Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM goes on sale in India for Rs. 5999

Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM

Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM, the company’s most affordable Dual SIM Lumia smartphone is now on sale in India though the official Nokia Shop. It was announced last month and packs a 4-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 SoC and runs on the latest Windows Phone 8.1 with Lumia Denim update. It has a 2-megapixel fixed-focus rear camera without flash and VGA front-facing camera. Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM goes on sale in India for Rs. 5999”

Samsung Galaxy A3 vs Galaxy A5 Photo Gallery

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Samsung launched the Galaxy A3 smartphone in India last month for Rs. 20,500 and Galaxy A5 for Rs. 25,500. We have already seen unboxing and photo galleries of both the phones, now lets compare the two phones. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A3 vs Galaxy A5 Photo Gallery”

Lava Iris X8 with Octa-Core processor, 2GB RAM officially launched for Rs. 8999

Lava Iris X8

Lava has launched the Iris X8, the company’s latest smartphone in officially, a day after it was revealed on Flipkart. It has 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Lava promises Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for the smartphone It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 3-megapixel front-facing camera.  Continue reading “Lava Iris X8 with Octa-Core processor, 2GB RAM officially launched for Rs. 8999”

Paper by FiftyThree for iPad goes completely free

Paper by FiftyThree iPad

Paper by FiftyThree (previously Paper) for iPad is one of the popular sketching apps for iPad since 2012. Even though it was launched for free, it had in-app purchases for accessing its tools. Now all the tools such as Draw, Sketch, Outline, Write, Color, and Mixer are available for free for everyone. The app won app of the year award from Apple in 2012 and had received several praises from creators and designers.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with dual curved edge screen surfaces

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge leak

As Samsung’s March 1st Unpacked 2015 event gets closer several leaks regarding the upcoming Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge have started flowing. CNET Korea have got hold of images of both the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Edge smartphones with and without cases. We had seen several leaks of the Galaxy S6 earlier from the case markers and the design schematics that were leaked recently revealed that the Galaxy S6 would be just 6.91mm thin. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with dual curved edge screen surfaces”

Twitter Q4 revenue hits $479M, now has 288M monthly active users

Twitter has announced its fourth-quarter earnings report, posting a revenue of $479M up 97% compared with $243 million a year ago, and easily surpassing analyst expectations of $453 million.

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Micromax Joy X1800 and Joy X1850 with unique pouch packaging launched for Rs. 699 and Rs. 749

Micromax Joy X1800 and Joy X1850

Micromax has launched two new feature phones, Joy X1800 and Joy X1850. The main highlight is that these Joy series of smartphones come in pouch packaging rather than box. This is the first ever pouch packaging phones in the Indian market claims Micromax. Both these smartphone have a 1.77-inch (128 x 160 pixels) QQVGA colored screen, dual SIM support, a rear camera, Bluetooth 3.0, expandable memory up to 4GB, FM Radio, Flashlight and more. Continue reading “Micromax Joy X1800 and Joy X1850 with unique pouch packaging launched for Rs. 699 and Rs. 749”

Xiaomi Redmi 2 Unboxing

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Xiaomi introduced the Redmi 2 smartphone, the second generation budget smartphone in the Redmi series in China last month. The Redmi 2 packs a faster 64-bit Snapdragon processor and also comes with 4G LTE connectivity, compared to the Redmi 1S that has Snapdragon 400 SoC and 3G connectivity. We managed to get one from China, here is the unboxing.

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Swype for Android updated with free Material design themes, Emoji support and more

Swype for Android v1.8

Nuance has updated its Swype keyboard for Android to version 1.8 with several new features that includes free Material design themes along with a Bumblebee theme that has high contrast yellow and black colorization, intuitive Emoji support in 8 languages, floating keyboard, better text correction and lots more new features. Continue reading “Swype for Android updated with free Material design themes, Emoji support and more”

Samsung Galaxy A3 Photo Gallery

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Samsung launched the Galaxy A3 smartphone in India last month for Rs 20,500 along with the Galaxy A5. The phone sports a full metallic unibody design. We have seen the unboxing of the phone now lets take a look at the hardware in this photo gallery. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A3 Photo Gallery”

Three UK to sell the Samsung Galaxy A5

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Three UK already confirmed to be stocking the Galaxy A3 and now the network has revealed they will also be selling its bigger sibling, the Galaxy A5, on pay monthly contracts and pay as you go in the UK. Both the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 are part of Samsung’s new A series which gains inspiration from the Galaxy Alpha and brings an all-metal clad body. Continue reading “Three UK to sell the Samsung Galaxy A5”

Huawei Honor Holly launched in Europe with mystery price offer

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During last night’s 100 days of Honor event in London, the company introduced the Huawei Honor Holly smartphone to the European market. With the event focused around Honor fans, the company announced the handset is launching with a retail price of £109.99 but fans have the chance to reduce the price through the unique “price hacker” promotion. Continue reading “Huawei Honor Holly launched in Europe with mystery price offer”

Lava Iris X8 with 5-inch HD display, Octa-Core SoC, 2GB RAM launching soon for Rs. 8999

Lava Iris X8

Lava Iris X8, the company’s upcoming smartphone in the Iris X series has been listed on Flipkart. It has 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 3-megapixel front-facing camera. The front camera doesn’t have LED flash like the Iris X5 that was launched last year. The design of the smartphone is similar to earlier Iris X series smartphones. Continue reading “Lava Iris X8 with 5-inch HD display, Octa-Core SoC, 2GB RAM launching soon for Rs. 8999”

Celkon Millennia ME Q54 with 5-inch display, 5MP front camera launched for Rs. 5555

Celkon Millennia ME Q54

Celkon has launched Millennia ME Q54, the company’s latest smartphone in the Millennia series with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, targeted at selfie market. It has a 5-inch FWVGA screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash as well. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Celkon Millennia ME Q54 with 5-inch display, 5MP front camera launched for Rs. 5555”

ASUS ZenPower 9600mAh power bank announced

ASUS ZenPower

ASUS has introduced ZenPower, the company’s first 9600mAh portable power bank in Taiwan. It was originally introduced at the CES last month only to selected media and competes with Xiaomi’s 10400mAh power bank. It even looks similar to the Xiaomi Mi power bank. It weighs 215 grams and is 18mm thick, slightly lighter and thinner than the Mi 10400mAh power bank that weighs 250g and is 21.6mm thick. Other dimensions are almost similar. Continue reading “ASUS ZenPower 9600mAh power bank announced”