Samsung has launched Galaxy Tab A 7.0 (SM-T285), a new tablet in India with 4G support and voice calling capability. It was originally introduced as Galaxy Tab A 2016 a couple of years back, has a 7-inch WXGA screen, is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7.0 with 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 9500”
Meizu today announced that it will introduced Meizu S6, a new mid-range smartphone in the new ‘S series’ in China on January 17th. The company already confirmed that it will feature an 18:9 display. AnTuTu listing reveals that it will be powered by upcoming Hexa-Core Samsung Exynos 7872 SoC with Mali-G71 GPU, come with HD+ screen and Android 7.0 (Nougat) OS. Continue reading “Meizu M6s / S6 with full-screen display to be announced on January 17”
Samsung introduced the Galaxy A8 (2018) and Galaxy A8+ (2018) smartphones last month. Now Amazon India has started teasing that the Galaxy A8+ (2018) will launch exclusively on Amazon soon. It packs a 6-inch Full HD+Infinity Super AMOLED 18.5:9 display, is powered by Octa-Core Exynos 7885 14nm processor, runs Android 7.1.1 (Nougat), has 16-megapixel rear camera with f/1.7 aperture, and a 16-megapixel and 8-megapixel dual front cameras, both with f/1.9 aperture. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A8+ (2018) launching in India soon exclusively on Amazon”
Instagram is said to be testing a feature that will let users post Instagram stories directly to WhatsApp. Like rest of the WhatsApp, an Instagram story posted as WhatsApp status becomes encrypted and disappears after 24 hours. Continue reading “Instagram testing a feature to let users post stories directly to WhatsApp”
Google app is the first to receive an update after the holidays season, and the V7.18 beta doesn’t bring many changes to the table. However, a quick teardown by Android Police have revealed hints at image donations to Google Lens, Quartz Google Home device with a screen gets its resolutions leaked and more. Continue reading “Google app v7.18 beta hints at image donations to Google Lens, Quartz screen resolutions and more”
WhatsApp; the biggest chat application in the world with over 1 billion active users daily has seen a recording breaking 75 billion messages sent on December 31st night on the occasion of New Year 2018. It was 63 billion for the last new year’s eve. In fact, the servers went down on December 31st night which made WhatsApp unusable for quite some time. Continue reading “WhatsApp users exchanged record 75 billion messages on New Year’s Eve”
LG is said to be re-branding its G-series flagship phones in order to compete with Apple and Samsung according to a new report. The G-series smartphones which debuted in 2012 with the launch of Optimus G has seen six smartphones in the line-up including the last year’s flagship G6. Continue reading “LG said to rebrand G-series smartphones to compete with Apple and Samsung”
While it is known that Intel chips are facing a bug that is affected by serious Kernel memory leak issue on modern computers including Windows, Linux, and macOS, the exact problem and explanation for this bug remained a mystery. Windows and Linux have already started pushing the updates that will fix the issue, we now have what the flaw is and they have been named ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’. Continue reading “Meltdown and Spectre security flaw on Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs affect most computers and phones”
Samsung has officially announced the Exynos 9 Series 9810 SoC, as it had promised, after it was revealed in CES 2018 Innovation Awards announcement. It is the successor of Exynos 9 Series 8895 SoC that powers the Galaxy S8 series and the Galaxy Note8. It is based on the 2nd generation 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, and has new eight-core CPU with four of the company’s powerful 3rd generation custom designed CPU cores along with other four optimized for efficiency and an industry-first 6CA LTE modem and deep learning processing capabilities.
Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 9 Series 9810 SoC with 2.9GHz 3rd-gen custom CPUs, AI enhancements announced”
ACT Fibernet has revised its plans for its customers in Vizag, Vijayawada, Eluru and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. This is the second time these cities are getting an upgrade after an upgrade in August last year. Continue reading “ACT Fibernet revises plans across four cities in Andhra Pradesh”
Union minister Maneka Gandhi has announced that the trial for the Panic button on mobiles to begin from Uttar Pradesh on January 26 to ensure women safety. Though the projected had to kickstart back in January 2017, it got delayed by a year. Continue reading “Trials for Panic button on mobiles to begin from Uttar Pradesh on January 26”
Samsung has introduced its first 34-inch Curved ultra-wide QHD QLED monitor CJ791 with support for Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 connectivity offering a single-source to link and dock the monitor and laptop, ahead of CES 2018. It offers 3440×1440 ultra-wide QHD resolution with 21:9 aspect ratio, has 1,500R curvature and ultra-wide 178-degree viewing angle. Continue reading “Samsung CJ791 34-inch Curved QHD QLED monitor with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity announced”
Apple has clarified that it will replace the batteries of older iPhones at a discounted price even if they are not defective. The company has reduced the pricing of battery replacements from $79 to $29 last week following the controversial throttling of iPhones reports. Continue reading “Apple will replace iPhone batteries at a discounted price regardless of battery health”
Google has started rolling out new over-the-air (OTA) update for Pixel and Nexus devices and also posted factory images as part of monthly Android Security release. The update for this month fixes several critical issues in Media framework, System and Qualcomm closed-source components. Continue reading “Google rolls out January 2018 Android security update for Pixel and Nexus devices”
