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Samsung Gear Live goes up or Pre-Order on Play Store in US, ships July 9th

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The Samsung Android Wear device which was leaked before Google I/O was officially announced today during the keynote as the Samsung Gear Live which is the company’s first Android wear device. Unlike other Samsung smartwatches which work only with select Samsung Android phones, this watch will work on any Android phone running Android 4.3 and up which is interesting.It is also water and dust resistant.
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LG G Watch goes on sale on Google Play Store in US for $229, ships July 3rd

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Google announced that it was going to start selling the LG G Watch in the US starting from today during the Google I/O 2014 keynote where the company announced its big ambitions for Android Wear.The devices are currently up for order on the Google Play store in the US. The LG G Watch is not something which is totally new and was announced few weeks back when Google announced the Android Wear platform.The G Watch features a 1.65 inch 280×280 pixel display and is 9.95 mm thick.It has a 400 mAh battery is powered by a 1.2 GHz processor on the inside. It has 4GB of storage and 512 MB of RAM. It connects to your Android phone using Bluetooth 4 LE and is water and dust resistant.The main idea behind Android Wear is bringing notifications which you generally see on your Android phone over to your wrist. Since the device has a touchscreen, you can swipe through the various cards and is very similar to how Google Now works on your phone.

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Micromax, Karbonn and Spice are the first Android One program members

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Google just unveiled its new program called “Android One” at their I/O developer event today, in San Francisco. This program, which involved creating attractive low cost Android smartphones using reference hardware and stock software, already has three members. The three OEMs who are the first companies to sign up for Android One are Karbonn, Micromax and Spice, all Indian smartphone manufacturers well versed in making budget smartphones running Android.

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Google I/O 2014: Android has 1 billion 30-day active users

Google’s senior Vice President for Android and Chrome, Sundar Pichai announced at the ongoing I/O developer that there are more than 1 billion 30-day active users.  This is up from 538 million active monthly users during the same period last year.

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Android One unveiled: Reference hardware and stock Android for cheap Smartphones

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Google’s Android and Chrome chief took to the stage to unveil “Android One”, a new program for developing markets, using which OEMs can produce really simple low cost Android smartphones. Sundar Pichai detailed this effort to convert the masses of feature phone users to smartphones in developing markets, at the Google I/O developer event today. The program will include a set of hardware reference platforms, with stock Android being the default experience that will reach the consumers. This is certainly a bold move by Google to tackle OEM skinning and is actually taking over from the process that is currently been going on in the Mediatek space.

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Oppo N1 and R1 get a price cut to Rs. 32,990 and Rs. 24,990 respectively

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Oppo N1, the previous flagship device from the company and Oppo R1, the premium mid range handset, have both got themselves a price cut in the Indian retail market. Previously sold for Rs. 39,990, the Oppo N1 will now be sold for Rs. 32,990 whereas the Oppo R1, which started selling for Rs. 26,990 will now be sold for Rs. 24,990. Replacing the flagship N1 is the new Find 7 which was announced a while back in India, and it will instead sell for Rs. 37,990. This price cut comes after the portfolio refresh that happened recently, with the announcement of the new top end devices Find 7 and the Find 7a.

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BlackBerry Z3 Photo Gallery

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BlackBerry launched the Z3, the company’s latest smartphone in the Z3 series in India few hours back at a price tag of Rs. 15,990. We got to check out the device at the launch event. Check out the photo gallery of the smartphone below. Continue reading “BlackBerry Z3 Photo Gallery”

Google Glass updated with 2GB RAM and other software updates

Google has ramped up its hardware offering on Google Glass. The company has doubled the RAM in Glass and now the devices will ship with 2GB RAM which was earlier only 1GB.

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Opera Software scoops up mobile video ad firm AdColony for $350 million

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With an aim to boost its mobile video ad offering, Opera Software has acquired mobile video advertiser AdColony. The deal was closed at $350 million of which $75 million in cash and potential earn-out payments of up to $275 million.

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Nokia X, X+ and XL will not be getting the 2.0 X platform update

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Microsoft’s mobile division signaled the continuation of its Android range of devices with the announcement of Nokia X2 yesterday. The latest Android device from the company not only sports new hardware on the inside, but also runs on the 2.0 version of the X Platform, a forked variant of Android that debuted with the original. It’s basically a heavily skinned OS based on AOSP, without Google Play services, and now it looks more like Windows Phone than ever. This is thanks to the 2.0 update’s visual improvements including a new quick settings menu, an app list and a multitasking switcher that has taken advantage of the new hardware home button freeing up functions for the back button. This new hardware level change has rendered the older range Nokia X, X+ and XL devices incapable of this upgrade, says Nokia in its latest blog.

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BlackBerry Z3 launched in India for Rs. 15990

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BlackBerry has launched the BlackBerry Z3, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Z series, as we reported last week. It was announced earlier this year at the MWC and is one of the first BlackBerry smartphones made by Foxconn. It packs a 5-inch qHD screen, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and 1.5GB RAM. It runs on the latest BlackBerry 10 OS, comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.1-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “BlackBerry Z3 launched in India for Rs. 15990”

SDKs for Imaging and SensorCore for Lumia released

Nokia has released Imaging and SensorCore software development kits (SDK )for Nokia Lumia handsets. The company had announced the release of beta version of Nokia Imaging SDK 1.2 in April at Build 2014. Today, it is announcing the official release of the SDK whic is ready for the converged Windows platform. Imaging-SDK nokia Continue reading “SDKs for Imaging and SensorCore for Lumia released”