Motorola having no plans for offline sales

Many Manufacturers those came with flipkart or Amazon or maybe any other e-commerce seller are proceeding with offline stores, like Xiaomi did by moving with the "The Mobile Store" of Delhi for selling Mi4 16 gig & Redmi Note 4G. But it seems that Motorola will be continuing with only the online sales method for now.



According to TOI, the India Business Head of Motorola, Amit Boni spoke about the company’s plans,

“It is important that when you take a strategic bet, you stand by it and make it work. That’s what we are doing with the Flipkart partnership. You need to look into other channels of sales only when your present channel is not sound enough.”

Recently Motorola started its first Moto Care center in Bengaluru where customers can walk-in to check the products, although the products will be sold via Flipkart only, there will be no sale of the phone at the stores. Indeed it will act as a service center and unlike all other service centers, it will be operated by Motorola.

 Boni further elaborated his statement,

"We believe that there’s a certain set of customers who wants to see the device before buying it. We are making sure that we are opening up to them too.” 

So it looks like we will be getting more such centers where we can have a look at the device but cannot buy them from there.

Lava announces Lollipop update for Iris Fuel 50

We are getting more and more devices with Lollipop OTA. Lava soon after rolling out the Android L update to Itis X1 Grand, announced the Lollipop update for Iris Fuel 50 too. The Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the Lava Iris Fuel 50 will be pushed via OTA, while the users will be getting a notification about the availability of the Update when they will connect to the Internet.

If you are kind excited for the update then you can manually have a look at the update by

• Settings
• About phone 
• Software update 

on your Iris Fuel 50 smartphone. The Android 5.0 Lollipop update is about 550MB in size.

The update have the Material Design, but apart from that we will be getting a number of imrovements which are as follows

• Kill Switch and improved security
• improved keyboard accessory support 
• multilingual
• emoji input
• search key
• improved app and system key chords
• Support for 15 new languages including 
• Bengali
• Kannada
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Tamil 
• Telugu
• Improved accessibility features 
• text contrast boost
• colour inversion
• enhanced colour differentiation
• improved audio, video, and camera capabilities
• improved Internet connectivity

Moto G Google Play Edition receiving Android 5.1 Update

Till now many of the said devices are pending to get the Android 5.0 Update, in the mean time Google has started rolling out the Android 5.1 update for some of its Nexus devices. Now, stock Android Google Play edition models are in row to get the Android 5.1 Update and the very first model to get the Android 5.1 Lollipop taste is Motorola Moto G Google Play Edition, which is receiving 171MB Android 5.1 update OTA.

The Moto G is apparently the first Google Play edition model to receive Android 5.1 update. The update brings number of improvements some of which are as follows

• Improved battery life
• Improved 64-bit ART compiler
• Better RAM management 
• System stability Improved.

The main improvement is that lost or stolen phones will remain locked and will be unable to run without the owner entering his/her Google account information, even if the phone is factory reset.

The build number for the Android 5.1 update is LMY47M. Because the update is being sent out in waves, you might not receive it right away. Don't panic. Android 5.1 will eventually hit your Moto G Google Play edition.

Asus India Teases Zenfone 2 launch

It looks like Asus is preparing for the launch of the Zenfone 2 in India. As reported earlier, the Zenfone 2 will launch in the country in 2nd week of the Month of April. ASUS recently shared a teaser image on their official Facebook Page. The Taiwanese company also wrote under the image - "It’s April 1 and this flagship destroyer is for real."

As we know about the ZenFone which was introduced in various screen sizes, so Zenfone 2 will be introduced with following display sizes

• 5.5" 1080p display 
• 5" 720p display.

Zenfone 2 has a total of 5 models with two different screen sizes and diffrent chipsets. One of the 5 models will have the following specs which is the Top-End model from Asus the Zenfone 2 ZE551ML will feature 

• 5.5" 1080p display
• 4x 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 chipset
• 4GB RAM
• 13MP rear camera
• Android 5.0 Lollipop
• 3,000 mAh battery

Oppo R1 rumored to have Snapdragon 615 and launch Soon

Now from china rumors are pointing for a new device from Oppo which will be powered by the Snapdragon 615 chipset. "The Oppo R" is having a metal frame and the design that is like the Oppo R1C which was introduced back in January. The new "R-series" handset has a svelte design nd supports the use of dual SIM slots with 4G LTE connectivity on both the sim slots.

The Oppo R features some decent specs sheet which include.

• 5.5-inch display 
• 1080 x 1920. 
• 441ppi. 
• Snapdragon 615 SoC 
• 2GB RAM 
• 13MP Sony rear sensor.

As of now their is no word on the availability and the launch dates. We are not sure about the phone to be launching outside of china but it looks it will debut in US too, so lets look what Oppo has in store for us.

Samsung J7 Revealed in leaked Documents

It looks like Samsung will soon be launching the Galaxy J7. Which will be belonging to budget-oriented family of Samsung that is Galaxy J Series and have Galaxy J1. The phone was released in February and now it looks like that Korean giant's next budget phablet will be the Galaxy J1. Their are some information that comes from a leaked user agent profile from Samsung's database.

According to leaked documents of the phone, which has the model number SM-J700F, a couple of power efficient Cortex A53 cores, which will be clocked at 1.5 GHz. It also says that the screen may have HD resolution(1280 x 720 pixels) and when we have a look over the current naming scheme of the phone we can find that the phone will have a 5.5inches of Display, as Galaxy A7 & even Galaxy E7 has the same screen size.

The document still lack some of the improtent information like

• RAM
• Internal Storage
• camera 

As the Tracking information on Zauba.com says the phone is allready in Testing stage and hence may launch any-time b/w May & June.

Microsoft launches MS-DOS for Windows Mobile!

First of all, this is not a Fool's Day prank.
Do you remember the good'ol days of dir/p and copy *.* ? Yes we're talking about the 16-bit command line based operating system found on yesteryear PCs. Microsoft has released the MS-DOS Mobile app on the Windows Phone marketplace as a part of an April Fool's Day prank.

The app provides an x86 processor emulation so that you can use most of the commands that were available on the original MS-DOS. Type in DIR to get a list of available apps and CD to enter into a folder. You can even launch apps such as Phone, Contacts, Messages and Settings, Camera with a simple command. You can access the camera.exe located in Programs folder that will let you take an ASCII selfie ! How cool is that ! Type in WIN at any point and you can experience Windows 3.1

One amusing thing to do would be to try FORMAT C: , which thankfully doesn't wipe out your phone, courtesy of Cortana.
You can use HELP to discover all available commands.

Tom Messett, Global Director of Marketing at Microsoft Mobile calls it "A bold step forward", and adds "Black and White text has never looked so good" in the prank video.
Go check out the nostalgic OS on your Lumia phone!