ZOPO Flash X1 and Flash X2 with full screen displays launched for Rs. 6999 and Rs. 8999

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ZOPO has launched Flash X1 and Flash X2, the company’s latest smartphones in the ‘Flash series’ with 18:9 full screen displays with 83% screen-to-body ratio, which the company says are the cheapest full screen phones in the country. The Flash X1 has a 5.5-inch HD screen and the Flash X2 comes with a 5.99-inch HD+ screen. Continue reading “ZOPO Flash X1 and Flash X2 with full screen displays launched for Rs. 6999 and Rs. 8999”

Twitter is experimenting with 280 character limit

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Saying what you want to say in just 140 characters is quite a task on Twitter. However, the company is now experimenting with the character limit and soon you will have more characters to express yourself on Twitter.
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Apple releases iOS 11.0.1 for iPhone and iPad, includes bug fixes and improvements

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Apple has rolled out iOS 11.0.1 update for iPhone and iPad that includes several bug fixes and improvements. This comes after some reports about issues with the iOS 11 including battery drain and slow downs. The latest update should provide smooth experience and potentially help with battery life. The update is also said to bring  improvements for iMessage App Explorer and Springboard. Continue reading “Apple releases iOS 11.0.1 for iPhone and iPad, includes bug fixes and improvements”

JioPhone will attract penalty charges if returned before 36 months

Reliance introduced its first VoLTE feature phone, the JioPhone at its 40th annual general body meeting. The company had announced that the JioPhone is effectively free, but to avoid misuse, Reliance was collecting INR 1500 as a security deposit.

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The deal offered the JioPhone user to use his phone for 36 months and be eligible to get a full refund of the security deposit by returning the used JioPhone. Reliance has now published a detailed terms and conditions of JioPhone usage, which reveals some of the asterisks of the free claim. Continue reading “JioPhone will attract penalty charges if returned before 36 months”

Vimeo acquires Livestream, launches its own streaming service Vimeo Live

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Vimeo, popular video-sharing service today announced that it has agreed to acquire Livestream, one of the popular live stream services to launch its own Vimeo Live streaming service. It lets you broadcast events in full HD 1080p resolution with built-in cloud transcoding and offers powerful privacy options that let you share securely, and the ability to use any RTMP encoder Continue reading “Vimeo acquires Livestream, launches its own streaming service Vimeo Live”

Micromax Canvas Infinity Battery Life Test #OneChargeRating

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Micromax launched the Canvas Infinity smartphone with a 5.7-inch HD+ display with 18:9 aspect ratio last month for Rs. 9999. We already brought you the review of the phone, here we have its battery life test results of the phone. It packs a 2900mAh (minimum) / 2980mAh (typical) built-in battery, is powered by Snapdragon 425 Mobile Platform and runs on Android 7.1.2 (Nougat). Check out the test results. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Infinity Battery Life Test #OneChargeRating”

Instagram hits 800 million monthly active users, 500 million daily active users

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Instagram is inching closer to the 1 billion user mark. The Facebook owned photo and video sharing site has announced that it now has 800 million monthly active users, up from 700 million in April. It also has over 500 million daily active users. Continue reading “Instagram hits 800 million monthly active users, 500 million daily active users”

Truecaller for iOS 11 brings SMS spam filtering for iMessage

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Truecaller has updated the iOS 11 app by adding a new spam filtering feature. As the name suggests, the feature will filter out SMS and MMS spam from iMessage and send them directly to a junk tab.

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Panasonic Eluga I4 with 5-inch display, fingerprint sensor launched for Rs. 8290

Panasonic Eluga I4

Panasonic has launched Eluga I4, successor of last year’s Eluga I3 smartphone in the Eluga series with support for 4G VoLTE. It has a 5-inch HD 2.5D curved glass screen, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6737 processor, runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat), has an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Panasonic Eluga I4 with 5-inch display, fingerprint sensor launched for Rs. 8290”

Xiaomi Mi Bluetooth Speaker Basic 2 launched in India for Rs. 1799

Xiaomi Mi Bluetooth Speaker Basic 2

Xiaomi has launched Mi Bluetooth Speaker Basic 2, its latest speaker in India. It has compact body that encloses dual speaker unit offering higher fidelity sound and weighs just 237 grams. It has matte aluminum frame, a soft white face, and chamfered edges. It also has AUX in port that connect other devices that doesn’t have Bluetooth support.

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Flipkart acquires mobiles and IT products service chain F1 Info Solutions

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Flipkart has acquired F1 Info Solutions, a mobiles and IT repair services company with a pan-India presence of owned and franchised centres. F1 Info Solutions will be a part of Jeeves, a Flipkart company.  Continue reading “Flipkart acquires mobiles and IT products service chain F1 Info Solutions”

Apple replaces Bing search for Google on Siri and Spotlight

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Apple has switched default provider of its Web searches for Siri on iOS and Spotlight on the Mac to Google from Microsoft’s Bing. Now, when you ask Siri to search the web, it will return Google results instead of Bing. Users are already seeing search results from Google on iPhone and Mac users.

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Airtel deploys India’s first Massive MIMO technology, offers up to 3x faster 4G speeds

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Airtel today announced deployment of India’s first Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology, which is a pre-5G technology that will make Airtel’s network future ready for meeting the data demand in India. Airtel said that it has started deploying in Bangalore and Kolkata and will expand to other parts of the country soon. Continue reading “Airtel deploys India’s first Massive MIMO technology, offers up to 3x faster 4G speeds”

Apple iPhone X pre-order demand may cross 40-50M units – KGI

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Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities says that iPhone X demand could reach 40-50 million units. He noted that as iPhone X is a major model revamped form factor for the iPhone since the iPhone 6 debuted in 2014. Continue reading “Apple iPhone X pre-order demand may cross 40-50M units – KGI”

Lenovo K8 with 5.2-inch display, metal body, 4000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 10499

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Lenovo launched the K8 Plus smartphone in India earlier this month and also announced the K8 smartphone with a similar design. Today it has launched the smartphone in the country. It has a 5.2-inch HD screen, is powered by MediaTek Helio P20 SoC, runs Android 7.1.1 (Nougat) stock Android, has a 13-megapixel rear camera, compared to dual camera arrangement on the K8 Note and K8 Plus and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash and dedicated, customizable Music Key. Continue reading “Lenovo K8 with 5.2-inch display, metal body, 4000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 10499”