Qualcomm Incorporated and TDK Corporation today announced an agreement to form a joint venture under the name RF360 Holdings, valued approximately $3 billion to supply RF front-end (RFFE) modules and RF filters used to communicate wirelessly with IoT devices and other devices like drones, robotics, automotive applications and more. Continue reading “Qualcomm and TDK form $3 billion joint venture for creating wireless modules for mobile devices”
Letv, one of the popular Chinese brands, yesterday announced its new brand identity – LeEco at an event in China at its Global Brand Upgrade press conference under the theme of A New Eco World. It also introduced a new brand logo for the Le Ecosystem and its seven sub-ecosystems. Continue reading “Letv is now LeEco, launches new brand logo”
The QiKU Q Terra has left quite an impression on us with its solid performance, great pricing and over all package. In our review, we’d pointed at all these and more and had said that performance on the handset was quite exemplary. However, one category in particular is of a lot of interest to users investing in a high performance, large-screen device. Gaming on a Snapdragon 808 chipset is bound to be good given the high-end nature of the chipset but there is the perennial fear of overheating so we decided to put the phone through a test that would gauge how well it works in both the parameters. Read on for more information. Continue reading “QiKU Q Terra Gaming and Heat Test”
Micromax has launched Canvas Fantabulet F666, the company’s latest phablet. Micromax is calling it a smartphone since it has 3G support and voice calling capabilities. It has a 6.98-inch HD screen, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT8382W processor, runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop), has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Fantabulet F666 with 6.98-inch HD display, 3G launched for Rs. 7499”
Lenovo has introduced Lemon 3 (K32C36), the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in the Lemon series in China. It packs a 5-inch 1080p display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 616 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Lenovo’s own UI on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo Lemon 3 with 5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 616, metal body announced”
Microsoft is trying hard to make it big with its new Windows 10 smartphones. With the next generation of Android smartphones set to be released powered by the likes of the Snapdragon 820 from Qualcomm, it is important that the Windows phones too have powerful hardware ticking inside them to attract customers.
Continue reading “Windows 10 smartphone powered by Snapdragon 820 shows up on GFXBench”
Google is by far the major search provider for most people in the world and it is also one of the fastest ways to search for information especially with the homescreen search bar where you can just type in and search for something directly. Google is always looking for ways to make you search experience faster, better and more intuitive and this latest experiment too aims at doing just that.
Continue reading “Google adds new options to its dropdown search bar”
Google has just release v9.19 of its Maps application for Android devices and it brings in a host of new features and improvements including a driving mode and audio toggle for navigation among other things.
Manu Kumar Jain, Head of Mi India earlier today tweeted a teaser with the caption Mi Generation T-24 hours to lift off and said “An exciting announcement will happen tomorrow. Always believe something wonderful is about to happen”. This doesn’t give us any hints about what the company is planning to announce, except that it could be a next-generation device. It has not scheduled any event for the launch. Continue reading “Xiaomi India teases ‘Mi Generation’ is arriving, new device coming on January 14?”
Ahead of their upcoming event on 15th January, we’ve got hold of some details of Coolpad’s upcoming handset. It appears that the device which is expected to be a smaller version of the Coolpad Note 3 might still pack the one feature that made the Note 3 stand out from the competition. Continue reading “Coolpad Note Lite expected to pack fingerprint sensor”
Sundar Pichai just took to the Google+ platform to announce the dates of Google I/O 2016 which is set to take place just 18 weeks from now in California.
After reports about Lenovo planning to shift focus of the Moto lineup to higher end smartphones and the statement that said that all Moto smartphones in 2016 will come with fingerprint sensors, many felt that they would be cancelling off the Moto E or perhaps the Moto G as well.
Continue reading “Lenovo won’t discontinue the Moto E or Moto G”
Motorola and Flipkart are back with new offers for the new year. As a part of the latest sale, they are offering Rs. 2,000 discount on Moto G (3rd Gen), the latest Moto G (Turbo) and Moto X Play smartphones. There are also exchange offers on Moto X Style, Nexus 6, Moto Turbo, Moto E (2nd Gen) and Moto E (2nd Gen) 4G smartphones. Discounts are available through web as well, but the exchange offers are available only through the Flipkart app. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G (3rd Gen), Moto G Turbo Edition and Moto X Play get a Rs. 2000 price cut”
It is traditional for big brands to hold separate conferences prior to events such as CES and MWC. LG also has a history of doing the same and it seems that this year they will be holding an event on 21st which is just before the MWC is scheduled to start on 22nd.
Continue reading “LG teases Feb 21st event prior to MWC 2016 – Could be the G5”
After the high-end ‘One M’ series and mid-range Desire series, HTC introduced One A9, the company’s first ‘A series’ smartphone with a premium build, back in October last year. It was launched in India last month at a price tag of Rs. 29,990. It has a fingerprint sensor, unibody metal design, 13MP camera with RAW image support and more features that were rarely seen on mid-range HTC smartphones. Is the smartphone worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review.
