 6 in two variants, one with a 4.7-inch display and the other one with a 5.5-inch screen, according to earlier rumors. The iPhone 6 with a 5.5-inch display, referred as iPhone Air has been delayed since Apple could not find a sufficient battery that measures 2 mm or less to fit in the device’s slim body, according to a report from a Taiwan’s Industrial and Commercial Times . Continue reading “Apple iPhone 6 / iPhone Air with 5.5-inch display reportedly delayed due to battery design issues”

Apple takes a dig at Samsung in new environmental print ad

Apple is still fighting the legal court battle with Samsung, but that has not stopped the company from teasing its nemesis. On the occasion of Earth Day the maker of iPhone and iPad has released a print advertisement in one of the UK newspapers about its environmental strategies.

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AnTuTu reveals top 10 popular Android smartphones of Q1 2014 in India

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Last week AnTuTu released top 10 popular smartphones for global, US and Chinese markets, based on benchmarking and device information from Antutu Lab. Today it has released top 10 popular smartphone chart for India and 13 other countries that includes, Russia, Germany, Japan, Korea and more. Continue reading “AnTuTu reveals top 10 popular Android smartphones of Q1 2014 in India”

Apple and Google get competitive over game exclusivity

Apple and Google are wooing game developers by to get popular mobile games in the their app store first, claims a latest report by The Wall Street Journal. The two tech giants are actively offering incentives and offers to mobile game developers for game availability on their platform.

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NVIDIA Shield 2 with Tegra K1 chip, 4GB of RAM shows up in benchmarks

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NVIDIA Project Shield, the company’s first gaming console with a 5-inch HD display and NVIDIA’s Tegra 4 processor was released last year. There were rumors about NVIDIA working the successor for this year, now the specifications of a prototype has surfaced on AnTuTu. This reveals that the next-generation Shield console could be powered by a 64-bit quad-core NVIDIA Tegra K1 chip clocked at 2.5 GHz with 192-core NVIDIA Kepler GPU. It would have 4GB of RAM and run on Android 4.4.2 (KitKat). Continue reading “NVIDIA Shield 2 with Tegra K1 chip, 4GB of RAM shows up in benchmarks”

Opera Max data-savings app for Android released in Russia and CIS

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Opera introduced Opera Max, data savings app in the U.S. and Europe back in February. Today, Opera launched the app in Russia and CIS regions. Opera Max compresses cellular data across Android applications such as Vine, Instagram or Flipboard. that relies more on video, text and images.
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Google tweets screenshot of revamped Android dialer app

Google has leaked out a new screenshot of a Dialer app that is different from the current one on the existing Android KitKat. The company has tweeted the screenshot from its @Google Nexus Twitter account.

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Motorola Solutions signs patent agreement with Microsoft for Android and Chrome devices

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Microsoft has announced that Motorola Solution, provider of communication solutions and services has signed a patent licensing agreement with them, that covers Microsoft’s patent portfolio for Motorola Solutions’ devices running on Android and Chrome OS. Microsoft launched its IP licensing program in December 2003 and has over 1,100 licensing agreements, that includes agreements with companies like Samsung, ZTE, LG, HTC, Acer and most recently Dell. Continue reading “Motorola Solutions signs patent agreement with Microsoft for Android and Chrome devices”

Google updates Hangouts for Android with homescreen widget and merges conversations

Google is bringing arrayof new features and updates to Hangouts on Android. The latest 2.1 update merges SMS and Hangouts conversation with the same person. This essentially means that a user does not have to switch back and forth between texts messages and instant messages (IM). Google also supports unmerging of conversations, which is useful for those users who wish to keep them separate.

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Xolo Q1010i with 5-inch HD display, Exmor R camera sensor launched for Rs. 13499

Xolo Q1010i

Xolo has launched Q1010i, successor of the Xolo Q1010. It appeared on the official website earlier this month and has a 8-megapixel Sony Exmor R sensor with f/2.0 aperture, 1.4 micron pixel size and a 5-element lens. Other features are similar to the Q1010, including a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display based on One-glass-Solution (OGS) technology, 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor and Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to Android 4.4 (KitKat). Continue reading “Xolo Q1010i with 5-inch HD display, Exmor R camera sensor launched for Rs. 13499”

LG G Watch will be water resistant and feature always-on display

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LG has unveiled the champagne gold version of the LG G Watch on their official Facebook page. It also has a dedicated webpage that reveals that the G Watch would be dust and water resistant and reveals that it will have an always-on display, unlike the Samsung Gear 2. The Stealth Black version of the LG G Watch was unveiled last month as the company’s first Android Wear-powered Smartwatch. Continue reading “LG G Watch will be water resistant and feature always-on display”

Micromax Canvas Doodle 3 with 6-inch display launched for Rs. 8500

Micromax Canvas Doodle 3

Micromax has launched the Canvas Doodle 3, the latest smartphone in the Canvas Doodle series. It has a 6-inch FWVA display, powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and run on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) as rumored. It would come with a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It also has dual SIM support and comes pre-loaded with Kingsoft Office, Opera Mini Browser, Getit and Games like Marble, Rope Cut, Jelly Jumper. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Doodle 3 with 6-inch display launched for Rs. 8500”

Google Glass to get iPhone SMS and Calendar update this week

Google has been pumping up its Glass offerings lately by adding 4.4 Android update along with several features. Today, the company has announced that it will soon bring SMS support for iPhone users which will enable them to receive text message on the Glass.This service has been available for Android users for quite some time now.

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Google Nexus 8 made by HTC reportedly coming in Q3 2014

Earlier this year there were reports about Asus making the next Nexus tablet, but a recent report from DigiTimes claims that HTC would be making the next Nexus tablet that would launch sometime in Q3 2014. Earlier reports revealed that the tablet would be powered by an Intel Atom chip, but the latest report doesn’t confirm anything. Continue reading “Google Nexus 8 made by HTC reportedly coming in Q3 2014”