ES File Explorer gets updated to v4.0 – Brings new material design

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ES File Explorer is a nice and reliable file manager for Android but its interface was something that not many people liked. However the new update to v4.0 brings about the Material Design UI to the application.

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Sony Xperia C5 Ultra with 6-inch 1080p display, 13 MP front and rear cameras with flash announced

Sony Xperia C5 Ultra

Sony just announced Xperia C5 Ultra, the company’s latest selfie-focused smartphone, as expected. It packs a 6-inch 1080p display with just 0.8mm slim bezels, is powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT6752 processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with Exmor RS sensor, LED flash and a 13-megapixel front-facing camera with  Exmor RS sensor and selfie flash. Continue reading “Sony Xperia C5 Ultra with 6-inch 1080p display, 13 MP front and rear cameras with flash announced”

HTC Desire 828w gets certified by TENAA in China

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A new variant of the HTC Desire 828 has been spotted at the Chinese certification agency TENAA. The primary difference on the new Desire 828w is the addition of BoomSound speakers on the front.

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OnePlus to announce next phone by end of 2015, says co-founder Carl Pei

OnePlus recently announced the much awaited OnePlus 2 smartphone. Now, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has revealed that the company will unveil another phone by the end of this year.

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Samsung Galaxy A8 Hands On and Photo Gallery

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After launching the successor Galaxy A8 in China last month, Samsung has now brought it to India and will start selling it from today across all retail and online channels at Rs. 32,500. In the Indian variant, Samsung has left out the Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC and is using its own Exynos 5430 chipset. Rest of the specifications are same as the Chinese Galaxy A8. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A8 Hands On and Photo Gallery”

Samsung Galaxy A8 launched in India for Rs. 32500

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Samsung has launched the Galaxy A8, the company’s latest top-end smartphone in its A series. It was announced earlier this month in China, packs a 5.7-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display with 2.5mm ultra-narrow bezels and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop), but the Indian variant is powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 5430 processor instead of Snapdragon 615 SoC. It has a full metal uni-body design, similar to the other A series smartphones and is just 5.9mm thick. It also has a fingerprint sensor integrated into the home button.

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Elephone P8000 Photo Gallery

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Elephone announced the P8000 in May and it was listed on Flipkart in June. The phone is all set to launch in India this month. We have already seen the unboxing of the phone and now let’s take a detailed look at the phone in this photo gallery. Continue reading “Elephone P8000 Photo Gallery”

Elephone P8000 Unboxing

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Elephone announced P8000 back in May. The smartphone surfaced online in India in June and was expected to launch in India first, but the company decided to launch the Elephone G7 in the country first last month. Elephone recently announced that the P8000 will launch in India this month. We got hold of the smartphone, check out unboxing the video.

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Sony Xperia C5 Ultra and Xperia M5 live images and specifications surface

Sony Xperia C5 Ultra and Xperia M5 leak

Sony Xperia C5 Ultra and Xperia M5 that are expected to be unveiled on August 3rd surfaced on a Russian website Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru, before it was pulled. Unofficial Xperiablog.net has managed to get all the details and images of these smartphones. The Sony Xperia C5 Ultra has a 6-inch 1080p display with just 0.8mm slim bezels, 13-megapixel front and rear cameras with LED flash. Continue reading “Sony Xperia C5 Ultra and Xperia M5 live images and specifications surface”

Phicomm Passion 660 Photo Gallery

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Chinese smartphone maker Phicomm forayed into Indian market with the launch of Phicomm 660 last month for Rs.10,999. We have already seen the unboxing and handson first impression and now let’s take a look at the phone’s hardware in detail in this photo gallery. Continue reading “Phicomm Passion 660 Photo Gallery”

Twitter for web and Android gets support for Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil

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Twitter has added support for four new languages – Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil for the web and Android. This joins Hindi and Bengali that were added more than a year back. This makes Twitter more accessible to Indians across the country. To change the language on Twitter for web, you can change to the particular language in the drop down menu on the profile from the settings. Continue reading “Twitter for web and Android gets support for Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil”

OnePlus 2 Benchmarks

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OnePlus announced its flagship OnePlus 2 smartphone earlier this week, which is coming to India on August 11, exclusively on Amazon. We already brought you the first impressions, unboxing and the camera samples, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1 64-bit 20nm processor that has four bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.8GHz per core (under-clocked from 1.96 GHz) and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.56GHz per core with 630 MHz Adreno 430 GPU. It has 4GB DDR4 RAM, 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display and runs on Oxygen OS based on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Continue reading “OnePlus 2 Benchmarks”

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and Galaxy Note 5 leaked in press renders

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and Galaxy Note 5, the two much awaited devices from Samsung have been leaked several times over the past few weeks. Today, the two phones have surfaced in what looks like official press renders.

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InFocus M810 Review

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Last month, InFocus added a power packed smartphone to its portfolio in India dubbed the InFocus M810 at Rs. 14,999. Based on specifications, the smartphone looks impressive, but is it worth? We find out in our detailed review. Continue reading “InFocus M810 Review”