Xiaomi Mi Noise Cancelling USB Type-C Earphones Unboxing

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Xiaomi recently introduced its Noise Cancelling USB Type-C Earphones. We managed to get one from China and unboxed it a few days back along with few more products, check out the video.

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Google Pixel phones get up to $200 price cut, free Daydream View headset

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We still have few more months to see a new Google Pixel devices. Now Google has officially reduced the prices for last year’s Pixel phones that now start at $524 (Rs. 33400 approx.) in the U.S. after a $125 price cut. Continue reading “Google Pixel phones get up to $200 price cut, free Daydream View headset”

Google Pixel 2 with front-facing stereo speakers, without 3.5mm headphone jack surfaces in image

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Google will introduce successor of its Pixel smartphones later this year. We had already seen renders of both the phones. Now a new images of the successor of last year’s Pixel has surfaced. According to the VentureBeat, the phone codenamed Walleye will not have a 3.5mm headphone jack, come with front-facing stereo speakers and will be manufactured by HTC, even though the Pixel XL successor will be made by LG. Continue reading “Google Pixel 2 with front-facing stereo speakers, without 3.5mm headphone jack surfaces in image”

Amazon Great Indian Sale and Flipkart Big Freedom Sale from August 9

Amazon Great Indian Sale, Flipkart The Freedom Sale Aug 9

Amazon and Flipkart have announced their end of Summer sale just in time for the Independence Day. Amazon’s Great Indian Sale is scheduled from August 9th to 12th. Flipkart’s ‘The Big Freedom Sale’ starts on the same day, but it ends on 11th. Both of the them offer deals on smartphones, mobile accessories, TVs and more. They also offer cashback on Debit and Credit Cards from select banks. Continue reading “Amazon Great Indian Sale and Flipkart Big Freedom Sale from August 9”

SHARP AQUOS S2 with 5.5-inch bezel-less display will be announced on August 8

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SHARP has announced that it will introduce AQUOS S2 with bezel-less screen at a global event in Beijing on August 8, which will go on sale in China on August 14. It will come with a 5.5-inch display with a screen-to-body ratio of 84.95%, and the company says that it will be as compact as a 5-inch phone. Continue reading “SHARP AQUOS S2 with 5.5-inch bezel-less display will be announced on August 8”

OnePlus 3 and 3T OxygenOS beta update brings parallel apps feature, bug fixes and optimizations

OnePlus has started rolling out new OxygenOS open betas (Beta 12 for OnePlus 3T and Beta 21 for OnePlus 3) for the 3 and 3T phones that brings several new features including new parallel apps feature that lets you run a parallel version of the same app using a separate account. This feature is available in several ROMs. It also brings updates to apps, optimization and bug fixes. Check out the complete changelog below. Continue reading “OnePlus 3 and 3T OxygenOS beta update brings parallel apps feature, bug fixes and optimizations”

Kult Beyond with 13MP front and rear cameras, fingerprint sensor, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 6999

Kult Beyond

Kult is back with its new budget smartphone – Beyond. It has a 5.2-inch HD on-cell display and has a 13-megapixel front and rear cameras with LED flash. It is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6737 SoC and runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat). Continue reading “Kult Beyond with 13MP front and rear cameras, fingerprint sensor, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 6999”

Coolpad Note 5 Lite C with Android 7.1, fingerprint sensor, 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 7777

Coolpad Note 5 Lite C

Coolpad has launched Note 5 Lite C, the company’s latest budget smartphone for the offline market.  It has a 5-inch HD 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by a Quad-Core Snapdragon 210 Mobile Platform and runs on Android 7.1 (Nougat) with Cool UI on top. Continue reading “Coolpad Note 5 Lite C with Android 7.1, fingerprint sensor, 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 7777”

BlackBerry KEYone Review

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BlackBerry KEYone is the second Android smartphone from the company after the Priv to come with BlackBerry’s signature physical QWERTY keyboard that you rarely see on Android smartphones these days. TCL Communication Technology (TCT) made the phone in some countries like the U.S. but the phone is made and sold by Optiemus in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. How good is the smartphone? Let us find out in the review.

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OnePlus teases new OnePlus 5 is coming to Amazon India, Mint Gold version expected on August 7

OnePlus 5 Teaser

OnePlus recently teased a new color variant of the OnePlus 5 smartphone in China. Even OnePlus global teased something new is coming on August 7th along with caption Power in Elegance. Today OnePlus India has released a teaser similar to one in China that has a link to Amazon.in site that mentions gold in the header image URL so we will likely see the Mint Gold version of the phone next week. Continue reading “OnePlus teases new OnePlus 5 is coming to Amazon India, Mint Gold version expected on August 7”

Samsung SM-G9298 Android flip phone with dual 4.2-inch 1080p Super AMOLED displays announced

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Samsung has announced Flagship 8 (SM-G9298), its latest premium Android Flip phone and the successor of last year’s W2017 (SM-W2017) in China. It got certified by TENAA back in May and has dual 4.2-inch 1080p Super AMOLED displays, so that you can use the phone even when it’s closed,  has a 12-megapixel rear camera and a fingerprint sensor on the back.

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Karbonn Aura Note Play with 6-inch display, Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor launched for Rs. 7590

Karbonn Aura Note Play

Karbonn has launched Aura Note Play, a new smartphone in the ‘Aura Note’ series. It has a 6-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.3GHz Quad-Core processor and runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has a fingerprint sensor on the back. Continue reading “Karbonn Aura Note Play with 6-inch display, Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor launched for Rs. 7590”

RED HYDROGEN ONE hands-on shows solid design, support for snap-on camera mods

RED HYDROGEN ONE prototype

RED announced the HYDROGEN ONE Android smartphone with holographic display last month. The company did not show how it would look like. Now popular Youtuber Marques Brownlee has teased prototype of the phone on his channel to show how the phone will look like. He said he saw three different prototypes – a non-working unit with the final design and dimensions, one that shows the holographic display in action, and a third is a separate camera module with its own lens and sensor.

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LG confirms 6-inch QHD+ OLED FullVision display with narrow bezels, Gorilla Glass 5 for V30

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After rumors, LG has officially confirmed that its next flagship V30 smartphone will come with a 6-inch (1440 × 2880 pixels) QHD+ OLED FullVision display with 20% less upper and 50% less lower bezels compared to the V20. It also says that the OLED display will deliver 148% of the sRGB  color space for digital images and 109% of the DCI-P3 2 color space for digital cinema, while offering faster operational response time compared to LCD display. Continue reading “LG confirms 6-inch QHD+ OLED FullVision display with narrow bezels, Gorilla Glass 5 for V30”

PayPal launches technology Innovation Labs in Chennai and Bengaluru in India

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PayPal today launched two Technology Innovation Labs in Chennai and Bengaluru. This is the first Innovation Lab by PayPal in India and the third after US and Singapore. These labs will actively support technology innovation across diverse fields including machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, data science, IoT, penetration testing, software defined radios and wireless communication, VR/AR, computer vision and basic robotics.

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