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.
Continue reading “Facebook Messenger gets faster, smaller and simpler with Project Lightspeed”
Google has been steadily pushing out new features to its Pixel devices via its Feature drop, with the last one being rolled out in December, 2019. In the new Feature drop that’s rolling out today, Google is adding automatic car crash detection, new Motion Sense functionalities, more AR emoji effects for Google Duo and more.
Infinix has confirmed that it will launch its S5 Pro smartphone with a 16-megapixel pop-up front camera in India on March 6th on Flipkart. It was supposed to be launched in India in February, but it was postponed. The image also shows gradient back, camera bump and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. Continue reading “Infinix S5 Pro with 6.53-inch FHD+ display, 16MP pop-up front camera, 48MP triple rear cameras launching on Flipkart on March 6”
Tencent games has released new PUBG Mobile update which brings the version number to 0.17.0. This brings Royale Pass Season 12: 2gether We Play, which will be available from March 9th, Amusement Park Mode in Classic Erangel as a part of 2nd Anniversary, DBS, a double-barreled shotgun that can be obtained through AirDrops, New Arcade Mode: Return of Hardcore Mode, Death Replay, and Brand New Survival Experience Arctic Mode is coming soon. Continue reading “PUBG MOBILE 0.17.0 update with Royale Pass Season 12: 2gether We Play, DBS Shotgun and more released”
realme announced Android 10 based realme UI a couple of months ago and started rolling out the update for eligible devices as per the schedule shared by the company. realme UI brings tons of new features such as dual earphone connection, animated wallpapers, screen-off display, customizable icon shape, new charging animation, realme Share (cross-brand file-sharing technology) and more. Continue reading “realme announces Android 10-based realme UI Early Access for realme X2 and realme X2 Pro”
Press image of Samsung Galaxy A21, the company’s upcoming budget ‘A series’ smartphone has surfaced. This shows HD+ Infinity-O Super AMOLED display, and quad rear cameras, which could be an ultra-wide, macro and depth sensors, in addition to the main camera and the image shows dual LED flash. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A21 with Infinity-O AMOLED display, quad rear cameras surface”
Vivo introduced the NEX 3 smartphone back in September last year, and now it is gearing up to unveil the NEX 3S 5G smartphone in China on March 10th. This will retain the 6.89-inch waterfall screen with the left and right sides curved close to 90 degrees, with a 99.6% ultra-high screen ratio, according to the image. Continue reading “Vivo NEX 3S 5G with 6.89-inch FHD+ AMOLED waterfall screen, Snapdragon 865, 64MP triple rear cameras to be announced on March 10”
Update: The company has confirmed that the Nubia Red Magic 5G will be announced on March 12th.
As the Indian government re-imposed 10% service welfare cess over and above existing 20% basic customs duty in India, Apple has increased the price of its iPhones, including its iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max smartphones in the country. The government last month increased the import duty on PCBA from 10% to 20%, chargers from 15% to 20% and mobile phone components such as display panel, touch panel, microphone and receiver from 0 to 10%. Continue reading “Apple iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus get a price hike in India after increase in import duty”
Winners and the finalists of 10th edition of Aegis Graham Bell Awards were felicitated by Chief Guest Shri. Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways; Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India; Guest of Honor Shri. Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Hon’ble Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Fisheries and MSME and Special Guest Shri. R.P. Singh, National Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 27th February 2020 at NDMC Convention Centre, New Delhi. Continue reading “Aegis Graham Bell Awards 10th edition winners felicitated”
The Galaxy A51 was launched back in January, offering decent mid-range performance for its price. Now renders have surfaced of Samsungs next smartphone in the Galaxy A-Series, namely the Galaxy A41. The renders, provided by popular leaker, @onleaks, shows a device with a large screen having an inifinity U display, a 48MP triple camera, USB-C and more.
HONOR launched the HONOR Band 5i with built-in USB connector in India last month. Today it has announced that the much-awaited SpO2 feature has started rolling out via software/ firmware update on all the devices in India from 29th February, 2020 onwards. Continue reading “HONOR Band 5i update brings SpO2 monitoring”
Similar to Xiaomi’s Mi Credit and realme’s PaySa, OPPO has also announced its entrance into financial services in India called OPPO Kash. The app, which is currently in beta, will include multiple services like mutual funds, personal loans, business loans, mobile screen insurance and more.
Continue reading “OPPO Kash financial platform with mutual funds, loans and more launched in India”
