Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

Srivatsan Sridhar is a Mobile Technology Enthusiast who is passionate about Mobile phones and Mobile apps. He uses the phones he reviews as his main phone. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram

Moto X (2016) and Droid (2016) smartphones with metal body, fingerprint sensor surface

Motorola Moto X 2016

Live image of the upcoming Motorola Moto X (2016) smartphone surfaced back in December that revealed metal body for the smartphone. Now press images of the Moto X (2016) and the new Droid smartphone that will be heading to Verizon. The new images confirm the metal body and also reveals fingerprint sensor below the display on a huge bezel. There is also Laser autofocus on the back. There is also flash on the front. Continue reading “Moto X (2016) and Droid (2016) smartphones with metal body, fingerprint sensor surface”

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 announced, Whatsapp video calling, NFC tags leak – FoneArena Daily

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Check out the new FoneArena Daily video that gives you a quick roundup of today’s technology news.
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Microsoft demos pre-touch sensing smartphone technology

Microsoft pre-touch sensing on mobile

Microsoft has started testing and also demoed new touchscreen technology that intelligently anticipates your intended action even before you touch the screen. This can call up different controls, options, or menus to suit the current task. This determines how the user is gripping the phone, as well as where the user’s fingers are approaching the display.  Continue reading “Microsoft demos pre-touch sensing smartphone technology”

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 announced, 2 times faster than GTX TITAN X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA has announced GeForce GTX 1080, the company’s top-end gaming graphics card that claims to deliver 2x the performance and 3x the efficiency of TITAN X. It is based on the company’s new Pascal architecture and is built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process.  It has support for DirectX 12, Vulkan graphics APIs and is designed to drive display devices beyond 5K including HDR as well as delivering the performance required for immersive VR. Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 announced, 2 times faster than GTX TITAN X”

Samsung Galaxy S7 Active rugged smartphone surfaces in live images

Samsung Galaxy S7 Active leak

Reference to the Samsung Galaxy S7 Active successor of last year’s Galaxy S6 Active surfaced in official Samsung Level app few weeks back. Now live images of the smartphone have surfaced in Vietnam. According to the images, it will have a camouflage back with IP68 certified casing and will likely be water resistant, similar to the predecessor. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 Active rugged smartphone surfaces in live images”

Moto G (4th Gen) and Moto G Plus detailed specs surface – Laser AF, Snapdragon 430, 3GB RAM

Moto G4 Plus leak

Motorola recently scheduled an event in India on May 17th, where it is expected to unveil the new Moto G (4th Gen) smartphone and the Moto G / G4 Plus. Even though some specifications of the smartphones were leaked already, new leak reveals that both the phones will have laser auto-focus and will be powered by Snapdragon 430 Octa-Core SoC.

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Reliance LYF Water 5 with 5-inch HD display, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 11699

Reliance LYF Water 5

Reliance Retail has launched LYF Water 5, the company’s latest 4G smartphone with VoLTE in the LYF series. It has a 5-inch HD screen with ASAHI Dragontrail glass protection, is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 SoC, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Reliance LYF Water 5 with 5-inch HD display, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 11699”

OnePlus free door step pick up and drop service now available in Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata

OnePlus free pick up and drop India

After its pilot project in Mumbai, OnePlus has stared its pilot for door step pick up and drop service in Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata in India. This service is free of cost for the OnePlus users, which lets them get their damaged OnePlus smartphone fixed easily without searching for a service centres in their city. Continue reading “OnePlus free door step pick up and drop service now available in Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata”

HoloFlex is the world’s first flexible glasses-free 3D smartphone

HoloFlex

We had already seen glasses-free 3D displays in smartphone few years back, which did not do well. HoloFlex is the first flexible holographic smartphone that has been developed by researchers at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab that introduced the ReFlex earlier this year as the world’s first flexible smartphone with bend input and active haptic feedback. This capable of rendering 3D images with motion parallax and stereoscopy without head tracking or glasses.

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Garmin vivomove analog watch with activity tracking announced

Garmin vivomove

Garmin has announced vivomove, its new analog watch that has activity tracking to monitor steps, distance, calories burnt, sleep and also reminds users when they’ve been inactive too long with its move bar. It promises one-year battery life and has a water rating of 5ATM (50 meters). Continue reading “Garmin vivomove analog watch with activity tracking announced”

Google RailWire free Wi-Fi launched in 3 more stations in India

Google Railwire WiFi India

Indian Railways, RailTel and Google have launched free WiFi in three more stations – Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), Kachiguda (Telangana) & Raipur (Chhattisgarh) in India. It was launched at the Mumbai Central station earlier this year and was expanded to 9 more train stations last month. Continue reading “Google RailWire free Wi-Fi launched in 3 more stations in India”

Coolpad Note 3 Plus with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM launched for Rs. 8999

Coolpad Note 3 Plus_fonearena-01

Coolpad has launched its Note 3 Plus smartphone in India exclusively on Amazon.in, as expected. It packs a 5.5-inch Full HD display, compared to HD screen on the Coolpad Note 3. Other specifications remain the same, including a Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 processor, Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Cool UI, 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Coolpad Note 3 Plus with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM launched for Rs. 8999”

Ulefone Future with 5.5-inch 1080p curved display, 4GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced

Ulefone Future

Ulefone has introduced Future, the company’s latest 4G smartphone with 5.5-inch 1080p curved screen display with no bezels on the sides. It is powered by a Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek Helio P10 processor, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), has a 16-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, 5-megapixel front-facing camera and a fingerprint sensor on the side that can unlock the phone in under 0.5 seconds. Continue reading “Ulefone Future with 5.5-inch 1080p curved display, 4GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced”

Nextbit Robin gets regulatory approval in India, will ship for Kickstarter backers next week

Nextbit Robin_fonearena

Nextbit was expected to launch Robin, its “cloud first” Android smartphone in India by the end of April, but the BIS approval for the phone got delayed. Today the company has announced that it has finally received the regulatory approval from the government and will start shipping for Kickstarter backers in the country starting next week, who will get the exclusive Electric color. Continue reading “Nextbit Robin gets regulatory approval in India, will ship for Kickstarter backers next week”

Windows 10 now running on more than 300 million devices, free upgrade offer ends July 29

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Back in March at the //Build 2016 in San Francisco, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 is now running on more than 270 million active devices worldwide after 8 months of its launch, making it the fastest growth on any Windows ever, outpacing Windows 7 in the same time-frame by 145%. Today the company has announced that it is running on more than 300 million active devices worldwide after 9 months of its launch. Continue reading “Windows 10 now running on more than 300 million devices, free upgrade offer ends July 29”