Flipkart Big Shopping Days Sale: Best deals on Smartphones, Tablets and Wearables

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Flipkart is back with Big Shopping Days Sale. As a part of the sale it is offering some great deals on smartphones, tablets, wearables and mobile accessories that include, Nexus 6P, Moto X Play, Mi 4 and more. All these offers including exchange offers are available on the web, Flipkart app and Flipkart Lite. 

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Samsung Galaxy S7 India launch, HTC 10 live images surface and more – FoneArena Daily

HTC 10 leak

Check out the new FoneArena Daily video that gives you a quick roundup of today’s technology news. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 India launch, HTC 10 live images surface and more – FoneArena Daily”

Google files patent for AR-based pop-up book

Google interactive book patent

Google has file couple of patents at the  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The first patent is for an interactive book with motion and pressure sensors embedded within its pages. Another patent is for a media enhanced pop-up book that uses a phone or tablet to add to the reading experience. Continue reading “Google files patent for AR-based pop-up book”

BlackBerry Priv Benchmarks

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BlackBerry launched its flagship Priv smartphone running Android earlier this year for Rs. 62,990. We already brought you the photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 64-bit 20nm processor that has two bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.82GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.44GHz per core with 600 MHz Adreno 418 GPU. It has 3GB of RAM, 5.43-inch Quad HD AMOLED display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.

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Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) Review

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Samsung launched the Galaxy A5 (2016), after more than a year of launching its first Galaxy A5 smartphone in its ‘A series’ in India. On paper, specifications of the new A5 smartphone are way better than its predecessor. Even the new A5 is priced at Rs. 29,400, more than launch price of the first A5. Is the Galaxy A5 (2016) worth the price? Let us find out in the complete review

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Opera 36 beta for Android brings new tab switcher, web apps discoverability and more

Opera 36 beta for Android

Opera has updated its beta app for Android to version 36 that brings several new features, including a new tab switcher with a modern look and a better underlying structure to allow optimized resource management. Opera says it is still working on perfecting it, but it it asking beta testers for their feedback. The update also lets you make progressive web apps easier to find on the web. It will automatically allow compatible web apps like the Flipkart Lite to be added to the home screen.

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HTC 10 live and press images surface

HTC 10 leak

Press image of the HTC 10, the company’s upcoming flagship smartphone has surfaced for the first time, thanks to @evleaks. It shows its unibody metal build, similar design as the HTC One A9 on the front, fingerprint sensor embedded into the home button along with the capacitive touch buttons on either sides and a large front camera sensor. It is missing the usual dual front-facing boomsound speakers.

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OnePlus 2 Oxygen OS 2.2.1 OTA update brings RAW support in OnePlus Camera

OnePlus 2 Oxygen OS 2.2.1

OnePlus has started rolling out Oxygen OS v2.2.1 OTA update for the OnePlus 2 smartphone. This update brings RAW support in its own OnePlus camera app. You can enable option to save RAW image from the camera settings. Few months back Oxygen OS 2.1.0 brought RAW image support for 3rd party camera apps. The update also improves Bluetooth and Ultra SIM compatibility, fixes occasional image corruption issue in OnePlus Camera and more. Continue reading “OnePlus 2 Oxygen OS 2.2.1 OTA update brings RAW support in OnePlus Camera”

Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge launching in India on March 8

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Samsung just sent press invites for the launch of its flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones in India on March 8th. Both these smartphones were announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, pack a 5.1-inch Quad HD and 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED always-on displays, respectively. In India the variants will likely be powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 8 Octa 8890 SoC, instead of Quad-Core Snapdragon 820 processor. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge launching in India on March 8”

Huawei P9 new renders surface, shows its slim metal body, dual rear cameras

Huawei P9 leak

Earlier this week live images of Huawei’s upcoming P9 smartphone with dual rear cameras surfaced. Now the press shots of the smartphone have surfaced in China. This reveals the smartphone’s slim profile, it’s metal body, power button, volume rockers and SIM slot located on the right side. Continue reading “Huawei P9 new renders surface, shows its slim metal body, dual rear cameras”

Microsoft Hyperlapse for Android gets option to save to SD card, save in 1080p and more

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Microsoft has updated its Hyperlapse app for Android that finally gets option to save the recorded videos to microSD card on compatible devices. It also gets option to save 1080p videos in compatible devices. Both these features can be enabled from the settings. If you can’t enable, then the feature is not available for your device.

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HTC One M10 flagship smartphone could launch as HTC 10

HTC One M10 teaser

HTC’s upcoming flagship smartphone codenamed ‘Perfume’ will launch as HTC 10, according to @evleaks. This was already teased in a teaser image and a video. He also said that even though the name of the phone has 10, it will not run Windows 10. Continue reading “HTC One M10 flagship smartphone could launch as HTC 10”

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Benchmarks – Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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Xiaomi launched its Redmi Note 3 smartphone in India yesterday starting at Rs. 9999. We already brought you the benchmarks of the Helio X10 version of the Redmi Note 3, here are the benchmarks of the Snapdragon 650 version. It is powered by an Hexa-Core Snapdragon 650 28nm processor with four smaller ARM Cortex A53 core clocked at 1.4GHz per core and two bigger ARM Cortex A72 cores clocked at 1.4GHz per core. It has 600MHz Adreno 510 GPU. We have the 3GB RAM version, but the phone also comes in 2GB of RAM version. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with MIUI 7 on top.  Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Benchmarks – Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650”

Samsung T3 portable SSD with support for Android launched in India starting at Rs. 10999

Samsung T3 SSD

Samsung introduced T3, it’s latest palm-sized, external solid state drive (SSD) with USB 3.1 Type C support at the CES 2016 earlier this year. It launched it in India yesterday. It is compatible with a range of USB supported devices, including the latest Android smartphones and tablets, and computers with Windows or Mac OS. Continue reading “Samsung T3 portable SSD with support for Android launched in India starting at Rs. 10999”

Amazon Tap and Echo Dot Alexa-enabled devices introduced

Amazon Tap and Echo Dot

After the successful Echo virtual assistant that was introduced back in 2014, the company has introduced its successor, Amazon Tap in the form of a portable speaker and Echo Dot, which is a tiny disk. The Amazon Tap has dual stereo speakers with Dolby processing that promises crisp vocals, extended bass response, and 360° omni-directional audio. It also has a built-in battery that promises up to 9 hours of continuous playback. Continue reading “Amazon Tap and Echo Dot Alexa-enabled devices introduced”