Twitter has teamed up with Bing to translate your tweets. The latest collaboration will enable users to view tweets in multiple languages thanks to the translation feature.
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Three UK to buy O2 UK for £9.25 billion
Since BT confirmed they were in talks to buy EE and not O2, there’s been a lot of rumours that Three UK owner Hutchinson Whampoa Limited (HWL) would attempt to acquire O2 in a bid to strengthen its UK position. This morning the company have issued a press release confirming they are in exclusive talks to buy O2 UK from Spanish parent Telefónica, S.A. in a deal worth £9.25 billion. Continue reading “Three UK to buy O2 UK for £9.25 billion”
OnePlus One launches in Indonesia
OnePlus has launched its OnePlus One smartphone in Indonesia. It has partnered with Lazada to sell the smartphone in the country. This is the first market that OnePlus has entered in Southeast Asia, said the company. It was launched in India last month, and is still in huge demand. Continue reading “OnePlus One launches in Indonesia”
Sunil Sood to replace Marten Pieters as Vodafone India CEO
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”
HTC Desire 626 press images, specifications leaked
HTC is all set to launch Desire 626, a new smartphone in the Desire 600 series. Press images and complete specifications of the smartphone have been leaked by @upleaks. According to the leak, the smartphone would come with a 5-inch HD display and would run on Android 4.4 Kitkat with HTC Sense UI on top. It would get Android 5.0 update later, says the leakster. It would come with a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “HTC Desire 626 press images, specifications leaked”
15,000 YU YUREKA smartphones sold out in 4 seconds, next sale on Jan 29
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 gets another price cut in India, now available for Rs. 12999
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”
WhatSim SIM card allows global WhatsApp messaging
WhatSim, a SIM card that lets users access the popular mobile-messaging service WhatsApp all over the world has been launched. The SIM card will allow users to connect WhatsApp to any of 400 operators in 150 countries.
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LG G Flex 2 launching in Korea on Jan 30th, price revealed
LG unveiled the G Flex 2 smartphone, the second phone in the G Flex series at the CES earlier this month. It went on pre-order in Germany last week, today LG has announced that the G Flex 2 would launch in Korea on January 30th. The G Flex 2 has a 5.5-inch 1080p curved P-OLED display that can bend ranging from a radius of 400mm to 700mm across the front, back, sides and top-to-bottom edges. Continue reading “LG G Flex 2 launching in Korea on Jan 30th, price revealed”
LibreOffice Viewer Beta for Android released
LibreOffice, a community-driven software that is available for desktop is now available in the form of LibreOffice Viewer Beta for Android. Created by Collabora engineers, this is a Open Source app for smartphones and tablets that lets you view documents, spreadsheets, and basic presentations in Open Document and Microsoft Office formats. Complex presentation support and additional features would be available in the future, says the creators. Continue reading “LibreOffice Viewer Beta for Android released”
15,000 YU YUREKA units to be available in second round of sale today
Micromax’s YU plans to sell 15,000 units of YUREKA smartphones on its second flash sale today, January 22nd at 2PM on Amazon.in The company received over three lakh registrations for the first sale, and it sold 10,000 units in just 3 seconds. It did not reveal the number of people registered for the second sale. In the second round of YUREKA sale today, the consumers who had registered to buy YUREKA before 13th January, will remain pre-registered and can take part in the sale just the same as last time, said the company. Continue reading “15,000 YU YUREKA units to be available in second round of sale today”
Whatsapp comes to PC via the browser, no support for the iPhone app yet
Whatsapp, the world’s most popular instant messaging platform, now comes to the PC, via the web browser route. The web client, which currently works only on Google’s Chrome, will let you chat with your friends right from the comforts of a browser, a long standing request finally fulfilled by the company. The functionality currently works on the updated version of Whatsapp on Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry devices, while iPhones are not getting the feature due to “platform limitations”, according to Whatsapp chief Jan Koum.
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Oppo U3 with 5.9-inch 1080p display, Octa-Core 64-bit SoC, 4G LTE announced
Oppo has announced Oppo U3, the latest smartphone in the U series. It has a 5.9-inch 1080p display with 75% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by a 1.7GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6752 64-bit processor and runs on Color OS 2.0.1 based on Android 4.4. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has Super Zoom mode to capture 50MP images by combining four shots into a high resolution image. Continue reading “Oppo U3 with 5.9-inch 1080p display, Octa-Core 64-bit SoC, 4G LTE announced”
Limited Edition Black and Gold BlackBerry Passport launched
BlackBerry introduced the BlackBerry Passport smartphone in Black color last year. Later it launched White and Limited Edition Red color variants of the smartphone in the US. Now the Limited Edition Black and Gold variant of Passport is available in the US and Canada. Continue reading “Limited Edition Black and Gold BlackBerry Passport launched”
Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo Plus now available in India for Rs. 11700
Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo Plus (GT-9060I) is now available in India, according to Mumbai-based retailer Mahesh Telecom . It has a 5-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display, is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, compared to VGA front-facing camera in last year’s Grand Neo. It also comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo Plus now available in India for Rs. 11700”