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International Data Corporation (IDC) has released a new report which predicts the smart wearables market growth for 2015. According to the report, smart wearables market will see an astounding increase of 173.3 percent in 2015. IDC report states that 72.1 million smart wearables will be sold in 2015 which is more than 173 percent of the 26.4 million units shipped last year. The report also estimates the Compound annual growth rate for the market for the next five years. A 42.6 percent annual growth will be seen until 2019 increasing the shipments to 155.7 million wearables sales in the year…

The camera-centric Vibe Shot smartphone, which was unveiled by Lenovo back in March at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) and released in China last month, is now available for purchase in the US. Amazon is selling the black colour variant of the handset (unlocked) for $380. An important point worth mentioning here is that the online retailer is selling a version of the device that does not support US LTE bands. Specs-wise, the Vibe Shot is powered by a Snapdragon 615 SoC and sports a 5-inch display with 1080 x 1920 pixels. It comes with 3GB RAM and 32GB…

While Sony and others came up with their selfie-oriented smartphones as much as a full year back, it is only now that Samsung is releasing its own reply to those products with the release of the J5 and J7. Both of them sit in the lower and upper-midrange tiers, respectively. Samsung has made sure both aren’t one-feature wonders though. The J5 comes with a quad-core 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor. Its older sibling comes with an octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor. The J5 comes with a 5 inch display while the J7 ups it to a 5.5″ display. Both share 1.5 GB…

The app store is brimming with apps of all kinds. There are currently more than one million apps on the AppStore and Google Play, respectively. So what makes your app stand out in a crowded app store? It’s originality, of course. Keywords and graphics too. But mainly your users are what makes your app emerge among the mass. Consider that if you’re not reaching, engaging and monetizing users, someone else will. And your app will sink to oblivion before it got a chance to gasp for air.  From your app’s launch to its upgrades and monetization method, here is why…

Samsung is expecting to ship around 45 million units of its Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge flagship smartphones in this year alone, according to a recent report from Deutsche Bank. That's broadly in-line with various earlier reports - a CitiBank analyst had in April predicted that the number might exceed 50 million, an estimate that was recently corroborated by research firm Counterpoint. A Samsung executive also recently revealed that the devices are hitting the South Korean company's internal targets. However, not everyone has been speaking in the same tone - investment bank Oppenheimer recently claimed that Samsung's latest flagship has…

Mere hours ago we got word that the update to Android 5.1.1 Lollipop was already rolling out to Samsung Galaxy S6 units in France. This follows the world premiere of this Android version's rollout for Samsung handsets, which happened last week on T-Mobile. And now the Galaxy S6 edge is getting Android 5.1.1 in Europe too. In this case, for now it's only being distributed to handsets which were sold in the UK and Ireland. That said, undoubtedly it will spread to more places in a few weeks at most. The update is for the SM-G925F model of the S6…

No setup required. Just throw Lily in the air to start a new video. It's that simple. click to play video https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153001231113515 three simple steps Aerial photography has really taken off with the advent of consumer drones, allowing virtually anyone to get a bird’s-eye view of the action below. Of course, the quality of the shots you get will ultimately depend on the skill of the pilot and if you’re wanting action shots of yourself, you’ll need at least one other person to fly the drone. A new drone called Lily aims to solve that dilemma. Think of it as your…

MediaTek's high-end deca-core Helio X20 chipset is set to make a debut in mid-October housed inside the Elephone P9000. The Chinese smartphone is expected to debut on October 20 with $500 price tag. The MediaTek Helio X20 deca-core chipset carries the model number MT6797. It follows the MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 model with octa-core processor. Helio X20 has the industry's first tri-cluster architecture which packs two Cortex-A72 processor cores clocked at 2.5GHz for optimal performance, four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2GHz for striking a balance between performance and power consumption, and another four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.4GHz for power…

Although not officially, the Sony Xperia C4 - which was announced back in May and went on sale in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia earlier this month - is now available for purchase in the US. Online retailer Amazon is selling the unlocked, international version of the handset (no US LTE support) for $379. The smartphone is available in black and white colour options. For those who aren't in the know, the Xperia C4 is being marketed as a "selfie smartphone" - it features a 5 MP wide-angle front-facing camera that comes equipped with a LED flash.…

Samsung has become quite predictable with the release schedule for its flagship Galaxy devices. The Galaxy S6 and S6 edge were released right on que at MWC 2015, which leads us to believe that the Korean giant will be just as diligent with the Note series. Thus, we can expect to see a new Note 5 device this September, most probably at the IFA expo, but the question is still out on an edged variant for the next Note device. Last year, the Note 4 came out along with a rather unexpected sibling - the Galaxy Note Edge. A lot…