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Viber has rolled out Public Chat feature in beta in India which is a social media platform for users to engage with celebrities, personalities and brands.
The company will allow users to discover, share and interact with conversations, communities and content on mobile devices.Conversations will include text, photos, audio, video, stickers, web links and more. Users can invite friends to follow the Public Chats that interest them, and can share content. Viber users can follow a large number Public chats of their interest on their mobile devices.
“The release of public chats on Viber allows people to interact in a new way, listening to live discussions and staying up-to-date with exclusive content from the people and interests that matter to them most. We are launching this with a great line-up of celebrities, personalities, brands, influencers all over India,”
said Anubhav Nayyar, country head-India, Viber.
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Globally, Viber has 311 such chat partners and 56 in India. These include a broad range of celebrities, brands and personalities including Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Sonu Nigam, Ayushmann Khurrana, Shaan and many more. There will be some world acclaimed sports celebrities too like Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Saina Nehwal. The most popular chats will ...
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BlackBerry is luring customers to buy its smartphone with a couple of attractive Black Friday deals. The company is launching a trade up program for iPhone users that want to convert to a BlackBerry Passport.
BlackBerry is offering iPhone owners up to $550 for their device in turn for a BlackBerry Passport purchase. Available on in the U.S. and Canada,the BlackBerry Passport Trade-Up Program starts on December 1 and ending February 13. iPhone users upgrading to a BlackBerry Passport will get up to $400 USD/CAD for their iPhone, plus an additional $150 USD ($200 CAD) in the form of a Visa Prepaid Card.
Blackberry is accepting every iPhone model since the 4s, but that model will only net you $90 in addition to the $150 card. In addition, the Black Friday deal also includes a low-cost offer for the BlackBerry Z30 which is available for just $225. The promotional value is based upon the condition and model of the Apple iPhone traded in. New BlackBerry Passports must be purchased on or from ShopBlackBerry.com or purchased from, shipped from and sold by Amazon.com after December 1, 2014 to qualify for the BlackBerry Passport Trade-Up program.
Customers can purchase a black BlackBerry Passport for $499 USD, Canadian customers can purchase ...
Three new Karbonn smartphones - Karbonn Titanium S6, Titanium S8, and Titanium S4 Plus are now available from online retailers Amazon, eBay and Flipkart. These Karbonn Titanium S6 has a 5-inch qHD screen, the Titanium S8 has a 5-inch FWVGA screen, and the Titanium S4 Plus has a 4-inch FWVGA screen. All these smartphones are powered by 1.3GHz quad-core processors, have 1GB RAM, run on Android 4.4 (KitKat), has 3G and dual SIM support.
The Karbonn Titanium S6 and Titanium S8 have 8-megapixel rear cameras with LED flash. The Titanium S6 comes with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and the Titanium S8 has a VGA front-facing camera. The Titanium S4 Plus has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
The Karbonn Titanium S6 and Titanium S8 have 8GB of internal storage with expansion slot, and the Titanium S4 Plus packs 4GB of internal storage with expansion slot. These have 2000mAh, 1800mAh and 1500mAh batteries, respectively. The Titanium S6 comes in Black and White colors and is priced at Rs. 7,800. The Karbonn Titanium S8 White with Gold colors and is priced at Rs. 6,147. Titanium S4 Plus also comes in Black and White colors and is priced at Rs. 3,999.
Samsung has retired the Fitness with gear app and replaced it with the new S Health app. The new data about all your health activities will now be integrated into the new S Health app.
Samsung had launched the S Health app along with the Galaxy S4 that helps users track health and fitness related data. The app runs the latest version 3.5.1 on Galaxy Note 4 while it stil runs the older version 2.5 on other Galaxy devices. This makes the app incompatible to run with Gear Fit and other Gear accessories.
Hence, to bring a uniformity Samsung has closed the Fitness with Gear app and is importing all the data to the new S Health app. The updated app brings a newer user interface to older devices and syncs data with Gear Fit as well as other similar devices. A new addition to the app is the Comfort Level that displays Thermo-hygrometer but the heart-rate measurement and the Stress Levels have been left out.
The update will hit the app automatically but users can manually check for an update.
