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Call of Duty: Ghosts companion app released for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 devices

Call of Duty: Ghosts companion app

Activision released the Call of Duty: Ghosts game for Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360 yesterday, along with the game the company has also released a companion app for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 devices. The app provides provides several personalized features during and beyond your play sessions including, Call of Duty Clan Wars, Better Multiplayer with Second Screen Functionality, up to date Call of Duty news, events, options check your career stats and more. Continue reading “Call of Duty: Ghosts companion app released for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 devices”

Marvel’s Avengers Initiative game now available for Windows Phone 8

Avengers Initiative

Marvel Entertainment has released the Avengers initiative game for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 users finally. The game was launched for iOS devices back in September 2012 and for Android in November last year. This gesture based action game lets you play as either Captain America or the Hulk to round up a super-powered villains like Wendigo, Abomination, The Kronan, and The Skrulls who have escaped from The Vault. Even though the Windows Phone 8 game is just 763MB to download, it requires more than 1.6GB of storage space to install. Continue reading “Marvel’s Avengers Initiative game now available for Windows Phone 8”

Asphalt 8 Airborne is now permanently free for iOS and Android

Asphalt 8 Airborne, Gameloft’s premier racing franchise has now gone completely free on the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store. Following the freemium model of delivering free games and adding revenue through in-app purchases, Asphalt 8: Airborne will now be more accessible and even more affordable. The game initially went free for a small period over the weekend to push the adoption up a little bit, but in a decisive move, the game is now completely free. Packed with rich graphics and super fast gameplay, it’s easily one of those games that makes you addicted to your phone’s screen, as if you weren’t already.

Asphalt 8 Airborne for iOS

Asphalt 8 Airborne for Android

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Intex Aqua i7 Camera Samples

The Aqua i7 is Intex’s latest flagship phone and it packs as many features as you’d demand from a packed-to-the-brim mid range phone. The specs race in the Indian market is well known, and for about two years, countless manufacturers have released MediaTek based phones to compete in the lucrative and affordable mid range segment. The recent breed of phones now sport a quad core processor with a full HD screen and a 13 megapixel camera. The presence of a 13 megapixel camera in the mid range was unknown until this year, when virtually every Indian manufacturer’s flagship phones has it, and the Intex Aqua i7 is no exception. It has a 13 megapixel camera and a single LED flash, hoping to let you take some decent photos with this phone. Well, does it? Lets find out from the camera samples below.

Check out our unboxing and photo gallery of the Aqua i7.

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Nokia Lumia 525 Press Image and Specifications leak, sports 1 GB of RAM reportedly

The press image and specifications of the upcoming Nokia Lumia 525 have leaked out, shedding more light on what it might look like and what it might pack inside. Firstly, the press image comes via @evleaks with no additional information while the other leak, from the Chinese network Baidu reveals a lot more than we already know about this rumoured device. Supposedly the successor to the extremely popular Lumia 520, the device looks to sport a slimmer and curvier body from the looks of the leaked image above, and in accordance to the tag of being a successor it also reportedly comes with a 1 GHz Snapdragon 400 processor with 1 GB of RAM among other things.

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FAA approves use of phones or tablets through the entire period of flight in the US, should FIA follow suit?

The myth that using personal devices, like a mobile phone or tablet, during take off or landing affect the radios of the plane, have been widely disproved but the practice of not letting consumers use their devices in that specified time is still being strictly followed, just as a precautionary measure. But, it looks like it will be a thing of the past, as the Federal Aviation Administration in the US has expeditiously approved the use of personal devices throughout the entire period of flight with minimal restrictions so as to provide the passenger with freedom of uninterrupted productivity.

