Gionee launches the Elife S7 in India today at Event in Hydrabad.

Gionee today launched the Elife S7 in India at an event which was held in Hyderabad. The phone is the next iteration in the Slim profile devices of  Gionee, the phone is quite slim at 5.5 mm but is not the slimmest of all !! The Gionee Elife S7 was unveiled at MWC 2015,

William Lu at the launch at MWC said

"We believe Elife S7 will bring the future of slim smartphones to the next level. To make ever-slimmer phones, compromising on performance and function is pointless. Manufacturers should offer more features benefiting user experience other than just slimness," 

At the Hyderabad launch, Lu also revealed the Elife E8 flagship would be launching soon, and that Gionee would be launching M-series and P-series smartphones in India.
In India the phone will be priced at INR 24,999.

The Gionee Elife S7 is a dual sim device which comes with Amigo 3.0 custom OS based on Android 5.0 Lollipop the more of the specs of the phone holds:

• 5.2-inch full-HD Super Amoled display 
• Pixel Density of 424ppi
• Corning Gorilla Glass 3
• 1.7GHz octa-core CPU
• MediaTek MT6572 SoC
• 2GB RAM.
• 13MP autofocus rear shooter 
• LED flash 
• 8MP front facing camera
• 16GB inbuilt storage
• 2750mAh battery,

Xiaomi partners with AOKP for MIUI 7

Rumors are saying that Xiaomi has teamed up with the Android Open Kang Project team to work on the MIUI 7 Rom which will be the next iteration to MIUI . The AOKP members shared that they are  working with Xiaomi’s developers team to make the MIUI 7 in a full new experience, it will be interesting to see a new ROM from Xiaomi which will be powering the future device and is expected to be super drastic.

The next iteration of MIUI is codenamed as MiKangy and is said to be based on the Google's latest OS the Android 5.1 Lollipop update. This new MIUI 7 is set to debut with the Mi 5 which is expected somewhere around August-September. But we do know that Xiaomi is not the fastest when it comes to software updates, so it may take time for more devices after the Mi 5.

AOKP is the after market ROM developer like Cyanogen. Just like YU Yureka and OnePlus teamed up with Cyanogen to introduce the CyanogenMod 11S based devices, the Xiaomi Mi5 will debut with MIUI 7 with special features and experience developed in tandem with AOKP team. Let's wait and see what the new ROM will come with !!

Motorola moving directly to Android 5.1 for First Gen Moto devices

If you are owning a Moto X (2013), Moto E or Moto G LTE then there is some good news for you. We're sure most of you have been thinking about the update to Android Lollipop 5.0, and as many of them has got while rest are still in the queue, it looks like Motorola will be seeding Android 5.1 to the first generation devices as Android 5.1 is more mature and is even having most of the bugs of 5.0.2 solved.

As said by David Schuster who is the Software product manager to Motorola, that they have been testing the latest Android  5.1 on 1st Generation devices and hence after testing Android 5.1 on those devices, the company has decided to go directly with Android 5.1 for the devices.


Motorola recently has been seeding the Android 5.1 to 1st Gen Moto G Google Play Edition and it is also the first to receive the update among the Google Play Edition devices, lets have fingers crossed and wait for Android 5.1.
Moto X users especially have been frustrated over the Lollipop update and the recent revelation by Motorola President Rick Osterloh about the Lollipop update being in early stages. Today's news should offer some respite to those users considering they will get Android 5.1, although there is no indication about how much longer they will have to wait.
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Have you checked out our hands-on video review of the Moto E 2nd Gen?
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Specs: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

Specs: Samsung Galaxy S6

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 gets Lollipop update in more countries

Samsung continues to give its devices the taste of Lollipop, users of Note 4 has started receiving the Android Lollipop update in more of the countries which include :

• Brazil
• India
• UAE

The OTA update of the Lollipop for Note 4 carries a mass of about 1GB, so you should make sure you have enough space for the download and unpacking process before starting the update process.

The new update will uplift your Galaxy Note 4 to Android 5.0 Lollipop and will offer you the latest version of TouchWiz UI, also inspired by Lollipop's Material design. There is a lot to discover in there, it will boost your performance and memory speeds, and hopefully will increase your battery life.

HTC One M8s launches in European market

HTC announced the rumored HTC One M8s which is a scaled down variant of HTC One M8 which was the flagship of HTC last year. The phone features the same design as of M8, but the processor and the camera arrangement of the phone is a bit diffrent then the predecessor.

The specs of the announced M8s are as follows.

• 5-inch 1080p LCD display
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC
• 4 x Cortex A53 @ 1.7GHz + 4 x Cortex A53 @ 1.0GHz CPU 
• 2GB RAM
• 16GB variant 
• 13MP rear camera 
• 5 MP front camera 
• 2850 mAh

The rear camera still has the secondary depth camera, which helps in post processing effects that were one of the best parts about the camera app of One M8.

The phone isn’t thicker as the maximum thickness is 9.55mm, compared to the 9.35mm on One M8. The One M8s will support 4G LTE connectivity, with Cat.4 compatibility. The One M8s also has the HTC BoomSound speakers located on the front.