After Bengaluru, Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune and Madhya Pradesh, Xiaomi is all set to open a new Mi Home Store in Kolkata in South City Mall tomorrow, January 26th. This will the company’s twentieth Mi Home Store in the country, after five stores in Bengaluru, two stores in Chennai, Pune, New Delhi, Mumbai, and one in Hyderabad, Gurugram, Noida, Pune, Bhopal and Thane. Continue reading “Xiaomi to open its first Mi Home Store in Kolkata on January 26”
Reliance Jio is said to be in talks with Xiaomi for exclusive rights to sell smartphones and TVs in India similar to what it has with Apple. If everything works out, Jio will exclusively sell Xiaomi phones and TVs through the Jio retail network and the Reliance Digital chain of stores, according to a new report from ET. Continue reading “Reliance Jio reportedly in talks with Xiaomi to sell Mi TVs and smartphones on its retail platform”
LG Electronics has reported revenues of 16.96 trillion won (US$ 15.3 billion) for the fourth quarter that ended December 31, 2017, which is up 14.8% compared to the same quarter last year. For the whole 2017 it reported record 61.4 trillion won (US$ 55.4 billion) revenues, up 10.9% YoY and profits of 2.47 trillion won (US$ 2.23 billion) – the highest profit since 2009 – up 85% from 2016 due in large part to strong performance by premium home appliances and TVs. Continue reading “LG posts its biggest-ever revenue, highest yearly profits in 8 years in 2017; narrows smartphone losses in Q4 2017”
Fitbit today has made it clear once and for all that it will end support for Pebble smartwatches on June 30. Fitbit acquired Pebble along with smartwatch team and assets related to their software platform back in 2016. The company will put an end to most of Pebble’s features including App Store, the forum, cloud development tool, voice recognition features, and SMS and email replies. Continue reading “Fitbit to end support for Pebble smartwatches on June 30”
At the Qualcomm, China Tech Day event in Beijing, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Vivo, OPPO have shown interest in Qualcomm to support the 5G initiative named as “5G Pioneer” in China and introduce 5G New Radio (NR) standard-compliant commercial devices expected as early as 2019. ZTE Corporation and Wingtech Technology have also extended their support. Continue reading “Qualcomm inks $2 billion sales MOUs with Lenovo, Xiaomi, Vivo and OPPO”
After being in testing for quite some time, first Chrome update of 2018 is here. The Chrome 64 for Android brings white navigation bar, new APIs for developers to use and the biggest of all is that it blocks annoying auto-redirect pop-ups. Though the feature is listed as official by Google, it is still not enabled by default for some reason. Continue reading “Google Chrome 64 for Android brings white navigation bar, blocks auto-redirect pop-ups and more”
Xiaomi Mi 5X aka the Mi A1 for the Indian market might be getting a successor dubbed as Mi 6X, unsurprisingly. The phone leaked in case renders a while ago and today it has again surfaced in hands-on live images revealing the design in its full glory. Going by the looks, the Mi 6X looks to be having iPhone X-style vertical dual-rear camera arrangement. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 6X with 6-inches FHD+ 18:9 display, dual rear cameras live images surface”
Xiaomi has finally surpassed Samsung in the last quarter of 2017 claiming the top smartphone vendor in India title. The company has shipped over 8.2 million units in Q4, 2017 while Samsung despite the annual growth of 17% Samsung retained the second spot with 7.3 million smartphones shipments according to Canalys. Continue reading “Xiaomi surpasses Samsung to become top smartphone vendor in India in Q4 2017: Reports”
Vivo has announced X20 Plus UD with in-display fingerprint sensor in China, as it had promised. The smartphone shares similar specifications as the original X20 Plus, but it has in-display fingerprint scanner instead of fingerprint sensor on the back so that users unlock the smartphone through one-touch fingerprint scanning directly on the display.
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Samsung has finally sent out invites for its Galaxy Unpacked 2018 event during MWC 2018 in Barcelona where it will unveil its flagship Galaxy S9 series of smartphones. This was already rumored, and February 25th is a day ahead of the expected date that will clash with HMD Global’s event.
Apple today announced iOS 11.3 and previewed some of its features. The update will bring four new Animoji – lion, bear, dragon and skull for the iPhone X, ARKit 1.5 to developers to offer even more immersive AR experiences to recognize and place virtual objects on vertical surfaces like walls and doors, and more accurately map irregularly shaped surfaces like circular tables for next-generation AR apps.
Motorola launched the Moto X4 smartphone in India back in November last year in 3GB RAM with 32GB storage and 4GB RAM with 64GB storage variants. Now the company has started teasing the launch of new version of the smartphone in the country that hints at 6GB RAM version of the smartphone which has also been listed on Flipkart in Sterling Blue version without much details.
Update: Qualcomm has confirmed it has received a decision from the European Commission (EC) relating to an expired agreement between Qualcomm and Apple Inc., which was in effect from 2011 through 2016, for the pricing of modem chips. Qualcomm said that it strongly disagrees with the decision and will immediately appeal it to the General Court of the European Union. It also said that EC decision does not relate to Qualcomm’s licensing business and has no impact on ongoing operations. Continue reading “Qualcomm hit with 997 million euro fine by the EU over Apple mobile chip deals”
Google has finally revealed dates for its annual developer conference for 2018. It will be held from May 8th – May 10th. The company has not officially announced the dates but instead it had shared a puzzle like last time. Continue reading “Google I/O 2018 scheduled from May 8 to 10”
Last year Vodafone started tie-ups with several manufacturers to offer affordable 4G smartphones. Today it has announced a partnership with Flipkart to offer entry-level 4G smartphones at an effective price of Rs. 999. Micromax, iVoomi, YU, Xolo, Intex, Swipe and Alcatel are the brand partners. Continue reading “Vodafone, Flipkart offer 4G smartphones at an effective price of Rs. 999”
