The latest market share data for the Chinese market is out and things are looking very interesting. Wrestling back the crown are Chinese companies Xiaomi and Huawei who have taken the top two spots of the nation’s massive mobile market share.
Micromax launched the Canvas Sliver 5 Q450 smartphone with just 5.1mm thickness back in June for Rs. 17999. We brought you the hands-on impressions of the smartphone from the launch event. You might have seen new ads on TV featuring the company’s brand ambassador Hugh Jackman. The smartphone finally went on sale recently, and here we have the unboxing.
Microsoft announced the Lumia 640 XL back in March at the MWC 2015. It comes in three variants, and the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL Dual SIM was launched in India in April, but the company is yet to launch the LTE version of the smartphone in the country. We managed to get the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL LTE … Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 640 XL LTE Dual SIM Unboxing”
Xiaomi has announced an event on August 13th to introduce MIUI 7, its next MIUI ROM. The MIUI 6 was introduced back in August last year that brought a flat user interface and new features. Even though early versions of MIUI 6 were based on Android KitKat, the latest smartphones such as Mi 4i are running on MIUI 6 ROM … Continue reading “Xiaomi MIUI 7 announcement set for August 13”
Samsung introduced the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini back in 2013, which was launched in India in July 2013, now the company has silently launched the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Plus (GT-I9195I) in Europe. This packs a faster Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC and also comes with 4G LTE support. It also runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) out of the box. … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Plus with Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4G LTE hits European markets”
Snapdeal has secured $500 million in latest round of funding from Alibaba, Foxconn and existing investor SoftBank, according to a latest report from Re/Code. The news comes after a WSJ report from June said that Alibaba and Foxconn are looking to invest in Snapdeal.
Sony already announced the XPERIA C5 Ultra and the XPERIA M5 earlier today but apparently there will an event in Berlin, a few days prior to IFA which is from 4th to 9th September. So it seems that Sony might be readying another smartphone which is most likely to the the XPERIA Z5 which was … Continue reading “Sony hosting an event on 2nd September during IFA week – Might announce the XPERIA Z5”
Twitter has added support for four new languages – Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil for the web and Android. This joins Hindi and Bengali that were added more than a year back. This makes Twitter more accessible to Indians across the country. To change the language on Twitter for web, you can change to the particular language in the drop down menu … Continue reading “Twitter for web and Android gets support for Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil”
Amazon India is selling refurbished Xiaomi and Samsung phones on its platform. The revamped smartphones come with more than 6 months higher warranty from the respective brands. Amazon has also assured that although the devices will be refurbished their quality will be not be comprised.
Motorola introduced the Moto X Play smartphone earlier this week. The company did not announce the price of the smartphone at the event, but online retailer Clove UK has started taking pre-orders for the smartphone and also announced that it will go on sale starting from August 25th in the UK.
Microsoft has already started rolling out Windows 10 for computers and tablets and now the company is giving information about which Lumia phones will receive the update.
Celkon has launched the Millenia 2GB Xpress, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Millenia series. It has a 4.5-inch WVGA IPS display, is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4.2 (KitKat), which is upgradable to Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing … Continue reading “Celkon Millenia 2GB Xpress with 4.5-inch display launched for Rs. 6222”
Google has reduced the minimum purchase price of the app from Google Play Store in India to Rs 10. The move comes from the company to make affordable apps available to the ever increasing Android users in the country.
Earlier this year we’d reported that a Chinese Consumer Rights Protection committee was suing the likes of Samsung and Oppo for the massive amount of bloatware on their devices. Today, Samsung has announced that they will issue patches that will allow Chinese customers to delete pre-installed applications from the Galaxy Note 3.
ZTE has announced its V3 (mighty) series of smartphones – V3 Youth, V3 Energy and V3 Extreme in China. These smartphones have a 5.5-inch 1080p display, are powered by a an Octa-Core Snapdragon 615 SoC and run on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with nubia UI 3.0. These have 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with 88-degree wide-angle … Continue reading “ZTE V3 series with 5.5-inch 1080p display, fingerprint sensor, aluminum body announced”
