Thursday 26 December 2013

Gionee Elife E7 launched in India

Gionee has officially unveiled Wlife E7 in India starting Rs. 26,999. The Chinese handset maker has announced that the smartphone will hit the market by January 15. Goinee globally announced the Elife E7 in November this year, the successor to the Elife E6.

The Gionee Wlife E7 runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with the company’s custom Amigo 2.0 UI laye on top, much like its predessor. The gionee Wlife E7 comes with single SIM support.

It features a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920) OGS (One Glass Solution) IPS display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The Gionee Elife sports a 16 megapicel autofioocus rear camera accompained by an LED flash and also includes an 8-megapixel fornt-facing camera.

It comes in two variants. The first one, priced at Rs. 26,999, comes with 2GB RAM, !6GB and is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 clocked at 2.2 GHz. The 32GB variant with 3GB RAM and a 2.5GHz processor is priced Rs. 29,999.

The Gionee Elife E7 packs a 2500mAh battery. Connectivity options on the Gionee Elife E7 include Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE, GPS/AGPS, 3G and 4G (for 32GB variant). It measures 150.6x75x9.5mm.

Gionee has been aggressively launching its smartphone in India, which includes the flagship device, Elife E6 launched in October.

The Gionee Elife E6 features a unibody design and sports a 5-inch OGS (One Glass Solution) IPS display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels and pixel density of 441ppi. The phone is thin at just 6.18mm, and weighs 128grams. It is powered by a 1.5GHz MediaTek quad-core processor, along with 2Gbof RAM. The inbuilt storage offered by the phone is 32GB which is non-expandable.

The Gionee Wlife E6 sports a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with a second generation BSI sensor, along with an Led flash. It also has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with a 28mm lens. Both cameras suport 1080p video recording. The smartphone runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with company’s custom Amigo UI layer. The phone is powered by a 2020mAh battery.

Earlier this month,Gionee unveiled Pioneer P3 budget quad-core Android smartphone at Rs. 7,499.

Monday 11 November 2013

Google now tracking offline sales conversions

Google is already trying to make smartphones more intelligent by tracking the online and offline activity of users of its services, and offering them relevant alerts and notifications.

However, it looks like Google is also planning to leverage the user’s offline activity to allow advertisers to target audience in better way, if a new report is to be believed.

Google conducting a program that takes advantages of samrtphone location data to find out when consumes visit physical stores, according to a report by Digiday, which cities agency executives briefed on the program by Google employees, as a source for this information.

The program, which is currently in beta, links users’s store to their visits to their searches conducted on smartphones through Google, to establish the efficacy of its mobile ads.

For instances, if a users searches for a product name in Google mobile searches, with location tracking enabled, nearby stores that offers the product can bid to get their ad served to the user above other ads. Google can then connect and track the user    ‘s location data, and after comparing it with its listing, check if the user who was served the ad actually visited the store after viewing it.

However, as with other location-based services, Google will only be able to leverage this data if the user opts in to turn on location services on his/her device. Google can track the user’s location through Android devices and iOS devices with the Google app.

Through the program, Google will reportedly be able to offer advertisers a better and more concrete estimate of their returns on ad investments, and command higher ad rates for better targeting.

Xolo Q2000 quad-core phablet

Xolo’s latest quad-core phablet is now official for the Indian market, priced at Rs. 14,999. The Xolo Q2000 was earlier spotted on the company’s official site on Friday, but without pricing and availability details.

The Q2000 is dual-SIM device with support for GSM+GSM, and runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The 5.5-inch IPS display on the Xolo Q2000 features a 720x1280 pixel resolution, boasting of a pixel density of 267ppi. The Xolo Q2000 continues the Q range tradition and equips a quad-core 1.2GHz MediaTek 6589W processor with a 357MHz powerVR SGX544 GPU. It includes 1GB of RAM and 8GB of inbuilt storage which is further expandable up to 32B. The Q2000 also sports a 13-megapixel rear autofocus camera with a ‘BSI 2’ sensor and flash, while there is also a 2-megapixel front-facing camera on board. The Xolo Q2000 packs a 2600mAh battery which the listing claim can deliver up to 17 hours of talktime and up to 520 hours of standby time.

