Micromax, at the time of MWC 2015 trade show in Barcelona, has launched a new handset in India, the Canvas Fire 4. The smartphone is priced at Rs. 6,999 and is available both on e-commerce websites and physical retail stores starting Monday. The handset is not yet listed on the company website. The Micromax Canvas Fire 4 runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop and features a 4.5-inch FWVGA (480×854 pixels) resolution display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The handset is powered by an unspecified 1.3GHz quad-core processor, coupled with 1GB of RAM. The smartphone also houses an 8-megapixel rear and…
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Sony has been very proud of the fact that its flagship Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact phones are highly dust- and water-resistant. This has been one of things that set Sony apart from its competition. Of course, it didn’t hurt that those phones were also beautifully designed and constructed. Now, Sony has launched a mainstream model with both the design and the weatherproofing of the Z3 siblings. The Sony Xperia M4 Aqua is a good-looking phone, no doubt because its styling is practically identical to that of the Z3 models. However, it’s immediately apparent that this phone is made…
Samsung unveiled its latest and greatest flagship devices, the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge, at its Unpacked event in Barcelona on Sunday. Despite multiple leaks already giving away most details of both devices, especially the design, Samsung had a few tricks up its sleeve in the form of new additions and some interesting new cutbacks. We managed to play around with both the smartphones at Samsung’s booth at MWC in Barcelona and have our first impressions of the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge. Design From the looks of it, Samsung seems to be listening to its…
Lenovo seems to be on a budget smartphone launching spree without giving us time to breath. It’s not even been two whole months since Lenovo introduced the budget A6000 with LTE at CES 2015, that the Chinese smartphone giant has already announced its next budget smartphone A7000 at the ongoing MWC 2015. The A7000 is geared towards an audience that consumes a lot of multimedia content; the phone has a big 5.5-inch screen and Dolby Atmos technology built-in. Design The Lenovo A7000 looks exactly like its predecessor the A6000 in that it has the same utilitarian candybar design that doesn’t…
It hasn’t been very long since Microsoft took over Nokia’s smartphone division, but the software giant hasn’t been standing still. Two of the latest devices to launch are the Microsoft Lumia 640 and Microsoft Lumia 640 XL. Four versions of each will be produced – single-SIM 3G, single-SIM LTE, dual-SIM 3G and dual-SIM LTE – but availability will depend on regions and carriers. We were able to spend a little time with the Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL at Microsoft’s booth at the ongoing Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. Surprisingly, there are cosmetic differences between the two in…
Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 Edge has received some rave reviews from MWC 2015 attendees and now, the company buoyed with the response, has gone on to hint that the next Galaxy Note might also sport dual edge display. Samsung’s Roh Tae-moon, Executive Vice President of product strategy team, while talking to Korea Herald has spilled the news about a Galaxy Note variant possibly featuring dual edge displays. At the sidelines of MWC 2015, Tae-moon said, “There is a possibility that Samsung will introduce the curved display for the Galaxy Note line-up.” We expect that the Samsung executive was referring to…
Silent Circle, at the ongoing MWC 2015, has launched the second version of its Blackphone handset, the Blackphone 2, with updated specifications. Silent Circle also announced a tablet named Blackphone+, which will be arriving later this year. For now, there is no price or specification details available for the tablet. The new privacy-oriented Blackphone 2 comes with an updated version of the firm’s PrivatOS Android-based OS, which now bears the version number 1.1. The handset features a 5.5-inch full-HD display protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and is powered by an unspecified 64-bit octa-core processor coupled with 3GB of RAM.…
A Chinese company that has always stretched the boundaries of how thin a smartphone can be, Gionee showed off its first big ‘thin’ smartphone of 2015 – Gionee Elife S7 – at the MWC 2015 in Barcelona. Unlike its earlier phones that were as thin as their monikers suggested – the Gionee Elife S5.5 and Gionee Elife S5.1 – the Elife S7 does not have a thickness of 7mm. In fact, the phone is 5.5mm thin and makes use of premium materials in its build. The Elife S7 may no longer be the slimmest smartphone anymore around but it is…
OnePlus Co-Founder Carl Pei has revealed that his company is gearing up to enter a new product category next month. Additionally, more details about the OnePlus 2 smartphone have emerged. Pei while talking at the sidelines of MWC 2015 added that the new product is neither a smartwatch nor a tablet leaving everyone to guess the next OnePlus product. Interestingly, Pei’s announcement of a new product category ties-in with what he told in December. At the Indian launch of the OnePlus One, Pei told, “For our first year, we’ve focused on just one product, the OnePlus One. Next year, we’re…
Motorola India has started sending invites for an event scheduled for March 10, where the company will unveil the new Moto E (seen in the invite above) for the Indian market. The company is set to launch the second-generation Moto E smartphone alongside the LTE variant of the handset. Soon after officially announcing the Motorola Moto E (Gen 2) last week, the company also tipped the price of the 3G variant of the handset to be Rs. 6,999 in a video – the same price as the original Moto E price at launch last year. However, we will have to…
Asus has launched two tablets in India, the Fonepad 7 (FE171CG) – which was officially listed in January – and the MeMO Pad 8 (ME581CL) – which was announced during Computex 2014. The Asus Fonepad 7 (FE171CG) is priced at Rs. 10,999 and the Asus MeMO Pad 8 (ME581CL) is priced at Rs. 19,999. Both tablets will be exclusively available from Flipkart. Commenting on the launch, Peter Chang, Regional Head, South Asia & Country Manager System Business Group, ASUS India said, “These products are set to appease the present day computing needs of the masses. They are very handy and…
In a recent update, Google is starting an initiative in India to optimize its search results on mobile devices. This optimization will bring faster Google search on mobiles even on slower internet connection (2G or 1x). Google is serious about this, that’s mainly because Mountainview based company’s majority of revenues come from online advertisements. But now Facebook is becoming a strong competitor to Google, thanks to Facebook’s popularity on social turf. Facebook’s social ads & promoted content is soon becoming a strong revenue source. In the last few years mobile operators have tied up with different websites to offer their…