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This week, popular Chinese company Xiaomi finally launched its Redmi Note 3 smartphone in India. The firm also announced its Mi Bluetooth speaker and the 20000mAh power bank. The Xiaomi Mi 5 will be launched next month. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, Mi Bluetooth speaker, Raspberry Pi 3 and more”
Jays, a Sweden based company has launched U-Jays on ear headphones in India. The company claims that the headphones offer acoustics, comfort and quality.
Samsung just sent press invites for the launch of its flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones in India on March 8th. Both these smartphones were announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, pack a 5.1-inch Quad HD and 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED always-on displays, respectively. In India the variants will likely be powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 8 Octa 8890 SoC, instead of Quad-Core Snapdragon 820 processor. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge launching in India on March 8”
Xiaomi launched its Redmi Note 3 smartphone in India yesterday starting at Rs. 9999. We already brought you the benchmarks of the Helio X10 version of the Redmi Note 3, here are the benchmarks of the Snapdragon 650 version. It is powered by an Hexa-Core Snapdragon 650 28nm processor with four smaller ARM Cortex A53 core clocked at 1.4GHz per core and two bigger ARM Cortex A72 cores clocked at 1.4GHz per core. It has 600MHz Adreno 510 GPU. We have the 3GB RAM version, but the phone also comes in 2GB of RAM version. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with MIUI 7 on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Benchmarks – Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650”
Samsung introduced T3, it’s latest palm-sized, external solid state drive (SSD) with USB 3.1 Type C support at the CES 2016 earlier this year. It launched it in India yesterday. It is compatible with a range of USB supported devices, including the latest Android smartphones and tablets, and computers with Windows or Mac OS. Continue reading “Samsung T3 portable SSD with support for Android launched in India starting at Rs. 10999”
Lava has launched Iris Fuel F2, the company’s latest smartphone in the Fuel series with a 3000mAh battery that promises up to 31 hours of talk time on 2G. It has a 5-inch FWVGA IPS display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with single LED flash and VGA front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and has 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Iris Fuel F2 with 5-inch display, 3000mAh battery launched for Rs. 4444”
International Data Corporation (IDC) is out with its monthly city level smartphone tracker which reveals that 30 leading cities of India make up approximately for 51% of the entire smartphone market in Q4 CY 2015. Delhi and Mumbai were the top two cities that generated maximum demand for the phone. Apple has outsmarted Xiaomi and grabbed number spot in the Indian smartphone market, said the report.
Continue reading “Apple grabs number 6 spot in India’s top 30 cities: IDC”
Xiaomi launched its mid-range Redmi Note 3 smartphone at the Mi Bluetooth speaker in India at an event earlier today. At the launch event Hugo Barra, Vice President of Xiaomi Global said that its flagship Mi 5 smartphone will launch in India in April. He said that the 20000mAh Mi Power Bank will launch in India soon and all the attendees of the event get a free Power Bank. But no details about the price yet.
Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 5 launching in India in April, 20000mAh Mi Power Bank coming soon”
Xiaomi launched its latest Mi Bluetooth speaker at the Redmi Note 3 launch event in India. The compact speaker was introduced back in September last year, looks like a small pencil box has a full metal body and weighs just 270 grams. It has a built-in microphone so that you can use it for calls when it is connected to your smartphone. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Bluetooth speaker with aluminum body launched in India for Rs. 1999”
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 was launched today in India and will go on sale later this month. We went hands on with the device and here are our impressions of the latest Redmi Note smartphone.
Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with Snapdragon 650 Hands On”
Xiaomi has finally launched its Redmi Note 3 smartphone in India, as it had promised last week. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p screen, is powered by a Hexa-Core Snapdragon 650 (Snapdragon 618 previously) processor, runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with MIUI 7 top, a 16-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, LED flash and phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), resulting in a quick focus of just 0.1 second and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. At the event Hugo Barra said that the third Xiaomi smartphone to be ‘Made In India’ after the Redmi 2 Prime and the Redmi Note Prime. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with Snapdragon 650, 16MP camera launched in India starting from Rs. 9999”
Vuclip has launched Viu, an Over-the-Top (OTT) video-on-demand (VOD) service in India. The service is built on Vuclip’s patented Dynamic Adaptive Transcoding technology. Viu is coming to India following its launches in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Continue reading “Vuclip Viu OTT video on demand service launched in India”
Earlier today Uber announced the launch of uberMOTO motorbike service in Bangalore, now Ola has launched its own Ola Bike series in the city. Similar to Uber, Ola will also provide helmets for pillion riders. Continue reading “Ola Bike Taxis launched in Bangalore to take on uberMOTO”
Intex has launched Cloud Breeze, it’s latest budget 3G smartphone with 1GB of RAM. It has a 5-inch FWVGA display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and packs a 2300mAh battery. Continue reading “Intex Cloud Breeze with 5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3999”
After launching uberMOTO in Thailand, Bangkok, Uber today launched started piloting its motorbike service in Bangalore, India. This lets you book a ride on a motorcycle at the push of a button and it is the most affordable Uber ride ever at as low as Rs. 3 per KM and a base fare of Rs. 15. It recently shuttered its auto-rickshaw pilot in India. So the company might continue the uberMOTO service only if it is successful. Continue reading “uberMOTO motorbike service launched in India starting from Bangalore”
