Micromax Yu Yureka Plus launched in India, flash sales on July 24 on Amazon

Micromax sister concern Yu Televentures that manufactures mobiles under the Yu brand has launched its third smartphone, the Yu Yureka Plus in India.  Yureka Plus is the next gen premium version of Yu Yureka that was launched by the company in December last year. The new handset will be sold exclusively on Amazon and is open for registration. It will be sold via flash sale this Friday, July 24th at 12pm Indian time. Yu smartphones have a history of quick sell-out in flash sales in its home country India.

Let’s have a look at the specs of Yu Yureka Plus:

Display

The Yureka Plus sports a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080 pixels Full HD resolution capacitive touch screen having a pixel density of 401ppi. It has a gorilla glass 3 protection.

Under the hood

Inside, it has a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 615 chipset clocked at 1.5GHz and an Adreno 405 GPU for graphics. There is a 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal memory with a microSD card support for additional expansion up to 32GB. The handset will be powered by a 2500mAh battery.

Camera

The new Yu Yureka Plus will be featuring a 13-megapixel primary camera with Sony IMX214 CMOS sensor, autofocus and LED flash. The front-facing camera will be a 5MP one

Operating System

The Yureka Plus will come with custom-built Cyanogen OS 12 (based on Android 5.0 Lollipop) out of the box.

Other features

Dual-SIM support; Cat. 4 4G LTE, 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and Micro-USB connectivity; Sensors including proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, accelerometer and gyroscope.

Color options include MoonDust Grey and Limited Edition Alabaster White. The new Yu Yureka Plus is priced at INR 9,999 ($157).

Micromax Yu Yureka Plus launched in India, flash sales on July 24 on Amazon

Amazon Questioned FAA Over Drone Policy in United States

Amazon’s vice president of global public policy, Paul Misener, has criticized FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) over the slowness in developing the policies of unmanned aerial systems (UASs or UAVs) in United States. This concern was relayed during the meeting with Senate members of the Subcommittee on Aviations, Operations, Safety and Security in Washington DC.

Misener told the senators that although the United States was catching up in permitting current commercial UAS testing, the United States remained behind in planning for future commercial UAS operations. He also stated the difference between U.S. and places like Europe is that in Europe, the company has already started to test the drone outdoors in locations such as the United Kingdom. Outside U.S, there is also no requirement to wait more than one or two months to start the testing.

However, on the same day, FAA has issued an interim policy which streamlined the process of approval for commercial drone usage. The companies which had been exempted under the current law are given a “blanket” permission to fly UAVs anywhere in U.S. skies under a certain restrictions. Therefore, for the companies who have not gotten the exemption are not allowed to operate their drones as it is illegal to do so.

Senator Cory Booker has reported to be working on a bill which gives the companies the right to use drones, in which the process could take more than two years to be finalized on the rules by FAA. Another concern which arises from the usage of drone is that there will be a potential privacy concern for drones which have video capability flying at U.S. skies.

Amazon Questioned FAA Over Drone Policy in United States

Amazon Launched Unlimited Cloud Storage at Low Prices to Compete with Dropbox, Google and Microsoft

To compete with other companies who provide Cloud Drive services such as Dropbox, Google and Microsoft; Amazon, the online retail giant has announced two unlimited cloud storage plans for its own Cloud Drive service in almost half of the price that its competitors offer for the same kind of service.

The cloud service from Amazon also offers “Unlimited Photos” as well as “Unlimited Everything” plans. With just $11.99 a year for the Unlimited Photos plan, users are able to upload as many photos and images as they want to their Cloud Drive. Furthermore, users also able to upload videos, however, the video files are capped out at 5GB.

The Unlimited Everything plan is suitable for users who want to upload more than just photos or users who have a lot of important files which they have a hard time organizing the files. The plan is priced at $59.99 a year whereby you can dump all sort of files, from photos to videos into the Cloud Drive. Besides these two plans, Amazon also offers paid storage limited to a certain capacity.

Amazon started to launch the unlimited photo storage plan for its Prime members since last year. This service continues for all Prime users as it is, however, it has been expanded to Amazon’s user outside the loyalty program. For those who are interested, you can go to amazon.com/clouddrive to get started.

