Xiaomi recently announced their latest products that include a tablet running on Windows 10. The Mi Pad 2 supports with a large 6,190mAh battery which supports 5V/2A fast charging via USB Type-C port.























Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 Specifications:
◾Processor: Intel Atom Quad-core X5-Z8500, 2.24GHz
◾RAM: 2GB dual-channel LPDDR3 RAM
◾Internal Storage: 64GB
◾Display: 7.9-inch IPS display | 2048 x 1536 resolution, 326PPI
◾Camera: 8MP f/2.0 primary camera | 5MP front camera
◾Battery: 6190mAh battery with 5V/2A fast charging
◾Dimensions: 200.4 x 132.6 x 6.95mm
◾Weight: 322 grams
◾Windows 10

This upcoming tablet will be available in two colors: dark grey or champagne gold. The 16GB version of this tablet will cost $156 and 64GB will cost $203. and will go on sale in late December in mainland China.

I’m a big fan of cheap phones, an obsession that’s been well documented. I’ve tried the Moto G, Nexus 5, and OnePlus One, and have loved them all. I’m completely convinced that a great smartphone and an expensive smartphone are not mutually exclusive. The new $250 OnePlus X is proof.

Yes. That phone pictured above is $250, no contracts. If you want to get even more fancy, there’s a porcelain option for $350. It looks great, too:

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In person, the design feels a little iPhone 5-ish with the camera placement and the flat edges and Sony Xperia Z-like with the glass backpanel. But OnePlus says the move away from positioning the camera in the center was simply an issue of sensor space within the phone itself, and the edges actually have 7 notches that go around the device so its a little more textured that just straight aluminum.
As for the back, the glass actually bubbles up from the sides instead of just a flat pane straight across like an Xperia phone. OnePlus founder Carl Pei told us that the inspiration for the backplate came from the convex meniscus of an overflowing glass of water. Long story short, it’s what the iPhone display does but it’s on the back.
The porcelain version is slightly different. Instead of a curved edge, there’s a sharper angle that slopes toward the bezel, but from a distance you can barely tell the difference. The only unfortunate inheritance from using glass and porcelain is the X quickly becomes a fingerprint nightmare, so if you have OCD polishing tendencies, maybe avoid this guy—or keep a cloth handy.

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With a great-looking design, the OnePlus X carries that same head-scratching, “how the hell is this possible” feeling as the original One, but the best way to think of it is a actually a combination of the original OnePlus One and the new(er) OnePlus 2, all encased in glass or porcelain.
There were a few corners cut to reach that price with the biggest one being the processor. With Qualcomm nearing the release of the 820, the silicon most likely in all the best phones for 2016, the OnePlus X trends in the opposite direction and packs in a Snapdragon 801, the same processor used in 2014’s OnePlus One.
OnePlus founder Carl Pei says he’s confident with the processor, mentioning that it was basically “the chip that built OnePlus” in the first place and can still outclass the 400 and 600 series usually found in sub-$300 phones. But if you want your phone to be more future proof, you might think differently.
The OnePlus X also takes a few things from the latest OnePlus flagship, including the hardware button on the right that can quickly set notifications to all, priority, or none. It also runs Oxygen OS, the OnePlus homegrown Android mod that debuted on the OnePlus 2, but with one an added feature—an FM radio.
The OS is still based on Lollipop, but Pei says a Marshmallow build is coming and that many features, like Doze and Quick Settings customization, is already available on Oxygen OS albeit OnePlus’ own implementation.

But there are a few new things OnePlus is trying out this time around—and not just the crazy porcelain idea. The OnePlus X is the first phone from the company to use a 5-inch, full HD AMOLED display. To take advantage of AMOLED’s energy-saving powers, OnePlus added a lot of blacks to the UI to not only match the already dark exterior but also keep those pixels turned off and not burning through your battery.
The X will be for sale starting November 5, with the porcelain version coming later as a limited release (only 10,000 phones worldwide). For the first month, OnePlus will use the old invite system as they ramp up production, but after a month, they’ll begin periods of direct sales as well.
The OnePlus X is shockingly good looking, especially in the context of how much it costs. It successfully walks that often perilous line between cheap-looking and overly gaudy when phones try to reach both the fashion-conscious and the budget-conscious.
But the eternal question still lingers. Were too many performance corners cut in sacrifice to price? We’ll know much more once we get our hands on one.


