Meizu has announced that it will introduce the Note 8, a mid-range smartphone on October 25th. The smartphone has already been certified by TENAA with the model number M822Q that revealed 6-inch Full HD+ screen, 12-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash along with a 5-megapixel secondary camera for portrait shots, 1.8GHz Octa Core SoC, which could be Snapdragon 636, rear mounted fingerprint sensor and a 3500mAh battery.
Along with the K9, Lenovo has also launched A5, the company’s latest budget smartphone in India. It was introduced in China back in June. It has a 5.45-inch HD+ display, is powered by MediaTek MT6739 SoC with up to 3GB RAM, comes with 13-megapixel rear camera, 8-megapixel front camera, rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, face unlock and packs a 4000mAh battery.
Lenovo just launched K9, the company’s latest smartphone in the ‘K series’ at an event in India. It has 5.7-inch HD+ 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by MediaTek Helio P22 12nm SoC and runs Android 8.1 (Oreo). It has a 13-megapixel front camera along with a secondary 5-megapixel camera, offers 9 levels of natural bokeh improvement from f/1.0 to f/1.6, AI features for India, face unlock that can unlock the phone in 0.3-seconds. It also has a 13-megapixel rear camera along with a 5-megapixel secondary camera for capturing depth information in AI portrait shots. Continue reading “Lenovo K9 with 5.7-inch 18:9 display, dual front and rear cameras, Dual 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 8999”
HMD Global just announced the Nokia X7, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in the ‘X series’ in China. It has a 6.18-inch Full HD+ 18.7:9 aspect ratio Puredisplay, DCI-P3 wide color gamut and HDR video playback, 86.5% screen to body ratio, is powered by Snapdragon 710 10nm Mobile Platform with up to 6GB of RAM, runs Android 8.1 (Oreo), which is upgradable to Android 9.0 (Pie). It has a 12-megapixel rear camera rear camera with ZEISS optics, Sony IMX363 sensor, f/1.8 aperture, OIS along with a 13-megapixel secondary camera for portrait shots and zoom. The camera has AI scene detection to automatically detect 18 scenes. Continue reading “Nokia X7 with 6.18-inch FHD+ 18.7:9 display, Snapdragon 710, 6GB RAM, Dual rear cameras with ZEISS optics announced”
Samsung India has announced festive offer that lets users avail up to 25% instant cashback on a range of Samsung products and an additional 15% cashback on purchases made through HDFC, Axis and ICICI bank credit and debit cards. It is also offering host of freebies with select products. Continue reading “Samsung festive offer: up to 25% instant cashback, additional 15% cashback on select cards, freebies and more”
Huawei’s Honor brand just launched the Honor 8X, successor of the Honor 7X in India, as it had promised. It has a 6.5-inch Full HD+ display with a 4.25mm narrow chin and 91% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Kirin 710 SoC with 6GB of RAM, has a 20-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, AI scene recognition that can identify up to 500 scenes, and a 2-megapixel secondary camera to capture depth information in portrait shots. It has a 16-megapixel front camera with 4-in-1 pixel binning technology, face unlock and AI beautify. Continue reading “Honor 8X with 6.5-inch FHD+ display, Kirin 710, up to 6GB RAM, AI dual rear cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 14999”
Xiaomi has finally announced that the Mi MIX 3, the company’s flagship smartphone in the MIX series will be introduced at an event in Beijing on October 25th. Xiaomi President Lin Bin already posted a photo of the smartphone, revealing the slide-out design. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 with bezel-less display, slide-out design, support for 5G to be announced on October 25”
After rumors, Palm, a California company that purchased the rights to the Palm brand from TCL, today launched the Palm Phone with a 3.3-inch HD screen, aluminum chassis, Gorilla Glass protection on the front and back and a water and dust-resistant body with IP68 ratings. It runs Android 8.1 (Oreo), is powered by Snapdragon 435 with 3GB of RAM, has a 12-megapixel rear camera with flash and an 8-megapixel camera on the front.
Continue reading “Palm Phone with 3.3-inch HD display, water-resistant body, Android 8.1 announced”
After certification, Huawei has officially announced the Enjoy Max with similar specifications has a Honor 8X Max that was introduced last month with a 7.12-inch Full HD+ display with narrow bezels and 90.5% screen-to-body ratio, Snapdragon 660, 16-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, AI scene recognition, 2-megapixel secondary camera to capture depth information in portrait shots, 8-megapixel front camera and a 5000mAh battery, but this comes with a leather-like back.
Update – October 15, 2018: The company has posted a new teaser image that shows a notch display, similar to what we had seen on TENAA recently.
Coolpad has launched Note 8, the company’s latest smartphone in the ‘Note’ series in India. It has a 5.99-inch Full HD+ 18:9 aspect ratio display, is powered by an Octa-Core MT6750 SoC, runs Android 8.0 (Oreo), has a 16-megapixel rear camera along with a secondary 0.3-megapixel camera for portrait shots.
Last month Apple announced that the Apple Watch Series 4 in 40mm and 44mm sizes with new display with an edge-to-edge curved display, digital crown with haptic feedback, 50% louder speakers, S4 chip with a custom 64-bit dual-core processor, new health capabilities, including a new accelerometer and gyroscope, which can detect hard falls. Continue reading “Apple Watch Series 4 now available for pre-order in India starting at Rs. 40900”
ASUS already sent out invite for smartphone launch on October 17th. Now the company has confirmed that it will launch two new smartphones at the event, and these phones will be exclusive to Flipkart. This will be the global first launch in India.
Continue reading “ASUS to launch two new smartphones in India on October 17 exclusively on Flipkart”
This week Google introduced the Pixel 3 series of smartphones, HMD Global launched the Nokia 3.1 Plus smartphone as well as Nokia 8110 4G VoLTE feature phone in India, Razer introduced the Razer Phone 2, Huawei’s Honor brand introduced the Honor 8C smartphone. Check out more in our weekly roundup. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Google Pixel 3, Nokia 3.1 Plus, Razer Phone 2, Samsung Galaxy A9 2018, Honor 8C and more”
Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO launched the POCO F1 running on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with a skin on top, which company is referring to as MIUI For POCO. MIUI for POCO is regular MIUI with few new additions like POCO launcher, stock Android like quick setting tiles and others. POCO Launcher (Beta) was leaked early, later it appeared on the Play Store bringing several news features. After over a month of test, the app is now out of beta and is available for download for several smartphones. Continue reading “POCO Launcher for Android out of beta, now available for most smartphones”
