News from India the most happening mobile market
Google last night started rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat OTA update for select Nexus devices and it will gradually roll out to Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One) users over the coming weeks. Continue reading “How to get Android 7.0 Nougat OTA update instantly for your Google Nexus device”
Few days after the listing appeared on the official site, YU has officially launched the YUNIQUE PLUS and YUREKA S smartphones. Both these have 4G LTE connectivity and run Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS. The YUNIQUE PLUS has 2GB of RAM compared to 1GB of RAM on the YUNIQUE, while other specs are same. Continue reading “YU YUNIQUE Plus and YUREKA S officially launched for Rs. 6999 and Rs. 12999”
Bose launched its QuietControl 30 and QuietComfort 35 Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones in India back in June. We recently unboxed the QC 35. Check out the unboxing video.
Continue reading “Bose QC 35 Unboxing – Bluetooth noise-cancelling headphones”
Samsung has launched Samsung Z2, the company’s latest Tizen OS smartphone in India, at an event in New Delhi. It has a 4-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Tizen OS 2.4. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 4G connectivity. Continue reading “Samsung Z2 Tizen-powered smartphone with 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 4590”
Xiaomi today released global stable MIUI 8 ROMs and also started rolling out OTA updates for Redmi 1S, Mi 2/2S, Mi 4i, Redmi Note 3G and Redmi Note 4G smartphones, as it had promised. Continue reading “Xiaomi releases MIUI 8 Global Stable ROM, rolls out OTA update for select smartphones”
Xiaomi launched its flagship Mi 5 smartphone in India back in March for Rs. 24,999. Today the company has announced first permanent price cut for the smartphone in India, which will be available for Rs. 22,999 from Flipkart, Mi.com as well as offline stores starting from today. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 5 gets a permanent price cut in India, now available for Rs. 22999”
Samsung has slashed the prices of its flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge in India ahead of the Galaxy Note 7 rollout which starts from September 2nd. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge prices slashed in India by more than Rs. 5,500”
As per IDC India Monthly Smartphone Tracker report for June, Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 3 has become the highest-shipped smartphone ever in the history of India’s online market in any given quarter with record-breaking shipments of 880,000 units in Q2 2016, and it is almost twice the volume of the second highest-shipped smartphone for the same period. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 breaks record online shipment in India, 17.5 lakh units sold in 5 months”
After Vodafone, Airtel has announced that it has started rolling out Aadhaar based e-KYC solution for instant activation of Airtel mobile connections, following the notification by the Department of Telecom (DoT). Continue reading “Airtel rolls out Aadhaar based e-KYC solution for instant mobile connection activation”
Vodafone India today announced that it will activate new prepaid and postpaid connections immediate using AADHAR-based e-KYC solution that requires just the AADHAR number of the person along with their fingerprint to get the Know Your Customer (KYC) details. Continue reading “Vodafone offers immediate activation of new prepaid and postpaid connections with e-KYC”
Minister of Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu today launched free RailWire WiFi in eight Mumbai Suburban Railway Stations – Churchgate, Bandra, Bandra Terminus, Dadar Western Railway, Dadar Central Railway, Khar Road, Kalyan and Lokmanya Tilak. It was launched at the Mumbai Central station earlier this year and was expanded to several stations recently. Continue reading “Google RailWire free Wi-Fi launched in 8 Railway Stations in Mumbai”
Samsung is all set to launch Z2, its next budget Tizen OS smartphone in India tomorrow. Now the press shots of the smartphone has surfaced online. It shows a family design similar to other Samsung smartphones with 4G and Samsung branding on the back. It also has Samsung’s signature home button along with capacitive touch buttons. Continue reading “Samsung Z2 press images surface ahead of India launch”
Gionee has launched S6s, the company’s latest smartphone in the ‘S series’. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by an Octa-Core Mediatek MT6753 processor and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). The main highlight of the smartphone is its 8-megapixel front-facing camera with selfie flash. It also has a 13-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX258 sensor along with PDAF that lets you focus in 0.3 seconds and a fingerprint sensor on the back. Gionee also announced that it has signed Alia Bhatt as its brand ambassador. Continue reading “Gionee S6s with 5.5-inch 1080p display, selfie flash launched in India for Rs. 17999”
After the YUREKA PLUS and YUREKA NOTE, YU is all set to launch YUREKA S smartphone in the lineup that had surfaced back in March with the model number YU5200. It has a 5.2-inch 1080p display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 615 SoC and a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, but it runs on old Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS. Continue reading “YU YUREKA S with 5.2-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launching soon for Rs. 12999”
YU launched its affordable YUNIQUE smartphone with 4G LTE support back in September last year. Now the YUNIQUE PLUS smartphone has been listed on the official website. The only difference between the two is RAM. The YUNIQUE PLUS has 2GB of RAM compared to 1GB of RAM on the YUNIQUE. Even the internal storage is same as 8GB . Continue reading “YU YUNIQUE PLUS with 4.7-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4G LTE launching soon for Rs. 6499”
