It looks like ‘affordable’ flagship phone maker OnePlus is taking a leaf from Xiaomi’s playbook and not going the way of higher and higher resolution displays. According to the latest Antutu benchmarking details of OnePlus 3 leaked by a Weibo user, the phone will have a full-HD display just like its predecessor OnePlus 2. Many […]
Google could release one of world’s first truly modular mobile device — one with user-replaceable parts — as early as next month and it won’t be a tablet, but a smartphone, according to person close to the company’s Project Ara unit. “People are saying it’s a tablet because a benchmarking site said the screen size was […]
Micromax sister company Yu Televentures is all set to launch its new model Yu6000 to take on mid-range devices such as the Lenovo K4 Note, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and LeEco 1s later this month. But can the new 6-inch phone compete? On paper, the Yu 6000 should at least be able to take on the […]
Lenovo sold 45,000 units of its entry-level-mid-range smartphone Vibe K5 Plus today in an open sale on Flipkart, marking the first time ever that so many phones have been sold via the open route in a single day in India. While even larger quantities of phones — about 80,000 — have been sold by LeEco […]
Stung by criticism from its fans, Xiaomi India has clarified that more stock of its Redmi Note 3 is on its way from China to India. “We are indeed going to bring in the 32GB very soon. Hang in there, the beast is already on its way,” the company said in response to complaints by […]
Fans are eagerly waiting for information on whether or not the 32-GB version of Redmi Note 3 will be put up for sale on March 30, the date of the next flash sale. While the invite for today’s sale initially said ’32 GB and 16 GB’ and was later corrected to ’16 GB’ only, Amazon’s […]
For the third week in a row, Xiaomi and Amazon sold an unspecified number of Redmi Note 3 smartphones in India. While in the first two weeks, the companies sold a small number of 32-GB models in addition to the 16-GB variants, this time, they made it clear that only the cheaper model was on […]
Lenovo K5 Plus, the successor the enormously successful A6000 series, is all set to go on open sale in less than two hours on Flipkart, but at Rs 8,499 — can it really compete against models like Coolpad Note 3 Lite and Xiaomi Redmi Note 3? Besides, can it overcome the divide between entry-level and […]
Amazon has dropped the 32 GB version of Redmi Note 3 from its flash sale registration page, indicating that Xiaomi has suspended sales of the 32 GB version in India after selling an estimated 2,000-4,000 pieces. In comparison, an estimated 5-10 mln people are expected to have shown an interest in the model by registering for […]
The launch date of Reliance Jio’s 4G service has been pushed back by 15 days to Apr 15, said a Kerala-based partner of the upcoming mobile operator. “They informed us that the (new) date is Apr 15,” he said. The first launch date given to the distributor was in “early March“. This was however postponed to […]
It looks like the rivalry between Xiaomi and its home-bred competitor LeTV is all set to get even hotter with the launch of Xiaomi Mi5 in India next month. At roughly the same time, LeTV will bring its latest flagship, the Snapdragon 820-powered Le 2 Pro, into India. Unlike the modest 5.15-inch full-HD display on Mi5, the […]
HTC 10 will be launched in India sometime around the middle of next month and will carry an market operating price of around Rs 40,000-42,000, according to distributor sources. The pricing will make the phone, also known as HTC M10, the cheapest flagship launched by the Taiwnese company in India and is sure to hot […]
It was supposed to be the big comeback model for Xiaomi in India, but the Redmi Note 3 seems to be failing to perform according to the considerable expectations placed on the model, and not due to any problem with the handset either. The biggest drawback is something quite unexpected — nearly all the models […]
The price Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus, the first entry-level phone in India to come with a full-HD display, is Rs 8,499 in India. It will be available only on Flipkart, and there will be no flash sales. “It will be available on open sale from Wednesday at 12 pm,” Lenovo said. The phone is the successor […]
Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus, the first entry-level phone in India to come with a full-HD display, will get an official price at an event in New Delhi today at 12 pm. UPDATE: Price in India is Rs 8,499 and availability will be on demand starting from 12 pm next Wednesday on Flipkart. Lenovo, the king […]
It was supposed to be a Thank You tweet from Xiaomi, but instead it turned out to be a platform for fans to express how disappointed they were about the “low number” of Redmi Note 3 phones that were put up for sale today. Fans were evidently upset that they couldn’t lay their hands on […]
The official flash sale of Redmi Note 3 may have ended with more disappointed people compared to happy ones, but that doesn’t mean that the phone is not available online any more. People who booked the phone have started reselling them on classified websites such as Quikr and OLX, within minutes of the flash sale […]
The first Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 flash sale got sold out literally in the blink of an eye. Even the waitlist on Amazon.in was filled almost instantly. It is possible that people were using software-based booking, which could have resulted in such a fast emptying out of the stocks. It is also possible that the […]
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, the most exciting phone from the Chinese brand in India after the Mi3 two years ago, is all set to go on its first flash sale on Amazon and Mi.com today at 2 PM. While details about the phone have been revealed, what remains to be seen is how good the […]
Samsung has priced its Galaxy S7 edge smartphone at Rs 56,900 and the smaller version at Rs 48,900. It is also giving away free Gear VR headsets to anyone who books the phone before March 17. The Galaxy S7 is seen as one of the top 3 phones available in the world right now, and […]