The Xolo Q2000 smartphone expands the company’s Q samrtphone series, which already include six smartphones, namely the Xolo Q700, Xolo Q1000, Xolo Q1000S, Xolo Q800 and the recently launched Xolo Q900, all of which powered by quad-core processor.

Xolo has been aggressively launching smartphones across different price segments in the last few months. Recently, the company launched a new A-series smartphone in India, the Xolo A600, at Rs. 8,199.

The Xolo A600 features a 4.5-inch qHD (540x960) IPS display and a pixel density of 245ppi. The smartphone is powered by a dual-core 1.3GHz MediaTek 6572W processor with a Mali 400 GPU, coupled with 512MB of RAM. It runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and supports dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) functionality.

Saturday 9 November 2013

Mail.app update for OS X Mavericks for Gmail issues

Apple has released an updated Mail app for users of OS X Mavericks, it resolve the issues of users when they use the Gmail in their OS mobile in it or creates many issues following by them.

The mail app removing the issues like moving, deleting, editing, archiving messages for users with custom Gmail settings, which causes the issues for unread mail, count to be accurate. In addition to offering additional fixes that will be improve the functionality and stability of Mail, as per Apple.

To install the update, after backing up their systems, users can go to the Apple menu and click on Software Update to check for updates through the Mac App Store. Users can also download the manual update installer through the Apple Support Downloads website.

The Mavericks Mail app update was previously seeded to Apple developers and employees.

In addition to the update to the mail app, Apple has also released an update version of iBooks for Mac that fixes bugs and brings performance and stability improvements.

The iBooks app for Mac made its debut with Mavericks and enables users to download and read iBooks and iBooks Textbooks.

OS X Mavericks offers a lot of under the hood through it doesn’t feature many new user facing changes. It brings new features like Finder Tabs; Tags; enhanced multiple display support; updated native apps like Maps, iBooks, and Safari browser; and iCloud keychain, among others. It also brings under the hood changes for faster performance and longer battery life, including Timer Coalescing that groups low-level together so that the processor doesn’t use more power and battery is conserved, App Nap that saves power while working on multiple apps by slowing down the apps that are in the background, and compressed memory that frees up memory space for faster performance. 

Apple announced the public availability of OS X Mavericks on October 22, and for the first time offered it as a free download through the Mac App Store. 

Friday 8 November 2013

Samsung Confirms Folding Display launch

At South Korea Samsung second analyst meeting has been taken in which its CEO has talk about its new upcoming gadgets and devices with newer technologies.


Samsuung Electronics CEO Kwon Oh Hyun gives the information about their new plans that will be launched in 2015; these devices are like their foldable mobile phone. He revealed that company works many projects are gives the best gadgets to them, Company works for their flexible screen device phablet, curved surface phones, wearable devices, and now it mainly work for foldable device mobile. Samsung CEO kwon Oh Hyun not specify any timeframe for the launch of foldable device phone but he will gives some hints about that the company launch very soon foldable device phone in 2015.

Kwon also acknowledged that the improvement of product sale of their first tech Gear, company is not 100% satisfied with their first wearable device (Galaxy Gear) product.

Whereas, JK Shin, President and CEO of IT & mobile communication claimed that the sales of Samsung tablets is increases 40 million in this year 2013 as compared to the last year 2012, that will be the double of their last sales productivity ratio. In meeting Samsung promised to their investors to add extra functionality to their tablets and renewing to their focus on tablets.

Not too be very long, Samsung launched their last mobile with the curved surface display that will be the variant of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

The Samsung Galaxy Round have the 5.7-inch display with horizontal curved surface display and also its weight is too less than the all other flat screen mobile and its grip the sale more as compared to other mobile. Samsung launched this mobile in South Korea but no any date of launch will be confirm to send it to the market.

