Apple is yet again facing a class action lawsuit and this time it is over one of its new iOS 9 feature. A California based couple has sued Apple for not warning its users that the new Wi-Fi assist feature eats huge chunk of cellular data.
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Google launched the Nexus 5X smartphone made by LG in India earlier this month, which went on sale last week starting at Rs. 31,990. We had already brought you the hands on impressions and the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. The Nexus 5X is powered by an Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 64-bit 20nm processor that has two bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.82GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.44GHz per core with 600 MHz Adreno 418 GPU. It has 2GB of RAM, 5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “Google Nexus 5X Benchmarks”
Oppo has announced Neo 7, the company’s latest smartphone in the Neo series, as we exclusively reported last week. The successor of the new Neo 5 smartphone has a similar back with mirror finish, but this also has micro-arc frame with curved finish. Most of the specifications are similar to the Oppo Mirror 5 that includes a 5-inch qHD screen, Snapdragon 410 SoC, Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS with Color OS 2.1 on top, 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, but this has 1GB of RAM instead of 2GB of RAM in the Mirror 5. Continue reading “Oppo Neo 7 with 5-inch display, Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4G LTE announced”
Toshiba is said to be in talks to sell its image sensor business to Sony for about Y20bn that translates to $165m, according to a report from Reuters.
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Xiaomi announced Mi 4c, the company’s latest smartphone in the Mi 4 series in September. We have got our hands on the phone that is only available in China as of now. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, now let us take a look at the hardware and specs of the phone in the photo gallery.
Apple had announced in June that it will bring Apple Music streaming platform to Android in fall. Now a couple of leaked screenshots of the Android app of the service have surfaced in a new leak.
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Huawei has dethroned Xiaomi to become the No.1 smartphone maker in China in Q3, 2015, as per a latest report from Canalys. This is the first time Huawei has taken the top position in China.
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Press renders of the Motorola DROID Turbo 2 and DROID Maxx 2 have surfaced online in a new leak. The upcoming phones are set to be announced on October 27th.
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Xiaomi introduced the Mi 4c, a variant of the Mi 4 smartphone for the Chinese market last month. As you can see, we managed to get the smartphone from iBuygou for about US$ 245. Here we have the unboxing of the smartphone.
Asus introduced the ZenWatch 2 at the Computex 2015 back in June. It went on sale in the U.S. through Google Store earlier this month for $149.99. It comes in two models, W1501Q with a 1.63″ (320×320 pixels) 278ppi AMOLED display and WI502Q with a 1.45″ (280×280 pixels) 273ppi AMOLED display.We had already seen hands-on impression of the Android Wear Smartwatch, here we have the unboxing of the W1501Q version.
Lenovo on Wednesday launched its affordable smartphone in the Vibe series dubbed the Lenovo Vibe P1m, alongside the mid-range Vibe P1. Priced at Rs. 7,999, the Vibe P1m boasts of a massive 4000mAh battery with support for OTG charging – a feature that lets you use your P1m to charge other devices, and also the quick charging. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe P1m Hands On Impressions”
The first thing that I thought to myself when we were receiving a review unit for a screen protector is whether it is worth reviewing one. I thought about it and well it probably makes more sense than any other accessory we review for smartphones these days and that has got to do with the fact that the touchscreen is arguably the most important component of our smartphone. It serves as the medium through which we communicate, create and consume content on our devices. Without the screen, essentially the phone is useless and its kind of like the windshield on a car. So it makes perfect sense to review a screen protector especially for a flagship product such as the Samsung Galaxy Note5 whose screen is all the more impressive. So lets go ahead and check out the Olixar tempered glass protector.
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MixRadio, the popular personalised music streaming app, is bringing its services to India with Samsung’s Android and Tizen devices. Continue reading “MixRadio now available in India exclusively to Samsung’s Android and Tizen smartphones”
Google unveiled Nexus 6P smartphone at an event last month and the Huawei-made Nexus phone with metal body was launched in India last month priced at Rs. 39,999 for the 32GB version and Rs. 42,999 for the 64GB version. At the launch Google said that both the new Nexus smartphones will be available from October 21st, but only the Nexus 5X was released. When the Nexus 6P went on pre-order on Flipkart last week, the shipping date was mentioned as November 2nd for the customers who ordered the phone.
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Apple released iOS 9.1 update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch earlier this week that added over 184 new emoji characters with full support for Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emojis. iOS also became the first operating system to include every single emoji in the Unicode Standard. Google didn’t include new emojis in the latest Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) update. Continue reading “New emojis are coming to Android soon”
