Tag: Android
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Unboxing of OnePlus 6 – Know what’s inside the box!
Chinese mega smartphone manufacturer OnePlus launched it’s flagship device OnePlus 6 on 17th May 2018 in India. The launch event in Mumbai was attended by Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Aditi Rao Hydari. OnePlus 6 sale went live on 22nd May on Amazon and OnePlusStore.in websites. I was one of the lucky few one to…
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Like Snapchat, Facebook plans to roll out Facebook Stories
Learning lessons from Instagram stories, Facebook is now planning to roll out timeline-topping Facebook Stories app which will let users push our videos and images that will fade away after 24 hours. Facebook had launched Instagram stories in August 2016 after looking at the success of this format in Snapchat. Instagram stories had been widely…
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Xiaomi’s VP Hugo Barra will now lead Facebook’s VR efforts
The face of MI devices Hugo Barra has quit Xiaomi as Vice President to lead virtual reality efforts at Facebook. Barra served Xiaomi for 3.5 years where to took the Chinese company out to emerging markets like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and lastly to India. Hugo had tweeted on January 23, 2017 about his decision of…
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Day 1: Key Announcements from Google IO 2016
The first day of Google’s annual software-developer focused conference Google IO 2016 started with some major announcements – Android N, Android Insta Apps, Virtual Reality Headset & Motion Controller, Android Wear 2.0, Android Studio 2.2 and Firebase expansion. Android N: Improved performance in Graphcs & Runtime Android Insta Apps: Access mobile applications without downloading the…
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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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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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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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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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ASUS releases promo video of MeMO Pad 7
Asus unveiled the MeMo Pad 7 tablet last month, and since then there has not been more information on it. Recently, Ausus has released the first promotional video of the new tablet giving a glimpse if what this new tab will carry. The company has been pretty proactive in the announcement, but there has not…