It’s been months in coming, but finally it looks like dual-mode (or world-mode) GSM-CDMA Android phones are here with the Gionee F103. UPDATE: The model launched in India has CDMA facility turned off. However, HTC has launched the Desire 728g CDMA-GSM mobile phone — based on MediaTek MT6753 — in India at Rs 17,000. Please […]
When Mukesh Ambani said earlier today that 4G LTE phone prices will decline to Rs 4,000 from Rs 7,000 over the next six months, many probably thought he was being optimistic. But not ZTE, the Chinese telecom major that has largely been content to play second fiddle to others like Huawei, Xiaomi and Lenovo in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Back in October, MediaTek, the Taiwanese chipmaker that practically ruled India’s low- and mid- range smartphone market, announced that by December, India would see several smartphones powered by its first LTE chip MT6595. December’s over. January’s also over, and February is almost over. Yet, India is yet to see the flood of LTE handsets powered […]
The HTC Desire 820s, the MediaTek version of its mid-range Desire 820 phone, is now available in select stores in India at a price of about 21,000. However, the official price of the phone will be around 19,999, according to distributor sources. The phone will be widely available by next week. The phone is the […]
