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iBall Slide 3G 7271 HD7 tablet with Dual SIM support, voice calling now available for Rs. 8290

iBall Slide 3G 7271 HD7

iBall Slide 3G 7271 HD7, successor of the iBall 3G 7271 is now available from eBay India. It has a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core Cortex A7 processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It comes with a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support, voice calling and wireless FM Radio. Continue reading “iBall Slide 3G 7271 HD7 tablet with Dual SIM support, voice calling now available for Rs. 8290”

Nokia Asha 503 Dual SIM phone with 3G goes on sale in India for Rs. 6683

Nokia Asha 503

After the Asha 500 and Asha 502 Dual SIM smartphones, the Asha 503 is now on sale in India from official Nokia Shop. It has a 3.0-inch QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) display and runs on the latest Nokia Asha software platform v1.1 with Swipe UI. It packs a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, has Dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. We went hands on with the phone at the Nokia World back in October, where it was announced. Check out the hands-on below. Continue reading “Nokia Asha 503 Dual SIM phone with 3G goes on sale in India for Rs. 6683”

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo Specifications leak, reportedly sports the first Hexa-Core Exynos

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We have seen Samsung use the Neo branding for many of its mid range phones but it seems like they will be affixing it to popular high end models too. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo, which looks like a cheaper Note 3 in the making has just been revealed, with full specifications in tow thanks to leaked internal documents acquired by GSMArena. Samsung has a habit of refreshing older models with new names and slightly refreshed specs and that seems to be exactly what’s happening here. The Galaxy Note 3 Neo is basically a Note 2 with some modifications underneath, with one of the major changes being the processor. According to the leak, the Note 3 neo will have the first Hexa Core big.LITTLE Exynos processor inside, which might make things interesting.

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Nokia Normandy’s Android UI leaks, leaves us wanting the unattainable

The Nokia Android phone might be like the unobtanium from Pandora but we keep seeing more and more of it these days. Purported images of the Nokia Android Phone have leaked out in the form of UI screenshots, pasted on the infamous Normandy device. Looking very much like a recent Asha phone, the Nokia Normandy shows off ~~its calling UI~~ Viber, the lockscreen and the Skype app, which is very similar to the one on Android. The project is supposedly shelved, as this was rumoured to be a skunkworks thing inside Nokia headed by designer Peter Skillman, who now heads Here, the part that was not bought out by Microsoft during the acquisition. So yet again, we are left wanting for this unattainable device.

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Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 Hands On

Samsung Galaxy Camera 2

Samsung announced the Galaxy Camera 2, successor of the first Galaxy Camera ahead of CES last week. We got some hands on time with the Galaxy Camera 2 at the CES this week. The Galaxy Camera 2 has a 16.3 Megapixel 1/2.3″ BSI CMOS sensor and has the same 21x Optical Zoom Lens along with Xenon Flash and OIS support. This has a leather texture on its body that is completely different from the plastic body in the first Galaxy camera. It also weighs a bit lesser than its predecessor.
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Coolpad Halo with 7-inch Full HD display, Octa-Core processor announced

Coolpad Halo

Coolpad, popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer has showcased the Coolpad Halo, the world’s first smartphone to feature a 7-inch full HD display and a Octa-Core processor at the International CES 2014 in Las Vegas. It has a 7-inch (1920 x 1200 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor with Mali 450-MP4 GPU and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It packs a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with dual LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Coolpad Halo with 7-inch Full HD display, Octa-Core processor announced”

Micromax Canvas LapTab Hands On

Micromax Canvas LapTab

Micromax, the popular Android smartphone manufacturer in India, has stepped into a much bigger and broader category of products in CES 2014. Micromax announced their arrival into the Laptop niche with a very interesting product. At CES 2014, Micromax unveiled the Micromax Canvas LapTab which can be used both as a laptop and a tablet and runs both Android and Windows 8.1 Pro. We went hands on with the device and you can check out the video right below. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas LapTab Hands On”

HTC One Gold Edition Hands on

HTC One Gold

Among the many useful and buyable gadgets at the CES 2014, we came across the HTC One Gold Edition. Sometime during 2013, HTC announced a Gold Edition. Unlike the gold color variants from other manufactures, the HTC One Gold Edition is made out of pure gold and it went on sale for 2,750GBP(approx Rs. 2,80,000). We go hands on with this gold clad device and you can check out the video right below.

