Lenovo and Yahoo have something in common – both of them won’t stop until they have bought out everything and everybody. The difference between them though is that Lenovo has went after big names like IBM ThinkPads, IBM Servers and Motorola while Yahoo is buying early stage startups.
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Pocket, formerly known as “Read it Later”, is one of very common apps that I use to save articles from the web or anywhere. I have been an early adopter and have used the service right from the start and just love it. It basically allows you to save anything that you might want to read later. You can access your saved articles on the web, on various smartphones, tablets and across desktop platforms.
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Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy S5 at the Samsung UNPACKED event during MWC 2014 earlier this year. On February 24th, at the product launch function, Samsung said that the device will be available globally from April 11, 2014. With three weeks to go for the release date, Samsung has decided to give the people a demo of the Samsung Galaxy S5.
Facebook continues to push its mobile first approach and is currently testing a new feature on the Android version. Facebook now wants to be always on with a persistent notification bar that displays your display picture and provides direct access to your newsfeed, friend requests, messages and notifications.
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Micromax has taken the approach of making its products talk rather than holding events and the Micromax Canvas Knight is one such device. The choice of Knight as a name does justice mainly because of its supreme build quality and appearance. Until now, the build quality used to be of concern to buyers, but with Canvas Knight, that wouldn’t be a problem. Micromax almost took care of everything in Knight – ranging from choice of design, build, display and camera.
OnePlus is a new company from China with executives from Oppo and they claim to be working on the “perfect” smartphone. Instead of revealing the smartphone first, OnePlus has been slowly, but steadily building hype around their product – OnePlus One. OnePlus One is supposed to be the perfect smartphone that they are building and they have tied up with CyanogenMod Inc to provide the OS for them.
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Last week, Asus dropped its dual boot tablet – Transformer Duet owing to pressure from Google and Microsoft. It looks like that was just a sign of things to come. Today, Huawei, a Chinese manufacturer has announced that it is dropping its plans to build a Android and Windows Phone smartphone.
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HTC has not yet launched its flagship device of this year, but we know it is just a week away before it launches the all new HTC One. In the meantime, HTC is also preparing a midrange Desire series smartphone. HTC had introduced the Desire 816 at MWC 2014 earlier this year and now plans to unveil the Desire 516.
Manufacturers are rolling out the latest Android version for their flagship and LG joins them. LG has started rolling out the Android 4.4 KitKat update for its current flagship device – LG G2. The International variant of LG G2 has started getting the update and it will eventually start rolling out to other regions.
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Oppo is holding an event today in China where they announced their latest flagship device – Oppo Find 7 and its slightly trimmed down counterpart – Oppo Find 7a. Oppo Find 7a comes with a 5.5inch Full HD display sporting a pixel density of 403ppi and has most other features similar to the Oppo Find 7 which comes with a 5.5inch Quad HD display sporting a pixel density of 538ppi.
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Streaming devices are becoming a thing as Roku’s streaming stick and Google’s Chromecast have seen considerable success. It looks like Amazon could enter the streaming market with a dongle just like the aforementioned units. Amazon is rumored to be shipping this video streaming capable unit through its online stores as well as through retail outlets like BestBuy and Staples.
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Samsung announced the successor of their original Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the MWC 2014 earlier this year – Gear 2. Samsung ditched Andriod for Tizen as a platform for their smartwatch and introduced two variants – Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Samsung has made available the Tizen SDK for Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo for developers and they can access it from https://developer.tizen.org/.
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Motorola Moto X is a phone that has been hard to find outside the States, but things are changing soon. Motorola launched the budget range Moto G in India last month exclusively via Flipkart and it went on to become its most sold smartphone ever. After the hugely successful Moto G launch, Flipkart teased that they were the exclusively bringing in another Motorola device – Motorola Moto X. After a week of teasing, Flipkart has finally announced via their Twitter account that the Motorola Moto X would go on sale on March 19 and will be available for Rs. 23,999.
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Apple took the road not taken by introducing two new iPhones in late 2013 when it announced the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Both the phones were quite different as iPhone 5s came with brand new specifications, a fingerprint scanner and a dual tone flash while the iPhone 5c was just the iPhone 5 in a brand new plastic casing. Word in the tech industry was that the “c” in iPhone 5c stood for cheap, but it actually stood for colors.
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Last week, Rovio teased that they were introducing an Angry Birds themed RPG game and that it would be called Angry Birds Epic. Today, the game has gone live in App stores of countries like New Zealand, Australia and Canada. This is just a soft release and when the game is ready, it will be available for everybody across Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Microsoft Windows Store.
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