HP Slate 7 HD and Slate 10 HD tablets with dual-core processor, Android 4.2 announced

HP Slate 7 HD and Slate 10 HD

HP has announced two new mid-range Android tablets along with the Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro powered by Tegra 4. These tablets come with 7-inch and 10-inch display at a resolution of 1280 x 800. These tablets are powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Cortex A9  Marvell PXA986 processor and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). These also have  front and rear cameras. HP unveiled the Slate 7 at the MWC 2013 earlier this year. Continue reading “HP Slate 7 HD and Slate 10 HD tablets with dual-core processor, Android 4.2 announced”

Vestel HL50 smartphone hands on

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Whilst in Berlin for IFA 2013, we came across Turkish company Vestel’s booth showing off their latest developments in the fields of television, set top boxes, white goods and mobile devices. The Vestel HL50 is their latest smartphone offering and targets the high end Android smartphone market.

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Android 4.2.2 update starts rolling out in India

Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Android 4.2
Samsung has finally started rolling out the Android 4.2.2 update for the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082). The update started rolling out for the Grand Duos starting from Russia last month. . The phone was announced in December last year running Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean). It was launched in India back in January.  Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Android 4.2.2 update starts rolling out in India”

Flipkart releases shopping app for Android

Flipkart for Android

Flipkart, one of the leading e-commerce platform in India has finally released a native Android app to shop easily. The app also offers voice search and barcode scanning to check for products, share the details with others and also add a widget to the homescreen. Flipkart launched eBooks app for Android last year. The app was released for iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 devices last month. The Flipkart app would be available for other platforms soon. Flipkart also has a mobile site Flipkart Lite. Continue reading “Flipkart releases shopping app for Android”

Google Wallet finally comes to iOS, without NFC

Google Wallet, Google’s payment solution was expected to make payments much easier and make NFC payments mainstream, but ever since Apple ditched NFC, Wallet hasn’t really caught on. Google Wallet hasn’t been on available on what is one of the most popular smartphone platforms, iOS until now. Apple just updated their iOS platform with a complete redesign in iOS 7 and it was available to the general public just a couple of days ago. And Google Wallet finally made its way to iOS app store just after iOS 7 went public.

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HP Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro Tegra 4 powered Android tablets announced

HP Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro

HP announced the company’s first Tegra 4-powered hybrid, SlateBook x2 with a 10.1-inch 1080p display back in May. Now the company has announced two new devices, Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro powered by a Tegra 4 Cortex-A15 processor with 72-core GeForce GPU. The Slate 7 Extreme has a 7-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) display, while the Slate 8 Pro comes with a 7.98-inch (1600 x 1200 pixels) display. Both these run on Android (version is not available yet) Continue reading “HP Slate 7 Extreme and Slate 8 Pro Tegra 4 powered Android tablets announced”

GameCase to bring native supported gamepad to iOS 7 devices

Apple not only changed the smartphone industry with their iPhone, but they also made a huge impact on the handheld gaming industry. Since the iPhone 3GS, iOS devices have become an integral part of the handheld gaming platform. It became very clear when the developers of iOS games had more revenue than the handheld console game developers. However, one of the things that has been holding back the gaming experience on the iOS devices is the lack of proper physical gamepads. Despite the many number of third party gaming accessories, iOS devices have lacked native support for gamepads until iOS 7.

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Quickoffice for Android, iPhone and iPad now available for free to everyone

Quickoffice for Android

Google acquired Quickoffice back in June 2012 and made Quickoffice for Android, iPhone and iPad free for enterprise users in April 2013. Now Google has made these apps free to everyone, and all you need is Google account to use these apps. The app lets view and edit Microsoft Office Excel, Word and PowerPoint files. Since Quickoffice is integrated with Google Drive, you can store and access your files across devices.Google has also updated these apps with new features including a new icon, ability to create .ZIP folders and view charts in Excel and PowerPoint files. Continue reading “Quickoffice for Android, iPhone and iPad now available for free to everyone”

Apple iPhone 5S iFixit tear down details the internals

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It has been a tradition of iFixit, the immensely popular website known for its disassembling and assembling guides, to provide tear down images of Apple products as soon as they are launched. The Apple iPhone 5S is no exception and has received the tear down treatment from the website.

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Vestel HL47 smartphone Hands On

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During IFA 2013, Turkish manufacturer Vestel introduced a range of new products including everything from Ultra HD televisions and set-top boxes to Android powered smartphones. The Vestel 47 is the company’s mid-range offering and offers moderate specs at an equally moderate price.

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BlackBerry Q10 Special Gold Edition Hands On

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BlackBerry introduced the new Gold and White edition of the Q10 handset in UAE last month. Here we have some hands on images of the device. This comes with gold and white colors. The phone has a white finish with a gold colored stainless steel frame. Even the QWERTY keyboard has gold accents.BlackBerry is always popular for introducing luxury variant of their devices. We reviewed the BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 last year the launched in India for Rs. 1,39,990. The BlackBerry Q10 launched in India back in June and the special Gold  edition is made exclusively  for Middle East markets. Continue reading “BlackBerry Q10 Special Gold Edition Hands On”

Videocon Mobile Services is now Videocon Telecom, announces its new brand ambassador

Videocon Telecom

Videocon has renamed its telecom brand to from Videocon Mobile Services to Videocon Telecom and has also launched its new logo. The company has roped in Punjabi actor and singer, Gippy Grewal as its brand ambassador. The company says that the new logo creates a strong association of the brand with the telecom sector and the new brand ambassador who has huge fan following would connect with the youth segment in India. Continue reading “Videocon Mobile Services is now Videocon Telecom, announces its new brand ambassador”

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 211 Unboxing

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 211 was launched in India a couple of months ago and we finally have it in our labs for testing. The updated version of the Galaxy Tab 2 311 has a new S3-inspired design and almost the same internals as before. The bezels have become shorter though, making it easier for one handed usage. Anyways, we put it in front of the camera to see what the box contents are and gave a quick hardware walkthrough on video, watch –

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Aircel introduces BookMate eBooks store

Aircel BookMate

Aircel has launched BookMate, the company’s first e-book store. This lets users browse, store, download and read books, magazines and comics, on their smartphones, tablets and PCs. This has collection of fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, magazines, comics, biographies, classics, children’s stories, reference books and more. Aircel BookMate will be available on WAP, Web and Android. iOS app would be available soon. Continue reading “Aircel introduces BookMate eBooks store”