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Huawei Ascend Mate 2 Hands On

Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G-1

Last year at CES 2013, Huawei announced the first 6inch + phablet in the form of Huawei Ascend Mate and this year too, they have a 6inch + phablet which is the successor of Ascend Mate. At CES 2014, Huawei unveiled the Ascend Mate 2 4G. We went hands on with the huge phablet and you can check out the video right below. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend Mate 2 Hands On”

Samsung Galaxy S3 gets Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update in India finally

Samsung has finally started rolling out Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update for the Indian Galaxy S3 users. The update brings, Galaxy Gear support, improved Samsung Keyboard, new GPU drivers, New S-Voice (from Galaxy S4) and lots more. Samsung paused the roll out globally in November last year due to software issues weeks after the roll out and resumed it early December. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S3 gets Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update in India finally”

Polaroid Socialmatic Instant Camera Android-powered digital camera with printer and social sharing announced

Polaroid Socialmatic instant camera

Polaroid has partnered with C&A Licensing, LLC and Socialmatic LLC to introduce Polaroid Socialmatic instant camera at the CES that lets you print your pictures instantly and also share via major social media networks using the camera’s built in Wi-Fi. It is powered by Android and also comes with a touch screen. It uses Zero Ink Printing technology similar to the LG’s pocket printers, which uses ZINK Paper for ink-free printing. Continue reading “Polaroid Socialmatic Instant Camera Android-powered digital camera with printer and social sharing announced”

Yahoo acquires Aviate launcher, talks up contextual search

Marissa Mayer just concluded Yahoo’s CES keynote today and one of the main takeaways from it was how the company is looking to change search, especially on mobile. Google Now has been at the forefront of contextual search on Android and iOS and Yahoo wants to tackle exactly that. How? It just announced the acquisition of the intelligent Android launcher – Aviate. The launcher, which was doing the rounds in beta, is currently a invite-only homescreen replacement that automatically configures your home screen based on contexts like time, usage, preferences and place. It was touted as the “Google Now” of launchers, so it is easy to see why Yahoo lapped it up.

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Pete Lau’s OnePlus and Cyanogen will partner to create the OnePlus One

Pete Lau, the distinguished engineer from Oppo, had announced earlier that he left the company to pursue something new. It was known that it involved CyanogenMod and its CTO Steve Kondik, but now we know what exactly they are upto. Pete Lau is now the CEO of a new hardware start up called OnePlus, and unsurprisingly, its software partner will be Cyanogen Inc. which will power its phones, starting with the flagship “OnePlus One”. No, we are not making that up.

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Purported new Samsung TouchWiz UI leaks, Magazine UX and flat icons revealed

Samsung not only unveiled its new tablets yesterday, but also showcased a new Magazine UX for those devices, with panes and tiles reminding us of Flipboard and the Metro UI of Windows 8. Today, we are getting to see leaked images of, what is supposedly, the new Samsung TouchWiz UI for phones. Featuring stylish flat iconography and similar Magazine UX elements, the new TouchWiz, if real, seems like a step in the right direction. At least it is now heading to a place where the whole industry already is – Flat user interfaces. The typography also seems to have gotten a facelift too, but with just three screenshots, it is hard to tell which is which and how all of it will work like.

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Lenovo S930 Hands on

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Among the many smartphones and laptops that were presented by Lenovo at CES 2014, there is the Lenovo S930 which is a mid-range phablet. The Lenovo S930, like most smartphones in the Indian Android smartphone, is powered by a MediaTek quad-core processor, has a 720p display and similar specifications. We go hands-on with this huge phablet that has a 6inch display. You can check out the video right below.

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