Photos of an upcoming Xiaomi smartphone has just been leaked and it is said to be the upcoming Redmi Note 2 smartphone. The smartphone seems to be made of metal while the outgoing Redmi Note is made of plastic.
Category: Android
Xolo announces new ‘online-only’ sub-brand Black, first smartphone coming in June
Xolo has announced a new ‘online-only’ sub-brand for India called Black. While the company hasn’t decided upon an e-commerce partner as yet, it detailed that the first smartphone under the Black sub-brand will be launched next month. Continue reading “Xolo announces new ‘online-only’ sub-brand Black, first smartphone coming in June”
Micromax Unite 3 Q372 with Android 5.0, translation in regional languages launched for Rs. 6999
Micromax has officially launched the Unite 3 Q372 smartphone that went on sale earlier this month. Micromax has partnered with Firstouch for new Unite Messaging Service that lets users to translate and transliterate with patented ‘Swipe’ feature that enables users to communicate in their preferred choice of language. It comes pre-loaded with 10 regional languages that includes, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali and Marathi. Continue reading “Micromax Unite 3 Q372 with Android 5.0, translation in regional languages launched for Rs. 6999”
Motorola launches its Moto Maker service in China
Despite being the largest cellphone market in the world, the Moto Maker service from Motorola that allows you to customise and buy phones wasn’t available in China until today. Today, at the Lenovo Tech World it was announced that the Moto Maker online digital studio is now available in China.
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HTC One M9 Benchmarks
HTC announced the One M9 smartphone at the MWC earlier this year. HTC did not release the smartphone in India, instead, it launched the One M9+ smartphone. The HTC One M9 is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 64-bit 28nm processor that has four bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 2.0GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.6GHz per core with 650 MHz Adreno 430 GPU. It has 3GB RAM. It has a 5-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Sense 7.0 UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.
Google Search on mobile to now surface iOS app content
Google has announced that it will now begin indexing content from iOS apps in mobile search results. The move comes from the company a month after it started suggesting users install Android apps right from its search results.
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YU YUPHORIA Battery Life Test
Micromax’s YU launched the YU YUPHORIA smartphone, successor of the YU YUREKA earlier this month, which went on sale in the first flash sale today. We already reviewed the smartphone, here we have the battery life test results of the smartphone. It packs a 2230mAh Lithium-Polymer removable battery, smaller than the Yu Yureka’s 2500mAh battery. It also has Quick Charging capabilities that charges the smartphone from 0 to 50% in 45 minutes. It has a 5-inch HD screen and is powered by a Snapdragon 410 SoC. We tested the phone in balanced battery mode, which is the default mode. Let us check out the test results. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA Battery Life Test”
Coolpad Dazen 1 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 6999
Coolpad Dazen has launched the Dazen 1, a budget smartphone in India along with the Dazen X7. It has a 5.0-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS display, is powered by a Quad-Core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Cool UI 6. It features a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Coolpad Dazen 1 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 6999”
Microsoft Office Lens app for Android hits Google Play Store
Microsoft has officially launched its Office Lens app for Android. The document scanning app was available in preview but has now landed in Google Play Store.
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Coolpad Dazen X7 with 5.2-inch 1080 display, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 17999
Coolpad has entered India with the launch of Dazen X7, the company’s flagship smartphone for India in the Dazen Brand. It has a 5.2-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, is powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat) with Cool UI 6. It has a 13-megapixel auto-focus rear camera with dual LED Flash and a 8-megapixel wide-angle front-facing camera. Continue reading “Coolpad Dazen X7 with 5.2-inch 1080 display, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 17999”
Google slashes price of Project Tango Tablet to US$512 – Now available without invitation
Google had initially sold the Project Tango Tablet Development Kit for US$ 1024 to people who received the invite back in April. But now they have slashed the price in half as it now costs just US$ 512 and is available without an invitation.
YotaPhone 3 and 2C under development – Might be announced sometime this year
While the YotaPhone 2 was announced back in February 2014 during MWC, the smartphone was delayed quite a bit and has only recently become available in many markets. In fact the YotaPhone 2 was announced prior to the original YotaPhone was made available worldwide. However it seems that the company is already working on the follow up to the YotaPhone 2 and this time there will be two devices – YotaPhone 3 and YotaPhone 2C.
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Asus ZenFone Selfie with 13 Megapixel front camera set for launch at Computex
Asus is one of the major brands that is set to make announcements at Computex which is happening in Taiwan from June 2nd to 5th. According to a new rumor, they are apparently set to launch a new smartphone called Asus ZenFone Selfie which is said to pack a 13 Megapixel front facing camera.
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Android M said to debut Granular Permission Control
Google is expected to introduce Android M at the I/O conference between 28th and 29th of May. Lots of speculations and reports have been swirling the online world about the next Android OS and today a report from Android Police claims another new feature.
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Motorola is apparently readying two QHD flagships – Currently testing on Verizon’s network
Apparently, Motorola is working on two new devices and both the devices are equipped with QHD screen ie a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels. The devices are currently being tested under the Verizon network in USA.