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Jawbone has announced UP3, a multi-sensor top-end fitness tracker and UP MOVE, a compact entry-level fitness tracker. The Jawbone UP MOVE is a Clip on that has an LED display that can track your steps and your sleep. The Jawbone UP3 has several sensors, including a Heart Health Sensor that measures resting heart rate. It has a water-resistant design and promises a week of battery life.
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Panasonic has launched P55, the company’s latest smartphone in P Series. It has a 5.5-inch HD display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and has unique features such as Pop-i Player, Music Café and Gesture Play. It launched the P61 smartphone with a 6-inch display few months back. Continue reading “Panasonic P55 with 5.5-inch HD display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 10290”
Last week Oppo introduced the Oppo R5 smartphone with 4.85mm slim body, thinner than the 5.1mm Gionee Elife S5.1. Now the Vivo X5Max L smartphone with just 4.75mm thickness has been certified on China’s TENAA certification website. The Vivo X5Max L has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, powered by a 1.7GHz Octa-Core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 1080p video recording and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Vivo X5Max L with 4.75mm thickness gets certified in China”
NVIDIA already announced that the Shield Tablet would be updated to Android 5.0 (Lollipop) soon. Now it has announced that the update would be available as early as this November, so we can expect the roll out to begin in the next few weeks. It has also released a video that shows the new Android 5.0’s Material UI along with Material redesign for NVIDIA’s Shield Hub and Dabbler apps. Continue reading “NVIDIA to roll out Android 5.0 Lollipop update for Shield Tablet this November”
Google has released Android 5.0 Lollipop factory images for the Nexus 9 tablet and the Nexus Player Android streaming device. The Android 5.0 binaries are available for the Nexus Player, but it is yet to release binaries for the Nexus 9 tablet included in the factory images itself. Google recently pushed Android 5.0 Lollipop source code to AOSP. Continue reading “Google releases Android 5.0 Lollipop factory images for Nexus 9 and Nexus Player”
Xiaomi is looking to raise a large amount of funding that will increase the company valuation to a whopping $40 billion, according to a latest report from Bloomberg.
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Earlier this week we heard that the UK government was considering introducing legislation to allow customers to roam across any mobile network when they had no coverage. The move was expected to be unpopular with the networks and an EE spokesperson has told Mobile the network believes ‘national roaming’ is a ‘flawed concept’ which would ‘deteriorate network reliability for tens of millions across the UK’. Continue reading “EE says UK national roaming is a ‘flawed concept’”
A leading American law firm has been asked to look into claims that Phones4u’s directors and mobile network partners were responsible for the company’s collapse into administration. Sky News has learnt that Quinn Emanual Urquhart and Sullivan has been appointed by the chain’s administrators, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), to look into the action of the directors before the demise. This could lead to legal action should the directors be judged to have breached their fiduciary duties as company directors.
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Last week Sony released the PS4 Remote Play app on Google Play to support PS4 Remote Play capabilities on the Xperia Z3 series. It said that it would bring PS4 Remote Play features to the Xperia Z2 series including the Xperia Z2 and the Z2 Tablet in the coming weeks. Today the company has started rolling out a new Android 4.4 (v23.0.1.A.0.167) update for these devices that brings PS4 Remote Play along with Hi-Res audio playback and several new features. Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z2 and Z2 Tablet get Android 4.4.4 update, adds PS4 Remote Play, Hi-Res audio playback and more”
iBall has launched the Slide WQ149, the company’s latest Windows 8 tablet. It has a 10.1-inch (1280×800 pixels) IPS screen and is powered by an quad-core Intel Atom Z3735D processor. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with a magnetic pogo pin keyboard that has a touchpad so that it can double up as a laptop. Continue reading “iBall Slide WQ149 10.1-inch Windows 8 Tablet with 3G support launched for Rs. 21999”
HTC has announced the Desire 820s, a variant of the Desire 820 smartphone in China. It uses a 1.7GHz Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek (MT6752 likely) processor instead of Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor in the Desire 820. Other specifications are similar to the Desire 820, including a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) display, Android 4.4 Kitkat OS with HTC Sense 6 UI on top, 13-megapixel rear camera, 8-megapixel front-facing camera and dual-front-facing BoomSound speakers. Continue reading “HTC Desires 820s with 1.7GHz Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek SoC announced”
OmniVision Technologies has introduced OV23850 and OV21840, new 23.8-megapixel and 21.4-megapixel camera sensors in the PureCel-S series aimed at high-end smartphones. These are based on OmniVision’s advanced stacked die process, which separates the imaging array from the image sensor processing pipeline into a stacked die structure providing additional sensor functionalities, such as phase detection autofocus (PDAF), two-dimensional contrast fast autofocus and HDR video, while maintaining a small footprint, says the company. Continue reading “OmniVision introduces 23MP and 21MP camera sensors for high-end smartphones”
Samsung SM-G7200, a new smartphone has been listed on GFXBench database. This could be the Galaxy Grand 3, successor of the successful Grand 2 smartphone since this belongs to the G7 series. The listing was first spotted by Gizmobic. According to the benchmark listing, the smartphone would feature a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display, powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU and run on Android 4.4.4 (KitKat). Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand 3 (SM-G7200) with 5.5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410 shows up in benchmarks?”
Samsung launched its Gear S Smartwatch with built-in SIM card slot in India last month for Rs. 28,900. Now Samsung has started taking pre-orders for the smartwatch in India on their official eStore. The Gear S has a 2-inch (360 x 480 pixels) curved Super AMOLED display, comes with a 1GHz dual-core processor and enables you to interdependently make and receive calls, without connecting to a device and also offers 3G support. Continue reading “Samsung Gear S pre-booking starts in India”
Last week Motorola scheduled an event on November 5th in Brazil to launch the Moto Maxx, which is expected to be the global variant of the Motorola Droid Turbo that was announced exclusively for Verizon in the U.S. last week. Few hours back live images of the smartphone surfaced on Google+, but it was removed afterwards. Android Police has got hold of the images, which shows the smartphone in black color. Continue reading “Motorola Moto Maxx live images surface ahead of Nov 5 announcement”
