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Flickr gets a revamp offers 1TB free storage to all

Ram — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:56:02 +0000

Yahoo acquired Tumblr yesterday in a billion dollar deal, that is not the only news coming out of Yahoo. It announced a new design for Flickr with 1 terabyte of free storage to all including bigger photos upload and many more changes. This is indeed a surprise, as Yahoo neglected Flickr from quite some time. [...]

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro announced officially for Rs. 17,290

Ram — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:19:49 +0000

Samsung has officially launched Galaxy Grand Quattro in India today for Rs. 17,290. After the success of Galaxy Grand duos Samsung is launching this phone to compete with local players like Micromax and Karbonn. Galaxy Grand Quattro is a dual-sim Android smartphone also known as Win Duos internationally. It is already appeared few days back [...]

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Jolla announces first Sailfish based smartphone with Android app compatibility

Ram — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:02:43 +0000

Jolla has announced today it’s first smartphone based on the Sailfish OS. Sailfish is based on the MeeGo platform from Nokia. Former Nokia employees formed Jolla to continue the development of MeeGo platform, that is now called Sailfish and the first smartphone with this OS announced today. The smartphone is just called Jolla and will [...]

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White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 coming June 10th, Report

Ram — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:56:59 +0000

Everyone expected that Google will announce the next version of Android OS at Google I/O this year. But Google surprised all by holding the Android announcement, but fear not, the latest rumors suggest that we may not have to wait too long to lay our hands on the next version of Android. According to Androidandme [...]

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Panasonic P51 Android smartphone launched for Rs. 26,990

Ram — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:07:33 +0000

Panasonic has entered the fast growing Indian smartphone market with P51 as the first smartphone in a series of launched expected this year. Panasonic is very ambitious about is plans in the Indian market, it is aiming for 8 percent market share in the first year itself. It is dual SIM phone with Stylus included. [...]

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Google launches Hangouts, a unified messaging app for Android, iOS and Chrome

Ram — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:38:46 +0000

Google has launched a unified messaging app Hangouts at Google I/O, it will replace all Google’s messaging apps like Gmail chat, Google+ messenger etc. Google took so long to release something like this which works with all Google services. Earlier it was rumored to be called Babel, but Google announced it as Hangouts, the term [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Nexus device is coming June 26th for $649 in Google Play

Ram — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:09:30 +0000

Samsung’s this year flagship Galaxy S4 came to Google I/O as a nexus Device. Google didn’t give it an official Nexus device name but as of any Nexus phone the Galaxy S4 will also run on stock Android. The Galaxy S4 will be available from June 26th for $649 and will be sold through Google [...]

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Google Play Music “All Access” subscription service priced at $9.99/ month

Ram — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:46:59 +0000

Earlier today reports from multiple sources suggested that Google is launching a music service. Google launched the same named All Access at Google I/O today. The music streaming service is similar to Spotify, it offers users on demand music streaming. It is a subscription based service and users will have to pay $9.99/ month for [...]

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Google Play Game Services Announced at Google I/O

Ram — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:12:59 +0000

From the leaks in the past few days we know that Google is going to make some announcement related gaming on Google Play. As the leaks suggested Google has announced the Google Play Game Services today at Google I/O developer conference. The new gaming service supports multiplayer, leaderboards, achievements and saving the game data and [...]

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Nexus 4 Listed on Flipkart for Rs. 25,990, Pre-Order Now

Ram — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:49:24 +0000

Update: Flipkart listing is updated, the status is now changed to pre-order now. You can pre-order the phone for earlier mentioned price Rs. 25,990. The listing shows the estimated delivery date as 4th week of May 2013. It’s finally here! The Google Nexus 4 is up for preorder – Zero Processing Fee on 3 & [...]

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