At the MWC event, KaiOS Technologies announced that it is partnering with Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA, Airfind, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Doro, HMD Global, Micromax, NXP, Qualcomm to integrate with newest chipsets and offer advanced functionality on lite phones. Furthermore, KaiOS is already supported on high-performance LTE chipset platform Spreadtrum’s SC9820A which is now running on JioPhone.
After roll out stable Android Oreo update for Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 last month, HMD global has started rolling out Oreo beta update for the Nokia 3 (TA-1020 and TA-1032), as it had promised. The company’s Chief product officer; Juho Sarvikas has announced the same on Twitter. Continue reading “Nokia 3 Android 8.0 Oreo beta update starts rolling out”
Xiaomi launched the Mi Band 2 in India back in September 2016, but it went out of stock after few months. It also launched the Mi Band HRX Edition in the country without heart rate sensor a year later. Today Xiaomi has announced that the Mi Band 2 is back in stock in the country at a new price of Rs. 1799. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Band 2 with heart rate sensor back in stock in India at a new price of Rs. 1799”
Google with an aim to offer healthcare related information quickly in search results, rolled out the Health Cards with over 400 health conditions back in April 2016. Today it announced that it is adding information about commonly searched symptoms like common cold, acute bronchitis, flu, pneumonia, chest infection and Hindi language support. Continue reading “Google Health cards get common symptom search in India in Hindi and English”
Google today announced a strategic partnership with SBI to deeply integrate SBI bank on the company’s digital payments app Google Tez. This partnership lets users create SBI UPI Id; @oksbi and get access to exclusive offers for SBI customers and enable wider adoption of digital payments and growing the digital payments ecosystem in India. Continue reading “Google Tez now lets SBI bank users create SBI UPI IDs”
Lava today introduced Z50, the first Android Oreo (Go edition) smartphone in the country. Apart from the Android Go edition features for smooth performance, it has Bokeh mode and an LED flash for both front and rear cameras. It also offers search in 10 major Indian languages (including Hindi) besides enabling search for images, weather and also translate from search home screen. Continue reading “Lava Z50 Android Oreo (Go edition) smartphone announced; Airtel and Google partner for Android Go”
HTC confirmed Android 8.0 (Oreo) update for some of its devices back in August last year. The HTC U11 was the first phone to get the Oreo update in November starting from Taiwan, later the U11 Life got the update, after a delay the HTC 10 got the update recently. Now the company has finally started rolling out Oreo update for Indian users that also brings VoLTE support for Reliance Jio users. Continue reading “HTC 10 Android 8.0 Oreo update with Jio VoLTE support starts rolling out in India”
YouTube is announcing few new features to its live stream function to improve the user experience and make it accessible to more people. This includes automatic English captions to live streams whenever professionally provided captions aren’t available. Continue reading “YouTube Live streaming to get automatic captions, locations tags and more”
At the Mobile World Congress, Google shared some major developments in Actions on the Google Assistant; it will now be available in seven more languages including Hindi, Thai, Indonesian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch bringing the total supported languages to 16. Continue reading “Actions on Google Assistant gets 7 news languages, deeper app integration, available to more developers”
Lenovo at the MWC 2018 event introduced the new Yoga 730; the 13-inch and 15-inch variants, and Yoga 530 2-in-1 Laptops. These come with Alexa voice support and powered by the latest 8th-generation Intel Core i7 processors. Continue reading “Lenovo Yoga 730 with Alexa voice support, Yoga 530 Windows 2-in-1 laptops announced”
Lenovo back in January has introduced the 100e, 300e, and 500e Chromebooks for Education. Though they were supposed to ship from January end, after a delay for over a month, the company at the MWC 2018 event announced the availability of these. Continue reading “Lenovo 100e, 300e and 500e rugged Chromebooks start rolling out”
Huawei might have skipped the P20 series announcement at the MWC 2018, but the news about the flagships never stops coming. Today we see the freshly surfaced image of the P20 courtesy of popular leakster Evan Blass. Unlike the Pro model, the base P20 is said to have dual-rear cameras. Continue reading “Huawei P20 with dual rear Leica cameras surface, P20 Pro said to pack triple rear cameras”
We already know that Motorola will be refreshing its Moto G and E series this year. Moto E5 and Moto E5 Play had already surfaced in press renders, now the Moto E5 Plus render has surfaced, thanks to @evleaks. Unlike the E5 and E5 Play, this will feature a 18:9 display. This also shows a front LED flash and Motorola logo below the display, similar to other phones in the series.
HMD Global introduced the Nokia 8 Sirocco Android One smartphone at the MWC 2018 in Barcelona. It is an upgraded version of the Nokia 8 with premium design. Check out the Hands On and Photo Gallery.
Continue reading “Nokia 8 Sirocco Hands On and Photo Gallery”
Indian tablet market has yet again seen a dip by 11% in 2017, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. A total of 717 thousand tablets were shipped in India with a 32% sequential decline in 2017, which is more or less similar YoY. Continue reading “Indian tablet Shipments decline by 11% in 2017, Lenovo leads with 26.1% share: IDC”
