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Waze for Android got new traffic bar last month that lets you know how long you’ll be stuck, showing your progress as you move through heavy traffic, now the latest update on iOS bring this feature. The update also makes up to 85% faster, says Waze. This also adds guided navigation that will now let you know which route is best to take and several other improvement. Check out the complete changelog below. Continue reading “Waze for iOS updated with Time in Traffic bar, improvements and more”
HTC recently scheduled More than One event in China on April 8th, where it is expected to announced the One M9+ smartphone. Press shots of the smartphone surfaced recently, showing the home button, metal build and the Duo camera arrangement of the phone, now ePrice has got hold of new promo images of the smartphone that highlights the smartphone’s home button between the speakers, which believed to have a built-in fingerprint reader, metal build and its clear Quad HD screen. Continue reading “HTC One M9+ promo images, more press shots surface”
HTC has announced One M8s, a cheaper variant of the One M8 smartphone with the same all-metal unibody design and a 5-inch 1080p display. This is powered by a Snapdragon 615 64-bit Octa-Core SoC instead of Snapdragon 801 and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) out of the box with HTC Sense UI. Instead of HTC One M8’s Ultrapixel camera, this has a 13-megapixel rear camera, but it still has a Duo camera arrangement to capture depth information. Continue reading “HTC One M8s with 5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 615 SoC announced”
Lava has released Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for its Iris Fuel 50 smartphone, soon after it rolled out the update for the Iris X1 Grand smartphone. It was launched back in October last year running Android 4.4 (KitKat). To remind you, the Iris Fuel 50 has a 5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) IPS display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, comes with 1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory with expansion slot, has a 8MP rear camera with dual LED Flash, 2MP front-facing camera and a 3000mAh battery. Continue reading “Lava Iris Fuel 50 gets Android 5.0 Lollipop update”
YU already announced that it is planning to launch a new smartphone codenamed Project Caesar smartphone. Now it has started a new contest to find a name for the Cyanogen-powered Smartphone. Continue reading “YU launches contest to find a name for its Project Caesar smartphone”
LG partnered with Google to introduce VR for G3 that works with Google Cardboard to offer virtual reality experience to the G3 users back in February. At that time the company said that it will offer the VR headset for free for customers who purchase new LG G3 smartphone in select markets. Now the company has announced that the VR headset will be available for free while purchasing G3 through participating stores. Continue reading “LG offers free G3 VR headset with G3 smartphone in the US”
Acer launched the Acer One S1001, the company’s latest 2-in-1 hybrid device in India on Amazon last month, now the 2-in-1 has been launched across retail stores in India. It can be used as a table or as a laptop with its latch-less keyboard dock that has a in-built 500GB HDD. It has a 10-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom Z3735F processor, has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing camera. Continue reading “Acer One 10-inch Windows 8.1 2-in-1 launched across retail stores in India starting at Rs. 19999”
Facebook has launched a new feature that lets parents organize photos of their kids. Dubbed as Scarpbook, the feature lets parents collect photos of their kids as they grow in different stages.
Continue reading “Facebook introduces new Scrapbook feature”
Snapdeal is foraying into financial sector by buying a majority stake in RupeePower which is a digital financial products distribution platform for loans, credit cards and other personal finance products.
Continue reading “Snapdeal acquires major stake in RupeePower”
The internet is abuzz with talk about the Samsung Galaxy S6. Touted to be the best Android handset out there, it has a lot riding on it’s shoulders. But specifications aside, tangible improvements in real life use cases are what interest us more. The Galaxy series of phones have usually carried great cameras. Cameras that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the iPhone that is regarded to have the best smartphone camera this side of the relatively niche PureView devices. Can the Samsung Galaxy S6 kick it up another notch and deliver a better experience both in terms of image quality and the shooting experience? We spent a bit of time with the handset to find out just that. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 Camera Samples”
Intex technologies has launched Aqua M5, the company’s latest smartphone in the Aqua series. It has a 5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It features an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Intex Aqua M5 launched for Rs. 5299, Aqua Desire HD coming soon”
Google has unveiled bunch of products that include cheap Chromebooks, a convertible Chromebook Flip and a Chromebit dongle. The Haier Chromebook 11 and Haier Chromebook 11 are priced at $149.
Continue reading “Google introduces $149 Chromebooks, Asus Chromebook Flip and Chromebit dongle”
Motorola yesterday opened its first Moto Care experience center in India in Bengaluru, as it promised earlier this year. Located at No: 62, High street building, 11th Main road, 4th block, Jayanagar, the centre will provide service and support to customers and act as an experience zone that would offer the customers a hands-on feel of Motorola smartphones that includes it’s entire smartphone lineup and the Moto 360 smartwatch. Continue reading “Motorola opens India’s first Moto Care experience centre in Bengaluru”
Microsoft just announced Surface 3, an affordable variant of the the Surface Pro 3 tablet that was announced last year. This is powered by quad-core Intel Atom x7 (Cherry Trail) processor, has a 10.8-inch HD screen with 3:2 aspect ratio and runs on 64-bit Windows 8.1 OS, which is updradable to Windows 10 once available. It is slightly thinner at 8.7mm and lighter at 622g compared to the Surface Pro 3 with a 12-inch screen. Microsoft says that it is the thinnest and lightest Surface the company has ever shipped. It also comes with LTE variant with built-in nano SIM slot. As usual it comes with one-year subscription to Office 365. Continue reading “Microsoft Surface 3 with 10.8-inch HD display, Intel Atom x7 processor announced, starts at $499”
Micromax Bolt S300 went on sale online yesterday, now the the company has launched the smartphone officially along with the Bolt D320 smartphone. The Bolt S300 has a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1GHz processor, has a 0.3-megapixel VGA rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. The Bolt D320 has a 4.5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core MediaTek processor, has a 3.2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It has leather-like back cover. Both these smartphone run on Android KiKat, have 3G connectivity and dual SIM support. Continue reading “Micromax Bolt S300 and Bolt D320 affordable 3G smartphones launched starting from Rs. 3300”
