LG to roll out Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the G Pads series starting this March

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LG has announced that it will start rolling out Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for the G Pad (7.0/8.0/8.3/10.1) smartphones in Korea starting this month. It rolled out Lollipop update for the LG G3 smartphone last year and the GPad 8.3 Google Play Edition got the Lollipop update in December last year. Continue reading “LG to roll out Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the G Pads series starting this March”

Honor 4X 4G smartphone launched in India for Rs. 10499

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Honor, the global brand under Huawei has launched the Honor 4X smartphone in India. It was announced back in October last year, packs a 5.5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Emotion UI 3.0 on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 4G LTE connectivity on both the SIM cards, including support for 4G LTE bands (TDD B40 2300MHz and FDD B3 1800MHz) for India. Continue reading “Honor 4X 4G smartphone launched in India for Rs. 10499”

Honor 6 Plus launched in India for Rs. 26499

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Honor, the global brand under Huawei has launched the Honor 6 Plus smartphone in India, as it promised. The Honor 6 Plus was announced back in December last year. The main highlight of the smartphone is its unique dual 8-megapixel cameras on the back with dual LED flashes for effective pixel size to 1.98 microns resulting in sharper images. It also has an adjustable aperture that can be set between f/0.95 and f/16. Continue reading “Honor 6 Plus launched in India for Rs. 26499”

Zebronics Zebpad 7t500 3G with 7-inch display, voice calling launched for Rs. 7490

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Zebronics has launched  Zebpad 7t500 3G, the company’s latest tablet. It has a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It comes with a 5-megapixel interpolated rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has 3G connectivity, dual SIM support, voice calling and FM Radio. Continue reading “Zebronics Zebpad 7t500 3G with 7-inch display, voice calling launched for Rs. 7490”

Intel Real Sense for tablets: a first look

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Starting out with laptops, the depth-sensing “Real Sense” technology from Intel has had slow adoption, mainly due to the fact that innovation was mostly around mobile. At this year’s MWC, we had seen how Intel is finally Moving Mobile, and as a part of this effort, Real Sense is now available in smaller devices, like the Dell Venue 8 7000 series tablet. We tried to find out what Real Sense is all about, on this device.

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Samsung rolling out Android 5.0 Lollipop update to Galaxy S5 in India

Samsung has started rolling out Android 5.0 Lollipop update to the Galaxy S5 in India. The update is available via OTA in India and can also be downloaded via the Samsung Kies application.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge launched in India starting at Rs. 58,900

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Samsung has launched the Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone at an event in New Delhi along with the Galaxy S6 smartphone. The Galaxy S6 Edge was unveiled at the MWC earlier this month along with the Galaxy S6, packs a 5.1-inch Quad HD (2560×1440 pixels) 577 PPI Super AMOLED display that is curved on both the sides, is powered by a Octa-Core ( Quad 2.1GHz + Quad 1.5GHz) Exynos processor, runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop), has a 16-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, OIS and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge launched in India starting at Rs. 58,900”

Samsung Galaxy S6 launched in India starting at Rs. 49,900

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Samsung has launched the Galaxy S6, the company’s flagship smartphone at an event in New Delhi, as promised. The Galaxy S6 was unveiled at the MWC earlier this month, packs a 5.1-inch Quad HD (2560×1440 pixels) 577 PPI Super AMOLED display, is powered by a Octa-Core ( Quad 2.1GHz + Quad 1.5GHz) Exynos processor, runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop), has a 16-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, OIS and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 launched in India starting at Rs. 49,900”

Motorola to release Android 5.1 Lollipop update to Moto X (2nd Gen) soon

Motorola has started testing Android 5.1 for Moto X (2nd Gen) following the soak test recently. The latest update is adding a number of new features for the Moto X.

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Google adding “On-Body detection” feature to Android

Google has started rolling out a new feature to some Android users that will make it the unlocking of a smartphone very easy. The company is adding “On-Body detection” to Smart Lock.

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Motorola Moto Turbo Unboxing

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Motorola launched the Moto Turbo smartphone in India earlier this month. It was first introduced as Droid Turbo in the US and as Moto Maxx for the global markets. We went hands-on with the smartphone at the MWC recently, here we have the unboxing.
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Micromax Canvas A1 gets Android 5.1 Lollipop update

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Spice Dream UNO got the Android 5.1 (Lollipop) yesterday, Micromax has announced that the Lollipop over-the-air (OTA) update is now available for the Canvas A1 smartphone.  Last month Google said that it has started rolling out Android Lollipop update for the Android One smartphones, which will be rolled out each week to more phones selected at random. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas A1 gets Android 5.1 Lollipop update”

Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) vs Moto E Photo Gallery

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Motorola announced the Moto E (2nd Gen) in February and the phone was launched in India earlier this month for Rs 6,999. The first-gen Moto E that was launched in India last year for Rs. 6,999 got a price cut to Rs. 5,999 recently. Lets’ compare Moto E (2nd gen) to the original Moto E in the form of photo gallery. Continue reading “Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) vs Moto E Photo Gallery”

Lenovo A6000 will be available in India without registration from March 23 to 25

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Lenovo launched the A6000 smartphone in India back in January and the first flash sale happened at the end of January on Flipkart. Now the company has announced that the smartphone will be available without registrations in open sale from March 23rd till March 25th, 2015 on Flipkart. It says that the offer is valid till stocks last, but it is not clear if the stocks will be replenished every day of the sale till March 25th. Continue reading “Lenovo A6000 will be available in India without registration from March 23 to 25”