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BLU Products has launched its BLU Life Mark smartphone in India. It packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by an Quad-Core 64-bit MediaTek 6735 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “BLU Life Mark with 5-inch HD display, 4G, fingerprint sensor launched in India for Rs. 8999”
Today, Union Railways Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu while presenting Railway Budget 2016-17 in Parliament said that the Indian Railways in partnership with Google offer Wi-Fi services at 400 stations across India in the next 2 years. Indian Railways, RailTel and Google launched free Wi-Fi service at the Mumbai Central station last month. Continue reading “Indian Railways with Google will offer Wi-Fi at 400 stations in 2 years”
Ringing Bells today announced that it will be accepting Cash on Delivery (COD) for the customers who ordered the Rs. 251 Freedom 251 smartphone last week. Earlier this week the company said that it received over 6.17 crore registrations (over 60 millions) for the smartphone in total, few days after the payment gateway crashed after 30,000 transactions in day 1. Now it said that is in the process of compiling emails and will be issuing this to first 25 lakh registrations soon.
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TP-LINK has launched Archer MR200 (AC750) Wireless Dual Band Wireless Router in India. It also has a 4G SIM slot, in addition to Ethernet port, so that you can also share 4G LTE/3G connection with other devices. Continue reading “TP-LINK Archer MR200 802.11ac Dual Band router with 4G SIM support launched for Rs. 8999”
Motorola launched the Moto X Force, it’s flagship smartphone swith a 5.4-inch Quad HD AMOLED screen with Moto ShatterShield display technology, which is essentially made of an integrated system of five layers that absorbs shock from impact and is guaranteed not to shatter. It went on sale through online retailers Flipkart, Amazon.in and Snapdeal stating at Rs. 49,999, earlier this month. Continue reading “Moto X Force now available from over 400 retail stores across India”
Google has announced that it is launching Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for search in India. Unveiled in October last year, AMP is an open source HTML initiative which improves the performance of the mobile web and is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles.
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Meizu launched its budget m2 smartphone and the successor of m1 in India, back in October last year, exclusively on Snapdeal, today the company has launched the smartphone on Flipkart. It was announced back in July last year, packs a 5-inch HD screen with a screen-to-body ratio of 75.6%, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core 64-bit MediaTek processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with FlyMe OS 4.5, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Meizu m2 now available from Flipkart in India for Rs. 6999”
Last week LeEco said that it got 55,000 orders for Le 1s in 9 seconds in third flash sale last week. It also announced that the smartphone will be available through open sale on 25th February on Flipkart. Now the company has announced that it will offer Rs. 8 crore worth of prizes and several offers for the buyers in the sale. So far it has received 2,20,000 sales orders and 2,028,000 registrations in first three flash sales. Continue reading “LeEco Le 1s open sale on Feb 25 on Flipkart, Rs. 8 crore worth prizes, exchange offers for buyers”
Xolo has launched Era X, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone in the Era series. It packs a 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a quad-core Spreadtrum SC9830A processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS, which is upgradable to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera that also has a LED flash. It comes with dual SIM support and has 4G LTE connectivity. Continue reading “Xolo Era X with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 5777”
Ather Energy has introduced S340, a smart electric scooter that is ‘Made in India’. It is powered by a Lithium Ion battery and offers a top speed of 72 kmph and a range upto 60 kms.
Continue reading “Ather Energy S340 India’s first electric scooter announced”
Timex today launched its Metropolitan+ watch in India. It is an along watch that also acts as a activity tracker with a look of a traditional analog watch. The unique fourth hand tracks daily steps, distance and percent to goal right on the dial. It uses Bluetooth technology to connect to the Timex app on Android and iOS devices that tracks daily activity, including steps, distance and calories burned. The phone app stores your data so you can access and analyze it at any time. Continue reading “Timex Metropolitan+ Android and iOS compatible smartwatch launched for Rs. 9995”
Xiaomi has finally announced that its Redmi Note 3 Pro smartphone will launch in India as Redmi Note 3 on March 3rd, at an event in Delhi. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p screen, comes with a metal body, has a fingerprint sensor on the back, is powered by a Hexa-Core Snapdragon 650 (Snapdragon 618 previously) processor and 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. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with Snapdragon 650, 16MP camera launching in India on March 3”
Airtel has announced that it has started rolling out India’s first LTE-Advanced (4G+) technology (carrier aggregation across TD LTE and LTE FDD) on a live 4G network starting from Kerala. It has partnered with Nokia Networks for deploying the carrier aggregation technology in the state. Continue reading “Airtel rolls out first commercial LTE-A 4G+ network in India, offers speed of up to 135Mbps”
Huawei started rolling out beta version of Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) update for the Honor 7 users in India back in December last year. Today the company has announced that it has started rolling out the stable Android 6.0 OTA update to Honor 7 users in the country. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 7 Android 6.0 Marshmallow stable update rolling out in India”
A day before, we reported some concerns about India’s cheapest Android smartphone Freedom 251 and why it seems like more of a ‘Publicity Stunt’. We reached out to Ringing Bells with some of your FAQ’s (frequently asked questions) and company’s President Ashok Chaddha has replied to many of them in an email statement. Continue reading “Over 60 million Freedom 251 registrations in 2 days, Company denies ‘Scam’ again and answers FAQ’s”
