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Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal and Snapdeal’s Kunal Bahl duel on Twitter The founders of E-commerce rivals Flipkart and Snapdeal on Saturday slugged it out on social media over Chinese online retailer Alibaba’s plans to enter the Indian market. Alibaba, which has invested in Indian e-tailers such as Paytm and Snapdeal, recently said that it plans a full-fledged entry into the Indian market. Taking a pot-shot at competitors, Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal in a tweet said, “Alibaba deciding to start operations directly shows how badly their Indian investments have done so far.” Hitting back, Snapdeal founder Kunal Bahl tweeted, “Didn’t Morgan Stanley just flush 5bn worth market cap in Flipkart down the (toilet seat icon) Focus on ur business not commentary (smile icon)”. Alibaba China has a nearly 40 per cent stake in One97 Communications which runs Paytm. In February, a mutual fund firm under Morgan Stanley marked down the value of Flipkart’s shares by 27 per cent. In a regula...

Do you find modern smartphones clunky, overly large, too cumbersome to carry around and use? Do you look back on the times when handsets could easily fit into the pockets of the skinniest of jeans, and didn't require advanced finger gymnastics to operate? What do you know, Apple seems to have been doing the same, as it has just announced a brand new 4" smartphone – the iPhone SE. In case you're wondering, the SE stands for 'Special Edition'. Fair enough. Excuse me, I think we've met before In what might be seen as a shocking contrast to today's trends of increasingly massive smartphone displays, the key selling point of the Apple iPhone SE is its super-compact, 4" display. To put things into perspective, the regular iPhone 6s has a significantly bigger, 4.7" display, and the still-larger iPhone 6s Plus comes with a 5.5" screen. Of course, the small panel means the iPhone SE itself is extremely pocketable by today's standards: the handset...

Vivo has launched its new 4G-enabled Y31L smartphone in India. Priced at Rs. 9,450, the Vivo Y31L smartphone is now available to buy in Black and White colours. The new Y31L smartphone is an India-specific model of the Vivo Y31A that recentlylaunched in China. The Vivo Y31L is a dual-SIM supporting smartphone that runs FunTouch OS 2.1, based on Android5.1 Lollipop. The handset features a 4.7-inch qHD (540x960 pixels) resolution IPS display and is powered by 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, clubbed with 1GB RAM and Adreno 306 GPU. The handset packs 16GB of inbuilt storage, which can be expanded via microSD card (up to 128GB). It sports an 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera with f/2.0 aperture and LED flash, along with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The smartphone camera can record and playback videos in full-HD resolution. The Vivo Y31L on the connectivity front features 4G, 3G, GPRS/ EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, FM radio, and Micro-USB. The Vivo Y31L measure...

HTC has come out with a fresh teaser for its upcoming flagship smartphone which promises 'new boom'. The Taiwanese company has shared an image on Twitter showing the speaker grille of what appears to be the HTC 10, with the text, "Here comes the new boom. You'll hear it." As with earlier teasers, this tweet is accompanied by the hashtag "powerof10." Based on the leaked renders we've already seen, HTC has removed the front dual speakers from the handset, which suggests that they will be placed on the back panel. Notably, this is the second teaser for the handset, as the first one claimed that the HTC 10 will sport "World First, World Class" front and back cameras. HTC recently announced an event on April 12, where the company is widely expected to reveal its next flagship, the HTC 10 smartphone. The Taiwanese company has announced that it will have simultaneous events in New York, London, and Taipei. In other news, the HTC 10smartphone was...

OnePlus has been working on its third flagship smartphone for months now, which Co-Founder Carl Pei claimed will sport a "new design," and is expected to launch in the second quarter of this year. Now, the rumoured OnePlus 3 has been spotted in AnTuTu benchmark results tipping the innards of the handset. According to the benchmark listing, the OnePlus 3 comes with the model number OnePlus A3000 and features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC; Adreno 530; 4GB of RAM; 16-megapixel rear camera; 8-megapixel front camera, and runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. The smartphone is said to sport 32GB built-in storage and come with a screen resolution of 1080x1920 pixels. The benchmark listing suggests that OnePlus may skip a QHD display in its OnePlus 3 flagship smartphone. To recall, the OnePlus 2launched last year and featured a full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) screen, and was marketed as '2016 flagship killer'. The details were shared on Weibo and first picked up by Android Community. C...

Pre-orders for the Apple iPhone SE are officially live! So, where do you get one? Well, your favorite technological retailer aside, there are five traditional places you can pre-order the iPhone SE. You can try Apple's webstore, accessible through Apple.com or the Apple Store iOS app. And then, there are the four major U.S. carriers - Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. They all have different offers, and at least two are giving the 16GB base model away for free if you sign up. Deliveries begin March 31. So, here are your options! Apple Apple lets you pre-order the iPhone SE in four color schemes (silver, gold, gray, rose gold) at $399 for the 16GB model and $499 for the 64GB one. You can pay up-front, or sign up for the iPhone Upgrade Program, which lets you buy an unlocked iPhone SE on a 24-month installment plan if you trade-in your current iPhone. Here's how that works out: What you give What you get What you pay iPhone 4 or 4s iPhone SE $14/mo. iPhone 5 or 5...

For the past few days, we have been reporting about a new smartphone from the Chinese manufacturer, called as the Blackview A8. This phone was special in the sense that it featured a pretty good built and came at a throwaway price tag of $49.99. Although we only got to play around with the device for a limited period at MWC, Blackview has now released a new video which shows off the A8 in action. You can check out the video from down below. It may not reveal much about the device, but it gives you a good look at the phone’s design and built quality. The company has confirmed that the Blackview A8 smartphone will officially go on sale from April 8. For its price, the phone features pretty decent specs. It comes with the MT6580A quad-core processor clocked at 1.3GHz with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of expandable storage. There will be a 5-inch HD 720p display on the device. At the back, the phone comes with an 8MP camera, while up front, there will be a 2MP shooter. What’s really interes...