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Samsung is planning to shut down ChatOn instant messaging service in certain markets, according to latest report from the Korea Times. The move comes from the company as it restructuring the unprofitable business.
The company’s official mentioned that Samsung’s IM service will not be shut down in the markets where it has received positive reactions and reviews. Another executive from Samsung stated that ChatOn is not a business that can show improvement in the future. It is not known as yet in which markets will Samsung shut down the ChatOn service which is available in 120 markets.
ChatOn is available on Android, iOS and BlackBerry with some 100 million users. However, the app has been facing tough competition by competitors like Viber, Snapchat and Whatsapp. Samsung's profit fell in Q3 this year and mobile revenue was down by 15%.
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BlackBerry introduced the BlackBerry Passport smartphone in Black color in September and the smartphone went on sale in India on Amazon last month. Today the company has started taking pre-orders for White and Limited Edition Red color variants of the smartphone. To remind you, the BlackBerry Passport has a 4.5” diagonal (1440 x 1440 pixels) display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974-AA) processor with 450MHz Adreno 330 GPU and runs on BlackBerry OS 10.3.
It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, 2-megapixel front-facing camera and has 4G LTE connectivity. It has 3GB RAM, 32GB of internal memory with expandable memory up to 64GB.
The White BlackBerry Passport is priced at US$599 and the Limited Edition Red BlackBerry Passport is priced at US$699. Both these are available for pre-order in the U.S. and Canada from the official BlackBerry online Shop. The White variant goes on sale only on December 7th, but the Red colored variant goes on sale on November 28th, during Black Friday.
Xolo has announced Q710s, the company's latest smartphone in the Q CORE series. It has the same 1.3 GHz Quad-core Mediatek MT6582M processor, 1GB of RAM, Dual SIM support and a 8-megapixel rear camera, similar to the Xolo Q700S that was launched earlier this year, but the Q710s comes with a 4.5-inch qHD display instead of FWVGA display on the Q700S and runs on Android 4.4 (Kitkat). It also has a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera.
It has 8GB of internal storage with expansion slot and a 2000mAh battery. It has completely different design compared to the Xolo Q700 and the Q700S smartphones and is just 8.85 mm thick.
Xolo Q710S Specifications
4.5-inch (960 x 640 pixels) IPS display
1.3 GHz Quad-core Mediatek MT6582M processor
1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, 32GB expandable memory with MicroSD
Android 4.4 (KitKat)
Dual SIM
8MP rear camera with LED Flash, 1080p video recording
1.3MP front-facing camera
8.85 mm thick
3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
3G (HSDPA: 21 Mbps, HSUPA: 5.76 Mbps), WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
2000 mAh battery
The Xolo Q710s comes in Black color and is priced at Rs. 6,999. It is expected to launch officially in coming weeks.
The Moto 360 smartwatch from Motorola with lim metal wristbands has been listed on the company's website. The smartwatch is available in silver and gold stainless steel band.
The silver 18 mm band version of the Moto 360 will cost $299.99, which is the same price as the older dark or silver 23 mm metal bands. However, the champagne gold" 18 mm band, costs $30 extra and is priced at $329.99. Motorola had announced the metallic version of the Moto 360 earlier this month.
The gold and silver variants of the Moto 360 sport both straps and body of the same color. The stainless steel belt and new color options gives the watch a premium look. Also, the metal straps are sleek and can be a good option for people with smaller wrists. Both the new variants of the watch are available here.
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One of these two handsets may have been announced over six months ago and may be considered old (the Xperia Z2) but despite half a year between the announcement of these two devices, they feature very similar specifications so side-by-side, how do the Apple iPhone 6 and the Xperia Z2 compare?
The iPhone 6 was only announced back in September whilst Sony uncovered the Xperia Z2 back in February at MWC 2014. Despite coming out after the Sony, the iPhone 6 still has lower resolution with Apple using a "Retina HD" panel offering 750 x 1334 pixels resolution in comparison to the Full HD 1080p LCD on the Xperia Z2. However, it might have lower resolution but the iPhone 6 display is overall markedly better than the Xperia Z2 with the former offering vibrant colours and deep blacks whilst the latter appeared somewhat washed out.
