At an event in Beijing, we just witnessed the launch of Oppo’s next flagship device. Dubbed the Find 7, the phone combines some hardware firsts with a range of software innovations to create a very intriguing product. Indeed, the phone brings some very tangible hardware innovations to create a smartphone that is geared towards giving users improvements that come in handy for day to day usage. We got to spend some time with the China spec variant of the device and here are our impressions. Continue reading “Oppo Find 7 Hands On”
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Lenovo Vibe Z Photo Gallery and hardware walkthrough
Lenovo launched the Vibe Z, the company’s latest flagship in India last month and is available for pre-order at Rs. 34,999. We already brought you the unboxing and benchmarks of the device, here we have the photo gallery of the smartphone. The Vibe Z is powered by a 2.2 GHz Quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon and also has LTE (850/1800/2100 MHz) support. The phone comes in Titanium and Silver colors and what we have here is the silver colored variant. Let us check out the gallery. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe Z Photo Gallery and hardware walkthrough”
Nokia X Dual SIM Android smartphone launched in India for Rs. 8599
Nokia has launched the Nokia X, the company’s first Android smartphone based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP). It was announced at the Mobile World Congress 2014 at Barcelona, last month and packs a 4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 play (MSM8225) processor and runs on Nokia X software platform 1.0 based on AOSP Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has dual SIM support and a 3-megapixel rear camera. Continue reading “Nokia X Dual SIM Android smartphone launched in India for Rs. 8599”
BBC launches Top Gear: Race the Stig game on iOS, Android and Windows Phone
We brought you information yesterday that it had sold its Zite news reader application to Flipboard and today, we have contrasting news as BBC has just announced a new game – Top Gear: Race the Stig across popular smartphone platforms – iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
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Gmail 3.0 for iPhone and iPad brings background refresh
Google has updated its Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to version 3.0, that brings the most expected background app refresh feature finally. This lets all your Gmail messages pre-fetched and synced, when you open the app. The background app refresh was introduced in the iOS 7. So this requires iOS 7 and at least one type of notification (badge, alert, or banner) to be turned on. Continue reading “Gmail 3.0 for iPhone and iPad brings background refresh”
Jet Airways is the first Indian Airline to integrate Google Now
Google Now is Google’s idea of a personal assistant and it is very useful in countries like USA and Canada where all your travel data sync with Google. In India, all you could was weather updates and updates about your favorite football team. But it looks like things are about to change pretty soon. Jet Airways, one of the leading airline companies in India, has announced that it is integrating its flight booking details with Google Now.
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Hands on with the Nokia X+: 10 EUR brings extra RAM and storage
Nokia’s Android phones are here and they are real. They launched three new Android devices and a Asha and a Nokia feature phone each, with the Android phones being the obvious highlight. A few years ago, one would never have imagined Nokia going down this after, especially after February 11 happened, but here we are, going hands on with Nokia’s own Android devices. Sort of a dream come true for many, we scrambled to try and get some decent time with all the devices and so here are our thoughts about the newly launched Nokia X+. For starters, here is a video of the Nokia X+
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dNZGmuXA9c
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LG G Flex Giveaway Winner Announcement
We started the LG G Flex Giveaway, in association with LG India, over a week back, and as promised, today we reveal the lucky winner. Before that, we’d like to thank all the participants who took their time to participate in this contest, the response has been amazing with over one lakh entries. A lot of you answered the questions correctly, but we could select only one winner. Are you the lucky one? Find out below. Continue reading “LG G Flex Giveaway Winner Announcement”
Motorola Moto G Dual SIM Unboxing in India, with Google Glass
