O2 creates world’s first Virtual Reality sports experience with Oculus Rift

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O2 has announced plans to create the world’s first Virtual Reality sports experience in partnership with Oculus Rift in the UK. As part of the company’s #WearTheRose campaign, the tour will visit cities and rugby clubs throughout the UK with fans able to experience Rugby like never before. Continue reading “O2 creates world’s first Virtual Reality sports experience with Oculus Rift”

Motorola Moto E LTE (2nd Gen) with Android 5.0 shows up on Best Buy

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Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) with LTE support has surfaced on the Best Buy website, few weeks after the press renders of the smartphone surfaced online. This coincides with earlier leak that revealed 4.5-inch qHD (960×540 pixels) display, 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor (could be Snapdragon 400) and 1GB of RAM. This is the single SIM variant, but it is likely to come in dual SIM variant as well depending on the market. Check out the complete specifications of the smartphone below. Continue reading “Motorola Moto E LTE (2nd Gen) with Android 5.0 shows up on Best Buy”

Samsung Galaxy J1 launching in India on Amazon on Feb 11th for Rs. 7190

Samsung Galaxy J1

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy J1 smartphone few weeks back. Today Amazon has announced that the Galaxy J1 smartphone will be available with them in India starting tomorrow, February 11th with exciting offers. As we already know, the Galaxy J1 packs a 4.3-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat). Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy J1 launching in India on Amazon on Feb 11th for Rs. 7190”

Microsoft sends invites for MWC 2015 event on March 2

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Microsoft has sent out invites for their press event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. They will be present at the MWC event between the 2nd and 5th March 2015, but the press conference it scheduled for March 2. The invite just says Come along for the ride without giving us any hints about their plans.Microsoft hinted at the recent event that they will reveal more details about Windows 10 for phones soon.

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Sony Xperia E4 renders, detailed specifications surface

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Live images of the Sony Xperia E4 (E2105, E2115), the company’s upcoming budget smartphone surfaced on a polish website last year along with a AnTuTu listing couple of months back. Now renders of the smartphone have been leaked by a Chinese website. These images show the smartphone enclosed in a case and another image in a flip cover, but these resemble the live image leaked earlier.

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RCom, Facebook launch Internet.org app for free access to popular websites in India

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Reliance Communications has partnered with Facebook to offer free access to useful website to Reliance customers trough Internet.org app. This you access to more than three dozen services ranging from news, maternal health, travel, local jobs, sports, communication, and local government information for free without any data charges on both 2G and 3G. Continue reading “RCom, Facebook launch Internet.org app for free access to popular websites in India”

Xolo Q610s gets Android 5.0 Lollipop update

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Xolo has released Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for its Xolo Q610s smartphone, few weeks after it rolled out the Lollipop update for its Xolo One Android smartphone. Xolo already promised to release Lollipop update for their smartphones running on HIVE UI based on KitKat. Continue reading “Xolo Q610s gets Android 5.0 Lollipop update”

Skype 5.2 for Android brings offline photo sharing

Skype 5.2 for Android offline photo sharing

Skype for Android has been updated to version 5.2 that adds several new features including option to send photos to your Skype contacts even when they are offline. When they are back on Skype, photos you shared show up in the chat history, whether or not you’re online. Picture in picture view that was introduced back in 2013 in Skype 4.5 for Android is now available for phones too. Continue reading “Skype 5.2 for Android brings offline photo sharing”

Samsung, Microsoft settle contract dispute over patent royalties

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Samsung Electronics and Microsoft have settled their contract dispute in U.S. court as well as the ICC arbitration, said both the companies in a joint statement. Back in August last year Microsoft sued Samsung accusing it of breaching a collaboration agreement by initially refusing to make royalty payments after it announced its intention to acquire Nokia’s handset business in September 2013. It claimed that Samsung still owed $6.9 million in interest on more than $1 billion patent in royalties.

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LG VR for G3 offers virtual reality experience

LG VR for G3

LG Electronics (LG) and Google have partnered to introduce VR for G3 that works with Google Cardboard to offer virtual reality experience to the G3 users. VR for G3 takes advantage of the visual and sound capabilities of G3 to offer a ­­lighter and more convenient solution, unlike the head-mounted VR devices that are designed with their own processors and displays, says LG. VR-compatible apps and games can be downloaded with Google Play store. Continue reading “LG VR for G3 offers virtual reality experience”

HTC Desire 626 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 4G LTE announced

HTC Desire 626

HTC has announced Desire 626 smartphone in Taiwan after it was leaked in press shots and got certified in TENNA recently. It has a 5-inch HD IPS display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core 64-bit Snapdragon 410 SoC and run on Android 4.4 Kitkat with HTC Sense 6 UI on top. It comes with a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, BSI sensor 1080p video recording and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with a BSI sensor.
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Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S Edge support pages appear on official website

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Samsung’s Unpacked event at MWC 2015 may be a few weeks away but that hasn’t stopped the rumour mill with both of Samsung’s proposed new handsets making an appearance on one of its support pages. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S Edge support pages appear on official website”

Skype 5.10 for iPhone brings URI support back, improves dialer

Skype 5.10 for iPhone URI

Skype has updated the iPhone app that brings back URI support so that you can start calls and chats straight from the mobile app or mobile website.  If you tap a Skype name or phone number, the URI will open the Skype app to connect a call or send a message, making it faster to reach friends, family or businesses. It also adds new improvements to the dialer that searches for Skype contacts as a phone number is entered.

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Xiaomi Mi 4 64GB variant to go on sale in India starting Feb 24 for Rs. 23999

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Xiaomi launched the 16GB variant of the Mi 4 smartphone in India last month for Rs. 19,999, which goes on sale on Flipkart tomorrow in the first flash sale. As a surprise, the company just announced that it will be selling the 64GB variant of the smartphone in India starting from February 24th on Flipkart. It is priced at Rs. 23,999, which is Rs. 4000 costlier than the 16GB variant. It will be available only with 3G support and not with 4G LTE connectivity. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4 64GB variant to go on sale in India starting Feb 24 for Rs. 23999”

ICC Pro Cricket 2015 for Android, iOS and PC launched by Disney India

ICC Pro Cricket 2015

Disney India’s Interactive business has launched ICC Pro Cricket 2015, the official video game of the  ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 for Android, iOS, PCs and DTH platforms. The game is packed with a super immersive gameplay, stunning graphics and multiple play modes making the gameplay experience as close to the real game on-ground as possible, for PC, mobile and DTH users, says the company. It will be available as cut down versions for smartphones and DTH platforms.

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