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Lava Iris 470, the company’s new smartphone in the Iris series is now available from Indiatimes Shopping and eBay. It has a 4.5-inch (854 ×480 pixels) FWVGA IPS display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash and a 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lava Iris 470 with 4.5-inch display, dual-core processor now available for Rs. 4399”
Samsung India today announced that it has invested INR. 517 crores for the expansion of the Noida plant under the UP Mega Policy. The plan was inaugurated by Akhilesh Yadav, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow today. Samsung’s latest Z1 Tizen smartphone will also be manufactured at the Noida facility with most of the phone’s software being developed at the Noida Research Centre, it said. Continue reading “Samsung invests Rs. 517 crores for the expansion of Noida mobile phone plant”
We started our BlackBerry Classic giveaway contest couple of weeks back, and as promised, today we reveal the lucky winner. Before that, we would like to thank all the participants who took their time to participate in this giveaway, the response have been amazing on both the days. Are you the lucky winner of BlackBerry Classic? Find out below. Continue reading “BlackBerry Classic Giveaway Winner Announcement”
Samsung launched the Galaxy E series smartphones, the Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7 in India earlier this month for Rs. 19,300 and Rs. 23,000, respectively. We got both the E series smartphones, now let us take a look the unboxing of Samsung Galaxy E7 that is the top-end variant in this series. The design language of the E series is similar to the A series, including uni-body design, but these don’t have all metal build. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy E7 Unboxing”
Reverie Language Technologies has launched Swalekh keypad, its first multi-lingual keyboard for Android. It has support for 11 Indian languages that includes, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu, in addition to English. Continue reading “Reverie launches Swalekh multi-lingual Android keyboard with 11 Indian languages”
Xiaomi launched the Mi 3 smartphone in India back in July. It temporarily discontinued the smartphone in August, but it brought back the smartphone during Diwali in limited quantities for those who tried to buy the smartphone and failed earlier. When everyone thought the Mi 3 would not be available anymore in India since it permanently discontinued the smartphone, it is bringing back the Mi 3 for the last time on January 26th. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 3 will go on sale for the last time in India on Jan 26 ahead of Mi 4 launch”
Samsung launched the Samsung Z1 Tizen OS smartphone in India earlier this week for Rs. 5,700. We already brought you the hands-on impressions and unboxing of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks.
Samsung launched the Galaxy A5 smartphone with all metal build and 4G connectivity in India earlier this month for Rs. 25,550. We already brought you the unboxing, photo gallery and benchmarks of the smartphone, here we have the battery test results. The Galaxy A5 has a 2300 mAh built-in battery, 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor and 2GB RAM. It runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Here are the battery test results.
Google launched the Chromecast dongle in India exclusively on Snapdeal for Rs. 2,999 as part of its annual Great Online Shopping Festival. Now the Chromecast is available from Google Play Store. Chromecast has support for Netflix in the US, in India Google has partnered with several companies that includes, Eros Now, Spuul, YuppTV and Rdio so that you can watch movies, movie trailers, stream music and more. Continue reading “Google Chromecast now available from Google Play in India for Rs. 2999”
BlackBerry Classic was introduced as BlackBerry Q20, successor of the BlackBerry Q10 at the MWC last year. Later it was unveiled as the BlackBerry Classic in December and it was launched in India last week for Rs. 31,990. The BlackBerry Classic has bigger screen and a trackpad along with navigation keys compared to BlackBerry Q10, targeting business segment once again. Is it worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G went on sale in India last month for Rs. 9.999. We brought you the battery test results of the smartphone recently, here are the benchmarks. It is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 400 (MSM8228) processor clocked at 1.59 GHz per core and has Adreno 305 GPU, similar to the Redmi 1S. It has a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display, 2GB RAM and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with MIUI v5 on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.
Motorola has announced that it has started rolling out Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update for the first and second generation Moto G smartphones in India. It is also rolling out Lollipop update for the Moto G (2nd Gen) in the US and for both the Moto G variants in Brazil. The Lollipop update brings all-new material design, better touch screen interactions, quick notifications on the lock screen and more. Motorola Moto X (2nd Gen) got the Lollipop update in India last month. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G (1st and 2nd Gen) Android 5.0 Lollipop update starts rolling out in India”
Vodafone India today announced that Sunil Sood will replace Marten Pieters as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Current CEO Marten Pieters will step down as Managing Director and Chief Executive of Vodafone India from 1st April 2015, however he will continue to remain on the Board of Vodafone India in a non-executive capacity, said the company. Continue reading “Sunil Sood to replace Marten Pieters as Vodafone India CEO”
Micromax’s YU has announced that it sold 15,000 units of Yureka smartphones in just 4 seconds in its second flash sale on Amazon.in. In the first sale 10,000 units sold out in 3 seconds. The website did not crash after the sale opened, like the first sale. Some managed to order the smartphone, but most users couldn’t get the smartphone and were added to the waitlist, which didn’t open up. Continue reading “15,000 YU YUREKA smartphones sold out in 4 seconds, next sale on Jan 29”
YotaPhone with dual displays was launched in India on Flipkart back in October at a price tag of Rs. 23,499. It has got a huge price cut to Rs. 17,999 in one month after the release. Now the smartphone has received price cut of Rs. 5,000 and is available for Rs. 12,999 from Flipkart. The YotaPhone has a 4.3-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) LCD multi-touch main screen and a 4.3-inch (360×640 pixels) E-Ink rear screen. The phone also has special YotaPhone gestures and Put2Back applications for the back screen. Continue reading “YotaPhone gets another price cut in India, now available for Rs. 12999”
