Today is the second day of the BlackBerry contest that will run till June 24th (Tuesday). We will ask you one question every day, and you need to Tweet your answers with the hashtag #BeOnBB, follow @BlackBerryIN and @FoneArena and include both Twitter handles in the tweet. Continue reading “BlackBerry Giveaway Contest Day 2 – #BeOnBB”
Canadian smartphone manufacturer, BlackBerry, announced its financial results for Q1 2015 earlier today. The results while not entirely positive, prove to be marginally encouraging.
BlackBerry has managed to stem its losses for the most part. Revenues were $966 million which is a 1% drop Quarter on Quarter. The revenue breakdown can be explained as 39% towards hardware, 54% towards services and 7% for software. The company has a cash and investments balance equivalent to $3.1 billion which is up from $2.7 billion in the previous fiscal. The company has managed to reduce operating expenses by 57% year on year. Continue reading “BlackBerry announces 2.6 million smartphones sold as part of Q1 2015 earnings report”
Samsung usually upgrades their Galaxy Note series once a year, usually in September at the IFA. Rumors about the Galaxy Note 4 started soon after the Note 3 launch. Today the Snapdragon (SM-N910S) and the Exynos (N910C) variants of the Note 4 have surfaced on the AnTuTu benchmarks reveals details specifications of the smartphone. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Snapdragon and Exynos variants surface in Benchmarks”
BlackBerry India has launched a new exchange offer for BlackBerry Z30 in India. Under this offer, customers can get the smartphone for Rs. 29,990 after a minimum cashback of Rs. 5,000 in exchange of an old working smartphone. The company reduced the price of BlackBerry Z30 to Rs. 34,990 back in March celebrating its 10th anniversary of its foray into the Indian market from the launch price of Rs. 39,990. Continue reading “BlackBerry Z30 available for Rs. 29990 in India under exchange offer”
Asus is planning to launch the Zenfone series – Zenfone 4, Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 6 in India on July 9th, according to a report from The Times of India. These are the first smartphones from Asus that were announced at the CES 2014 earlier this year have 4, 5 and 6-inch displays. The Zenfone 4 has a 4-inch WVGA screen and the Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 6 have 5-inch and 6-inch HD displays, respectively. All these run on Android JellyBean 4.3 with ASUS ZenUI on top and are upgradable to Android 4.4 KitKat. Continue reading “Asus Zenfone series reportedly launching in India on July 9th”
Nokia has posted a new teaser image on their conversations blog with tagline “GREEN WITH ENVY”. The company teased an image in green color with the letter X ahead of Nokia X launch at the MWC, so this green teaser hints at Nokia X2 launch next week. It has also posted a countdown timer that counts till 24th June 12:30 PM IST. Continue reading “Nokia’s teaser hints at Nokia X2 launch on June 24th”
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 410 SoC based on ARM Cortex A53 CPU. Recently Samsung SM-G510F and Huawei G621, upcoming smartphones with 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 GPU has been spotted in benchmarks. The Samsung SM-G510F spotted in GFXBench listing (via) would come with a 4.8-inch (960 x 540 pixels) qHD screen, runs on Android 4.4.2 (KitKat), has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung SM-G510F and Huawei G621 with 64-bit Snapdragon 410 SoC show up in Benchmarks”
Micromax Unite A092 that surfaced on the official website last week is now available from online retailer Flipkart. It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (MSM8212) processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Micromax Unite A092 with quad-core processor, Android 4.3 now available for Rs. 6499”
Motorola is all set to bring its very first smart watch with Android Wear OS, in a few days. Moto 360 watch will be sold in ‘a selection of styles’. Motorola invited designers to create different looks for the new watch. Winner of the contest will get a Moto360 watch. Moto received nearly 1300 entries that were judged by the team that created Moto 360. Amongst the many entries received, here are Motorola’s top 10 picks. Which of these designs would you want to see adorn your wrist? Share your comments at the end of the post. Continue reading “Motorola Moto 360 Top 10 Designs”
Google has started rolling out Android 4.4.4 KitKat (KTU84P) update for the Nexus devices and also released factory images for these devices including Nexus 5, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. It released Android 4.4.3 (KTU84M) update for the Nexus devices earlier this month. The new updated is for security fix, so there are you won’t see any changes in the UI. Continue reading “Google rolls out Android 4.4.4 KitKat OTA update, releases factory images for Nexus devices”
In a bid to expand its media offerings, Twitter has bought live video sharing and editing platform SnappyTV for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2010, SnappyTV’s technology is used by media and brand partners to edit real time broadcast clips and share them instantly on Twitter and other social networks.
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FoneArena has teamed up with BlackBerry India for a new contest. This contest will run for five days starting from June 20th (today) till June 24th (Tuesday). We will ask you one question every day, and you need to Tweet your answers with the hashtag #BeOnBB, follow @BlackBerryIN and @FoneArena and include both Twitter handles in the tweet. Continue reading “BlackBerry Giveaway Contest Day 1 – #BeOnBB”
Google has released and introduction video for Android Wear, its platform for wearable devices. The video posted on YouTube gives a peek about what the platform can do.
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Two days ago Samsung launched Terrain Home Android launcher. Today Nokia has jumped up the bandwagon and unveiled its first home launcher for Android.
Oppo launched the Oppo R1 (R829), successor of last year’s Oppo R819 in India April in India priced at Rs. 26990. We brought you the unboxing of the device recently, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor and Mali 400 GPU. It packs 1GB RAM, runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) based Color OS and has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display. It has premium build quality, but Oppo could have gone with a faster Snapdragon SoC to justify the high price tag. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Oppo R1 Benchmarks”
