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CyanogenMod Nightlies Available for OnePlus X

April 25, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

OnePlus X has got to be one of the most under-rated smartphones of the year 2015. The device packs a rather powerful punch when it comes to its internals and is one of the best-looking devices out there without a…

News

Microsoft Discontinues the Xbox 360 After 10 Years

April 21, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

It has been long in the game, quite literally, but Microsoft has decided that the time has come to call it quits on the Xbox 360. The much-loved console will no longer be manufactured by Microsoft as it looks to…

Android

Samsung Introduces the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge in ‘Pink Gold’ Variant

April 20, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

If you were a betting man and were to offer odds on Samsung bringing a rose colored device after the hype Apple created around it with its new iPhones, the odds would have denominator greater than the numerator, for sure. If…

Android

OnePlus Announces Buyback Program on Amazon

April 16, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Flipkart figured it out fast that in India, if you want to sell a new smartphone to a customer, then you will have to take the responsibility of helping him clear away his old phone easily. This is the reason,…

Android

Google Announces Live Cases for its Nexus Phones

April 15, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

In order to make your experience of using a Nexus phone, more personal Google has announced a new range of cases called, ‘Live Cases’ for your Nexus phones. Currently, these cases are available only in the United States via the…

Android

LG Announces Two Mid-Range Smartphones in India

April 14, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

LG has finally decided to bring the LG K7 and K10 to India. There is no word on the LG K3, the third device in the mid-range/ budget phones that LG showed off just before MWC 2016 kicked off. Despite…

Android

Micromax Announces the Canvas 6 and 6 Pro as it Announces New Brand Image

April 13, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Micromax has once again revamped its brand identity, by revealing a new logo alongside a slew of new launches. A total of 19 products are to be launched in an event in New Delhi, which includes smartphones, laptops, TVs and…

Apps

Official Reddit App is Available for Android and iOS

April 8, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

If you are a regular on Reddit, then you must have noticed that till recently, there was no proper one official app for the Social Networking site. There are several very interesting third party clients out there, the likes of…

Android

Samsung Galaxy S6 in India Receives Marshmallow Update

March 18, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge were the biggest updates in the design language since the very first Galaxy S device. Samsung went the route of glass and metal after being criticised for years on end for using…

Android

HTC Signs Deal to be the OEM of Nexus Phones for Three Years

March 9, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

HTC may not be scaling the heights that it once did, but just about everyone in the personal tech space seems to have a real soft spot for them. There are big hopes riding on the HTC 10, which is…

Windows Phone

Windows 10 Update to Lumia Phones Could Roll Out Next Week

March 5, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

It has been a long and excruciating wait if you use a Microsoft Lumia device to see the Windows 10 update. Dubbed as the most important update since the launch of the platform itself, there have been several delays in…

Android

More Than 16 Million People Registered for Xiaomi MI5 Sale in China

March 1, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

The Xiaomi Mi5 is expected to go on sale today, March 1st, 2016 in China. The latest flagship, from Xiaomi was announced at MWC 2016 and has been regarded by many as the best phone from the event. This is…

social media

Facebook Takes Facebook ‘Like’ to the Next Level and Adds Reactions

February 25, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Facebook has rolled out the much talked about and discussed Reactions globally. The feature basically replaces the iconic Like button and allows the users to more explicitly state their feelings on a story that has been shared on the Social…

News

Leaked Image of HTC One M10 Points to a Single Camera on the Back and a Chamfered Edged Body

February 24, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

HTC One M10 is a good month or so away from the launch. HTC, had no plans of being present at the ongoing MWC 2016 event in Barcelona but changed their mind at the last moment and announced a bunch…

Reviews

Review: Gionee S6- The Metal Rules

February 20, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Gionee is a fairly well-known name in China. When the brand launched in India, about good four years so ago, it was fighting with the likes of Micromax to shed away its ‘Made in China’ tag. However, the brand remained…

Android

Ringing Bells Announces the Freedom 251: The Most Affordable 3G Phone at Rs 251

February 17, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Call it the Akash Tablet of smartphones, but a Noida based smartphone manufacturer Ringing Bells Pvt Ltd has made owning smartphones cheaper than enjoying a large latte at Starbucks. Ringing Bells has announced the Freedom 251, an ultra-affordable 3G smartphone…

Hardware

Dislike Unorganized Chairs in Your Office? Nissan Has a Solution With Self Parking Chairs

February 16, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

If you have an OCD for cleanliness or just generally are a very organised person then having chairs scattered across a meeting room is your worst nightmare. Walk straight and you end up bumping into a dozen chairs before you…

Windows Phone

Microsoft Announces the Lumia 650 and 650 Dual SIM

February 15, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Microsoft has announced the Lumia 650 and 650 Dual SIM. The two devices have been rumored to be coming for a while and with Lumia 950 now pretty much on all the selling shelves, Microsoft has gone on and added…

Android

Initial Impressions: Gionee S6

February 12, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Metal is in. After HTC pretty much set the trend with the HTC One M7 back in the day, several manufacturers have tried to replicate the gorgeous Aluminium build on their devices. As a result, we have had some gorgeous…

News

Amazon India Revises the Return Policy on Mobile Phones

February 8, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

If you are planning to purchase a new mobile phone from the popular E-Com site, Amazon in India, you may want to be a little careful now. Amazon has decided to make a tweak in their refund policies, whereby if…

Apps

Google Hangouts Will Use Peer to Peer Connection To Improve Quality of Hangouts Calls

