Nokia has just announced the Lumia 525 in India at the 6th Annual Strategy Sharing Summit in Goa. The Lumia 525 is the successor of the most popular Lumia 520, which is the cheapest Lumia smartphone. Main upgrade is the RAM, which has been upgraded from 512MB to 1GB. It was unveiled last month and has a 4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) IPS display at 235 ppi, super sensitive touch for finger nail and glove use and is powered by a 1 GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 processor. It has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with 720p HD video recording, packs 1430 mAh battery. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 525 announced in India, goes on sale in the first week of January 2014”
Lava Iris 402+ with 4-inch display, 1.2 GHz dual-core processor up for pre-order at Rs. 5678
Lava launched the Iris 402 back in August along with the Iris 356, an affordable 3G smartphone. Now the Iris 402+ has appeared on the official website. Most of the specifications are similar to the Iris 402, but the Iris 402+ packs a faster 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, comes with 4GB of internal memory and has 512MB of RAM. It has a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) display and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). It has 3G support, Dual SIM with dual standby, 3MP rear camera and VGA front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lava Iris 402+ with 4-inch display, 1.2 GHz dual-core processor up for pre-order at Rs. 5678”
Motorola Moto G gets the Android 4.4.2 KitKat update
Motorola has started rolling out the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Moto G earlier than expected. Moto G gets the Android 4.4.2 update directly, skipping the Android 4.4.1 update. The new update brings Android KitKat features such as restyled status and navigation bars, full-screen mode, color emoji, smarter power use and more. In our Moto G review we felt the camera was too plain and lacked some important features. This update finally brings new camera features, including the most expected manual focus and exposure control. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G gets the Android 4.4.2 KitKat update”
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas now available for Android
Rockstar Games released the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for iOS devices earlier this month, as they promised. The game is now available for Android smartphones and tablets.It is available only for select Android devices at the moment, since it might not be optimized for your device yet. The game is likely to get an update soon to support more devices. As usual it supports select Bluetooth controllers and USB gamepads. Continue reading “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas now available for Android”
Nokia Moneypenny rumored to launch as Lumia 630 or Lumia 635
Last month evleaks revealed codenames of upcoming Nokia phones – Goldfinger, Moneypenny, Normandy, Phantom and Spinel. We had already heard that Goldfinger would be one of the first Windows Phone Blue devices with 3D Touch features. Now @evleaks has revealed that Nokia Moneypenny would be launched in two variants, Lumia 630 or Lumia 635, based on the configuration. Continue reading “Nokia Moneypenny rumored to launch as Lumia 630 or Lumia 635”
Pebble SmartWatch App Store heading your way early 2014
The Pebble Smartwatch has proven to be quite popular and has amassed a fair amount of developer support. Due to the lack of a consolidated place to get hold of these applications and watchfaces, users have to hunt through third party apps and websites to download them. Pebble aims to solve this problem with the launch of their app store early 2014.
The new App Store will be a part of an updated application for both iOS and Android and will have subdivisions in seven categories. Continue reading “Pebble SmartWatch App Store heading your way early 2014”
Camera+ 5 for iPhone brings The Lab with photo editing features and a new UI
Camera+ has received a huge update to version 5.0 that brings a lot of new features including The Lab with world-class photo editing features, Shooting refinements, iPhone wallpaper crops, New icons and more. This update also brings a Slick, intuitive user interface to match iOS 7’s new design.
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Dolphin Zero privacy-focused browser launched for Android
Dolphin Browser has launched Dolphin Zero, a new private browser that automatically deletes your data including browsing history, cache, passwords and cookies to make your browsing experience completely private. The browser has aggressive shredder to make sure to automatically delete any traces from your browsing, so no data is stored, says the company. Continue reading “Dolphin Zero privacy-focused browser launched for Android”
Sony QX Cameras to get firmware update in January
At IFA 2013 in Berlin, which was held during September, Sony launched their latest flagship Android smartphone – Sony Xperia Z1 and a couple of WiFi enabled QX series lens. Sony’s QX 10 and QX 100 received a lot of acclaim from the industry and are now all set to receive a firmware update. According to Engadget, the update will be coming to the two lenses sometime in January and the update is expected to improve the camera performance.
