Archive
Phones
Phone news, India prices, comparisons, software updates and buying advice across Android and iPhone.
-
Amazon Announces Its First Smartphone, The Fire Phone
Its been ages since we have been exposed to leaks of Amazon’s plans to launch a 3D Smartphone. Well finally, Amazon unveiled the phone and it is similar to most of the flagship Android devices and added up software features that have not been seen before. The Amazon Firephone has a 4.7″ IPS LCD HD…
-
Windows Powered Smartphone Launched by Micromax
Little over a week, Xolo launched its first windows mobile based smartphone. Micromax has now followed suite and has launched two devices priced under 10,000 INR. Microsoft made the announcement on the launch of two devices powered by its Windows Phone 8.1 OS. The reason for such cheap priced Windows Phone is because Microsoft removed…
-
Android 4.4.3 To Roll Out For Moto Devices Today
Android 4.4.3 just got released by Google and the Nexus range started receiving updates along with the Google Play editions. It was naturally expected that Motorola would be quick into the act of updating but, once again Motorola surprised everyone by starting to roll out the update the very next day of the new version being…
-
Motorola Acknowledges Mobile Network Connectivity Problem On Moto G
Motorola took to the social media to acknowledge the mobile network connectivity problem among the recently sold Moto G units in India. Motorola posted that it was related to IMEI numbers that are not yet registered with carriers. They tendered an apology to everyone facing the issue and promised to fix it as soon as possible.…
-
Surprise! Moto E Wins Over Samsung Galaxy S5 In Speed
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is undoubtedly a great smartphone, at least on the specification sheets. It’s probably the “most powerful” android phone right now in the market. A unlocked Galaxy S5 would cost about $700, on the other hand comes Moto E – an entry level cheap android smartphone. Moto E is making some competition for…
-
Samsung Confirms There Wouldn’t Be KitKat 4.4 Update For Galaxy S3
Folks over at XDA posted an internal document of Samsung which said the KitKat update for Galaxy S3 has been cancelled for now. The reason is pretty absurd, Samsung’s developers couldn’t get to fix Samsung’s very own custom layer “TouchWiz” (Bloatware) over stock Android. While it’s no secret that there aren’t many users who actually take advantage of…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Ultimate Battery Saving Tips For Android/iOS/Windows Phone
Smartphones are really beyond “smart” these days, from days of phones with 150MB RAM to phones powered by gigabyte of RAM with killer GPU and CPU processing power, there has been a lot of improvement. But, there has been next to none major breakthroughs in the field of batteries. The chemistry behind the battery is…
-
Enable Cortana in Windows Phone 8.1 Outside US
If you are outside of the US you probably don’t have Cortana after you updated to Windows 8.1. The majority of the Windows Phone features work worldwide but Cortana is restricted to US Windows Phone’s because most of the features are restricted to the US environment. Well there is always a workaround, This simple trick…
-
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…
-
Motorola Moto X is finally available in India through Flipkart
Moto X is finally available in India through flipkart after the tremendous sales for the company with the Moto G which was sold out in hours after it was available. Moto X was the phone everyone was waiting for ever since it was announced in August 2013 and was only available in US. Flipkart revelead…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