Porcelain (left) and Onyx

OnePlus X Specs

• OS: Oxygen OS 5.1 based on Android 5.1
• CPU: Snapdragon 801 processor
• Screen: 5-inch 1920x1080 AMOLED (441 PPI)
• RAM: 3GB
• Storage: 16GB + MicroSD up to 128GB
• Camera: 13 megapixel rear (f/2.2 and 1080p video) / 8 megapixel front
• Battery: 2,525 mAh
• Dimensions: 5.51 x 2.72 x 0.27 inches
• Weight: 4.86 ounces (5.64 w/ ceramic)
• Colors: Onyx and Ceramic
• Price and Availability: $250 - $350 (depending on material); Available November 5
• Extra Notes: SIM tray can use nano SIM and microsSD or a microSIM, no USB Type-C

Gionee’s global product launch event in Beijing made official two of the more highly anticipated phones of late.

 The Elife E8 comes with flagship specs and focuses on photography, while the Marathon M5 aims to impress with battery life.

 Gionee also launched the Gionee Wallet mobile wallet system in collaboration with WeBank. In an emailed statement, Arvind R. Vohra, Country (India) CEO & MD of Gionee Smartphones, said "Both M3 & E7 have seen massive success in the Indian market and with the announcement of the power packed M5 and next gen E8 we are sure that the Indian smartphone market will experience the future technology today," tipping a launch in India in the near future. The company at the launch of the Gionee Elife S7 in India had indicated the same.

my thoughts regarding this release is a bit uncertain , we are seeing smartphones getting cheaper and cheaper  every day,at this time people are less likely to buy a chines  flagship. what were gionee thinking while launching these beast? well  one thing is for sure this is not ment for markets like india.

well what do you think , will you buy a 40,000(or 30,000) rs smartphone that's made in china and does not have any service centers

see the detailed spec and report here

what do yo think about these smartphones? do comment.....

 

Thinking of selling your old Android smartphone? Watch out, as its data may be retrievable even after wiping it, finds a Cambridge study.

User data is routinely retrievable from second-hand Android devices that have been wiped through a factory reset, the Cambridge study warned.
Most Android handsets offer no easily acce

Windows Phone developers are highly suspicious these days. 

Commenters on websites where Windows developers chat are abuzz with claims that Google is trying to strangle the platform by cutting advertising. 

Could it be true that Google is trying to strangle the viability of developers creating apps for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone? 

It has been almost a year since OnePlus One hit the stores, but it still remains one of the best mid-range flagship smartphones available in the market. And now all eyes are on its successor.

Some features of OnePlus 2, as the successor is being called at present, have leaked online courtesy benchmarking app GeekBench. Though the app names the device OnePlus One A2001, it is widely considered to be OnePlus 2 since the original smartphone's model number is A1001.

The data shows that the unit being tested is running on Android 5.1 (Lollipop); OnePlus may, therefore, use the Oxygen OS software based on the latest build of Android.

On the hardware side, OnePlus 2 will run on Qualcomm's high-end 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 810 chipset, the data shows. Interestingly, the clock speed of the unit tested on GeekBench is limited to just 1.55GHz. Like the first-generation model, OnePlus 2 will have 3GB of RAM.

Previously, the company has confirmed that OnePlus 2 will be unveiled in the third quarter of 2015. Rumour mill suggests that it will be priced approximately $400, whereas the predecessor was priced at $299 at launch.

Microsoft said Thursday its Bing search engine would be reconfigured to give more prominence to "mobile-friendly" websites, an acknowledgment of the growing importance of smartphones and other mobile devices.

The announcement comes just weeks after Google implemented a similar shift. The moves by the two search engines could have big implications for website operators, advertisers and for those who seek to optimize search rankings.

