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Motorola’s Next Device Coming On May 13th, To be “Priced For All”
Irrespective of the ongoing ownership changes, Motorola has not failed to keep the momentum, with the Moto 360 announcement a few week back. Motorola have been quite impressive within their price ranges for Moto X and Moto G. Naturally, everyone is looking forward for Motorola’s next offering in the lower price segment. Motorola issued the…
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Popular Chinese Manufacturer Xiaomi All Set To Enter India
Almost every Android enthusiast would have already heard of Xiaomi, or at least their MIUI OS built based on Android Open Source Project(AOSP), which is 2nd only to CyanogenMod in user base. Indian users have always been in the top 5 of MIUI ROM users since the days it was made widely available. The craze for chinese…
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OnePlus One – The Killer Flagship Smartphone
What is your idea of an ideal smart phone? State-of-the-art specs, forever lasting battery, great build quality, latest software yet at a throw away price. The Nexus series has done a great job with the aforementioned needs but every model had a drawback or two. Like the lack of OTG support on Nexus 4, poor camera…
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Google’s Project Ara Will Debut January 2015
Google revealed that the first generation Project Ara device will be launched in January 2015. Project Ara was first started out by Motorola along with Dave from Phonebloks project, Google retained the ownership of Project Ara when it sold Motorola to Lenovo. With the modular phone, Google wants to take Android even further and from coming…
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Vic Gundotra Resigns From Google
Vic Gundotra the man who built the now famous Google+ social network from nothing has announced his resignation from Google after 8 long years. Vic was the man who built Google+ from nothing after Google’s previous failed social networks. Vic joined Google eight years ago after working with Microsoft for 15 years. He started the…
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Take Selfies On Your Android With A Whistle Using Whistle Camera
Gone are the days when you had to hand over your device to someone to click a pic of you. Front facing cameras are now considered as a “basic” feature in any smartphone (except for Nokia X), this has lead to an another new fad, welcome to the world of selfies! Personally, clicking selfies has…
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Protect Your Privacy With Lockdown Pro For Android
We all have those annoying friends who love to poke their nose into our personal data including images & videos. It would be too harsh to lock things down and then handover the phone but we still need our privacy. Lockdown Pro offers to solve the above problem, it is available for free and doesn’t…
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Excessive Whatsapp Use Leads To “Whatsappitis” Claim Doctors
Heard of Blackberry Thumb? Nintenditis ? Well, here is “Whatsappitis”. As described by a Spanish doctor, the patient presented with bilateral wrist pain with sudden onset upon waking up one morning. She had no history of trauma and had not engaged in any excessive physical activity in the previous days. The diagnosis was bilateral extensor pollicis longus…
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The All New HTC One (M8) Is Here!
HTC finally unwrapped the all new HTC one (M8) after quite a few leaks all over the web. Just the previous flagship phone, The all new HTC One (M8) is a beast underhood yet looks real smart. There has been no compromise on the build quality as observed in the renders. It packs a 5-inch, 1080…
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What’s new in Windows 8.1 Update ?
Windows 8 has undoubtedly been a milestone in terms of change but not success. Microsoft has been patiently listening to the community and fixing everything possible to please its customers. The windows 8.1 update did manage to please few but much more was expected from the redmond based company. It has been no surprise that Windows…
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Developer Gears Up To Take On MediaTek For GPL Violations
Android runs on the Linux kernel which is open source and is also protected by the GNU General Public License, version 2. Technically, it implies that any chipset vendor / OEM who makes use of android falls under these laws and has no choice but to comply with them and release the source code to…
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Microsoft Goes Desperate; Waives Off Licensing Fee Of Windows Mobile For Indian OEM’s
Microsoft’s windows mobile OS has definitely failed to make any impact globally. It has literally crumbled to the volume of phones running either iOS or Android. Especially in India, It has been miserable and failed to pierce the market. Microsoft has undoubtedly been trying to lure various OEM’s to produce windows phones but talks with Indian OEM’s who…
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Nokia X Launched In India For Rs.8599
Nokia’s highly anticipated and first ever phone running Android, The Nokia X, who which was unveiled by Nokia on February 24, during the MWC at Barcelona has finally been put on sale in India. Nokia X is priced at Rs.8599 INR, the smartphone will be available via online retailers like Flipkart and Amazon but it’s…
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Nokia does the unexpected, shows love to Developers
Nokia has taken to twitter to show their support towards the developers community. Honestly, we never expected this. Nokia showed off its first 3 phones running core Android last week at Mobile World Congress but made sure not a single sign of Google was left on it. Every essential Google service was replaced with either Nokia…
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Download Latest Whatsapp For Android To Hide “Last Seen at” Timestamp
It’s been quite some time since leaked screenshots started appearing confirming the entry of the iOS exclusive privacy features of Whatsapp into the android counterpart. The latest version of whatsapp now is v2.11.169 but it has not yet been rolled out to end users via the play store yet for various reasons (Testing in Progress). The…