Apple today announced that it has acquired the Next Issue Media LLC’s digital magazine service Texture. The service gives users unlimited access to their favorite titles for one monthly subscription fee. The move from Apple comes with an aim to tackle fake news and pave the way for trusted information. Continue reading “Apple acquires Next Issue Media’s digital magazine service Texture”
WhatsApp for Android earlier this month got the new extended time for ‘Delete for Everyone’ from 7 minutes or 420 seconds to 4096 seconds which is about 68 minutes and 16 seconds. Now the company has rolled out the same for iOS. WhatsApp with V2.18.31 for iOS and Windows phone also gets the new 1 hour, 8 minutes and 16 seconds for deleting a message. Continue reading “WhatsApp for iOS extends ‘delete for everyone’ duration to more than an hour”
Broadcom has almost reached a dead-end with its pursuits to acquire Qualcomm as Trump’s government has prohibited the take over with regards to national security. White House has ordered Broadcom immediately and permanently abandon the proposed takeover of Qualcomm. Continue reading “U.S. president Trump blocks Broadcom’s acquisition of Qualcomm citing national security concerns”
2018 is the year of notch in smartphones, after Apple introduced its iPhone X with a notch last year. Vivo has sent out invites for the announcement of X21 smartphone, successor of X20 that was introduced back in September last year. The company also confirmed in the invite that it will feature an in-display fingerprint sensor that first made its debut in the X20 Plus UD earlier this year.
Last week OPPO teased its upcoming R15 and R15 Plus with a notch display in image and a video that confirmed the design of the phone. It also confirmed that it will have a 6.28-inch 19: 9 full-screen AMOLED Super-V display with 1.78mm narrow frame and 90% screen-to-body ratio. Today it has listed the R15 on its site in Red, Blue, White and Mirror Red colors. Continue reading “OPPO R15 with 6.28-inch FHD+ 19:9 full-screen display teased in images officially ahead of announcement”
Huwei P20 Lite image and specifications surfaced last month after the phone got certified by the FCC and a press render of the phone surfaced last week, now an online retailer in Poland has listed the phone with all the images, detailed specifications and the price ahead of the official announcement on March 27th.
Toshiba today introduced new dynaEdge AR Smart Glasses for enterprise customers, which is a wearable Augmented Reality (AR) solution that combines dynaEdge DE-100 Mobile Mini PC with Windows 10 Pro and dynaEdge AR100 Head Mounted Display (HMD). Continue reading “Toshiba dynaEdge AR Smart Glasses, a wearable Windows PC announced”
Gurgaon-based Staqu today has launched the AI-powered Smart Glasses with inbuilt camera in India. It comes with speech and image recognition combined. The company says that it can identify potential threats to the civil society, such as criminals, intruders or terrorists.
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Huawei’s Honor brand has announced that it has started rolling out a new software update to enable Face unlock feature in Honor 7X smartphone in India, as it had promised. Face Unlock for the Honor View 10 was released back in January and the Honor 9 Lite got the feature last month.
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Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 9 Lite smartphone earlier this year. It even got face unlock feature recently. Today the company has announced that the phone will be available with discounts and exchange offers as part of Flipkart’s Mobile Bonanza sales tomorrow, 13th March. It also said that this will be its Biggest sale so we can expect enough stocks. Continue reading “Honor 9 Lite available with instant discount, exchange offer on Flipkart on March 13”
Back in December 2017 Google had teased about a VR display that will have 10x more pixels than any commercially available VR display today. It looks Google is now all set to introduce the next-big-thing in the VR space. The search engine giant at the SID 2018 in May is expected introduce the super high-resolution display. Continue reading “Google’s 1443 PPI 120Hz AMOLED display for VR to be announced in May”
Apple is busy prepping an entry-level MacBook that is likely to launch at the WWDC in June falling in line with the earlier report from KGI. The security analyst in his report said that he is expecting total shipments of MacBook models will grow 10-15% YoY in 2018. Continue reading “Apple said to launch entry-level Retina MacBook in June”
Xiaomi’s Mi 6 is almost a year old now and it looks like the company is prepping the launch of Mi 7 as a Xiaomi device with flagship level specifications have surfaced in benchmarks. The listing reveals that it will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. Continue reading “Xiaomi Dipper with Snapdragon 845, 6GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks, could be Mi 7”
After Mumbai, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra & Goa, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Karnataka,Chennai and Coimbatore, Airtel has launched its 4G VoLTE services in Kolkata. This lets Airtel customers enjoy HD quality voice calls along with faster call set up time compared to normal voice calls on their VoLTE-compatible 4G handsets. Continue reading “Airtel launches VoLTE services in Kolkata”
Huawei’s Honor brand just introduced the Honor 7C smartphone in China today. This directly competes with the Redmi 5 that was introduced back in December last year and will launch in India this week. Both these share almost similar specifications including a 18:9 display, Snapdragon 450, up to 4GB RAM, fingerprint sensor on the back and a metal back. We decided to do a quick comparison of the specifications between the two.
Continue reading “Honor 7C vs Xiaomi Redmi 5 – What’s Different?”
