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HTC has announced Vive virtual reality (VR) headset in partnership with Valve. It uses Valve’s Steam VR tracking and input technologies and is designed by HTC. It offers Full Room Scale 360 Degree Solution with Tracked Controllers so that you can get up, walk around and explore your virtual space, inspect objects from every angle and truly interact with your surroundings, said the company. Continue reading “HTC Vive VR headset announced in partnership with Valve”
HTC’s latest flagship smartphone, the M9 is probably one of the worst kept secrets in the tech industry. The device made numerous appearances in leaked renders and promo videos.
Nevertheless, the Taiwan manufacturer has officially announced the smartphone at its dedicated Mobile World Congress press event in Barcelona. Continue reading “HTC One (M9) with Snapdragon 810 SoC and 3GB RAM goes official”
Huawei just announced the MediaPad X2, the company’s latest phablet and the successor of last year’s MediaPad X1 at the Mobile World Congress 2015. It has the same 7-inch (1920 x 1200 pixels) IPS display, but this is powered by a 2.0 GHz Kirin 930 64 bit octa-core processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Huawei’s own Emotion UI 3.0 on top. It has category 6 LTE support that would offer speed up to 300 Mbps. Continue reading “Huawei MediaPad X2 with 7-inch full HD display, Octa-Core 64-bit SoC, 4G LTE announced”
Huawei just announced Huawei Watch, the company’s first Android Wear smartwatch at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It has a 1.4-inch (400 x 400 pixels) circular AMOLED display with 10,000:1 high contrast ratio offering a fully circular 42mm diameter design, scratch-proof sapphire crystal lens and has cold-forged stainless steel frame. It has built-in heart rate monitor, 6-Axis motion sensors, heart rate monitor and has over 40 watch faces.
Continue reading “Huawei Watch powered by Android Wear, circular AMOLED display official”
Acer has announced the company’s first Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone at the MWC 2015. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, features a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Acer Liquid M220 budget Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone announced”
Acer has announced Liquid Z220 and Liquid Z520, two new budget Android smartphones in the Z series ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 in Barcelona. The Liquid Z220 is the company’s first budget smartphone with Android 5.0 Lollipop. It has a 4-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor and comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera with 89-degree wide-angle lens. The Liquid Z520 has a 5-inch FWVGA display, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core quad processor and comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera. Both these smartphones have a 2-megapixel front facing and dual SIM support.
Continue reading “Acer Liquid Z220 with Android 5.0, Snapdragon 400 SoC and Liquid Z520 announced”
Acer has announced Liquid Jade Z, the successor of last year’s Liquid Jade smartphone ahead of MWC 2015. It has a 5-inch HD IPS display based on Zero Air Gap technology with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 13-megapixel rear camera with f/1.8 aperture and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat), similar to the Liquid Jade, but this is powered by a faster 1.5 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6732 with 4G LTE support and has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Acer Liquid Jade Z with 5-inch HD display, 64-bit quad-core SoC and 4G LTE announced”
Motorola India recently partnered with Airtel to offer free data for Moto E, Moto G (2nd Gen) and Moto X (2nd Gen) users. Airtel pre-paid users get free data for two months, while post-paid users get bill discounts per month for 2 months on subscription of 3G and 2G data packs. This offer is available for both existing and new Motorola smartphone users, but it can be activated only once on an IMEI. Continue reading “Motorola Moto E, G (2nd Gen) and Moto X (2nd Gen) users in India get up to 2GB free data from Airtel”
Huawei already confirmed that it will be introducing its first Android Wear smartwatch at the MWC this year. It has been teasing the smartwatch on its social channels, now the first images of the smartwatch have been spotted at the Barcelona Airport by TechHive and Android Central. It will be called Huawei Watch and looks exactly like an analog watch in its design.
Continue reading “Huawei’s Android Wear smartwatch surfaces ahead of MWC announcement”
Smartphone, technology aficionados as well as regular readers of the site know that the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) is just around the corner. From the 2nd March to 5th March with pre-events scheduled for the 1st as well, the upcoming week is going to be a cornucopia of smartphone goodness and we’re on ground already to bring you the latest on the latest! With the tone set, we thought it right to bring you a quick rundown of the latest buzz from Barcelona about what to expect. So without further ado, here’s the top five announcements we expect from MWC 2015. Continue reading “MWC 2015 is here, What to expect?”
Xolo has launched A1010, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the A series. It has a 5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) FWVGA IPS display, is powered by a 1GHz dual-core Mediatek MT6572 processor with Mali 400 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat).There is a 5MP rear camera with LED Flash and a VGA font-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Xolo A1010 with 5-inch display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 5499”
BlackBerry launched the BlackBerry Classic smartphone with full QWERTY physical keyboard back in December last year. Now it has launched a camera-less version of the smartphone for Verizon Wireless in the U.S. This lacks both the 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera and LED Flash and the 2-megapixel front facing camera. This non-camera model will help people in enterprise businesses use the BlackBerry Classic, since some companies restricts smartphones with a camera and also encourage BYOD culture. Continue reading “BlackBerry Classic Non Camera variant introduced”
Panasonic Eluga U2, successor of last year’s Eluga U has been launched in Taiwan. It has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 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. Continue reading “Panasonic Eluga U2 with Android 5.0, Snapdragon 410, 4G LTE launched in Taiwan”
With an aim to take strong steps against curbing online abuse and harrasment, Twitter has updated its policies and procedures. The micro blogging site has rolled out new tools for the same.
Continue reading “Twitter releases new user safety features to report abuse”
Uber has slashed fares for the low-cost uberX and its cheapest uberGO service across India. uberBLACK has also received a price cut in some cities. Some cities get 25% price cut and some get 30%, 35% and even 40% price cut. Base fare is somewhat the same in most cities, but cos per kilometer has been reduced drastically. Check out the chart below for detailed fares. Continue reading “Uber slashes fares by up to 40% across India”
