HUAWEI’s HONOR brand launched the HONOR 9X, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone and the successor of the Honor 8X in India last month. It has a new no-notch design with pop-up camera, but the International version is powered Kirin 710F Octa-Core 12nm SoC compared to Kirin 810 in the Chinese version. Is the phone worth the price when there is a huge competition in the mid-range segment? Let us dive into the review to find out. Continue reading “HONOR 9X Review”
Samsung launched the Galaxy M30s smartphone in India back in September last year. Now the company is gearing up to launch the Galaxy M31 smartphone in the country. This will feature 64MP rear camera, which should use Samsung’s own ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy M31 with 64MP rear camera, huge battery launching in India soon”
HMD Global introduced Power Earbuds with 3000mAh charging case last year that lets you charge the 50mAh (each) battery inside earbuds up to 30 times offering 150 hours of battery life. It has started rolling it China starting this week. It has IPX7 ratings for water resistance and uses Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity. Continue reading “Nokia Power Earbuds with up to 150 hours of battery life with 3000mAh charging case starts rolling out”
Amazon has launched Echo Show 8, the company’s latest Echo Show devices in India after it was introduced back in September. It has an 8-inch HD screen, stereo sound and a camera with a built-in shutter. It has tons of Alexa features, over 30,000 skills in English and over 800 skills in Hindi, says Amazon.
Continue reading “Amazon Echo Show 8 with 8-inch HD screen, stereo sound, camera with a built-in shutter launched in India”
Xiaomi’s Redmi brand has been teasing a new product for about a week now. Today it has released a new teaser video along with the tag ‘#Power has a new look!” and #MorePowerToRedmi!. Continue reading “Redmi India releases ‘Power has a new look’ teaser for a new product, could be Redmi 9”
POCO today launched the POCO X2, the company’s second smartphone and its first mid-range smartphone in the new X series in India today. Here we the first impressions of the smartphone and also the unboxing video from our FoneArena Tamil channel. Continue reading “POCO X2 Unboxing and First Impressions”
POCO just launched the POCO X2, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone as it had promised. This is a rebranded version of the Redmi K30 4G which was launched in China back in December last year. It packs a 6.67-inch Full HD+ “Reality Flow” 120Hz LCD screen with 4.38mm, dual-punch-hole screen with 91% screen-to-body ratio, thanks to 4.25mm ultra-narrow bottom frame, is powered by Snapdragon 730G with up to 8GB of RAM, has liquid cooling, and runs Android 10 with MIUI 11 on top. Continue reading “POCO X2 with 6.67-inch FHD+ 120Hz display, Snapdragon 730G, 64MP quad rear cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 15999”
Google now lets users to browse plans across several mobile carriers, compare discounts and offers, and recharge these plans using the payment with a simple Google Search. This search experience is currently available for users that have signed-in using their Android devices, and collates prepaid service plans from Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, Jio and BSNL across India, said the search engine giant. Continue reading “Now you can find and recharge prepaid mobile packs on Google Search on Android in India”
Back in 2016 BlackBerry signed a deal with China’s TCL Communication to give it exclusive rights to sell BlackBerry-branded phones in most countries after it ended all internal hardware development to focus on software development, including security and applications. Today the company has announced that starting August 31, 2020, TCL Communication will stop selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices and has no further rights to design, manufacture or sell any new BlackBerry mobile devices. Continue reading “TCL will stop making BlackBerry smartphones from August 31, 2020”
Update: February 2, 2020 — iQOO has started teasing that 5G phone is coming to India soon and has launched iqoo.com/in/ Continue reading “Vivo’s iQOO to launch Snapdragon 865-powered 5G phone in India in February”
Noise launched the Shots NEO, the company’s latest wireless earbuds recently. It is compact, features Bluetooth 5.0, has touch controls and promises over 6 hours of playback. After using it for a couple of weeks, here is the review of the Bluetooth headset. Continue reading “Noise Shots NEO Review”
MediaTek has announced Helio G80 in the ‘G series’, which is an enhanced version of the G70 series which was announced last month. It is targeted at budget and mid-range gaming smartphones and features MediaTek’s HyperEngine game technology to boost the mobile gaming experience. It packs dual ARM Cortex-A75 and hexa Cortex-A55 CPUs with the Arm Mali — G52 2EEMC2 with speeds of up to 950MHz and is based on 12nm TSMC FinFET technology. Similar to the G70, the G80 also lacks dedicated APU, which the Helio G90 series have. Continue reading “MediaTek Helio G80 Octa-Core SoC with HyperEngine Game Technology announced”
Update: Complete specifications of the Mogo G Stylus have surfaced. According to a new report from XDA, you can open an app or launch a shortcut of your choice when the stylus is removed from the body. There is a Moto Note app that lets you use finger as an eraser while using the stylus to draw. You can also keep track of the location of the stylus using the app, which will also record the time and location of the device the last time you removed the stylus from its body. When the stylus hasn’t been reinserted into the device for a period of time, the app can send a notification reminding the user to reinsert it.
Update — January 31, 2020: realme today confirmed that the phone will launch with realme UI out of the box, so this could be the most affordable phone running Android 10 when it launches next week.
OnePlus is the latest company to join Wireless Power Consortium, a group of companies for developing and promoting the Qi wireless charging standard. This indicates that future OnePlus will have Qi wireless charging, and this should be the OnePlus 8 series expected to launch in mid-2020. Continue reading “OnePlus joins Wireless Power Consortium, OnePlus 8 series could support Qi wireless charging”
