LG Pay demoed ahead of commercial launch in June

LG Pay

LG has demoed its LG Pay payment service at the World IT Show 2017 exhibition in COEX, Seoul ahead of commercial launch in June. It uses  Wireless Magnetic Communication (WMC) technology, a magnetic technology that can be used as an ordinary credit card when making offline payments. A magnetic signal is generated from a mobile device and is paid to a credit card terminal. Continue reading “LG Pay demoed ahead of commercial launch in June”

Asus ZenFone Live with real-time beautification technology, 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 9999

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Asus just launched ZenFone Live, the company’s latest budget smartphone with 4G VoLTE support in India, as expected. It was introduced back in February and has a real-time beautification with live-streaming beautification app. It lets you see your skin smoothed and blemishes removed in real time, says Asus. It has BeautyLive app integrates seamlessly with Facebook, YouTube, and many other popular streaming apps. The front-facing 5-megapixel camera has large 1.4µm pixel size and a soft light LED selfie flash. Continue reading “Asus ZenFone Live with real-time beautification technology, 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 9999”

Qualcomm is shipping over 1 million chips per day for IoT devices

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Qualcomm has announced that it is currently shipping more than 1 million chips per day for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It also said that brands have shipped over 1.5 billion IoT products using Qualcomm Technologies’ Products, which is a new milestone. Continue reading “Qualcomm is shipping over 1 million chips per day for IoT devices”

Get free Google Play Credit – Google Opinion Rewards available in India

Google Opinion Rewards India

Google Opinion Rewards program was launched back in 2014 in the UK, Canada and Australia. Later it expanded to several countries such as Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and United States. It was launched in Austria and Switzerland few months back.

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Meizu M5c with 5-inch HD display, Android 7.0, 4G LTE announced

Meizu M5c

Meizu has announced M5c, its latest budget smartphone for global markets. It packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core 64-bit MediaTek processor, runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat) with Flyme OS 6 on top, has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Meizu M5c with 5-inch HD display, Android 7.0, 4G LTE announced”

Alcatel Pixi 4 (7) WiFi and 4G tablets launched in India starting at Rs. 4499

Alcatel Pixi 4 (7) 4G

Alcatel today launched Pixi 4 (7) tablets in India in Wi-Fi and 4G versions. Both these have a 7-inch (1024 x 600 Pixels), powered by quad-core MediaTek SoCs and run Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).  The 4G version also has dual SIM support and voice calling capabilities. Continue reading “Alcatel Pixi 4 (7) WiFi and 4G tablets launched in India starting at Rs. 4499”

Microsoft introduces new Surface Pro with improved battery life, 4G LTE option

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Microsoft just announced its fifth generation Surface Pro 2-in-1 at its Shanghai event, as expected. It is just called the Surface Pro and has the same 12.3-inch (2160×1440 pixels) display with 267 PPI,  8-megapixel camera at the back and a 5-megapixel camera at the front, but this is powered by latest seventh-generation Kaby Lake processors. Continue reading “Microsoft introduces new Surface Pro with improved battery life, 4G LTE option”

Honor Play Tab 2 8-inch and 9.6-inch tablets with 7.9mm slim metal body, Android 7.0 announced

Honor Play Tab 2 9.6-inch

Huawei’s Honor Brand today introduced Honor Play Tab 2 in 9.6 and 8-inch versions with HD displays. These are powered by Quad-Core Snapdragon 425 Mobile Platform, run Android 7.0 (Nougat) with EMUI 5.1, 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
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Honor Band A2 fitness and sleep tracker with OLED display, heart rate sensor announced

Honor Band A2

Along with the Honor 6A, Huawei’s Honor brand also introduced Honor Band A2, successor of last year’s Honor Band A1 fitness tracker. It has a 0.96-inch OLED touch display and heart rate sensor with continuous heart rate tracking. In addition to fitness and sleep tracking, it can also track bicycle rides and provides real time data for it. Continue reading “Honor Band A2 fitness and sleep tracker with OLED display, heart rate sensor announced”

Xiaomi sold over 250,000 units of Redmi 4 smartphones within 8 minutes in first sale in India

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Xiaomi launched the Redmi 4 smartphone in India starting Rs. 6999 last month. It went on sale for the first time in India today exclusively on Amazon.in and Mi.com. Xiaomi today said that it sold more than 250,000 units within 8 minutes the sale started on Amazon.in and Mi.com today noon. Continue reading “Xiaomi sold over 250,000 units of Redmi 4 smartphones within 8 minutes in first sale in India”

Honor 6A with 5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor, Android 7.0 announced

Honor 6A

Huawei’s Honor brand just announced Honor 6A, a new budget smartphone with 4G VoLTE support in China. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 430 Mobile Platform, runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat) with EMUI 5.1, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with PDAF offering focus in 0.5 seconds and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Honor 6A with 5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor, Android 7.0 announced”

Samsung introduces stretchable OLED display, 2250 PPI display for VR

Samsung Stretchable AMOLED display

Samsung has announced that it will showcase world’s first stretchable OLED display at the Society for Information Display (SID) 2017 in Los Angeles, U.S. from 23rd to 25th May, 2017. Continue reading “Samsung introduces stretchable OLED display, 2250 PPI display for VR”

Nokia settles patent dispute with Apple, signs multi-year patent license deal

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Last year Nokia sued Apple in Germany and the US, alleging that Apple has infringed a number of Nokia patents. Today both the companies have announced that they have agreed to drop all litigation related to their intellectual property dispute and also signed a multi-year patent license.

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Instagram gets new archive option to temporarily hide your posts

Instagram Archive posts

Instagram has rolled out a new ‘archive’ option for Android and iOS users that lets you hide posts from your profile easily without deleting them. This will be very useful for those who want to hide some of their pictures or videos from their profile temporarily. Continue reading “Instagram gets new archive option to temporarily hide your posts”