Along with the Galaxy Note9 and the Galaxy Watch, Samsung at its New York event also introduced its new Galaxy Home smart speaker with Bixby smart assistant and eight fear-field microphone for voice recognition that works across the room. Samsung demoed it by playing its intro audio with a setup made of 160 Galaxy Home speakers.
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Samsung just announced Galaxy Watch at its New York event. It comes in 46mm version and 42mm options with 1.3-inch and 1.2-inch (360×360 pixels) Circular Super AMOLED Always On Display with the latest Corning Gorilla Glass DX+ protection and has rotating bezel. These run Tizen- Based Wearable Platform 4.0. It has 5ATM + IP68 ratings for water resistance, certified for military-level durability, comes with NFC and Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) support for mobile payments using Samsung Pay, built-in speaker for activate voice messaging and music listening, and GPS.
Right after announcing the Galaxy Note 9, Samsung also announced that starting today, users of Galaxy Note9, Galaxy S9/+, Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8/+, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 edge, Galaxy Tab S4, Galaxy Tab S3 will have access to first-ever Fortnite beta before it’s more widely available making the rumors true. Continue reading “Fortnite for Android beta coming to Samsung Galaxy devices first, Here is the list of devices that are getting it soon”
Samsung just announced Galaxy Note9 smartphone at its New York event, as it had promised. It comes with a 6.4-inch Quad HD+ Super AMOLED Display – an end-to-end, bezel-less screen that extends to the phone’s sides, similar to the Note8. It has 12-megapixel rear camera with variable aperture tech that uses f/1.5 aperture for night shots for a brighter picture and f/2.4 aperture for normal shots in daytime as well as a secondary 12MP Telephoto lens for live focus for bokeh effect with background blur, similar to the S9+. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note9 with 6.4-inch Quad HD+ Super AMOLED display, 8GB RAM, 4000mAh battery, Bluetooth S Pen announced”
A cyber-security firm in an interesting revelation has discovered a flaw in WhatsApp that allows scammers to alter the content or change the identity of the sender of a previously delivered message. Hackers can create a hacked version of the WhatsApp and change the “quote” to give an impression that someone sent a message they did not actually send. Continue reading “Security firm finds flaw in WhatsApp that lets hackers alter messages”
As wireless audio gets more affordable, boAt too is getting into the game with the launch of the Rockerz 275. The headphones claim to deliver good battery life, great audio and IPX5 protection so that you can use these for sports as well. We’ve reviewed a number of boAt audio products in the past and have found them to be consistent performers. Will the boAt Rockerz 275 be competitive against the packed budget bluetooth headset market? Let’s find out. Continue reading “boAt Rockerz 275 Wireless Neckband Headphones Review”
Paytm today announced that it has acquired Bengaluru-based Smart-savings Management Startup- ‘Balance.Tech’. Paytm says that Balance.Tech team has great insights and track record in building such intelligent and elegantly designed products. Continue reading “Paytm acquires smart-savings management startup Balance.Tech”
This week OPPO confirmed that F9 smartphone will launch in Vietnam on August 15, and OPPO India today confirmed that the F9 Pro smartphone will launch in India on August 21st. Now OPPO has announced that F9 will be launched in Philippines as well on August 15th. It also highlighted VOOC Flash charge, gradient colors, as well as a unique Waterdrop Screen design for the smartphone.
After V30+, LG has finally started rolling out Android 8.0 (Oreo) update for the LG G6 smartphone in India. This will turn the phone into LG G6 ThinQ and also brings out several new features, including new camera app layout, but it doesn’t bring AI Cam like the V30+. After updating, the start screen of the device will now show LG G6 ThinQ branding instead of LG G6. Continue reading “LG G6 Android Oreo update finally starts rolling out in India, brings ThinQ branding”
Ultimate Ears, a brand of Logitech has launched the Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM Freestyle Bluetooth Waterproof speaker in India. It has a completely waterproof design with IPX7 ratings, promises 10-hours of battery life and 100-foot wireless Bluetooth range. Continue reading “Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM Freestyle Collection portable Waterproof Bluetooth speaker launched in India for Rs.6995”
Flipkart already announced its Big Freedom Sale from August 10th to 12th. Today Huawei’s sub brand Honor announced exchange offers on selected range of Honor smartphones as a part of Big Freedom Sale. Continue reading “Honor announces discounts, exchange offers as a part of Flipkart’s Big Freedom Sale starting August 10”
After Chrome, Google is also rolling update to its Photos app and the only change is the ability to add captions in photo books. However, digging a little deep into the app reveals support for editing stereoscopic images and new suggestion types that might pop up for some of your photos. Continue reading “Google Photos v3.26 brings captions in photo books; hints at ability to edit VR images and more”
OPPO has finally sent out invites for the launch of its new F9 Pro smartphone in India on August 21st. Complete specifications of the OPPO F9 went official in Vietnam earlier this week where the phone will launch on August 15th. The F9 will launch as the F9 Pro in India, and it is the successor of OPPO F7 which was launched back in March this year.
Xiaomi has finally started teasing its sub-brand POCO in India ahead of the launch of POCOPHONE F1 in the country. Jai Mani, lead product manager, Xiaomi India tweeted that he has been working on the project. Even though the phone it teased as POCOPHONE by Xiaomi for global markets, it is teased as POCO by Xiaomi in India, which rhymes like OPPO who launched the Realme sub-brand recently to take on Xiaomi’s Redmi.
Google Chrome is getting a new beta update for Android bringing the version number to 69 and this includes the usual mix of interface updates and new developer features. Much like how Apple tweaked Safari-specific CSS attributes to help websites adjust with the notch-screen, Android too is following the suit including Chrome. Continue reading “Chrome 69 beta brings support for notch, media player for Android Go and more”
