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Google Spotlight Stories arrive on YouTube, Android gets interactive 360-degree version

Google Spotlight Stories YouTube

Google Spotlight Stories 360-degree experience has arrived on YouTube with Special Delivery, an original short film made by Academy Award-winning animation studio Aardman Animations, viewable on the YouTube app on several Android devices. Google Spotlight Stories was originally developed by Motorola Mobility’s Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP). It was released by Google for several Android devices back in May and it arrived on iPhone in July. Continue reading “Google Spotlight Stories arrive on YouTube, Android gets interactive 360-degree version”

Microsoft kills ‘Hey Cortana’ feature on Android

Earlier this month Microsoft officially launched Cortana for Android and iOS. Today, the company is taking down one of the important feature of the digital assistant on Android.

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Gionee M5 Enjoy with 5.5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 5000mAh battery announced

Gionee M5 Enjoy

Gionee today introduced M5 Enjoy version, along with the M5 Plus at an event in China. It packs a 5000mAh battery and also has a fingerprint sensor embedded into the home button that promises recognition time of 0.5 seconds. It has a 5.5-inch HD IPS display, is powered by a Quad-Core MediaTek MT6735 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Amigo OS 3.1. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Gionee M5 Enjoy with 5.5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 5000mAh battery announced”

Gionee M5 Plus with 6-inch 1080p AMOLED display, fingerprint sensor, 5020mAh battery announced

Gionee M5 Plus

Gionee has announced the M5 Plus smartphone at an event in China, as it promised. It packs a 6-inch 1080p AMOLED display with a screen-to-body ratio of 77.5% and 2.5D arc glass. It packs a 5020mAh battery with dual charging chips that offers up to 1 day of usage with just 1 hour of charging. It has a fingerprint sensor embedded into the home button that promises response time of 0.1 seconds and recognition time of 0.38 seconds. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) that can focus in just 0.1 seconds and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Gionee M5 Plus with 6-inch 1080p AMOLED display, fingerprint sensor, 5020mAh battery announced”

CyanogenMod releases CM13 nightlies for Samsung Galaxy S3, LG G3 S, G3 Beat and more

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CyanogenMod announced official CM13 nightly builds based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow for several devices, including the OnePlus One (bacon), LG G4 (h815) and Motorola Moto X 2014 (victara) last month, and started rolling it out soon after. Now it has released CM13 nightly builds for the Galaxy S3 (i9300), LG G3 S, G3 Beat , LG Optimus L70, LG Optimus L90 and more. Continue reading “CyanogenMod releases CM13 nightlies for Samsung Galaxy S3, LG G3 S, G3 Beat and more”

Flipkart Big App Shopping Days: Best deals on smartphones, tablets and accessories

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Flipkart is back with its Big App Shopping Days sale. As a part of the sale it is offering some great deals on smartphones, mobile accessories, tablets and more that include, Nexus 6P, Moto X Style Moto X Play, Mi Pad and more. All these offers are available only through the Flipkart app. Continue reading “Flipkart Big App Shopping Days: Best deals on smartphones, tablets and accessories”

Weekly Roundup: Google’s Big Plan for India, YU YUTOPIA, Redmi Note Prime, Lumia 550 and more

This week started with Google’s big event in New Delhi. Company’s CEO Sundar Pichai along with its various top officials addressed India about their plans for the country in 2016 and more. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Google’s Big Plan for India, YU YUTOPIA, Redmi Note Prime, Lumia 550 and more”

Asus Zenfone 3 with fingerprint sensor expected to launch in May 2016

Asus is expected to announce the next generation of its Zenfone series in early 2016. A report from Digitimes states that the Taiwanese company will add fingerprint sensor to the Zenfone 3.

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YU YUTOPIA Photo Gallery

YU launched YUTOPIA (YU5050), the company’s flagship smartphone yesterday, priced at Rs. 24,999. We brought you the unboxing earlier today, here we take a quick look at the hardware of the smartphone in the form of photo gallery.

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Nexian NV-45 with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3799

Nexian NV-45

Nexian launched the Nexian Air Chromebook in India earlier this year. Now it has launched the Nexian NV-45, a budget Android smartphone exclusively on Flipkart. It packs a 4.5-inch FWVGA display with Dragontrail Glass protection, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7731 processor, runs on Android 4.4.2 (KitKat), has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 3.2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Nexian NV-45 with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3799”

Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 7999

Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton

Videocon Mobiles has Infinium Z55 Krypton, the company’s latest 4G smartphone in the Infinium series. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor, runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 4G LTE connectivity with support for TD-LTE 2300MHz (Band 40) and FDD-LTE 1800MHz (Band 3) for India. Continue reading “Videocon Infinium Z55 Krypton with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 7999”

Intex Aqua Star 4G with 5-inch HD display, iData Saver launched for Rs. 6499

Intex has launched Aqua Star 4G, the company’s latest 4G smartphone with new iData Saver feature powered by Opera Max. Samsung launched the Galaxy J2 with Ultra Data Saving mode powered by Opera Max. Intex becomes the first Indian brand to integrate Opera Max’s functionality into its operating system on its 4G smartphone. This feature will reduce data consumption by up to 50% on images, webpages and streaming, especially with image-heavy audio & video apps, such as Instagram, YouTube, Gaana and Saavn. Continue reading “Intex Aqua Star 4G with 5-inch HD display, iData Saver launched for Rs. 6499”

Kult 10 Benchmarks

Kult, a new entrant in the Indian market launched its Kult 10 smartphone earlier this week for Rs. 7,999. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a Quad-Core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.3GHz per core and has Mali-T720 MP2 GPU. It has 3GB of RAM, 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “Kult 10 Benchmarks”

HTC One X9 leaks again in high resolution photos

An upcoming phone from HTC dubbed as One X9 already received TENNA certification last month and was leaked in live images this week. Now, the phone has surfaced again in hi-resolution photos.

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YU YUTOPIA vs Motorola Moto X Style – What’s different?

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YU launched its flagship YUTOPIA (YU5050) smartphone few hours back for Rs. 24,999, exclusively on Amazon.in. We have compiled a list of features and specs to see what is different between the YU YUTOPIA and the Motorola Moto X Style that is available in India starting at Rs. 29,999. Some things that are common between these two smartphones include, 21-megapixel rear camera with OIS and 4K recording, Quad HD screen and a 3000mAh battery.

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