Amazon Launched Unlimited Cloud Storage at Low Prices to Compete with Dropbox, Google and Microsoft

Amazon Fire Phone Updates now available with New Features and Improvements

Although Amazon Fire phone wasn’t a runaway success, in fact it did quite poorly, there are still some people who own and use it. Well, there is some good news for them. Amazon is rolling out updates for the Fire phone that brings with it several improvements and some new features.

Both the versions of Amazon Fire phone are receiving updates. Handsets having the AT&T version are getting Fire OS 3.6.5 (125013320) and the unlocked GSM variants are getting Fire OS 3.6.8 (128003620).

Both software versions include new features and enhancements. A few major ones are given below:

* Translation of text and identification of famous artwork with Firefly

Firefly can translate text from/to: English, German, Italian, French and Spanish.  It can also recognize 2,000 famous paintings and give information about them from Wikipedia.

* Taking the perfect photo with Best Shot

The rear camera will take three photos when you click to take a photograph. You can then choose the best one you want.

* Enabling/disabling SMS and MMS settings

You can now turn on or off the character counts. You can also turn the MMS on or off.

* Selecting additional keyboard languages

There are 7 preloaded keyboard languages and 49 more can be downloaded. You can choose whichever one you want.

* Other features include blocking unwanted phone numbers, adding custom ringtones to your phone, controlling music directly from the lock screen, writing and editing documents with WPS Office, connecting to VPN (Virtual Private Network) at work, synchronizing calendars across several of your Amazon devices, reading Kindle books by scrolling without touching the screen, enhancement in phone’s battery life and many others. The update also includes several bug fixes and UI improvements.

The Amazon Fire updates will be provided OTA so it might take a few days. However, you can download them in your phone manually by selecting Settings > Device > Install system updates >Check Now. After the downloading is done, select Install System Update to install it.

 

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Amazon Fire Phone Updates now available with New Features and Improvements

Amazon launches a $39 Fire TV Stick, a competitor to Google’s Chromecast

Amazon has launched a new Fire TV Stick, an HDMI Dongle for media streaming that will offer tough competition to Google’s $35 Chromecast that it had introduced last year. Last month we saw Google unveil a set top box Nexus Player costing $99 in direct competition to Amazon’s $99 Fire TV introduced last year.

The Chromecast had become quite a hit among consumers as it provided affordable media streaming and now Amazon is entering the market with its own Fire TV Stick which is more powerful than the Chromecast. It has a dual core processor, a dedicated VideoCore4 GPU, 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage. Its processing power is six times that of the Roku Streaming Stick. The memory is twice that of Chromecast and the internal storage is four times that of Chromecast and 32 times that of Roku Streaming Stick.

The Fire TV Stick also has a dual-band dual-antenna Wi-Fi (MIMO) supporting 802 11 a/b/g/n networks giving a better Wi-Fi performance and more reliable viewing. It has Bluetooth 3.0 with support for HID, HFP and SPP. The device has its own UI and can store apps. It can also mirror whatever is on your Fire phone or tablet on your HDTV.

The Fire TV Stick also has its own dedicated remote control or if you want to navigate from your mobile device, there is a free Fire TV Remote App available for Android and Fire devices. App for iOS would be available soon.

The Fire TV Stick holds a price tag of $39 and is available for pre-order. Amazon’s Prime members got the Stick for a mere $19 for the first two days. The shipping is expected to begin from November 19. The Stick connects to the HDMI port of your TV and streams media from Amazon Instant Video, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu Plus, Amazon Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora and much more. The device is great for gaming too, with over 200 playable games on it.

Amazon launches a $39 Fire TV Stick, a competitor to Google’s Chromecast

Amazon Starts Pre-order: Nexus 9 Price in the UK

Just few hours later of pre-order in the US, UK also gets the pre-order option at Amazon UK of Google Nexus 9 tablet by HTC. As we all know there will be two options for the Google Nexus 9 including 16GB and 32GB version.

The price of the 16GB Nexus 9 in the UK will be £319 and £399 for the 32GB. For both of the Nexus 9, the connectivity will be Wi-Fi instead of LTE because the models of LTE are not available right now.

Nexus 9 prices in the UK will be available in Amazon and the people who will order the Smartphone will be shipped on November 3. However, Amazon UK is now only providing the two color including Black and White only. The third ‘Sand’ color will be available soon in Amazon but no fixed date announce for it.

