In celebration of Holi, Lava, an Indian mobile handset brand, has launched their special edition feature phone called the LAVA A1 Colors. The phone comes with a sturdy polycarbonate body, instant torch access, auto call recording and more.
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[Mar 4, 2020]: Xiaomi has released Android 10 based MIUI China Beta ROM for Redmi Note 7 Pro users, do note that it might be closed Beta build. Continue reading “Redmi Note 8 Pro, Redmi Note 7 and more start receiving Android 10 update in China [Update: Redmi Note 7 Pro as well]”
OPPO’s upcoming smartphone Find X2 series has been in the limelight for quite some time now. If you are unaware, the company had planned the launch at MWC 2020 in Barcelona, but following the conference’s cancellation due to the Corona outbreak, the date has been postponed to March 6th. Continue reading “OPPO is testing 5G on Find X2 at Hyderabad R&D facility ahead of India launch”
When Apple announced their iPhone 11 series of smartphones, it was clear that Apple had stepped up their smartphone photography game by a sizeable amount. To showcase the prowess of the iPhone 11’s capabilities, Apple created the Night mode photo challenge, where users could submit night mode photos that were clicked on the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. Yesterday Apple announced the winners and one among the 6 winners is an Indian named Mitsun Soni.
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When you begin to follow a multitude of accounts on twitter, it can start to become a little overwhelming with many topics. In June of 2019, Twitter began testing a feature called Lists on their mobile app that allowed users to split their timeline with different pinned lists. The feature has been in iOS for a quite a while, and now Twitter has announced wide-rollout for Android users too.
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Google has cancelled its I/O developers’ conference for this year that was supposed to take place at Mountain View, California from May 12th to 14th due to coronavirus concerns. The company said that “it’s sad that we won’t be able to gather as a developer community but your health and safety is our priority.” The company said that it is exploring new ways to connect and support the global developer community and will offer more details on google.com/io. Continue reading “Google I/O 2020 cancelled due to coronavirus concerns”
WhatsApp for Android got dark mode feature in beta back in January, and it has been in the works for iOS for more than a year. Now WhatsApp has announced the roll out of dark mode for all the Android and iOS users. This lets users choose from light or dark theme. The dark theme is more like dark gray unlike pure black available in some apps. Chats appear with dark background, and your messages are shown in green bubbles. Continue reading “WhatsApp Dark mode finally available for all Android and iOS users”
Last week realme announced an event in India to launch the realme 6 and realme 6 Pro smartphone on March 5th. Today the company has decided to cancel the event due to coronavirus concerns in the country. The company will still offer live stream of the event, in which the CEO Madhav Seth will give live speech at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi. Continue reading “Realme 6 series and Redmi Note 9 series India launch events cancelled due to coronavirus concerns, will have online launch”
Black Shark just announced the Black Shark 3 and Black Shark 3 Pro smartphones in China, as it had promised. The Black Shark 3 features a 6.67-inch FHD+ display and the Pro version has a 7.1-inch Quad HD+ screen. Both these have 90Hz refresh rate and world’s highest touch sampling rate of 270Hz, and the company says that single-finger touch response delay is as low as 24ms, multi-finger touch response delay is as low as 28ms. These have screen pressure sensitivity 3.0, and the number of pressure-sensitive sensors increased to 4, and the pressure-sensitive area increased by 48%. These have MEMC intelligence Motion compensation technology as well. Continue reading “Black Shark 3 Pro 5G gaming phone with 7.1-inch Quad HD+ AMOLED 90Hz display, Snapdragon 865, 12GB RAM and Black Shark 3 announced”
HMD Global has scheduled an event on March 19th in London to introduce new smartphones. There is a new separate event since there is no MWC this year. Last year at the MWC the company announced Nokia 9 PureView, Nokia 4.2, Nokia 3.2, Nokia 210 feature phone and Nokia 1 Plus Android Go Edition phone. Continue reading “HMD Global schedules an event on March 19 in London, Nokia 8.3, Nokia 5.3 and more expected”
Samsung Electronics has announced that it is building a $220 million dollar research and development centre in Vietnam aimed at enhancing the companies research capabilities. However, news has surfaced that Samsung had to cancel a ceremony related to the launch of the centre was cancelled, likely due to coronavirus outbreak.
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OnePlus today announced world’s first 5G-powered interactive snowball fight, which will take place starting 9th March 2020 for more than 70 consecutive hours in Finland. The experience will allow anyone from around the world to control the OnePlus Snowbots in a live snowball fight. OnePlus says that this will demonstrate the true 5G potential and how this can change the way people interact with smartphones, OnePlus developed custom-made snowball-firing robots: Snowbots. Continue reading “OnePlus Snowbot Battle will let anyone control 5G-powered Snowbots in global snowball fight”
Apple received a lot of backlash from the tech community and its users when they confirmed that they were throttling the performance of older iPhones with ageing batteries. Apple was since sued with a class-action lawsuit and has now finally decided to settle it, paying up to $500 million in fines.
Paytm today announced that it has received insurance brokerage license from IRDAI and will soon offer insurance across four categories including two-wheeler, four-wheeler, health, and life. The company added that Paytm Insurance Broking Private Limited (PIBPL), wholly-owned subsidiary One97 Communications Ltd (OCL), has already tied up with 20 of the leading insurance firms in India and will be integrating with 30 more companies over the next few weeks. Continue reading “Paytm gets brokerage licence to offer insurance products”
Facebook’s mobile application have always known to be extremely heavy on resources, causing many users to use the lite version of the Facebook and Messenger apps. Facebook has finally decided to update its Messenger app, rebuilding it from the ground up to make it faster, smaller and simpler.
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