Apple has sold over 1 billion iPhones, Prisma to get video support and more – FoneArena Daily


Tim Cook Billionth iPhone

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Nextbit has introduced Ember color variant of the Robin smartphone at $299. It will go on sale India next week in limited numbers through Flipkart for Rs. 19,999.

Prisma app will soon get support for videos. It said that technology for adding filters to video is already ready but the company needs to adjust its infrastructure to support the higher load.

At the employee meeting in Cupertino, CEO Tim Cook confirmed that Apple sold the billionth iPhone last week.

Samsung has reported its earnings for Q2 2016, in which the company has made operating profit of 8.14 trillion won ($7.22 billion), which is up 16% YoY. Increase in earnings QoQ/YoY is due to strong sales of its flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 edge smartphones globally

LG Electronics has reported revenues in which it has posted operating profit of 584.6 billion won (US$ 503.10 million), up 140% YoY. Mobile sector was down 6% YoY mainly due to slow initial sales of G5 smartphone.

Facebook now has 1.71 billion monthly active users, up 15% year over year adding 60 million new users since last quarter.

Today’s deal – JBL T150A in-ear earphones for Rs. 728.


Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

Srivatsan Sridhar is a Mobile Technology Enthusiast who is passionate about Mobile phones and Mobile apps. He uses the phones he reviews as his main phone. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram