Dormi Turns Android Smartphones Or Tablets Into A Video Baby Monitor

Biddulph And Coates Launch Thington, A New Super-Angel-Backed IoT StartupA number of companies today leverage the ubiquity of smartphones in order to offer parents “connected” baby monitoring systems that can be accessed from anywhere. Often, as with devices like NapTime or Evoz, these include a monitor and camera of some sort and an accompanying mobile app. But a startup called Dormi has historically offered a different take – instead of selling new hardware, the company allows you to re-use old Android smartphones or tablets in order to remotely monitor your baby’s room.
Now its system has received a long-anticipated update, with the much-requested addition of video monitoring.
Previously, Dormi’s system was audio-only. Using an app that worked over Wi-Fi or cellular connections or even WiFi Direct/WiFi Hotspot, you could listen in on baby while out of the room, much like traditional baby monitoring systems allow for today. You could also press a button to speak into the app which would transmit the sound of your voice to the other device in the child’s room.
The devices you use with Dormi could be an extra Android phone or tablet you had lying around the house. Or you could use your current Android device as the primary one, if you chose.
In addition to the simplicity of the system, the app has been priced compellingly – perhaps even too cheaply considering its hardware-based competition sold through baby superstores and other retailers is often exorbitantly priced.
While technically a subscription-based app, Dormi offers lifetime usage for just $7.00. It’s sort of a no-brainer for those looking for simple and affordable alternative to traditional baby monitoring systems, or just wants a solution that’s easier to carry around when traveling, for example.
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That price point remains in effect today, despite the new feature set. You can also pay $1 per month for Dormi or $5 per year. The company is, however, considering the introduction of in-app purchases later on when it enables high-quality video – support for which is already built into the app but not yet available.
With the just released update, the app now supports real-time video streaming with hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding (even on old 2.3 Gingerbread devices). Explains co-founder Pavel Kryl of Sleekbit, the Czech Republic-based company that makes Dormi, extending support to older devices took a lot of work on their part, including reverse engineering low-level Android libraries in order to interface with them for hardware-accelerated video encoding. The implementation promises minimal CPU usage and battery usage.
Dormi’s app has also been visually updated to match up with Android’s new “material design” philosophy, the company says, which includes animated transitions to and from full-screen video, for example. There have also been improvement’s to Dormi’s intelligent noise level monitoring, including a new manual sensitivity control, which should address some users’ earlier complaints about the app’s sensitivity, which increased on hard, flat surfaces.
Another more major addition is support for Chrome OS, which means Dormi’s system can now be accessed from a Chromebook computer. It will also soon become available by way of the Chrome browser on all platforms, too, the company says.
And there have been a number of other ‘under the hood’ updates that improve battery usage, reliability and reduce latency.
As an Android-only application, Dormi is doing well enough with around 120,000 active users following 250,000 downloads, and steadily rising sales. However, because of its rather low pricing, the company is only generating $6,000 per month we’re told. That’s concerning because for Dormi to stick around, it will need to figure out how to scale that revenue. (Though Sleekbit does have a number of other apps on the market, which does help.)
One thing that may help increase Dormi’s sales is that the app just a few weeks ago has managed to score the second position in Google Play when users search for “baby monitor.” That could give Dormi increased visibility, and ultimately more downloads and paying customers.
Dormi is a free download on Google Play.

