Windows 8 tablets are gaining popularity ever since the Dell Venue 8 Pro was released. Lenovo also announced and launched their Miix 2 8inch Windows 8 tablet in the sub 300$ category and it was showcased at the CES 2014 in the previous. We went hands on with the device and you can check out the video right below.
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Xolo was the first company to bring Intel powered smartphones to the market and now, they are the first company to bring AMD processor powered tablets in India. Xolo unveiled their first Windows tablet – Xolo Win at the CES 2014. Xolo Win is a 10.1inch display tablet with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels and it runs on Windows 8.1 OS. We went hands on with the device and you can check out the video right below.
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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”
Asus has announced the VivoTab Note 8, the company’s latest Windows 8.1 tablet. Even though this would compete with the Acer Iconia W4, Toshiba Encore, Lenovo Miix 2 with similar specs, this has a Integrated Wacom Digitizer Stylus for better accuracy, speed, responsiveness and palm rejection. It has 1,000 levels of pressure sensitivity for an extremely natural writing or drawing experience. Continue reading “Asus VivoTab Note 8 Windows 8.1 tablet with Wacom Digitizer Stylus announced”
ASUS has officially unveiled its latest Dual OS convertible two-in-one, the Transformer Book Duet TD300. Simultaneously running Android 4.1 and Windows 8.1 on a single device, ASUS claims to offer two different experiences on a single machine, with laptop and tablet configurations thanks to the detachable keyboard dock. ASUS promises a 4 second time frame for switching between the two different operating systems at just a press of the button. It’s slightly disappointing that it runs on Android 4.1 Jellybean but the implementation will be interesting to see if it actually works in real life. The convertible is powered by the latest 4th generation Intel core i7 processor and comes with a 13.3 inch 1080p panel in the default configuration. The base configuration cuts the resolution down to 1366×768 and packs a Core i3 processor but comes with an affordable price tag of $599, which might be enticing for people looking to try this weird combo of a device.
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Among the plethora of home appliances and tech gadgets that are announced and ready to be shown off at the CES 2014 in the coming days, there are rumors circulating that Huawei will announce a Windows Phone device in Las Vegas during CES 2014. This information falls nicely in place after Huawei announced their commitment towards the Windows Phone platform in September and they seem to be undisturbed by the fact that Microsoft now owns Nokia which holds more than 90% of the WP market share.
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Vodafone India launched My Vodafone self service app for iOS, Android and Blackberry platforms earlier this year. Now the app is available for Windows Phone platform. Just like other platforms, this lets you pay phone bills, recharge prepaid account, track service requests, subscribe to the best offers and more. You need a valid My Vodafone Login ID and password to use the app. A lot of Windows 8 smartphones including the latest Lumia 1520 did not support the app. Hope Vodafone India would upgrade the app to support more WP8 smartphones. Continue reading “My Vodafone app arrives for Windows Phone 8 devices in India”
Microsoft has released their classic Windows games, Solitaire, Mahjong and Minesweeper on the Windows Phone 8 platform. These games were popular on Windows PCs back in the 90s. Now Microsoft have redesigned these games to suit a new generation of players and devices. Continue reading “Microsoft releases its classic games Solitaire, Mahjong and Minesweeper for Windows Phone 8 devices”
Microsoft India has launched Guardian, a new safety app for Windows Phone. This app has track me feature to track friends and family, lets users call for help through an ‘SOS’ alert button and connect to security agencies, police and hospitals easily in the time of distress. It uses Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs. Continue reading “Microsoft launches Guardian safety app for Windows Phone”
Facebook for Windows Phone has received a major update to version 5.2, that brings a lot of new features including new chat notifications, new secondary tiles for chat, events, groups, pages, and photo albums, supports for all the 50 languages that are currently supported in Windows Phone 8. Facebook 5.2 Beta for Windows Phone got these features recently, the new stable version adds all these features and also includes some bug fixes.
For quite sometime now, rumors have been floating around that Nokia is working on a dual SIM Windows Phone device. According to earlier leaks and rumors, Nokia Moneypenny is expected to be a dual SIM smartphone running Windows Phone 8.1 and is will be launched either as Lumia 630/Lumia 635.
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Hey folks! Thanks for voting in the first and second rounds of this best budget smartphone of 2013 competition. You have chosen the winners from the first round and they have competed against each other in semi-finals from where you have again chosen two finalists. In the battle between Nokia Lumia 520 and Micromax Canvas Turbo, you have chosen the lone Windows Phone – Nokia Lumia 520. In another battle between the Gionee Elife E6 and Intex Aqua i7, you have chosen Gionee Elife E6. Now when Nokia Lumia 520 goes up against the Gionee Elife E6, what phone will you choose? Which of the two phones will win the best budget smartphone of the year award?
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Imangi Studios, creators of Temple Run has launched Temple Run 2 for Windows Phone 8 devices finally, as it promised. The first Temple Run game for Windows Phone was released back in March. Temple Run: Brave and Temple Run: Oz in the franchise were released soon after. The Temple Run 2 has similar gameplay mechanics as the first Temple Run game such as running, jumping, turning and sliding. Continue reading “Temple Run 2 finally arrives for Windows Phone 8”
The Windows Phone App store is finally catching up with iOS and Android apps, recently we saw Instagram come to Windows Phone followed by the popular game, Subway Surfers. The next app to join the Windows Phone store, which now boasts more than 200,000 apps is the official app of 500px. 500px is easily one of the most popular photography social networks and there were numerous third party applications on the Windows Phone store but not the official app. That hole has been plugged as 500px have finally launched a Windows Phone application.
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At the Abu Dhabi event earlier this year, Nokia announced their first phablet – Nokia Lumia 1520. The Nokia Lumia 1520 is the first in various aspects – first Windows Phone phablet, first Windows Phone to sport a Full HD 1080p display and the first Windows Phone device to run on a Snapdragon 800 SoC. The specialty about the Lumia 1520 is that it retains the goodness of a PureView camera from the Nokia Lumia 1020. Though it doesn’t have the huge 41MP sensor like the one on Lumia 1020 or Nokia 808, it comes with a little modest 20MP PureView camera that comes with a similar over-sampling algorithm.