The build on both of these handsets is also different and there's a very good reason as whilst Apple have aimed to produce a thin handset with sleek rounded edges, Sony adopted the chamfered edge design. In turn, Sony produced a handset that's 1.3mm thicker than the iPhone 6 but does come with a shatter-proof display and IP58 certification ...
Xolo has reduced the price of five smartphones - Q1010i, Opus HD, Q700s Plus, Q500s IPS and A500s Lite. The Xolo Q1010i was launched back in April for Rs. 13499. Now the smartphone is available for Rs. 9,999. The main highlight of the smartphone is its 8-megapixel camera with Sony Exmor R sensor, f/2.0 aperture, 1.4 micron pixel size and a 5-element lens. At the launch it was running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), later it got updated to Android 4.4 (KitKat).
Other Xolo smartphones that have received price cuts include,
Xolo Opus HD: From an earlier price tag of Rs. 9,499 to Rs. 8,499
Xolo Q700s Plus: From an earlier price tag of Rs. 7,799 to Rs. 7,199
Xolo Q500s IPS: From an earlier price tag of Rs. 5,999 to Rs. Rs. 5,499.
Xolo A500s Lite: From an earlier price tag of Rs. 4,999 to Rs. 4,499.
Some of these smartphones are available at an even cheaper price from some retailers.
Xiaomi usually offers limited number of units for the Flipkart First subscribers a day early, before the smartphone goes on sale for the first time on Flipkart. Today, Xiaomi and Flipkart have announced that the first 5000 Flipkart First subscribers who register to buy, will get the Redmi Note added to their cart automatically and they can purchase the Redmi Note on December first 6PM, one day prior to India launch.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note is priced at Rs. 8,999 and it goes on sale on December 2nd. Xiaomi also announced the Redmi Note 4G with a Snapdragon 400 SoC and 4G LTE support for Rs. 9,999. This will be available for sale from Flipkart and exclusively from Airtel flagship stores across six cities in India late December.
Registrations for the Xiaomi Redmi Note begins 6PM today. If you are a Flipkart First subscriber and want to get the Redmi Note smartphone early, you can head to Flipkart and register immediately. They can register till November 29th till 2PM. Lucky 5000 Flipkart First subscribers will be notified via email on November 30th. Others can register till 1st December midnight. Xiaomi has not announced the number of devices that would go on sale on December 2nd.
Facebook released Room, an anonymous chat app for iPhone last month in the US, UK and few other English speaking countries. The app developed by Facebook Creative Labs team is now available for users in India. It has also been updated with support for three new languages - Spanish, French and German. The app lets you create rooms for the things you're into, and invite others. You can add text, photos, videos and more.You can also add a cover photo, change colors, create custom pinned messages, customize member permissions, and more.
Highlights of Facebook Rooms
Choose a topic: Create a place for people who are as into it as you are
Customize the look and feel: Make your room your own, from the like button to the background image.
Pick a nickname: Choose a different one for each room, real or made up.
Invite others to join: Ask people to join your room to share photos, videos and text.
Sounds: Pick a custom sound for members to hear when they tap the like button—more than 50 options!
Activity dashboard: Track activity in your room, including total time spent in the room and posts, comments and likes over the last week.
Push notifications: Get messages on your phone when somebody posts to a ...
Millennium Telesystems Private Limited has launched 7-inch Millennium tablets powered by the 1.2GHz dual-core Intel Atom Z2520 processors in India. These come with a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) display, have a 2-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing camera. The Millennium MT701 has WiFi connectivity and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) and the Millennium M7 is a 3G tablet with SIM support and voice calling capabilities that runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean).
Both these have 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage with expansion, the usual set of connectivity features such as WiFi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0. The WiFi variant also lets you use 3G Dongles. These have a 3000mAh lithium polymer battery.
Commenting on the new launch, Varinder Singh Jawanda, Managing Director, Millennium Telesystems Private Limited said:
Tablets are greatly influencing in what way or manner tasks are completed, contributing to new levels of productivity and greater levels of overall satisfaction. Millennium Telesystems is committed to delivering the latest in mobile technology at affordable prices, so that our consumers can discover new exciting possibilities in their personal and professional lives.
