We all know about Amazon’s foray in the smartphone market as few details have already surfaced online. Last month images of the 4.7 inch phone with six cameras were leaked. This was followed by another report suggesting that the phone will have tilt based gesture control. Today BGR has revealed a new image of the Amazon smartphone that is ready for a June launch, according to WSJ report.
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Microsoft has released much needed updates to its note taking app OneNote for iPhone. The latest update enables users to create new notebooks and sections from an iPhone and share. Prior to this, users could only read the documents and not create them. Users can also add, delete and rename sections.
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Foursquare has changed a lot. The popular location based social network has gone through several ideological changes in the past and it is at a point where data points to utter confusion for the consumer, as well as for the company, as to what Foursquare actually is. It was initially really popular for its “Check in”s and then the company slowly added more social components to its app, like a discovery engine, a friend feed and more. At this point in time, there are just too many components to the app, and hence the New York based start up has decided to un-bundle some of its core features into a separate app, called Swarm.
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Samsung and Apple are still the leading tablet vendors by shipments in Q1 2014, according to preliminary data from research firm IDC (International Data Corporation). The worldwide tablet market grew just 3.9% year-over-year in Q1 2014, with shipments of 50.4 million units in the quarter, down 35.7% compared to last quarter. Yesterday IDC reported worldwide smartphone shipments that was down just 2.8% compared to the holiday quarter. Continue reading “Worldwide tablet market posts just 3.9% growth YoY in Q1 2014, down 35.7% QoQ”
Snapchat has finally added support for instant messaging for its Android and iPhone apps and also brings live video chat. Once you swipe to the right on a friend’s name in your Snapchat inbox, you can start chatting with them, send them photos and videos, just like any other messaging apps. Once you leave the chat screen, all the messages will be cleared for both. But either of you can always tap a message or a screenshot to save them. Continue reading “Snapchat gets Instant messaging and live video chats”
LINE Corporation is giving away over 1500 paid stickers worth Rs. 4000 to Indian users to celebrate 400 million registered users worldwide. It crossed 18 million registered users in India recently and offered free talk time worth Rs. 50 to all its users in India last month. Earlier this year LINE partnered with Groupon India to offer exclusive weekly deals for LINE users. Continue reading “LINE Messenger offers more than 1500 paid stickers free for Indian users”
Sony launched the Xperia E1 dual along with the Xperia E1 in India last month at a price tag of Rs. 10,490. It went on sale at Rs. 9,999 and got a price cut to Rs. 9,490 few weeks back. Now the phone has received another price cut and is available for as low as Rs. 8,054 in India online. The E1 dual has a 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Sony Xperia E1 dual gets a price cut, now available for Rs. 8054”
Bharti Airtel has launched 4G on mobile in three cities, Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula in India. The company launched 4G LTE service on mobile back in February starting from Bengaluru and also set up experience zones in the city to showcase the power of 4G on mobile in partnership with LG and Qualcomm. Continue reading “Airtel launches 4G on mobile in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula”
Few hours back Motorola announced that they would unveil the company’s next smartphone at an event in London. Motorola has just sent us an invite for the India launch event on the same day as the London event. Yesterday LG announced several simultaneous events on May 27th and 28th to unveil their upcoming flagship, the LG G3. Continue reading “Motorola schedules an event in India on May 13th to launch affordable smartphone”
Facebook updated Messenger app for iOS with some great features earlier this week. Now, the social network is bringing these features to Android. The latest update allows users to share photos, videos and other types of media content faster with others.
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At the f8 developer conference in San Francisco Facebook has introduced several new features for the web and mobile. In addition to App Links, an open-source, cross-platform solution for mobile deep linking and Anonymous Login for third-party apps without sharing your personal information, it also unveiled new features such as Mobile Like Button, Message Dialog and Send To Mobile at the conference. Continue reading “Facebook unveils Mobile Like Button, Message Dialog and more”
Google, which already takes care of your many day-to-day activities will now even help you remember where you have parked your car. The tech giant has updated its Search app on Android with Parking Location card that offers the ability to automatically detect where you have parked your car and help you find that spot later.
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Huawei Ascend P7, the successor of the Ascend P6 was expected to be unveiled at the MWC 2014 earlier this February when the live images of the phone leaked, but Huawei unveiled the Ascend P7 mini at the MWC ahead of Ascend P7. The company recently announced that it would unveil the Ascend P7 at an event Paris on May 7th. A week before the launch, @evleaks has posted some press shots of the smartphone. Continue reading “Huawei Ascend P7 press shots leaked ahead of official announcement on May 7th”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has introduced Anonymous Login for third-party apps at the F8 Developer Conference. With Anonymous Login, users can login to new apps without having to create a new account. The feature which is available on both web and mobile is specially for those users who are not comfortable to sign in by providing real information.
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Google has launched Docs and Sheets apps for Android and iOS. These standalone apps will enable users to edit, create, and view files both on and offline. In addition, the company said that its will soon launch Slides, an app for editing PowerPoint-style presentations.
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