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The latest android phones from Samsung are big, beautiful, sleek, and, well, definitely pricey. But then what can one expect if its the Samsung S7? Yes, tech giant Samsung has officially launched its long-awaited smartphones Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge in India. Pre-bookings for the subcontinent has begun on Wednesday. The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are available from March 18. For India, the Samsung Galaxy S7 is priced at $728 (Rs. 48,900), while the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge is priced at $ 847 (Rs. 56,900). The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge launched in India come with Samsung's octa-core Exynos 8890 SoC instead of the quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset seen in the global variant. Perhaps the most welcome change from their predecessors is the inclusion of the hybrid microSD slot in the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. One can either expand your storage up to 200GB or use it as the second SIM slot.​ The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge run Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and hav...

Your days of watching haplessly at your empty phone battery in the midst of a wave of attack on Clash of Clans, may be over. Even better, you forgot to charge your batter overnight but hey, charge it full in 5 minutes flat as you put on your shoes. Welcome to the world of StoreDot, an Israeli company that has created the full-in-5-minutes battery charger for mobile phones. StoreDot, a groundbreaking Israeli materials-science company, opened its doors to Wired to demonstrate how by designing molecules that previously didn't exist, it's designed a battery that gorges your phone with powere in just several minutes. "We're synthesisng new molecules designed from scratch in our labs," said Doron Myersdorf, founder and CEO of StoreDot, whose investors include Samsung, to Wired personnel. "We have 20 PhDs in our lab, imagining new molecules that don't exist." The company grew out of nanotechnology research into treating Alzheimer's disease at...

(Source: mirror.co.uk ) Yes, and this doesn't seem to be one of those earn-gold-online internet scams that earn you a Lamborghini by taking a survey. There's a new mobile app that players can play to earn gold - yes, real gold. When I read the story on Mirror.UK, I was astounded. I went over to the website of Dig That Gold , the app, and found it was up. However, for android users, you may have to wait for a little while. The app is on for iPhones for now but the little button says its coming for android phone users too. Here's the news straight from Mirror.UK A new mobile phone game has been created where players can earn real gold bars delivered to their door. The free app called Dig That Gold has been released by a UK company and allows players to ‘earn’ real gold rewards. The real gold, worth up to £700, comes in the form of 24 carat bars The game’s makers, tech firm Project M, says anyone can earn the bars if they put in the time on the game - an ...

Microsoft has launched its first Android phone, the Windows Phone-like Nokia X2. Nokia, now under the watch of Microsoft (be happy it is not called “Microsoft phone”!) an evolution from the original Nokia X series. The new Windows X2 is dual-SIM. The device is larger than the original Xs, coming with larger 4.3" ClearBlack display, and of course, tad smarter than its three ho-hum predecessors were. The new device is the fourth of the series, and comes with an updated Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 chipset with a 1.2GHz dual-core Cortex-A7 CPU and 1GB of RAM. Microsoft acquired Nokia this year, and as the first phone under the tutelage of the tech giant. The device runs the Android Opens Source Project (AOSP) version of Android that does not include any Google services or apps.  The main screen is also loaded with Microsoft services including OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook.com, and Skype. Nokia services like HERE Maps are also present in place of their Google counterparts ( source )...

So now that Amazon's first ever mobile device is blazing across the, er, internet, and shaking the corridors of Samsung and Apple, you just might want to know what the ado all about. The Fire Phone is a feature-packed so-called "Fire OS" device that's being touted widely as the mobile market game-changer. (Read about the phone's two new tech pieces in it, and full specs  here )  What makes it special? In one sentence: It is for the shopper and the tech geek alike. For starters, Amazon promises you a powerful performance-phone that can do an "ultra-fast launch" and load times, fast, fluid graphics, high-speed data, and voice support from its  2.2GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, with Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM .  The Dynamic Perspective tech that's in the Amazon phone   The Fire Phone features nine bands of LTE, four bands of GSM, five bands of UMTS for better voice coverage, faster data speeds, and international roaming, plus ...

It was long in the coming, no? After Google, after Facebook, and after many in the fray that decided on harnessing the mobile phone market, who is surprised that Amazon had to join the Smartphone war. Yes, it is the Fire Phone, a feature-packed device built for the shopper, and the device specs geek just the same. The internet business giant announced the Fire Phone at a press conference in Seattle on June 18. The Fire Phone is "Fire OS" device packed in a 5.5" x 2.6" x 0.35" body that boasts a 4'7 inch HD LCD display, rear and front cameras (13 MP rear and 2.1 MP front), and — hold you phone signal—cloud storage functionality! In other words, the phone is not just entering the mobile phone market—it has even chosen its opponents, actually. That is Apple and Samsung on the brand shelf I am talking. So what makes Amazon's mobile device special?  Yes, that's the Fire Phone. Besides it two super cool tech mods called the ' Dynamic P...

The HTC One (M8) seems to be making quite a wave in the market. I don't know about you guys but I'm the Transformer-and-Iron Man kinda guy and the latest android smartphone is sure giving me the good butterflies.  The sleek chrome-metal design is awesome. But that is just part of the looks. You have to see the brains here.  The M8 is built on the award-winning HTC One. The mobile phone comes with something that hasn't been around in focus for sometime now since Sony Ericsson went of the market year ago: optimum audio functionality that we so miss in smartphone nowadays.  Music and audio functionality in most phones today are practically designed only for headsets or earphones. Meaning, playing music from your phone without using the headsets don't sound as 'premium' as you expected. The new HTC just might be trying to shift the shelves with a different pitch this time other than the usual big-optimized-camera-MP way.  Here's why the audio capab...