The Google Nexus 4 went on pre-order from Flipkart yesterday. Now LG and Google have officially launched the Nexus 4 in India. It was announced back in October last year, and it packs a 4.7-inch (1280 x 768 pixels) True HD IPS Plus display, powered by a 1.5 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “LG and Google launch the Nexus 4 in India for Rs. 25999”
Google announced the Hangouts app for Android, iPhone, iPad and Chrome at the Google I/O few hours back. These apps are now available for download. This app brings photos, emoji, video calls, history and more. This app replaces the original Google Talk app on Android and it is a separate app for iPhone and iPad. Continue reading “Google Hangouts for Android, iPhone and iPad now available for Download”
Rumoured long time as the Google Babel, the company just unveiled a new product at the I/O conference, called as Google hangouts. This is a cross platform messenger with free group video calling and the ability to archive the whole chat history. This app is available immediately starting today for iOS, Android and Chrome on the web/desktop. This applications combines and replaces all of the messaging services that previously existed, like Google+ messenger, Gtalk and Hangout video chat into one app – the Google hangouts.
In a surprising move, Google has announced a Pure Google Android version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, available unlocked, with Nexus-like updates for 649$ in the United states. This comes as a surprise because this is not a completely new nexus device, like the rumoured Motorola X Phone, but just another Samsung Galaxy S4, with pure Google at heart. Unlocked from carriers and sporting an unlocked bootloader, this device would be the device to get if you are not willing to agree to Touchwiz or all of its features.
Google has finally made its rumoured new Music streaming official, and it has called it “Google Play Music all access”. The Spotify like streaming service also has few more tricks up its sleeve, with Pandora like tailored radio with curated content with respect to taste. With this service announcement, Google has seriously stepped up its game in the music services field. Priced at 9.99$ per month, this will be available first in the United States and eventually in other markets. India might get it very very late though, as Google Play Music itself is not available here.
Google just announced the Play gaming services for Android, iOS and web, which is a cross platform gaming service for achievements and multiplayer, like, for example, Xbox live and the iOS game centre. This was rumoured quite a while ago, and this includes various features like cloud saves, Google plus integration for adding friends, leaderboards and achievements. The service is going to be made available for iOS and the web too, taking advantage of Google plus in all the platforms. While the demo on stage failed misreably, the concept of multi-player gaming between three tablets with match making over Google Plus circles is really cool.
Continue reading “Google Play Game services go official for Android, iOS and web”
The Google I/O developer conference has just started and the company which has the most popular smartphone platform in the world has just announced that there have been 900 million Android activations till date. This is a huge number, and growth never seems to stop according to Google. Sundar Pichai, the man behind Android, Chrome and Apps at Google announced this number with a nice build up of Android’s history.
Showing a world map, Sundar stressed that there is still tremendous potential, and there is still room for more growth. Asia and African countries are reportedly still only at 10% on Android penetration and Sundar says they are working to bring these 4.5 billion people to the internet, using Android of course. Adding to this, Google also announced that 48 billion app installations have happened from the Google Play store.
You can watch the Google I/O live stream here –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM
Logitech India has launched Ultimate Ears line-up of audio accessories.This collection include, UE Mobile Boombox and UE Boombox portable Bluetooth speakers, UE 6000 and UE 9000, over the ears headphones and UE 900, professional Quad armature wired earphone that is aimed at recording artists and sound engineers. The new lineup blends form and function to deliver the right sound for any situation. Continue reading “Logitech launches Boombox Bluetooth speakers and Headphones in India”
The ASUS Fonepad, the first calling tablet with a Nexus 7-like design left quite an impression on us, and you would know if you had read our review. But a lot of people were asking us how the performance of the tablet was, in terms of gaming, because, it being powered by the Intel Z2420 chip, only has the PowerVR SGX540 GPU which is pretty ancient in current terms. So, here you go, a gaming performance review of the ASUS Fonepad in video –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YdaCFBkFl0
Read on for more information.
The Karbonn Titanium S5 was launched a couple of months back as a slightly updated Titanium S1 with an improved battery and cameras. The Titanium S5 then went on a huge ad-spend to be well known as the sleek Karbonn phone that can be seen during IPL matches. We have it in our labs for testing finally, and thought it would be nice to show you the Karbonn Titanium S5 box and its contents. So, here you go, the Karbonn Titanium S5 unboxing video –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJA-0hqeL5k
Note: Headphones are supposed to be present inside the box, ours must have been misplaced somewhere, sorry!
MTS has launched their entry-level Striker C121 feature phone in Kerala with attractive offers. MTS buying the phone would get MTS to MTS local calling at just 10 paisa per minute, local calls to other networks at 10 paisa per 20 seconds and STD calls at 10 paisa per 15 seconds. These benefits are available for customers for six months post activation. Continue reading “MTS launches Striker C121 with bundled offers in Kerala for Rs. 799”
Lenovo released the P770, the company’s latest Android phone with a massive 3500 mAh battery recently. We brought you the unboxing of the device last week. Here we have the complete review of the device. Lenovo showcased the phone at the MWC 2013 earlier this year. It has a 4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) qHD IPS screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6577 processor and comes with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with Lenovo’s own UI on top. Let’s dive into the review. Continue reading “Lenovo P770 Review”
Micromax has launched the A88 Canvas Music, the company’s latest smartphone in the Canvas portfolio. It has a 4.5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor and run on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with dual LED Flash and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. The phone was showcased at the Micromax MTV Video Music Awards in Mumbai last month. MLive app in the phone lets you download over 4 lakh songs.
Continue reading “Micromax A88 Canvas Music with 4.5-inch display, Android 4.1 launched for Rs. 8499”
Along with all the Lumia 925 stuff that happened yesterday, Nokia revealed some interesting software additions and updates in the announcement. While the highlight was on the Nokia Smart Camera lens, the picture editing app exclusive for Lumia devices, also called as the Nokia Creative Studio received a rather huge update yesterday. The new update comes with the version number 5.0.7.6, and is available for download here. The update is available for all Windows Phone 8 devices and introduces various new features. Naturally, we went hands on with it and found it to be quite nice actually, take a look –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvREUPbBz6M
Samsung has shipped over 6 million units of the Galaxy S4 in 14 days, according to a report from Korean daily chosun. The report says Samsung Galaxy S4 shipments crossed 4 million units in just 5 days. Samsung could Apple reported last September that they have sold over 5 million iPhone 5′s in just 3 days after launch. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S4 shipments cross 6 million units”
