Just days after announcing the Redmi 2, which wasn't much of an upgrade from the Redmi 1S except the SoC, Xiaomi has updated some of its key specifications. This news has been confirmed by the company's CEO on Weibo. The Xiaomi Redmi 2 is a successor to the Redmi 1S, and was announced earlier this year. However, Xiaomi has decided to upgrade it with higher amounts of RAM and internal... Read More
Asus has announced a cut-down version of the Zenfone 4 (A450CG) today, the Asus Zenfone C (ZC451CG), which gets a lower resolution 5-megapixel camera. However, the Zenfone C gets a bump in the battery capacity, which now stands at a reasonable 2,100 mAh, and a single SIM card slot. All other specifications remain similar to that of the Zenfone 4 (A450CG) – a 4.5-inch FWVGA IPS LCD display, Android 4.4 KitKat,... Read More
Taking forward the government of India’s Make in India campaign, Spice Group, a leading mobile internet conglomerate today announced an investment of Rs 500 crores to set up a manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh. At the occasion, the company also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Uttar Pradesh for setting up the manufacturing unit in the state. The manufacturing unit will bolster the company’s strategy to... Read More
Canada-based wireless products and services developer, Datawind has allocated around Rs 150 crore to announce mobile phones supporting free basic Internet services for a year. These phones will cost Rs 3,000 per unit, according to the company. Interestingly, Datawind has given proof of its concept to the telecom operators in the country and only the final agreement is yet to be signed. It is likely that the final agreement will... Read More
It has been a while since we heard rumors that suggested that at the minimum one variant of the Samsung Galaxy S6 will sport an edge display, which will be somewhat identical to the Note Edge. In the latest scoop, we got to know that Samsung will allegedly provide dual edges around the display, along with the other improvements to sort the issues that users had with the Note Edge.... Read More
Facebook has launched a new app called Facebook Lite, which is basically a low-fi version of the main Facebook for Android app. The app is just a wrapper for the mobile web app and is just 262KB in size and is available in handful of developing countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe, however It's not clear if and when the app will be... Read More
When the OnePlus-Cyanogen fiasco happened, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer promised that it will roll out Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the One sometime in February 2015. Now, Cyanogen founder Steve Kondik has confirmed that OnePlus One will receive Android 5.0 Lollipop ROM next month, which will be based on CM12. However, OnePlus One users in India won't receive the CM12 based ROM, due to Cyanogen OS's exclusivity towards Micromax's Yu. OnePlus One... Read More
It is no more a secret that OnePlus is working on a successor to its highly popular OnePlus One. In a new report published by Forbes has provided more insight about the naming of the device and also the launch timeline. The report suggests that the successor will be known as the “OnePlus 2,” and the launch will not be anytime soon as it is suffering from a few delays.... Read More
Intel Security, will deliver its McAfee Mobile Security software pre-installed in the first Samsung smartphones running the Tizen open-source operating system. Tizen is an open and flexible operating system built from the ground up to address the needs of stakeholders of the mobile and connected device ecosystem, including device manufacturers, mobile operators, application developers and independent software vendors. The latest version of McAfee Mobile Security for Tizen devices enables consumers... Read More
Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi is experimenting in the Indian market with a retail model through which it could sell refurbished and unboxed smartphones in India. Xiaomi has roped in four to five players including both online and offline retail to pilot the model in India with limited units of its popular Redmi 1S smartphones. The first sale was initiated on Overcart on friday, which received an amazing response. These ‘unboxed’ devices... Read More
Do you want to type in your native Indian language from your Android smartphone? Well, Reverie Language Technologies has launched the Swalekh keyboard for Android, which supports 11 Indian languages; Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu. Besides these languages, it also supports English. While the app is available only in India as of now, the company plans to launch it in the international markets such as the Middle... Read More
Xiaomi has revealed that in the year 2014, it has applied for 2,318 patents, out of which 665 are outside of China. It's not clear on the number of patents the company has received out of the 2,318 patents it applied. The patents mean nothing if Xiaomi has most of them pending, and it's unclear the nature of patents that the Chinese brand has applied. The company's CEO, Lei Jun, during a... Read More
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