Aircel has launched affordable International Roaming packs for 10 countries – Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Thailand, UK, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Germany, Australia and Turkey. Priced at Rs. 149 for each country, this offers up to 97% discount on outgoing and incoming call charges to and from India while on international roaming on select operators as well as data usage and SMS facility, says the company.
Call charges (outgoing and incoming), data and SMS charges cost Rs. 5 per minute for 5 days while on roaming in the USA or Sri Lanka. You can recharge or renew or renewal the international roaming pack beyond its validity of five days in case one wishes to prolong the stay in the visited country. You can also have more than one plan activated. This is available for both prepaid and postpaid customers while roaming on select international operators.
Commenting on the launch of new packs, Anupam Vasudev, Chief Marketing Officer, Aircel, said,
The launch of this unmatched product has a careful understanding of our customers in the background, who look for a hassle-free experience when travelling abroad and want to stay connected to their work or friends and family at all times. It brings us great pride, too, to have introduced ...
Aircel has launched affordable International Roaming packs for 10 countries – Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Thailand, UK, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Germany, Australia and Turkey. Priced at Rs. 149 for each country, this offers up to 97% discount on outgoing and incoming call charges to and from India while on international roaming on select operators as well as data usage and SMS facility, says the company.
Call charges (outgoing and incoming), data and SMS charges cost Rs. 5 per minute for 5 days while on roaming in the USA or Sri Lanka. You can recharge or renew or renewal the international roaming pack beyond its validity of five days in case one wishes to prolong the stay in the visited country. You can also have more than one plan activated. This is available for both prepaid and postpaid customers while roaming on select international operators.
Commenting on the launch of new packs, Anupam Vasudev, Chief Marketing Officer, Aircel, said,
The launch of this unmatched product has a careful understanding of our customers in the background, who look for a hassle-free experience when travelling abroad and want to stay connected to their work or friends and family at all times. It brings us great pride, too, to have introduced ...
Motorola will launch budget 4G smartphones in India in 2015, according to a report from The Economic Times. The company will release affordable handsets in India and Brazil that support 4G network.
“The transition to 4G will be quick. Next year, we are going to be very aggressive in the 4G value proposition for end users.”
said Motorola President and CEO Rick Osterloh to ET.
According to the IDC report, Motorola is fifth largest smartphone maker with a 5% share in India while globally it is the third largest after the Lenovo acquisition. Motorola faces tough competition in India due to Xiaomi which launches budget devices that are suitable for Indian markets. However, the Chinese smartphone maker has been banned from importing and selling devices owing to a patent infringement related to Ericsson.
Motorola has already been a success in India with Moto X and Moto G (First and Second generation) lets hope it has another budget device that will cater to India's rising demands next year.
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Reliance Communications (Rcom) has launched Free Facebook Fridays offer for its prepaid GSM customers that enables them to access Facebook for free without any data charges, account balance or deductions from their preferred data pack on Fridays. It is not clear if this offer is for a limited period. Rcom had already launched several offers, including free Twitter access for three months, and Facebook and WhatsApp packs and more.
Regarding the new offer, Reliance Communications said:
Free Facebook Fridays provides an excellent opportunity to such customers to explore the Internet, allowing them to connect freely with their friends and family on Facebook, without having to worry about data plans and charges. ‘Free Facebook Fridays’ is one of the many initiatives RCom is taking to drive smartphone penetration and data adoption in the country.
Gurdeep Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Business, Reliance Communications Ltd, said:
We are delighted to offer this compelling proposition to our customers who have a strong affinity towards social networking, especially the youth segment.
Kevin D'souza, Head of Growth and Mobile Partnerships, Facebook India, said:
Such initiatives by Reliance Communications help make the Internet affordable and get more people to access the Internet in India.
Micromax Canvas Nitro A311 with 16GB of internal storage that appeared on the official website few days back is now available from Flipkart. Apart from the storage bump, all the specifications are similar to the Canvas Nitro A310, including a 5-inch HD display, 1.7 GHz octa-core MediaTek processor, Android 4.4 (KitKat), 13-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.
