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Intex has launched a 4G enabled smartphone with Sailfish OS 2.0, called the Aqua Fish. The smartphone is priced at Rs 5,499, and is available in orange color.     At the MWC earlier this year, Intex unveiled a Sailfish OS 2.0 based smartphone, the Aqua Fish. The company had then revealed it will be launching the smartphone in India ‘within a few months’. Now, Intex has officially announced the launch of the Aqua Fish in India. Priced at Rs 5,499, the smartphone will be available via ebay.com. It will soon be available through Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon in the coming weeks. Interestingly, it took about one year for Intex to commercially launch the Sailfish OS based smartphone after announcing a partnership with Jolla in July 2015. The company had initially aimed to launch a Sailfish OS based smartphone in November last year. Intex had said it would launch an under Rs 10,000 smartphone with 4G connectivity and Sailfish OS. Intex also happens to be Joll...

Do you read comic books from the Play Store? if not, you might want to start. Google just announced a great new feature at San Diego Comic-Con 2016 that changes the experience of reading comic books. It's called Bubble Zoom and it quite literally makes speech bubbles leap off the page. Each blob of text is identified and sequentially pops up with the press of a volume button or a tap at the bottom-right of the screen. With the use of its powerful machine learning and image recognition technology, Google can identify speech bubbles on the page and enlarge them on the page. The magnification of individual talking points makes it easier to read dialog while the entire page is left visible. There's even an added sense of action as the bubbles animate back and forth on the page. For now, the only supported comics are collections published by Marvel and DC. There's a list of them here. To promote Bubble Zoom, Google is offering 50% off these books with...

The famous Photo Editor Application is now available for Android. Download it edit your pictures with the dozens of amazing styles.   Description Be an artist! Turn your photos into awesome artworks: - Modern art filters! - Stunning photo effects - Fast sharing Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists: Munk, Picasso as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art. Download From Play Store

Adobe Lightroom app: Adobe has recently updated its new version of Lightroom app for the Android and iOS devices. The updated version of the Lightroom app will have several new features for both platforms. The updated software has features for taking and editing photos. The user can take the picture, edit and can share the picture. The user has the iOS device then they can get the ability to edit and share the RAW images whereas Android users can have the ability to shoot pictures from the application then can edit with the new pro mode and can share the image. To edit the images using this application is very simple and which basically adds manual controls. Adobe Lightroom app v2.4 for iOS comes with a feature called RAW Technology Preview where the user need not have to convert the images into another format before or after editing. The user can also allow the user to perform local adjustments with linear and radical selections. The use of keyboard shortcuts...

WhatsApp is without any doubts one of the most used mobile messaging applications out there. The application has over 1 billion monthly active users from all over the world and 95 percent of the smartphone users have installed it in India. Unfortunately, if you own an “old” device, then we have some bad news for you, as the WhatsApp will stop functioning on many old smart phones. The developers of this application have already announced that they will stop supporting a good amount of handsets before the end of 2016. According to reports, WhatsApp will no longer support Blackberry OS, Nokia S40 and Symbian OS before the end of 2016. In other words, if you have smart phones that run on any of these three operating systems, you should already consider purchasing a new handset (that’s if you want to keep using WhatsApp). In addition, older devices that run on outdated Android, Windows and iOS versions will be in the same situations as the ones that run on Blackberry OS, Nokia S...

Google has updated Hangouts to enable its users to join groups through unique links in order to save group members the trouble of having to add everyone to the group individually by sending out invitations. HIGHLIGHTS Everyone can add themselves to the group via the link You can now search for group chats from group name or participants Feature will roll-out in next few days to all supported platforms. "This means that even if you don't have someone in your contact list, you can still quickly add them to your Hangouts conversation by sending a link instead." Google Staff Software Engineer Jordanna Chord said in a Google Plus post. The feature is expected to roll-out over all Hangouts platforms in next few days, she added. This particular feature requires to be switched on for each chat individually and the link for the group chat can be found in that same chat's settings menu. Importantly, you will also get the option to disallow new members to t...

Qualcomm recently announced the launch of the Snapdragon 821 processor and teased that the first commercial device will be available in the second half of 2016. Asus, at their Taiwan and Hong Kong launch event today has announced another version of Zenfone 3 Deluxe that will run on the Snapdragon 821 SoC. This will make it, the world’s first smartphone running on the newer chipset. The Zenfone 3 Deluxe will come with a quad-core Kryo CPU that will be clocked at 2.4 GHz and backed by 6GB DDR4 RAM. The phone will be priced at $780 and it might take it some time to come to India. The Zenfone 3 Deluxe will sport a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 4 and a non-removable 3000mAh battery. The phone will also come with a 23-megapixel rear camera with a f/2.0 aperture lens that will have OIS, laser AF and dual-tone flash. For selfies the phone will sport a 8 megapixel f/2.0 front camera. There will also be two other variants of the Zenfone 3 Delux...