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Micromax Unite 3 Q372 with 4.7-inch display, Android 5.0 now available for Rs. 6569

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Micromax Unite 3 Q372 , the company’s latest smartphone in the Unite series and the successor of last year’s Unite 2 is now available from Infibeam. It has a 4.7 (800 x 480 pixels) display and is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, similar to the Unite 2, but this runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) out of the box. It has a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel fixed focus front-facing camera. Continue reading “Micromax Unite 3 Q372 with 4.7-inch display, Android 5.0 now available for Rs. 6569”

Panasonic Eluga L 4G with 5-inch HD display, 64-bit quad-core processor launched for Rs. 12990

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Panasonic has launched Eluga L 4G, the company’s first smartphone with 4G support in India. It has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display based on one-glass-solution (OGS) technology), is powered by a 1.2 GHz Quad-Core 64-bit Snapdragon processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has Corning Gorilla Glass protection on the front and back. Continue reading “Panasonic Eluga L 4G with 5-inch HD display, 64-bit quad-core processor launched for Rs. 12990”

HTC One Mini and One Mini 2 will not receive Android 5.0 Lollipop update

Bad news for HTC One Mini and One Mini 2 users. HTC has announced that One Mini and One Mini 2 will not be receiving Android 5.0 Lollipop update.

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YU YUPHORIA leaked images confirm Cyanogen OS 12, HD display and 4G LTE

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YU recently announced that it will launch its YU YUPHORIA smartphone on May 12th. Today, we know that the upcoming model will have HD (1280 x 720 pixels) display, run on Cyanogen OS 12 based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and come with 4G LTE support. The image of the smartphone reveals YU branding on the top, below the earpiece. The Yu Yureka only had Yu branding on the back. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA leaked images confirm Cyanogen OS 12, HD display and 4G LTE”

YU Yureka to be available without registrations on May 6 and May 7

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YU Yureka will be up for grabs without any registration in a two-day open sale on May 6 and May 7. YU on Twitter and Facebook noted that the 48-hours sale on Amazon.in will have ‘no time limits’ to purchase the Yu Yureka smartphone or any pre-registrations for participation. Continue reading “YU Yureka to be available without registrations on May 6 and May 7”

Weekly Roundup: LG G4, G Flex2, Magna, Microsoft Lumia 430, Lenovo A5000, and more

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This time in our weekly roundup of major announcements and launches, we have three devices from South Korean major LG, a convertible tablet-cum-laptop device and a smartphone from Micromax, cheapest Lumia smartphone till date from Microsoft, another addition in Lenovo’s popular ‘A’ series and more here. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: LG G4, G Flex2, Magna, Microsoft Lumia 430, Lenovo A5000, and more”

Lenovo A7000 Benchmarks

Lenovo launched the A7000 smartphone in India earlier this month for Rs. 8,999. We recently brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by a Octa-Core MediaTek MT6752M processor with eight ARM Cortex A53 CPUs clocked at 1.5GHz. It has 700 MHz Mali-T760 MP2 GPU. It has 5.5-inch 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 A7000 Benchmarks”

Meerkat (beta) live streaming app now available for Android

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Meerkat started taking registrations for Android public beta few weeks back, now the beta version of the app is available for download for everyone. The app was launched on iPhone back in February. Twitter’s Periscope live streaming app was launched for iPhone in March, but it is yet to launch on Android. Continue reading “Meerkat (beta) live streaming app now available for Android”

LG G Flex 2 goes on sale in India for Rs. 54990

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LG launched its G Flex 2 smartphone in India at the LG Tech Show in Delhi back in March. Today the company has announced that the second generation G Flex smartphone is available across India. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p curved P-OLED display and the smartphone can bend ranging from a radius of 400mm to 700mm across the front, back, sides and top-to-bottom edges. Continue reading “LG G Flex 2 goes on sale in India for Rs. 54990”

‘Ok, Google’ custom voice actions rolling out for third-party apps

Back in October last year, Google started asking third-party Android app developers to integrate the ‘Ok, Google’ voice command action for their in-app searches. Now, on Thursday the Search giant announced that the feature has been made available to its “first set of partners”. Continue reading “‘Ok, Google’ custom voice actions rolling out for third-party apps”

YU YUPHORIA launching on May 12

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YU has announced that it will launch its Cyanogen OS-powered YU YUPHORIA smartphone on May 12th. The company already confirmed the launch the smartphone in Q2. Name of the second YU series smartphones was selected through its crowd-sourcing campaign #YUNameIt last month. Continue reading “YU YUPHORIA launching on May 12”

Google to deliver hands free music with Shazam

Google already lets you do lots of day to day tasks with simple “OK Google” voice command. Today, the company has teamed up with third party apps including Shazam in order to launch them directly from Search app.

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HTC Camera app updated with RAW image support for One M9 and more

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HTC’s Camera app update on Thursday has got the RAW imaging support for the flagship One M9, and more camera improvements for other HTC devices. Continue reading “HTC Camera app updated with RAW image support for One M9 and more”

Xiaomi Mi 5, Mi 5 Plus specifications leaked, launch rumoured for July

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According to new rumours from China, Xiaomi is all set to launch the next flagship Mi 5 along with a phablet variant Mi 5 Plus. The launch will reportedly happen sometime in July, considering that the Mi 4 was also launched in July last year, but there isn’t any particular date known or rumoured as yet. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 5, Mi 5 Plus specifications leaked, launch rumoured for July”

SwiftKey Keyboard for Android beta gets adaptive keyboard layout and support for 9 Indian languages

SwiftKey Keyboard has updated Android beta app with a couple of additions and improvements. The popular third party keyboard version 5.3 now brings adaptive new keyboard layouts to our Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati and Marathi languages.

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