Coolpad and its parent LeEco will launch the much-anticipated mid-range smartphone Cool 1 in India on Wednesday at a starting price of around Rs 11,000. The phone was launched in Chine in late August, and the company has taken four months to make it available in its second biggest market. However, on the positive side, […]
Lenovo, the Chinese smartphone giant that heralded the smartphone revolution in India with its ultra-affordable models like A6000, is all set to release the latest of its K series models — the K6 Power sometime early next week. Does the phone promise anything interesting? Should you hold off on your planned purchase till you get […]
LeEco’s latest high-end handset, the Le Max3, has just passed certification in China and carries the model number Le X850. Much of the specifications of the phone are along expected lines and do not change radically from Le Max2, which is the cheapest Snapdragon 820-based phone in India. The model, which comes with a 5.7-inch […]
Are you wondering about buying the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, but worried about lack of 4G voice on it? Are you disappointed about the lack of big compelling deals on new mobile phones in the Diwali offers issued by Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal and so on this year? Worry not. Samsung Galaxy On8 is here. The […]
In about two hours, Lenovo will unveil its latest flagship in India — the Vibe K5 Note. As the launch draws near, nearly every tech news outlet is predicting a price of around Rs 14,000 for the phone, based on the cost of acquiring the phone in China. In its home market, Lenovo introduced the phone six […]
Redmi Note 3, arguably the most sought-after phone in India along with LeEco Le 2, is now available on Tata Group’s new ecommerce portal at Rs 11,400 for Axis Bank customers. Tata Group — one of the biggest offline retailers in India — entered the competitive online retail market two months ago, naming its website CliQ. […]
Huawei, which has not had much luck in India in the last two years, is set to launch the P9 — a sophisticated camera phone in the same price range as the Xiaomi Mi5 and Le Max 2 — early next month. The P9 is the first dual-camera phone to come to the Indian market […]
After initially not allowing users to post their reviews of Le 2, Flipkart has begun publishing customer feedback about LeEco’s latest mass market smartphone, and it’s a mixed bag. Predictably, the Le 2 scores high in terms of performance, but feedback suggests two key weakpoints versus main rival Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 — display quality and […]
Demand continues to be strong for Le 2, the second mass-market phone launched by LeEco in India. The phone was sold out in a matter of seconds on Flipkart when sales started at 12 PM today. The device is arguably the most attractive handset in India in terms of value for money. For Rs 12,000, […]
Which are the hottest selling new phones in India? The answer, for most people, would be LeEco Le 2 and Lenovo Vibe K5. The two models started becoming available in the last two weeks, and have already sold in their tens of thousands, if not lakhs. Yet, if you were looking for user reviews of […]
Xiaomi is all set to launch its biggest phone, the Mi Max, in India in a few minutes and has provided a live stream for its fans to watch the unveiling live. With a 6.44-inch display, the Mi Max will compete with Lenovo’s PHAB Plus, which comes with a 6.8-inch screen. The PHAB Plus is […]
LeEco, the Chinese ‘ecosystem player’ that arguably offers the best value-for-money smartphones in India, 61,000 of its second-generation smartphones worth Rs 72 crore on Day 1 of its sales. The company sold the Le 2 and its more expensive cousin, the Le Max 2, yesterday on LeMall.com and Flipkart at prices of Rs 11,999 and 22,999 […]
In a surprise move, listed online retailer Infibeam has started offering 32 GB versions of Xiaomi’s much-in-demand-ever-so-elusive Redmi Note 3 phone on its website. This is at a time when the phone has gone out of stock on other websites like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon. Infibeam was not listed among the suppliers for the phone, […]
The next-generation of chips is all set to hit the Indian affordable smartphone market with the launch of Huawei 5C phone in the country today. Unlike older chipsets like MT6753 and Snapdragon 410 — which are built on legacy 28 nm technology — the Huawei 5C flaunts the new Kirin 650 processor from HiSilicon, the chipmaking […]
Le 2, the latest mass market smartphone from LeEco, got off to a decent, though not overwhelming, start to its first flash sale in India. In the first 24 hours, 1.5 lakh people signed up for the sale that will be conducted next Tuesday. The number is decent, but could also indicate flagging demand for such phones […]
OnePlus 3, the latest from the start-up phonemaker, is now available with online seller Amazon India via an open sale, just a day after the phone was announced globally. Whatever your complaints have been about OnePlus’ products, the dreaded queue-system will not be one any more. This marks a different distribution approach from the company compared to any of its […]
LeEco, the Chinese brand that has shaken up the smartphone market in India, is all set to launch two SuperTVs in India — the X55 and the X65. The models were launched recently in China and come with 3840 x 2160 4K resolution and 4000:1 contrast ratio. They also come with Mstar 6A938 chip and […]
Meizu M3 Note, arguably the most value-for-money handset in the mid-range market along with LeEco’s Le 2, is now available under open sale on Amazon. The phone had gone on flash sale earlier this week and it looks like demand for the handset has slackened, making enough stocks available for the company to conduct an […]
Demand for Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 3 32 GB version continues to remain very strong despite the launch of newer models like the Meizu M3 Note and the upcoming launch of LeEco Le 2. The phone was sold out soon after it was put on open sale at 10 AM today, even as the 16 GB […]
With one week to go before the launch of the much anticipated Le 2, LeEco has cut the price of its most successful model in India, the Le 1s, by Rs 1,000 to make space for the new model. The Le 2 is the upgraded-generation version of the Le 1s, and was released about a […]