Anand Ramamoorthy Director, Consumption Sales, Intel South Asia, said:
When it comes to the mobile devices, consumers today want a smooth browsing experience, security, good battery life, better visuals and ...
Want to check out exactly how good EE's 4G network is or just want bag loads of free data? EE is trying to push it's Pay As You Go SIM deals and the chaps over at CoolSmartphone have spotted an incredible offer on the EE website. The 'Dan and Phil' campaign allows you to get free texts each week and 100GB data free each months for two months.
EE has the largest 4G network in the UK and has been actively promoting both its Pay Monthly and Pay As You Go plans in a bid to see off growing competition from rival networks O2 and Vodafone. The UK's largest operator, who is rumoured to be subject to a takeover bid by British Telecom, provides 4G services to over 75% of the UK population and is more advanced than its rival networks.
On their website, EE have posted the following message about the promotion:
NO STRINGS, NO CONTRACT
Just free access to loads of extras from Dan and Phil, including weekly text messages and a whopping 100GB of free data each month.
It’s a great chance to see what life’s like on the EE network and to try out 4GEE, if you’ve got a 4G phone.
Try our Limited ...
OnePlus just sent out press invites for the launch of OnePlus One smartphone in India. The launch event is scheduled for December 2nd, Tuesday in Delhi, where the company will reveal the smartphone's pricing for India. It will be available for purchase starting from December 2nd, exclusively from Amazon.in, as expected.
The OnePlus One was announced back in April and packs a 5.5-inch (1920 ×1080 pixels) Full HD LTPS display from JDI with Corning gorilla glass 3 protection, is powered by a 2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974AC) processor and runs on CyanogenMod 11S based on Android 4.4 (KitKat).
It has a 13-megapixel camera with Sony IMX214 stacked sensor, 6-element lens, f/2.0 aperture, dual LED flash, 4K video recording and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture. It has 3GB of LP-DDR3 RAM, has 4G LTE connectivity and packs a 3100 mAh battery.
OnePlus recently appointed Vikas Agarwal as the general manager for India. This will be the first region in which a localized service infrastructure is established, offering phone and walk-in support to users around the country, said the company.
Commenting on the launch of OnePlus One India and partnership with Amazon, Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus, said:
Our company focuses first on our ...
Sony is rethinking its approach on the smartphone market owing to disappointing sales. The company is planning to cut down the smartphone lineup by ending the development of new smartphones in China and is reducing the number of Xperia models as it struggles to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung.
Sony will streamline its product portfolio and mentions that by reducing the number of products it will be able to improve the “resource allocation per product”. Along with the smartphone, the company will also slash it TV line-up due to poor sales. Sony will now focus its resources to their highly profitable video game and image sensor businesses. The company said that sales in the videogame business, which includes PlayStation consoles and network services, would grow to ¥1.4 trillion ($12 billion) to ¥1.6 trillion in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018, up from ¥1.29 trillion in the current fiscal year.
"We're not aiming for size or market share but better profits," claimed Hiroki Totoki, the new chief of Sony's mobile division. As a result, sales are expected to go 30% down for the upcoming three-year period, but as per Sony, this might lead to an increase of its sales by 70% and raise as ...
Xioami has announced that is postponing its international expansion plans. Earlier this year, the company had planned to enter into 10 foreign markets but it will now expand to only five.
The Chinese smartphone maker will enter Brazil, Russia, Thailand, Mexico and Turkey markets in next year. Meanwhile, it will focus on existing markets like India and Indonesia.In the third quarter Xiaomi became the world’s third-largest smartphone vendor, mainly on huge sales in its home market of China.
“We realized that it’s a smarter thing to do to scale back a bit and put a ton of effort in India and Indonesia before expanding further,”
said Xiaomi vice president Hugo Barra in a statement.
