Nokia Lumia 930 goes official

The Nokia Lumia 930 has just gone official, and it is just what rumors painted it to be - a Lumia Icon look-alike smartphone with a 5-inch 1080 x 1920-pixel full HD display, a 20-megapixel PureView camera, and a few software tricks up its sleeve. 

The Lumia 930 will ship with Windows Phone 8.1 on board, and it comes with metallic elements on the side, plus it also supports wireless charging. In addition, just like many other Lumias, it captures outstanding sound thanks to its advanced (likely, HAAC microphone) that also support directional stereo recording.

Windows Phone 8.1 is official, here are the new features

 Microsoft officially unveiled the latest revision of its mobile platform - Windows Phone 8.1. The new release brings a lot of new features and improvements to the OS. Most of those you already know from the numerous leaks through the pre-release SDK, but here's the full list.

Cortana – Windows Phone’s personal virtual assistant

Windows Phone 8.1 brings its own virtual personal assistant called Cortana. With Android having Google Now and Apple boasting Siri, it was about time Microsoft also joined the native personal assistant to Windows Phone.

The Bing-powered Cortana plays an important role in WP 8.1 letting you set reminders, calendar events, call people, give you information about places you have or plan to visit. She also knows sports, gives weather info and basically everything you would expect from a virtual assistant. She’s going to be accessible through the Search key and features advanced voice recognition. This allows you to ask Cortana to search the web as well.

Oppo Find 7a with 5.5-inch full-HD display, 13-megapixel camera launched

Oppo has launched the Find 7a, which is the 'lite' or full-HD variant of its flagship smartphone, the Find 7, which features a QHD display and was also launched on Wednesday.
The Oppo Find 7a has been priced CNY 2,998 (Rs. 29,500 approximately) and will go on sale in China starting Thursday. As of now, there is no word from the company about the launch Oppo Find 7a in other markets.

The Oppo Find 7a, on the other hand, comes with a 5.5-inch full-HD IPS display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels and offering a pixel density of 403ppi. Much like the Oppo Find 7, the Find 7a runs Color OS 1.2, which is based on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.

It is powered by a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 alongside 2GB of RAM. The Oppo Find 7a includes 16GB inbuilt storage with microSD card support, though no word on maximum expandable storage. It sports a 13-megapixel Sony Exmor IMX214 sensor with LED flash, while there is no word on the front camera. It packs a 2800mAh battery with Rapid Charge technology.

The Chinese handset maker also unveiled the Oppo Find 7, which is now the world's first smartphone to sport a 5.5-inch QHD display. It offers a resolution of 1440x2560 pixels and boasts an impressive 538ppi pixel density. The smartphone runs a customised Android 4.3 Jelly Bean OS, which the company dubs Color OS 1.2.

The Find 7 is powered by a 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974AC) processor, the same found on the Samsung Galaxy S5. It also comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage with expandable storage support; however, there is no word on the maximum storage capacity on the Find 7 smartphone.

The Oppo Find 7 sports a 13-megapixel Sony Exmor IMX214 sensor camera with LED flash, and also houses a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor. The smartphone can record 4K videos and also record 720p 120fps slow motion videos, according to the company. Oppo's official Twitter handle said, "By taking ten photos at the backend the Find7 can take 50 megapixel photos with the Super Zoom feature."

The Oppo Find 7 packs a 3000mAh battery, which the company says can charge up to 75 percent in 30-minutes thanks to the Rapid Charge technology. Connectivity options on the smartphone include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, AGPS, USB OTG (on-the-go), 3G and 4G LTE

Motorola unveils Moto 360 smartwatch

The wristwatch has been through several evolutions since it first became a popular fashion accessory more than a 100 years ago. From mechanical to electronic movements, analog to digital faces, the wristwatch has been reinvented several times over, but the basic design has endured for a century because of its elegance and usefulness ‘at a glance.’ Our vision for Moto 360 was to celebrate that history as we reimagined the wristwatch for the future.

Motorola launch the Moto X india

After many months of waiting and a few weeks of teasing, Motorola finally launched the Moto X in India. As with the Moto G, Motorola has once again chosen to partner with online retailer Flipkart, who will be selling the Moto X exclusively in India.

