XOLO Play Now on Pre-Order in India, Priced at Rs. 15,999 ($265 / €206)

Mobile phone users in India can now pre-order a new handset from XOLO, none other than the recently teased XOLO Play T1000, which can be seen listed at online retailers in the country with a price tag of Rs. 15,999 ($265 / €206) attached.

Powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, the mobile phone lands on the market with a 4.7-inch HD IPS touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, and a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 32GB of additional storage space.

Furthermore, it includes an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back with 1080p video recording capabilities, 2MP front camera for video calling, a 2000 mAh battery that can deliver up to 9 hours of talk time on 3G networks, and Google’s Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean operating system loaded on top. The XOLO Play T1000 can be seen on this page on flipkart.

XOLO Play now on pre-order in India
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Samsung Galaxy Note III Spotted in UAProf on Samsung’s Website

Samsung Galaxy Note III, the upcoming large Android-based smartphone from Samsung Electronics, is all but confirmed, as it has already emerged on the company’s website in a User Agent Profile, after a great deal of rumors on it made it to the web.

The phone was spotted at Samsung with a 1080 x 1920 pixel screen and with model numbers SM-N900A and SM-N900T attached to it. The UAProf also unveiled that the upcoming mobile phone will sport an ARM processor inside, as SamMobile notes.

Previous rumors on the matter also suggested that Samsung would pack the device with a 5.7-inch Full HD sAMOLED display, as well as with a 13-megapixel photo snapper on the back, while loading Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on it. Galaxy Note III is expected to make an official appearance at the IFA show in Berlin in September.

Galaxy Note III UAProf
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Next-Gen MacBook Pro Leaks via Benchmark Test Result

Test results from benchmarking tool Geekbench 2’s database reveal that Apple fans have a lot to be happy about this year, as Apple is not only introducing new iDevices, but also a new range of MacBook Pros.

In addition to the new Mac Pro confirmed at WWDC 2013, Apple seems determined to upgrade its Pro line of notebooks too. The confirmation comes from the database of Geekbench 2, the popular benchmarking tool for computers. A new Geekbench result popped up today showing that someone has been fiddling with a next-gen MacBook Pro carrying an “AAPLJ45” designation.

Not surprisingly, the system was running OS X 10.9 Mavericks at the time the benchmarking took place, but its performance isn’t exactly off the charts. The computer uses Intel’s latest Haswell processors and boasts a whopping 16GB of RAM. Its Geekbench score is 12497, which spells about the same performance as current-selling machines.

Geekbench 2 result
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