Advertisements Lollipop roll-outs are happening all around us and pretty much every Android vendor is already in the process of releasing the new Android version for their devices, but Oppo was surprisingly silent on the matter until now. The company recently revealed that its engineers are hard at work developing the new ColorOS 2.1, which […]
Advertisements Cyanogen is in talks with unnamed Chinese smartphone vendors to use its Android-based operating system, revealed the company CEO Kirt McMaster at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing. At the event, McMaster and Cyanogen CTO Steve Kondik also stated that their partnership with OnePlus is over and we won’t be seeing any more […]
Advertisements After Xiaomi and Sony, Taiwanese manufacturer HTC is now planning to introduce a smartphone developed specifically for the Indian market. According to a report in ET Telecom, the company will bring this smartphone in Q3, 2015 and it will be a mid-range device. “We have a third-quarter plan for our global launch in India […]
Advertisements Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, has invested in the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi in a personal capacity. The financial details of his investment are a mystery at this point. According to Xiaomi, this is the first investment by any Indian in the company. “We’re really excited to announce our newest Xiaomi investor […]
Advertisements After selling its mobile phone business to Microsoft, Nokia Technologies is quietly planning to make a comeback in the smartphone market. According to a report in Re/Code, the company is likely to keep its smartphone ambitions small to just designing the phones and licensing them to some other manufacturer, which will handle sales, support […]
Advertisements European Commission, which is EU’s executive body, earlier today announced that it is opening a formal investigation in Google on whether it has breached any EU antitrust rules in regards to Android. The Commission is acting on the basis of two complaints it has received from unnamed sources. It will check whether Google is […]
Advertisements While most of us have taken it for granted that we will see the successor to OnePlus One smartphone this year, OnePlus is working to surprise us with another smartphone in late-2015. Yes, OnePlus is making two phones, reports Bloomberg. While the OnePlus One successor will most likely be dubbed as OnePlus 2 (OnePlus […]
Advertisements The speed at which development has taken place in the smart devices over the last few years is simply phenomenal, but a key component of these smart devices still lags behind. Yes, we are talking about the batteries. Apart from the marginal software-based optimisations, all device manufacturers can do these days is pack a […]