He came. He saw. But Apple CEO Tim Cook is yet to get the biggest bite into the huge consumer base in the country, of which every tech player -- from China to Korea to Taiwan -- is trying to get a bigger share.If we look at why, in the first place, Cook came to India in this sweltering heat, it would not be wrong to interpret his first visit to the country as an exploratory mission rather than as one with a clear-cut investment agenda.
Coolpad has officially launched its flagship smartphone, Coolpad Max in India. At Rs 24,999, it’s a big leap for Coolpad which is known for its sub-Rs 10,000 smartphones. Coolpad has built a reputation for its Note 3 series smartphones and now it wants to establish itself in the premium mid-segment flagship category.
“It just works.”These three words stood smugly behind Steve Jobs at many press conferences during his second stint at Apple. It represented his desire for Apple to create simple, easy-to-understand products. It was this promise that was behind the cutesy advertising campaign “I’m a PC, I’m a Mac” that started running 10 years ago, which aimed to convince PC owners that Mac computers were more accessible.
Upcoming virtual-reality headsets based on Google's new Daydream VR system won't be as sophisticated as Facebook's Oculus Rift.
This has undoubtedly got to be the year of the bots. If Microsoft Build wasn’t a sign of the changing times, then Facebook Bots ought to have been. But if you still weren’t convinced, then Google I/O 2016 should have sealed the deal for you.
Indian startup Smartron has launched its first smartphone in the country, the t.phone. The smartphone has been priced at Rs. 22,999, and will go on sale in early June via Gadgets 360 and the Smartront.store, with registrations already open. The company had launched its laptop-tablet hybrid, the Smartront.book (Review) in March.
"Rockstar Games is of course hard at work on some exciting future projects that will be revealed soon," Take-Two said.The publisher did not provide any further details on these games. However, Take-Two president Karl Slatoff mentioned during an earnings call that the company is working on new IP to further diversity its portfolio, though it is not known if one of Rockstar's new games is a new IP.
More than two years on from the launch of the PS4, the field of excellent gaming headsets has started to fill out – no matter what price point you're looking at.Between Sony's own headsets and the bevy of third party cans from Polk Audio, Turtle Beach, Astro, Kingston, and SteelSeries, we've spent dozens of hours weighing the options to bring you our top picks.
The Lenovo Group already has two solid and instantly recognisable brand names in its stable: Lenovo itself, and Motorola. As a result, the company has a variety of solid products that sell in huge numbers the world over. However, like others have done before, Lenovo has decided to market a part of its product range as online-only. These products come under the new Zuk sub-brand.
Every week seems to bring another indication from the supply chain about Apple dropping another key feature from the upcoming iPhone 7. With many popular features from rival handsets not expected to arrive until 2017′s presumptively titled iPhone 8, it’s nice to read about one technology that I hope Apple will bring to the iPhone 7. With so much ‘gee whizz’ delayed a year, could wireless charging be the big attraction of this year’s flagship iPhone launch?
After initially launching on the PlayStation 4 back in March of this year, the award winning Ska Studios development team behind the Salt And Sanctuary game has this week launched a PC version of the game via Steam.
Recently, Micromax's sub-brand Yu Televentures sent out media invites for the launch of its flagship smartphone Yunicorn on May 19. However, the company has now postponed the event to May 31.The company has also revealed that the new handset will run Android and will have Micromax's Around You service integrated with it. The new YU Yunicorn smartphone will be available online.
SoftBank Group Corp. is opening its Pepper robot to Android apps. That’s a win for Google and a blow to Masayoshi Son’s dream of having a platform of his own.
Google is announcing a new messaging app today. It's called Allo and its main feature is a Google assistant that's built right in. Google says it'll be available later this summer — for free — on both iOS and Android.Allo (pronounced like "Aloe" and not like "'allo, guv'nor!") is a mobile-only app that you might think is meant to replace Google's other messaging app, Hangouts. But you'd be wrong. Allo is explicitly meant to be a fresh start for Google's new communication's division (which also runs Hangouts and Project Fi).
Google is releasing a new video calling app later this summer. It's called Duo, and it's probably the fastest and simplest video calling app I've ever seen. Like its companion chat app, Allo, Duo is mobile-only. It uses your phone number as an identifier, and it will work on both iOS and Android.
