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Another homegrown company, Videocon has announced that it will start manufacturing phones in India. The company will start production of mobile handsets in Salt Lake unit in Kolkata in few months, as per a PTI report.
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HTC has launched the One ME dual sim in India. It was announced in China earlier this month and packs a 5.2-inch Quad HD screen, is powered by a 2.2GHz Octa-Core MediaTek Helio X10 (MT6795T) 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop with HTC Sense UI on top. It has a fingerprint sensor on the home button. It has multi-directional touch-based sensors that lets you place your finger on the sensor in any direction to unlock your phone. Continue reading “HTC One ME dual sim with 5.2-inch Quad HD display, Helio X10 SoC launched in India for Rs. 40500”
Lenovo Vibe S1, the company’s upcoming smartphone was leaked back in February, but the company did not unveil it at the MWC in March. Now the smartphone has been certified on TENAA (via) in China. According to the listing, the smartphone will come with a 5-inch 1080p display, will be powered by a 1.7GHz Octa-Core processor, run on Android 5.0 (Lollipop), come with a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe S1 with 5-inch 1080p display, Android 5.0 gets certified in China”
Celkon Millennia ME Q54+, the company’s latest smartphone in the Millennia series and the successor of Millennia ME Q54 is now available from Homeshop18. It has the same 5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor, runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat), has 5-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash. Continue reading “Celkon Millennia ME Q54+ with 1GB RAM, 5MP front camera now available for Rs. 5399”
Chinese smartphone maker Meizu has launched its MX4 Ubuntu Edition in Europe now. Earlier the smartphone was launched in china last month. Continue reading “Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition launches in Europe, available via invitation-only system”
WhatsApp for Android has added a new word search feature that lets you search through all your conversations with just a keyword. Continue reading “WhatsApp for Android gets new app-wide search feature”
Spice Mobiles has launched XLife 404, XLife 431q, XLife 431q Lite and XLife 512 smartphones in the new X Life series. The X Life series is specially designed for consumers seeking an exciting combination of innovation and great design, said the company. Check out the specifications of these smartphones. Continue reading “Spice XLife 404, 431q, 431q Lite and 512 smartphones launched, priced between Rs. 3190 and 4499”
Micromax launched the Unite 3 Q372 smartphone in India last month for Rs 6,999. We have already seen the unboxing and benchmarks of the third smartphone in the Unite series with support for regional languages. Let’s take a detailed look at the hardware and specs of the phone in this photo gallery. Continue reading “Micromax Unite 3 Photo Gallery”
Instagram has updated its mobile apps with revamped search and explore tools. The enhanced tools will allow users to find places, people and tags in real time.
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Apart from the changes to your smartphone and tablet, the latest v6.0 update for Play Music does bring in other improvements as well. It comes bundled with Android Wear companion app v2.0 that comes with a download manager for music that is synced to your smartwatch.
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Ily is a new device that is meant to allow users to stay connected to their friends and family while they are at home. It is aimed at replacing your conventional outdated home telephones with something more technologically advanced and useful. Although it functions very similar to a smartphone, it in fact is more similar to a tablet especially in terms of size.
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Google has updated Calendar app for iPhone with a number of new features and improvements. The latest update bumps the Calendar app that was launched in March this year to version 1.1.
Continue reading “Google Calendar for iPhone gets 7-day week view, Drive integration and more”
Amazon Echo is a smart speaker that doubles up as a virtual assistant. It was announced by Amazon late last year in November. It was a pretty neat piece of tech but the issue is that hardly anyone had access to it since it was based on an invite only system of purchase. Now happily that invite system has been removed and everyone can get their hands on the device.
Continue reading “Amazon Echo now available without an invite for US$179.99”
LG has announced Band Play, the company’s latest smartphone in Korea. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 SoC and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Laser Auto Focus and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has 4G LTE connectivity. Continue reading “LG Band Play with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410 SoC, 13MP camera announced”
Meizu launched the m2 note at the beginning of this month as the successor to the m1 note. Now the device has just been made available for purchase and online stores have it listed for under US$ 200.
