Meizu MX3 Hands on

Meizu, one of the many Chinese manufacturers, but one of the very few to make an impact on the world with their products, are present at CES 2014 here in Las Vegas and are showcasing their Meizu MX3 flagship device. The Meizu MX3 is the successor of Meizu MX2 and features best in class specifications. … Continue reading “Meizu MX3 Hands on”

NVIDIA unveils Tegra K1 192-core processor, also comes in 64-bit variant

NVIDIA has announced the Tegra K1, the company’s latest 192-core processor at the International CES 2014 in Las Vegas just now. Last year NVIDIA showed-off Logan mobile SoC with Kepler GPU, now the next-gen Tegra K1 mobile processor uses the same Keplar GPU. NVIDIA has announced that Epic Games would bring Unreal Engine 4 to Tegra K1. Kepler … Continue reading “NVIDIA unveils Tegra K1 192-core processor, also comes in 64-bit variant”

Xolo Q1000 Opus Unboxing

Xolo Q1000 Opus Unboxing Broadcom, a company that powers most of the WiFiac chips inside smartphones these days had been very quiet in the SoC business, but they had recently announced new chips and a partnership with Xolo for their Quad Core low end chip. The fruition of that partnership is the Xolo Q1000 Opus, … Continue reading “Xolo Q1000 Opus Unboxing”

Qualcomm to demo Snapdragon 805 camera features, Chroma Flash, Action Shot and OptiZoom at CES

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 805 processor with Ultra HD support and Adreno 420 GPU back in November last year. The chip supports world’s first mobile 1GPixel/s (Giga-pixel per second) ISP with large increase in ISP and CPP (camera post processor) speed and throughput. This offers sharper, higher resolution photos with advanced post-processing features for low light … Continue reading “Qualcomm to demo Snapdragon 805 camera features, Chroma Flash, Action Shot and OptiZoom at CES”

LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition Benchmarks

Google and LG partnered to launch the LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition back in December last year. We already unboxed the tablet, here we have the benchmarks of the tablet. It is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor clocked at 1.7 GHz with Adreno 320 GPU and packs 2GB of LPDDR2 RAM, similar … Continue reading “LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition Benchmarks”

Lenovo Vibe Z with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 800 processor starts at $549, available starting February

Lenovo Vibe Z (K910), the company’s latest flagship smartphone surfaced in China back in October, and it was officially announced in November last year. Now the company has revealed the pricing for the LTE smartphone and announced that it would go on sale in select countries starting from February 2014. The  Vibe Z has a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 … Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe Z with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 800 processor starts at $549, available starting February”

LG G Pro Lite Dual Benchmarks

LG launched the LG G Pro Lite Dual, the company’s latest Dual SIM smartphone with 5.5-inch qHD display in India back in October 2013. We have the device for review, and here are the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Mediatek MT6577 processor based on ARM Cortex A9 CPU with PowerVR SGX … Continue reading “LG G Pro Lite Dual Benchmarks”

LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition Unboxing

LG is the company that is currently producing Google’s Nexus smartphones, but Google’s Nexus tablets are produced by Asus. So LG has decided to work with Google to bring the best of their tablet offerings – LG G Pad 8.3 as a Google Play Edition. So, today we have the LG G Pad 8.3 Google … Continue reading “LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition Unboxing”

Asus CES 2014 teaser hints at 4, 5 and 6-inch smart devices

Asus released the first teaser for the CES 2014 last week titled” Green or Blue? One or Two?”, which hinted at Android and Windows dual-boot tablet. The company posted teaser 2 titled “What’s your number?” recently, which has  different colored balls with numbers 4, 5 and 6 that hits at smartphones or phablets with different … Continue reading “Asus CES 2014 teaser hints at 4, 5 and 6-inch smart devices”

Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Review

Samsung launched the Galaxy Star (GT-S5282), the company’s cheapest Android smartphone earlier this year. It launched the Samsung Galaxy Star Pro (GT-S7262), an upgraded version of the Star few months back, with a large screen, more internal storage and a slightly better battery. This uses the same single-core Spreadtrum chip and runs on the same … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Review”

LG L Series II devices to get Knock double tap to unlock feature starting January 2014

LG Electronics has announced that the company’s L Series II devices would get the popular Knock feature in 2014. This was formerly known as KnockON, which is one of the most popular LG UX feature, that was first introduced on the LG G2. This will be included as a standard feature in the company’s key … Continue reading “LG L Series II devices to get Knock double tap to unlock feature starting January 2014”

Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Benchmarks

Samsung launched the Galaxy Star Pro, the successor of the Galaxy Star back in October. We already unboxed the device earlier this week. Here we have the benchmarks of the device. The Star Pro packs a 1 GHz single-core Spreadtrum SC6820 processor based on ARM Cortex A5 CPU and has Mali 400 GPU. The phone has a 4.0-inch WVGA … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Benchmarks”

Airtel Mobitude 2013 survey shows 124% jump in data users, 3G devices contributed to 87% of data traffic

Bharti Airtel has released the results of Airtel Mobitude 2013, the 5th edition of its Indian annual survey that reveals that mobile TV, Bollywood, Hello Tunes, Re 1 entertainment store and gaming ruled customer preferences. Mobile TV witnessed 400% plus jump in viewership over last year. Airtel Re 1 entertainments store paved way for data … Continue reading “Airtel Mobitude 2013 survey shows 124% jump in data users, 3G devices contributed to 87% of data traffic”

Nokia Asha 500 now available in India for Rs. 4649

Nokia launched the Asha 500 along with the Asha 502 and the Asha 503 in India last week. The Nokia Asha 502 Dual SIM went on sale in India last week, now the the Asha 500 is available in India from online retailer Infibeam, as Nokia promised at the event. The Asha 500 was announced at the Nokia World … Continue reading “Nokia Asha 500 now available in India for Rs. 4649”