Xiaomi’s sub-brand POCO launched the POCO F1, the company’s first smartphone in India last month at a competitive price tag of Rs. 20,999. Today the company has confirmed that the smartphone is certified splash resistant by P2i, which is popular for its liquid repellant nanotechnology, so it is fine with everyday splashes and spills, but you can’t immerse it in water.
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Reliance Jio recently offered 16GB free data for all users to celebrate its 2nd anniversary offer. Jio is now offering its highest selling Rs. 399 plan
at an effective price of Rs 100/month after Rs. 50 instant discount for Jio Prepaid users who have Rs. 50 cashback vouchers from Jio on recharging via MyJio App and Rs. 50 instant cashback when payment is done via PhonePe, inside MyJio App. Continue reading “Reliance Jio 2nd anniversary offer: Rs. 100 discount on recharge of Rs. 399 – Here’s how to get it”
Huawei has announced Maimang 7, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in China, as it had promised. It was introduced in UK as Mate 20 Lite, packs a 6.3-inch Full HD+ display with a notch, is powered by Kirin 710 SoC with GPU Turbo, Google AR Core support, 6GB of RAM, has a 20-megapixel rear camera with AI scene recognition along with a secondary 2-megapixel camera for portrait shots, comes with a 24-megapixel front camera, HDR Pro, 3D Qmoji and a 2-megapixel secondary camera for portrait selfies. Continue reading “Huawei Maimang 7 with 6.3-inch FHD+ display, Kirin 710, 6GB RAM, dual front and rear cameras announced”
OPPO has introduced A7x, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in China. It is a variant of the OPPO F9, a cheaper version of the F9 Pro that was launched in India last month. It has a 6.3-inch Full HD+ display with Waterdrop Screen with screen-to-body ratio up to 90.8% for a more immersive experience, is powered by Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P60 12nm processor, has 16MP rear camera with LED flash, and secondary 2MP camera, features a 16-megapixel front camera, packs 4GB of RAM and 128GB storage.
Blaupunkt, the Germany-based consumer lifestyle and technology brand has entered into Indian TV market with eight LED TVs in Family, Smart Sound and 4K UHD series. Both the Smart Sound and 4K UHD series are Android-powered smart TVs and some models also come with external sound bars. These were unveiled at the IFA Berlin 2018 in August. The company has tied up with Flipkart to sell the TVs exclusively.
Samsung today opened the world’s largest mobile experience centre in at Opera House on Brigade Road in Bengaluru. This will showcase differentiated product experiences, built around Samsung’s philosophy of Discover Tomorrow Today, and will include transformative technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT). Continue reading “Samsung opens world’s largest mobile experience centre at Opera House in Bengaluru”
Xiaomi introduced the Mi Band 3 along with the Mi 8 in China back in May, and the fitness tracker when on sale on June 5th. The company already announced that it has sold 1 million units of the Mi Band 3 in just 17 days. Today the company has announced that the sales have now crossed 5 million units globally in just 3 months of launch. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Band 3 sales cross 5 million globally in 3 months, NFC Edition available from September 19”
Qualcomm just introduced Snapdragon Wear 3100, the company’s next generation smartwatch platform and the successor of Snapdragon Wear 2100 that was introduced back in 2016. This based on a new ultra-low power hierarchical system architecture. In this hierarchical architecture, the high-performance quad core A7 processor, the highly efficient integrated DSP, and the new ultra-low power co-processor work in conjunction with each other to fundamentally look to re-imagine smartwatch experiences – enhance existing ones, bring-in new ones – while supporting extended battery life.
WhatsApp is finally available for the JioPhone that is powered by KaiOS. At the annual AGM back in July, Reliance Jio chairman said that YouTube, WhatsApp and an improved Facebook app will be available for JioPhone from 15th August. After a month’s delay, WhatsApp is now available. The app has been built specially for Jio KaiOS, a web based operating system designed for JioPhone, so that its users get the best experience.
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Xiaomi launched Redmi Y2 running MIUI 9.5 based on Android Oreo back in June, in the same event company also announced MIUI 10. Xiaomi started rolling out MIUI 10 Global Beta ROM in mid-June but said that stable roll out will start in September. Today, Redmi Y2 users started reporting that they are receiving a new Stable OTA update on their devices. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Y2 MIUI 10 Stable update starts rolling out”
After the box of the OnePlus 6T, the company’s upcoming flagship smartphone surfaced revealing an in-display fingerprint sensor and a waterdrop notch, now in an e-mail to CNET the company confirmed that it will feature an in-display fingerprint scanner. It also said that it originally intended to introduce the technology on the OnePlus 5T, but it did not do since the technology wasn’t mature enough to meet the company’s standards for delivering a fast and smooth user experience, so it had to wait for an year. Continue reading “OnePlus 6T confirmed to feature in-display fingerprint scanner”
After the roll out of open beta 1 based on the latest Android 9.0 (Pie), OnePlus a few days back rolled out second open beta update which brings fixes to Wi-Fi, optimization for background power consumption, in multi-tasking UI as well as improvements in image quality in camera. Continue reading “OnePlus 6 gets OxygenOS Open Beta 2 update”
After the phone got certified by TENAA, Huawei has officially confirmed that the Maimang 7 smartphone will be introduced in China on September 12th. It was introduced in UK as Mate 20 Lite in UK a couple of weeks back and has dual front and rear cameras with AI feature than can recognise over 500 scenarios in 22 categories, 480 fps Super Slow Motion, HDR Pro, Studio Lighting and 3D Qmoji.
Xiaomi’s MIUI is well-known for the customizations it offers, despite being user-friendly and customizable people have some complaints with MIUI such as Notification Shade and MIUI Launcher. Xiaomi tried fixing the notification shade with MIUI 9 notification shade and further improved it with MIUI 10 notification shade but MIUI Launcher didn’t get much improvement with new MIUI versions. At first glance, MIUI launcher seems to have taken inspiration from iOS launcher and it still lacks an App Drawer. Also, MIUI launcher doesn’t have the capability of hiding apps on the homepage which some other Android skins have since 2012. Continue reading “MIUI Launcher gets Hidden Apps feature, here’s how to enable it”
Hathway today launched its 300Mbps home broadband plan for Chennai customers at an event. The company also launched its Edge WiFi Mesh solution in partnership with TP-Link that is available for free as part of the service for the first time in India. Hathway already offers 200 Mbps broadband at Rs. 1049 per month with 1TB FUP in Chennai. The new plan offers 2TB FUP per month and costs as low as Rs. 1250 per month if you get 12 months plan at Rs. 14,999. 6-month plan costs Rs. 9999.
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