Micromax Canvas Nitro A311 specifications
5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS display with 178-degree viewing angle and anti-fingerprint oleophobic coating
1.7 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor with 700MHz Mali 450 GPU
2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
Dual SIM
Android 4.4 (KitKat)
13MP autofocus rear camera with LED Flash, Sony IMX135 CMOS sensor, f/2.2 aperture, Largan 5P 28mm lens
5MP front-facing camera with OmniVision OV5648 sensor, 22m wide-angle lens with 75-degree viewing
3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
2500 mAh battery
The Micromax Canvas Nitro A311 comes in Pristine White and Mystic Blue colors and is priced at Rs. 13,100 online, slightly costlier than the Micromax Canvas A310 that now sells for around Rs. 12,000 in the market.
Google announced the Nexus 6 in October along with the Nexus 9 tablet. The successor of the Nexus 5 went on pre-order on Flipkart last month priced at Rs. 43,999 for the 32GB variant and the 64GB variant is priced at Rs. 48,999. It was officially launched in India earlier this week. We have already seen the unboxing of the phone and now lets take a detailed look at the hardware of the device in our photo gallery post.
The Nexus 6 sports a 5.96″ (1440×2560 pixels) 16:9 AMOLED display with 493 ppi, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It is powered by a 2.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 (APQ 8084-AB) processor with Adreno 420 GPU and has 3GB RAM, 32GB/64GB internal memory. It runs on latest Android 5.0.
The Nexus 6 has a 2MP front-facing camera and the dual front facing speaker at the top.
It has on-screen touch buttons and dual front facing speaker at the bottom.
The design language of the Google Nexus 6 is inspired by the Motorola Moto X2 or the 2nd gen Motorola Moto X. At the back the phone has the Nexus branding and Motorola logo.
At the back the Nexus 6 has a 13MP rear camera with dual ...
BlackBerry has updated BBM for iOS, Android and BlackBerry Smartphones to version 2.6 that brings Group Stickers for all the platforms and also increases timed messages timer to last up to 60 seconds.
It finally gets a new UI for iOS 8 adding flat UI and attractive transparencies. It also brings support to iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones with larger screens.
BBM for Android brings support for Android 5.0 Lollipop and landscape mode. BBM on BlackBerry 10 gets option to share multiple pictures and attachments at the same time. Check out the complete changelog of the update for BBM for Android below.
Support for Android 5.0 Lollipop
Send stickers in group chats!
See when a contact has received and viewed your sent pictures.
Timed pictures and messages can now be viewed multiple times until the timer expires
Added a new 60 second timer option
Landscape mode
Add a photo or attachment from your SD card
These features are rolling out in the form of BBM 2.6 update for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry 10.
Sony Xperia E4 (E2105), the company's upcoming budget smartphone has been leaked on a polish website. It shows the 5-inch smartphone in live images and some specifications of the smartphone through AnTuTu.
The leaked specifications incude a, 5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) display, 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor with Mali 400 GPU and Android 4.4.4 KitKat. It scores 17857 points in Antutu 5.3 benchmark.
The Sony Xperia E3 that was launched few months back has a 4.5-inch FWVGA display, 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, Android 4.4 (KitKat), 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera.
Another image shows Sony's signature power button and the volume rockers on the side.
The leaked image also shows a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a it would come with an unique ceramic-like back. It is expected to come with both single and dual SIM (E2115) variants.
According to the leak, the Sony Xperia E4 will be announced at MWC in Barcelona in 2015.
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Vodafone are set to re-enter the US market as a MVNO running on the T-Mobile network. The network, who sold their large chunk in Verizon back tot he company for $130 billion, is not focusing on consumer and will instead cater to hundreds of multinational customers based across the pond.
The announcement comes via a press release published online and identifies that Vodafone is only interested in catering to large companies with a global presence (at least for now). The introduction of the Vodafone MVNO will also cater to more than 500 existing Vodafone enterprise customers who have a "strong US presence".