"Based on data from user's interaction with Bing, we have seen that mobile users are able to satisfy their information needs much faster on searches that return more mobile-friendly results," said Microsoft's Shyam Jayasankar in a blog post.

"With that in mind, we will be rolling out mobile friendliness as a signal in ranking."
Microsoft said however that mobile friendliness would be just one of the factors considered when displaying search results.

"This means that for mobile searches on Bing, you can always expect to see the most relevant results for a search query ranked higher, even if some of them are not mobile-friendly," said Jayasankar.
He said pages that are highly relevant to a search will not get penalized even as mobile-friendly pages get a boost.

"This is a fine balance and getting it right took a few iterations, but we believe we are now close," Jayasankar said.
He said the changes are expected "in the coming months."

More than half of Internet searches worldwide are estimated to be made on mobile phones, a trend that is driven by developing countries where smartphone use is higher than that of computers.

 

Ranking mobile-friendly webpages criteria:

1.Navigation

2. Readability

3. Scrolling 

4. Compatibility  

 

for detailed blog post click here 

Xolo Prime with Android 5.0 Lollipop,1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB RAM,launched for  5699INR
It comes with  a 4.5 inches IPS-LCD, 16M color display featuring 480 x 854 pixel resolution and 218 ppi

other features of the phone include

Operating System and Processor

Operating System	Android 5.0, Lollipop
Processor	Quad Core 1.3 GHz, Mediatek MT6582M
GPU	Yes, Mali-400

Sensors
Accelerometer
Proximity
Dimension

Design	Bar
Size	135 x 68 x 9.5 mm

Camera

Rear Camera	5 MP, 2592 х 1944 pixels, autofocus
Front Camera	0.3 MP
Flash	LED
Video Recording	720p

Memory

RAM	1 GB
Internal Memory	8 GB
Expandable	32 GB, Micro SD card

Network

2G, GSM : 900/1800/1900
3G, WCDMA : 900/2100

Battery

Capacity	1800mAh
Type	Removable
Talktime	21 hrs
Standby Time	500 hrs

Lenovo's A7000 budget 4G LTE-enabled smartphone will go on sale again on Wednesday. The fifth flash sale will commence at 2pm IST for registered users on Flipkart.

Lenovo India, at the time of writing, had not revealed the number of Lenovo A7000 units that will be going on sale in the flash sale on Wednesday. The last sale saw 20,000 units going out of stock in 31 seconds.

 

Unfortunately, the company never revealed the number of Lenovo A7000 units that went on sale in the fourth and third flash sales as well as the time taken for the

 The micromax yu cyanogen powerd smartphone will be receiving its android 5.0 lollipop update shortly with the new cyanogen mod 12


Rahul Sharma ,the co-founder and CEO of yu, reviles that the os is submitted for testing and certification by Google and our experts think that since the roll out is still so late the company will be pushing itself to make the roll-out as fast as possible.

WHATS FRESH IN CM M12??

YU has announced that they are planning to launch a new smartphone codenamed Project Caesar which is expected to be the elder  brother of the YU  yureka smartphone.
Can you guess its name?? well yu has given as an opportunity to name its new cyanogen  powered smart phone

Regarding the upcoming smartphone and the contest, YU said:

YU is focused on revolutionizing the mobility experience through highly customizable and individuality driven technology. After the enormous success of its first device YUREKA, Project Caesar is the next big thing to watch out for from YU and who better than the tech-enthusiasts to pick the name for it.

Latest addition to Xiaomi Redmi series ,Xiaomi Redmi 2A announced for approximately $82 USD , featuring a 4.7-inch HD display, 1.5GHz quad-core  SoC processor and  4G LTE support

redmi 2a was announces in china as the 5th anniversary pres

ent from xiaomi, instead of going with the Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC processor the company has decided to go with Leadcore L1860C processor

   XIAOMI REDMI A2 SPECS

                            Display                                                                          :                    4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS

                            Processor                                                                      :                    1.5 GHz quad-core LCI L1860C 

                            GPU                                                                              :                     Mali T628 dual-core GPU

