Microsoft has officially confirmed that it is shutting down Project Astoria tool that allowed developers to port their existing Android apps to Windows 10 easily. The company had announced its plans to launch tools for developers to quickly port Android and iOS apps to Windows 10 earlier this April.
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LG G5 launching in India in Q2 2016
LG unveiled its flagship G5 smartphone with a modular design along with Friends companion devices at the MWC in Barcelona earlier this week. Today LG has announced that the smartphone will launch in India in the next quarter, soon after the global launch in April. The G5 has a 5.3-inch (2560 x 1440 pixels) Quad HD Quantum always-on display that lets you can check the time, battery status, and notifications without waking the phone. Continue reading “LG G5 launching in India in Q2 2016”
Apple said to launch 9.7-inch iPad Pro instead of iPad Air 3 in March
From the beginning of this year, there were reports that Apple will launch the iPad Air 3 on March 15. However, a new report from 9to5Mac says that the company will release a new 9.7-inch iPad Pro instead of the iPad Air 3.
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BLU Life Mark with 5-inch HD display, 4G, fingerprint sensor launched in India for Rs. 8999
BLU Products has launched its BLU Life Mark smartphone in India. It packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by an Quad-Core 64-bit MediaTek 6735 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “BLU Life Mark with 5-inch HD display, 4G, fingerprint sensor launched in India for Rs. 8999”
LG will not release a Nexus phone in 2016
It looks like this year we will not see LG build Nexus phone after all. The South Korean tech company said that it will not release a Nexus 5x successor in 2016.
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Lava Twinpad Windows 10 2-in-1 with 10.1-inch display, built-in 3G launched for Rs. 15999
Lava has launched Twinpad, its latest Windows 10 2-in-1 with inbuilt 3G SIM support and a detachable keyboard with trackpad. It has a 10.1-inch (1280×800 pixels) IPS 5-point capacitive touch screen with a stylus support and the screen can be reversed. It is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom processor, has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, has 32GB of built-in storage with expansion slot and a 7400mAh battery. Continue reading “Lava Twinpad Windows 10 2-in-1 with 10.1-inch display, built-in 3G launched for Rs. 15999”
Ringing Bells announces cash on delivery for Freedom 251 orders
Ringing Bells today announced that it will be accepting Cash on Delivery (COD) for the customers who ordered the Rs. 251 Freedom 251 smartphone last week. Earlier this week the company said that it received over 6.17 crore registrations (over 60 millions) for the smartphone in total, few days after the payment gateway crashed after 30,000 transactions in day 1. Now it said that is in the process of compiling emails and will be issuing this to first 25 lakh registrations soon.
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Samsung Galaxy A7 (2016) Benchmarks
Samsung launched the Galaxy A7 (2016) smartphone, along with the Galaxy A5 (2016) earlier this month for Rs. 33,400. We recently brought you the unboxing, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 7580 64-bit processor that has eight ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.6 GHz per core, has Mali-T720 GPU, 3GB of RAM, 5.5-inch 1080p screen and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A7 (2016) Benchmarks”
Gmail for Android gets rich text formatting and instant RSVPs
Gmail is adding a couple of new additions to its Android app. The update that bumps the app version to 6.0 brings rich text formatting and instant RSVPs.
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Sony is retiring the Xperia Z series, could replace it by the X series
Sony is axing its beloved Xperia Z series. The company has officially confirmed that it will not release a Xperia Z6 which means, Xperia Z5 will be the last phone in the Z series.
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LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7 lack support for adoptable storage
LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7 were announced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016). Both the flagships sport high-end specifications and most importantly support for expandable storage. However, both these devices are missing an important Android Marshmallow feature.
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Meizu m2 now available from Flipkart in India for Rs. 6999
Meizu launched its budget m2 smartphone and the successor of m1 in India, back in October last year, exclusively on Snapdeal, today the company has launched the smartphone on Flipkart. It was announced back in July last year, packs a 5-inch HD screen with a screen-to-body ratio of 75.6%, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core 64-bit MediaTek processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with FlyMe OS 4.5, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Meizu m2 now available from Flipkart in India for Rs. 6999”
LeEco Le 1s open sale on Feb 25 on Flipkart, Rs. 8 crore worth prizes, exchange offers for buyers
Last week LeEco said that it got 55,000 orders for Le 1s in 9 seconds in third flash sale last week. It also announced that the smartphone will be available through open sale on 25th February on Flipkart. Now the company has announced that it will offer Rs. 8 crore worth of prizes and several offers for the buyers in the sale. So far it has received 2,20,000 sales orders and 2,028,000 registrations in first three flash sales. Continue reading “LeEco Le 1s open sale on Feb 25 on Flipkart, Rs. 8 crore worth prizes, exchange offers for buyers”
Evernote for iOS updated with mobile web clippings, shortcut tools and more
Evernote has updated its iOS app for iPhone and iPad with a bunch of new features and improvements. The update that bumps the app to version 7.11 adds mobile web clippings, new keyboard shortcuts on the iPad, and additional shape recognition in sketch mode.
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Viber adds 3D Touch support for iOS app
Viber is the latest app in the market that has added support for 3D Touch on its iOS app. The latest update that bumps the app to version 5.8 comes with the 3D Force Touch feature on iPhones 6s and 6s Plus.
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