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PopCap games released the most expected Plants vs. Zombies 2 for iOS devices, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch last Thursday. Now the Electronic Arts, distributor of the game is super exited to announce that the game has been downloaded more than 16 million times worldwide in just 5 days, making it the most successful and the biggest mobile game launch in EA’s history. Continue reading “Plants vs. Zombies 2 for iOS clocks 16 million downloads in 5 days”
Gameloft have officially announced that they will be joining hands with Microsoft to bring some of their gaming titles to Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platform. The lack of popular titles in the Games section of Windows Store has been of concern, but now Microsoft seem to have brought some life.
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Golden (SHV-E400) with dual 3.7 inch (800 x 480 pixels) Super AMOLED displays. Since there is a display on the front of the smartphone, you can also used it when it’s closed. You can flip open to use the other screen with a keyboard. Samsung aims to target the mid-aged or older demographic segments with this phone. It is powered by a 1.7 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.9-megapixel camera. It also comes with S health, business card recognition, easy mode and more features. Samsung unveiled the SCH-W789 Hennessy, a flip phone with 3.3-inch dual displays in China recently. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Golden flip phone with dual 3.7-inch displays, Android 4.2 launched in Korea”
Google has a introduced a new feature in Google Search for Android, where users will be able to write on their screen in India’s most common language – Hindi. Handwrite has been an option that has been there for quite sometime now, but Hindi was not an option until now. Handwrite enables users to Google search by handwriting on the screen instead of using the on-screen keyboard. From today, users will be able to write Hindi words on the screen and get search results based on that. Continue reading “Google Mobile Search for Android gets support for Hindi Handwrite input”
LG Display, the display arm of LG Electronics has announced the world’s first Quad HD AH-IPS LCD panel for smartphones. The LCD panel is of size 5.5-inches diagonally with a resolution of 2560 by 1440 pixels at a pixel density of 538ppi. It has the highest resolution and ppi (pixel per inch) mobile panel to date. Last month LG Display introduced the world’s slimmest 5.2-inch Full HD LCD panel for smartphones which is used in the LG G2. LG introduced the world’s first Full HD smartphone panel in 2012 Continue reading “LG announces 5.5-inch 2560×1440 pixels Quad HD smartphone display”
Google acquired Waze, popular crowd-sourced navigation app back in June. Now Google has announced that they have started rolling out real time incident reports from Waze users. So when Wazer users report accidents, construction, road closures and more on Waze, these updates will also appear on the Google Maps app for Android, iPhone and iPad in select countries. Continue reading “Google Maps for Android, iPhone and iPad gets real time incident reports from Waze”
Samsung has announced a new promotional offer for users in India. Anyone who purchases Galaxy Grand (GT-I9082)and Grand Quattro (GT-I8552) till 14th September 2013 will get a free Sennheiser headset. Worth and model of the Sennheiser headsets differs. For the Samsung Galaxy Grand you get Sennheiser headset (HD 202 Or HD 203) worth Rs. Rs. 2,290 and for the Grand Quattro you get Sennheiser (PX-80) or JBL (Tempo J03B) headsets worth Rs. 1,990. Continue reading “Samsung offers a free Sennheiser headset with Galaxy Grand and Grand Quattro in India”
Just hours after we posted our first impressions of the newly launched Oppo R819, another leak has graced us with some exciting information. We’d already seen Oppo acknowledge the existence of their new range of flagship camera-centric devices dubbed the N-lens and that the first device will be named N1(of which we saw some leaked renders). And now we’ve got a leaked image from a Weibo user which says that the device will be launching late September this year. Rumoured to have a 13 megapixel sensor with a professional-grade Fujitsu camera ISP, the N1 will be Oppo’s first real cameraphone flagship.
Continue reading “Oppo N1 to launch in September, rumoured specs leak out”
HTC has launched several mid-range devices in the Desire series including the Desire 600 dual SIM that we reviewed recently. HTC would launch another mid-rage device called Zara with a 4.5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 processor with Adreno 305 GPU and Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Sense 5.5 later this year, according to @evleaks. Continue reading “HTC Zara with 4.5-inch qHD display, Android 4.3 rumored for Q4 2013 launch”
Videocon Mobiles has launched the A42, a new smartphone in the A Series. The company launched the A24, an affordable Android smartphone last month. It has a 4.5-inch (854 ×480 pixels) FWVGA capacitive touch sceen display, powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). It comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support with dual standby and 3G. Continue reading “Videocon A42 with 4.5-inch display, dual-core processor and Android 4.2 launched for Rs. 7490”
Nimbuzz Messenger for iPhone has been updated to version 3.1.1 that brings a lot of new features including a smart photo-editing tool that brings photo filters, stickers and lots more features. Nimbuzz for iPhone v3.1 update that was released last month brought lot of new features including phonebook suggestions, better file sharing and chat and lots more. Nimbuzz Messenger for Android got a major update to v2.6 last week that brought a new UI, Easy Swipe between chat screens, new emoticons, richer user profiles and more. Continue reading “Nimbuzz Messenger for iPhone v3.1.1 update adds Stickers, Photo Filters and more”
Spice is all set to launch the Stellar Glamor (Mi-436), a new Android smartphone in the Stellar series. This would have a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and run on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G . This would compete with the Intex Cloud Y2 that was launched earlier this week since both these have almost similar specifications. Continue reading “Spice Stellar Glamor Mi-436 with 4-inch display, dual-core processor and Android 4.2 coming soon”
The Nokia Lumia 925 went on sale in India from the official Nokia Store last week. Now the Lumia 625 is available for pre-order from online retailer Flipkart in India. The Lumia 625 was unveiled last month and packs a 4.7-inch (800 x 480 pixels) LCD display, which is the largest screen on a Lumia phone till date. The display also comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protectiont and Super Sensitive Touch. It is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 processor and runs on the latest Windows Phone 8 OS with the latest Amber update. It has a 5-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 625 up for online pre-order in India for Rs. 19499”
Vodafone has announced Vodafone Drive into the Big League contest for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This is the third season of the contest for the third Indian Grand Prix that would be held in Delhi from October 25 to 27, 2013. This would offer an opportunity for small and medium enterprises to take center stage with their logo on Vodafone McLaren Mercedes racing cars. Vodafone says they had overwhelming response for the second season in which Sequel Logistics Private Limited won and had its logo on the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes cars during Indian Grand Prix 2012. Continue reading “Vodafone India announces Drive into the Big League 3 contest for SMEs”
If bling is your thing then Blackberry of all manufacturers has you covered with their new Gold and White edition of the Q10 handset. Available starting 19th August, this special edition of the handset will only be available to customers in the UAE.
Continue reading “Special Edition Gold and White Blackberry Q10 now available in Dubai”
