Author: Monish Kumar

Monish is passionate about smartphones who is also interested in User Experience and Design. He is currently using Samsung Galaxy S3. You can follow him on Twitter and Google+

eyeSight and ARM join hands to bring better gesture support

ARM and eyeSight have gotten together to bring better gesture support for ARM Mali GPU based devices. As a result of the partnership between the two companies, eyeSight’s gesture technology will come incorporated into Mali T600 GPUs. The improved efficiency of gesture computation will help improve face and emotion detection, long distance finger tracking, and even 3D motion recognition (such as finger pointing for selection).

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Gionee Elife E6 Camera Samples

Gionee recently launched their flagship – Gionee Elife E6 in India for Rs. 22,999. Among the various features of Gionee Elife E6, some of the most notable ones include its 5inch Full HD display(pixel density of 441ppi), 1.5GHz MediaTek Quadcore MT6589T processor, 2GB RAM and 32GB internal storage. In terms of camera, it houses a 13MP auto focus camera with BSI sensor, LED flash on the rear side and a 5MP front-facing camera with 28mm wide angle lens.

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Gionee Elife E6 Photo Gallery

Gionee recently launched their flagship Elife E6 in India and we brought you the unboxing as soon as we got the device. Gionee Elife E6 is one of the first mid-range phablets to sport a Full-HD display. Like most phablets in the higher mid-range, the Gionee Elife E6 sports a 1.5GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589T processor, has sufficient 2GB of RAM and comes with 32GB internal storage. You can check out the Gionee Elife E6 from various angles as we bring you the photo gallery right below.

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Xiaomi sells 100,000 Mi 3s in less than 90 seconds

Xiaomi, one of leading manufacturers of Android smartphones in China, have just announced that they have sold 100,000 Xiaomi Mi3 in less than 90 seconds of its launch. This news comes courtesy of Xiamoi Mobile’s Twitter account where they have mentioned that 100000 Mi3 devices have been sold in an exact time of 1 minute and 26 seconds. This clearly indicates a very high demand for the product.

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Gionee Elife E6 Unboxing

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Gionee launched the Gionee Elife E6 very recently in India for a price of Rs. 22, 999 and we brought you a hands-on of the device from China. Today, we have the review unit with us and we are bringing you the unboxing of the device. For those of you who are not familiar with the device, the Gionee Elife E6 comes with a 5inch Full HD 1080p display, 1.5GHz MediaTek Quad-core MT6589T processor, 2GB RAM, 13MP rear camera and 5MP front camera, 32GB internal storage and Android 4.2 JellyBean. You can check out our unboxing video right below.

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Harman launches new JBL headphones in India starting from Rs. 1499

Festive season is coming up in India and we have various manufacturer launch their products just in time for the festive season. Harman have just launched four new JBL headphones starting at a price point of Rs. 1499.

Among the four models of headphones that were announced today, two of them are on-ear type headphones and the other two are in-ear type headphones. The latest J-series of ear phones are guaranteed to deliver JBL quality sound in four new lightweight styles depending on your taste. The four models announced today include – J01A, J22A, J03A and J55A. The first two are the in-ear type headphones while the last two are the on-ear type model respectively.

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Firefox OS Update (1.1) brings new features, performance improvements and more

Hardly a monthly has passed since the first Firefox OS hit the market and we are already seeing an update being rolled out to those phones. The Firefox OS has been updated to version 1.1 bringing along a plethora of features and significant performance improvements. According to Firefox, a number of improvements have been made under the hood.

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Amkette Free Spirit and Slix headphones launched in India

Amkette Slix

Amkette just announced the launch of a couple of  headphones in India. The newly launched headphones include the Amkette Free Spirit and Slix.

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iBall Andi 4a Projector Smartphone Unboxing

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Remember Samsung Galaxy Beam Projector Smartphone? If you don’t, no problem. Today we have iBall Andi 4a Projector smartphone that comes with a very unique feature of having a projector on it. Just like the other phones in the Andi series, the Andi 4a runs on Android and it features mid-range specifications. It has a 4.0-inch (480×800 pixels) display, powered by 1 GHz Dual-Core Cortex A9 Processor, runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and a 8MP rear camera. It has 35 lumens projector that allows users to project instantly up to 10 feet by 8 feet  in VGA (480 x 640 pixels) resolution. The projector has a contrast ratio of 1200:1. You can check out the unboxing video of the projector phone right below.

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Collectabilla launches Sachin Tendulkar signed smartphone cases

Collectabilla has launched new cases for smartphones that contain the photograph and digital signature of India’s cricketing maestro – Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.

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HTC headed for its first loss in history

HTC has not been having the best of days ever since the market took a turn from feature phones to touch-screen smartphones. HTC went with Android and Windows Phone(mostly Android) as its choice of platform for its devices and there were some good products like the HTC One. Despite good products, HTC has not been able to live up to reputation it once used to have and now, for the first time since 2002 when the Taiwanese company went public, HTC is looking at a loss in a quarter.

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Facebook Home update brings photo from Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest or Flickr feed to your lockscreen

Facebook announced its Facebook Home launcher for Android in April. Facebook is already the homepage on the desktops of most people and with Facebook Home, it is trying to stamp its authority even in the smartphone segment. Facebook Home was launched as a lock-screen replacement application and it brings posts from your Facebook feed right to the lock-screen of your Android smartphone.

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Nokia HERE maps for Windows Phone to come with incremental updates

After selling out to Microsoft, one of the businesses that was left to the Finnish company was Nokia HERE Maps. Nokia HERE maps is one of the popular navigation tools and its best feature is that it is available offline. Nokia was the first to introduce Vector maps for smartphones and have been innovating in the digital maps field ever since its inception. The latest piece of innovation is the introduction of incremental updates to HERE offline maps.

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HTC One X Android 4.2.2 update starts rolling out in India

HTC One X Android 4.2

HTC One X, HTC’s yesteryear flagship has been given the Android 4.2.2 Jellybean update and finally the update reaches India. Starting today, HTC One X users will be able to update their smartphone to a more recent version of Android – 4.2.2 Jellybean. Android 4.2.2 Jellybean update started rolling out for One X way back in August, but only now has it reached India. Continue reading “HTC One X Android 4.2.2 update starts rolling out in India”

Samsung’s ChatON messaging application now has 100 Million users

Samsung announced their cross-platform messaging application ChatON two years back during October 2011. Earlier this year, in May, Samsung announced that their ChatON application had an user base of 50 Million and just four months later, they are now announcing that the user base has doubled since May and now a total of 100 Million users use Samsung’s cross-platform messaging application – ChatON.

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