There’s a thing to be said about Sony smartphones. Staying true to their vision, the company hasn’t been swayed by the latest trends, fads and well, the competition. Some might say that they are starting to look ancient when pitched against the latest innovations hitting the market but perhaps there’s a merit behind playing safe? Having spent some time with the phone, let’s try and answer that question. Here’s our review of the Sony Xperia XZ1. Continue reading “Sony Xperia XZ1 Review”
WhatsApp started testing message recall or ‘Delete for Everyone’ feature last month and it started rolling out for some Android beta users last week. Today WhatsApp has announced that it has announced that the feature is available to all the users globally. WhatsApp said that both you and the message recipient must be using the latest version of WhatsApp for the message to be successfully deleted. Continue reading “WhatsApp ‘Delete for Everyone’ feature now available to all users”
Apple has rolled out iOS 11.1 update for iPhone and iPad that includes over 70 new emojis, including more emotive smiley faces, gender-neutral characters, clothing options, food types, animals, mythical creatures, Face With Monocle, Man Fairy,gender-inclusive emojis for a child, adult, and older adult, and lots more. Continue reading “Apple releases iOS 11.1 with over 70 new emojis, bug fixes and improvements”
Reliance Communications (RCOM) today announced that it has completed merger transaction with Sistema’s Indian wireless business, carried on by Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd. (SSTL) under the MTS brand. The deal was announced back in 2015 and it was decently approved by Department of Telecommunications (DOT) last week. Continue reading “Reliance Communications completes Sistema’s MTS merger transaction”
Flipkart’s PhonePe has launched their first ever POS (point of sale) smart device for merchants in India. The device resembles a traditional calculator, and it supports the new technology that has support for transactions over a Bluetooth connection.
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Microsoft introduced new Surface Pro back in May and said that it will introduce new Surface Pro with 4G LTE Advanced option later this year. Today at the Future Decoded event in London the company revealed details about the LTE model. The Surface Pro with LTE Advanced has Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 Cat 9 modem with support of 20 LTE bands and offers speeds of up to 450Mbps. It comes only in Core i5 version.
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It is known that Razer has scheduled an event on November 1st which is tomorrow where the company is widely expected to launch their first ever smartphone. We have even seen the live image of the device sometime back, and today a mobile carrier in the UK has put up the product page of the mobile revealing few of the specs, before it was taken down.
Back in July HMD Global CEO Nummela left the company through mutual agreement between him and the HMD Global Board of Directors and Florian Seiche was appointed as acting CEO. Today HMD global has appointed Florian Seiche as the permanent CEO of the company. He will also join HMD Global Board immediately. Continue reading “HMD Global appoints Florian Seiche as CEO”
Gionee is all set to introduce F6, a new mid-range smartphone and the successor of the F5 soon. The Gionee F6L smartphone that has been certified by TENAA in China reveals a 5.7-inch full-screen 18:9 display and 13-megapixel + 2-megapixel dual rear cameras. Continue reading “Gionee F6 with 5.7-inch full-screen display, dual rear cameras gets certified [Update]”
Samsung has reported its earnings for Q3 2017, in which the company has made operating profit of 14.53 trillion won ($13 billion), up 179.4% YoY for the quarter that ended September 30, 2017, as expected. This is a new all-time high quarterly profit, due to strong demand for high-performance memory chipsets for servers and flagship mobile devices. Continue reading “Samsung reports record profits in Q3 2017, up 179% YoY; announces new leadership line-up”
Apple and Qualcomm dispute continue to escalate; A new report from The Wall Street Journal says that the Cupertino giant will drop Qualcomm components and move to Intel or possibly MediaTek for next year’s iPhones and iPads.
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Microsoft had launched redesigned Skype for mobile back in June, and the company has been testing its mobile interface changes in desktop versions of its apps. The redesigned interface mostly focused on media sharing and social expression tools. Today the company has publicly launched the redesigned Skype for the desktop.
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Instagram seems to have been testing two new features; the Stop-motion camera and redesigned mid-feed stories preview. The company just rolled out the Superzoom camera that let’s create a Dramatic Chipmunk-style zoom with a single tap.
HMD Global just announced Nokia 2, the company’s latest budget smartphone at an event in India. It has a 5-inch HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and packs a 4100mAh battery that promises up to 2 days of battery life on a single charge. It runs on Android 7.1.1 (Nougat) with support for Google Assistant and the company has promised Android 8.0 (Oreo) update for the phone. Continue reading “Nokia 2 with 5-inch HD display, 4100mAh battery announced in India”
YouTube TV was introduced back in April with content from networks 35 of other cable networks for $35 per month. Using ChromeCast or another streaming device, you can stream the content from your mobile device to your TVs as well as there was no native YouTube TV app. Today the company has finally launched a proper Android TV app; the YouTube TV.
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