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Simmtronics enters into Smartphone market with new XPAD phones
Simmtronics, popular for its XPAD tablets has entered into smartphone segment with its new FUNDROID, AMAZOID and SMARTDROID series in the XPAD range. The XPAD FUNDROID series include, XPAD FUNDROID Q1, XPAD FUNDROID Q2, XPAD FUNDROID Q4 and the XPAD FUNDROID Q5. The AMAZOID series has the XPAD AMAZOID M1. The company plans to launch phones in the SMARTDROID series soon. Continue reading “Simmtronics enters into Smartphone market with new XPAD phones”
Cut the Rope 2 released for iPhone and iPad, coming to Android early 2014
ZeptoLab, the creators of popular Cut the Rope games has released Cut the Rope 2, a new game in the Cut the Rope franchise, as the company promised back in September. In this new game, Om Nom breaks out of his box and travels through lush forests, busy cities, junkyards and underground tunnels forCandy. The game also features little green monsters, that acts as candy collecting helpers. Continue reading “Cut the Rope 2 released for iPhone and iPad, coming to Android early 2014”
Acer Iconia W4 8-inch tablet running Windows 8.1 launched in India starting at Rs. 24999
Acer announced the Iconia W4, successor of the Iconia W3 back in October. Today, the company launched the tablet in India. The Iconia W4 has a 8-inch (800 x 1280 pixels) multi-touch IPS display, powered by a 1.8 GHz quad-core Intel Atom Bay Trail T processor with integrated Intel HD Graphics and runs on the latest Windows 8.1. It comes pre-loaded with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 and packs a 18.6 Wh 4960 mAh 3.75 V 2-cell Battery Pack Lithium -Ion battery that offers battery life of up to 10 hours for web browsing and up to 8 hours for video playback. Continue reading “Acer Iconia W4 8-inch tablet running Windows 8.1 launched in India starting at Rs. 24999”
Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps released for Windows Phone 8
After a long wait, the Xbox team at Microsoft has finally released of Xbox Video and a separate Xbox Music app for Windows Phone 8. It’s been long since the Zune brand was shunned and its services morphed into Xbox Music and Video, but Windows Phone 8 released only with Music functionality, and there was no video rentals or downloads. We now have two separate apps, one for Xbox Music which works only with a Music pass, much like a Spotify client and Xbox Video, which finally allows you to download or stream videos from the service full of TV shows and Movies. Currently it doesn’t offer HD playback either, so that’s a bummer, considering the fact that the Lumia 1520 just released and is perfect for watching movies. In the build up to separately updated apps for the platform moving forward to 8.1, these apps come as a much needed release for Windows Phone currently.
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BlackBerry Messenger to come pre-loaded on LG smartphones
Micromax was the first company in India to pre-install BBM on all its Canvas smartphones in India. Now BlackBerry and LG have entered into a partnership to pre-load BlackBerry Messenger on all LG smartphones involving both standard and virtual preloading (using the LG App Manager). The LG G Pro Lite would be the first LG smartphone to offer BBM out-of-the-box. LG launched the G Pro Lite in India back in October. Looks like new G Pro Lite units would come pre-loaded with BBM. Continue reading “BlackBerry Messenger to come pre-loaded on LG smartphones”
Vivo XPlay 3S with a 6 inch 2K display revealed with Snapdragon 800 and a fingerprint sensor
Recently, Oppo had teased about the 2K display on its upcoming Find 7 smartphone, but if we remember right, months ago, there was a Chinese player teasing a 2K display on its device similarly. That seems to have come true today, with the announcement of the world’s first 2K display smartphone – the Vivo XPlay 3S. 2560×1400 is the resolution that the massive 6 inch display packs, with a PPI of 490. It’s been well known that the human eye cannot distinguish pixels at more than 330 ppi, but it seems that companies will just keep on increasing the display resolutions here. The trend has been set for others to follow next year, as we are already hearing bigwigs like Samsung looking at 2K already. This smartphone will of course be available only in China when it launches in retail. Here’s a video of the phone and its OS for starters, specifications after the break.
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