Apple iPhone 7 to have a flush camera – Might get rid of antenna bands as well

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It seems like the Apple iPhone rumour season has begun as we have more information regarding the upcoming iPhone. The next generation Apple iPhone 7 will reportedly have a flush camera just like the older generations and Apple might also get rid of the antenna bands.

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Samsung accidentally confirms Galaxy S7 edge on own website

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While we know almost for certain that Samsung will be introducing the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge next month Barcelona, nothing is really official till it is official. So, now that Samsung has accidentally leaked the Galaxy S7 edge on their website, the existence of the device is certain.

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Huawei Honor 5X Benchmarks

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Huawei launched the Honor 5X smartphone in India at a price tag of Rs. 12999 last week. It went on sale yesterday. We already brought you the photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 64-bit processor (Even though CPU-Z shows it has Snapdragon 615) that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.50 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.21 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz, 2GB RAM, 5-inch 1080p screen and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with EMUI 3.1 Lite. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.  Continue reading “Huawei Honor 5X Benchmarks”

HTC reports $101 million loss for Q4 2015, down 46% YoY

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HTC today reported a net loss of NT$ 3.4 billion ($101 million), on revenue of NT$ 25.7 billion ($766 million) for its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter that ended December 31, 2015. This is the third consecutive loss for the company. Even though the operating profit is up 20% quarter-on-quarter, it is down 46% year-on-year. Continue reading “HTC reports $101 million loss for Q4 2015, down 46% YoY”

Lenovo records $12.9 billion in revenue, down 8 percent year-over-year in Q3 2015

Lenovo has announced results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2015.  The company recorded quarterly revenue of $12.9 billion, an 8 percent year-over-year decrease. The company said net profit reached $300 million, up 19% from $253 million in the same period.

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Microsoft officially confirms it has acquired SwiftKey

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After reports, Microsoft has officially announced that it has acquired SwitKey, one of the popular keyboard app makers. The exact amount of the deal is not disclosed, but it is said to be $250 million, according to an earlier report. Microsoft said that it will continue to develop SwiftKey’s keyboard apps for Android and iOS and will also explore scenarios for the integration of the its core technology in its products. Continue reading “Microsoft officially confirms it has acquired SwiftKey”

Meizu MX5 Flyme OS 5.1.3 update starts rolling out in India

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Meizu launched the MX5 smartphone running Flyme OS 4.5 based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) in India back in August last year, priced at Rs. 19,999. Today the company has released Flyme OS 5.1.3 stable update based on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) for the Indian users finally. The Flyme OS 5.0.0.1A stable update for the Chinese users was released in October last year. Continue reading “Meizu MX5 Flyme OS 5.1.3 update starts rolling out in India”

Microsoft Lumia 850 with 5.4-inch display, Iris scanner surfaces in live images

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Microsoft Lumia 850 render based on factory-acquired schematics surfaced back in December last year, later the case of the smartphone leaked. Now live images of the smartphone have surfaced in a new leak from China (Via). The leak also says that the phone will have a 5.4-inch display compared to 5.5 / 5.7-inch screen as rumored earlier. It shows the smartphone’s metal frame and Iris Scanner at the top right corner.

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Coolpad Note 3 Lite Battery Life Test

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Coolpad launched the Note 3 Lite smartphone with a fingerprint sensor and 3GB of RAM at a price tag of Rs. 6,999. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the battery life test results. It packs a  2500mAh built-in battery, slightly less than the 3000mAh battery on the Coolpad Note 3. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.3GHz Quad-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6735 processor with Mali-T720 GPU and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Cool UI 6.0 on top. Check out the test results below.

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Android Marshmallow adoption finally crosses 1%, Lollipop grows to 34.1%

Google is out with its Android distribution data for the month of February. Marshmallow is now finally present on 1.2% of devices, up from 0.7% since last month. The latest version of Android had debuted the distribution chart in November last year with 0.3%.

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Apple tipped to unveil iPhone 5se, iPad Air 3 and Apple Watch band updates on March 15

We have seen reports and rumors that suggest Apple’s 4-inch iPhone 5se will be announced in March and now we have a possible date of the event. According to 9to5Mac report, Apple has scheduled an event on March 15 where it will introduce the iPhone 5se, iPad Air 3 and announce Apple Watch updates.

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Microsoft said to acquire Swiftkey for $250 million

Microsoft has acquired popular third party keyboard app Swiftkey for $250 million, according to a latest report from the Financial Times. Swiftkey specializes in predictive typing which is powered by artificial intelligence.

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India pips US to become second largest smartphone market in the world: Report

India has become the second largest smartphone market in the world, according to Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service. The country surpassed US in terms of active unique smartphone user base with over 220 million users.

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New HTC Desire 500 and Desire 800 series phones with Android 6.0 expected before One M10

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HTC is rumored to introduce it’s flagship One M10 smartphone codenamed ‘Perfume’ with Snapdragon 820 and 4GB of RAM sometime around the MWC 2016 later this month. Today, HTC ROM developer LlabTooFeR said that the company will introduce two new smartphones, one in the Desire 500 series (codenamed A16) and Desire 800 series (codenamed A56) before the One M10 is announced. Continue reading “New HTC Desire 500 and Desire 800 series phones with Android 6.0 expected before One M10”

70,000 Le 1s smartphones sold out in 2 seconds in first flash sale on Flipkart

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LeEco (formerly known as Letv) today announced that it sold 70,000 Le 1s smartphones in just 2 seconds in the first flash sale at 12 noon on Flipkart. The company said that this is a new record in India. Yesterday Flipkart announced that it received over 5,30,000 lakh registrations for the smartphone within 10 days after registration opened. Today LeEco said that the registration number had reached a record high of 605,000 before the sale. Continue reading “70,000 Le 1s smartphones sold out in 2 seconds in first flash sale on Flipkart”