Last month WhatsApp officially launched WhatsApp Business for small businesses to easily connect with customers. Today Xiaomi has launched its WhatsApp service – Xiaomi Mi Bunny for its customers in India that allow them to get receive instant updates and also register complaints easily. Continue reading “Xiaomi India launches WhatsApp service to offer instant updates, customer support and more”
As the Indian government at the Union Budget 2018-19 announced an increase in import duty on mobile phones from 15% to 20% last week, Apple has increased the price of its iPhones, including its iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X smartphones as well as Apple Watch models in the country. This is the second price hike in less than 2 months after a recent price hike in December when the duty was increased from 10% to 15% in the country. Continue reading “Apple iPhone, Apple Watch get a price hike in India after increase in import duty”
Xiaomi India just sent out press invites for the launch of its first product of 2018 in India on February 14th. The invite just has the number ‘5’ along with the date, so it could be the Redmi 5 series that was introduced in China back in December last year or the company might surprise us with the Redmi Note 5. Continue reading “Xiaomi India schedules a new launch event on February 14, Redmi 5 / Redmi Note 5 expected”
OPPO launched the F5 smartphone in India back in November last year, later it launched the Red Edition of the smartphone with 6GB RAM and 64GB storage. Today it has launched the Dashing Blue edition of the smartphone in collaboration with its brand ambassador – Sidharth Malhotra. It has the same 6-inch full HD+ 18:9 full-screen display and 20-megapixel front-facing camera with A.I. beauty recognition technology. Continue reading “OPPO F5 Sidharth Limited Edition in Dashing Blue color launched in India”
This week HMD global introduced the most expected Nokia 3310 4G, Motorola launched the 6GB RAM version of the Moto X4, Redmi 5A, Honor 7X, Honor 9 Lite, LG G6 and LG G6 got new color variants and lots more that happened this week in our weekly roundup.
Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Nokia 3310 4G, Moto X4 6GB RAM, Xiaomi Mi Box 4 and more”
Honor 9 Lite was launched in Sapphire blue, Glacier Grey and Midnight Black colors last month starting at Rs. 10,999. Today the company has announced that the Glacier Grey version will finally available from next sale exclusively on Flipkart. Continue reading “Honor 9 Lite Grey color variant to go on sale on Flipkart from February 6”
Sony Corporation has reported its revenues for the third quarter of the financial year 2017 that ended December 31, 2017. Sales increased by 11.46% to 2,672.3 billion yen compared to the same quarter last year due to strong growth in its Gaming and Networking division, Semiconductors and others. Continue reading “Sony profits surge in Q3 FY17, Kazuo Hirai to step down as CEO”
Huawei’s Honor brand introduced new Red edition of the Honor 7X in China back in December and it was introduced for the global markets at the CES 2018 last month. Today Amazon.in has started teasing the Red Limited Edition smartphone in India. The company also confirmed that the Honor7X is now made in India and the company in partnership with Flex has started manufacturing the phone at Flex’s plant in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai
Flipkart’s Billion brand today launched new 10000mAh and 15000mAh power banks that are ‘Made in India’ and ‘Made for India’. Both these feature Lithium-ion batteries and come with 5V/2.1A USB out ports (2 in 15,000mAh, 3 in 10,000mAh), a 5V / 2A input port and also come with built-in LED Torch Light. These batteries lose less than 3-4% charge when idle for one month and are also made to last longer, with upto 500 charge/discharge cycles, says Flipkart. Continue reading “Flipkart Billion 10000mAh and 15000mAh ‘Made in India’ power banks launched for Rs. 799 and Rs. 999”
Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 403.5 million smartphones worldwide, down 6.3% year over year, and up 8.1% from the third quarter, in the fourth quarter of 2017 (4Q17), as per the latest International Data Corporation (IDC). For the full year, 1.472 billion units were shipped, down less than 1% from 1.473 billion in 2016. Continue reading “Apple overtakes Samsung to become top smartphone vendor in Q4 2017, Xiaomi beats OPPO: IDC”
Apple has reported all-time record quarterly revenue of $88.3 billion, up 13% over last year with a all-time record net profit of $20.1 billion in their earnings for the financial year Q4 2018 that ended December 30, 2017. Apple reported quarterly earnings per diluted share of $3.89, up 16% from a year ago, also an all-time record. During earnings call Tim Cook said that the growth was broad-based and a key driver was iPhone, which generated its highest revenue ever. Continue reading “Apple reports record $20.1 billion profit on $88.3 billion revenue in FY Q1 2018, 77.3 million iPhones sold”
InFocus has launched A2, the company’s latest budget smartphone with 4G VoLTE support. It packs a 5-inch HD 2.5D curved glass screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat), has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with face beauty, camera filters and pro mode. Continue reading “InFocus A2 with 5-inch HD display, 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 5199”
HMD Global launched its flagship Nokia 8 smartphone in India back in September last year for Rs. 36,999. Now the phone has received a Rs. 8000 price cut and is available for Rs. 28,999. The Nokia 5 3GB RAM version that was launched for Rs. 13,499 has received a Rs. 1000 price cut and is available for Rs. 12,499, but some offline retailers are selling it for as low as Rs. 11,299. Continue reading “Nokia 8 and Nokia 5 3GB RAM version get a price cut in India, now available for Rs. 28999 and Rs. 12499”
After the successful Super Mario Run game that was released back in 2016, Nintendo has announced that it will release a new Mario Kart Tour game for smartphones. The company said that the game is already in development and said that it will be released sometime before 2019. Continue reading “Nintendo announces Mario Kart Tour game is coming to smartphones”
