Lava Iris 300 style and 3G 412 with Android 4.2 spotted on official website

Lava Iris 300 style

Lava Iris 300 style and 3G 412, two new budget Android smartphones have been spotted on the official website. The Iris 300 style has a 3.5-inch HVGA screen and the Iris 412 has a 4-inch WVGA screen. Both these smartphones are powered by 1 GHz dual-core processors and run on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Both these have a 2-megapixel fixed-focus rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera, but the Iris 300 style doesn’t have LED flash. Continue reading “Lava Iris 300 style and 3G 412 with Android 4.2 spotted on official website”

Dell announces new Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets with Android 4.4 KitKat

Dell has unveiled two Android tablets that are an upgrade to its Venue series at the Computex. Dubbed as Venue 7 and Venue 8, the tablets run on latest Android KitKat 4.4 and starts at US$159 and US$199 respectively.

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Spice Stellar 360 Unboxing

Spice has just announced the Spice Stellar 360 which brings back the near extinct physical keyboard on a smartphone. The Spice Stellar 360 tries to bring together the BlackBerry style QWERTY keyboard on a smart phone and the very popular and widely used touch screen with Android at the heart.

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ASUS unveils Transformer Book V, a 5-in-1 hybrid with Windows 8.1 and Android 4.4

ASUS has taken wraps off another of its hybrid devices at the ongoing Computex in Taipei. The company has announced the Transformer Book V, a 5 in 1 device which can be used as a phone, tablet and laptop running on Android and Windows.

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Spice Stellar 360 with 3.5-inch touch screen, QWERTY keyboard launched for Rs. 4799

Spice Stellar 360

S Mobility has launched Spice Stellar 360, the company’s latest smartphone in the Stellar series with a physical QWERTY keyboard. It has a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 3.2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has 3G connectivity and dual SIM support, similar to other Spice smartphones. Continue reading “Spice Stellar 360 with 3.5-inch touch screen, QWERTY keyboard launched for Rs. 4799”

Samsung Galaxy W with 7-inch HD display, LTE-A official

Samsung Galaxy W

After several rumors Samsung has finally made the Samsung Galaxy W phablet official in Korea. It has a 7-inch (1280×720 pixels) TFT display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has Multi Window, S Planner , Pop up Play and also support Landscape mode in the homescreen. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy W with 7-inch HD display, LTE-A official”

Google to reportedly debut Android TV with ‘Pano’ UI at I/O this month

We have heard rumors about Google working on an entertainment platform like Android TV for quite some time now. However, according to a new report from GigaOm, Google will introduce the Android TV at the I/O conference this month. The report claims that the new platform will be a revamped version of Google TV platform and will focus mainly on bringing online media content and Android gaming to televisions rather than concentrating on the ‘apps for TV’.

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HP SlateBook 14-inch Android laptop goes official

HP has announced a 14 inch Android powered laptop that is dubbed as SlateBook PC. Priced at $399, the laptop has a 14-inch FHD (1080p) touchscreen display with NVIDIA Tegra 4 under the hood. It is 16 millimeters thick and weighs just around 3.75 pounds (1.7 kg). The SlateBook 14 laptop was first leaked online in April this year.

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Gionee Elife S5.5 Unboxing

Back in February, just ahead of the Mobile World Congress, Gionee announced the Elife S5.5 which is currently the slimmest smartphone. The Gionee Elife S5.5 comes with a Full HD AMOLED display and is powered by MediaTek’s Octa-core SoC. It also comes with a 13MP camera module on the back. The device is super thin and today, we have the device at our office and we will be bringing you the unboxing.

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Oppo Find 7a Camera Samples

Oppo Find 7a is one of the successors of the popular Oppo Find 5. Oppo Find 7a comes with a 13MP rear camera that can record 4K videos thanks to the Snapdragon 801 SoC inside it. There is a also a 5MP front camera that was designed for video chatting, but is being used these days for “selfies”. The Oppo Find 5 too had a 13MP rear shooter and it was a very capable one. The Oppo Find 7a is arriving a year later than the Find 5 and lets check out how improved the camera on the Oppo Find 7a is.

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The 13MP rear camera can definitely take some great photos as we found out in our review of the Find 7a. Oppo has done a great job in the camera department of the Find 7a. You can find the camera samples right below. Use CTRL+CLICK to open the full resolution images in a new tab.

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You can check out the 4K video sample from the Oppo Find 7a right below

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As you can see above, the 4K video samples is full of colors and details. The Oppo Find 7a definitely has one of the best 13MP camera modules on a smartphone and the software algorithm seems to complement the camera performance.

Xolo Q600s with quad-core Broadcom processor and Android 4.4 officially launched for Rs. 8499

Xolo Q600s

Xolo has officially launched the Q600s, the company’s latest budget smartphone running on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It went on sale online earlier this week and packs 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 LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. This would compete with Moto E, Micromax Unite 2 A106 and the Lava Iris X1. Continue reading “Xolo Q600s with quad-core Broadcom processor and Android 4.4 officially launched for Rs. 8499”

Lava Iris Pro 20 Review

Introduction

The Lava Iris Pro 20 is a slightly stripped down version of the Lava Iris Pro 30 which was launched earlier this year. The Lava Iris Pro 20 looks very much like its big brother Lava Iris Pro 30 and both the Iris Pro phones look like the iPhone. The specifications of the Lava Iris Pro 20 are on the lower mid-range side and for Rs.12,999, lets check out how it performs.

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MediaTek MT8127 quad-core SoC with Mali-450 MP4 GPU announced for tablets

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MediaTek has just announced MT8127, the company’s latest quad-core SoC for tablets and it is aimed at super-mid markets. It has four ARM Cortex A7 cores, each clocked up to 1.5 GHz and has a quad-core ARM Mali-450 MP4 GPU. Other features include full hardware support for the HEVC (H.265) video playback standard, support for up to 13MP camera module, Full HD 1080p video recording and playback and more. Continue reading “MediaTek MT8127 quad-core SoC with Mali-450 MP4 GPU announced for tablets”

Acer Liquid E600 with 4G LTE, Liquid E700 with triple SIM support and Liquid Z200 announced

Acer Liquid E600

Acer has announced Liquid E600 and Liquid E700 smartphones in the E Series ahead of Computex 2014 and Liquid Z200 in the Z series along with other smartphones. The Liquid E600 has a 5-inch FWVGA IPS screen, powered by a 1.2 quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8926) SoC and has 4G LTE Cat. 4 that would offer download speed of up to 150Mbps. The Liquid E700 has a 5-inch HD display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor and comes with support for three SIM cards.  The Z200 is an entry-level smartphone with 4-inch WVGA screen and a dual-core processor. All these smartphones run on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Continue reading “Acer Liquid E600 with 4G LTE, Liquid E700 with triple SIM support and Liquid Z200 announced”

Android Wear notifications demoed by a Google Developer

We know one thing for sure – they are coming. Yeah! Smartwatches are coming as Apple seems to be prepping an iWatch while Google has already released a platform – Android Wear and its SDK for developers. Wearables are a huge category, but right now, in 2014, the concentration seems to be on smart watches. LG and Motorola were among the first companies to hop in with Google in the smart wearables market.

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