Can HTC One E9 Plus cope with Samsung Galaxy S6 after price cut?

HTC One E9 Plus, the Taiwanese company’s latest high-end model for the cost-conscious customers, is now available in India at a price of Rs 36,000 and is, at first glance, the most value-for-money high-end phone in India right now. But can it really hold its own against other quad-HD competitors like Nexus 6 (price Rs […]

LG G4 launching in India this month, price Rs 50k; HTC E9+, M9+ in target

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 […]

ARM-MediaTek-TSMC combo could threaten Intel’s market by year end

New benchmark scores for MediaTek’s implementation of ARM Holdings’ latest core design indicate that MediaTek and ARM are likely to have potential chips suitable for notebooks, servers and even desktop PCs by the end of this year or early next year. These chips would be potentially more powerful than those found in the new Apple […]

Full-HD Asus Zenfone 2 to carry price of Rs 16k, 20k & 24k in India

The three full-HD versions of upcoming smartphone, Asus Zenfone 2, will be priced at Rs 15,990, Rs 19,990 and Rs 23,990, and will be thrice as powerful as existing Zenfones in India, according to our sources. All the three upcoming Zenfone 2 models will have powerful quad-core Intel Z3580 Silvermont processors released in Q2 of […]

Flipkart offers app discounts on mobiles and TVs – Xperia Z3 for Rs 35,500

India’s biggest e-retailer Flipkart is offering special discounts on its ‘big app shopping days’ from today through Wednesday, including on mobiles, TVs, tablets and clothes. The highlights of the offer are the discounts on items that are exclusively sold through Flipkart – such as mobile phones from brands like Motorola. Another interesting offer is that […]

Quad-HD Samsung Galaxy A9 coming to India this month after A7 success?

After the tremendous success of its cheaper, metallic A series phones such as A5 and A7, Samsung is gearing up to launch a quad-HD variant, known as A9, at the end of this month or early in April, according to a Delhi-based distributor. “They have seen tremendous demand for the A series, especially A7,” said […]

MediaTek MT6795 beats Snapdragon 810 in Geekbench 3

The upcoming 64-bit LTE chipset from MediaTek, MT6795, has beaten the Snapdragon 810 chipset in Geekbench 3, which measures core processor capability. UPDATE – More results have come forth that show MediaTek MT6795 score above 1,000 single core and 5,400 all-core. Similarly, the HTC M9, powered by S 810, scores around 3,800 on GeekBench 3. […]