Earlier today, we reported that Sony was having trouble supplying its sensors to the Chinese manufacturers due to high demand from Apple for their iPhone 6C. Apparently Chinese manufacturers aren’t the only ones affected as even Samsung has been forced to use its own sensors in place of Sony ones. This has been witnessed on the newer units of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge.
Oppo is one of the few Chinese manufacturers that still haven’t gotten the update to Lollipop on their phones. While smaller Chinese brands have already received updates to Lollipop, Oppo is only now receiving the update along with the release of ColorOS 2.1.
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Spice Stellar 405, the company’s latest budget smartphone is now available from Saholic. It packs a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 3.2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and even has 3G support. Continue reading “Spice Stellar 405 with quad-core Snapdragon 200 SoC, Android 4.4 now available for Rs. 3299”
Lenovo A5000 and P70 smartphones that went on sale in India recently have been officially launched in the country. Both the A5000 and P70 have a a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display, run on Android 4.4 (KitKat) and have a 4000mAh battery. The A5000 is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, while the P70 is powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6752 Processor processor and comes with 4G LTE connectivity.
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Gionee Elife E8 (GN9008), the company’s upcoming E series flagship has been certified in China on TENAA. The company already confirmed that the it will launch the camera-centric Elife E8 later this year during the launch of its Elife S7 smartphone in India in April. According to the listing, the smartphone will feature a 6-inch Quad HD AMOLED screen, will be powered by a 2GHz Octa-Core processor, 3GB RAM, Android 5.0 OS with Amigo UI on top and 4G support. Continue reading “Gionee Elife E8 with 6-inch Quad HD AMOLED display, 3GB RAM gets certified in China”
The Dell Venue 7 is a voice enabled tablet that runs on Android 4.4.4 KitKat. The device is available in Wi-Fi, 3G as well as 4G LTE variants. We have the LTE version of the device in our office and thought we would bring you a photo gallery of it.
Lollipop adoption continues to surge every month with more and more smartphone makers rolling out the latest OS to their devices. Today fresh numbers from Android distribution chart are saying that Lollipop is present on 9% of Android devices as per 7-day period ending on May 4th, 2015.
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Xiaomi launched the Mi 4i smartphone last month in India for Rs 12,999. We have already seen unboxing, hands on, benchmarks and photo gallery of the phone. Now let’s compare the phone with last year’s Mi4 in this photo gallery. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4i vs Mi 4 Photo Gallery”
Google has updated Maps with an important feature that puts all your reservations and travel plans at forefront. The company has added search shortcut to Maps for the same.
Intex technologies has launched Aqua Star II HD, successor of Aqua Star II that was launched earlier this year. It has a 5-inch HD display compared to the FWGA screen on the Star II, other specifications are similar to the Star II, including a 1.2 GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7731 processor, Android 4.4 (KitKat), 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Intex Aqua Star II HD with 5-inch HD display, 5MP front camera launched for Rs. 6590”
Infocus launched M330 smartphone in India last month. Today the company has launched Limited Edition Black variant of the smartphone on Snapdeal. Specifications of the smartphone are similar to the white version, including a 5.5-inch HD display, Octa-Core MediaTek processor, Android 4.4 (KitKat), 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “InFocus M330 Limited Edition Black variant launched for Rs. 9999”
Foursquare is bringing back some of its important features to its newly launched Swarm app. The company is reintroducing the original check-in badges and mayorship features to Swarm.
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Google+ has taken a leaf from Pinterest and introduced a new feature called as Collections. The new feature allows users to create different category boards such as images, videos and other content in Google Plus.
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Google has just updated its Play Store and it brings a few improvements and features to the table. The latest version is 5.5 and will be rolling out across Android devices as we speak.
Continue reading “Google Play Store 5.5 Update brings new animations and review quotes”
Last month we saw an artists rendering of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in various Avenger character themed colours. At the time we weren’t sure whether Samsung had plans to release them as they didn’t comment on the same. Now sources say that they will be releasing an “Iron Man” edition of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edger next month.
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