NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet X1 with Tegra X1 SoC, 3GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks

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NVIDIA introduced the SHIELD tablet K1 last week at a cheaper price of $199. Now the SHIELD tablet X1 has surfaced in GFXBench benchmarks revealing a similar 8-inch Full HD display, but this will be powered by the latest NVIDIA Tegra X1 Octa-Core (4x ARM Cortex A57 + 4x ARM Cortex A53) 20nm processor with 256-core Maxwell GPU. The listing shows it wrongly as a quad-core SoC. Continue reading “NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet X1 with Tegra X1 SoC, 3GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks”

Lava Iris X10 with 5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE listed online for Rs. 10990

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Lava Iris X10, the company’s latest top-end Iris series smartphone has been listed on HomeShop18. It has a 5-inch HD screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lava Iris X10 with 5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE listed online for Rs. 10990”

Huawei Mate 8 with 6-inch 1080p display, Android 6.0 and fingerprint sensor announced

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Huawei has announced Mate 8, the company’s latest smartphone in the Mate series at an event in China, as it promised. It packs a 6-inch 1080p display with 2.7mm ultra narrow frame, 83% screen-to-body ratio and 2.5D glass, is powered by a Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 950 SoC with IntelliSense i5 sensor hub and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with Emotion UI 4.0 on top. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX298 sensor, dual-tone LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), optical image stabilization (OIS) and uses Huawei’s own ISP. It also has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Mate 8 with 6-inch 1080p display, Android 6.0 and fingerprint sensor announced”

Telegram rolls out supergroups, admins and other features

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Telegram is probably one of the most advanced IM platforms out there and many people consider it to be better than Whatsapp even though the latter has a larger user database.

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Obi Worldphone SF1 with 5-inch 1080p display, 4G LTE launched in India starting at Rs. 11999

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Obi Worldphone, backed by John Scully has launched Obi Worldphone SF1, it’s flagship smartphone in India, as it promised. It was introduced back in August and has a 5-inch 1080p display from JDI, which is slightly raised giving a floating feel, comes with 4G LTE connectivity with support for FDD B3 1800MHz and TDD B40 2300MHz bands for India, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 615 SoC, has a 13-megapixel rear camera, 5-megapixel front-facing camera and a fiberglass body and metal accents at the top and bottom of the phone. It is designed by San Francisco-based product studio Ammunition.

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Fossil’s first Android Wear smartwatch, the Q Founder will go on sale this week in USA

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Fossil’s first smartwatch powered by Android Wear is called the Q Founder. The smartwatch will go on sale in USA starting from this week.

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New Huawei device appears on benchmark listing – Could be the Honor 5X Plus

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While the Huawei Mate 8 is just a few hours away from its November 26th announcement, we now have a new benchmark listing of a mysterious Huawei device. The listing could very well be that of the Huawei Honor 5X Plus.

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OnePlus X OxygenOS 2.1.3 update starts rolling out, now lets you move apps to SD card

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OnePlus has started rolling out Oxygen OS v2.1.3 OTA update for the OnePlus X smartphone, as it promised couple of weeks back, when it rolled out the OxygenOS 2.1.2 update. This update finally fixes SD card issues, including option to now move apps to and from the SD card, but option to save photos or videos directly to the SD card is not available yet. Continue reading “OnePlus X OxygenOS 2.1.3 update starts rolling out, now lets you move apps to SD card”

Lara Croft GO for Android and iOS gets free ‘The Shard of Life’ expansion with 26 new puzzles

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Square Enix released Lara Croft GO, a turn-based puzzle game for Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and Windows back in August. Today it has released new The Shard of Life free expansion pack for the Android and iOS users that adds 26 new puzzles to solve, numerous new cursed monsters to battle, two new costumes to earn, artifacts and gemstones to collect. “The free new content will provide hours of additional gameplay for this unique turn-based experience,” said Square Enix.

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HTC One A9 Hands On and Photo Gallery

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HTC on Wednesday announced and showcased its iPhone 6/6s-lookalike HTC One A9 in India alongside the all new mid-range HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM smartphone. While the official pricing isn’t yet disclosed, we think that HTC will not price it beyond Rs. 30,000. The phone will be made available in next two weeks, said HTC at an event in New Delhi. Continue reading “HTC One A9 Hands On and Photo Gallery”

LG Ray with 5.5-inch HD display, Octa-Core SoC, 8MP front camera announced

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LG has announced LG Ray X190, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone with an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a 5.5-inch HD on-cell display, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592M processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It packs a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, comes with dual SIM support and has 3G connectivity. Continue reading “LG Ray with 5.5-inch HD display, Octa-Core SoC, 8MP front camera announced”

HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM Hands On and Photo Gallery

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HTC on Wednesday evening in Delhi showcased its two new smartphones – the HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM and the iPhone-lookalike HTC One A9. Both the phones will go on sale in next two weeks and the pricing will be disclosed closer to the launch, said company at the event. Continue reading “HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM Hands On and Photo Gallery”

HTC One A9 and Desire 828 dual sim announced in India, coming mid-December

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HTC today announced the One A9 and Desire 828 dual sim smartphones in India. The first smartphone in the new One A series was unveiled last month, and packs a 5-inch 1080p AMOLED display, Octa-Core Snapdragon 617 processor, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with HTC Sense UI on top, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), RAW image capture and an Ultrapixel front-facing camera. The Desire 828 was introduced in China earlier this month, packs a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display, is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek MT6753, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization (OIS) and an Ultrapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “HTC One A9 and Desire 828 dual sim announced in India, coming mid-December”

Lenovo Vibe S1 Benchmarks

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Lenovo launched Vibe S1, the company’s latest selfie-focused smartphone in India earlier this week, exclusively on Amazon.in, priced at Rs.15,999. We recently brought you the unboxing and the first impressions and photo gallery of the Midnight Blue version, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. The Vibe S1 is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek MT6752 processor with eight ARM Cortex A53 CPUs clocked at 1.69GHz per core and has Mali-T760 MP2 GPU. It also has 3GB of RAM, comes with 5-inch Full HD screen and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Lenovo’s own Vibe UI on top. Let us check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe S1 Benchmarks”

Official Huawei Mate 8 photos surface online

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The Huawei Mate 8 is shaping out to be a beast of a smartphone. Now, with these newly surfaced photos, the smartphone seems to be even more interesting as it has a nice sleek design with a high screen to body ratio.

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