Airtel reportedly plans to acquire Loop Mobile for Rs. 700 crore

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Bharti Airtel is all set to acquire Loop Mobile, according to a recent report from The Economic Times. Airtel would acquire Loop Mobile in a Rs. 700-crore deal, which is expected to be announced later this week, the report adds. Loop Mobile was previously called BPL Mobile when it started its operations in 1995 BPL Mobile and was renamed as Loop Mobile in 2009. It operates in Mumbai and has 3 million subscribers, as of December 2013. Continue reading “Airtel reportedly plans to acquire Loop Mobile for Rs. 700 crore”

Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet specifications leaked: Snapdragon 800, Android 4.4 KitKat and 3GB RAM

Last year Sony launched the Xperia Tablet Z, the company’s first 10-inch waterproof tablet. evleaks has just leaked the specifications of the Xperia Z2 Tablet ahead of MWC 2014. The successor would have the same 10.1-inch HD (1920 x 1200 pixels) WUXGA display, but this would be powered by a 2.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor instead of Snapdragon S4 Pro chip. It would run on Android 4.4 (KiKat), comes with 3GB of RAM and 6000 mAh battery. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet specifications leaked: Snapdragon 800, Android 4.4 KitKat and 3GB RAM”

Gionee M2 and Gpad G4 officially launched in India for Rs. 10999 and Rs. 18999

Gionee M2 and the Gpad G4 have been officially launched in India. These smartphones went on sale recently. The M2 has a 5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and packs 4200 mAh battery. The GPad G4 has a 5.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD one-glass solution (OGS) display, powered by a  1.5 GHz quad-core MediaTek 6589T processor with PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU,  13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and packs a 3200 mAh battery. Continue reading “Gionee M2 and Gpad G4 officially launched in India for Rs. 10999 and Rs. 18999”

BlackBerry Z3 affordable BB10 smartphone press shots, specifications leaked ahead of MWC

BlackBerry Z3 leak

BlackBerry recently announced that it would partner with Foxconn to produce affordable BlackBerry 10 devices. According to the new leak from the BBin, the BlackBerry Z3 Jakarta would have a 5-inch qHD screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and come with 1.5 GB of RAM. It would come with a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.1-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “BlackBerry Z3 affordable BB10 smartphone press shots, specifications leaked ahead of MWC”

Micromax Splash Durable Smartphone with IP67 certification leaked

Micromax Splash leak

Micromax is pushing out more smartphones in the Canvas and the Bolt series recently. Looks like the company is also working on their first water and dust-proof smartphone, according to new leak from the MMXNewscaster. The might be called Splash (or probably Canvas Splash ?) but the official name is not confirmed yet, according to the Twitter user. Continue reading “Micromax Splash Durable Smartphone with IP67 certification leaked”

Samsung Galaxy Core Advance goes on sale in Korea

Samsung Galaxy Core Advance Korea

Samsung announced the Galaxy Core Advance, successor of Galaxy Core back in December last year. The smartphone would go on sale in Korea tomorrow, February 18th. It has a 4.7-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a  5-megapixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash and a 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Core Advance goes on sale in Korea”

LG L Series III smartphones L40, L70 and L90 running Android 4.4 announced

LG L Series III Smartphones

LG has just announced their L Series III smartphone lineup that includes, L40, L70 and L90. These smartphones run on Android 4.4 (KitKat). These have seamless layout, delicate finishing, narrow bezel and refined metallic frame to give premium looks similar to the G Series, says LG. It also has Quick Window cover. LG unveiled the Optimus L3, L5 and the L7 at the MWC 2012 and announced the L Series II smartphones at the MWC 2013 last year. Continue reading “LG L Series III smartphones L40, L70 and L90 running Android 4.4 announced”

Huawei Ascend G700 Camera Samples

Huawei Ascend G700

Huawei launched the Ascend G700, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in the G Series last month. We already brought you the benchmarks of the device, here we have the camera samples. The phone has a 8-megapixel rear camera with single LED flash, full HD video recording. The 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera can recording videos at HD resolution. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend G700 Camera Samples”

Dhingana music streaming service shuts down

Dhingana for iOS v4.0 Gold

Dhingana, popular online music streaming service in India has shut down. Their official website dhingana.com doesn’t say the reason behind the shutdown. This was first reported by Medianama, which said that Dhingana CEO Rohit Bhatia told them back in December that the company was in the process of restructuring its operations, but denied that it is going to shut down. Dhingana has also pulled their mobile apps from the respective app stores. Continue reading “Dhingana music streaming service shuts down”

Lenovo Vibe Z Benchmarks

Lenovo Vibe Z Benchmarks

Lenovo launched the Lenovo Vibe Z (K910), the company’s latest flagship smartphone in the Vibe series in India earlier this week at a price tag of Rs. Rs. 35,999. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks of the device.  The device is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) 28nm HPm Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.15 GHz with Adreno 330 GPU. It  has a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). Let’s check out the performance in a range of synthetic benchmark tests.

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Micromax Canvas Duet II EG111 with 5.3-inch HD display, Dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) available for Rs. 15990

Micromax Canvas Duet 2

Micromax Canvas Duet II (EG111) that surfaced earlier this week is now available in India from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 5.3-inch HD display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has 1GB of RAM and packs 2300 mAh battery. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Duet II EG111 with 5.3-inch HD display, Dual SIM (GSM + CDMA) available for Rs. 15990”

Sony Xperia G with 4.8-inch display images, specifications leak

Sony Xperia G leak

Sony unveiled the Xperia T2 Ultra, a mid-range phablet along with its dual SIM variant, the Xperia T2 Ultra Dual recently. Earlier this week alleged images of the Xperia G, an upcoming mid-range smartphone appeared on Twitter. This comes from ViziLeaks, popular for leaking the live image of Lumia 1020 last year. Yesterday, another image that shows the back of the phone appeared online along with specifications.

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo launching in India soon for Rs. 19010

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo (GT-I9060), that went official earlier this month is launching in India next week, according to Mahesh Telecom . It has a 5-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. It also comes with dual SIM support and has software features such as Multi Window and Pop up Play. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo launching in India soon for Rs. 19010”

Apple and Samsung reportedly fail to reach an agreement in mediation talks

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In unsurprising news of this week, a lot of Korean websites and news papers are reporting that top level executives from Samsung and Apple have failed to reach an agreement in their mediation talks. Apple and Samsung have been battling it out in the courts for a long while now, and that’s not a secret. Apple had accused Samsung of various IP infringements including the hotly debated “Trade Dress”, but the Judge had decided to give both the companies the option to resolve their tussle through mediation talks. If the reports are true, those talks just failed and both the companies with be back to the courts, with Samsung defending Apple’s claims again.

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Motorola Moto G Dual SIM gets Android 4.4.2 KitKat update in India

Moto G Android 4.4.2 KitKat India

Motorola has finally started rolling out the Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) update for the Dual SIM Moto G users in India. Motorola promised that the India users would get the update in a few weeks, at the launch, earlier this month. The Android 4.4.2 update was first released for the single SIM US variant first, back in December and it started rolling out in Europe, again for the single SIM variant last month. It rolled out for the Dual SIM variant in Malaysia and Taiwan earlier this month. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G Dual SIM gets Android 4.4.2 KitKat update in India”