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Google Launches Handwriting Input For Text And Emoji On Android

Netflix Adds 4.9M New Members In Q1, Sending Shares Up More Than 10%Google Research today launched its latest project: Google Handwriting Input. Besides their voice and favorite keyboards, Android users using Android 4.0.3 and up can now also simply use good old-fashioned handwriting to input text into any Android app.
The new tool recognizes 82 languages and 20 distinct scripts.
My own handwriting is notoriously unreadable, but Google’s new tool even managed to handle most of my squiggly cursive without too many issues. It had virtually no issues with print.
One cool gimmick here is that Handwriting Input also knows how to render your hand-drawn emojis (and yes, it immediately recognized my attempt to bring up the pile of poo emoji).
It’s worth pointing out that this isn’t Google’s first foray into handwriting recognition, but it’s the first time it is bringing support for its handwriting tools to all of Android. Previously, Google already featured handwriting recognition in the Google Translate app, as well as on mobile search and through the Google Input Tool.
How useful this will be in daily use remains to be seen. Thanks to modern swipe keyboards, text input has become pretty fast and accurate on Android at this point. As Google rightly points out, though, there are plenty of languages in which it’s challenging to type with a standard keyboard. Google specifically points out South Asian languages with complex scripts and ideographic languages like Chinese as examples where handwriting input can be easier for many users. Google already offered special handwriting input for many of these languages, but as the Google Research team notes, this new app combines these efforts and allows both on-device and cloud-based character recognition.
The new app is available in the Google Play store now.

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Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Is Now A Partner At Redpoint Ventures, Raises $48M For His Own Hardware Incubator

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Back in October of 2014, Android co-founder Andy Rubin parted ways with Google after nine years with the company.
At the time of his departure, word trickled out that he was building a hardware-focused incubator called Playground — and sure enough, that incubator just disclosed this morning that they’ve raised $48M .
Turns out, that’s not all he’s got on his plate: he’s also now a venture partner at Redpoint Ventures.
Prior to selling Android to Google in 2005, Andy was the co-founder of Danger — a company best known for creating the Sidekick/Hiptop.
Redpoint was founded in 1999, and has over 300 investments in its portfolio — including names like Nextdoor, Path, Sonos, Stripe, Twilio, and even Android-based Android competitor Cyanogen. It’s also an investor in Rubin’s Playground incubator, according to Redpoint’s Jeff Brody.
Rubin confirmed the new role with a tweet this afternoon.
"@rsarver: Couldn't be more excited for @ARubin to join @redpointvc http://t.co/6tpL9pUPVF" ;; I'm psyched too!!!
— Andy Rubin (@Arubin) April 6, 2015

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Microsoft Debuts Office Lens, A Document-Scanning App For iOS And Android

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But in conjunction with the company’s newer strategy to embrace other platforms outside its own, the app has now arrived on Apple’s App Store and on Android phones, where it will sit alongside dozens of other Microsoft applications, including Office and Outlook.
Office Lens’ core functionality itself is not all that different from a number of document-scanning applications on the mobile app stores today, like Scanner Pro, TinyScan Pro, Scanbot and more. And much like Evernote’s Scannable app, for example, it exists more as an add-on or complement to a larger, more prominent product – in Microsoft’s case, OneNote.
Like most scanner apps, Office Lens identifies the text on the images it captures using optical character recognition (OCR), which allows you to later locate the file in question using keyword search in OneNote or in Microsoft’s cloud storage site, OneDrive. You can also convert the images you scan of paper files and whiteboards into Microsoft Office formats and more, including Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and even PDFs and JPGs. These can be inserted into OneNote as images, the company says.

In addition, Microsoft says that Office Lens offers a business-card scanning function that lets you turn cards into contacts you can add to your smartphone’s address book. That initially sounds similar to the functionality that Evernote Scannable offers, you’ll think. However Evernote also pulls in LinkedIn details, which is handy as it allows you to grow your network. (LinkedIn used to offer its own card-scanning app, but later shut it down and pointed people to Evernote instead.)
But with Office Lens, the process of turning cards into contacts is more involved than with Scannable. As a previous Microsoft blog post explained, it still involves the use of OneNote. That is, OneNote is able to recognize the contact information on the card, then you can open the attached VCF file from the OneNote app to save the contact details to Outlook or your phone’s contact list.
In Scannable, by way of comparison, you simply tap one button to save the scanned card to your phone’s contacts. That makes Scannable the better option for those looking mainly for a business card scanner, while Office Lens is really about catering to the heavy OneNote-using crowd instead.
Also like Evernote Scannable, Microsoft’s app also offers the ability to create an online archive of your scans in its own OneDrive service.
The new Office Lens app is available on the iTunes App Store for iOS users, while Android users are being asked to join the “preview” for the product via Google+. From here, they’ll be able to test the version ahead of its public debut.
The release comes at a time when Microsoft, a historically more closed company that tried to keep customers in its own ecosystem, has been expanding to other platforms besides its own.
Today, the company has extended some of its most popular products and services to competing mobile platforms like iOS and Android, including by launching Office for iOS late last year, as well as Outlook for iOS and Android, various MSN properties, OneDrive and more. In fact, the company now has over 100 iOS and Android applications in total.