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ZTE Grand S Flex with 5-inch HD display launched in Europe

ZTE Grand S Flex

ZTE introduced the Grand S Flex few months back for the Chinese market, now the company has launched the phone in the European markets, including Germany, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Spain. It has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8930 processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It has 8-megapixel auto focus camera with LED Flash and a 1-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “ZTE Grand S Flex with 5-inch HD display launched in Europe”

Micromax Canvas Turbo Photo Gallery

Micromax announced their latest flagship – Micromax Canvas Turbo without any launch event which was kind of a surprise to everyone. As expected, Micromax launched the Canvas Turbo with a Full HD display and a better quad-core processor. Micromax are sort of late to the 5inch Full HD category as Gionee Elife E6 was already launched and recently Intex Aqua i7 made its presence known(with a bunch of TV ads). Another Indian manufacturer Zen launched their Full HD smartphone – Zen 701 Ultrafone Full HD.

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Puma launches range of Over-Ear and In-Ear headphones in India starting from Rs. 1599

Puma Vortice and Pro Performance Sport

Puma has launched range of headphones including the Vortice Over-Ear headphones and range of In-ear headphones including the Pro Performance Sport, El Diego, Bulldog, Aero and Bread-N-Butter. All these headphones come with a built-in microphone for hands-free conversations. These also come in range of vibrant colors. Continue reading “Puma launches range of Over-Ear and In-Ear headphones in India starting from Rs. 1599”

Google Nexus 10 coming soon to India ? Gets priced at Rs.29999

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Looks like Google is bringing one more Nexus device soon to India but in this case a slightly old tablet the Nexus 10. The Nexus 10 was announced last year along with the Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 and went on sale in November 2012. Almost a year later there is an indication of this Android tablet coming to India on the Google Play Store when there are in fact rumors about the Nexus 10 version 2. The pricing is mentioned as Rs.29999 and the same tablet is sold in USA for $399 before taxes which is roughly about Rs.27000 approximately which is a tad high for a WiFi only Android tablet. The Nexus 10 is actually made by Samsung and has some interesting specs.

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Intex Aqua i7 Photo Gallery

Intex Aqua i7 was announced way back in September, but the product has been available in the market only recently. Intex Aqua i7 is the company’s first Full HD smartphone and joins the league of MediaTek powered Full HD smartphones which already includes Gionee Elife E6, Micromax Canvas Turbo and Zen Amaze Ultrafone 701 Full HD.

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Samsung was interested in acquiring Cyanogen Mod OS, says Report

If a report from a Chinese media publication is to be believed, Samsung was apparently interested in acquiring the Cyanogen Mod OS. The report/interview claims that these intentions eventually led to Steve Kondik, the CyanogenMod founder, to quit his day job as a software engineer at Samsung. It’s from a popular Chinese tabloid so it’s better we take this with a pinch of salt, but the news is not surprising at all. Samsung is the biggest player in Android and if recent developments like an exclusive dev event and the seemingly parallel services layer in the latest updates of Touchwiz are to be believed, their aspirations to have a separate OS, which is something like an Android fork, is not unfathomable.

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Nike+ Move app for the iPhone 5S released, uses the M7 co-processor to track your activities accurately

Nike Plus Move

Apple introduced the Nike+ Move at the September 10 iPhone 5S event, and Nike detailed the app along with the Nike+ FuelBand SE in October. The app was supposed to go live on November 6th, but it is already live. The app measures when, where and how you move and shows the NikeFuel based on your activities. You can later compare your movement with your friends or other Nike+ Move users around you.
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HTC reports Q3 2013 losses to the tune of $102 million

HTC today published its financial report for Q3 2013 and disclosed that losses were to the tune of $102 million. The company’s revenue was $1.6 billion which is down from last year’s $2.4 billion. Gross margins too were down at 20.4%. The biggest was to the operating margin which fell from +7% to -7.4% year on year. Continue reading “HTC reports Q3 2013 losses to the tune of $102 million”

mPassport Seva for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone offers Passport related information

mPassport Seva

The Ministry of External Affairs had launched the mPassport Seva mobile app on Android platform, as a pilot, on 21st March 2013, now it has released the app for iPhone and Windows Phone devices too. The app enables Indian Citizens to access passport-related information on their smartphones including status tracking, locating a Passport Office and other general information. It is executed in Public-Private-Partnership mode with Tata Consultancy Services. Continue reading “mPassport Seva for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone offers Passport related information”