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ICICI Introduces Social Banking With Twitter And We Test It Out!

January 20, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Yesterday, ICICI Bank launched a facility which will enable its account holders to transfer funds easily via Twitter. So, we decided to test it to see if it’s really worth the hype. At the end of it, we were left…

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Gionee Launches Pioneer P6 : A Quad-Core Budget Smartphone

January 20, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Chinese smartphone companies are trying hard to make a mark in the Indian markets. Competing in the same race is Gionee. Gionee has been launching a lot of devices recently and also staunch on its ongoing marketing campaign. It has…

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Xiaomi Mi 4 To Arrive In India on 28th January

January 20, 2015 0 Pranav Prateek

After the huge response received by Xiaomi for its Mi3 and Redmi range of phones, the Chinese manufacturer is all set to launch the Mi4 in India. Hugo Barra, Head of International Operation for Xiaomi confirmed that the phone would…

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Are Sony’s SmartWatch 3 & SmartBand The New Talk Of The Town?

January 19, 2015 0 Ronak

We’ve seen a lot of smartphones being announced recently, be it at the CES or exclusive events. But, let’s talk about the wearable devices by Sony. Ever since their announcements at the IFA 2014, these devices have caught a lot of…

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Registrations Now Open For Yu Yureka, Second Flash Sale On 22nd January

January 17, 2015 0 Pranav Prateek

The Yu Yureka was recently in news for its first flash sale which was over in just 3 seconds. For those who couldn’t get their hands on the phone, the smartphone will go on sale again next week on January…

Launch

Oppo Adds R1C And Mirror 3 To Their Arsenal

January 17, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Oppo, the Chinese smartphone maker has come up with two impressive phones i.e the Oppo Mirror 3 & Oppo R1C for the low-mid & mid range segments. We all know that Chinese smartphone manufacturers have seen a fair share of…

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JungleeRummy Launches World Rummy Tournament With A Prize Pool Of INR 1 Crore

January 16, 2015 0 Pranav Prateek

JungleeRummy, a well known gaming company made an announcement today of one of the largest gaming tournaments they are organizing. The World Rummy Tournament by JungleeRummy comes with an assured prize money of Rs. 1 Crore for the winners. The…

Lenovo

Lenovo Launches A6000: The Cheapest 4G Phone In India

January 16, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Chinese smartphone manufacture Lenovo has unveiled their A6000 in India today. The device is the cheapest 4G phone in India priced at Rs. 6,999. It will sell exclusively on Flipkart and the registrations will open at 6pm today itself.The phone…

Launch

Xiaomi Launches Mi Note And Mi Note Pro In Homeland

January 16, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

The world’s third biggest smartphone maker Xiaomi, launched the Mi Note and Mi Note Pro yesterday (15th of January) at Beijing. On the launch event Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, gave out the technical specifications of the models. Lei Jun…

Micromax

Yu Yureka’s Flash Sale: Rigged or not?

January 16, 2015 0 Pranav Prateek

Flash sale seems to be the buzzword these days. With Flipkart gaining plenty of publicity and success with it, Amazon and Micromax set out to do just that with the Yu Yureka. Except, they screwed up, badly! The company closed…

Hardware

Snapdragon 810: Is it Revolutionary?

January 15, 2015 0 Ronak

Amidst of all the exciting gadgets announced at the CES this year, what caught our eye is the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor featuring in the LG’s latest ‘G Flex 2’. Qualcomm touts about the same by claiming it to…

Google

Google’s Project Ara: A Modular SmartPhone To Arrive In Puerto Rico

January 15, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

In the second developers conference of Project Ara held yesterday in California, Google put to rest all the speculations about the new MDK v0.2 and its features. Paul Eremenko, director of Project Ara, announced many details about the progress of…

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Ringo: An International Calling App That Works Without The Internet

January 14, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

Mobile phones have shrunk our world, we can be in touch with our loved ones regardless of the distance.  While being able to communicate with them is priceless, the mobile carriers sure have put a hefty price on it. That…

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G To Hit Airtel Stores On 16th January

