Micromax Canvas Fire 3 A096 with dual front speakers now available for Rs. 6499

Micromax Canvas Fire 3 A096

Micromax Canvas Fire 3 A096, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Canvas Fire series is now available from Saholic. Since it belongs to the Canvas Fire series, it has dual front firing speakers. It has a 4.5-inch qHD screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad 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. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Fire 3 A096 with dual front speakers now available for Rs. 6499”

Tata Docomo Photon Max Wi-Fi Duo with built-in 4400mAh power bank launched for Rs. 2899

Tata Docomo Photon Max Wi-Fi Duo

Tata Docomo has launched Photon Max Wi-Fi Duo that has a 4400 mAh battery power bank, offering Wi-Fi connection on-the-go for up to 5 devices and also lets you charge other devices. It even has a microSD expansion slot that lets users create a MicroSD Cloud enabling Internet storage, sharing and access remotely. Photon Max Wi-Fi Duo uses Max technology which gives three times faster speed than Plus technology, says the company. Continue reading “Tata Docomo Photon Max Wi-Fi Duo with built-in 4400mAh power bank launched for Rs. 2899”

InFocus smartphone sales cross 1 lakh in India

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InFocus, a US-based smartphone company entered India with the launch of budget M2 smartphone in March. Later it launched the M330 smartphone in April. Today the company has announced that it has sold 1 lakh units of these two smartphones on Snapdeal within three months. Continue reading “InFocus smartphone sales cross 1 lakh in India”

Logitech’s Ultimate Ears launches UE BOOM 360-degree wireless speaker for Rs. 14995

Logitech Ultimate Ears UE BOOM

Ultimate Ears, a brand of Logitech has launched UE BOOM, its new battery-powered 360-degree wireless speaker in India. It has specially developed acoustic skin that is both water and stain resistant. You can connect two UE BOOMs together using the free UE BOOM app for Android or iOS that lets you play them in either stereo-to-stereo mode or traditional left/right stereo mode. The app also has five-band equalizer to tweak the mids, highs and lows, and the speaker will remember it. Continue reading “Logitech’s Ultimate Ears launches UE BOOM 360-degree wireless speaker for Rs. 14995”

Spectrum allocation for 2015 auction winners expected soon

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The Department of Telecom (DoT) issued letters of intent (LoIs) recently to Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications and Reliance Jio Infocomm, who won spectrum in auction earlier this March, according to a report from the ET.  At the end of the recent auction for 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz spectrum, government got bids worth Rs 1.098 lakh crore. Continue reading “Spectrum allocation for 2015 auction winners expected soon”

Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Dual Benchmarks

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Sony launched the Xperia M4 Aqua Dual, a mid-range waterproof (IP65) and dustproof (IP68) smartphone at Rs. 24,990 last month. We brought you the hands on and unboxing recently. Here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.46 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.0 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz. It has 2GB DDR3 RAM, 5-inch HD screen and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Dual Benchmarks”

Uber offers 50% off on four rides a day during business hours till June 12 in Chennai

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Uber is back with another limited period offer, this time for Chennai users. It is offering 50% off on four rides everyday for this week during business hours (between 12 PM and 4 PM), in Chennai, which is a total of 20 rides. This offer is valid from today, 8th June 2015 to Friday, 12th June 2015. Continue reading “Uber offers 50% off on four rides a day during business hours till June 12 in Chennai”

Samsung Galaxy Core Prime 4G now available in India for Rs. 9750

Samsung Core Prime

Samsung introduced the Galaxy Core Prime 4G smartphone at the Samsung Forum 2015 in Bangkok earlier this year. The smartphone is now available online from Indiatimes Shopping. It has a 4.5-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit 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. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Core Prime 4G now available in India for Rs. 9750”

Top 10 Android Smartphones under Rs. 10,000

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Looking to buy an Android smartphone below Rs. 10,000 price bracket? Here is something you should definitely look at before making a final choice. Continue reading “Top 10 Android Smartphones under Rs. 10,000”

Intex Aqua 4G+ with 5-inch HD display, Android 5.0, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 9499

Intex Aqua 4G Plus

Intex Technologies has launched Aqua 4G+, the company’s first 4G smartphone. It has a 5-inch HD display with scratch-resistant Dragontrail glass, is powered by 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has live camera filter , front and back camera simultaneous shot PIP mode and Slow Motion Video recording.

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Android One smartphones get Android 5.1.1 OTA update in India

Micromax Canvas A1, Spice Dream UNO, Karbonn Sparkle V Android 5.1.1

Google has started rolling out Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) update for the Android One smartphones – Micromax Canvas A1, Spice Dream UNO Mi-498 and Karbonn Sparkle V in India. These smartphones received Android 5.1 (Lollipop) update directly from Android 4.4 (Kitkat), back in March. Continue reading “Android One smartphones get Android 5.1.1 OTA update in India”

Micromax Canvas Knight 2 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 615 SoC, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 16299

Micromax Canvas Knight 2

Micromax has launched Canvas Knight 2 , successor of last year’s Canvas Knight smartphone. The Canvas Knight 2 has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD AMOLED display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It features a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with Largan 5P lens, LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a metal frame with glass back that is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Knight 2 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 615 SoC, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 16299”

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Emerald Green now available in India

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The Emerald Green variant of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge wasn’t released initially along with the other three colours. Samsung had announced that it started shipping the Green S6 Edge along with the Blue Topaz S6 last month. Now it seems that the wait if finally over for Indian customers as the Emerald Green variant is now available for purchase in India.

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Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) 4G Review

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The Moto E (2nd Gen) is one of the cheapest 4G enabled smartphones on the market currently and this article goes through its 4G performance. If you want to read the review of the phone as a whole then you can do so here. Continue reading “Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) 4G Review”

Lenovo Vibe X2 Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA update now rolling out in India

Lenovo Vibe X2 Android 5.0

Lenovo has finally started rolling out Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for Vibe X2 in India. The smartphone was launched back in November last year running Android 4.4 (Kitkat). The company already announced that the Vibe X2 smartphone will get the Android Lollipop update in Q2 2015. It recently said that Indian users will get the update by June 10, now it has started rolling out the update early. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe X2 Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA update now rolling out in India”