Adobe Revel photo sharing and editing app now available for Android

Adobe Revel

Adobe has released the Adobe Revel app for Android devices. This lets you edit your photos with built-in tools such as Photoshop Elements 12 and Premiere Elements 12. It also lets you create a group library to share images. Adobe already has Adobe GroupPix for collaborative photo sharing and Photoshop Express for editing. Adobe Revel is already available for iPhone and iPad. Continue reading “Adobe Revel photo sharing and editing app now available for Android”

Micromax Canvas Knight A350 with 5-inch 1080p display, Octa-Core processor launched in India for Rs. 19999

Micromax Canvas Knight A350

Micromax unveiled the Canvas Knight A350 at an event in Russia, back in January. The company has launched the smartphone in India as it promised last month. The Canvas Knight has a 5.0-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display, powered by a 2 GHz octa-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It features a 16-megapixel auto focus rear camera with M8 Largan lens, LED Flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Knight A350 with 5-inch 1080p display, Octa-Core processor launched in India for Rs. 19999”

LG G Pad 8.3 LTE coming to Verizon on March 6th

LG G Pad 8.3 LTE for Verizon

LG announced the G Pad 8.3 tablet back in September last year. It introduced the G Pad 8.3  Google Play Edition in December, that we reviewed recently. LG has released the G Pad 8.3 LTE exclusively on Verizon Wireless in the US. Except the LTE support via SIM card slot, other features are similar to the original LG G Pad 8.3. It has a 8-inch (1920 x 1200 pixels)  full HD display, quad-core 1.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Android Jelly Bean OS. Continue reading “LG G Pad 8.3 LTE coming to Verizon on March 6th”

Creative Aurvana Live! 2 Headphones Review

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Creative is quite well-known for its Audio Gear products across world and is now gearing up again to be a prime player in the Indian Market. Creative recently announced the Creative Aurvana Live! 2 in Global market as well in Indian market as the successor to highly acclaimed Aurvana Live!. Creative launched this flagship wired headphones in India for at MRP of Rs. 12,999. Fortunately we have received the opportunity to experience these flagship Head-Phones for a good time. Continue reading “Creative Aurvana Live! 2 Headphones Review”

Gartner Report : Worldwide Tablet sales up by 68% and Android continues to dominate

According to Gartner, the year 2013 was a pretty good year for tablets – a total of 195.4 million units were shipped during the year. The almost 200 million units is a 68% increase over the number of tablets shipped during 2012. The report also says that the sales of tablets was boosted by the low end smaller tablets and hence Android continues to dominate the tablet market. You can check out the numbers below.

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Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8 released

Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8

Facebook has released the Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8, as it promised  at the Mobile World Congress last week. The Facebook Messenger has a new user interface, similar to the Facebook app for Windows Phone, that already has Facebook Messenger Integration. It has stickers, images, conversation history and more features, similar to other platforms.  Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone 8 released”

Swipe Sonic with 4-inch display, Dual SIM (CDMA + GSM) now available for Rs. 7399

Swipe Sonic

Swipe Sonic, the company’s first smartphone with Dual SIM (CDMA + GSM) support is now available from online retailer Shopclues. It has a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels), powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera.  Continue reading “Swipe Sonic with 4-inch display, Dual SIM (CDMA + GSM) now available for Rs. 7399”

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer to retire in September

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Apple has announced that Peter Oppenheimer, the company’s senior vice president and CFO, will retire at the end of September 2014. He joined Apple in 1996 as controller for the Americas, and was promoted to vice president and Worldwide Sales controller and then to corporate controller later. He will retire after 18 years of service. Continue reading “Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer to retire in September”

Meet Cortana, Microsoft’s Voice based Personal Assistant

Apple has Siri and Google has Google Now, what does Microsoft have? It had Bing search on its phones till now, but things are expected to change soon as the next version of Windows Phone – Windows Phone 8.1 which is expected during Spring will come with Microsoft’s very own voice based personal assistant and it will be called – Cortana.

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Lenovo Vibe Z up for pre-order in India for Rs. 34999

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Lenovo launched the Vibe Z, the company’s latest flagship in India last month for Rs. 35,999. The smartphone is now available for pre-order from the official store for Rs. 34,999. It also offers a free Z smart touch cover worth Rs. 2,039 with the smartphone.  It a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS  display at 400 PPI, powered by a 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Vibe ROM on top. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe Z up for pre-order in India for Rs. 34999”

Nimbuzz for Windows Phone 8 updated with Chatrooms

Nimbuzz 1.1.7 for Windows Phone

Nimbuzz for Windows Phone 8 finally gets Chatrooms feature in the recent update (version 1.1.7) . The new Chatrooms feature lets you Chat with people, share your location, send virtual gifts, and more. The new update also brings improvements and bug fixes. Last month’s update ( version 1.1.6.0) brought improvements to UI, connectivity and file sharing and Persian language support.

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Karbonn to introduce new start screen interface for its smartphones based on Start by Celltick

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Celltick, popular for its Start and LiveScreen, today announced its partnership with Karbonn Mobiles to launch an intelligent interface for Android consumers based on Start. The company already announced that OEMs can partner with them to create own flavor of Start. Celltick will create a custom interface based on its Start application, that becomes a default start screen interface to Karbonn’s Android smartphones. Continue reading “Karbonn to introduce new start screen interface for its smartphones based on Start by Celltick”

Reliance Jio, Bharti Infratel tie up to share telecom infrastructure

Reliance Jio Infocomm, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and Bharti Infratel has officially announced their partnership. Under the agreement, Reliance Jio would utilize the telecom tower infrastructure of Bharti Infratel to launch its services across the country, says the company. It also noted that the pricing would be at arm’s length,  based on prevailing market rates. Continue reading “Reliance Jio, Bharti Infratel tie up to share telecom infrastructure”

HTC Desire 310 with 4.5-inch display, new design announced in China

HTC Desire 310w

The HTC Desire 310, the company’s latest budget phone with a MediaTek processor surfaced on the official website, back in January before it was taken down. Now the smartphone has appeared on HTC’s Chinese website with the model number 310w. This has a different design compared to the global variant of the smartphone. Other specifications are completely similar, including a 4.5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, 1.3 GHz Quad-core Mediatek MT6582M processor and Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). This was first spotted by ameblo.jp. Continue reading “HTC Desire 310 with 4.5-inch display, new design announced in China”

Huawei reportedly has a 2K smartphone in the works

Huawei is a company known to push boundaries as they were the first to introduce a 6inch + device in the form of Huawei Ascend Mate. Ever since, they have been lagging behind other Chinese manufacturers, but things are looking good now. Chinese manufacturer Oppo was the first company to come up with a 5inch Full HD smartphone in the form of Oppo Find 5 and they would have wanted to continue the being first in displays race with the Oppo Find 7, but that wasn’t the case. Vivo XPlay 3S is the world’s first smartphone to feature a 2K display sporting a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels. According to rumors, Huawei also has plants to compete in the pixel race and is reportedly working on its own version of a 2K display smartphone.

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