Sony Mobile unveiled the Xperia XZ1, the company’s latest flagship smartphone at the IFA 2017 in Berlin last month. Today the company has sent out invites for the launch of the phone in the country on September 25th. It has a 5.2-inch 1080p HDR screen, is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform and runs Android 8.0 (Oreo). Continue reading “Sony Xperia XZ1 with Snapdragon 835, Android 8.0, 3D scanning launching in India on September 25”
Samsung had a great 2017 so far with the launch and success of three flagships-Galaxy S8, S8 Plus and Galaxy Note8. Even though, all the three smartphones have impressed us with their design and display, buyers have complained about the dedicated button Bixby button. Now, it looks like Samsung is finally giving users a way to avoid using the Bixby button. Continue reading “Samsung will now let you disable the Bixby button”
Panasonic has launched Eluga Ray 500 and Eluga Ray 700, two new smartphones in the Eluga Ray series. The Eluga Ray 500 has a 5-inch HD screen and features 13-megapixel primary rear camera along with an 8-megapixel secondary camera, while the Eluga Ray comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p display and a 13-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. Continue reading “Panasonic Eluga Ray 500 with dual rear cameras, Eluga Ray 700 with 5000mAh battery launched starting at Rs. 8999”
Hackers have managed to compromise a popular PC cleanup tool, CCleaner by Avast. More than 2.21 million people have installed the infected app. CCleaner also known as “crap cleaner”, promises to clean up your system for enhanced performance. Continue reading “CCleaner tool compromised by hackers; 2.27M users hit by the malware”
Motorola last week confirmed that list of devices that will get Android 8.0 (Oreo), but the list did not include last year’s Moto G4 series, even though it had promised Android O series for the Moto G4 Plus. After Android Police found out that the company has silently removed references to Android O on Moto G4 Plus product pages, it has confirmed that the phone will get the Oreo update. Continue reading “Moto G4 Plus will get Android 8.0 Oreo update, confirms Motorola”
Android creator Andy Rubin introduced the Essential Phone PH-1 back in May. We have got our hands on the phone so let’s take a detailed look at design and specifications of the phone.
Continue reading “Essential Phone Hands On and Photo Gallery”
Earlier this year, Saregama India launched Carvaan portable music player that came with 5000 pre-loaded retro songs. Now, the company is back with a new lighter version of the Carvaan bluetooth speaker dubbed as Carvaan Mini. Continue reading “Saregama Carvaan Mini Bluetooth speaker with 251 preloaded songs launched for Rs. 2,490”
After Andhra Pradesh, ACT Fibernet has revised its plans for its customers in Hyderabad, in just 6 months of last upgrade . It gets upgraded in both speed and FUP limit at same cost, but it is not double (that combines both upload and download) like AP, Chennai and other cities. The Beamfiber 3999 200 Mbps corporate plan has been upgraded to 300 Mbps and 750 GB FUP limit from 600GB FUP at no additional cost. Check of the complete list below. Continue reading “ACT Fibernet revises plans for Hyderabad, increases speed, data limits at no extra cost”
WhatsApp for Android beta is getting a new feature that will allow you manage storage on your phone. The feature which is already available for iOS, will offer you a detailed break-up of the amount of space your chats is using on your device. Continue reading “WhatsApp beta for Android gets storage management feature”
LG launched the Q6 smartphone in India with a 5.5-inch FHD+ FullVision display with 18:9 aspect ratio last month for Rs. 14990. We already brought you the review of the phone, here we have its battery life test results. It packs a 3000mAh built-in battery, is powered by Snapdragon 435 Mobile Platform and runs on Android 7.1 (Nougat). Check out the test results.
Continue reading “LG Q6 Battery Life Test – #OneChargeRating”
Xiaomi launched the Mi Max 2 smartphone in India earlier this year with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage for Rs. 16999. Today it has launched the 32GB storage version of the phone in the country. Other specifications are same, including a 6.44-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display with 0.7mm ultra narrow bezel on the side, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 5300mAh battery with support for Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 along with parallel charging and Snapdragon 625 with 4GB of RAM. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Max 2 4GB RAM, 32GB storage version launched in India at an introductory price of Rs. 12999”
Last month, ASUS introduced ZenUI 4.0 alongside the company’s ZenFone 4 lineup including ZenFone 4 Pro, ZenFone 4, ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro and ZenFone 4 Selfie. At the time of this announcement, ASUS had confirmed that it will bring the ZenUI 4.0 to the existing ZenFone3 series. Now, the company has started rolling out the latest version of the skin to ASUS Zenfone 3 Zoom.
Continue reading “ASUS starts rolling out ZenUI 4.0 with ZenFone 3 Zoom”
Micromax launched Bharat 2 smartphone earlier this year and the company said that it sold 2 million units since launch. Today the company has launched Bharat 3 and Bharat 4, budget 4G VoLTE smartphones in the country. Both these are powered by MediaTek MT6737M SoCs with 1GB RAM, run Android 7.0 (Nougat) and have 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. These have support for 22 Indian languages support. Continue reading “Micromax Bharat 4 with 5-inch HD display, Android 7.0, 4G VoLTE and Bharat 3 launched for Rs. 4999 and Rs. 4499”
After launching across India earlier this year, Airtel Payments Bank, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel has announced integration of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) on its digital platform, making it the first payments bank to do so. This will allow customers to make secure digital payments to online/offline merchants and make instant money transfers to any bank account in India.
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Last week, Apple announced iPhone X with Face ID which is a facial recognition technology used to unlock the phone. There have been a lot of questions about the usability of Face ID and Apple’s SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi has answered these several questions in reply to a mail by developer Keith Krimbel. Continue reading “Apple Face ID works with most sunglasses and can be instantly disabled”
