Acer has announced Aspire One Cloudbook 11 and Aspire One Cloudbook 14 , the company latest netbooks in the new Cloudbook series running on Windows 10. These have 11-inch and 14-inch HD (1366×768 pixels) 16:9 LED-backlit displays, are powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Celeron mobile processors with 2GB of DDR3L RAM and eMMC storage of 32GB or 64GB. These also come with 1-year subscription of Office 365 Personal. Continue reading “Acer Aspire One Cloudbook running Windows 10 announced, starts at $169”
Gionee has launched Marathon M4 smartphone in the Marathon series with a 5000mAh battery in India. It packs a 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with Amigo UI 3.0. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Gionee Marathon M4 with 5-inch HD display, 4G LTE, 5000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 15499”
Motorola India has announced that they will start Moto Xpress, a pilot project to offer doorstep home pick up and drop service for their customers in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida starting from this week. The company currently has 160 service centers across the country and it opened Moto Care Service & Experience Center in Bangalore earlier this year. Continue reading “Motorola India announces ‘Moto Xpress’ door step pick up and drop service”
Microsoft announced the Lumia 640 XL back in March at the MWC 2015. It comes in three variants, and the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL Dual SIM was launched in India in April, but the company is yet to launch the LTE version of the smartphone in the country. We managed to get the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL LTE Dual SIM from the US for $175 that converts to about Rs. 11,160. Check out the unboxing.
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Uber has announced that will now accepts debit cards payments in India. The latest move comes from the online taxi hailing company that re-introduced credit card payment mode in the country last month.
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Xiaomi has announced an event on August 13th to introduce MIUI 7, its next MIUI ROM. The MIUI 6 was introduced back in August last year that brought a flat user interface and new features. Even though early versions of MIUI 6 were based on Android KitKat, the latest smartphones such as Mi 4i are running on MIUI 6 ROM based on Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop).
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Google has released Android distribution numbers for June and July. Android Lollipop is now running on 18.1% of Android devices of which 5.0 Lollipop is present on 15.5% of devices while Lollipop 5.1 runs on 2.6%.
Motorola launched the Moto G (3rd Gen) smartphone in India last week starting at Rs. 11,999. At the launch the company announced that it will sell back covers and flip covers for the smartphone in several colors separately. The flip covers went on sale last week, now the back covers are also available for sale on Flipkart. Continue reading “Motorola Moto G (3rd Gen) Back Covers and Flip Covers now available in India”
A new Huawei smartphone with the model number ATH-AL00 has passed the Chinese certification agency TENAA. It features a unique sliding camera system which ingeniously houses the front facing camera unit.
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The HTC One M9 has already started receiving the update to Android 5.1 Lollipop in USA and now starting from today, consumers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) will also start receiving the update.
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Samsung introduced the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini back in 2013, which was launched in India in July 2013, now the company has silently launched the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Plus (GT-I9195I) in Europe. This packs a faster Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC and also comes with 4G LTE support. It also runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) out of the box. Other specifications are similar to the original Galaxy S4 Mini, including a 4.3-inch (960 × 540 pixels) qHD Super AMOLED display, 8-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and a 1.9-megapixel HD front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Plus with Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4G LTE hits European markets”
If you haven’t heard of Turing phone yet then let us explain. It is a new smartphone that the makers claim to be ‘unhackable’. The smartphone has been shown-off at a few trade shows so it is more than just vaporware now and the company has now started accepting reservations for the smartphone.
MediaTek introduced its Helio X and P series SoCs for high-end smartphones back in March and officially unveiled its Helio X20 deca (10) core SoC in May. Now details about the company’s upcoming Helio X30 SoC has surfaced in China (Via). We already know that the Helio X30 is based on 20nm process and has 2 x Cortex-A72 CPUs at 2.5GHz, 4 x Cortex-A53 CPUs at 2.0GHz and 4 x Cortex-A53 CPUs at 1.4GHz, but the Helio X30 will be based on 16nm FinFET process, and use 4 x Cortex-A72 CPUs at 2.5GHz , 2 x Cortex-A72 CPUs at 2GHz, 2 x Cortex-A53 CPUs at 1.0GHz and 2 x Cortex-A53 CPUs at 1.5GHz. Continue reading “MediaTek Helio X30 16nm 10-core SoC, Helio X22 details surface”
Snapdeal has secured $500 million in latest round of funding from Alibaba, Foxconn and existing investor SoftBank, according to a latest report from Re/Code. The news comes after a WSJ report from June said that Alibaba and Foxconn are looking to invest in Snapdeal.
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Intex has launched Aqua Trend, the company’s second 4G smartphone after its Aqua 4G+. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735 64-bit processor and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with Sony sensor, LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The company has signed Tollywood actor Mahesh Babu as their brand ambassador for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for 1 year. Continue reading “Intex Aqua Trend with 5-inch HD display, 13MP camera, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 9444”
