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Honor 7A with 5.7-inch FullView display, dual rear cameras, Android 8.0 Oreo to be announced on April 2

Huawei’s Honor brand introduced the Honor 7C, a budget smartphone in China earlier this month. Now the company has sent out invites for the launch of Honor 7A on April 2nd. This has already been certified by TENAA with model numbers AUM-TL00 and AUM-TL20 that reveals a 5.7-inch HD+ 18:9 FullView, 1.4GHz Octa-Core SoC, which could be Snapdragon 435, compared to 5.99-inch HD+ screen and Snapdragon 450. Continue reading “Honor 7A with 5.7-inch FullView display, dual rear cameras, Android 8.0 Oreo to be announced on April 2”

Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ 128GB storage variants now available in India for Rs. 61900 and Rs. 68900

Samsung launched the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, its latest flagship smartphones at an event in India earlier this month in 64GB and 256GB variants starting at Rs. 57,900 and Rs. 64,900, respectively. The phones went on sale with several offers a couple of weeks back. Now the company has started selling the 128GB variants of the phones in the country. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ 128GB storage variants now available in India for Rs. 61900 and Rs. 68900”

OnePlus 6 with bamboo back, vertical dual rear camera arrangement surfaces

Last year OnePlus CEO said that that the OnePlus 6 with Snapdragon 845 will be introduced by the end of Q2 2018. Earlier this week a mysterious phone surfaced in benchmarks, which is rumored to be OnePlus 6. Now the first image of the phone has surfaced, thanks to @evleaks.

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Huawei P20 Pro with 6.1-inch FHD+ OLED FullView Display, 40MP + 20MP + 8MP Leica triple rear cameras, Android 8.1 announced

Huawei just unveiled P20 Pro, its latest flagship smartphone at an event in Paris, as it had promised. It packs a 6.1-inch Full HD+ OLED 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by an Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 970 10nm SoC with i7 co-processor, dedicated neural network processing unit and runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with Emotion UI 8.1 on top as well as support for Google AR Core. Continue reading “Huawei P20 Pro with 6.1-inch FHD+ OLED FullView Display, 40MP + 20MP + 8MP Leica triple rear cameras, Android 8.1 announced”

Huawei P20 with 5.8-inch FHD+ FullView Display, 12MP + 20MP Leica dual rear cameras, Android 8.1 announced

Huawei just unveiled P20, its latest flagship smartphone at an event in Paris, as it had promised. It packs a 5.8-inch Full HD+ 2.5D curved glass display with a notch, is powered by an Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 970 10nm SoC with i7 co-processor, dedicated neural network processing unit and runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with Emotion UI 8.1 on top as well as support for Google AR Core. It has Leica dual-lens camera with 12-megapixel RGB sensor, 20-megapixel monochrome sensor and 2x Hybrid Zoom, dual-tone LED flash and optical image stabilization (OIS) and Huawei’s own dual ISP. It also has a 24-megapixel front-facing camera with AI beautification. 3D portrait lighting and support for face unlock. Continue reading “Huawei P20 with 5.8-inch FHD+ FullView Display, 12MP + 20MP Leica dual rear cameras, Android 8.1 announced”

Moto G6 with 5.7-inch FHD+ 18:9 display, Snapdragon 450, dual rear cameras gets certified

Moto-G6-Plus

Moto G6 had already surfaced in press shots twice. Now the smartphone has been certified by TENAA in China with the model number XT1925 confirming the specifications. It also briefly surfaced on Amazon UK that confirms 3D glass back and Moto voice support. TENAA image also reveals slight camera bump. There is a Motorola logo below the display and the fingerprint sensor is present below that. Continue reading “Moto G6 with 5.7-inch FHD+ 18:9 display, Snapdragon 450, dual rear cameras gets certified”

Xiaomi Mi AI Speaker Mini with voice assistant announced

Xiaomi at the Mi Mix 2s event introduced the Mi AI Speaker Mini with voice controlled lifestyle assistant and smart home integration from Mi lab. It smaller version of the Mi AI Speaker that was introduced last year. It has voice control so that you can use voice commands to play music, live radio, audio books, children’s stories, including 35 million books and songs.  Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi AI Speaker Mini with voice assistant announced”

Xiaomi Mi Gaming Laptop with 15.6-inch display, GeForce GTX 1060 graphics, 16GB RAM announced

