HTC Desire 816 Review: Sum of all Desires

There’s no doubting the fact that phablets have gained consumer approval and are now considered a mainstream category of devices. HTC has so far kept its distance from these large screen devices with the One Max being its largest smartphone till date. With the Desire 816, HTC is bringing it’s A-Game to the mid range. … Continue reading “HTC Desire 816 Review: Sum of all Desires”

Nokia X2 Dual SIM Android smartphone with 4.3-inch display, 1GB RAM announced

Microsoft has announced Nokia X2 Dual SIM, the company’s latest Android smartphone in the X Series as expected. It has a 4.3-inch WVGA screen, powered by a 1.2 dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Nokia X software platform 2.0 based on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 720p HD video recording … Continue reading “Nokia X2 Dual SIM Android smartphone with 4.3-inch display, 1GB RAM announced”

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Unboxing and First Look

Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 3, the latest iteration of its own hybrid efforts under the “Surface Pro” moniker, at an event in New York last month. Panos Panay, the guy heading the Surface group, kept referencing the Macbook Air as the Surface Pro 3’s competitor and got the audience intrigued, including us, watching the … Continue reading “Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Unboxing and First Look”

Microsoft will pay you $650 when you trade in your Macbook Air for a Surface Pro 3 in the US and Canada

I was at the Microsoft Store in downtown San Francisco yesterday and store employees were readying a new sign at the entrance of the store. It read “Trade in your MacBook Air and get up to $650 toward a Surface Pro 3”. Microsoft has been heavily comparing its latest Surface Pro 3 Tablet with the … Continue reading “Microsoft will pay you $650 when you trade in your Macbook Air for a Surface Pro 3 in the US and Canada”

Spice Stellar 360 Review

In a world of touchscreen phones, choices in form factors are few, but Spice, one of the many Indian smartphone manufacturers, is offering one, with a keyboard. Spice’s Stellar 360, a budget Android touchscreen smartphone with a full sized qwerty keyboard, wants to appeal to a crowd that still likes its messages typed, on a … Continue reading “Spice Stellar 360 Review”

Xolo Q600s Benchmarks

Xolo Q600s the company’s first budget smartphone running Android 4.4 (Kitkat) was launched last month. We brought you the unboxing of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks of the device. It is powered by a quad-core Broadcom BCM 23550 processor clocked at  1.2 GHz per core with 312 MHz Videocore IV GPU. It has a 4.5-inch … Continue reading “Xolo Q600s Benchmarks”

Oppo R1 Camera Samples

Oppo launched the Oppo R1 (R829), successor of last year’s Oppo R819 in India April in India priced at Rs. 26990. We brought you the unboxing and the benchmarks of the device recently, here we have the camera samples from the smartphone. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with Fujitsu ISP,  1/3.2″ Sony IMX179 sensor with pixel size … Continue reading “Oppo R1 Camera Samples”

Xiaomi Mi3 Benchmarks

Xiaomi announced Mi3, its high-end smartphone back in September last year. We brought you unboxing of the smartphone recently, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by quad-core Snapdragon 800 (MSM 8274AB) 28nm HPm Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.3 GHz power core and has Adreno 330 GPU. 5-inch full HD display and runs … Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi3 Benchmarks”

Xolo Q600s Unboxing

Xolo launched the Q600s, the company’s first budget smartphone running on Android 4.4 (KitKat) out of the box last month, priced at Rs. 8,499. It has a 4.5-inch qHD display based on One Glass Solution (OGS), powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Broadcom processor and has 1GB of RAM. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with … Continue reading “Xolo Q600s Unboxing”

Asus Zenfone series reportedly launching in India on July 9th

Asus is planning to launch the Zenfone series – Zenfone 4, Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 6 in India on July 9th, according to a report from The Times of India. These are the first smartphones from Asus that were  announced at the CES 2014 earlier this year have 4, 5 and 6-inch displays. The Zenfone 4 has … Continue reading “Asus Zenfone series reportedly launching in India on July 9th”