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Gmail For Android Gets A Unified Inbox

These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In ChinaGoogle updated its Gmail app for Android today, and the most important feature is probably the addition of a unified inbox. Most of us probably manage multiple accounts and until now, you had to awkwardly switch between them in the Gmail app. To get started with this new unified inbox, you simply switch to the “All Inboxes” option in the app and you’re done.

Given how useful this feature is, it’s surprising that it took Google this long to launch this feature. iOS users, after all, long had this option in the default Apple email client.
Google says the updated app also now features better auto-complete for searches. While Google didn’t say much about how exactly this new auto-complete is better, it looks like this new version knows more about your existing messages and can help offer better auto-complete suggestions based on the content of your email conversations.
Another new feature in the app is support for conversation views for messages that don’t come from Gmail (despite the name, Gmail for Android also supports third-party accounts). So starting today, your emails from Yahoo, Outlook.com and IMAP/POP accounts will be stacked into conversations, just like Gmail messages.
Also new is the ability to save documents to Drive with a single tap and larger attachment previews.
It’s unclear when Google will bring these new features to the Gmail iOS app.

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Corgi For Feedly Puts News Right On Your Android Phone’s Lock Screen

Canopy Labs Relaunches To Help Businesses Understand Their “Fuzzy” Customer FunnelsThere are a growing number of startups taking advantage of Android’s flexibility to deliver content directly to the smartphone’s lock screen, enabling things like alerts, ads, and even messaging - without requiring users to first unlock their phone and launch an app. A new startup called Corgi, available now on Google Play’s store, is one of these new efforts, as it delivers news directly to your phone’s lock screen.
The application works in conjunction with the popular news reader Feedly, which today has somewhere between a million and 5 million installs on Android, according to Google Play’s data. The idea is that Feedly subscribers can use the Corgi app to tap into their current subscriptions, and have that content synced to their device’s lock screen – essentially turning the lock screen itself into a news reader.
Once installed, Corgi allows you to swipe up to read the article it presents, or you can swipe to the left to browse to other articles. Meanwhile, to simply unlock the phone, you just swipe right. And as you’re reading, if a given article is truncated by the publisher, you can launch a browser in the app to read the entire story.
You’re also able to use Corgi to share stories on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ as well as save the story for later reading through services like Pocket or Evernote.
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The app, which sports Google’s brightly colored Material Design user experience, is the work of a distributed team of developers and designers Stan Dmitriev, Andrey Sharipov and Sergey Varichev, currently based in Finland, Thailand and Russia. They’ve actually been working on the product for 10 months but previously launched a version of the app that didn’t quite resonate with users. The feedback they received at the time was that users didn’t quite understand how it was meant to work.
The team then went back to the drawing board and redesigned everything, resulting in the app that’s live today. The new app is only a couple of weeks old, but has already been featured on new product aggregator Product Hunt where it’s hit today’s front page.
Dmitriev says the attention is unexpected, and admits the app still has a few kinks to work out. The service works well on most Android KitKat and Lollipop-powered smartphones, he notes, including the Google Nexus and Motorola-branded devices. However, other users have reported bugs which he attributes to driver issues. The team expects to roll out fixes for these in a release arriving next week.
Also arriving in the forthcoming version is a feature that will be handy for those Feedly users with a larger number of subscriptions. The app will soon include the option to let you pick and choose which of your feeds actually show up on the lock screen. That way, you can use Corgi to track just your most important news sources instead of everything you may follow in your Feedly reader.
The startup has a small amount of angel funding through a single investor, but is looking to raise a couple hundred thousand more in order to develop its technology and its business further. Dmitriev explains that they would like to one day license their framework to others who want to build out custom lock screens of their own, similar to Microsoft’s Android lock screen, for example.
Corgi for Feedly is a free download on Google Play.

