Foursquare is bringing an old but important feature back to its Swarm app. The Swarm app is getting the mayorship feature that was popular on Foursquare before it got split up with Swarm in May last year.
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Twitter’s Periscope for Android has received its second update (v1.0.2) that adds several features including, option to enable sound and vibrate notification, sound alone or silent, option to edit your profile photo, name and description, watch your personal broadcast history and more new features. Continue reading “Periscope for Android updated with Vibrate notification, personal broadcast history and more”
Sony on its developer page has already released the preview images of the next version of Android – codenamed Android M – for the list of Xperia devices under its Open Device program. Continue reading “Sony releases Android M Developer Preview images for 12 Xperia devices”
Elephone is apparently working on a new phone called the P9000 which is set to become the first smartphone that is powered by a deca-core processor, namely the Mediatek Helios X20 MT6797 and it will be released later this year.
Users of T-Mobile handsets have a lot to cheer about lately. After being the first to roll out the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, now T-Mobile has begun rolling out the update for the Galaxy S5 as well.
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YU YUREKA got the Cyanogen OS 12 update (YNG1TAS1K0) last month for battery life improvements. Now YU YUPHORIA has started receiving a new incremental update (YNG1TBS2P2) that is said to improve camera, keyboard, offer better thermal management, fix proximity sensor issues and more. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA incremental update for improvements and fixes starts rolling out”
Lava has launched Iris X1 Atom S, the latest smartphone in the Iris X1 series. This budget smartphone has a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1GHz processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It has similar design as other Iris X1 series smartphones, comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Iris X1 Atom S with 4-inch display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 4149”
iBall has launched Andi 4P Class X, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Andi series. It has a 4-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity, similar to most other iBall Andi smartphones. Continue reading “iBall Andi 4P Class X with 4-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3999”
Flipkart launched its Big App Shopping Days today. OnePlus launched the OnePlus One smartphone on Flipkart today. To celebrate the launch, the 64GB Sandstone Black version has received Rs. 2000 discount and is available for Rs. 19,998. Xiaomi also launched the Mi Band on Flipkart today, which is available for all without registrations. Xiaomi Mi 4 16GB got a price cut to Rs. 14,999 last week. Now the smartphone is available for Rs. 13,999 on Flipkart app as a part of this promotion. Continue reading “Flipkart Big App Shopping Days: Best deals on Android smartphones”
Live images of Samsung Galaxy A8 (SM-A8000) surfaced last week, now the smartphone has been certified by TENAA (via) in China. It confirms most of the specifications of the smartphone and also reveals that it will have a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display, and not a 5.5-inch display as rumored earlier. This confirms that the smartphone will be just 5.94mm thick, making it the thinnest Samsung smartphone till date. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A8 with 5.9mm thickness gets certified in China”
LG is the latest smartphone maker that is looking forward to start manufacturing smartphones in India. The company has stated that it will kick start production in the country after its market share hits 10 percent.
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Micromax launched the Unite 3 Q372, the third smartphone in the Unite series with support for regional languages, similar to earlier Unite series smartphones. Check out the unboxing of the smartphone and also a demo of new ‘Swipe’ feature in the keyboard developed by Firstouch that lets users translate and transliterate in 10 regional languages that includes, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali and Marathi with just a swipe.
We already brought you the review of Huawei Honor Bee, here we have the battery life test results of the smartphone. It has a 1730mAh removable battery. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA screen and is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7731 processor. Continue reading “Huawei Honor Bee Battery Life Test”
LG officially launched the LG G4, the company’s latest flagship smartphone in India for Rs. 51,000 yesterday. Here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. The LG G4 is the first smartphone to be powered by a Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 64-bit 20nm processor that has two bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.8GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.44GHz per core with 600 MHz Adreno 418 GPU. It has 3GB RAM, 5.5-inch (2560 x 1440 pixels) display and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with LG UX 4.0 on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores. Continue reading “LG G4 Benchmarks – Hexa-Core Snapdragon 808 CPU and Adreno 418 GPU”
OnePlus One got a new build of Cyanogen OS 12.0 earlier this week to fix touchscreen issue. Now, OnePlus has released a new OxygenOS 1.01 build for the smartphone to fix the touchscreen issue, as it promised last month. The company already said that it has been working with Synaptics, developer of touch and biometrics hardware to fix the bug. Continue reading “OnePlus One gets minor OxygenOS update to fix touchscreen issue”
