OnePlus 3T Blue color variant could be announced on March 15

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Last week there were rumors about OnePlus releasing a Midnight Black color variant of the OnePlus 3T smartphone soon. Now OnePlus has tweeted that “Something is about to go down with OnePlus and Colette which is French clothing and accessories retailer in Paris hinting that it might introduce a Blue color version of the 3T tomorrow. Continue reading “OnePlus 3T Blue color variant could be announced on March 15”

Xiaomi Mi Air Purifier 2 now available from Amazon India

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Xiaomi launched Mi Air Purifier 2 as the first Mi Ecosystem product in India at an event in Delhi back in November last year on Mi.com. Today the company has started selling it on Amazon India. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Air Purifier 2 now available from Amazon India”

SwiftKey for Android gets four new keypress sound profiles

SwiftKey for Android keypress sound profiles

SwiftKey has finally added most expected keypress sounds options. This lets you customize the keyboard with four new keypress sound profiles – Modern, Android, Traditional and Blip. To chance keypress sound, you need Simply tap or slide the hamburger icon on the left of the prediction bar to enter the SwiftKey Hub. From there, open the ‘Typing’ panel and select ‘Sound and Vibration’. Continue reading “SwiftKey for Android gets four new keypress sound profiles”

Intel to acquire Mobileye for $15.3 billion to boost its automated driving solutions

Intel Mobileye

Intel and Mobileye today announced a definitive agreement under which Intel would acquire Mobileye, popular for its development of computer vision and machine learning, data analysis, localization and mapping for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. It was in the news recently over a spat with Tesla following a fatal Model S crash in Florida. Continue reading “Intel to acquire Mobileye for $15.3 billion to boost its automated driving solutions”

Levi and Google’s smart commuter jacket will be available this fall for $350

Levi Commuter x Jacquard Google Trucker Jacket

Back in May last year at the I/O 2016 Levi and Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) partnered to introduce wearable technology – the Levi’s Commuter x Jacquard by Google Trucker Jacket. At that time Google said that the jacket will be available in Spring 2017 with limited beta in the fall of 2016. Now the release date has been pushed to Spring 2017. At the SXSW announcement its price has also been confirmed. Continue reading “Levi and Google’s smart commuter jacket will be available this fall for $350”

Idea to offer free incoming calls while roaming nationally starting April 1

After Airtel, Idea Cellular has announced that it will offer free incoming calls to customers roaming in the country from April 1st. It also announced a range of international roaming value packs with unlimited incoming calls and bundled outgoing voice calls, SMS and data to international travelers visiting popular destinations overseas. Continue reading “Idea to offer free incoming calls while roaming nationally starting April 1”

Airtel offers 30GB free data for postpaid customers, here’s how to claim it

Airtel postpaid 30GB

Last week Airtel said that as a part of celebrating Airtel being declared India’s fastest mobile network by Ookla, it will offer postpaid customers  free data as Airtel Surprise. Continue reading “Airtel offers 30GB free data for postpaid customers, here’s how to claim it”

Fastrack Reflex fitness tracker and sleep monitor with OLED display launched for Rs. 1995

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Fastrack has forayed into the fitness tracker market with Reflex. The first activity tracker from the popular watchmaker sports an OLED display, which enables users to be notified of incoming calls, texts and shows physical activities and calories consumed.

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iF Design Awards 2017 – Apple, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, Sony, BMW and more win awards

iF design award 2017

Last week winners of the 64th annual iF DESIGN AWARD were announced under different categories including Product Design, Communication Design, Packaging Design, Service Design, Architecture, Interior Architecture and Professional Concept. Samsung won 49 iF Design Awards, including one Gold award. These awards were for superior product design, four for professional concept design, seven for communication design, and three for packaging design for Galaxy S7 Series, Gear S3, Galaxy C9 Pro, SUHD TV KS9500, RB38K7998S4 and Activewash series. Continue reading “iF Design Awards 2017 – Apple, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, Sony, BMW and more win awards”

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro Battery Life Test

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro FA One Charge Rating

Samsung launched the Galaxy C9 Pro (SM-C900F) in India in January for Rs. 36,900. We recently brought you the review of the smartphone, here we have the battery life test results of the phone. It packs a 4000mAh battery with support for adaptive fast charging using the bundled charger (5V-2A/9V-1.67A). It has a 6-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 653 processor and runs on Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow). Check out the test results below. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro Battery Life Test”

​Samsung completes $8 billion HARMAN acquisition, its biggest acquisition ever

Samsung Harman

Back in November last year Samsung Electronics said that it has agreed to acquire Harman International Industries, Incorporated for $112.00 per share in cash, or total equity value of approximately $8 billion. Today Samsung announced it has completed the acquisition. This is the biggest overseas acquisition ever by a South Korean firm. Continue reading “​Samsung completes $8 billion HARMAN acquisition, its biggest acquisition ever”

Weekly Roundup: Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017), Galaxy C5 Pro, BlackBerry Aurora, Fitbit Alta HR and more

Samsung Galaxy C5 Pro

This week Samsung launched the Galaxy A5 (2017) and Galaxy A7 (2017)smartphones in India, introduced Galaxy C5 Pro in China, BlackBerry introduced Aurora Android smartphone in Indonesia, Lenovo launched Vibe B in India, and more that happened this week in our roundup. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017), Galaxy C5 Pro, BlackBerry Aurora, Fitbit Alta HR and more”

The Elder Scrolls: Legends launched for PC, coming to iOS, Android and Mac OS starting this month

The Elder Scrolls Legends

Bethesda introduced The Elder Scrolls: Legends strategy, a competitive strategy card game set in the Elder Scrolls universe last year and also ran closed beta for a few month. Today it officially launched the game for PC as the game out of beta. It also confirmed today that the game will be coming to Android, iOS and macOS soon along with roll out details. Continue reading “The Elder Scrolls: Legends launched for PC, coming to iOS, Android and Mac OS starting this month”

Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ pass through FCC

Samsung Galaxy S8

Samsung already confirmed its Galaxy Unpacked 2017 event on March 29th in New York where it is expected to unveil flagship Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones. Earlier this week we saw live shots of the Galaxy S8 smartphone in video. Now both the smartphones have been certified by the FCC in the U.S. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ pass through FCC”

Lenovo Vibe B with 4.5-inch display, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 5799

Lenovo Vibe B

Lenovo has launched Vibe B, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone, according to Mumbai-based retailer Mahesh Telecom. It will like  Voice over LTE (VoLTE) support. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA display, is powered by 1 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735M 64-bit processor and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe B with 4.5-inch display, 4G LTE launched in India for Rs. 5799”