Asus Zenfone 2 Photo Gallery ZE551ML

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Asus announced the Zenfone 2 at CES 2015 in January. The company will launch the Zenfone 2 in three variants in India on April 23rd.  We recently saw the unboxing of the Zenfone 2 ZE551ML that has a 4GB RAM, now let’s take a detailed look at the spec and hardware of the phone in detail. Continue reading “Asus Zenfone 2 Photo Gallery ZE551ML”

OnePlus One Cyanogen OS 12 Android 5.0 Lollipop update starts rolling out

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OnePlus One has finally received the Cyanogen OS 12 update few days after it got approved by Google. This is based on Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop) with material design elements.CM12 brings App Themer that lets you apply themes on a per application level. Apart from free themes that are already available, CM12 introduces paid themes using the Theme app. Themes can be purchased using your Google Play account. Continue reading “OnePlus One Cyanogen OS 12 Android 5.0 Lollipop update starts rolling out”

iberry Auxus BEAST with 5.5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 13990

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iberry has launched Auxus BEAST, the company’s latest smartphone in the Auxus series in partnership with Snapdeal. It has a 5.5-inch HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass protection, is powered by a 1.7 GHz Octa-Core 64bit MediaTek MT6752 processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) OS. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has Dual SIM support and 4G LTE connectivity with support for TD-LTE 2300MHz (Band 40) and FDD-LTE 1800MHz (Band 3) Indian LTE bands. Continue reading “iberry Auxus BEAST with 5.5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 13990”

YU YUREKA Cyanogen OS 12 Android Lollipop update submitted for certification, to roll out soon

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YU YUREKA’s upcoming major Cyanogen OS 12 update based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) has been submitted to Google for certification, said Rahul Sharma, Co-founder and CEO of YU. The company already promised Android Lollipop for the YUREKA smartphone during its launch last December. YU started beta testing its Cyanogen OS 12 ROM recently though it forum. It also plans to launch YU YUPHORIA smartphone based on Cyanogen OS 12 this quarter.

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Sony Xperia Z3 Dual, Z1, Z1 Compact and Z Ultra Android 5.0 update now rolling out

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Sony has announced that It has started rolling out Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update (v23.1.A.0.690) for Xperia Z3 Dual, Xperia Z1, Xperia Z1 Compact and Xperia Z Ultra smartphones. It rolled out Lollipop update for Sony Xperia Z2 and Z2 Tablet last week. It already promised to update Xperia C3 and Xperia T2 Ultra smartphones. Both these smartphones including the Dual SIM Xperia C3 variant will get the Lollipop update next week said Sony. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z3 Dual, Z1, Z1 Compact and Z Ultra Android 5.0 update now rolling out”

Bing’s mobile homepage for Android and iPhone gets a major overhaul

Microsoft has given Bing’s mobile homepage on Android and iPhone a major makeover with a beautiful UI and cards.The revamp is aimed at making navigation smooth, easy and responsive.

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Honor 4X Benchmarks

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Honor, the global brand under Huawei launched the Honor 4X smartphone in India last month for Rs. 10499. We already brought you the unboxing and the photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone.  The phone is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) SoC that has four ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs clocked at 1.21 GHz per core and has Adreno 306 GPU clocked at 400MHz.  It has 2GB RAM, 5.5-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) display and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Emotion UI 3.0. Let’s find out the performance in a range of synthetic benchmark tests. Continue reading “Honor 4X Benchmarks”

Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) 4G launched in India for Rs. 7999

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Motorola launched the Moto E (2nd Gen) 3G in India last month for Rs. 6,999. We brought the review of the smartphone recently. Today the company has launched Moto E (2nd Gen) 4G that is powered by a faster 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor. Other specifications are similar, including a 4.5-inch qHD screen, Android 5.0 Lollipop, 5-megapixel rear camera without flash and a VGA front-facing camera.

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Microsoft Lumia 640 : First Impressions

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Microsoft announced the Lumia 640 and the 640 XL last month at MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona, Spain. The two devices are very similar to one another and the primary difference is the size. The 640 XL does also pack a few extra features and a bit more battery power as compared to the 640. Regardless of their differences, both the devices are aimed to bring the Windows platform to the masses especially in India where phones between the price of 10-18,000 rupees have been gaining a lot of sales quite recently. We have both the devices in our office and will be bringing you the reviews shortly. For now, lets take a look at the Lumia 640 and see what our first impressions are.

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Honor 4X White Photo Gallery

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Honor, the global brand under Huawei  launched the Honor 4X smartphone in India for Rs. 10,499 last month. We had already seen the unboxing of the phone and gallery of the black variant, here we have the white variant. Continue reading “Honor 4X White Photo Gallery”

Xiaomi Redmi 2 White Photo Gallery

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Xiaomi announced the Redmi 2 in China in January this year while the White variant of the phone launched in India last month for Rs 6,999. We have already seen unboxing of the phone and gallery of the Black variant, here we have images of the white variant of the Redmi 2. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 2 White Photo Gallery”

Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) Battery Life Test

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Motorola launched the Moto E (2nd Gen) in India last month. We brought you the review of the smartphone recently, here we have the battery life of the smartphone. It has a 2390 mAh built-in battery, larger than the first Moto E. It has a 4.5-inch qHD screen, is powered by a quad-core Snadpragon 200 processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop).

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Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones Build 10051 released, supports more phones

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Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10051 for phones. The first build that was released back in February supported  Lumia 630, Lumia 635, Lumia 636, Lumia 638, Lumia 730, and Lumia 830. The new build support even more phones. Lumia 930, Icon, and 640 XL is not supported in this release as it promised recently since there is an issue with scaling on these device making the UI too small to be usable, says Microsoft. Support for this build will be available in future. Check out the complete list of devices that is now supported in the latest Technical Preview build. Continue reading “Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones Build 10051 released, supports more phones”

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Benchmarks

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Samsung launched the Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone in India last month starting at Rs. 58,900. It went on sale today, and we unboxed it too earlier today. Now let us check out the benchmarks of the smartphone. The Galaxy S6 Edge is powered by a Octa-Core 14 nm Exynos 7420 SoC which has four ARM Cortex A57 CPUs clocked at 2.1 GHz and four ARM Cortex A53 CPUs clocked at 1.5GHz. It has 772 MHz Mali T760 MP8 GPU and 3GB RAM LPDDR4 RAM. The smartphone has a 5.1-inch Quad HD (2560×1440 pixels) Super AMOLED display and runs on Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop) Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Benchmarks”