Xiaomi launched the Mi A1 Android One phone in India in partnership with Google back in September in Black, Gold and Rose Gold colors, but only the Black and Gold color variants of the phone went on sale at that time. Today it has announced that the Rose gold color variant of the phone will go on sale in the country starting tomorrow. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi A1 Rose Gold variant launched in India”
Vivo just launched the V7 smartphone in India, as it had promised. It packs a 5.7-inch (1440 x 720 pixels) FullView display with 18:9 aspect ratio, narrow bezels and 83.6% screen-to-body ratio, compared to the 5.99-inch FullView display on the V7+. It has the same 24-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash, Face Beauty 7.0, Face unlock and Portrait mode and a 16-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) and LED flash. Continue reading “Vivo V7 with 5.7-inch FullView display, 24MP front camera launched in India for Rs. 18990”
At the MIUI 9 Global launch, Xiaomi highlighted the fact that even 5-year-old phones including Mi 2/2S are still getting weekly MIUI updates and will also get MIUI 9 Global Stable update. Now, within a couple of weeks, Xiaomi made an announcement on MIUI Forum saying that MIUI updates will be suspended for few of Xiaomi devices after the MIUI 9 update. Continue reading “MIUI 9 will be the last update for these phones”
Google’s Pixel Book that was launched at the Pixel event is more or less a revival to the 2-in-1 Chromebook with a detachable keyboard. Based on several recent changes to the Chromium Repository, now Samsung is said to be working on a new detachable Chromebook that will work like a tablet as well as a typical laptop with a keyboard. Continue reading “Samsung Chromebook with detachable keyboard reportedly in the works”
Assistant is one such feature that Google constantly works on improving and with the new feature it is more powerful than ever. It can now change settings, initiate conversation with customer support and thanks to a Pixel user’s request, we now know about one more ability of Assistant phone. Continue reading “Google Assistant gets ability to troubleshoot your phone”
We have Apple’s iMac Pro launching before the year-end, though the HomePod is delayed. Thanks to developers Johnathan Levin and Steve Troughton-Smith, details regarding the iMac Pro has emerged. According to the information available via the BridgeOS 2.0 software package from Apple, it appears that iMac Pro will be powered by the A10 Fusion ARM coprocessor. Continue reading “iMac Pro to feature Apple A10 Fusion coprocessor for Always-on ‘Hey Siri’ voice control”
Here at FoneArena, we are big fans of the Pixel camera and all that Google has been able to accomplish using a mixture of computational photography and machine learning. That’s not to say that the camera is perfect of course. We recently got a chance to sit down for a group session with Brian Rakowski and Tim Knight from Google. Continue reading “In Questions: Google Pixel Camera Q&A with Brian Rakowski & Tim Knight”
OnePlus released Android 8.0 Oreo update in open beta last month for OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T smartphones. Today it has finally started rolling out Android Oreo update for the smartphones for all in the form of OxygenOS 5.0 update. This brings several new features including new parallel apps feature that lets you run a parallel version of the same app using a separate account, Picture in Picture, New Quick Settings design and more. Continue reading “OnePlus 3 and 3T OxygenOS 5.0 Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out”
Micromax launched the Bharat-1, the company’s first 4G VoLTE feature phone to take on Reliance Jio’s JioPhone. Even though it was launched in partnership with State-owned telecom operator BSNL, the phone can be used on any network unlike the JioPhone. Is the phone worth the price? Let us find out in the review.
Last week KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple will be launching a 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch models with OLED displays and a lower-priced 6.1-inch model with an LCD display in 2018. Now he has said that the iPhone models will come with a faster Intel XMM 7560 modem and Qualcomm SDX 20 LTE Cat. 18 Modem with support for 4×4 MIMO technology, compared to 2×2 MIMO in this year’s iPhone models that use Intel XMM 7480 modem and Qualcomm MDM9655 Snapdragon X16 LTE Cat. 16 Modem. Continue reading “2018 iPhones to come with faster Intel and Qualcomm LTE modems, including a model with Dual SIM support: KGI”
Intel has announced new 5G new radio (5G NR) multi-mode commercial modems along with Intel XMM 7660 modem. It has also announced that it has successfully completed a full end-to-end 5G call based on its early 5G silicon, the Intel 5G Modem and also said that the XMM 7560 modem that was unveiled at MWC earlier this year has achieved gigabit-class speeds. Continue reading “Intel introduces XMM 8000 5G modem series, XMM 7660 Gigabit LTE modem”
Apple introduced its first Siri-powered smart speaker HomePod at WWDC 2017 back in June for $349. At that time the company said that it will ship the device starting in December in Australia, the UK and the US. Now the company has released a statement saying that it will be available only in early 2018 saying that it need “a little more time” before the HomePod is ready, but it did not provide any reason for the delay. Continue reading “Apple HomePod release pushed to early 2018”
In late 2017, when most of the OEMs are releasing schedule for the Oreo update, a lot of budget phones that are launched still run on Android Marshmallow. Xiaomi Redmi 4A was launched back in March 2017 with MIUI 8 based on Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow), but Xiaomi didn’t announce anything regarding the Android update for the device till date. Also, Redmi 4A was amongst the few devices which didn’t receive MIUI 9 Global Beta update until this Friday. Yesterday, Xiaomi rolled out MIUI Global Beta 7.11.16 for Redmi 4A, and surprisingly this new update is based on Android Nougat 7.1.2. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 4A MIUI 9 Beta ROM based on Android 7.1.2 Nougat starts rolling out”
This week OnePlus introduced its flagship OnePlus 5T smartphone, Motorola launched OnePlus 5T, Gionee launched M7 Power, Vivo introduced V7 smartphone, and more from this week’s in our weekly roundup.
Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: OnePlus 5T, Moto X4, Gionee M7 Power, Vivo V7 and more”
Uber today at its ‘Building for India’ event launched m.uber.com, a light mobile web version. It also piloted new app features – offline search, request for a guest and call to book a ride, ahead of roll out. Continue reading “Uber launches mobile web version in India, pilots offline search, call to get a ride and more”
