Samsung announced the Galaxy J7 in China in June following which it was launched in India for Rs. 14,999 in July. We have already gone hands on with the selfie-focused phone and now let’s take a detailed look at hardware and specs of the phone in this photo gallery. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy J7 Photo Gallery”
Xiaomi today announced that it has sold over 3 million smartphones in India since its launch. It crossed one million sales mark in the country back in December 2014 with just three smartphones, Mi 3, Redmi 1S and Redmi Note. It said that it crossed 2 million mark in March this year, and it took just 6 months to sell one million smartphones to reach the 3 million milestone. Continue reading “Xiaomi has sold over 3 million smartphones in India”
Periscope, the popular live streaming app from Twitter is working on an app for Apple TV, as per a latest report from TechCrunch. The Periscope app will be available on a standalone app store that will be present for the Apple TV.
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Meizu is working on a flagship phone with a codename – Meizu NIUX that was listed on AnTuTu. Today, Bai Yongxiang, Meizu’s President and Co-founder has revealed some specs of the upcoming phone.
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Samsung Lucky-LTE the company’s upcoming 4G smartphone has surfaced on Geekbench (Via). According to the listing, the smartphone packs an Octa-Core Exynos 8890 SoC clocked at 1.38 GHz and the chip is based on ARMv8 architecture. Since this has new ARM implementer 83 architecture, it could be Exynos M1 with custom CPU cores, as rumored earlier. Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa-Core SoC surfaces in benchmarks, could be Exynos M1”
Sony has started releasing latest Android 5.1 Lollipop update for the original Z series along with T2 Ultra. The company announced the same via its official account on Twitter.
Alcatel OneTouch recently announced that it will unveil OneTouch Flash 2, successor of last year’s OneTouch Flash at an event on September 22nd. Now the company has released a new teaser video, showing the back of the smartphone. The teaser also shows a new Alcatel Flash’s brand color in Green color, relating to a Green key iconic feature of the new model. Continue reading “Alcatel OneTouch Flash 2 teaser video revealed, to be unveiled on September 22”
OPPO has launched FC Barcelona edition of the OPPO R7 Plus to celebrate OPPO’s three-year partnership with FC Barcelona. This is the company’s first smartphone as a part of the partnership and is dubbed as Smartphone of Champions. It will come with club’s logo, an FC Barcelona-themed wallpaper, a fan kit that includes an FC Barcelona protective case and more. Specifications of the smartphone are similar to the original R7 Plus. Continue reading “OPPO R7 Plus FC Barcelona Edition launched”
Google has released its monthly Android distribution update for the month of September. The latest numbers reveal that Android Lollipop is now present on 21% of all Android devices. This is up from 18.1% since last month and 10% in May.
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Sony has launched the Xperia M5 Dual, the company’s latest smartphone in the M series in India, as expected. It was announced last month and packs a 5-inch 1080p display, is powered by MediaTek Helio X10 Octa-Core SoC and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 21.5-megapixel rear camera with 0.25-second Hybrid Autofocus, LED flash, 4K video recording and a 13-megapixel front-facing camera. It is also water and dust-proof (IP65/IP68) and comes with 4G LTE support. Continue reading “Sony Xperia M5 Dual launched in India for Rs. 37990”
Samsung Electronics started mass producing 8 gigabit (Gb) LPDDR4 mobile DRAM based 20-nanometer (nm) process technology at the end of 2014. The company is using 4GB LPDDR4 RAM with four 8Gb LPDDR4 chips in the latest Galaxy S6 edge+ and the Galaxy Note5 smartphones. Today the company announced that it has started mass producing industry’s first 12-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR4 (low power, double data rate 4) mobile DRAM, based on the same 20-nanometer (nm) process technology Continue reading “Samsung starts mass production of 12-gigabit LPDDR4 RAM, 6GB RAM coming to next-gen flagship mobile devices”
Google has for the most part kept its distance from China, a market that has perhaps one of the largest user base of Android running devices. Government censorship and strict crackdowns mean that Google had to opt out from providing the Play Store and accompanying services in the country. This also meant that Android Wear watches that are heavily dependent on said services just wouldn’t work in China and so were never sold. This is about to change. Continue reading “Android Wear heads to China, Moto 360 to lead the charge”
ACT (Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), popular for its Fiber Optic broadband has reduced their tariffs for their ACT Fibernet customers in Hyderabad. The 100Mbps plan now costs Rs. 1,999, compared to the previous rate of Rs. 2,799 and there is a new 60Mbps plan for Rs. 1,299. It has also doubled the speed for customers using 5Mbps and 20Mbps plans to 10Mbps and 40Mbps, respectively without extra cost. Even speed post the FUP limit have been increased in these plans. Continue reading “ACT Fibernet slashes tariffs in Hyderabad, 100Mbps plan now at Rs. 1999”
Philips Lighting has finally launched HUE, web-enabled LED home lighting system in India, as expected. Hue allows users to control home lighting using their smartphone or tablet and supports both Android and iOS platforms. The Philips Hue range for India will include, Hue Starter Kit which includes the bridge and three Hue lamps, Hue Go, Hue Beyond – the luminaire family, Friends of Hue – LightStrips and Bloom. Continue reading “Philips Hue connected LED lighting launched in India, starter kit priced at Rs. 16995”
Microsoft has acquired cloud cybersecurity firm Adallom for an undisclosed sum. The financial terms of the deal are not disclosed yet by the companies.
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