Xiaomi at the Mi Mix 2S event also introduced its first Mi Gaming Laptop with up to 6GB GeForce GTX 1060 GPU, up to 16GB RAM and it also has  large heat pipes, a 12V cooling fan and four fan outlets for effective heat dissipation when gaming. It has a 15.6-inch full HD screen with 9.9mm slim bezels around it and 81% screen-to-body ratio. It is powered by 7th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 processors. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Gaming Laptop with 15.6-inch display, GeForce GTX 1060 graphics, 16GB RAM announced”

Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S with 5.99-inch FHD+ display, Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM, 12MP dual rear cameras announced

Xiaomi just announced Mi MIX 2S, the company’s latest flagship smartphone in the Mi MIX series in Shanghai, as it had promised. It has a 5.99-inch Full HD+ display, is powered by Snapdragon 845 with up to 8GB RAM, support for Google ARCore and runs Android 8.1 (Oreo) with support for AI voice assistant. It has a 12-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX363 sensor, 1.4µm pixel size, OIS, Dual Pixel auto focus and a secondary 12-megapixel rear camera for AI portraits and has AI scene recognition that can detect 25 categories and 206 kinds of scenes. The 5-megapixel front camera, which as been moved to the bottom part of the phone. It has support for AI portrait selfies with real-time background blur and the phone also has face unlock. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S with 5.99-inch FHD+ display, Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM, 12MP dual rear cameras announced”

SHARP AQUOS S3 with 6-inch FHD+ display, Dual rear cameras, Android Oreo announced

Last week Sharp said that it will introduce AQUOS S3 smartphone in Vietnam on March 28th, now the company has announced that phone in Taiwan early. It pack a 6-inch FHD+ display with a notch and has 91% screen-to-body ratio, and the company says that it is the most compact smartphone with a 6-inch screen. It is powered by Snapdragon 630 with 4GB RAM, runs Android 8.0 (Oreo) with Smile UX, has a 12-megapixel primary rear camera with f/1.75 aperture, 1.4um pixel size, dual-tone LED flash, similar to the S2, but has have a 13-megapixel secondary camera for portrait shots, instead of 8-megapixel in the predecessor. It also offers 2x loss-less zoom.

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Samsung Galaxy Note8 Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out in India

Samsung Galaxy Note 8

Samsung started rolling out Android 8.0 (Oreo) update for Galaxy Note8 in France recently. Today it has finally started rolling out the update in India. This bring Samsung Experience 9.0 replacing older 8.5 version along with Oreo and brings features like a customizable keyboard, new emoji, stickers, Bixby briefing, new color lens display settings, dual apps, enhanced DeX support, and many more changes.  Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note8 Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out in India”

NS P7819 with Snapdragon 845, Android 8.1 surfaces in Geekbench, AnTuTu benchmarks, rumored to be OnePlus 6

A mysterious smartphone codenamed NS P7819 has surfaced on Geekbench and AnTuTu, which is rumored to be a prototype of the OnePlus 6. This reveals Snapdragon 845 SoC, 6GB RAM and Android 8.1 for the phone. AnTuTu listing also reveals 64GB storage and a Full HD+ display.

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Xiaomi Black Shark gaming phone with Snapdragon 845 confirmed

A new smartphone code-named Blackshark surfaced on AnTuTu and Geekbench recently, which is believed to be Xiaomi’s first gaming smartphone under the new Black shark brand, in which Xiaomi started investing last year. Now the official Black Shark account on weibo and Qualcomm China have confirmed that it will be powered by Snapdragon 845. Continue reading “Xiaomi Black Shark gaming phone with Snapdragon 845 confirmed”

Nokia 1 Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone launched in India for Rs. 5499

After the Lava Z50 launch last week, Nokia 1 becomes the second Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone to launch in India. It was introduced at the MWC last month and packs a 4.5-inch screen,  is powered by a quad-core MediaTek SoC, runs Android 8.1 (Oreo), has 5MP rear camera with LED flash, 2MP front-facing shooter and supports 4G VoLTE. Since it is an Android Oreo (Go Edition) phone, it has all the Go Edition apps that are slowing making their way offering smooth experience.

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Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S – 8GB RAM, 256GB storage, Ceramic body confirmed by CEO; surfaces in video ahead of March 27 announcement

Xiaomi is all set to introduce the Mi Mix 2S smartphone at an event in Shanghai tomorrow. The company already confirmed Snapdragon 845, AI camera, AI face unlock, AI scene recognition, AI dual camera and wireless charging support for the phone. Today the company’s CEO Lei Jun on weibo confirmed 8GB RAM and 256GB storage for the phone and also said that it will have a ceramic body curved on all four sides.

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