Microsoft Surface Pro with LTE Advanced to roll out from December

Microsoft Surface Pro 2017

Microsoft introduced new Surface Pro back in May and said that it will introduce new Surface Pro with 4G LTE Advanced option later this year. Today at the Future Decoded event in London the company revealed details about the LTE model. The Surface Pro with LTE Advanced has Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 Cat 9 modem with support of 20 LTE bands and offers speeds of up to 450Mbps. It comes only in Core i5 version.

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HMD Global appoints Florian Seiche as CEO

HMD Global CEO Florian Seiche

Back in July HMD Global CEO Nummela left the company through mutual agreement between him and the HMD Global Board of Directors and  Florian Seiche was appointed as acting CEO. Today HMD global has appointed Florian Seiche as the permanent CEO of the company. He will also join HMD Global Board immediately. Continue reading “HMD Global appoints Florian Seiche as CEO”

Gionee F6 with 5.7-inch full-screen display, dual rear cameras gets certified [Update]

Gionee F6

Gionee is all set to introduce F6, a new mid-range smartphone and the successor of the F5 soon. The Gionee F6L smartphone that has been certified by TENAA in China reveals a 5.7-inch full-screen 18:9 display and 13-megapixel + 2-megapixel dual rear cameras. Continue reading “Gionee F6 with 5.7-inch full-screen display, dual rear cameras gets certified [Update]”

Samsung reports record profits in Q3 2017, up 179% YoY; announces new leadership line-up

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Samsung has reported its earnings for Q3 2017, in which the company has made operating profit of 14.53 trillion won ($13 billion), up 179.4% YoY for the quarter that ended September 30, 2017, as expected. This is a new all-time high quarterly profit, due to strong demand for high-performance memory chipsets for servers and flagship mobile devices. Continue reading “Samsung reports record profits in Q3 2017, up 179% YoY; announces new leadership line-up”

Nokia 2 with 5-inch HD display, 4100mAh battery announced in India

Nokia 2

HMD Global just announced Nokia 2, the company’s latest budget smartphone at an event in India. It has a 5-inch HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and packs a 4100mAh battery that promises up to 2 days of battery life on a single charge. It runs on Android 7.1.1 (Nougat) with support for Google Assistant and the company has promised Android 8.0 (Oreo) update for the phone.  Continue reading “Nokia 2 with 5-inch HD display, 4100mAh battery announced in India”

OnePlus 5T with full-screen display surfaces in first press render

OnePlus 5T leak

OnePlus 5T renders surfaced in China earlier this month. Now the first clear press render has surfaced, thanks to @evleaks aka Evan Blass. The image reveals only the top part of the phone at an angle that shows minimal bezels on the top along with a large camera sensor, a SIM slot and a power button on the right side. It also shows the phone’s 2.5D curved glass full-screen display and its metal frame. Continue reading “OnePlus 5T with full-screen display surfaces in first press render”

OPPO R11s and R11s Plus with full-screen AMOLED displays, dual rear cameras get certified

OPPO R11s

OPPO is all set to introduce R11s and R11s Plus smartphones, successor of R11 and R11 Plus at an event in China on November 2nd. The company already posted images of the phones and also confirmed 16MP + 20MP dual rear cameras with f/1.7 aperture and a 20-megapixel front-facing camera with A.I. Beauty Recognition technology. Now both the phones have been certified by TENAA in China that reveals detailed specifications of the phones. Continue reading “OPPO R11s and R11s Plus with full-screen AMOLED displays, dual rear cameras get certified”

Xiaomi testing a new Android 7.1 Nougat stable update for Redmi 4

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Xiaomi launched Redmi 4 running MIUI 8 based on Marshmallow and also announced Nougat preview for Redmi 4 in the same event back in May, Nougat based MIUI Beta ROM was rolled out to Global Redmi 4 users in August. Continue reading “Xiaomi testing a new Android 7.1 Nougat stable update for Redmi 4”

Airtel partners with Celkon to launch 4G smartphone at an effective price of Rs. 1349

Airtel 4G VoLTE Phone - Celkon Smart 4G

After Karbonn, Airtel has partnered with Celkon to launch Celkon Smart 4G, a VoLTE phone with support for 24 Indian languages at an effective price of Rs. 1349. It is part of Airtel’s Mera Pehla 4G Smartphone initiative under which the operator will partner with multiple mobile manufacturers in an aim to create an ‘open ecosystem’ of affordable 4G smartphones and bring them to market for virtually the price of a feature phone. Continue reading “Airtel partners with Celkon to launch 4G smartphone at an effective price of Rs. 1349”

Xiaomi Mi Max 2 gets a Rs. 1000 permanent price cut in India, now starts at Rs. 13999

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Xiaomi launched the Mi Max 2 smartphone with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage in India back in July for Rs. 16999. Last month it launched the 32GB storage version of the phone in the country for Rs. 14,999 and it offered it at an introductory price of Rs. 12999. It usually offers Rs. 2000 temporary discount during festive sales. Today the company has announced a Rs. 1000 permanent price cut for both the versions of the phone. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Max 2 gets a Rs. 1000 permanent price cut in India, now starts at Rs. 13999”

Vodafone FRC 496 offers unlimited calls, 1GB data per day with 84 days validity for new customers

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Vodafone has launched new First Recharge Coupon (FRC) 496 for its new 4G pre-paid customers in Delhi NCR that offers unlimited (Local & STD)  calls both incoming roaming and outgoing roaming, 84GB 4G data at 1GB 4G data per day with 84 days validity. Continue reading “Vodafone FRC 496 offers unlimited calls, 1GB data per day with 84 days validity for new customers”

Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) with Exynos 7885 14nm SoC, 6GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks

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Samsung SM-A730x surfaced in Geekbench listing a few months back that revealed some of the specifications of the Galaxy A7 (2018). This week SM-A730F has surfaced on GFXBench listing that reveals that it will be powered by Exynos 7885 14nm processor with Mali-G71 GPU and pack 6GB of RAM. Earlier rumors point a 6-inch FHD+ 18:9 Infinity Display and 16MP front and rear cameras. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) with Exynos 7885 14nm SoC, 6GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks”

OnePlus 3 and 3T latest OxygenOS beta update brings improvements and bug fixes

OnePlus finally rolled out the Android 8.0 (Oreo) update for the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T smartphones in the previous Open Beta update. Now it has released new Oreo-based open betas (Beta 17 for OnePlus 3T and Beta 26 for OnePlus 3) that brings back the Feedback app, improvements to WiFi, data connectivity, NFC, stability of Picture in Picture along with several bug fixes.

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Airtel 4G VoLTE phone – Karbonn A40 Indian Unboxing

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This month Airtel partnered with Karbonn to launch A40 Indian 4G VoLTE smartphone at an effective price of Rs. 1399 (Down payment of Rs 2899 and Rs. 1500 cashback after 36 months).  It also comes with Rs. 169 plan offering unlimited calling and 0.5GB 4G data per day for 28 days. We unboxed the phone recently, check out the video.

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Mi Video App – Video Player App from Xiaomi

Mi Video Player App

Xiaomi’s MIUI is amongst the most popular android skins with more than 200 million worldwide users. MIUI is a heavy skin on top of android, but what sets it apart from other android skins is its feature richness and customizations. MIUI gets updated biweekly, which includes closed beta on every Tuesday and public beta on every Friday. A week ago, Xiaomi introduced a new app ‘Mi Video’ as a system app with MIUI Beta update and now after spending sometime with the app we are here to share the features of Mi Video Player App. Continue reading “Mi Video App – Video Player App from Xiaomi”