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LeEco (formerly known as Letv) has started selling its flagship Le Max smartphone in India, as it had promised at the launch event last month. It also announced that it received 2,20,000 sales orders for Le 1s smartphones and received 2,028,000 registrations in first three flash sales on Flipkart. It sold a new Silver colored version of the phone in today’s sale.
Xiaomi has announced a permanent price cut for the Redmi Note Prime smartphone, which is now available for Rs. 7,999, down from the launch price of Rs. 8,499. As a part of Mi Week on Amazon.in starting today, 16th February till 19th February, both the Mi 4 and the Mi 4i have received a Rs. 2,000 price cut for a limited period. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4 and Mi 4i available for Rs. 12999 and Rs. 9999 till Feb 19, Redmi Note Prime available for Rs. 7999”
Ringing Bells, a homegrown handset maker is all set to launch the cheapest smartphone in India which is priced under Rs 500. Dubbed as Freedom 251, the company will release the phone in the country tomorrow, February 17.
Idea today launched its 4G LTE services in Chennai, as it had promised back in December, when it launched 4G services in across 75 Towns in Southern India, including Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Tiruppur and Kancheepuram. Idea 4G is now available in 29 towns of Tamil Nadu and Chennai. It is available in 20 districts, including major towns of Chennai, Madurai, Trichy, Salem, Tirunelveli, Vellore, Erode & Tirupur, covering 30% of the total population of the circle. Continue reading “Idea launches 4G LTE services in Chennai, coming to Coimbatore and Pondicherry soon”
Hike Messenger announced that the company has appointed Rajesh Rudraradhya as the Vice President and Head of Engineering. Rajesh will report into Founder and CEO, Kavin Bharti Mittal and will be responsible for helping Hike scale its engineering team and streamlining product development.
Continue reading “Hike Messenger ropes in former Motorola exec Rajesh Rudraradhya as VP”
Motorola launched the Moto X Force with shatterproof display starting at Rs. 49,999 earlier this month. We already brought you the hands-on impressions of the smartphone from the launch event, here we have the unboxing.
Intex has launched Cloud Crystal 2.5D, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone in the Cloud series. It has a 5-inch HD 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by a 1GHz quad-core 64-bit processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS, comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Intex Cloud Crystal 2.5D with 5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 6899”
Xolo has launched Era 4K, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone in the Era series. It packs a 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a quad-core 64-bit MediaTek MT6735P processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS, comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and has 4G LTE connectivity with support for 1800MHz FDD-LTE (band 3) and 2300MHz TDD-LTE (band 40). Continue reading “Xolo Era 4K with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4000mAh battery, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 6499”
Qualcomm will supply LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation support technology to smartphone makers such as Micromax and Samsung, according to a latest report from the ET. Carrier aggregation used in LTE-Advanced increases the bandwidth, thereby increasing the bitrate. Back in 2014, Qualcomm partnered with LG and Airtel to offer LTE Advanced with carrier aggregation on LG G2 that is powered by Snapdragon 800 processor. Continue reading “Qualcomm to supply LTE-A carrier aggregation support tech to Micromax and Samsung in India”
Microsoft launched the Surface Pro 4, its latest 2-in-1 in India last month starting at Rs. 89,990. We already brought you the photo gallery of the 2-in-1 last year from the Future Unleashed 2015 event in Mumbai, here we have the unboxing.
Huawei Honor Holly 2 Plus, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone is now on sale in India from Flipkart. It was launched last month, packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core 64-bit MediaTek MT6735 processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Emotion UI 3.1 on top, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and comes with 4G connectivity. Continue reading “Huawei Honor Holly 2 Plus with 5-inch HD display, 4000mAh battery goes on sale for Rs. 8499”
Lenovo India recently teased that it will introduce a new smartphone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona in less than a couple of weeks. Looking at the image, it is clear that company will introduce the international variant of the Lemon 3 smartphone that was introduced in China last month. It could be announced in a different name for the global markets, including India. Continue reading “Lenovo Lemon 3’s global variant with 5-inch 1080p display, metal body to be introduced at MWC”
This week, Sony finally brought its new compact NW-A25HN Walkman with Hi-Res digital noise canceling feature to India. It was introduced at the IFA last September. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Sony Walkman, Intex fitness band, new Lava phones, Amkette Evo Gamepad Pro 2 and more”
OPPO launched the F1, its first selfie-centric smartphone in the new ‘F series’ for Rs. 15,990 in India recently. We already brought you the unboxing, benchmarks and the battery life test results of the smartphone, here we have camera samples from the smartphone. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, f/2.2 aperture and Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF). Since it is a selfie-centric smartphone, it has a 8-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture. It doesn’t have a flash on the front, but it has option to use the screen as a flash light.
Intex today launched Aqua Craze, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone. It has a 5-inch HD IPS display, is powered by 1 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735P 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Intex Aqua Craze with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 6190”
