Weekly Roundup: 12 smartphones, 2 tablets, 2 fitness trackers, power bank and more

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First up is the highlight of the week from Huawei. The company launched three products in its Honor portfolio – the Honor Bee, the Honor 4C smartphones and Honor AP007 power bank. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: 12 smartphones, 2 tablets, 2 fitness trackers, power bank and more”

Lenovo A7000 Review

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Lenovo launched the A7000 smartphone in India last month for Rs. 8,999. The A7000 is the successor of A6000 that was released earlier this year.The A7000 has 4G support and it is also the first smartphone to come with Dolby Atmos audio support. This competes with the Honor 4X, Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G and YU YUREKA. Is the smartphone worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review.

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Huawei Honor Bee Hands On

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Huawei on Friday launched its cheapest Honor smartphone dubbed Huawei Honor Bee in India at Rs. 4,999. It is the first time that this smartphone has been launched anywhere in the world. Continue reading “Huawei Honor Bee Hands On”

Huawei Honor 4C Hands On

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Huawei on Friday launched the Honor 4C in India at Rs. 8,999. The smartphone was first announced in China last week and India is the second country to get it. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 4C Hands On”

Huawei Honor AP007 13000 mAh power bank launched in India for Rs. 1399

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Huawei Honor has launched Honor AP007 13000 mAh power bank in India. It has high quality circuit and professional architectural design with industry’s leading intelligent control chip and protection circuit design in order to provide security protection, says the company.

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Huawei Honor Bee with 4.5-inch display, quad-core processor launched in India for Rs. 4999

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Huawei Honor Bee, the latest budget smartphone from Huawei Honor has launched in India. It packs a 4.5-inch FWVGA display, is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Spreadtrum processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Huawei’s Emotion UI on top. It has dual SIM support, 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Honor Bee with 4.5-inch display, quad-core processor launched in India for Rs. 4999”

Huawei Honor 4C with 5-inch HD display, 13MP camera launched in India for Rs. 8999

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Huawei Honor has launched the Honor 4C smartphone in India. It was announced last week and packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by 1.2 GHz Huawei Kirin 620 64-bit A53 Octa-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat) with Emotion UI 3.0. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 4C with 5-inch HD display, 13MP camera launched in India for Rs. 8999”

OnePlus, Micromax end legal disputes; OnePlus One will continue to receive Cyanogen OS OTA updates in India

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Cyanogen announced an exclusive partnership in India with Micromax back in December last year. At that time the company said that Cyanogen OS will not support any other devices shipping in India with future updates including Lollipop. OnePlus just announced that it has end all legal proceedings with Micromax and Cyanogen and the cases have been withdrawn through mutual consent.

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Lava to invest Rs. 1,200 crore for manufacturing

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Lava International on Thursday announced that it has crosses US$ 1 billion (Rs. 6300 crore approx.) in revenue in FY14-15, registering more than 100% growth over last year. Overall smartphone sales witnessed a three-fold growth with 300% increase in volume (YoY), compared to FY 2013-14 said the company. It sold 26 million handsets and recorded group sales of INR 70 billion in FY 14-15. Continue reading “Lava to invest Rs. 1,200 crore for manufacturing”

Micromax invests in Bengaluru-based digital fitness company HealthifyMe

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Micromax just announced that it has invested in HealthifyMe, one of the leading digital fitness providers in India. Based in Bengaluru, the company is focusing on mobile services to motivate people towards healthy behavior. This investment is part of Micromax’s vision of creating a mobile ecosystem that brings unique and innovative technologies from around the world to its consumers, said the company. Continue reading “Micromax invests in Bengaluru-based digital fitness company HealthifyMe”

Nubia set to enter Indian smartphone market soon

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Nubia, one of the popular Chinese smartphone makers under ZTE has announced that it is all set to enter the Indian market soon. It has also opened accounts on its social channels and also has a separate website for India, nubia.in. The website just shows a box with the caption Now, There is no limit to what you can achieve. This doesn’t give any hint about the smartphone that will launch in the country first. Continue reading “Nubia set to enter Indian smartphone market soon”

Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OTA update rolling out to Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi)

After shipping Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OTA update to Nexus 10 last week, Google has now rolled out the OTA update to Nexus 7 2012 (Wi-Fi). We have received the update in India on Wednesday and it weighs 9.6MB in size.

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Coolpad to bring affordable online ‘Dazen’ brand of devices in India this month

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Coolpad, the Chinese smartphone maker, is set to launch an affordable Dazen brand of devices in India this month. The company has appointed Varun Sharma as the India head, who joins from Flipkart where he was the Director of Strategic Alliance. Continue reading “Coolpad to bring affordable online ‘Dazen’ brand of devices in India this month”

Xiaomi partners with GadgetWood for one-day pick and drop repair services in India

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Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi has partnered with a Delhi-based startup GadgetWood in India for more service centres, and one-day repair and delivery services. Continue reading “Xiaomi partners with GadgetWood for one-day pick and drop repair services in India”

Lenovo A7000 Camera Samples

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Lenovo launched the A7000 smartphone in India last month for Rs. 8,999. We recently brought you the unboxing and benchmarks of the smartphone, here we have its camera samples from the smartphone. The A7000 has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and f/2.2 aperture. It also features a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture. Continue reading “Lenovo A7000 Camera Samples”