Friday 25 October 2013

Huawei Ascend P6 with 4.7-inch HD

Huawei's new smartphone, the Ascend P6, has been launched for the Indian market, at Rs. 29,999. The device was listed online in the fourth week of October on an ecommerce website for a discounted price of Rs. 25,750. Huawei first unveiled the Ascend P6 back in June this year.

The Huawei Ascend P6 is called the slimmest smartphone in the world by the company, and measures in at 6.2mm, while weighing 120 grams. The smartphone comes in Black, Pink and White colours. It features a 4.7-inch LCD display that has a resolution of 720x1280 pixels. It's powered by the company's in-house chipset, the Huawei K3V2 quad-core processor, clocked at 1.5GHz and coupled with 2GB of RAM.

The Ascend P6 includes an 8-megapixel rear camera with a BSI sensor, capable of recording 1080p HD video, apart from a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and features Huawei's Emotion UI 1.6 OS layer on top. It offers 8GB of inbuilt storage expandable up to 32GB via microSD card and has a 2000 mAh battery. 

On Wednesday, two of Huawei's recently launched Android phablets, the Ascend G610 and Ascend G700, also made it to the Indian market via an online retailer. The Huawei Ascend G610 and Huawei Ascend G700 have been listed at Infibeam for Rs. 12,499 and Rs. 16,500 respectively. The Chinese major had unveiled both the devices back in September this year, at an event in Taiwan.

Huawei Ascend P6 key specifications

  • 4.7-inch HD in-cell LCD screen with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels
  • 1.5GHz quad-core Processor
  • 2GB RAM
  • 8GB Internal storage expandable via microSD card
  • Dual-SIM with dual-standby support
  • 8-megapixel rear camera
  • 5-megapixel front facing camera
  • 2000mAh battery

Thursday 24 October 2013

Apple releases iOS 7.0.3 update

Apple is now update their running iOS 7, 7.0.1 or 7.0.2 into their latest released operating system iOS 7.0.3 for their latest devices like iPhone 4, iPad 2, iPad mini, and the iPod touch.

This new updated operating system includes and support various features for iCloud Keychain, Which Apple had initially announced when it first showcased the OS at the WWDC event in June.

This new operating system update have size 67.7MB and it can be downloaded over the air for any devices or computers for iPhones devices, it can be easily updated.

In iOS 7.0.3 which we clears in starting that it would be adds iCloud Keychain, it allows the users to easily save and sync their account user names, passwords, and credit card numbers across all their approved iOS and Mac devices in the Safari web browser.

It also gives the functionality of the Password Generator which Safari unique, hard-to-guess passwords for user’s online accounts. The update also brings back the ability to search the web and Wikipedia through Spotlight search, allowing users to search for keyword via iOS’ universal search feature.

These two features were not introduced with the initial release of iOS 7, as they need users to run OS X Mavericks on their Macs if they want to benefit from the sync feature. Mavericks was made available only on Tuesday.

A number of users complained about iOS 7's motion graphics and animations and to address these issues, Apple has enhanced the Reduce Motion setting to minimise both motion and animation in the OS UI. It also updates the Bold Text setting to change dial pad text.

The 7.0.3 update also delays the display of "slide to unlock" when Touch ID is in use, for iPhone 5s users.

In addition to new features, the iOS 7.0.3 update also brings a number of fixes to the OS. It fixes iMessages issues that were being reported by a number of users including message sending failures and activation problems.

The update also fixes an accelerometer calibration issue. It's worth pointing out that it was reported that the iPhone 5s motion sensors were not giving accurate readings. The update might be able to fix the issue.

The 7.0.3 update addresses an issue that could cause Siri and VoiceOver to use a lower quality voice and one that could cause VoiceOver input to be too sensitive. It also improves system stability when using iWork apps, following reports of the iPhone 5s crashing while using the apps.

Interestingly, there's also a security fix as Apple mentions that the update fixes a bug that could allow someone to bypass the Lock screen passcode.

Apple had previously released the iOS 7.0.2 update in September to fix the lock screen vulnerabilities that were discovered after the public release of iOS 7.