Samsung Galaxy Note8 ties up with iPhone 8 Plus for the top spot on DxOMark

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DxOMark is a standard for cameras of smartphones, not so long ago, they have rated the Apple iPhone 8 Plus 94 points which made Apple reclaim the number one spot. While the 8 Plus still stays on top of DxOMark’s list, it has to now share the spot with the Galaxy Note8 now with the same 94 points. The Galaxy Note8 is the first ever Samsung phone to feature the dual camera setup, and with its first attempt, Samsung making up to the top spot is really impressive. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note8 ties up with iPhone 8 Plus for the top spot on DxOMark”

Best Smartphones Under 15000 in India (Updated on October 2017)

Best Smartphones Under 15000 in India

Which is the best smartphone for Rs.15000?

Best Android smartphone for Rs.15000?

Suggest a smartphone for Rs.15000

India being an economic smartphone market, these are the questions we are often asked about. In fact, this is the sweet spot to invest on a smartphone as you get almost all the feature that you get on high-end devices, but with very few compromises. Continue reading “Best Smartphones Under 15000 in India (Updated on October 2017)”

Apple releases iOS 11.0.2 for iPhone and iPad, fixes iPhone 8 crackling earpiece issue

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Apple has rolled out iOS 11.0.2 update for iPhone and iPad that includes fixes for crackling earpiece issue on iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, as Apple had promised, after reports from users. This also fixes couple other issues and more bug fixes and improvements. This comes after the iOS 11.0.1 update last week that brought several bug fixes and improvements.

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Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 with bezel-less display launching in India on October 10

Xiaomi Mi MIX 2

Xiaomi unveiled the Mi MIX 2 smartphone at an event in China last month. Manu Jain, Group Vice President and Managing Director of Xiaomi India on the same day confirmed that the smartphone will launch in India soon. He just announced the phone will launch in India on October 10th at an event in Delhi. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 with bezel-less display launching in India on October 10”

Google Allo Web for Android and iOS now available on Firefox and Opera

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Google’s Allo was officially announced last year, and after a year of waiting, the company has launched the web client “Allow for Web” back in August which was just supported on Chrome. Today, the company has finally announced that Allo application can now be used with Firefox and Opera web browsers. Continue reading “Google Allo Web for Android and iOS now available on Firefox and Opera”

Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale: Best deals on smartphones, accessories and more

Amazon Great Indian Festival October 2017

Amazon today started its second Diwali Great Indian Festival Sale, after its first sale last month. In the second sale it is offering good deals on smartphones, accessories, power banks, TVs, Kindle and more. Continue reading “Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale: Best deals on smartphones, accessories and more”

Samsung Windows Mixed Reality Headset Odyssey announced for $499

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Samsung has teamed up with Microsoft to unveil the Windows Mixed Reality Headset dubbed as Samsung HMD Odyssey, as expected. The headset was announced at the Windows Mixed Reality headset event in  San Francisco. The Samsung HMD Odyssey joins other mixed-reality headsets from partners like Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Acer. Continue reading “Samsung Windows Mixed Reality Headset Odyssey announced for $499”

Airtel to launch 4G VoLTE Android smartphone under Rs. 2000 by Diwali

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Airtel is all set to launch its own 4G VoLTE smartphone running Android under Rs. 2000 by Diwali, according to people familiar with the matter. This will take on JioPhone, Reliance Jio’s first feature phone started rolling out to customers starting last week. Micromax is also rumored to release Bharat One 4G VoLTE feature phone at Rs. 1,500 this week. Continue reading “Airtel to launch 4G VoLTE Android smartphone under Rs. 2000 by Diwali”

HTC U11 Life Android One smartphone specifications detailed – Snapdragon 630 and water-resistant body

HTC U11 Life

Specifications of HTC Ocean Life, an upcoming mid-range smartphone surfaced back in July. Later popular tipster LlabTooFeR shared that the phone will also be released under Android One program. Now the same tipster has shared detailed specifications of the Android phone that reveals Snapdragon 630 SoC instead of Snapdragon 660 in the standard version. It also reveals water-resistant body with IP67 ratings and two storage variants.

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Sony releases AOSP Android 8.0 Oreo to Open Devices Program

Sony Android 8.0 Oreo AOSP

Sony is one such brand that stays most active on their forum providing a helping hand for their developers community. The company even launched Open Devices Program earlier where developers get to play around and experiment with the custom ROMs on supported Sony phones. And, for the same supported smartphones, Sony releases AOSP device configurations directly on GitHub along with binaries. Continue reading “Sony releases AOSP Android 8.0 Oreo to Open Devices Program”

WhatsApp brings new emojis to Android beta

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WhatsApp is getting its own emojis. The Facebook owned messaging app has now unveiled new set emojis that will be used in the app while chatting. Prior to this, WhatsApp used Apple’s emojis not only in its iPhone and Mac apps, but also in its apps for Android and Windows devices.   Continue reading “WhatsApp brings new emojis to Android beta”

Honor Holly 4 with 5-inch display, 3GB RAM, metal body launched in India for Rs. 11999

Honor Holly 4

Huawei’s Honor brand has launched the Honor Holly 4, successor of last year’s Honor Holly 3  in India. It was introduced as Honor 6A in China back in May and packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by Snapdragon 430 Mobile Platform, runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat) with EMUI 5.1 on top, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, PDAF and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Honor Holly 4 with 5-inch display, 3GB RAM, metal body launched in India for Rs. 11999”

Google rolls out October Android security update for Pixel and Nexus devices

Google has started rolling out new over-the-air (OTA) update for Pixel and Nexus devices and also posted factory images as part of monthly Android Security release. Like last time, is not available for Nexus Player yet. The latest update this month fixes several critical issues, including issues in Framework, System, Media framework, several MediaTek and Qualcomm components and more. Continue reading “Google rolls out October Android security update for Pixel and Nexus devices”

Skagen Connected Hybrid Smartwatch Review

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Hybrid Smartwatches are gradually becoming a trend. They are a good combination of classic analogue watches with activity tracking features. Skagen, part of the Fossil Group, recently launched one such hybrid smartwatch dubbed as Skagen Connected. I had a chance to use this watch for couple of weeks and here are my thoughts in this review.

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