January 14, 2015 0 Ronak

After the recent announcement, Airtel has now announced 16th January as an official date for the availability of Redmi Note 4G at the Airtel stores. Celebrating the Mi Day, as they previously promised on coming Friday, Airtel is all set to…

Google

Project Ara Comes Closer to Reality as Google Releases a New MDK 0.2 Developers Kit

January 14, 2015 0 Ronak

Every smartphone manufacturer is trying to equip their devices with as many innovative features as they can. Out of all these, Google’s Project Ara has been making remarkable developments with their revolutionary concept of a modular smartphone which they claim…

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Google’s Flight Search Now Available In India: Lets You Find Cheap Flights Easily

January 13, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Gone are the days when one needed to compare flight prices from 5 different websites to make a wise decision. Google announced its Google’s Flight Search, with which one can easily get the cheapest prices of flights from different sites available on…

India

Micromax’s Yu Yureka Puts 10,000 Units Up For SALE On Amazon India Tomorrow

January 12, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

The highly anticipated Yureka phone under the brand name of Yu, a subsidiary of Micromax is all set to go on its first sale tomorrow on Amazon India. 10,000 Yu Yureka units would be up for grabs at the sale tomorrow…

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Drones Fly High At CES 2015!

January 12, 2015 0 Ronak

While CES’15 is still fresh and buzzing with all the flashy gadgets trying to make their way out, it is impossible to not mention ‘Drones’. There was so much happening in the field of drones and many companies showcased their…

Google

Google’s Lowest Ever Search Share In US As Yahoo Emerges

January 9, 2015 0 Riya

According to reports published by StatCounter, Google dipped to a lowest ever score since 2008 for online search referrals while Merissa Mayer’s Yahoo turned up with its best performance till date. Google’s share dipped to 75.2 percent in December, 2014 from…

Android

The New Samsung Galaxy Grand Max – More Than A Selfie Centered Phone

January 9, 2015 0 Ronak

In South Korea, Samsung launched an addition to its Galaxy Grand series with the new Galaxy Grand Max and is now listed on the Samsung’s Korea store. The news follows after its launch of 4 new smartphones under the Galaxy…

Google

Google Now Keen About Modi’s Digital India Plan

January 8, 2015 0 Riya

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook had visited India last October to meet Sri Narendra Modi. The agenda for the meeting was how Facebook’s Internet.org could integrate with Modi’s Digital Plan and provide Internet to the rural areas. There are many obstacles to…

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Samsung Unveils The Galaxy A3, A5, E5 and E7 in India

January 6, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

In an event held in Mumbai today, Samsung launched four new phones. The phones are a part of the A and E series. Under the A series, they released the A3 and A5 and the E5 and E7 were launched in…

Android

HTC Launches Desire 320 At CES’15

January 6, 2015 0 Ronak

HTC has moved its focus to the Desire series of smartphones for its CES presence this year. A new born to the family, we are talking about the HTC Desire 320 which was announced yesterday (5th Jan). The Desire 320…

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Xiaomi Launches Redmi 2 With 4G LTE Support

January 5, 2015 0 Ronak

Here’s a New Year gift from Xiaomi. Xiaomi, yesterday announced their latest cellphone: The Redmi 2. It comes as the elder brother to the Redmi 1S. and will only be available in the Chinese markets. It is priced around CNY 699 (for…

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A Realistic List of Tech Expectation From 2015

January 5, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

It’s that time of the year when the grand predictions from ‘Gurus’ come out. After years of industry experts predicting the next big thing, here is what we think is a more realistic take at what would happen in 2015.…

TechFest

10 Mind-blowing Wall Art Pieces we saw at Techfest 2015, IIT Bombay

January 5, 2015 0 Kushang

It’s not just the best of gadgets we got to witness at IIT Bombay’s Techfest 2015. The festival is also a hub of all things art, science, technology and culture. Amidst of all these gadget exhibitions and lectures, we found some…

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IIT Bombay TechFest 2015 – Oculus Rift

January 2, 2015 1 Aditya Shenoy

IIT Bombay’s Techfest kicks off  a day after the New Year. This Techfest is the go-to place for geeks knowing the amount of tech stuff on display. One such Tech marvel on display was the Oculus Rift. For those who…

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Top Attractions at IIT TechFest 2015 — Day 1

January 2, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

IIT-B’s TechFest is one of the most anticipated tech festival in India every year. People from all over the country attend this event as participants or spectators. This year the festival is from 2nd January to 4th January. Our team…

Android

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G Now Available Through Airtel

January 2, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

Airtel has partnered with Xiaomi to release the Redmi Note with Airtel’s new 4G based data services across 6 cities in India. The phone will also be available in 133 Airtel stores in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta, Hyderabad, Banglore and Chennai.

Apps

Test Driving Wynk: Airtel’s Response To Gaana & Saavn

December 30, 2014 0 Riya

What strikes you first when I ask you to name your go-to music-listening app: Spotify? Er… Gaana? Saavn? Dhingana? With majority of smartphone users having a monthly internet data connection, the number of subscribers to music streaming apps is on the rise and…

Apps

Airtel’s Rift With NetNeutrality In India

December 30, 2014 0 Riya

Net Neutrality means keeping the Internet unbiased and open to all. No Telecom operators can command a authority to differentiate the data based on its website, its use, its time, its users etc. If a user buys an Internet package,…

Android

Xiaomi Sells 1 Million Phones In India, Worry For Bigger Brands?

December 26, 2014 0 Riya

Even though the company has recently had a lawsuit affecting smooth sales of its products in India, Xiaomi has announced that it has sold 1 million smartphones in India. That’s a big number in the fast growing India smartphone industry.…

Android

Turn Read Receipts Off On WhatsApp

December 26, 2014 0 Riya

In the start of November, WhatsApp had silently rolled out a ‘read’ feature which made WhatsApp the talk of the town. In this feature, the 2 ticks which you used to notify that a message has got delivered would turn blue if…

Apps

Vizcall: The App Which Tells You The Purpose Of A Call

December 24, 2014 0 Riya

If you look back there are tonnes of apps which we did not know about and now form a integral part of our mobile experience. Apps like WhatsApp, Truecaller, and tonnes of Google apps, to name some few. We have found out one…

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Asus ZenFone 4 (A450CG) Review

December 22, 2014 0 Aditya Shenoy

Taiwanese smartphone maker Asus has been in the Indian Smartphone market for a while now. The ZenFone series was first showcased at Consumer Electronics Show early this year and is now officially available on Flipkart. We got our hands on…

Apps

WhatsApp To Launch For Desktop: Buckles Up Among Competitors

December 15, 2014 0 Riya

There is no denying the fact that WhatsApp is the most dominant messenger among the other messaging apps when it comes to carrying out daily conversations. But what it lacked so far was a desktop client through which one need not…

Android

PriceBaba’s Android Consumption Report for India: Jelly Bean Rules with 52%

December 11, 2014 0 Riya

The smartphone market in India has changed drastically over the last few years. There are smartphones been launched every alternate days, the number of people adopting to new technology has constantly been on rise. And with affordable Indian and China-based…

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The Futuristic Bracelet ‘Cicret’ Projects Your Phone Screen On Arm

December 11, 2014 6 Riya

Samsung has increased the size of its smartphones considerably with its Galaxy series and has made us familiar to the term ‘phablet’. Apple, too who took pride over their smaller screen phones had to now cater to the changing choices…

Google

Saying Goodbye To CAPTCHA

December 5, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

CAPTCHA is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. It was a means to an end for preventing large-scale automated spam. CAPTCHA showed distorted text which a robot cannot decipher. These distorted texts…

Samsung

Samsung’s Stylish Bluetooth Headset “Gear Circle” for Rs. 5,599

December 4, 2014 0 Riya

What comes to your mind when we say a Bluetooth Headset? A black wearable device made of plastic struggling to adjust itself, uncomfortable earbuds or the pain which one needs to go through in setting up your headset with other devices…