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Chinese smartphone maker ZOPO made its India operations official today with the launch of the Speed 7, priced at Rs. 12,999 available from Snapdeal starting August 31st. It has a a 5-inch 1080p display, 1.5GHz octa-core MediaTek processor with 3GB RAM.

Flipkart launched new service today dubbed Ping, which is more of a social shopping experience built into the Flipkart app itself. With Ping you can chat with friends, discuss, share product links to decide on what you are buying, akin to offline shopping.

FitBit had already made its India arrival back in June but today they held a brand launch event in New Delhi to tell us their plans for India. Apart from online availability on Amazon, later it will be available through Reliance Digital, Croma, Helios

OnePlus 2 Kernel source is now available online to tinker with. This would allow devs to create custom ROMs for the OnePlus 2. Out of the box OnePlus 2 runs on the company's own OxygenOS based on Android 5.1 Lollipop.

Xiaomi has begun rolling out MIUI 7 ROM global beta for the Redmi 2, Redmi 1S, Mi 4i, Mi 4, Mi 3, Redmi Note 4G and Redmi Note 3G. The company has said they will release updates every two weeks.

Its common knowledge now that Motorola is working on its next-gen Moto 360 Android Wear smartwatch, but from the leaks that we have been seeing it seems we are going to see a return on the "flat tire."

OnePlus has just started rolling out a new OTA update for the OnePlus 2 which is supposed to fix various issues with the device including battery-drain, photo gallery. This update also brings stagefright security patch, alongwith performance tweaks.

Although Sony's smartwatch endeavors haven't fared that well for the company, they are still foraying into the smart/fitness band segment with the new Smartband 2. The 2nd-gen Smartband comes with a heart-rate monitor priced at USD 132 ( approx INR 8600)