Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ smartphones at the Galaxy Unpacked last week. Now the Galaxy Note5 Duos (SM-G9198) has been revealed by ePrice in Taiwan (Via). It shows two nano SIM card slots, but these are not hybrid SIM card slots like the Galaxy A series, so you can’t use the secondary SIM slot as a … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note5 Duos revealed, but it doesn’t have a microSD card slot”
Micromax has launched Canvas Selfie 2 Q340 and Canvas Selfie 3 Q348, the company’s latest selfie-focused smartphones. The Canvas Selfie 2 has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with OmniVision OV5670 sensor and 4P lens. The Canvas Selfie 3 has a 8-megapixel front camera with Sony MX179 sensor and LED Flash. Both these are powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB of … Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 Q340 and Canvas Selfie 3 Q348 launched, starts at Rs. 5999”
Microsoft is testing a new app that curates news from various sources, sorts out the bests ones and reads them out loud to you from your phone. Dubbed as News Cast, the app uses text-to-speech technology to read out article summaries to the users.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 that was announced last week went on sale in China yesterday. Xiaomi has announced that it sold 800,000 Redmi Note 2 smartphones in the first 12 hours of sale, which is a new record for the company. Back in April Xiaomi entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for selling 2.11 million … Continue reading “Xiaomi sells record 800,000 Redmi Note 2 units in 12 hours in China”
A mid-range unannounced Gionee handset has appeared on Geekbench and TENAA. The mysterious device that has a model model number ‘GN9007’ is said to be the Elife S7 Mini.
Xiaomi launched the Redmi 2 Prime smartphone in India last week for Rs. 6,999. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) SoC that has four ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs clocked at 1.21GHz per core, similar to the Redmi 2, but this has 2GB of RAM. It … Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime Benchmarks”
This week we saw pretty big announcements from Samsung and Xiaomi. Where Xiaomi rolled out its first ‘Made in India’ smartphone Redmi 2 Prime from Sri City manufacturing plant in Andhra Pradesh, Samsung unveiled its flagship Galaxy Note 5, S6 Edge+, Samsung Pay and more at its Unpacked event in New York. On the same … Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: ‘Made in India’ Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime, Redmi Note 2, Samsung Galaxy Note5, S6 edge+ and more”
Microsoft has rolled out Photo Story app that creates videos from your photos. Available for Windows Phone users, the app is a product of Microsoft Garage.
HTC has posted $252.7 million loss for Q2, 2015 as against a net profit of $ 2.26 billion in the same period, last year. To combat poor sales and as a part of restructuring, the Taiwanese handsetmaker is also reducing its workforce by 15% globally that translates to 2,250 jobs.
Hello readers! We started the Qualcomm Snapdragon giveaway last month teaming up with Qualcomm India to giveaway three Microsoft Lumia 640 XL Dual SIM smartphones, and as promised, today we reveal the lucky winners. Before that, we would like to thank all the participants who took their time to participate in this giveaway. Are you the … Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 640 XL Dual SIM Giveaway Winner Announcement”
Xiaomi has announced MIUI 7, the latest MIUI ROM at an event in Beijing on the fifth anniversary of MIUI. It is based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop), has personalized UI with thousands of themes, new Mi roaming, faster response speed and better battery life compared to MIUI 6. MIUI has 750 research and development team and more than 150 … Continue reading “Xiaomi introduces MIUI 7 with personalized UI and new features”
Roll on the commoditization of hardware and the progress of manufacturing processes that makes technology accessible. A point that has been advoated by me personally over the last few years and one that we as a technology forward company believe in, high quality yet low cost handsets are the future and are fast becoming the reality. With the … Continue reading “Xiaomi’s $125 Redmi Note 2 challenges the need of a $600 smartphone”
Xiaomi has introduced Mi Wi-Fi nano, the company’s latest compact wireless router, smaller than the Mi Wi-Fi mini router. It’s in the size of your palm, can be carried in your pocket and weighs just 100 grams. The main highlight of the wireless router is that it has micro USB input that lets you power it … Continue reading “Xiaomi introduces Mi Wi-Fi nano compact wireless router that can be powered by a power bank”
Xiaomi just announced the Redmi Note 2 smartphone at its MIUI 7 event, as expected. It packs a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display, is powered by a octa-core MediaTek Helio X10 processor and runs on MIUI 7 based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), resulting … Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 and Redmi Note 2 Prime with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Helio X10 SoC, 4G LTE announced”
Paytm has surpassed 100 million mobile wallet users in India who are carrying out 75 million transactions every month. The popular mobile commerce marketplace and digital wallet company claims that its wallet is now accepted by over 80,000 merchants across the country.
