ZTE Nubia Z7 Max with 5.5-Inch FHD Display, Snapdragon 801, 3GB RAM Coming Soon to India

Android fans in India who are still waiting for the right smartphone to arrive in their country, despite the fact that they are bombarded with new products on a daily basis, will be pleased to know that Chinese company ZTE plans to bring its flagship smartphone in the country. The ZTE Nubia Z7 Max, the best version of the smartphone currently available only in China, has been confirmed to arrive in India soon. Although the ZTE Nubia Z7 is available in three variants, the most expensive has been picked by the Chinese handset maker to be introduced in India. The information has been recently confirmed by ZTE via GizChina. According to a ZTE official, the Nubia Z7 Max model will be coming soon in India. Sadly, no details on the exact...

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Ubuntu and Xubuntu Power First Mercedes-Benz S 500 Autonomous Car

Mercedes-Benz is one of the first companies to experiment with autonomous driving and it succeeded. It also looks like the engineers are using Ubuntu and Xubuntu to do the job. The Mercedes-Benz engineers managed to build an S 500 Intelligent Drive prototype that is able to drive itself without any kind of input from the driver. Autonomous cars are no longer something extraordinary, but you have to keep in mind that this is a regular car made to work without a driver and it's not something built specifically for this job, like the one from Google. The Linux community is always on the lookout for interesting implementations of the open source OS, and someone has spotted two different operating systems in the video provided by Mercedes-Benz...

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Lava Iris X5 Leaks in India Ahead of Official Release

It looks like Indian OEM Lava Mobile is readying yet another Android smartphone that might surprise customers in the country. After the success of the Iris X1, Lava is determined to maintain the customers’ interest for its products at high rates. The next handset in the Iris lineup of smartphones is dubbed Iris X5, and it has yet to be officially confirmed by the Indian company. However, the device has been recently spotted at Zauba, the organization regulating imports in India. According to Gogi.in, Lava Iris X5 will sport a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen display, but the resolution supported is still unknown. The smartphone has also been confirmed to pack 8GB of internal memory, which suggests Lava may also have included a microSD...

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