According to sources and people familiar with Motorola’s internal affairs, the company has reportedly canceled the Moto X5 and is also said to be scaling back on the number of Moto Mods it develops, according to a new report from Android Police. Furthermore, it is also reported that Motorola is also downsizing its Motorola Engineering team in Chicago. Continue reading “Motorola reportedly cancels Moto X5, scales back on Moto Mods”
According to a latest WSJ report, Intel is exploring options to acquire Broadcom if the company is successful in taking over Qualcomm. Broadcom is so hell-bent on acquiring Qualcomm since its first bid back in November 2017. Continue reading “Intel reportedly exploring options to acquire Broadcom, which is trying to acquire Qualcomm”
At SXSW, Bose announced that it is foraying into the AR game but unlike many AR tech out there, Bose is all about audio that will be delivered through a “wafer-thin acoustics package. It also introduced a new prototype glasses to hear which Bose says is the future of mobile sound. Continue reading “Bose forays into AR with audio-only AR glasses prototype, to invest $50 million”
Motorola is apparently stepping into the VR space as the company is working on its Virtual Viewer moto mod. Thanks to popular leakster Evan Blass, we now have our first look at the Mod. Motorola’s Mod range currently includes a Projector, Polaroid printer, Battery Packs, Gamepads, and more. Continue reading “Motorola stepping into VR, Virtual Viewer Moto Mod surfaces”
Reliance Jio recently acquired the exclusive India digital for the T20 cricket series Nidahas Trophy – a tri-nation T20 competition played at Colombo from March 6 to 18, 2018 between host Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India. It also offers commentary in Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Now it has announced that it has introduced India’s first interactive sports experience for consumers watching the tri-nation Nidahas trophy. Continue reading “JioTV introduces interactive sports experience with different camera angle, mic selection and more”
Update: The Redmi 5 will be exclusively launched on Amazon India, just like its predecessor. New teaser also reveals that the phone will launch at 3PM on March 14th, which will likely be an online event.
Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 5 Pro in India on 14th February, and released the OTA for enabling face unlock in last week of February. Earlier this week we came across posts on Mi Community in which users reported the Low sound output from headphones issue for the newly launched Redmi Note 5 Pro. Moderators on Mi Community India responded to these posts and asked users to provide buglogs for the issue. Xiaomi quickly addressed the issue and started rolling out a bug fix update this evening. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro low headphone volume issue fix starts rolling out”
Xiaomi is about the launch the Mi MIX 2s in a couple of weeks and now an unknown mid-range Xiaomi phone codenamed ‘Berlin’ has surfaced on the Geekbench benchmark revealing very little about the smartphone. According to the listing, the phone is powered by an unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 chipset. Continue reading “Xiaomi Berlin with unannounced Snapdragon 632 surfaces in benchmarks”
HTC was one of the first OEMs to confirm Android 8.0 (Oreo) update for some of its top-end devices. After rolling out Android Oreo update for the HTC U11 and HTC 10 smartphones, the company has started rolling out Android 8.0 (Oreo) update for the U Ultra smartphone starting from Taiwan. Some users are also reporting that the update is available in India as well. The changelog is simple that mentions Android 8.0 (Oreo) update and system enhancements.
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Samsung launched the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, the company’s latest flagship smartphones in India earlier this week. Here we have the unboxing of the Galaxy S9+, the bigger phone in the series with dual rear cameras.
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Sony at the MWC 2018 event has announced the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact and today the pre-orders of the same have begun in Europe across Amazon revealing the prices. The Xperia XZ2 is the first series from Sony to have the 18:9 full-screen display. Continue reading “Sony Xperia XZ2 and Xperia XZ2 Compact pre-orders begin in Europe, price revealed”
Last week we had seen the images of the Fitbit’s upcoming smartwatch. The company at the latest earnings call said that this future watch would have “mass appeal.” Today we have the name and it will be called ‘Versa’ courtesy of leakster Evan Blass. Continue reading “Fitbit’s upcoming ‘mass-appeal’ smartwatch said to be named Versa”
Uber just announced that it has signed Captain of the Indian Cricket team Virat Kohli as its first brand ambassador in India. It said that this is the company’s first of its kind initiative across the Asia Pacific region. Last year Gionee India signed him as its brand ambassador.
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Earlier this week Lenovo announced that it will introduce the next ‘S series’ smartphone on March 20th, which is expected to be Lenovo S5. Today Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun announced on weibo that the powerful Redmi Note 5 (that was launched asRedmi Note 5 Pro in India) with Snapdragon 636 and 6GB RAM will launch in China on March 16th. Quoting this, the company’s CEO Chang Cheng posted that wait till March 20th.
Continue reading “Lenovo S5 with dual rear cameras, metal body teased, will take on Xiaomi Redmi Note 5”
ZTE’s Nubia brand has introduced new Nubia N3 smartphone, successor of last year’s Nubia N2 in China. It packs the same 5000mAh battery, but this has a larger 6.01-inch FHD+ full-screen display, is powered by Snapdragon 625 with 4GB of RAM. It has 16-megapixel rear camera along with a secondary 5-megapixel camera to capture the depth information. Continue reading “Nubia N3 with 6.01-inch Full HD+ display, dual rear cameras, 5000mAh battery announced”
