OPPO’s Realme just launched the new Realme 1 smartphone in India, as it had promised, in partnership with Amazon India. The first phone in this new series, the Realme 1 is meant to take on the smartphones like Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, Note 5 Pro, Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 and others in the price range. Continue reading “Realme 1 Unboxing and First Impressions”
Earlier this month OPPO and Amazon India partnered to introduce the Realme smartphone brand, and it had promised it has launched the Realme 1 smartphone in the country. It packs a 6-inch FHD+ display with 1.98mm slim bezels on the sides and 84.8% screen-to-body ratio, but it doesn’t have a notch like the OPPO A3 that was introduced recently. It is powered by the MediaTek Helio P60 12nm SoC with up to 6GB of RAM and runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with ColorOS 5.0 on top. Continue reading “OPPO Realme 1 with 6-inch FHD+ display, up to 6GB RAM, Android 8.1, Face unlock launched in India starting at Rs. 8990”
Google is now rolling out ‘voice remote’ for YouTube TV app and since it is a server side roll out, it is not available to everyone. The voice remote’ in YouTube TV shows up as a floating action button in the app. Continue reading “Google rolls out ‘voice remote’ for YouTube TV”
Opera has rolled out a new update to its Android app bringing the version number to 46. This update brings features like themes, night mode, private tabs notifications and more. Continue reading “Opera 46 for Android brings themes, night mode, private tabs notifications and more”
Facebook today has announced that it has suspended 200 apps over data and privacy violations. It had investigated all the apps that had access to large amounts of information before Facebook changed its policies in 2014 significantly reducing the data apps could access. Continue reading “Facebook suspends 200 apps over data and privacy violations”
Google today has announced new changes to its storage plans including a new low-cost storage plan under a new ‘Google One’ brand. It is also converting all Google Drive paid storage plans to Google One. All paid consumer Google Drive storage plans will be upgraded to Google One and this change doesn’t affect G Suite business customers. Continue reading “Google introduces cheaper paid storage plans under ‘Google One’ brand”
HMD Global is all set to introduce Nokia X6, a new mid-range smartphone in the new ‘X series’ in China tomorrow, May 16th. Name of the smartphone was confirmed recently, and the specifications of the smartphone were revealed by TENAA certification. Now the price and complete specifications of the phone have been revealed by early listing by online retailer Suning. Continue reading “Nokia X6 with 5.8-inch FHD+ 19:9 display, Snapdragon 636, dual rear cameras price, detailed specifications surface”
Update: Google has started rolling out respond reminder feature that will ‘nudge’ users to reply to emails they may have missed and to follow up on emails for which they haven’t received a response. This is enabled by default for users with the new Gmail enabled, but you can can turn it off from the Gmail settings menu.
Airtel today announced that it has completed the acquisition Telenor India, after a year of entering into an agreement to acquire Telenor India’s running operations in seven circles – Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Gujarat, UP (East), UP (West) and Assam, and transfer of all of Telenor India’s assets including spectrum, licenses and operations, including its employees and customer base of 44 million as well as outstanding spectrum payments and other operational contracts, including tower lease. Continue reading “Airtel completes acquisition of Telenor India”
In-display fingerprint sensors are slowly catching up with tier one brands like Huawei, Vivo included the tech, and it’s about time Samsung jump in on the bandwagon as well. Adding to the speculation that the 10th anniversary model of Samsung’s flagship series might be a standout, in-display fingerprint sensor. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S10 might feature an in-display fingerprint sensor”
Kult has launched Impulse, the company’s first smartphone this year. It has a 5.99-inch HD+ 18:9 TruView 2.5D curved glass display display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6739 SoC, runs on Android 7.1 (Nougat), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 13-megapixel front-facing camera that also has an LED flash for capturing better selfies even in low lighting conditions and also has face unlock. Continue reading “Kult Impulse with 5.99-inch 18:9 display, 13MP front and rear cameras, 4000mAh battery launched for Rs. 8999”
Huawei is expected to launch the new Watch 2 2018 edition sometime this year, and today the wearable has surfaced on the internet, thanks to famous leakster Evan Blass. It will sport a 1.2-inch AMOLED display and will be powered by the Snapdragon 2100. It will also come with eSIM support, which will be the only change compared to the last year’s model. Continue reading “Huawei Watch 2 2018 water-resistant Wear OS smartwatch with 1.2-inch AMOLED display, eSIM support surfaces”
Coolpad has announced that its unit has filed lawsuits against three group firms of Xiaomi for several patent Infringements. The company’s subsidiary, Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) Co. Limited has filed a lawsuit against Xiaomi Telecom Technology Co, Xiaomi Technology Co, and Xiaomi Factory Co, in a court in Jiangsu province for using its patents without authorization. Continue reading “Coolpad files two lawsuits against Xiaomi over patent litigation in China”
This week, OnePlus will be unveiling its most-awaited flagship smartphone and the successor of OnePlus 5T — the OnePlus 6. This is the first device to sport a notch in OnePlus’ portfolio. If you are one of those who is desperately waiting to get the hands on the OnePlus 6, here is a special sale from OnePlus that can actually work out in your favour. Having said that, it works only in the Indian market.
Continue reading “You can now reserve the OnePlus 6 on Amazon.in 4 days before the launch”
According to IDC, Indian smartphone shipments reached 30 million units in Q1 2018 and has seen a healthy 11% YoY growth, but it remained flat when compared to the previous quarter; Q4 2017. As expected Xiaomi retained the top position for the second quarter in a row. Continue reading “Smartphone shipments up 11% YoY in Q1 2018 in India, Xiaomi continues to lead with 30.3% share: IDC”
