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Abhinav Pathak likes all things tech, with major focus on smartphones and mobile computing. He has a profound interest in music, movies, gadgets and good food. His passion for coding translates into developing web-services and apps for android.

Amazon Fire Phone tracks your head with its 4 front-facing cameras

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 18, 2014 06:40 PM

Amazon Fire Phone comes with a 3D head tracking technology which the company is calling Dynamic Perspective. It uses four front-facing infrared cameras to track your head at all time. It also works in the dark. Read More

Amazon Firefly will recognize everything you see and hear, to help you buy it

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 18, 2014 06:17 PM

Amazon Fire Phone is here. It comes with Amazon Firefly which can recognize a 100 million items. It can recognize art, listen to shows to find the scene on Amazon, album art to play music over at amazon or other services, tell if a number exists or not. Read More

Amazon unveils the Fire Phone with 4.7-inch display, quad-core Snapdragon 800, 13 MP camera with OIS

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 18, 2014 06:01 PM

Amazon has just made its first smartphone official, the Fire Phone. It features a 4.7-inch 720p HD IPS display, 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with Adreno 330 GPU and 2 GB RAM. There is a 13 MP camera on board as well with OIS. Read More

Twitter gets Animated GIF support on mobile and online

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 18, 2014 05:49 PM

Twitter has finally added support for Animated GIFs to both its online service and mobile apps. The feature is now live on Twitter.com, Android and iPhone. The announcement came as a tweet with, you guessed it, an animated GIF embedded in it. Read More

The Amazon phone is supposed to launch today

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 18, 2014 04:35 PM

Its been months that we have been hearing chatter about a smartphone from Amazon, with a 3D interface which reacts to the movement of your eyes. There won't be any glasses needed to see the 3D action on the phone. Read More

Oppo Find 7a gets OTA update with Voice unlock, bug fixes

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 18, 2014 09:45 AM

Oppo has just begun rolling out an OTA update to the flagship Find 7a which brings some new features and bug fixes. You get support for the new smart cover, voice unlock and E-warranty registration. Read More

Samsung's Terrain Home launcher for Android now available

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 18, 2014 08:54 AM

Samsung Accelerate funded startup Terrain has just launched its Terrain Home Launcher for Android on the Play Store. According to the listing it has three key features, a sidebar with all your information, search and the app drawer. Read More

Samsung Galaxy S5 with 5.1-inch QHD display, 225 Mbps LTE-A, Snapdragon 805 goes official

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 18, 2014 06:06 AM

Samsung has gone official with the Galaxy S5 LTE-A in Korea featuring support for the faster 225 Mbps LTE-A networks, 5.1-inch QHD (1440x2560 pixels) display, quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor with Adreno 420 GPU running Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Read More

Facebook's Slingshot app goes live

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 17, 2014 05:15 PM

After an accidental leak, Facebook's Slingshot app has now gone official. Widely regarded as a SnapChat competitor, Slingshot does have an ephemeral element to it, to delete photos and videos just simply swipe them away. But that's just the gist of it. Read More

Micromax Canvas Gold A300 with Octa-core processor, 5.5-inch full-HD display, Android 4.4 KitKat available for Rs. 23,999

by Abhinav Pathak on Jun 17, 2014 03:15 PM

Micromax Canvas Gold A300 has yet to go official but it is now available for Rs. 23,999 at online retailer Infibeam. It is powered by the MediaTek MT6592T octa-core processor clocked at 2 GHz with a 5.5-inch 1080p full-HD display running Android 4.4 KitKat Read More