Vodafone - who recently extended their UK 4G roaming offer to 40 countries around the world - will use its existing global network, which spans across 27 countries and 75 networks, to appeal to global businesses with products and services offered targeted towards enterprises. These products will include security, encryption, telecommunications expense management and cloud services (presumably including remote backup, restore and wipe of handsets).
The Vodafone US MVNO will launch in late Autumn 2015 and a successful network could yet see the company expand the MVNO's offering to target consumers (although this is rather unlikely given the euphoria of Vodafone shareholders ...
When you're buying from the Apple Online Store in the UK (and the US), there's a range of ways to pay but Apple have decided to make it even easier by enabling support for PayPal payments. PayPal is considered a must-have payment option by many users as it makes the process much simpler by not requiring you to enter your payment information and now you'll not only be able to buy items from Apple but you can also spread the cost.
That's right - rather than opt for spreading the cost using Apple Financing, there's now also the option to use PayPal Direct. To qualify for this offer, you'll need to spend over £99 (UK) or $250 (US) and Apple will let you spread the cost of your item into equal monthly payments deduced direct from your PayPal account.
The choice to allow PayPal payments could be a move by Apple to introduce internet-savvy shoppers to its Apple Pay payment option. It could also be a simple move to entice more users to do their shopping at Apple's website as opposed to other retailers who might accept PayPal. Either way, if you've got money sitting in your PayPal account, you can now ...
Expecting to wait until December 18th for the Galaxy Note Edge to become available in the UK? As we've already heard, the wait is over as the handset is available from Carphone Warehouse but now Vodafone UK have also launched the handset (albeit only in black).
If you're interested in buying the Galaxy Note Edge from Vodafone UK, the handset certainly won't be cheap. The 'recommended' price plan will cost you £58.50 per month with a £49 upfront charge which will give you unlimited minutes, unlimited texts and 10GB 4G+ data each month but if you'd rather not pay anything upfront, the same deal is available through Carphone Warehouse without the initial charge.
There's a range of other plans available but given the niche-status of the Galaxy Note Edge, the plans are certainly expensive. As we've previously covered, buying the Note Edge on a Vodafone 4G contract will also give you access to either Spotify Premium, Now TV from Sky or Sky Sports Mobile TV as an inclusive benefit. Furthermore, customers buying the Galaxy Note Edge on a Vodafone Red 4G plan will also receive a 3 month NOW TV Sky Movies Pass - which offers access to over 1,000 movies on-demand and streaming ...
The biggest trend in mobile over the past few years has been the move to even bigger displays with users eager to consume even more on a single display. Samsung were arguably the founders of this trend with the Samsung Galaxy Note back at IFA 2011 but since then, almost every company has introduced phablets to try to attain the same success (including Apple with the iPhone 6 Plus). Chinese manufacturer Huawei pose one of the biggest threats to Samsung's dominance at the top of the smartphone market but how does the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 compare to the Samsung Galaxy Note 4?
The Galaxy Note 4 features a 5.7 inch Quad HD (2k) Super AMOLED display whilst the Ascend Mate 7 sports a 6 inch Full HD IPS display. Samsung are the world leaders in display technology and this shows with the Galaxy Note 4 display offering the best experience on any modern smartphone. With 515 pixels per inch density, the Note 4 is super sharp whilst in comparison, the 368 pixels per inch density offered by the Mate 7 is less sharp (albeit still impressive).
The Ascend Mate 7 might be a little larger than the Galaxy Note 4 but ...
Google Fit has received a major update. The fitness-tracking app can now track your steps even without an Internet connection and supports 100 new activities.
The Google Fit app now allows users to manually enter more than 100 new activities like yoga, boxing, dancing, cricket, martial arts, hiking, pilates and so on. Moving on, the app also comes with a new experimental step detection feature for walking when your smartwatch is not connected to your Android smartphone. When you get back to your phone and sync up the data, all the content from your smartwatch will get transferred to the mobile.
In addition, Google Fit also gets bug fixes and improvements on Android. Google had announced Fit platform in June at the I/O developer conference. It aggregates and collect your fitness data at one place and helps users monitor their fitness activities like heart rate, blood sugar, steps taken etc on this platform.
