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YotaPhone gets a price cut in India again, now available for Rs. 8999

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YotaPhone with dual displays has got another price cut in India Rs. 8,999. It was launched in India on Flipkart back in October last year at a price tag of Rs. 23,499. It has got a huge price cut to Rs. 17,999 in one month after the release. Earlier this year it received a price cut to Rs. 12,999, now the smartphone is available on Flipkart for Rs. 8999. Since the release the YotaPhone’s price has dropped by Rs. 14,500. Continue reading “YotaPhone gets a price cut in India again, now available for Rs. 8999”

Xiaomi partners with The Mobile Store to sell its smartphones offline

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Xiaomi entered India last year with online-only model partnering with Flipkart to sell its smartphones and accessories. It started selling its accessories on its own website in India recently, now the company has partnered with The Mobile Store to sell its smartphones thorough their offline retail stores, according to a report from ET. Continue reading “Xiaomi partners with The Mobile Store to sell its smartphones offline”

OnePlus One OxygenOS release delayed due to extra quality control

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OnePlus promised to release OxygenOS ROM for the OnePlus One smartphone before March 27th, today, but it didn’t happen. Now the company says that the reason for the delay is due to extra quality control. The company also said that it will share even the small progress before the OxygenOS is officially release. Continue reading “OnePlus One OxygenOS release delayed due to extra quality control”

Airtel launches 4G services in Bathinda, Punjab

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Airtel has launched 4G services in Bathinda in Punjab. This become the 12th town in the state to get Airtel 4G services. Airtel had already launched 4G series in Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Phagwara, Kapurthala, Patiala and Moga in Punjab and Haryana circles. Continue reading “Airtel launches 4G services in Bathinda, Punjab”

Celkon Millennia Q450 with 4-inch display, quad-core processor launched for Rs. 4799

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Celkon has launched Millennia Q450, the company’s latest smartphone in the Millennia series. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, is powered by a 1.2 quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has 3G connectivity and dual SIM support. Continue reading “Celkon Millennia Q450 with 4-inch display, quad-core processor launched for Rs. 4799”

Karbonn Sparkle V gets Android 5.1 Lollipop update

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After the Spice Dream Uno and the Micromax Canvas A1, the Karbonn Sparkle V Android One smartphone has also received Android 5.1 (Lollipop) over-the-air (OTA) update. Continue reading “Karbonn Sparkle V gets Android 5.1 Lollipop update”

Idea, Airtel, Vodafone and others win spectrum as auction raises Rs. 1.10 lakh crore

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The Department of Telecom (DoT) has announced the winners in the spectrum auctions in various circles that ended after 115 rounds. At the end of the auction for 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz government got bids worth Rs 1.098 lakh crore. Idea Cellular bid a maximum of Rs. 30,306.98 crore, Airtel bid Rs. 29,130.20 crore and Vodafone bid Rs. 29,959.74 crore to buy spectrum in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2,100 MHz bands.

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Samsung Galaxy A7 Review

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The design (materials used as well) is probably the most discussed and criticized aspect of Samsung phones for quite some time now. Ever since the Galaxy S3, every design has been more of an update/refinement rather than a revolution as we had come to expect with every new flagship till then. While most manufacturers do recycle their design a lot especially Sony, one did not expect Samsung to do so at least not with their flagships and that right there was the first issue with the Galaxy S5 and why it failed to make an impact.

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Amazon Cloud Drive moves to unlimited subscription-only storage plans

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Amazon Cloud Drive has launched two new unlimited Cloud Drive plans and has removed the current 5GB free plan. These new plans include Unlimited Photos plan for $11.99 per year, plus 5 GB for videos and files, and Unlimited Everything plan for $59.99 per year that offers unlimited storage for photos, video, files, and documents. Continue reading “Amazon Cloud Drive moves to unlimited subscription-only storage plans”

WhatsApp likely to backup chat history with Google Drive integration

WhatsApp is looking forward to bringing a simpler way for its more than 700 million users to save their chat history. The popular mobile messaging app could bring Google Drive integration to restore you conversations.

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Xolo Win Q1000 Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone now available for Rs. 6999

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Xolo announced the Win Q1000 Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone last month, now the smartphone is available for order exclusively on HomeShop18.  It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (MSM8212) processor with Adreno 302 GPU, comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support with dual standby and has 3G support. Continue reading “Xolo Win Q1000 Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone now available for Rs. 6999”

Apple could launch three iPhones this year

It looks like Apple will launch not one, not two but three iPhones this year. A new report from DigiTimes is stating that Apple will launch three iPhones in the second half of this year – the iPhone 6S, the iPhone 6S Plus, and a 4 inch iPhone 6C.

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Connected devices powered by Intel at MWC 2015

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It’s still very early days for the “Internet of things” movement which seems to have caught everyone’s fancy. Intel, like every other company today, wants in on it, so they had a whole section dedicated to connected devices at their MWC booth this year. We checked some devices out, to give you an idea of what Intel powered connected devices are like.

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