February 6, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

If you have been using Google’s Hangouts application, chances that you are frustrated by the poor audio quality of the connection are really high. Despite Hangouts coming on pretty much every Android phone, off late, not many people go ahead…

News

InFocus Bingo 21 With front facing Flash Announced For Rs 5499

February 5, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

InFocus has announced a new selfie focussed smartphone for the Indian market. The device is called the InFocus Bingo 21 and is clearly targetted at the youth segment of the country. It has been launched in three different accents alongside…

News

Gmail Crosses One Billion Users Mark

February 3, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

It was reported just a couple of days ago that Whatsapp has now crossed the coveted threshold of 1 billion active users and more a month. Not one to be left in the trail, Google has announced that its mail…

Android

Lenovo Announces the Vibe X3 in India: Yet Another Winner With X in the Name

January 27, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

It seems that the winning formula for having a successful product in mid range is to have an ‘X’ in the moniker. LG found out with the LG Nexus 5X, Lenovo did it with the Lenovo Vibe X2, and recently,…

Android

Nexus 6P Users in India Begin to Receive January Security Patch Update

January 8, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Google announced that every month it would be bringing security patch updates to its Nexus phones in order to ensure that the devices are kept safe from the latest and greatest threats. They have followed up and kept their promises…

Android

Huawei Announces the GX8; A Midrange Phone with Fingerprint Scanner

January 6, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Huawei has been in the limelight off late thanks to the blockbuster hit that the Nexus 6P has been. The smartphone has been perhaps the most highly appreciated Nexus device yet and has been selling fairly well too. And given…

Android

Android Marshmallow Users Can Turn Off Now on Tap And Easily Access Google Now

January 4, 2016 3 Arpit Verma

One of the superlative selling features of Android Marshmallow has been Now on Tap. What Now on Tap essentially does is that it takes the screengrab of what is on the screen of the user and uploads the information to…

Android

Instagram Brings 3D Touch Feature to Android Devices

January 2, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Forced Touch has been one of the stand-out features of the new Apple products, including the new Macbook, Apple Watch and iPhone 6s. Officially, named 3D Touch on the iPhone, the feature basically gives the users an additional input method…

Windows Phone

Is Microsoft Working on Developing a Surface Phone?

December 30, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

Microsoft is in a spot of bother and nothing really seems to be working out for them right now. The launch of the new Lumia 950 and 950XL did entice the Lumia loyalists but have largely failed to make any impact…

Android

Lenovo K4 Note Confirmed to Launch in India on January 5th, 2016

December 28, 2015 1 Arpit Verma

We have received the media invite for the launch of the Lenovo K4 Note in New Delhi in India. The event is scheduled to take place in New Delhi on January 5th, 2016. The K4 Note is one of the…

Android

Nexus 4 Users Can Enjoy Marshmallow Thanks to CyanogenMod

December 24, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

Nexus 4 users have the perfect gift for Christmas. There are some Marshmallows in there, thanks to the team from CyanogenMod. The Nexus 4 users felt a bit left out after the device fell out of the 18 month release…

Android

Gionee Announces the Marathon M5 Plus with 5020 mAh Battery and Fingerprint Scanner

December 22, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

They say, to have something, you must let go of a few things. This is a key decision for smartphone makers these days and looks like engineers at Gionee had a tough call to make. We have been using the…

Reviews

Review: Obi Worldphone SF1 — A little bit of Apple by my side!

December 15, 2015 3 Arpit Verma

What happens when a bunch of people related to Apple Inc. come together and make a smartphone? Well, a well-designed product definitely happens, and a lot of noise and marketing efforts happen. And that is precisely what has been happening with…

Android

Xiaomi Teaser hints at the Arrival of Mi5 with Bezel-less Display

December 7, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

After a succession of not too impressive device launches, Xiaomi knows that a lot is riding on its next smartphone. Post the Mi3, one could argue that, Xiaomi has failed to reach the high expectations that it set with the…

Android

Initial Impressions: The Obi SF1

November 30, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

If you are a tech enthusiast, then there is a very fat chance that you are aware of the legendary story of Apple Inc. The point that probably made Apple what Apple is today was when a certain individual fired…

Android

Vivo Set to Announce the Vivo X6 on November 30th with a Finger Print Scanner

November 21, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

After making waves in trying to build the slimmest phone in the world in the form of Vivo X5Max, Chinese giants Vivo have decided to shift the focus a little bit. Next on the agenda is what looks like a…

Wearables

Xiaomi Announces the Mi Band 1s as a successor to the original Mi Band

November 9, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

Xiaomi has announced the Mi Band 1S today. The wearable tracker is everything that the original Mi Band was and adds a few really nifty features. When Xiaomi jumped into the space of wearables, it was taking on the heavyweights…

News

Motorola Set to Bring the Motorola Moto X Force to India with Unbreakable Display

October 31, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

Motorola announced the Droid Turbo 2 in the United States a couple of days ago. The device is a successor to the Motorola Droid Turbo and comes with a Shatter Proof display, but this time takes a lot of cues…

Apple

Apple is Bringing the Apple Watch To India Starting November 6th

October 27, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

Apple is all set to bring the Apple Watch to India finally. It has been almost a year since we saw the Apple Watch come out and went on sale in the first quarter this year in parts of United…

Android

HTC One E9s Dual SIM Launched in India at Rs 20,497

October 2, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

HTC has announced the HTC One E9s in India. The device will be comfortably sitting in the mid range budget space, and although the M9 and M9+ were pretty flat as far as the sale goes, HTC has done well…