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Freedom 251 Website Crashes on the Launch Day
The much awaited Made in India smartphone with a price tag of Freedom 251 did not live up to expectation. The company’s website crashed on the day of the launch. With people coming in at 6am IST, the website server could not take the bandwidth and crashed, leaving a bad taste to everyone who got up specially…
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Smart Trucks On Roads – Technology Best Utilized
The rising cost of fuel globally is a matter of concern in automobile industry. The problem is more grave for truckers who need to haul huge loads to far away places over rugged terrains and in inclement weather conditions. If that be the case, there is a need to identify ways and means of achieving…
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Samsung unveils next gen Samsung Galaxy Note 5
The Korean smartphone manufacturer today launched a new smartphone under its ‘ Galaxy Note’ series – the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. With the features showcased at the launch event, the new Note looks like one beast of a device. The most killer update I feel is the external typepad ~ bringing back the BlackBerry and…
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July – The month of Smartphones
Five BIG smartphone manufactures launched/announced their flagship devices in July 2015 in India – OnePlus, Motorola, Micromax and Xiaomi OnePlus – The Chinese smartphones manufactures launched their much awaited #OnePlus 2 with a VR launch. This was first of its kind, where they offered their fans to watch the Product Launch with OnePlus VR Cardboard, a…
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In India, Tablet sales to surpass Desktop PCs this year
In a report by industry body MAIT and market research firm IMRB, the tablet sales in India is set to win the race against desktop PC’s, the backbone of India’s IT revolution. We believe this can be due to the change in lifestyle and the necessity of portable devices. The desktop PCs had witnessed a…
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Tablet Market on a downfall?
As per the latest report by BI Intelligence, the tablet shipment seems to have gone down last quarter and has reported a loss. Experts last year mentioned Year 2014 as ‘The Year of Tablets’, which certainly does not hold true looking at the shipment reports. The major cause of the downfall could be due to the fact that the tablets…
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10 Best Tablets of 2013 – iPad Air, Google Nexus, iPad Mini, Kindle Fire HDX and more!
Here is the list of 10 best tablets of 2013. Refer this if you are planning to buy/gift a tablet. No.1: iPad Air The iPad Air is the 5th and newest edition of Apple’s 9.7 inch tablet. The tablet comes with only two major updates from its predecessor – weight and processor. These two virtues…
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Acer quietly launches 8-inch Iconia W4 Windows 8 Tablet
Acer launches Iconia W4 Tablet sequel originally introduced in October 2013 The leading tablet manufacturer Acer has quietly launched the sequel of Iconia W4 tablet which was unveiled back in October. There have been rumors for a late January launch, but the company has launched the 64GB version on Amazon. The other version with less…
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Tesco enters Britain’s tablet market with “Hudl”, 7-inch, low-priced android tablet
In a hope to drive the sales of digital content and power online shopping experience, world’s 3rd biggest retailer Tesco will be entering Britain’s highly competitive tablet market with “Hudl”, Google android Jelly Bean powered 7-inch tablet. The low-budget tablet will have 16 gigabytes of storage and will be priced at GBP 119 (INR 12,000…
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Archos introduces 3G powered Xenon 80, 8-inch tablet with vanilla flavour Jelly Bean
The French consumer electronics company Archos is introducing an 8-inch Android tablet, the Xenon 80. The main USP of the tablet is the 3G capabilities and is SIM unlocked. The technical specs of the Xenon 80 is at par with some of the leading tablets in the market. Specifications: Vanilla flavor of Google’s Jelly Bean,…
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