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Samsung launched the Galaxy A3 (SM-A300H/DS) smartphone for Rs. 20,500 in India last month along with the Galaxy A5. Even the Galaxy A3 has a metallic body. Let us check out the unboxing of the smartphone. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A3 Unboxing”
BT have this morning confirmed exclusive talks to buy the UK’s largest network EE have been successful with the takeover costing the UK’s communication giant £12.5 billion in shares and cash. Continue reading “BT seals £12.5 billion deal to buy EE”
OnePlus has partnered with popular keyboard app creator SwiftKey to integrate SwiftKey keyboard with the upcoming CyanogenMod 11S update later this month. This enables users to switch to Swiftkey keyboard easily without the need to download. Swiftkey lets you type in up to three languages at once without switching settings and it even has new material design keyboard themes. Continue reading “OnePlus One to get SwiftKey keyboard integration with upcoming OTA update”
Sony Corporation has reported its revenues for third quarter of the financial year 2014 that ended December 31st. Sales increased to 2,557.8 billion yen ( US$ 21,139 million), an increase of 6.1%. It shipped 11.9 million smartphone in the quarter, compared to 9.9 million the previous quarter and 10.7 the same quarter the previous year, which is a 11% increase. The mobile communications division has reported sales of 429 billion yen (US$ 3,545 million) for the quarter, a 28.7% increase year-on-year and income of 9.3 billion yen ( US$76 million U.S. dollars).
Continue reading “Sony Mobile sales up 28.7% YoY in Q3 FY14, 11.9 million smartphones shipped”
Inventec, a major Taiwanese supplier of Chinese phone brand Xiaomi will begin mass production at a new factory in India, according to a report from Digitimes.
Continue reading “Inventec to kickstart production in Chennai, might build Xiaomi devices”
Google Play Music has been updated with a couple of features and redesigned UI. The latest revamp comes months after it first received Material Design features in October.
Continue reading “Google Play Music gets navigation drawer, redesigned pages and more”
Gionee has announced that it will unveil new ultra-slim smartphones at the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona next month. It unveiled the Elife S5.5 that was 5.5mm thick and introduced the Elife S5.1 that even entered into the Guinness book of world records in September since it was the slimmest smartphone at that time at just 5.1mm. The company haven’t announced how thin its upcoming smartphones would be. Continue reading “Gionee to introduce new ultra-slim smartphones at MWC 2015 on March 2”
Press images and specifications of the HTC Desire 626 smartphone leaked few weeks back, now the smartphone has been certified in China on TENAA with model number D626w. According to the listing the smartphone has a 5-inch HD display, 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a 1.7GHz Octa-Core processor but comes only with 1GB RAM and 8GB RAM, unlike 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage as rumored earlier. Continue reading “HTC Desire 626 gets certified in China, specifications detailed”
Lenovo S90, the company’s latest smartphone in the S Series is now available in India from the official Lenovo Store. It has announced back in November last year as Sisley S90 in China and packs a 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Vibe 2.0 UI on top. It looks similar to the iPhone 6. Continue reading “Lenovo S90 with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 2GB RAM goes on sale in India for Rs. 19900”
YU has rolled out the first Cyanogen OS update, XNPH05Q for the YUREKA smartphone in about three weeks after the smartphone went on sale, as it promised at the launch. As you can see from the screenshot, the incremental update brings security fixes and improvements for the proximity sensor and dual SIM functionality. Continue reading “YU YUREKA gets first Cyanogen OS bug-fix OTA update”
India is said to have 651 million smartphone users in 2019, as per a latest report by Cisco. The number of smartphones grew 54 per cent during 2014, reaching 140 million in number and the number of smartphones will grow 4.7-fold between 2014 and 2019, reaching 651 million mark, said the report.
Continue reading “Smartphone users to hit 651 million in India by 2019: Report”
Google today released three new Android One smartphones with three new partners in Indonesia running Android 5.1 (Lollipop) out of the box when users in India with Android One smartphones are eagerly waiting for the Lollipop update. Today Google India announced that it will be rolling out the Lollipop update for the Android One smartphones in the next few weeks. Google already promised to offer software updates for Android One devices for two years after its release. Continue reading “Android One smartphones in India will get Lollipop update in the “next few weeks”: Google”
Google just announced that it will launch Android One smartphones in Indonesia later this month. Google launched Android One smartphones in India back in September last year and it expanded to Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka last month. Indonesia becomes the fifth country to get Android One smartphones officially. Continue reading “Google Android One expands to Indonesia, releases three new smartphones running Android 5.1 Lollipop”
AOC has announced E40, the company’s latest entry-level Android smartphone. It has a 4-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. It has a dual SIM support and come with 3G connectivity. Continue reading “AOC E40 with 4-inch display, Android 4.4 announced for Rs. 5299”
Samsung today announced that it has started mass producing of world’s first ePoP (embedded package on package) memory. This is a single memory package that includes a 3GB LPDDR3 DRAM, 32GB eMMC (embedded multi-media card) and a controller to be used in high-end smartphones saving approximately 40 percent of space. Continue reading “Samsung starts mass production of world’s first ePoP memory for smartphones”
