In this week’s weekly roundup of major announcements and launches, Sony and Coolpad took the center stage. Sony brought its M4 Aqua and Xperia C4 to India, and announced a global variant of the Xperia Z4 dubbed Xperia Z3+. Coolpad launched two Dazen smartphones – Dazen X7 and Dazen 1 – in the country. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Sony Xperia Z3+, C4, M4 Aqua, Coolpad Dazen 1, Dazen X7, Xiaomi Power Banks and more”
The benchmark of a phone under model number SM-G9198 has been leaked on GFXBench. The phone could be the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 Mini and apparently packs the Snapdragon 808 processor.
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Google Cast helps developers to extend their mobile experiences to larger screens using devices such as Chromecast and Android TVs. Google has just announced new tools for developers to bring new app and game experiences onto TVs.
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Xiaomi announced the Mi Note Pro in January and they launched the phone in China earlier this month. We got you unboxing of the phone recently and here is the comparison of the phone with last year’s flagship phone from LG, the LG G3. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Note Pro vs LG G3 Photo Gallery”
Micromax said that it will release Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for its Unite 2 A106 smartphone starting from early April. Now the company has finally released Lollipop update for the smartphone. It recently launched the Unite 3 Q372 that runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) out of the box. Continue reading “Micromax Unite 2 gets Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA update”
Micromax has officially launched the Canvas Doodle 4 Q391, successor of last year’s Canvas Doodle 3 A102 smartphone, few days after it went on sale online. It has a 6-inch qHD screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity, similar to most other Micromax smartphones. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Doodle 4 Q391 with 6-inch qHD display, Android 5.0 launched for Rs. 9499”
Lava has launched Flair P1, the company’s latest entry-level smartphone in the Flair series. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1GHz single-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Flair P1 with 4-inch display, 3G support launched for Rs. 3399”
Google’s standalone email app Inbox is now open to everyone, the company announced at I/O conference. The email app that was released in October last year, was until now available as invite only.
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Chinese manufacturer Coolpad has launched its budget smartphone dubbed the Dazen 1 in India at Rs. 6,999. It will be the first smartphone by the company to get manufactured in India at Aurangabad “very soon”, said Coolpad’s India Head Varun Sharma during the launch event in New Delhi on Thursday. Continue reading “Coolpad Dazen 1 Hands On and Photo Gallery”
SwiftKey for Android has been updated to version 5.3 that adds nine new Indian languages – Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani (in both Devanagari and Kannada scripts), Maithili, Manipuri, Sanskrit, Santali and Sindhi. It also adds a new adaptive new layouts to our Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi and Nepali languages. It also adds Emoji Prediction for Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali and Marathi keyboards for the first time. Continue reading “SwiftKey Keyboard v5.3 for Android brings 9 new Indian languages, SwiftKey Hub and more”
Google has just announced its new open source VR platform. They are teaming up with GoPro to bring a 16 camera array that is capable of shooting 360 degree 3D videos.
Chinese manufacturer Coolpad on Thursday entered India with the launch of two Dazen brand smartphones – the Dazen X7, and the Dazen 1 priced at Rs. 17,999 and Rs. 6,999 respectively. Both smartphones will only be available online on Snapdeal from June 9. Continue reading “Coolpad Dazen X7 Hands On and Photo Gallery”
Google announced a number of improvements to Play Store that are targeted at developers. With the latest update, Play Store is getting developer pages and A/B testing for Play Store listings.
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At the Google I/O 2015, Google’s VP of Engineering, Jen Fitzpatrick announced that Google is testing Network Quality Estimator for Chrome, especially for countries like India that has slow internet connection in most areas. This analyzes the network connection to optimize both the search results and any webpages to load pages faster and prioritizing text and information over data-intensive images. Continue reading “Google Chrome for Android to get Network Quality Estimator and Offline mode”
Google announced an array of new tools and updates at the I/O developer conference including Maps API for Android Wear. The feature that comes as a Google Play Services 7.3 update will allow developers to use the Google Maps API directly on Android Wear devices.