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Google Launches New Analytics, Monetization Tools For Android Game Developers

Hello Again, NASDAQ 5,000Google today announced a couple of new tools for game developers on its Android platform. These include new analytics to help developers better understand in-game player behavior, as well as a number of new monetization features through its AdMob platform. Google also launched a new game-centric Nearby Connections API for Android TV, its nascent smart TV platform.
On the analytics side, Google’s new Player Analytics, which will roll out in a few weeks, is meant to help developers get a better grip on what their players do inside a game. In addition, this new report also looks at how much players are spending and what their churn rate looks like. The tool also makes it easier for developers to track average revenue and sessions per user. Google says BombSquad tested this feature and used the data it gathered to more than double its revenue per user — but then, Google wouldn’t use a game that lost users and revenue during the beta test as an example, would it?
On the monetization side, Google is launching native ads, house ads and a new “audience builder” tool. Just like native ads are slowly taking off in the publishing world, Google hopes to bring a similar experience to games. These new ads will be styled to “match the visual design of the game” — so you basically won’t immediately realize that you’re looking at an ad (which has long been the Holy Grail of advertising now that we’ve all learned to ignore it). This feature is currently in limited beta.
“In-App Purchase House Ads,” the second new feature, allows AdMob to predict which of your users are mostly likely to spend their hard-earned cash on virtual goods because you’ve made it impossible for players to finish your game without it in-app purchases so you can show them customized ads for promoting those in-app items. This feature is now in beta and will roll out to all AdMob users in the next few weeks.
The last new AdMob feature is the so-called “Audience Builder.” While that sounds like a tool for building audiences, it’s actually a “powerful tool that enables game developers to create lists of audiences based on how they use their game.” Using that, developers will be able to customize their games for different kinds of users.

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The Huawei Watch Brings Serious Style To Android Wear

Bargain Hunt For Tech Amid The Wreck Of Russia’s EconomyA somewhat unlikely suspect might just have revealed the best-looking Android Wear-powered device: The Huawei Watch, from the gadget-maker of the same name, made its official debut onstage today at Mobile World Congress, and it’s easily one of the best looking devices ever to sport Google’s wearable software platform.
The Huawei watch has a 286 PPI 1.4-inch AMOLED display, with a 42mm round face that is actually on the smaller side compared to most of the gargantuan Android Wear devices out there. It’ll come in gold, silver and black finishes for its stainless steel body, and will also offer a built-in heart rate monitor, 4GB of onboard storage, 512MB of RAM, the standard loadout of motion sensors for activity and health tracking, and Bluetooth LE for device pairing.
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Huawei’s wearable looks to combine the best aspects of the Android Wear crowd’s reigning champs, offering a perfectly circular display, with a bezel size that won’t necessarily invalidate those with smaller wrists from wearing one. The company plans to launch the device in 20 countries worldwide, and it should go on sale in June of this year, though the company isn’t talking price yet.
The decided factor in the Android Wear category continues to be design, and this looks frankly a lot nicer than either existing options or other new ones, including the forthcoming LG Watch Urbane.

