Micromax on Friday launched a new line of feature phones – Joy – alongside a new packaging style that using pouches instead of boxes, ostensibly to reduce cost and maintain value for money. The Joy series has been launched with two new handsets, the X1800 and X1850, priced at Rs. 699 and Rs. 799 respectively. While the Joy X1800 already hit the shelves starting Thursday, the Joy X1850 will... 

HTC has confirmed that the Android 5.0 Lollipop update is now rolling out to HTC One aka HTC One (M7), specifically, the unlocked and Developer Edition variants. HTC’s VP of Product Management Mo Versi in a tweet early on Friday confirmed the news. Notably, the HTC One will receive Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update with Sense 6 UI. Unfortunately, the Taiwanese company is yet to reveal the changelog... 

OnePlus has collaborated with popular keyboard app maker, SwiftKey, to offer OnePlus One users the keyboard preloaded on their handsets along with the next over-the-air (OTA) update for CyanogenMod 11S (CM11S). Users will be able to activate the keyboard via the settings, without being required to install it. The update also brings the previously promised MaxxAudio integration. With the SwiftKey keyboard... 

While ZTE launched the Blade S6 earlier this week, it on Thursday also introduced a new handset dubbed ZTE Blade L3. The smartphone’s price and availability details are yet to be confirmed. However, the handset might be significantly cheaper than Blade S6, which is priced at $249.99 (approximately Rs. 15,300), based on the slightly lower specifications mentioned by the company. Like the ZTE Blade... 

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is closer to losing its crown as global smartphone leader after posting a plunge in quarterly mobile earnings on Thursday, a day after rival Apple Inc reported the biggest profit in corporate history. The South Korean giant said earnings from smartphones and other mobile gadgets dropped 64 percent annually in the October-December period to 1.96 trillion KRW ($1.80 billion,... 

The rumours and leaks for HTC One (M9) aka Hima just don’t seem to stop with the handset’s purported design surfacing once again. The new image for the rumoured HTC One (M9) shows a larger variant of the smartphone alongside, with both sporting a much slimmer design than predecessors. The image comes courtesy of the now-retired tipster @evleaks, who posted a tweet saying “Old habits... 

LG Chemical and LG Display are set to start mass-producing new all-plastic flexible OLED display panels by July. The firms are said to have given details on the new flexible display technology, and have made the first samples available for customers. The flexible plastic-OLED (P-OLED) displays made by LG until now (LG G Flex and G Flex2) still feature some glass in them, limiting the bending radius... 

Apple  has officially released iOS 8.1.3. The update can be downloaded by going to Settings > General > Software Update. You can also download and install the update through iTunes by plugging in your iPhone to your Mac or PC. The iOS 8.1.3 update contains bug fixes, stability enhancements and performance improvements. The download size of iOS 8.1.3 is 246MB. When Apple released iOS 8, many... 

Last month, reports came out suggesting that Microsoft has no plans of introducing a Windows Phone flagship device until H2 2015. Now, according to Windows Central, the company has confirmed that the new Windows 10 flagship smartphone is likely to come “later this summer”. On Wednesday, Windows Central reported that Ifi Majid, Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft Mobile Devices,... 

BlackBerry has announced a Black and Gold Limited variant of the BlackBerry Passport on Wednesday. The company will only sell 50 units of the new variant worldwide, priced at a meagre $899 (approximately Rs. 55,000). Each one comes engraved with “Limited Edition” and the production number, as well as a Valextra cover made from soft calf leather with Valextra “costa” lacquered... 

Motorola on Friday annouced it has started rolling out the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the Moto G (Gen 1) and Moto G (Gen 2) smartphones in India, and for the Moto G (Gen 2) in the US. The company announced that the Lollipop update for the Moto G and Moto G (Gen 2) is rolling out over-the-air (OTA) in phases, and users should look for the notification on their devices. While the update notification... 

After making an appearance in some leaked pictures last month, the Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle smartphone is now available for purchase on ecommerce website, Snapdeal at a price of Rs. 12,999. The Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm MSM8225Q processor and has 512MB of RAM. It has 4GB internal storage out of which 1.2GB is user-accessible. The memory can be expanded...