Xiaomi Redmi 1S will be back on sale in India on Dec 8 without registration

Xiaomi Redmi Note went on sale earlier this week on December 2nd, and it sold out in 6 seconds in the first flash sale. Xiaomi usually stops selling the earlier models temporarily to concentrate more on the new model. Now the company has decided to bring back the Redmi 1S, at least for a day. Xiaomi has announced that the Redmi 1S will be back on sale on December 8th, Monday. Registrations are not required, so it will not ...

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Intex Aqua i5 Octa with 5-inch qHD display, 13MP camera launched for Rs. 7499

Intex Technologies has launched Aqua i5 Octa, the latest smartphone in the Aqua series few days after launching the Aqua Power with an Octa-Core processor. It has a 5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) qHD IPS display, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes pre-loaded with pera, OLX, ...

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Micromax Canvas Xpress with 4.5-inch display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 6999

Micromax has launched Canvas Xpress, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Canvas series exclusively on Flipkart. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED flash and a 0.3-megapixel VGA front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support similar to other Micromax smartphones and also has 3G connectivity. It ...

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Xolo Omega 5.0 with 5-inch HD display launched

Xolo has launched Omega 5.0, the company’s latest smartphone with its new HIVE UI . It has a 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592M processor with Mali 450 GPU and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat)-based HIVE UI. Xolo has promised Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for all HIVE UI devices. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Sony EXMOR R sensor, 1080p video recording and a 2-megapixel ...

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Truecaller crosses 100 million users, updates app with new features

Truecaller has announced that it has surpassed 100 million mark globally.  The popular phone directory app revealed that it receives 1.5 billion search requests in a month. Truecaller has doubled its daily new users in less than three months, said the company in a statement. As of November, India accounted for over 45 million users and 600,000 new users are being added every week from the country. In addition to the increased user base, ...

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Google launches Inbox by Gmail

Google has just unveiled a new service. It’s called Inbox, and it uses the data in your Gmail account. But it presents this to you in some pretty interesting new ways. It’s designed to “focus on what really matters”, the company says. It does this by surfacing important information from emails, and by letting you add reminders to your new inbox. Inbox comes with Bundles, which are an evolution of the categories that Gmail itself ...

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Microsoft makes a lockscreen app for Android

Microsoft is on a roll these days… making apps for Android. Made by the same Microsoft Garage division that brought us this comes the new Next Lock Screen. As you can tell from the name, it’s a lockscreen app. It presents notifications on the lockscreen similar to the way Android Lollipop does. You can see them at a glance or swipe them away. But more than showing notifications, the lockscreen also shows relevant information from your ...

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Facebook Rooms anonymous app released for iPhone

After Paper, Slingshot and Mention, Facebook has released Room, an anonymous chat app for iPhone developed by Facebook Creative Labs team. As the name suggests, it’s a chat room app that was popular a decade back. It 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, ...

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Spice Stellar 518 with 5-inch display now available for Rs. 7799

           Spice Stellar 518, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Stellar series with a whopping 4000mAh battery is now available from online retailer Saholic. It has a 5-inch FWVGA screen, powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. As usual it has dual SIM support and comes with 3G ...

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