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Apple Took 89% Of Q4 Smartphone Profits With Android OEMs In A Race To The Bottom

Google’s Android has gobbled up market share world wide, now accounting for over 80% of all smartphone shipped globally. But when it comes to actually making money, Apple is eating all the profits as it continues its focus on premium devices. Today Strategy Analytics said that Apple in Q4 last year accounted for 89% of all smartphone profits, equating to $18.8 billion, with Android taking only 11%, or $2.4 billion.
The blow for Android is softened only slightly less so only by the fact that other platform players like Microsoft, Blackberry and Firefox seemingly made no profit at all.

The figures given here relate to profits generated by handset makers, not the services ecosystem and potential profits made by app publishers and others. Overall, smartphone profits were up 31.4% compared to the same quarter a year ago.
When it comes to who is performing best among Android OEMs, the results reveal growing competition for Samsung.
Neil Mawson, research director for Strategy Analytics, says the “three big profit drivers” for Android are Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi.
“Samsung is the Android giant that delivers most of Android’s smartphone profits worldwide,” he tells me. Mawston says the company is not breaking out exact shares, except to say that “Samsung accounted for well over half of all Android smartphone profits globally in Q4 2014.”
As a point of comparison, in 2013, Samsung accounted for 95% of Android profits. That was a time where there was significantly more parity between Apple and the Korean handset maker both in terms of unit sales and revenues, with Apple accounting for “only” 57% of profit at the time.
The bigger picture seems to be that Android handset makers are in something of a race to the bottom at this point: the markets that are driving growth in smartphone adoption these days are emerging economies, where consumers are price sensitive. That’s leading to the production of a number of models that are pushing down the average sale price for devices, which long ago dropped below the $100 mark.
Apple may have missed the boat (so far) when it comes critical mass in market share in these developing markets, but it has more than made up for it by making a killing in places where it is strong. China is one such crossover example. While there is clearly a market for lower-cost and Android devices, Apple has been posting record sales in the country, reporting sales of $16 billion in the country in Q4. (China is not — yet — however overtaking Apple’s sales in markets like the U.S.)
In the world of smartphones, Android’s gains do not equal Apple’s loss. But Android’s gains might translate into Android losses down the line, Strategy Analytics notes.
“Apple’s strategy of premium products and lean logistics is proving hugely profitable,” Mawston writes in the report. “Android’s weak profitability for its hardware partners will worry Google. If major smartphone manufacturers, like Samsung or Huawei, cannot make decent profits from the Android ecosystem, they may be tempted in the future to look at alternative platforms such as Microsoft, Tizen or Firefox.”Featured Image: Ismagilov/Shutterstock

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Opera Adds Free Apps To Its Android Data Savings App Opera Max

Last year mobile browser company Opera launched Opera Max, a data-compressing Android app that let users save money on their mobile data. Now, to drive more usage of the product, Opera is adding another feature to Max: apps that you can use free.
App Pass, as the service is called, is aimed squarely at users in emerging markets, where smartphone adoption is booming, but the average smartphone user is more sensitive to price, and mobile data still costs more on average than it does in developed markets like the U.S. and Europe, leading to very little actual usage of the smartphones’

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This Is Probably HTC’s Next Big Android Phone, The One M9

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Pebble’s Smartwatch Now Officially Supports Android Wear Apps

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JW Player Brings Its Video Player To Android Apps

has made a big move onto mobile with the general release of its Android SDK.
The player already worked in mobile web browsers, so it wasn’t entirely absent from Android. But this will allow publishers to include the players directly in their apps, to customize its appearance, and to include video advertising.
The company raised a $20 million round last fall, and it’s also releasing some new stats about its growth, including the fact that its videos reached 1 billion unique viewers in December, with 94 billion plays (up 570 percent year-over-year) and 4 billion hours watched (up 640 percent). Revenue for its software-as-a-service business is up 130 percent.
CEO Dave Otten characterized the Android launch as part of its

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Instant’s New Android App Lets You Track Just About Anything

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EyeEm Brings ‘Open Edit’ To Android

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Google’s Maps App For iOS And Android Gets Material Design And Uber Estimates

Google has updated Maps to keep with the visual theme introduced with Android 5.0 Lollipop, which it calls material design. The new mobile apps now feature bold headers of solid flat colors and animations that evoke pieces of paper sliding over one another. The apps also offer new features, including reservations you can make at restaurants through the app via OpenTable, and both time and price estimates for the Uber transport method introduced in May.

