Vivo iQOO gaming smartphone with 6.41-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855, up to 12GB RAM, in-display fingerprint scanner announced

Vivo’s iQOO brand has introduced its first gaming smartphone in China, as it had promised. It has a 6.41-inch Full HD+  water drop notch screen with 91.7% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Snapdragon 855 with liquid cooling, up to 12GB of RAM, runs Android Pie, has a 12-megapixel primary rear camera with Sony IMX363 sensor, secondary 13-megapixel 120-degree ultra-wide lens and a 2-megapixel sensor for portrait shots. There is also a 12-megapixel camera on the front.

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Samsung Galaxy S10e Hands On and Photo Gallery

Samsung introduced the Galaxy S10e along with the S10 and S10+ at its Unpacked event last week. We checked it out at the MWC this week, here is the hands on and photo gallery of the phone.
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Optisafe My Hero distress companion device with location tracker launched in India

Optisafe has launched My Hero, a distress companion device, in India. It is designed to help people in distress and is extremely easy to wear or carry. It features two-way siren which sounds off loud distress siren simultaneously on the device as well the user’s smartphone. Continue reading “Optisafe My Hero distress companion device with location tracker launched in India”

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro to be announced in China on March 18, will have more surprises says Redmi GM

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro made a global debut in India yesterday when everyone expected it to be introduced in China first since it got certified by TENAA recently. Today the company confirmed that the phone will be introduced in China on March 18th, few days after it goes on first sale in India on March 13th.

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Samsung Galaxy S10 Hands On and Photo Gallery

Much to our anticipation, the South Korean giant Samsung recently launched its Galaxy S10 flagship smartphone at an event in San Francisco recently. This 10th gen Galaxy S device from Samsung’s stable ticks all the boxes of what we expect from a flagship. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S10 Hands On and Photo Gallery”

Apple AirPods 2 with wireless charging case, Siri integration said to go on sale on March 29

AirPods 2

Apple is rumored to be holding a special event on March 25th where it is expected to make announcements regarding its new Service based offerings. Sources from internal operations of suppliers in the Asia-Pacific market now suggest that AirPods 2 might be added to the list of announcements on March 25th and would hit the stores on March 29th. Even though no hardware announcements are expected at its March 25 event, it might be introduced with just a release. Continue reading “Apple AirPods 2 with wireless charging case, Siri integration said to go on sale on March 29”

Google Chrome working on back/forward cache to speed up web browsing

Google Chrome developers are experimenting on a new ‘back/forward cache’ that would make loading the previous page instant since if you close a web page on the browser, it has to load most of the page again which is time-consuming.  Continue reading “Google Chrome working on back/forward cache to speed up web browsing”

YouTube disables comments on videos featuring kids; introduces new comment classifier

With an aim to improve child safety on YouTube, the company over the past week, we disabled comments from tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior. These efforts are focused on videos featuring young minors. It said that it will continue to identify videos at risk over the next few months. Continue reading “YouTube disables comments on videos featuring kids; introduces new comment classifier”

Samsung now allows remapping Bixby key on Galaxy Note 9, Note 8, S9 and S8 series

Samsung has finally decided to allow users to remap the Bixby key on its flagships S10-series that allows you to launch a third-party app using the key. Since it is a software feature, Samsung has rolled the same to remap the Bixby key feature on the Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S9/S9+ and the Galaxy S8/S8+. Continue reading “Samsung now allows remapping Bixby key on Galaxy Note 9, Note 8, S9 and S8 series”

Facebook said to be in talks with crypto exchanges for listing its crypto coin for WhatsApp

Facebook Smart Speaker

Facebook, Instagram, Signal are said to be planning to roll out new cryptocurrencies over the next year which are aimed at allowing users to send money to contacts on their messaging systems like Venmo or PayPal that can move across international borders. Facebook is silently working on a coin that user of WhatsApp could send to friends and family instantly, according to a latest report from The New York Times. Continue reading “Facebook said to be in talks with crypto exchanges for listing its crypto coin for WhatsApp”

Nokia 9 PureView to go on sale in the US from March 3rd, $100 off for limited period

HMD Global at the MWC 2019 event has introduced the Nokia 9 PureView smartphone with Penta cameras. The main highlight of the smartphone is its 12MP Penta rear cameras, two RGB and three monochrome lenses to collect up to 10-times the amount of light than a single color sensor, with ZEISS Optics. Developed in cooperation with multi-sensor camera company Light. The device would be available in the USA starting from March 3rd.  Continue reading “Nokia 9 PureView to go on sale in the US from March 3rd, $100 off for limited period”

Twitter confirms to be working on ‘Hide Tweet’ feature

Twitter confirmed that it is developing a new “Hide Tweet” feature which will give users an ability to protect their conversations. This new option is found in Twitter’s code and appear in the list choices when you click the “Share” button on a tweet. “Hide Tweet” might work as an alternative to muting or blocking a user, while still offering some control over a conversation. Continue reading “Twitter confirms to be working on ‘Hide Tweet’ feature”

GoPro HERO7 Black Limited Edition Dusk White launched in India

GoPro launched the HERO7 series of action cameras in India in several models including the high-end Hero 7 Black. Now it has launched the Limited Edition Dusk White color variant in India. Other features including HyperSmooth stabilization, TimeWarp Video, live stream to Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, Vimeo and more.

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Realme 3 with dew-drop notch, Helio P70, 4230mAh battery launching in India on March 4 exclusively on Flipkart

Update – March 1, 2019: Realme has confirmed that the Realme 3 will be launched exclusively on Flipkart and also confirmed dew-drop notch design, MediaTek Helio P70 and a 4230mAh battery. Another teaser hints at Realme 3 Pro launching alongside.

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