Huawei Honor 4X Battery Life Test

Huawei Honor 4X One Charge Rating

Honor, the global brand under Huawei launched the Honor 4X smartphone in India last month for Rs. 10499. We reviewed the smartphone recently, here we have the battery test results of the smartphone. It packs a 3,000mAh built-in battery, has a 5.5-inch HD screen and is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC. Check out the battery life test results.

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Microsoft reportedly considering manufacturing handsets in India

Microsoft is looking forward for manufacturing handsets in India as the government raised import duties on mobile phones, as per a report from the Economic Times. Nokia was once a leader in manufacturing feature phones in India.

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Celkon Campus A518 with 5-inch display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 4400

Celkon Campus A518

Celkon has launched Campus A518, the latest entry-level smartphone in the Campus series. It has a 5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1GHz processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 3.2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Celkon Campus A518 with 5-inch display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 4400”

20,000 Micromax Canvas Spark phones sold out in less than 2 minutes on Snapdeal

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Micromax just announced that it sold 20,000 units of its recently launched Canvas Spark smartphone in under 2 minutes in the first flash sale today at 12 noon. The smartphone was launched last week at a competitive price tag of Rs. 4999. Continue reading “20,000 Micromax Canvas Spark phones sold out in less than 2 minutes on Snapdeal”

BlackBerry Loyalty Program for flagship devices launched on Infibeam

BlackBerry Loyalty Program

BlackBerry has launched its limited period Loyalty Program on select BlackBerry 10 smartphones in India. This lets them purchase flagship devices like BlackBerry Passport, BlackBerry Z30, BlackBerry Z3 and BlackBerry Classic at attractive price on Infibeam. BlackBerry customers get a discount of up to Rs 10,000 on BlackBerry 10 Smartphones and assured JPMiles from JetPrivilege. Continue reading “BlackBerry Loyalty Program for flagship devices launched on Infibeam”

An Interview with Chris Weber, CVP – Mobile Device Sales at Microsoft

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On Tuesday, the world’s first rebranded Microsoft Priority Reseller Store was inaugurated in India by Chris Weber (Corporate VP, Mobile Device Sales at Microsoft), and we got hold of the man for more information about this transition and his/ Microsoft’s thoughts on the overall boom in smartphone/ Android market. Continue reading “An Interview with Chris Weber, CVP – Mobile Device Sales at Microsoft”

Lenovo A7000 vs YU YUREKA

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Lenovo launched A7000, the company’s budget 4G smartphone in India earlier this month in India. This competes with YU YUREKA that went on sale earlier this year. Both these smartphones share almost similar specifications and have 4G support. We decided to compare these two smartphones that are priced at Rs. 8,999.

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Lenovo A7000 Photo Gallery

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Lenovo launched the A7000 smartphone with 4G support in India at a price tag of Rs. 8,999 earlier this month. 30,000 units of the Lenovo 7000 went on sale earlier this month exclusively on Flipkart in the flash sale and sold out in just 4 seconds. We have already seen unboxing and hands on of the phone now lets take a look at the hardware in detail. Continue reading “Lenovo A7000 Photo Gallery”

World’s first Microsoft Priority Store opened in India

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Microsoft has begun the transition of Nokia branded stores to Microsoft ones. The world’s first Microsoft Priority Reseller Store was opened today at Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, India by Mr Chris Weber (Corporate VP, Mobile Device Sales at Microsoft).

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Huawei Honor 4X Review

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Honor, the global brand under Huawei launched the Honor 4X smartphone in India at a price tag of Rs. 10,499 last month. This is the company’s first budget 4G smartphone to launch in India and it competes with other 4G smartphones such as Lenovo A7000, Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G and YU YUREKA. Is the smartphone worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 4X Review”

Xiaomi Mi 4i Benchmarks

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Xiaomi launched its Mi 4i smartphone in India last week at a price tag of Rs. 12,999. We brought you the hands-on impressions and the unboxing of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a second-generation Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.65 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.1 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 5-inch 1080p screen and runs on MI UI 6 based on Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop). We were not able to achieve the scores that Xiaomi has mentioned on their website, but these are close enough. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4i Benchmarks”

Microsoft Lumia 640 available for Rs 9,999 on Flipkart for a limited time

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The Microsoft Lumia 640 is now available on Flipkart at a price of Rs 9,999 for a limited time. The offer is valid only on 27th and 28th of April and is down for the retail price of Rs 11,999 (16% off).

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Honor 4X Camera Samples

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Honor, the global brand under Huawei has launched the Honor 4X smartphone in India last month for Rs. 10499. We already brought you the unboxing and the benchmarks of the smartphone, here we have the camera samples from the smartphone. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with single LED flash, BSI sensor, f/2.0 aperture and 27mm wide-angle lens. It has Live filters, Panorama, HDR, Beauty Mode, Best photo, Object tracking, Capture smiles and more. You can adjust Exposure, Saturation, Contrast and Brightness manually. The camera UI looks similar to the iOS 8 interface. It has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Honor 4X Camera Samples”

Swipe Konnect ME with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3999

Swipe Konnect ME

Swipe has launched Konnect ME, the company’s latest budget phone  in the Konnect series. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity, similar to most other Swipe smartphones. Continue reading “Swipe Konnect ME with 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 3999”

Micromax Canvas Play Q355 with 5.5-inch display, 2820mAh battery now available for Rs. 7490

Micromax Canvas Play Q355

Micromax Canvas Play Q355, the latest smartphone in Micromax’s Canvas series is now available from eBay.in. It has a 5.5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 5-megapixel fixed focus rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel VGA front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support similar to other Micromax smartphones and also has 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Play Q355 with 5.5-inch display, 2820mAh battery now available for Rs. 7490”