Samsung introduces Burgundy Red Galaxy S8

Samsung Galaxy S8 Burgundy Red

Samsung introduced its flagship Galaxy S8  smartphone earlier this year in Midnight Black, Orchid Gray, Coral Blue, Arctic Silver, and Maple Gold colors. Today it has introduced new Burgundy Red color variant for the smartphone. Continue reading “Samsung introduces Burgundy Red Galaxy S8”

Google releases final Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2 for Pixel and Nexus devices

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Google released first Android 8.1 (Oreo) Developer Preview for Pixel and Nexus devices last month . Today it has released the final Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2 for the devices. The first update brought a set of targeted enhancements including optimizations for Android Go and new Neural Networks API to accelerate on-device machine intelligence, the latest one includes official APIs (API level 27), the latest optimizations and bug fixes, and the November 2017 security patch updates. Continue reading “Google releases final Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2 for Pixel and Nexus devices”

Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime (2017) passes through the FCC

Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime

Samsung launched the Galaxy J5 Prime (SM-G570F) smartphone in India back in September last year. Now the Galaxy J5 Prime 2017 (SM-G571F) has been certified by the FCC in the U.S. This reveals the model number of the smartphone that had already surfaced in GFXBench benchmark, but it doesn’t reveal any specifications.

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Canon EOS M100 24.2MP mirrorless camera launched in India for Rs. 39995

Canon EOS M100

Canon today launched EOS M100, its latest  mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera in the EOS M series in India. It has a 24.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and DIGIC 7 image processor and uses Dual Pixel CMOS AF for high-speed autofocus. It also comes with 180-degree tilt up 3.0-inch LCD touch screen and comes with self-portrait mode with smooth Skin feature.

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OPPO F5 Youth with 6-inch FHD+ full-screen display, 16MP front camera announced

OPPO F5 Youth

OPPO announced F5, selfie-focused smartphone in Philippines last month, now it has introduced the F5 Youth smartphone, a cheaper version of the phone. It has the same 6-inch full HD+ 18:9 full-screen display and comes with A.I. beauty recognition technology that scan 200 facial recognition spots to beautify a selfie shot perfectly and also offers bokeh effect along with Face unlock, but this has a 16-megapixel front camera and a 13-megapixel rear camera. Continue reading “OPPO F5 Youth with 6-inch FHD+ full-screen display, 16MP front camera announced”

OPPO A79 with 6.01-inch FHD+ full-screen AMOLED display, 16MP front camera announced

OPPO A79

OPPO has announced A79, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in the ‘A series’ in China. It has a 6-inch full HD+ 18:9 full-screen AMOLED display with 86% screen-to-body ratio and comes with a 16-megapixel front camera. Other specifications are similar to the OPPO F5, including a MediaTek Helio P23 SoC, 16-megapixel rear camera and face unlock feature. Continue reading “OPPO A79 with 6.01-inch FHD+ full-screen AMOLED display, 16MP front camera announced”

Honor V10 with 5.99-inch full-screen display, 20MP + 16MP dual rear cameras, 6GB RAM gets certified

Honor V10

Huawei’s Honor brand already confirmed the announcement of its V10 smartphone with full-screen display and dual rear cameras on November 28th. Now the specifications of the smartphone with model number BKL-AL20 has surfaced on TENAA in China. It has also been listed on Geekbench. The design of the smartphone confirms fingerprint sensor on the front. Protruding dual rear cameras and unibody metal build with antenna lines on the top and the bottom part of the back.

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OPPO F5 6GB RAM Red Edition launched in India for Rs. 24990

OPPO F5 Red

OPPO launched the F5, a selfie-focused smartphone with 6-inch full HD+ 18:9 full-screen display and  20-megapixel front-facing camera with A.I. beauty recognition technology in India earlier this month. Today it has launched the 6GB RAM with 64GB storage version of the smartphone in Black and also launched the Red Edition in partnership with Vogue on their 10th anniversary. Other specifications are similar to the original version.

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OnePlus 5 gets Android 8.0 Oreo update in Open Beta

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OnePlus has released its first OxygenOS Open Beta 1 that brings Android 8.0 (Oreo) for the phone, as it had promised at the OnePlus 5T launch earlier this month. It brings all the Android Oreo features such as background limits that puts a big priority on improving user’s battery life, snoozing that lets users to snooze notifications to reappear at a later time and wide-gamut color for apps among many other things.

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Gionee M7 Plus, M7 mini, S11S, S11, S11 lite and F205 with FullView display announced

Gionee S11

Gionee at a global event in China unveiled new smartphones S11S, S11, S11 lite (F6), M7 Plus, M7 mini and F205 along with M7 and M7 Power  that was introduced back in September. All these are part of its Winter 2017 lineup and have FullView display. M7 Power was launched in India this month and the latest models – S11, S11 lite and F205 will be sold worldwide, with
S11 being the flagship product for overseas markets, said the company. Continue reading “Gionee M7 Plus, M7 mini, S11S, S11, S11 lite and F205 with FullView display announced”

Weekly Roundup: Nokia 2, Xiaomi 10000mAh and 20000mAh Mi Power Bank 2i, Vivo V7 and more

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HMD Global finally launched the Nokia 2 budget smartphone in India, Xiaomi launched its ‘Made in India’ 10000mAh and 20000mAh Mi Power Bank 2i, Vivo launched the V7 and more in the weekly roundup. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Nokia 2, Xiaomi 10000mAh and 20000mAh Mi Power Bank 2i, Vivo V7 and more”

Nokia 8 Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out

Nokia 8

HMD Global started rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo beta update for the  Nokia 8 smartphone last month. As promised, it has started rolling out the final Android Oreo update for the phone today. The company already promised to offer Oreo update for all its Android smartphones. Continue reading “Nokia 8 Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out”

Apple TV 4K Unboxing

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Apple introduced the Apple TV 4K at its event in San Francisco back in September. It went on sale in India recently starting at Rs. 15,900, but we managed to pick one from the U.S. where it starts at US$ 179 (Rs. 11,580 approx.). Check out the unboxing video below.

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