At the moment, Xiaomi makes use of facilities at OEM-specialists like Foxconn. However, with demand exceeding supply manifold, Xiaomi feels the need for greater production capabilities. Bloomberg also adds that Xiaomi is in talks with Foxconn about production in India and Brazil. The company has also decided to assemble phone in big markets like India and Brazil, which will be generating most demand for its products in the coming years after China. Earlier this month Xiaomi received $163M in sales on Single's Day in China and the company is also touted to ...
Viber has rolled out Public Chat feature in beta in India which is a social media platform for users to engage with celebrities, personalities and brands.
The company will allow users to discover, share and interact with conversations, communities and content on mobile devices.Conversations will include text, photos, audio, video, stickers, web links and more. Users can invite friends to follow the Public Chats that interest them, and can share content. Viber users can follow a large number Public chats of their interest on their mobile devices.
“The release of public chats on Viber allows people to interact in a new way, listening to live discussions and staying up-to-date with exclusive content from the people and interests that matter to them most. We are launching this with a great line-up of celebrities, personalities, brands, influencers all over India,”
said Anubhav Nayyar, country head-India, Viber.
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Globally, Viber has 311 such chat partners and 56 in India. These include a broad range of celebrities, brands and personalities including Anushka Sharma, Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Sonu Nigam, Ayushmann Khurrana, Shaan and many more. There will be some world acclaimed sports celebrities too like Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Saina Nehwal. The most popular chats will ...
Nimbuzz has launched a new caller identification app Holaa which works similar to TrueCaller allowing users to know who is calling. The app lets users to see details like the caller's name, photo and location during an incoming call live. It also block spam calls from spammers or other unwanted callers.
Holaa syncs with Facebook, Google accounts and phonebook to provide the caller’s name, photo, location and email ID. Users can also opt out of Facebook and Google account sync feature. It regularly provides additional information about phone book contacts, which, the user can add to their directory by using the ‘Merge’ feature. Users can also share contact information for both phone book contacts and unknown contacts with their friends using a share option allowing the sharing of names, mobile numbers, photos and e-mail addresses
“On an average, 4 out of 10 calls on pre-paid mobile numbers are from unknown numbers, while 1 out of these 4 unknown calls is a spam call,”
said Nimbuzz India CEO, Vikas Saxena in a statement.
Holaa is currently available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Persian and Portuguese. Currently the app is only available for Android devices and there is no word about other platform. Holaa will compete directly with Truecaller ...
Apple launched the iPhone 6 Plus along with the iPhone 6 in India few weeks back starting at Rs. 62,500. We reviewed the iPhone 6 Plus earlier this week. We brought you the battery test results for the Apple iPhone 6 earlier this month, here we have the battery test results for the iPhone 6 Plus.
The iPhone 6 Plus has a non-removable 2,915mAh Lithium Polymer battery, bigger than the iPhone 6′s 1,810mAh battery. It is powered by Apple A8 chip with dual-core custom ARMv8 64-bit cores clocked at 1.4GHz per core and has quad-core PowerVR GX6450 GPU, similar to the iPhone 6. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display. Let us check out the battery test.
Talk Time
In our call test the iPhone 6 Plus lasted for 25 hours, twice the talk time of the iPhone 6.
3G browsing
The iPhone 6 Plus's battery latested for 6 hours and 15 minutes in 3G browsing, again about twice the amount of iPhone 6's battery.
Wi-Fi browsing
The WiFi browsing however is not as good as the iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 Plus lasts for 7 hours and 41 minutes in the test, compared to 9 hours in the iPhone 6.
Video Playback
The iPhone 6 Plus lasts for 20 hours in our ...
Uber is celebrating Free Uber week by offering free rides across Indian cities it operates on uberGO, uberX and UberBLACK. All you need to do is to select Paytm wallet as your payment option for your ride. This offer is applicable for both new and existing Uber users.
Uber tied up with Paytm recently to implement Paytm wallet for Uber payments so that uses those who have net banking and debit cards can enjoy Uber rides. Earlier this month Uber launched UberGo, a new service especially for India that is even cheaper than the UberX service. Uber is currently operational in 11 Indian cities that includes, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune.
Under this offer you get 5 free rides, up to Rs. 300 each and no promo codes are necessary. This offer is valid starting today, November 26, noon till 6PM, Sunday, November 30th. Availability will be limited due to high demand.
