Facebook has said it was reconfiguring its News Feed, in a move aimed at giving people more information about what is happening to “the friends you care about.”

Status updates, photos and videos shared directly by friends will be pushed higher up News Feeds, while news organisations and business pages may suffer promotion-wise as a result. While this may seem obvious, Facebook notes that many users like to read news or interact with posts from pages they have liked. This content ...

Chinese smartphone maker Gionee has released a new budget smartphone named Pioneer P4S. The device, which was originally unveiled in November 2014, has been priced at Rs 7,799 for the Indian market.

The Android 4.4 KitKat-based Pioneer P4S is a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) smartphone with a 4.5-inch (unspecified resolution) display. The smartphone is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and 8GB internal storage which can be expanded up to 32GB.

The Pioneer P4S comes in a crystal skin ...

Karbonn has launched a new entry-level smartphone — Alfa A120 — priced at Rs 4,590. The smartphone will compete against the likes of Micromax Canvas Fire 2 A104, Lenovo A526, Lava Iris X1 Mini and Intex Aqua M5.

The Alfa A120 smartphone sports a 4.5-Inch FWVGA IPS screen and runs on a 1.3 GHz dual processor. It includes 512MB RAM and 4GB of internal storage that is expandable up to 32GB with a microSD card. The Karbonn Alfa A120 comes with ...

Chinese smartphone maker OPPO Monday launched its new budget device, Joy Plus, in the Indian market, and priced it at Rs 6,990. This new smartphone is said to compete with the likes of the Lenovo A6000, the second-gen Moto E, the Xiaomi Redmi 2 along with few other devices of the same price range.

The Joy Plus smartphone features a 4-inch screen with a resolution of 480×800 pixels which comes to around 234 pixels per inch. It has a MediaTek MT6572 ...

The Palo Alto based custom android OS developing firm Cyanogen announced strategic partnership with Microsoft to provide popular Microsoft services and apps across smartphones running on Cyanogen OS, which is rated as one of the best custom androids till date.

The two companies formally announced a long-rumored “strategic partnership” Thursday, which will put Microsoft’s apps and services on Cyanogen devices this year.

Microsoft’s mobile apps will be integrated into a future version of Cyanogen’s Android-based operating system, as CEO Satya Nadella steps ...

Huawei launched its latest P8 and P8 Max smartphones that aim to take on the flagship devices by Samsung and Apple.

The Huawei P8 is a 5.2-inch, 1080p device, with an octa-core, 64-bit chipset, 3GB of RAM, dual-SIM LTE and a 2,680mAh battery. The rear camera has a 13-megapixel sensor (paired with an 8-megapixel one on the front), and while that sounds like every other Android smartphone camera out there, Huawei puts a lot of emphasis on the phone’s photo capabilities. ...

Microsoft has announced another entry level smartphone- the Lumia 540 Dual SIM priced at $150 (roughly Rs. 9,361). The smartphone will be available from next month in India, Middle East, Africa (IMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) countries.

Worthy successor of the Lumia 530, the Lumia 540 Dual SIM features the Smart Dual SIM feature to let you create unique profiles for each SIM and also stay connected with call-forwarding. The handset is powered by Windows Phone 8.1 with Lumia Denim update ...

Local smartphone manufacturer, iBall has just launched a new smartphone, the Andi 5M Xotic in India. The device has been priced at Rs.8,199. Previously, it was listed at Rs.8,950 on an online retailer in February.

This iBall phone runs on the Android 4.4 KitKat OS which is upgradable to the latest version 5.0 Lollipop.

Running on a Cortex A7 1.3 GHz processor, the phone comes with an 8 megapixel rear camera (with LED flash and auto-focus support) and a 3.2 megapixel snapper ...

The Motorola Moto E 2nd gen smartphone with 4G LTE has finally been launched in India with a budget-friendly price tag of Rs 7999 attached to it. Flipkart will start delivering the 4G version of Moto E from 23rd April. The newly launched 4G version of the new Moto E is little bit expensive than the new 3G version of Moto E, which has a price tag of Rs. 6,999.

Moto E 4G has the latest 64-bit Snapdragon 410 quad-core CPU ...

Chinese smartphone giant Lenovo is set to launch a new entry-level smartphone — Lenovo A1900. The dual-sim phone has been listed on Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s website priced at $46 (approximately Rs. 2,600) onwards.

According to the listing, Lenovo A1900 a 4-inch WVGA (480x800p) IPS display and is powered by a Spreadtrum SC7730 chipset with a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and Mali-400 GPU. A modest 512MB of RAM are on board, as well as 4GB of storage, which is expandable via microSD.

It ...