Play Link - Google Fit
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Microsoft's Windows 10 leaked build has appeared online, showing a bunch of features that were rumored earlier. The latest OS from Microsoft with build 9901 shows Cortana integration and more.
Windows 10 is getting the Cortana integration and the Cortana search bar is open by default at the bottom left of the home screen in the new build. Microsoft has also included hot-word detection for Cortana on Windows 10. This means that you can open Cortana just by saying “Hey Cortana”. App settings can now be accessed from within the Modern apps themselves instead of the Charms bar, which no longer includes a settings option.
In addtion, a new Xbox app is also coming with the Windows 10 leaked build. The Windows Store has been updated as well, adding music, movies, and TV shows next to apps. New animations have been added in the TaskView switcher, along with a new view for the settings app. Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 10 OS in September and the preview update added gestures, MKV support, OneDrive improvement and more last month.
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LG launched the G3 Stylus smartphone with a built-in stylus in India back in October at Rs. 21,500. We brought you the photo gallery of the smartphone recently, here we have the benchmark of the smartphone. It is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor with Mali 400 GPU. It packs 1GB of RAM and has a 5.5-inch qHD IPS display. Let’s find out how the LG G3 Stylus performs in range of synthetic benchmark tests.
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Quadrant Benchmark
It managed to score 4461 points in the Quadrant benchmark.
Vellamo 2.0 HTML5
It managed to score just 1216 points in the Vellamo 2 HTML5 browser benchmark.
Vellamo 2.0 Metal
It scored 585 points in the Vellamo 2 Metal CPU subsystem performance test.
Linpack Single Thread
brining
It managed to clock around 39.1 MFLOPS in the Linpack Single Thread benchmark.
Linpack Multi-Thread
In the Linpack Multi-Thread benchmark it clocked around 135.3 MFLOPS.
NenaMark 2
It clocked 60.4 fps in the NenaMark 2 GPU benchmark.
GFXBench 2.7 T-Rex (On screen)
It clocked 9.5fps in the GFXBench 2.7 T-Rex OnScreen benchmark.
Basemark X 1.0 HD (Onscreen)
It clocked around 7.1fps in the Basemark X 1.0 OnScreen benchmark.
Basemark X 1.0 HD (Offscreen)
In the Basemark X 1.0 OffScreen benchmark it clocked around 2.64fps.
Basemark OS II
It scored 393 points in the Basemark OS II benchmark. Even ...
Android tablets in the 7-8 inch space are a dime and a dozen. In fact the small tablet category is practically being dominated by these Android running machines and the fact is that we are approaching a level of homogeneity in terms of specifications too. With that in mind, it is becoming increasingly hard for an OEM to differentiate its product from the deluge of competitors out there. Enter the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2. With a very unique take on design, quality hardware and a polished build of Android on board, it has the potential to be the tablet of choice for many users but is it perfect? We take an in-depth look in our review.
Hardware
Lifting the tablet out of the box, the first thing you'll notice is the cylindrical tube on one end of the tablet. The cylinder packs the battery as well as the kickstand mechanism. While the rest of the fascia has a black bezel, this kickstand enabled end gives the impression that the tablet is predominantly meant to be used in the landscape orientation. We'll be talking more about general usability further down the review.
On the face of it, the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 is a handsome looking ...
Google Translate is getting 10 new languages in its latest update. Support for the 10 new languages is now live on the Google Translate web portal, and Google says that support will reach mobile apps shortly.
The latest addition of 10 new languages brings the total number of languages supported by Google to 90. Google says that the addition of these new languages will allow 200 million more users to translate text to and from their native languages. Google Translate's latest addition of 10 language include Chichewa (Malawi), Malagasy(Madagascar), Sesotho (South Africa), Malayalam (India), Myanmar (Burmese), Sinhala (Sri Lanka), Sudanese (Basa Sunda), Kazakh (Kazakhstan), Tajik (Tajikistan) and Uzbe (Uzbekistan).
