Oppo is holding an event today in China where they announced their latest flagship device – Oppo Find 7 and its slightly trimmed down counterpart – Oppo Find 7a. Oppo Find 7a comes with a 5.5inch Full HD display sporting a pixel density of 403ppi and has most other features similar to the Oppo Find 7 which comes with a 5.5inch Quad HD display sporting a pixel density of 538ppi.
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Oppo has finally unveiled the Find 7, the company’s latest flagship smartphone at an event in China. It has a 5.5-inch (2560×1440 pixels) Quad HD 538ppi LTPS display from JDI with Corning gorilla glass protection and Touch-on-Lens technology, powered by a 2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974AC) processor with Adreno 330 GPU and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Color OS 1.2 on top. It has a 13-megapixel camera Sony IMX214 stacked sensor with 6-element lens, f/2.0 aperture and uses software enhancements to capture images at 50-megapixel (8,160 x 6,120 pixels) resolution. The camera is also capable of shooting RAW images and has 4K video recording. It has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture. Continue reading “Oppo Find 7 with 5.5-inch 2K display announced, has a 13MP camera capable of shooting 50MP images”
Motorola has partnered with Flipkart once again to launch the Moto X in India, as it promised earlier this week. It was announced back in August 2013 and packs a 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) edge-to-edge AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass protection, powered by a 1.7 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Continue reading “Motorola Moto X launched in India for Rs. 23999”
Karbonn is all set to launch the Titanium Hexa, the company’s first phone powered by a hexa-core processor. The phone has appeared on the official website and packs a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) LTPS (Low temperature polysilicon) type display, powered by 1.5 GHz hexa-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and packs a 2050 mAh battery. Detailed specifications of the phone such as RAM and memory are not available yet. Karbonn launched the Titanium X with a 5-inch 1080p display recently.
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Sony has launched the Xperia T2 Ultra Dual, the company’s latest mid-range phablet in India. It was announced earlier this year and packs a 6-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD TRILUMINOS Display for mobile with X-Reality picture engine, powered by a 1.4 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Sony Xperia T2 Ultra Dual officially launched in India for Rs. 25990”
Close on the heels of the announcements from Google for Android Wear and Motorola’s Moto 360 Smartwatch, LG has announced that it will actually be making the first smartwatch powered by the new wearables platform. The LG G watch, as it is called, will be the first smartwatch to release to the market, powered by Google’s Android Wear platform. LG and Google have apparently worked on this device together, right from design, just like a Nexus product. The details of the LG G watch have not been revealed yet, but the availability is set to the second quarter of 2014.
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Right after Google announced that Android is coming to wearables with Android Wear, Motorola has brought itself to the fore of this new Android Wear ecosystem by announcing its first Smartwatch – the Moto 360. As you might have guessed from the name, the Moto 360 has a circular display, which is a first for smartwatches. Android Wear marks an interesting development in the smartphone, although this has been rumoured for quite a while now. Powered by Google Now as its main contextual engine, Android Wear enables wearables like the Moto 360 to take at-a-glance information to the next level.
Google just announced Android Wear, its first Android platform for wearables, as it promised earlier this month. This would let manufactures create smartwatches based on Android wear. This offers useful information to users when they need it, and respond to spoken questions and commands, just like Google Now. It can also monitor your health and fitness and lets you access and control other devices such as phone and TV. Continue reading “Android extends to wearables with Android Wear”
Gionee unveiled the Elife E7, the company’s first Snapdragon 800-powered smartphone in India few months back. It went on sale in India recently, starting at Rs. 26,999. We already brought you the unboxing of the device, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by quad-core Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) 28nm HPm Krait 400 CPU clocked at 2.15 GHz with Adreno 330 GPU. It has a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) OS with Amigo UI on top. Let’s check out the performance in a range of synthetic benchmark tests. Continue reading “Gionee Elife E7 Benchmarks”
LG unveiled the G Pro 2, successor of the G Pro ahead of Mobile World Congress last month. It went on sale in Korea at the end of February, even before it was showcased at the MWC. The company today announced that it has started selling the smartphones in Asian markets including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippine, Vietnam and Indonesia. It was showcased at the LG Tech Show 2014 event in India earlier this month, but the company did not reveal the launch date of the yet. Continue reading “LG G Pro 2 global roll out begins starting from Asia”
Facebook Messenger for iPhone got free voice calling feature in the US and Canada back in February 2013. It rolled out for Android users in Canada in March, it rolled out in the US and in 24 countries in April last year. You can make calls only to Facebook Messenger users on iPhone and Android over 3G or WiFi. It is not available for Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone that was launch recently. The Free call option is grayed out if you can’t call the person. This was first spotted by AndroidOS. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Android and iPhone gets free voice calling in India”
SwiftKey keyboard for Android already has personalization options to learn SMS, Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, RSS feed and more. The Beta app has been updated to version 4.5.0.43 to bring support for Evernote and Google+ personalization. It learns from your Evernote archives and public Google+ posts to make the auto predication better. This update also brings new theme selection menu with a preview image of how the them would looks like, better emojis and more. Continue reading “SwiftKey Beta for Android updated with option to learn from Evernote and Google+”
Google introduced Play Games as a competitor to Apple’s Game Center, but it has hardly caught up in the race. The Google Play Games still lacks in features like how you cannot properly use gift codes and also the free to paid app transition is troublesome. Google has just announced an update to the Play Games service in the form of new developer options and also ability to gift in the game.
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Samsung is popular for different variants of smartphones under based on the name of its flagship device. The Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini Value Edition was launched in Netherlands earlier this week. The Samsung Galaxy S3 Slim, (SM-G3812B) a budget variant of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has surfaced on the official Samsung Brazil website. It has a 4.52-inch (960 x 540 Pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S3 Slim with 4.5-inch qHD display, quad-core processor unveiled in Brazil”
Lapcare, popular for laptop peripherals and accessories has launched Smart 3G Dongle that offers data speed of up to 14.4 Mbps. It supports voice calls and SMS and also supports Micro SD card upto 2 GB. It supports all major operating system and also works on select Android tablets that accepts data cards. Continue reading “Lapcare 14.4 Mbps Smart 3G Dongle launched for Rs. 1999”
