Xiaomi India today announced that it has shipped over 9.2 million smartphones in the country in the third quarter of 2017 for the first time. It shipped 100,000 smartphones per quarter in 2014, crossed the 1 million mark in Q3 2015, 3 million in Q3 2017, and now is has cross 9 million units for the first time in Q3 2017, said Manu Jain, Group Vice President and Managing Director of Xiaomi India . Continue reading “Xiaomi shipped record 9.2 million smartphones in Q3 2017 in India”
Entry level earphones are a dime and a dozen. There has been a very distinct democratization of fairly high quality audio products. No longer do you have to suffer with terrible quality bundled in earphones even if you don’t have much of a budget. Enter the 1More Piston Fit. The earphones compete against popular options from the likes of JBL, Skullcandy and even Brainwavz, Xiaomi. What this means is that 1More simply can’t afford to release a mediocre product if they want to leave a mark. Follow along for our review of the 1More Piston Fit. Continue reading “1More Piston Fit Review”
The Apple iPhone X features a unique feature that the company has raved about at the time of the launch. We are talking about the face ID feature which according to Apple is the strongest security feature and even said that Hollywood-quality masks couldn’t fool it. While the company’s claims may be valid on some grounds, a security firm; Bkav claims that they have bypassed the iPhone X face ID.
Continue reading “Security firm claims to have bypassed iPhone X Face ID with 3D face mask model”
Swiftkey has released Photo Theme feature for its Android and iOS app which lets you add personalized images to the keyboard to change the look and feel of the keyboard application immediately. You can also add the images and themes that Swiftkey includes by default as well. Continue reading “Swiftkey for Android and iOS updated with Photo Theme feature to add personalized images to keyboard”
Back in August, OPPO entered into a partnership with Reliance Jio to offer up to 60GB additional data for select phones. Now it has teamed up with Jio once again to offer up to 100GB additional data at 10GB data per month with a recharge of Rs. 309 or above for up to 10 recharges with OPPO F5, F3, F3 Plus and F1 Plus. Continue reading “OPPO teams up with Reliance Jio to offer up to 100GB additional 4G data”
OPPO launched the F3 Plus selfie-focused smartphone in India earlier this year. Now it has launched the 6GB RAM version of the phone in the country, compared to 4GB RAM in the original version. Other specifications are the same, including a 16-megapixel front-facing camera with 1/3.1-inch sensor and f/2.0 aperture along with an 8-megapixel secondary front camera with 120-degree wide-angle lens for capturing better group selfies and a 16-megapixel rear camera with f/1.7 aperture and dual phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) technology.
Continue reading “OPPO F3 Plus 6GB RAM version launched in India for Rs. 22990”
Huawei’s Honor brand already said that it will launch the Honor 7X smartphone, successor of Honor 6X in India in December. Now the company has announced that it will be exclusively available from Amazon.in and is also asking users to register to stand a chance to win prizes. Continue reading “Honor 7X with 5.93-inch FHD+ full-screen display, dual rear cameras to launch exclusively on Amazon in India”
Motorola India has finally launched the Moto X4 smartphone in India, as it had promised. It was unveiled IFA event recently and packs dual 12MP and 8MP rear cameras to take images with blurred background, portraits, selective black and white and has dual Autofocus Pixel technology for faster focus in low light. It packs a 5.2-inch 1080p screen, is powered by Snapdragon 630 and runs on Android 7.1 (Nougat). It has a 16MP front camera with a new 4MP adaptive low light mode.
With more than 200 million global users Xiaomi’s MIUI is amongst the most popular android skins. Sometimes users get confused between MIUI versions like Beta, Stable, Nightly and in this post, we will explain different versions of MIUI Global ROM (Note that we are not covering MIUI China ROM in this post). MIUI Global ROM supports more than 50 languages and has Google service preloaded, unlike China ROM. Continue reading “Different versions of MIUI explained”
Xiaomi announced the latest iteration of its android skin MIUI 9 on 2nd November in an event, last week company completed MIUI 9 Global Stable ROM roll out for first batch which includes Redmi Note 4 and Mi Max 2. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 5 MIUI 9 Global Stable ROM starts rolling out [Update]”
Instagram with a small section of the audience is testing a feature that will allow you to search for hashtags and follow this hashtag in particular. Once you follow the hashtag, it will show latest and top posts of that particular hashtag on your news feed. Continue reading “Instagram testing new feature to allow users follow hashtags”
Few users of the Pixel 2 XL on the Google Pixel community have reported that the touchscreen is being unresponsive near the edges of the screen. The original poster has noticed the lack of responsiveness of the touchscreen along with the curved edges of the Pixel 2 XL screen and has kick-started a discussion with a post and a display test video.
Last week we heard reports about the iPhone X screen becoming unresponsive outdoors in cold temperatures. Today more users on Twitter, Reddit, Apple’s support page started reporting about weird cracking sounds and green line issue on display.
Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 4 smartphone in India back in January this year. After about 10 months of launch, the company has announced a Rs. 1000 permanent price cut for the 3GB RAM with 32GB storage and 4GB RAM with 64GB storage variants in the country. The Mi Max 2 got a Rs. 1000 price cut in the country recently. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 gets a permanent price cut in India, 3GB RAM with 32GB storage version now starts at Rs. 9999”
Apple for the time ever has launched three new iPhones in such a short period. Given the popularity of the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 Plus, KGI Analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that iPhone 8 production to see a 50-60% drop in the production significantly.
