OnePlus 5T Sandstone White Limited Edition smartphone announced

OnePlus just announced OnePlus 5T Sandstone White Limited Edition smartphone, a day earlier than expected. It unites the iconic sensation of OnePlus Sandstone with a sleek all-aluminum shell, says the company. It is created after 100 prototypes and takes 4 layers to create a body with a comfortable grip and a natural, minimalistic appearance, added OnePlus. Continue reading “OnePlus 5T Sandstone White Limited Edition smartphone announced”

ASUS ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Max, ZenFone Max and ZenFone Go get a price cut in India

ASUS India today announced permanent price cuts for a range of smartphones – ZenFone 3 (5.2, 5.5), ZenFone Max, ZenFone 3 Max (5.2, 5.5) and ZenFone Go (5.0, 5.5).  Last year several ASUS smartphones received a price cuts in the country, and the new year starts with price cuts on several smartphones that were launched in the past couple of years.

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Lenovo introduces ThinkPad T, X and L series laptops, Tablet 10 and ThinkPad Docking Station

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Lenovo ahead of the CES 2018 event has introduced new ThinkPad T, X and L series laptops, Tablet 10 and ThinkPad Docking Station. The ThinkPad series laptops come with thinner and lighter designs with 8th Generation Intel Core processors with the support for Windows Hello Facial Recognition. Continue reading “Lenovo introduces ThinkPad T, X and L series laptops, Tablet 10 and ThinkPad Docking Station”

Airtel, Vodafone tie up with Samsung to offer Rs. 1500 cashback on select Galaxy smartphones

Vodafone and Airtel, two of India’s biggest service providers, today announced a strategic partnership with Samsung for cashback offers on select Samsung Galaxy J-series smartphones on monthly recharge of Rs. 199 and Rs. 198, respectively. Continue reading “Airtel, Vodafone tie up with Samsung to offer Rs. 1500 cashback on select Galaxy smartphones”

OnePlus 5T Sandstone White edition listed online ahead of January 5 announcement

OnePlus introduced its flagship OnePlus 5T smartphone in Midnight Black variant, later it introduced the Lava Red edition of the smartphone in China, which was followed by the Star Wars Limited Edition in White finish that was launched in India last month. OnePlus started teasing a new Sandstone version of the OnePlus 5T smartphone recently, now the the Sandstone White version of the phone has been listed in jd.com and the bookings will begin at 10AM China time. Continue reading “OnePlus 5T Sandstone White edition listed online ahead of January 5 announcement”

Android malware targets 232 Android apps including Indian banking apps

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Quick Heal Security Labs has detected an Android banking trojan; Android.banker.A9480 which is said to be targeting more than 232 banking apps which also includes the apps offered by Indian banks. Like other banking trojans, even the Android.banker.A9480 is designed with the aim to steal login credentials, hijacking SMSs, etc. Continue reading “Android malware targets 232 Android apps including Indian banking apps”

Honor View 10 with 5.99-inch FullView display, dual rear cameras launched in India for Rs. 29999

Huawei’s Honor brand introduced the Honor View 10 smartphone at an event in London last month and the company started registrations for the smartphone on Amazon.in last week ahead of launch this month. Today the company has quietly revealed the price of the smartphone in the country through its social channels ahead of the sale next week. Continue reading “Honor View 10 with 5.99-inch FullView display, dual rear cameras launched in India for Rs. 29999”

Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7.0 with 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 9500

Samsung has launched Galaxy Tab A 7.0 (SM-T285), a new tablet in India with 4G support and voice calling capability. It was originally introduced as Galaxy Tab A 2016 a couple of years back, has a 7-inch WXGA screen, is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7.0 with 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 9500”

Meizu M6s / S6 with full-screen display to be announced on January 17

Meizu today announced that it will introduced Meizu S6, a new mid-range smartphone in the new ‘S series’ in China on January 17th. The company already confirmed that it will feature an 18:9 display. AnTuTu listing reveals that it will be powered by upcoming Hexa-Core Samsung Exynos 7872 SoC with Mali-G71 GPU, come with HD+ screen and Android 7.0 (Nougat) OS. Continue reading “Meizu M6s / S6 with full-screen display to be announced on January 17”

Samsung Galaxy A8+ (2018) launching in India soon exclusively on Amazon

Samsung introduced the Galaxy A8 (2018) and Galaxy A8+ (2018)  smartphones last month. Now Amazon India has started teasing that the Galaxy A8+ (2018) will launch exclusively on Amazon soon. It packs a 6-inch Full HD+Infinity Super AMOLED  18.5:9 display, is powered by Octa-Core Exynos 7885 14nm processor, runs Android 7.1.1 (Nougat),  has 16-megapixel rear camera with f/1.7 aperture, and a 16-megapixel and 8-megapixel dual front cameras, both with f/1.9 aperture. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A8+ (2018) launching in India soon exclusively on Amazon”

Instagram testing a feature to let users post stories directly to WhatsApp

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Instagram is said to be testing a feature that will let users post Instagram stories directly to WhatsApp. Like rest of the WhatsApp, an Instagram story posted as WhatsApp status becomes encrypted and disappears after 24 hours.  Continue reading “Instagram testing a feature to let users post stories directly to WhatsApp”

Google app v7.18 beta hints at image donations to Google Lens, Quartz screen resolutions and more

Google app is the first to receive an update after the holidays season, and the V7.18 beta doesn’t bring many changes to the table. However, a quick teardown by Android Police have revealed hints at image donations to Google Lens, Quartz Google Home device with a screen gets its resolutions leaked and more.  Continue reading “Google app v7.18 beta hints at image donations to Google Lens, Quartz screen resolutions and more”

WhatsApp users exchanged record 75 billion messages on New Year’s Eve

WhatsApp; the biggest chat application in the world with over 1 billion active users daily has seen a recording breaking 75 billion messages sent on December 31st night on the occasion of New Year 2018. It was 63 billion for the last new year’s eve. In fact, the servers went down on December 31st night which made WhatsApp unusable for quite some time. Continue reading “WhatsApp users exchanged record 75 billion messages on New Year’s Eve”

LG said to rebrand G-series smartphones to compete with Apple and Samsung

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LG is said to be re-branding its G-series flagship phones in order to compete with Apple and Samsung according to a new report. The G-series smartphones which debuted in 2012 with the launch of Optimus G has seen six smartphones in the line-up including the last year’s flagship G6.  Continue reading “LG said to rebrand G-series smartphones to compete with Apple and Samsung”

Meltdown and Spectre security flaw on Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs affect most computers and phones

Meltdown and Spectre

While it is known that Intel chips are facing a bug that is affected by serious Kernel memory leak issue on modern computers including Windows, Linux, and macOS, the exact problem and explanation for this bug remained a mystery. Windows and Linux have already started pushing the updates that will fix the issue, we now have what the flaw is and they have been named ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’. Continue reading “Meltdown and Spectre security flaw on Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs affect most computers and phones”