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Qualcomm Snapragon 810-powered Project Tango smartphone coming in Q3 2015

Qualcomm Project Tango

At the Google I/O 2015 yesterday, Google announced its partnership with Qualcomm for its next generation Project Tango smartphone development platform. Project Tango combines the camera, gyroscope, and accelerometer to estimate six degree of freedom motion tracking, providing developers the ability to track 3D motion of a device while simultaneously creating a map of the environment. We still don’t have the complete specifications of the smartphone. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapragon 810-powered Project Tango smartphone coming in Q3 2015”

Xiaomi Mi Note Pro vs LG G3 Photo Gallery

Xiaomi announced the Mi Note Pro in January and they launched the phone in China earlier this month. We got you unboxing of the phone recently and here is the comparison of the phone with last year’s flagship phone from LG, the LG G3. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Note Pro vs LG G3 Photo Gallery”

Micromax Unite 2 gets Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA update

Micromax Unite 2 Android 5.0

Micromax said that it will release Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for its Unite 2 A106 smartphone starting from early April. Now the company has finally released Lollipop update for the smartphone. It recently launched the Unite 3 Q372 that runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) out of the box. Continue reading “Micromax Unite 2 gets Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA update”

HP Slate 7 VoiceTab Ultra and Slate 8 Plus with 4G LTE launching in India soon for Rs. 29990 and Rs. 22990

HP Slate 7 VoiceTab Ultra

HP Slate 7 VoiceTab Ultra and Slate 8 Plus that appeared last year are coming India soon, according to Mumbai-based retailer Mahesh Telecom. The HP Slate 7 (VoiceTab) Ultra has a 7-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display, while the Slate 8 Plus comes with a 8-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) IPS display. These are powered by a 1.6 GHz quad-core Huawei HiSilicon processor and run on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). The have single SIM support with voice calling capabilities and also have 4G LTE support with support for Band 3 and Band 40 for India.

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Micromax Canvas Doodle 4 Q391 with 6-inch qHD display, Android 5.0 launched for Rs. 9499

Micromax Canvas Doodle 4 Q391

Micromax has officially launched the Canvas Doodle 4 Q391, successor of last year’s Canvas Doodle 3 A102 smartphone, few days after it went on sale online. It has a 6-inch qHD screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support and 3G connectivity, similar to most other Micromax smartphones. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Doodle 4 Q391 with 6-inch qHD display, Android 5.0 launched for Rs. 9499”

Lava Flair P1 with 4-inch display, 3G support launched for Rs. 3399

Lava Flair P1

Lava has launched Flair P1, the company’s latest entry-level smartphone in the Flair series. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1GHz single-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 dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Lava Flair P1 with 4-inch display, 3G support launched for Rs. 3399”

Nvidia Shield Android TV and streaming console now available for order

Nvidia announced its Shield Android Android TV and streaming console in March and today the device is officially going on sale. The console is powered by NVIDIA Tegra X1 processor with 256-core Maxwell architecture GPU, 64-bit CPU and runs on Android TV OS.

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Coolpad Dazen 1 Hands On and Photo Gallery

Chinese manufacturer Coolpad has launched its budget smartphone dubbed the Dazen 1 in India at Rs. 6,999. It will be the first smartphone by the company to get manufactured in India at Aurangabad “very soon”, said Coolpad’s India Head Varun Sharma during the launch event in New Delhi on Thursday. Continue reading “Coolpad Dazen 1 Hands On and Photo Gallery”

Samsung Project Valley could be a dual-screen foldable smartphone

Details about Project Valley or Project V have popped up and it is likely to be a dual-screen foldable smartphone. While it is still in its early stages of development, it will bequite an interesting device if it manages to see the light of day.

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SwiftKey Keyboard v5.3 for Android brings 9 new Indian languages, SwiftKey Hub and more

SwiftKey Indian language layout

SwiftKey for Android has been updated to version 5.3 that adds nine new Indian languages – Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani (in both Devanagari and Kannada scripts), Maithili, Manipuri, Sanskrit, Santali and Sindhi. It also adds a new adaptive new layouts to our Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi and Nepali languages. It also adds Emoji Prediction for Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali and Marathi keyboards for the first time. Continue reading “SwiftKey Keyboard v5.3 for Android brings 9 new Indian languages, SwiftKey Hub and more”

Google announces new VR platform called Jump – GoPro ‘Jumps’ on board with their 360 degree camera array

Google has just announced its new open source VR platform. They are teaming up with GoPro to bring a 16 camera array that is capable of shooting 360 degree 3D videos.

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OnePlus One Bamboo StyleSwap Cover Unboxing

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OnePlus launched Bamboo StyleSwap Cover for the OnePlus One smartphone today at Rs. 1499. We unboxed it recently, check out the unboxing below. Continue reading “OnePlus One Bamboo StyleSwap Cover Unboxing”

Coolpad Dazen X7 Hands On and Photo Gallery

Chinese manufacturer Coolpad on Thursday entered India with the launch of two Dazen brand smartphones – the Dazen X7, and the Dazen 1 priced at Rs. 17,999 and Rs. 6,999 respectively. Both smartphones will only be available online on Snapdeal from June 9. Continue reading “Coolpad Dazen X7 Hands On and Photo Gallery”

OnePlus One Bamboo StyleSwap Cover launched in India for Rs. 1499

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OnePlus has finally launched the Bamboo StyleSwap Cover for the OnePlus smartphone. It was introduced last year and is damp-proof, flame retardant and scratch resistant. Each Bamboo StyleSwap Cover is one of a kind, complete with its own distinct set of fibers, nodes, and colors. The production time involves 21 days and 28 different procedures which include drying, carbonising, polishing and laser cut finishing to finally carve it into place, said the company. Continue reading “OnePlus One Bamboo StyleSwap Cover launched in India for Rs. 1499”

Google Chrome for Android to get Network Quality Estimator and Offline mode

Google Chrome Network Quality Estimator

At the Google I/O 2015, Google’s VP of Engineering, Jen Fitzpatrick announced that Google is testing Network Quality Estimator for Chrome, especially for countries like India that has slow internet connection in most areas. This analyzes the network connection to optimize both the search results and any webpages to load pages faster and prioritizing text and information over data-intensive images. Continue reading “Google Chrome for Android to get Network Quality Estimator and Offline mode”