Flipkart will be selling the Moto X in five colors in India, with the woven black and woven white options available starting today and the rest, including red, royal blue and turquoise, will be arriving later. The phone will only be offered in 16GB capacity and is priced at INR 23,999 ($393). The wooden back versions will also be offered in future in teak and walnut pattern and will be priced at INR 25,999 ($425) for the same 16GB capacity.
Flipkart also has some launch day offers in store, including INR 1,000 cachback for those who purchase on a 6-month EMI, flat 70% off on Moto X cases if purchased along with the phone, and 10 random lucky customers will get 100% cashback on their purchase.
In case you have forgotten about the specifications of the phone, the Moto X has a 4.7-inch, 1280x720 resolution AMOLED display, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC with dual-core 1.7GHz Krait CPU, quad-core Adreno 320 GPU, a natural language processor and a contextual computing processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB storage memory (non-expandable), 4G LTE, 10 megapixel rear camera, 2 megapixel front camera, 2200mAh battery and Android 4.4.2 KitKat.

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YotaPhone 2 with 4.7-inch E-ink display, Snapdragon 800 unveiled

Yota Devices has on Monday unveiled the next-generation of the YotaPhone at Barcelona, MWC 2014, with the new smartphone's biggest highlight is the full-touch control for its always-on E-ink display, something missing in its predecessor. The new YotaPhone will launch Europe in late 2014, and thereafter in 2015 make its way globally. For now, no pricing details have been given.

ZTE Grand Memo II LTE with 6-inch display, Android 4.4 launched at MWC

 

ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications giant, on Monday unveiled its Grand Memo II LTE handset sporting a sleek body profile at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. While ZTE has not revealed the price of the ZTE Grand Memo LTE's successor, it has been given an April launch in China, followed by European, North American and Asia Pacific availability.

Nokia unveils three Android handsets

After numerous leaks that unofficially revealed many details about Nokia’s first Android handset, the company has finally unveiled its first ever Android handsets. Nokia early on Monday announced the Nokia X smartphone and its Nokia X+ and Nokia XL brothers, although they’re not the regular Android devices users would expect. Instead, we’re looking at a forked Android operating system here, which lacks certain parts, and visually resembles Windows Phone.

HTC unveils Desire 816 and Desire 610

Samsung is the talk of the town in Barcelona this week as the annual Mobile World Congress trade show gets underway. Even Nokia’s new Android phones will soon be forgotten by smartphone enthusiasts as Samsung prepares to unveil its 2014 flagship phone, the Galaxy S5, later on Monday. Ahead of the big event, however, another Android vendor is looking to get a little face time with the press. Though the all new HTC One is the smartphone we’re most looking forward to from HTC this year, the company just let loose a pair of mid-range Desire smartphones during an event at MWC 2014.

Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL dual-SIM Android-based smartphones launched

Nokia has announced its first-ever smartphones based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), that can run Android apps and are powered by Microsoft and Nokia services.


Nokia X and Nokia X+ are dual-SIM phones that come with 4-inch 480x800 displays and are powered by 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor.

Sony Xperia Z2 with 5.2-inch display, 4K ultra-HD recording launched

Sony Corp. is borrowing innovations from its audio and camcorder businesses and incorporating its new Xperia Z2 smartphone with noise-canceling technology and ultra-high-definition video recording.

Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet with Android 4.4, Snapdragon 801 launched at MWC 201

Sony finally took the wraps off its latest premium tablet, dubbed Xperia Z2 Tablet, at MWC 2014 in Barcelona.
The Japanese manufacturer has announced that the Xperia Z2 Tablet will be globally released in March 2014, however hasn't revealed the pricing of the device. The tablet will be available in two variants: Wi-Fi and LTE/3G.

Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo reveal health and fitness focus

Samsung unveiled two new computerized wristwatches on Sunday, this time including health sensors and related fitness features to give people a reason to buy one.
Samsung's first Galaxy Gear smartwatch came out last fall amid much fanfare, but it landed with a thud in the marketplace. Samsung and its smartwatch rivals had failed to persuade many consumers that they need to be able to constantly check messages from their wrists. Wearable devices that succeeded tended to be fitness products such as the Fitbit.

Huawei Ascend G6, MediaPad M1, MediaPad X1 launched at MWC

Huawei has launched three new devices - Ascend G6 smartphone as well as tablets MediaPad M1 and MediaPad X1 - at the GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 in Barcelona.
Notably, Huawei has announced that Ascend G6 smartphone 3G model will be available in Q1 2014, while a 4G variant will be available starting April this year. Huawei MediaPad devices on the other hand will be available in Q1 2014.

Sony Xperia M2 with Android 4.3, dual-SIM

Sony on Monday announced the launch of a new mid-range smartphone, the Xperia M2, at MWC 2014 in Barcelona. The Android 4.3 Jelly Bean-based smartphone, has been billed by the Japanese cellphone maker as 'the slimmest 4G-enabled smartphone in its class' at a rather thick 8.6mm. The price for the Xperia M2 has not been revealed, and it will go on sale globally in April 2014. Sony says it will be priced at under 220 euros MSRP (roughly Rs. 18,800).