Global Mobile Awards 2020: OnePlus 7T Pro selected as the best smartphone

The Global Mobile Awards are conducted every year by GSMA, the organisers of MWC. While the show was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the various awards were still announced, among which the OnePlus 7T Pro was awarded the best smartphone in the device category this time.

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OnePlus India launches Product Ninjas Program for OnePlus TV

Last year, OnePlus ventured into the TV market with the launch of its first SmartTV — OnePlus TV 55 Q1 and OnePlus TV 55 Q1 Pro 4K QLED TVs in India. The high-end TV from the OnePlus garnered positive reviews all around for its picture quality, integrated soundbar, customization options, and much more. As per the company claims, OnePlus TV is focussed more on quality overvalue.  Continue reading “OnePlus India launches Product Ninjas Program for OnePlus TV”

Infinix S5 Pro with 6.53-inch Full HD+ display, Android 10, 48MP triple rear cameras, 16MP pop-up front camera launched in India for Rs. 9999

Infinix has launched S5 Pro, the company’s latest smartphone in the S series in India, as it had promised. It has a 6.53-inch FHD+ no-notch display with 91% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P35 12nm SoC with 4GB of RAM, runs Android 10 XOS 6.0 Dolphin, has a 48-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash, along with a 2-megapixel sensor for portrait shots and a low-light camera. The phone has a fingerprint sensor on the back, features a gradient back, comes with dedicated dual SIM and microSD card lots and packs a 4000mAh battery. Continue reading “Infinix S5 Pro with 6.53-inch Full HD+ display, Android 10, 48MP triple rear cameras, 16MP pop-up front camera launched in India for Rs. 9999”

Realme Band Unboxing and First Impressions

Last month Madhav Seth, CEO of realme, teased their entry into the wearables market with a fitness band. Yesterday at a launch event, realme introduced the realme Band, which claims to be the cheapest fitness band that comes with a heart-rate sensor. We got a chance to look at it and here are our first impressions along with an unboxing video from our FoneArena Tamil Channel.

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Moto G8 with 6.4-inch Max Vision display, Android 10, triple rear cameras announced

After the G8 Plus and G8 Play last year, and Moto G Stylus and Moto G Power last month Motorola has introduced Moto G8, the company’s latest Moto G series phones. It packs a 6.4-inch HD+ Max Vision screen with an 8-megapixel punch-hole camera, is powered by Snapdragon 665 with 4GB of RAM, has a 16-megapixel rear camera, 8-megapixel 118° ultra-wide and a 2-megapixel 2cm macro sensor. It runs Android 10 and comes with exclusive Moto Experiences and with new Moto Gametime software feature maximizes your gaming experience and makes it more immersive than ever by blocking interruptions to help you keep your head in the game Continue reading “Moto G8 with 6.4-inch Max Vision display, Android 10, triple rear cameras announced”

Google ‘Read it’ feature in Assistant can read aloud web pages in 42 different languages

Google announced a pretty neat little feature that is going to make reading web articles on phones a lot easier. The feature, called ‘Read it’, can be used to make the Google Assistant read articles out load that are open on the Chrome browser, Google Search or the News app.

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Facebook Messenger for macOS now available in several regions

Just earlier this week, Facebook had announced Project Lightspeed for their mobile Messenger app, overhauling it to make it faster, smaller and simpler. Now, Facebook has begun testing a macOS client of the Messenger, available on the Mac App Store in a few countries like France, Australia, Poland, etc.

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Twitter is testing ‘Fleets’, a Snapchat-type feature that disappears after 24 hours

Twitter has become one of the last major social media platforms to copy Snapchat’s 24-hour disappearing type content, calling it ‘Fleets’. They are currently testing Fleets in Brazil and it will work differently from regular tweets, that is, users will not be able to retweet, like or publicly comment on them.

