Google’s Android platform has been the favorite of the OEMs for a long time due to its flexible nature. OEM’s have been able to change and modify the user interface of their Android smartphones without Google’s intervention. However, the OEMs and third-party developers will not have this liberty when it comes to the latest Android expansion by Google.
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Samsung Galaxy Core II that surfaced earlier this month has gone official. It is the successor of last year’s Galaxy Core and has a 4.5-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) LCD capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Samsung TouchWiz Essence UI. It has a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Core II with 4.5-inch display, Android 4.4 official”
Swipe launched Konnect 5.0, the first smartphone in the Konnect series. We brought you unboxing of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor with ARM Cortex A7 cores and Mali 400 GPU, seen on most smartphones from Indian companies recently. It has a 5-inch ( 960 ×540 pixels) qHD capacitive touch screen IPS display and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Swipe Konnect 5.0 Benchmarks”
Xolo recently announced its first Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone Win Q900s, and now it looks like the company is working on a new smartphone that will have Hive UI.
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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy K zoom at an event in Singapore back in April. Samsung is planning to launch the smartphone in India soon and it would go on sale exclusively on Amazon.in. Amazon is also running a social contest that ends July 13th. Hope we can expect the India launch sometime in July. This was first spotted by BGR.in. The Galaxy K zoom has a 20.7-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor, 4.4-44mm lens with 10x optical zoom, Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) and Xenon Flash. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy K zoom launching in India soon exclusively on Amazon”
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Core, a mid-range Android smartphone in the Galaxy series last year and announced Galaxy Core Lite (SM-G3586V) with LTE support in China. Now the Galaxy Core Mini 4G (SM-G3568V) has appeared on official Samsung website in China. It has a similar 4.3-inch WVGA screen that was present in the Galaxy Core, but this is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) . It has a 5-megapixel rear camera without flash. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Core Mini 4G with 4.3-inch display, Android 4.4 announced in China”
Microsoft tried to set itself apart from Android and iPhone in terms of UI for its Windows Phone platform. Hence, basic app management was a rigidity for users. However, as per a website page, it looks like Microsoft is making it easier for users to arrange their smartphone apps.
Continue reading “Microsoft bringing folder support to Windows Phone 8.1”
LG recently showed off LG G3 Beat in the Tianyi Mobile Phone Trade Exhibition held in China. Reports are now surfacing online saying that the device can possibly be the LG G3 mini.
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Xolo released KitKat update for the Q1000 Opus last month, now it has released Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) update for the Xolo Q1010i that was released back in April running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Xolo Q600s was the company’s first smartphone running Android 4.4 out of the box. Xolo also released Q1011 and Q2000L recently running KitKat. Continue reading “Xolo Q1010i gets Android 4.4 KitKat update”
Google has announced that it will take down QuickOffice from Play Store as it has integrated its productivity apps in Google Drive. The company recently added docs, sheets and slides to the Drive thereby putting QuickOffice to less use.
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Google announced Android One at the recent Google I/O developers conference. The new program targeted at the emerging markets like India, Brazil and others will let OEMs create low cost handsets. Now, according to a report by Digitimes, Google is collaborating with chip maker MediaTek for this initiative which aims to reach the next 5 billion users.
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One of the many significant announcements at the recent Google I/O developers conference was Android One. The program was formally unveiled with one central goal in mind, reaching the next 5 billion people in the world. These are the ones without a smartphone, mostly in emerging markets like India, China and so on. Google will be partnering with companies in the supply chain to provide a turnkey solution for many OEMs that are currently driving the budget smartphone segment in emerging markets. Android One involves a combination of affordable reference hardware, handpicked by Google, and stock Android software, with updates directly from Mountain View. The first three OEMs to sign up for this program are from India, which has familiar, but rather important, implications for the budget smartphone market.
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Asus unveiled the Zenfone 5 in the Zefone series along with a range of other Zenfone smartphones earlier this year at the CES 2014. We already brought you the unboxing of Asus Zenfone 5. Here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a dual-core Intel Atom Z2560 clocked at 1.6 GHz with PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU and has 1GB RAM. It has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive multi touch display and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Zen UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Asus Zenfone 5 Benchmarks”
Google updated Drive app for Android to version 1.32 earlier this month with new UI and new animations. At the Google I/O earlier this week it announced updates for Google Drive for Android and iOS with support for editing Microsoft Office files. Recently the Google Drive app for Android got updated to version 2.0 that brought several new visual changes that lets you access all the new features easily. Continue reading “Google Drive 2.0 for Android gets new UI for detailed file info”
Micromax Canvas Gold A300 went on sale online last week priced at Rs. 23999. Now the smartphone is available on Flipkart for Rs. 20,999 for the Gold variant. The White with Gold variant comes at a slightly higher price tag. The Canvas Gold has a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display, powered by a 2 GHz octa-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It features a 16-megapixel auto focus rear camera with Sony sensor, LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Gold A300 price drops to Rs. 20999”