The new HTC Nexus 9 has 8 mega pixels camera with LED flash, powered by Nvidia Tegra K1 chipset and CPU is .3 GHz dual-core. However, this large screen will provide you 2048 x 1536 resolutions along with its 8.9-inch display screen.

Amazon Starts Pre-order: Nexus 9 Price in the UK

BlackBerry Passport Arrives in India, costs INR 49,990

Within a week of its official unveiling at three simultaneous events held in Toronto, London and Dubai, BlackBerry’s new flagship the BlackBerry Passport has been launched in India. The smartphone is available for pre-order exclusively on Amazon’s Indian site up to October 10.

BlackBerry Passport is priced at INR 49,990 (about $810) in India which is at par with the prices of many current flagship Android phones in the market, but its price is much more compared to iPhone 5s which is being offered at heavily discounted prices by e-commerce sites in India. However, customers who pre-order the BlackBerry Passport through Amazon will receive a gift card worth INR 5000 and 5000 Jet privilege miles.

The BlackBerry Passport is the size of an actual international passport and has an unusual square-shaped 4.5-inch touch screen display with resolution of 1440x1440p. The handset also has a unique 3-row QWERTY keypad doubling up as a touch sensitive swipe-pad. Other specs include Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC with a quad-core processor clocked at 2.2GHz and Adreno 330 GPU for graphics. The BlackBerry Passport will have a 3GB RAM, 32GB internal storage expandable up to 128GB, a 13 megapixel rear camera and a 2 magapixel front shooter. The handset will come with the latest BlackBerry OS 10.3 with voice assistant, android app support and pre-loaded BlackBerry World and Amazon Appstore.

BlackBerry Passport Arrives in India, costs INR 49,990

Samsung Galaxy K Zoom price drops to $450 in US markets

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom has yet to been released officially in the US market yet! However fans who want to quickly grab the device and are much eager for the gadget can soon book their own Galaxy K Zoom via eBay. Through eBay’s Daily Deals, the device can be bought for a price of just $499.99. But just be cautioned as the Galaxy K Zoom that is currently being sold via eBay comes ‘without’ LTE with a compatibility with only AT&T’s 3G network. At the other hand, Amazon is selling the device with similar connectivity options for a price of $529.72.

So for customers for whom skipping LTE doesn’t make a big deal, this is certainly a very good option available. The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom comes with a 4.8inch display having 1280×720 pixel resolution running the Android 4.4 KiKat. The major USP of the device is its 20.7MP camera with 16x optical zoom, Optical Image Stabilization, Xenon and LED flash. At its heart lies a hexa-core Exynos processor supported with 2GB of RAM memory and 8GB of expandable internal memory. However, the device is quite bulky measuring 0.65 inches in thickness and weighing 200 grams. If the size doesn’t concern you much, and more importantly if you are looking for a smartphone with excellent camera, you aint get any better choice than the Galaxy K Zoom. Know more about the Galaxy K zoom in our complete review . Check out its promo video here.

 

Samsung Galaxy K Zoom price drops to $450 in US markets

30 Day Free Trial of Fire TV by Amazon

Amazon is offering free 30 days trial of Fire TV for the customers because of having huge sales of the first batch. The retailers have just need only few hours to sell all the initial batch of the Fate TV home media console. For that reason, Amazon has decided to go with free of charge for a month to the customers in order to get more customers from the market.

This offer means you can use the Fire TV for 30 days trial and the Amazon will return the media console from you after 30 days. But, you must be an official user and customer of the Amazon in order to get the offer. Before applying for the 30 day free trial of Fire TV, you need to register on the Amazon.

Like Apple TV and Roku, Amazon is going to give you lot of entertaining sources to enjoy your time and it can return good revenue from the sources. Amazon is going to have good trial version to the customers in order to give them the wonderful feature and attract. This Fire TV normally costs only $99 from Amazon and this trial basis will give you a good market to Amazon too!

Don’t you know how you will get the info of getting into the trial basis of Fire TV? Then, don’t worry because Amazon can use letters or mail in order to give you a promotional video as well as features that you can watch and decide.

30 Day Free Trial of Fire TV by Amazon