Google has indicated that for now, the new languages are supported by the Google Translate website, however in the coming weeks will be available on both the mobile application and Chrome’s built-in translation feature. Google Translate's next update is expected to have WordLens integration and a auto detection for conversation mode. The company acquired WordLens in May to boost Translate. Last month, Google launched Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA), a group formed to promote growth of Indic-language content online.
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Lenovo launched the Vibe X2 smartphone in India last month for Rs. 19999 . We brought you the unboxing, benchmarks, photo gallery and camera samples of the Vibe X2 recently, here we have the battery test results of the smartphone. The Vibe X2 has a 2300 mAh built-in Li-polymer battery, slightly larger than the 2000mAh battery on the Vibe X that was launched last year.
The bright 5-inch 1080p display and the 2 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6595 processor drains the battery quickly. Lenovo has added power saving mode that reduces the power consumption of the screen and GPU. We disabled the power saving mode before running the battery test.
Talk Time
It lasted for 12 hours and 30 minutes in the Talk Time test.
3G Browsing
In the 3G browsing test, the Lenovo Vibe X2 lasted for 3 hours and 50 minutes.
Wi-Fi Browsing
In the WiFi browsing test, the Vibe X2 lasted for 4 hours and 10 minutes, which is not at all impressive.
Video Playback
Finally, in the video playback it managed to last for 7 hours and 8 minutes.
Overall the Lenovo Vibe X2 lasted for 6 hours and 44 minutes in our battery test, which is just average for a mid-range smartphone. We will be bringing you the complete review of ...
Have you just got your Google Chromecast in the UK, are you planning on buying one or (if you're reading this in a couple of weeks), have you received one for Christmas? If so, you definitely need to check out Google Chromecast offers as there's some very interesting offers on at the moment.
For those who buy a Google Chromecast between 7th December 2014 and 31st January 2015, Google will give you £15 worth of movies on Google Play. However, we've just set up a new Chromecast in the UK and can confirm that this £15 worth of credit can be used for anything including apps, games and more (we bought Football Manager 2015 in case you were wondering).
On top of the £15 free credit, you will also get a NOW TV 3 Month Entertainment Pass (worth £6.99 per month), 90 days unlimited music with Google Play Music All Access (worth £9.99 per month) and a free copy of the first X-Men on Google.
With the Chromecast available for around £20 from a variety of retailers in the UK (although Google Play is still advertising it as £30), now's the perfect time to buy your Chromecast - spend £20 and you'll get free ...
Vivo just launched the Vivo X5Max, the world’s slimmest smartphone with 4.75mm thickness in India, as it promised. It was announced in China last week and packs a 5.5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED screen with 3.98mm narrow bezels, powered by an Octa-Core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor with Adreno 405 GPU and runs on Funtouch OS 2.0 based on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.
It has magnesium alloy and stainless steel body and a stainless steel back with anti-fingerprint coating. It has YAMAHA YSS-205X digital surround signal processing chip, SABRE ES9601 DAC and TI’s OPA1612 amplifier for better audio output. Vivo is calling the combined audio set up as Hi-Fi 2.0. It has dual SIM support, a micro SIM and a nano SIM that doubles up as a microSD slot when you don't want to use the secondary slot. It has a 3.5mm audio jack with interlocking design to fit the thin frame.
Vivo X5Max specifications
5.5-inch (1080 x 1920 pixels) Super AMOLED display
1.5 GHz Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 (MSM8939) processor with Adreno 405 GPU
2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD
Funtouch OS 2.0 based on Android 4.4 (KitKat)
Dual ...
Google Now will soon allow users to control their Nest thermostat. The virtual assistant will simply require a command to change the Nest thermostat setting.
With a command like Ok, Google, set the temperature to 65 degrees”, Google Now will try and complete the task. The temperature requests are displayed in your Google Now card when the thermostat is cooling or heating your home. However, at present the virtual assistant cannot complete your temperature requests as it requires your Google account authorization to work with the Nest device. Currently as soon as you give the command, Google Now takes you to a page setup but when you tap "Yes, I am in", it redirects you to a page that is still not active.
Google had acquired Nest in January this year and unveiled a new "Works with Nest" program that will allow smart devices to work with Nest products.
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