Category: Android

Lenovo A5000 with 5-inch HD display, 4000mAh battery goes on sale in India for Rs. 9999

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Lenovo A5000 that was expected to launch soon, is now available from the official Lenovo Store in India. It has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat).  It packs 4000mAh battery that promises up to 35 hours talk time and up to 33.5 days standby. It features an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo A5000 with 5-inch HD display, 4000mAh battery goes on sale in India for Rs. 9999”

Vivo Xshot 3S tipped with 16-megapixel OIS camera, Snapdragon 810 SoC

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Vivo’s next flagship could be the camera-centric smartphone with a 16-megapixel rear camera with OIS (optical image stabilization). Continue reading “Vivo Xshot 3S tipped with 16-megapixel OIS camera, Snapdragon 810 SoC”

Bezel-less Oppo R7 leaked in a video; Company teases on Facebook

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Oppo’s anticipated bezel-less smartphone dubbed Oppo R7 may have been out in a video before the official launch expected to be on May 20. Continue reading “Bezel-less Oppo R7 leaked in a video; Company teases on Facebook”

Sony foraying into entry level smartphone market in India

Sony is planning to launch entry level smartphones in India in coming months, according to a report from The Economic Times. The move comes from the company as it is facing a tough time gaining foothold in Indian smartphone market.

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Lenovo A6000 Plus hands on

Lenovo officially announced A6000 Plus – a bumped up version of A6000 a couple of days ago. Today, we had a chance to play with the device for some time and here’s our hands-on report.

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Lenovo A6000 Plus carries a similar design language as that of A6000. So, what does the ‘Plus’ tag bring to table? Well, the A6000 Plus has an increased operating RAM of 2GB over the single gig in the original model. Continue reading “Lenovo A6000 Plus hands on”

Luxottica helping Google build new Google Glass

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Luxottica, the Italian eyewear company is working along with Google to help develop the new Google Glass. The chief executive of the company said that the new Google Glass is in the works and will be revealed soon.

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Samsung opens new factory to meet Galaxy S6 Edge demand

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While the Samsung Galaxy S5 was disappointing both for customers and Samsung alike, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are doing quite the opposite. Samsung expected it to sell quite well and customers are clearly loving it too as now they’re opening a new factory in order to meet the demand for the S6 Edge.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 to be 5.5mm thin

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Back in February we told you that Samsung is aiming to make the Galaxy Tab S2 tablet really thin and that it has set the iPad Air as a benchmark for thickness (or rather lack of it). We just didn’t know how thin it would be and now rumors suggest that the Tab S2 will be just 5.5mm in terms of thickness.

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SwiftKey Keyboard for Android beta gets ‘SwiftKey Hub’, minor UI improvements

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SwiftKey Keyboard’s latest beta version of Android app on Thursday got a new ‘SwiftKey Hub’ alongside minor UI improvements. Continue reading “SwiftKey Keyboard for Android beta gets ‘SwiftKey Hub’, minor UI improvements”

Twitter introduces personalised ‘Highlights’ feature for Android users

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Twitter on Thursday announced that it is rolling out a new feature called Highlights to Android app users that will send out a summary of the missed best-tweets via push notifications twice a day. Continue reading “Twitter introduces personalised ‘Highlights’ feature for Android users”

Lenovo K80 with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 4GB RAM, 4000mAh battery announced

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Lenovo has announced K80, the company’s latest smartphone in the K series in China. It has a 5.5-inch Full HD display, is powered by 1.8GHz quad-core 64-bit Intel processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It comes in 4GB RAM with 64GB internal storage as well as 2GB RAM with 32GB of internal storage. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and optical image stabilization, 5-megapixel front-facing camera and 4G LTE support. This directly competes with Zenfone 2 that has almost similar specifications. Continue reading “Lenovo K80 with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 4GB RAM, 4000mAh battery announced”

Google Keep on Android Wear smartwatches brings voice-note dictation and more

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Google has updated its note-taking app ‘Google Keep’ for Android with the ability to view and create notes from you Android Wear smartwatches. Continue reading “Google Keep on Android Wear smartwatches brings voice-note dictation and more”

Google now allows you to send directions to your phone from Desktop Search

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Google has now added a new feature that will allow users to send directions to their phones from desktop search. All you have to do is go to Google search, type in send directions and hit the search button. Google will then let you pick a location and a device and you’re all set.

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