Nubia V18 with 6-inch full-screen display, 5000mAh battery to be announced on March 22

ZTE’s nubia brand has scheduled an event on March 22nd to introduced V19 smartphone in the new ‘V series’ in China. The company has confirmed in the invite that it will come with a 6-inch full-screen display with 18:9 aspect ratio in the size of the 5.5-inch phone. It also said that the phone will cost about 1000 yuan (US$ 158 / Rs. 10,265 approx.). The company showcased the phone at the MWC last month that also says it will come with a long battery life, which is expected to be 5000mAh, similar to the N3 that went official recently. Continue reading “Nubia V18 with 6-inch full-screen display, 5000mAh battery to be announced on March 22”

Vivo V9 detailed specifications, press shots surface ahead of India launch on March 23

Vivo V9, the company’s upcoming smartphone was expected to launch in India on March 27th, now the company has confirmed that the phone will launch in India on  March 23rd. Detailed specifications and the features of the phone has been listed of official Vivo India site ahead of launch. This confirms 6.3-inch FHD+ 19:9 display, 16MP + 5MP dual rear cameras, 24MP front camera with A.I face beauty, AR Stickers, dedicated dual SIM slots, Android 8.1 (Oreo) with Funtouch OS 4.0.

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Navi Mumbai has fastest 4G speeds in India: OpenSignal

According to OpenSignal’s latest speed test report, Navi Mumbai is the fastest 4G city in India and it stole the top spot from Mumbai. Navi Mumbai registered an average 4G speed of 8.72 Mbps in OpenSignal’s latest data. Continue reading “Navi Mumbai has fastest 4G speeds in India: OpenSignal”

Micromax Bharat 5 Pro with 5000mAh battery, face-unlock launched for Rs. 7999

After launching Bharat 5 and 5 Plus, Micromax today launched the Bharat 5 Pro that comes with Face Unlock and a similar 5000mAh battery. The latest budget segment device from Micromax in the Bharat series, sports a 5.2-inches HD display and has 3GB of RAM. Continue reading “Micromax Bharat 5 Pro with 5000mAh battery, face-unlock launched for Rs. 7999”

Infinix Hot S3 gets Face Unlock via OTA update in India

Infinix launched the Hot S3 smartphone with a 20-megapixel front camera with dual LED flash, 5.65-inch HD+ 18:9 display and Android 8.0 Oreo with XOS Hummingbird V3.0 last month. As it had announced recently, the company has started rolling out Face unlock feature for the smartphone via over-the-air (OTA) update.  Continue reading “Infinix Hot S3 gets Face Unlock via OTA update in India”

Google Assistant Routines initial roll out begins

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Google at the Pixel event back in October last year had announced Assistant Routines, and they are finally rolling out replacing ‘My Day.’ This feature is meant to allow a single phrase to initiate multiple commands and the feature is now live on the Google Assistant’s / Google Home app’s settings. Continue reading “Google Assistant Routines initial roll out begins”

Xiaomi Redmi 5 with 5.7-inch full-screen display, Snapdragon 450 launched in India starting at Rs. 7999

Xiaomi Redmi 5

Xiaomi just launched the Redmi 5 smartphone in India, as expected. It was introduced back in December last year and packs  a 5.7-inch HD+ 18:9 full-screen display and is powered by Snapdragon 450 with up to 4GB RAM. It runs Android 7.1.2 (Nougat) with MIUI 9, has a 12-megapixel rear camera with 1.25μm pixel size sensor and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with selfie flash, similar to the Redmi Note 5. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 5 with 5.7-inch full-screen display, Snapdragon 450 launched in India starting at Rs. 7999”

Acer Swift 5 with 14-inch display, 8th gen Intel core processor, fingerprint reader launched in India starting at Rs. 79999

Acer Swift 5

Acer India today launched the Acer Swift 5 laptop which weighs just 970gms. It is powered by the 8th Generation Intel Core with support for Windows Hello. The laptop sports a 14-inch full HD display with narrow bezels on all corners with an overall footprint of the notebook similar to that of a 13” notebook. Continue reading “Acer Swift 5 with 14-inch display, 8th gen Intel core processor, fingerprint reader launched in India starting at Rs. 79999”

Vivo V9 with FHD+ FullView display, dual rear cameras teased in videos; specifications, price surface

Last week a report said that the Vivo V9, successor of Vivo V7 will launch in India later this month. Now Vivo India has started teasing the smartphone. But the Vivo Indonesia has posted a one-minute teaser video highlighting the specifications and features of the smartphone including a FHD+ FullView Display, 24-megapixel front camera, dual rear cameras and face unlock.

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Essential Phone gets Android 8.1 Oreo update with better multitasking, improved notifications and more

Essential PH-1

Essential today announced that it is rolling out the Android 8.1 Oreo update to its Essential PH-1. Back in January, the company announced that it will skip the 8.0 update for 8.1 and just as it promised it is now rolling to users. The update brings increased performance, better battery life, stronger security, and more, and Oreo features.  Continue reading “Essential Phone gets Android 8.1 Oreo update with better multitasking, improved notifications and more”

Google search results on mobile will now show captions for images

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Google has rolled out an update to the search results on mobile which now will display captions for images. The move is to give images better visual discovery and more context on the image results page. Google last year had started showing badges like recipe or product. Continue reading “Google search results on mobile will now show captions for images”

LG V30S ThinQ Camera Samples

Usually, LG unveils a new flagship every year at the MWC 2018 event, but this time the company has opted for a new strategy, by introducing the mid-cycle upgrade of the V30 with Artificial Intelligence (A.I) added in it as an interim device to sell till its next flagship releases. LG does this in the form of ‘V30S ThinQ‘ with a very little difference from a hardware perspective. Continue reading “LG V30S ThinQ Camera Samples”

AMD investigating report on critical security vulnerabilities in Ryzen and EPYC chips

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Meltdown and Spectre are two most major security flaws that affected most of the modern computing chipsets, and today CTS-Labs, a security company based in Israel researchers says that it has found 13 security flaws in AMD’s Ryzen and EPYC chipsets. These security flaws could allow attackers install malware on highly guarded parts of the processor. Continue reading “AMD investigating report on critical security vulnerabilities in Ryzen and EPYC chips”

Google Assistant now available on iPads

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Google bought the Assistant for iPhones last year and today iPads are joining the suite. Assistant on iPads will do things exactly how it does on iPhones. It supports both portrait and landscape modes.  Continue reading “Google Assistant now available on iPads”

Apple schedules WWDC 2018 for June 4

Apple just announced that its 29th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) for this year happens from June 4th till June 8th. This time it is holding the event at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, which is the same venue as last year. Continue reading “Apple schedules WWDC 2018 for June 4”