Intel has finally revealed the prices of its first Broadwell desktop processors – the i5-5675C and the i7-5775C, marking the era of 14-nanometer chips in the desktop world. Intel’s fifth-generation Core i desktop processors are coming exactly 9 months after the first Broadwell chips – the Core M aimed at laptops – were announced. The new Broadwell […]
Just a couple of years ago, buying a 4G LTE dongle to use with Airtel’s 4G service meant shelling out Rs 7,500 or so. Today, LTE dongle prices have crashed and the latest entrant to the market is the Huawei E3276, which supports 4G, 3G and 2G. The E3276 is available in the market for […]
Coolpad Group, also known as Coolpad Dazen, has chosen Snapdeal as its official and exclusive partner for its India entry, giving the Delhi-based e-commerce player a crucial victory in its fight against bigger peers Amazon and Flipkart. Flipkart has landed most of the exclusive launches in India, and according to our estimate, has a market […]
It looks like Windows Phone is about to enter a whole new era in India with the launch of the iBall Slide i701 seven-inch tablet. While the tablet, which offers a 7-inch, HD IPS display and a quad-core Atom processor, may not be the best device in the market, it’s certainly unbelievably low-priced at just […]
Microsoft’s latest entry-level smartphone, Lumia 540, is now available in India at a price of Rs 10,000, but it will struggle to compete with the recently launched Lumia 640, which is available at the exact same price from Flipkart. The only area where the Lumia 540 has an advantage over its competitor is in still […]
HTC Desire 326g, the Taiwanese company’s cheapest smartphone to be launched in India in over a year, will be available around the end of this month at a price of around Rs 7,999, taking on the Huawei Honor Bee and other entry level models such as Honor 4C. At present, the cheapest recent offering from […]
One of the questions any investor in Internet stocks must come to terms with is the future of Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), and how it will be impacted by the rise of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). Should you bet on the search giant or the social networking giant? Can Facebook ever be as good as Google in […]
Meizu M1 Note be officially launched in India on Monday, with a price of around Rs 14,000-15,000 – taking on the Xiaomi Mi 4i and the Zenfone 2. According to our sources, Meizu M1 Note could even be priced at parity with Xiaomi Mi4i – or at Rs 13,000, as a way to create an […]
Rupert Murdoch-owned Start India – one of India’s biggest broadcasting companies – has come out strongly against the Indian telecom regulator’s move to let telecom operators side-step the so-called net neutrality principles in the country. UPDATE: Airtel Digital has removed all Star channels from all its packs. https://ultra.news/s-e/38651/bhartis-airtel-digital-removes-all-star-india-channels-from-its-packs Star India, formerly Start TV, wondered why […]
First the good news – the LG G4, the Korean company’s first flagship with 64-bit hardware support, is being launched in India this month. Now the bad news – the phone, at a price of around Rs 50,000, offers very little practical differentiation over predecessor LG G3, priced at just Rs 36,000. The only major […]
Finally, Android Lolipop has hit the entry-level market, with Micromax and Lava both launching low-priced models with Android 5 – Lava Iris Alfa L and Micromax Unite 3. The Lava Iris Alfa L is definitely the more interesting of the two thanks to its large, 5.5-inch display. The phone, priced at Rs 7,500, has an […]
Samsung will launch its much awaited Galaxy J5 in India this month, followed closely by the J7, according to distributor sources. The 5-inch Galaxy J5 will be priced around Rs 12,000, while the larger J7 will be priced closer to Rs 15,000. As reported earlier, the J Series is the lowest priced in the new […]
The Lenovo S60, the non-budget version of the Lenovo A6000 Plus, is available in select stores in India at a price of around Rs 14,000. The phone, which is costlier than even the Lenovo A7000, has features that set it apart from Lenovo’s two A series budget phones. The main difference is that the S60, […]
Microsoft is planning to launch LTE-enabled versions of its Lumia 640 and 640 XL in India by the end of this month or early next month, a distributor privy to the information said. The Lumia 640 is currently priced at Rs 11,999 and the LTE version of the phone would be priced around Rs 15,000, […]
Over the past nine months or so, the Indian mobile phone market has undergone a sea-change due to the entry of Chinese giants such as Xiaomi, OnePlus, Vivo and Gionee. Now, the last remaining biggie – Meizu has made its presence felt in India with Meizu MX4 and Meilan Note M1 making debuts in select […]
With every passing day almost, the next-generation ARM Cortex A72 processor core continues to surprise with its robust performance in benchmarking charts. The ARM Cortex A72 is the new heavy-hitter processor technology from UK’s ARM Holdings that will feature in nearly all high-end, and some mid-range, processors that are going to be launched starting from […]
BlackBerry is offering special promotions to those who buy its BlackBerry 10 series phones from Infibeam.com. Besides a discount of up to Rs 10,000, buyers of BlackBerry 10 Smartphones can get 1 GB data free for 2 months on purchase of BlackBerry Z3 and 2 GB data free for 2 months on purchase of BlackBerry […]
The main argument put forward by telecom operators in the ongoing net neutrality consultation with regulator TRAI is that they are forced to pay a lot of levies, which the apps do not pay any of them. This, according to the service providers, creates a ‘non level playing field’ and therefore, the app providers, such […]
Huawei, the Chinese giant that has so far been absent in the entry-level 4G LTE market in India so far, plans to make a strong debut in this segment early next month – taking on the Xiaomi Redmi 2, Moto E 4G and Lenovo A6000 Plus. Like the Lenovo model, Huawei’s “cheap LTE phone” will […]
Microsoft Lumia 540, the upgraded version of the company’s mid-range phone Lumia 535, is all set to hit the Indian market in the next few days, according to distributor sources, though pricing details are unavailable. It will be the first 500 series Lumia phone to come with an HD display, making it virtually identical to […]