The dual SIM Motorola Moto G has taken over India ever since it was officially launched here. It was sold out in less than an hour, and a lot of buyers were left frustrated with delays, but it still has quickly become the most popular mid range phone in the market. We had ordered the 16 GB Moto G immediately after the Flipkart pages went up, and got it delivered soon. So, here’s our unboxing of the device, with a small twist. You must have known that we have the Google Glass with us, so we took it for a POV spin in the Moto G Unboxing, you can watch the video here –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJTuhUac04
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LG G Flex Review – Setting the Precedent
A few years ago, LG was not relevant in the smartphone conversation. The optimus range was uninspiring and the flagships like 2x and 4x were duds, but all changed when the company released the Nexus 4, with Google. Continuing with the successes of Nexus 5 and the G2, LG has firmly cemented its position as one of the top 5 smartphone vendors in the world. But at this point in time, with virtually every evolutionary avenue explored, the question of “What’s next?” had to be addressed in the smartphone market. The G Flex is LG’s answer, as it hopes to set the precedent for the next generation of devices. Well, does it? Lets find out in our review.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRnDc_eYaA
Motorola Moto G launched in India starting at Rs. 12499
Motorola has partnered with Flipkart to launch the Moto G, the company’s latest budget smartphone in India as it promised earlier this week. It was announced back in November 2013 and packs a 4.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) edge-to-edge display at 329 ppi with Corning Gorilla Glass protection, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor and run on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean), upgradeable to Android 4.4 (KitKat) in a few weeks. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G launched in India starting at Rs. 12499”
It’s official, Satya Nadella is the new Microsoft CEO
Just as several reports had predicted, Satya Nadella is officially the new Microsoft CEO, succeeding Steve Ballmer as the tech giant’s third Chief Executive Officer. Having led several Microsoft divisions including the wealthy Enterprise and Cloud business, Satya Nadella becomes the insider CEO, after several reports of an outsider being considered as the next CEO. Bill Gates also announced that he will leaving the board Chairman position, leaving way for John Thompson to take over that post, which is seen as a move to appease investors of radically lesser influence from the Gates-Ballmer era. While we scour for more publicly available information, here’s an introductory video directly from Microsoft –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JwNZBJ_wI
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Lava Iris Pro 30 Review
Lava launched Iris Pro 30, the company’s latest flagship last month after a long delay. We already brought you the Hands-on, photo gallery, unboxing, benchmarks and camera samples of the device. The Iris Pro 30, the first phone in the Iris Pro series is quite different from previous Lava smartphones in terms of design and hardware. Can it compete with other phones in the similar range? Let’s find out in the complete review. Continue reading “Lava Iris Pro 30 Review”
Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 Live Chat and Discussion
We are back with our askFA discussion and live chat. This week’s askFA discussion is all about the recently launched Samsung Galaxy Grand 2. Samsung launched the Galaxy Grand 2 (G7102), the company’s latest mid-range smartphone last month, which went on sale in India last week at Rs. 22,999. We already brought you the Grand 2 unboxing, benchmarks, photo gallery and the camera samples of the device. We have also pushed out some gameplay videos and gaming review of the Galaxy Grand 2 over at our YouTube Channel. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 Live Chat and Discussion”
Nokia Lumia 525 Review
Nokia Lumia 525 Review
When the Nokia Lumia 520 was launched at the Mobile World Congress event last year, not many knew that the company just introduced its first best seller in the Lumia series. It went on to become the most popular Windows Phone ever made, for the fantastic value it offered for the money. But there was one longstanding issue that Nokia had to fix, the small amount of RAM that denied a lot of people new games and apps that were trickling down to Windows Phone.
So, in the series of upgrades that Nokia delivered to existing hardware with small changes, aka adding a 5 to the model number and re-releasing it, we now have the Lumia 525 that fixes the one issue that most wanted fixed. Hence the Lumia 525 comes with 1 GB of RAM and a minor look and feel refresh but overall retains everything else about the Lumia 520 because may be Nokia thought “why fix something that isn’t broke?”. So, how does the Lumia 525 match up to the newly re-invigorated competition, and what does the 1 GB of RAM bring? Let’s find out in our in depth review.
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