The update will roll out over the next few days, so don’t be disappointed if you aren’t seeing it right away. Based on the previews supplied by the company, the visual overhaul here is as pleasant and well-executed as is the rest of Android 5.0, which I’m particularly smitten with. The additional features are also very helpful, with reservation integration eliminating the additional step of having to open a separate app or web page in order to book a table once you’ve used Google to see what’s available around you.
The deepening of the Uber partnership is particularly interesting – it will admittedly help anyone who uses the transport service to get around, but it also means Google is getting even cosier with a company that is also a portfolio member in its investment arm, Google Ventures. Building Uber time and price right into the Maps app gives it a considerable advantage over other means of private transit, including standard taxi services.

We’ll keep you updated on Google’s progress as it continues to put material design on everything within its considerable realm of software and apps – and of course we’ll be watching the Uber connection closely, as the next stage would presumably be offering Uber booking direct, without requiring a user to even leave the app.

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LG G3 Stylus officially announced with mid-range specifications

LG has officially announced a new mid-range phablet dubbed as LG G3 Stylus. LG G3 Stylus is a cut-down version of their flagship Android smartphone, LG G3. Giving the high-end features from LG G3 a miss, G3 Stylus comes with a 5.5-inch qHD IPS LCD display, 1.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 13MP primary camera. The device comes pre-loaded with Android 4.4 KitKat which runs beneath LG’s new flat UI as promised by LG.

LG G3 Stylus Specifications

• 5.5-inch IPS LCD display, 960 × 540 pixels, capacitive multitouch, stylus
• Android 4.4.2 KitKat, LG Flat UX
• 1.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, Adreno 305 GPU, 1GB RAM
• 8GB of internal storage capacity, microSD card slot (up to 32GB)
• 13MP primary camera, autofocus, LED flash, 1080p video recording, 1.3MP secondary camera
• 3G (HSPA+), Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0, GLONASS A-GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack and microUSB v2.0 port
• 3000mAh battery
• Black, White and Gold colour options

It comes with a design philosophy similar to that of LG G3 and gets its software goodies such as Knock Code, Multi Windows, Quick Memo and so on. LG hasn’t announced its pricing yet but it shouldn’t be more than Rs 15,000 when it gets launched in India. With such specifications, the LG G3 Stylus competes withSamsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo, HTC Desire 816 and Nokia Lumia 1320.

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LG L60 X-147 entry-level smartphone goes on sale in India for Rs 7,990

The budget smartphone segment is where the growth is and every company wants a share of that pie. LG’s entry-level Android smartphone, the L60 X-147 has quietly gone on sale in India for Rs 7,990. It comes with enough specifications to take on the Motorola Moto E but not the Asus Zenfone 4.

• 4.3-inch TFT LCD display, 800 x 400 pixels
• Android 4.4 KitKat, LG UX
• 1.3GHz dual-core processor, 512MB RAM
• 4GB internal storage, microSD card slot (up to 32GB)
• 5MP rear-facing primary camera, autofocus, LED flash, VGA front-facing secondary camera
• Dual SIM, 3G HSPA+ (42 Mbps HSDPA), Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0, A-GPS
• 1700mAh battery
• Rs 7,990

The device has 512MB of RAM which seems low by standards these days and 1GB RAM would have helped. It is currently available to purchase from Amazon and is priced at Rs 7,990. The device is also listed on Flipkart but is termed as ‘Coming Soon’ so the official launch shouldn’t be far away.

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