Alcatel has introduced Idol 4 and Idol 4S smartphones in the Idol series, ahead of MWC next week. The company also announced that it is dropping the ONETOUCH branding and will be operating under the name ALCATEL. As expected, the IDOL 4s comes with an innovative packaging design that transforms into a pair of virtual reality goggles offering an immersive 360-degree viewing and gaming. It has Onetouch VR Store app to to download virtual reality content or stream realtime content via LittlStar.
Google has Android Auto and Apple has Apple CarPlay for newer cars offering in-car connectivity solution, but Samsung is targeting older or existing cars with its new Connect Auto dongle that will be introduced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona next week. Continue reading “Samsung Connect Auto connected car solution with LTE, KNOX security and Tizen OS announced”
Sony will introduce a new smartphone, codenamed Xperia PP10 and a smart Bluetooth headset dubbed Smart Ear at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona next week. According the leaked image from @evleaks, the Xperia smartphone will have a curved design, a large power button, similar to Xperia Z5 smartphones and a dedicated camera shutter button, below the volume rockers. It also has front-facing speakers and the bezels are huge. Continue reading “Sony Smart Ear headset, new Xperia smartphone surface ahead of MWC announcement”
Earlier this month there were rumors about HTC releasing Desire 500 series (codenamed A16) and Desire 800 series (codenamed A56) smartphones at the MWC next week, ahead of the launch of M10 in April. Now @evleaks has posted a press images of the Desire 500 series smartphone, which could be the Desire 530. The design of the smartphone is completely different from its earlier Desire series smartphones, including the Desire 526 that was introduced last year. Continue reading “HTC Desire 530 (A16) with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 210 surfaces ahead of MWC launch”
Check out the new FoneArena Daily video that gives you a quick roundup of what is expected at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona next week. Continue reading “What to expect at MWC 2016 – FoneArena Daily”
Last month Sony announced its MWC 2016 event for February 22nd, Monday, but the company did not give any hints of what it plans to launch. It is already working on PlayStation VR, now the company has updated its Privilege Plus entertainment app that adds VR Theater, which hints that company might launch its own VR headset as early as next week, at the MWC. Continue reading “Sony Xperia VR headset launching at MWC next week?”
Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge smartphones at an event tomorrow. Now the specifications of the smartphone have been detailed in a Samsung Pay promotional poster from a Spanish bank La Caixa. Sammobile who got hold of this poster, also reveals that both the smartphones will come with a 12MP rear camera with 1/2.5-inch sensor, at least 1.4-microns, 8-megapixel front-facing camera and powerful 1.5W loudspeaker.
A design render of the LG G5 smartphone already revealed that the flagship will have a removable battery that can be accessed from the bottom. Today a new leak from China(Via) has revealed the removable slot, which houses its battery. Even though earlier leaks revealed that the phone will have a 2800mAh battery, the latest leak claims that the G5 will have a 4000mAh battery, larger than all the earlier G series smartphones.
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After testing multiple accounts feature, Facebook has officially started rolling out the feature for Android users. Instagram got multiple account support recently. This will let you share your device with other friends and family members so that they can log in using their account, and your messages will be completely private. “Anyone else who shares the device will just see the number of notifications of messages that you have, but they will never be able to see the content of your messages,” said Facebook. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Android gets support for multiple accounts”
First press render of the LG’s flagship G5 smartphone has surfaced online, thanks to @evleaks. Even though the phone doesn’t look impressive in an image posted earlier, the new render reveals a different design. It shows the phone’s curved screen, minimal bezels on the sides of the display and the metal body. Continue reading “LG G5 press render surfaces ahead of launch”
Samsung launched the Galaxy A5 (2016) smartphone, along with the Galaxy A7 (2016) smartphone earlier this month for Rs. 29,400. We recently brought you the unboxing, here we have the benchmarks of the smartphone. It is powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 7580 64-bit processor that has eight ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.6 GHz per core. It has Mali-T720 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 5.2-inch 1080p screen and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.
Xolo launched the Era 4K, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone in the Era series earlier this week at a price tag of Rs. 6,499. Here we have the unboxing and the first impressions of the smartphone.
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Samsung today announced that it will offer 360 live streaming for its Galaxy Unpacked 2016 event for the first time. This will be available through PC, Android and iOS devices using Unpacked 360 View app and also through the latest Samsung Gear VR. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 launch event on Feb 21 will be presented in 360-degrees”
Volvo today announced that it plans to become the world’s first car manufacturer to offer cars without keys from 2017. These cars will use Bluetooth-enabled digital key technology that would allow owners to do everything a physical key currently does, such as locking or unlocking the doors or the boot and allowing the engine to be started using the new Volvo app. Continue reading “Volvo Cars in 2017 will use Bluetooth-enabled keyless technology”
OnePlus launched its 10,000mAh power bank in India back in May last year at a competitive price of Rs. 1399, exclusively on Amazon.in. After it went out of stock, it came back in stock in December last year. Today, OnePlus has partnered with Flipkart to sell the power bank at a new price of Rs. 1,799, which is Rs. 400 more than the launch price. Continue reading “OnePlus 10000mAh Power Bank now available from Flipkart for Rs. 1799”