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HUAWEI P40 Lite E with 6.39-inch punch-hole display, 48MP triple rear cameras announced

HUAWEI has announced P40 Lite E, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in Poland, after introducing the P40 Lite in Spain last week. It has a 6.39-inch HD+ LCD screen with an 8-megapixel in-screen camera, is powered by Kirin 710F SoC with 4GB RAM, runs Android 9 with EMUI 9.1, has a 48-megapixel rear camera, 8-megapixel ultra-wide sensor and 2-megapixel camera for depth sensing in portrait shots. Continue reading “HUAWEI P40 Lite E with 6.39-inch punch-hole display, 48MP triple rear cameras announced”

Google to launch its second Cloud Platform region in India in Delhi in 2021

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Google launched its first cloud region in India in Mumbai back in 2017 in an aim to improve latency from 20-90% for end users in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and of course Mumbai. Today the company has announced plans to open a Delhi cloud region next year, expanding Google’s existing network of eight regions in Asia Pacific and 22 regions globally today. Continue reading “Google to launch its second Cloud Platform region in India in Delhi in 2021”

Realme Band with 0.96-inch color display, heart rate sensor, IP68 water resistance launched in India for Rs. 1499

Along with the realme 6 series, the company also launched the realme Band its first fitness band in India, as it had promised. The realme Band has a 0.96-inch LCD screen, comes with heart rate sensor, has 9 sports modes that includes run, walk, hiking, climbing, yoga, fitness, spinning, bike and cricket mode, and can store 3 modes in the band at a time. It will come with sleep tracking similar to most other bands, and feature built-in charging port. Continue reading “Realme Band with 0.96-inch color display, heart rate sensor, IP68 water resistance launched in India for Rs. 1499”

Realme 6 Unboxing and First Impressions

realme is back with the successor to the realme 5 series, appropriately naming it the realme 6 which launched today in an online event. Here we have our first impressions on the device along with an unboxing video from our FoneArena Tamil Channel.

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Realme 6 with 6.5-inch FHD+ 90Hz display, Helio G90T, up to 8GB RAM, 64MP quad rear cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 12999

relame just launched realme 6, the company’s latest smartphone in India, as it had promised. This is a major upgrade compared to the realme 5 since this comes with a 6.5-inch Full HD+ LCD screen with 90Hz refresh rate and 120Hz touch sampling rate, and 90.5% screen-to-body ratio. The phone is powered by the latest MediaTek Helio G90T SoC. The phone features a 64-megapixel primary rear camera with 1/1.7″ Samsung GW1 Sensor, an 8-megapixel 119° ultra-wide angle lens, 2-megapixel mono sensor and a 2-megapixel sensor for 4cm macro shots. There is a 16-megapixel camera on the front. Continue reading “Realme 6 with 6.5-inch FHD+ 90Hz display, Helio G90T, up to 8GB RAM, 64MP quad rear cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 12999”

Realme 6 Pro with 6.6-inch FHD+ 90Hz display, Snapdragon 720G, up to 8GB RAM, 64MP quad rear, dual front cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 16999

relame just launched realme 6 Pro, successor of last year’s realme 5 Pro in India, as it had promised. The phone comes with a 6.6-inch Full HD+ LCD screen with 90Hz refresh rate and 120Hz touch sampling rate, and 90.60% screen-to-body ratio. It is the first phone to be powered by the latest Snapdragon 720G 8nm SoC. The phone features a 64-megapixel primary rear camera with 1/1.7″ Samsung GW1 Sensor, an 8-megapixel 119° ultra-wide angle lens, 12-megapixel telephoto sensor for up to 20x zoom and a 2-megapixel sensor for 4cm macro shots. There is a 16-megapixel camera on the front along with an 8-megapixel 105° ultra-wide sensor. Continue reading “Realme 6 Pro with 6.6-inch FHD+ 90Hz display, Snapdragon 720G, up to 8GB RAM, 64MP quad rear, dual front cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 16999”