                            RAM                                                                              :                     1GB

                            Internal memory                                                          :                    8GB(micro SD card up to 32GB)

                            OS                                                                                 :                     MIUI v6 on top of Android 4.4 (KitKat)

                            SIM                                                                                :                    Dual SIM

                            Primary Camera                                                           :                     8MP rear camera with LED Flash,

                                                                                                                                         BSI sensor, f/2.2 aperture,

                                                                                                                                         Omnivision sensor, 

                                                                                                                                         1080p video recording

                           Secondary Camera                                                       :                     2MP front-facing camera, 

                                                                                                                                         720P HD video recording

                          Network                                                                         :                      4G LTE/3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, 

                                                                                                                                         Bluetooth 4.0, GPS

                          BATTERY                                                                     :                      2200mAh

The Xiaomi Redmi 2A comes in White, Dark gray, Bright Yellow, Light Green and Pink colors and is priced at 599 Yuan (US$ 97 / 6,049 approx.) originally, but is available at 499 Yuan (US$ 80 / 5,035 approx.) only on April 8th. No details about the global roll out yet.

ASUS has finally reviled the launch date of the most awaited Intel powered zenfone 2 in India. The company is expecting to launch all its variants in India by the end of April.

Zenfone 2 is a feature packed phone featuring 3 variants -ZE500CL(5" 720 HD & 2gb RAM) , ZE550mL(HD & 2gb RAM) & ZE551mL(5.5" 1080 HD & 4gb RAM)

With Microsoft’s Windows 10 update is coming to both desktop and mobile devices later this summer ,leaks and news about  the all new spartan browser is getting hotter by the minute

Microsoft revealed how Windows 10 will look on a smartphone Wednesday during its big press event. Now the company has offered a close look at how its new "Project Spartan" browser will look on a mobile screen.

 This promising browser offers tons of improvements compared to our current experience with Internet explorer 11,
the leaked Spartan images indicate that the address bar has moved to the top of the screen, and a Hub section is now present, likely to store articles for offline reading. Furthermore, the “hamburger” menu has apparently been replaced with ellipses.

Unfortunately, the browser is still in very early stages of development. Microsoft did not have any demos on hand for the media yesterday, and we are likely months off before it comes to the Insider program.

Recently Microsoft’s Gabe Aul has posted an update regarding the status of the Windows 10 Mobile Technical Preview program . microsoft explains that it had to select phones that had sufficient partition sizes. While that limited the number of phones that could handle the Technical Preview, Microsoft has come up with a way to increase the number of handsets that will receive the next Technical Preview.

Thanks to a process called "partition stitching," Microsoft can re-size the partition dynamically, allowing the update to be sent to more models. The "partition stitching" was tested last week by Microsoft. The company says that another week of engineering is needed to make sure that the next Technical Preview will be representative of Windows 10 for all of the units that will be allowed to install it.

according to the update the following list of phones are expected to receive the next build of technical preview by next week

• Lumia 1020
• Lumia 1320
• Lumia 1520
• Lumia 520
• Lumia 525
• Lumia 526
• Lumia 530
• Lumia 530 Dual Sim
• Lumia 535
• Lumia 620
• Lumia 625
• Lumia 630
• Lumia 630 Dual Sim
• Lumia 635
• Lumia 636
• Lumia 638
• Lumia 720
• Lumia 730
• Lumia 730 Dual SIM
• Lumia 735
• Lumia 810
• Lumia 820
• Lumia 822
• Lumia 830
• Lumia 920
• Lumia 925
• Lumia 928
• Lumia ICON
• Microsoft Lumia 430
• Microsoft Lumia 435
• Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM
• Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM DTV
• Microsoft Lumia 532
• Microsoft Lumia 532 Dual SIM
• Microsoft Lumia 640 Dual SIM
• Microsoft Lumia 535 Dual SIM

Microsoft cautions that the phones listed above are not 100% locked into receiving the preview. If a bug shows up on a particular handset during testing, that model might be removed from the list. If the Windows Phone model you own is on the list now, you might just want to keep your fingers crossed hoping that it stays there.