Intel officially completes $15.3 billion Mobileye acquisition

Intel Mobileye

Earlier in March, Intel has agreed to buy automotive technology firm Mobileye. Now, the chipmaker has finally completed the $15.4 billion acquisition by acquiring approximately 84 percent of Mobileye’s outstanding ordinary shares. Continue reading “Intel officially completes $15.3 billion Mobileye acquisition”

Intel Core i9-7980XE 18-core processor specs detailed, available starting September 25

Intel Core i9 Extreme

Back in May at the Computex 2017 Intel introduced Core X-series processor family ranging from 4 to 18 cores that includes Core i9 Extreme Edition processor, the company’s first consumer desktop CPU with 18 cores and 36 threads of power. At that time it did not unveil the specifications and availability of top-end processors, including the high-end i9-7980XE, even though the we already know the it will cost $1999 (Rs. 1,27,320 approx.). Today the company has detailed the specifications and availability. Continue reading “Intel Core i9-7980XE 18-core processor specs detailed, available starting September 25”

OPPO R11 FC Barcelona Edition announced

OPPO R11 FC Barcelona Edition

After R7 Plus and F1 Plus FC Barcelona Edition phones, OPPO today introduced the R11 FC Barcelona Edition smartphone. It features a blue-and-red color scheme and an 18K gold-plated club insignia on the back of the smartphone. It also has FC Barcelona-themed UI. It comes in custom blue package matching the phone. Continue reading “OPPO R11 FC Barcelona Edition announced”

LG GPad X2 8.0 Plus with Android 7.0, 2GB RAM spotted on T-mobile’s website

LG GPad X2

It looks like LG will soon announce a new tablet. The LG GPad X2 8.0 Plus tablet has been spotted on T-mobile’s website. It sports an 8-inch display with 1920×1200 resolution.
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Xiaomi to launch new smartphone with dual rear cameras in India in September, Mi 5X expected

Xiaomi Mi 5X

Today Xiaomi India VP and Managing Director tweeted that the company will launch a new smartphone in India with dual rear cameras in India in next month along with a portrait shot with background blur effect. The smartphone will likely be the Mi 5X that was introduced in China last month. Continue reading “Xiaomi to launch new smartphone with dual rear cameras in India in September, Mi 5X expected”

Fossil Q Venture and Q Explorist Android Wear 2.0 smartwatches now available for pre-order

Fossil-Q-Venture-Q-Explorist

Fossil has announced two new full round touchscreen smartwatches in its Q series – Q Venture and Q Explorist. Both the smartwatches run Android Wear 2.0

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Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD launched in India starting from Rs. 16000

Kingston KC1000 NVMe SSD

Kingston has launched KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD, the company’s first  NVMe PCIe SSD in India. It is available in either a standard M.2 2280 form factor or as a half-height, half-length add-in card. It uses native OS NVMe drivers, is available in a range of capacities from 240GB to 960GB and is over 2x faster than SATA-based SSDs and over 40x faster than a 7200RPM hard-disk drive. Continue reading “Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD launched in India starting from Rs. 16000”

Swipe Elite VR with 5.5-inch display, 4G VoLTE, 3000mAh battery launched for Rs. 4499

Swipe Elite VR

Swipe Technologies has launched Elite VR, the company’s latest budget smartphone that comes with a bundled VR headset. The company’s says that it is the most affordable VR-enabled smartphone. It has a 5.5-inch HD screen, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6737 processor, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, but it still runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). Continue reading “Swipe Elite VR with 5.5-inch display, 4G VoLTE, 3000mAh battery launched for Rs. 4499”

Google Pixel 2 live photos reveal stereo speakers, huge bezels and no headphone jack

google pixel 2

Google will introduce the next generation Pixel smartphones – Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 later this year. We recently saw renders of both the phones followed by an image that showed off front and back of the Pixel 2. Now, a couple of live photos of the Pixel 2 have surfaced thanks to GSMArena.
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SHARP AQUOS S2 with 5.5-inch FHD+ bezel-less display, Snapdragon 660, 6GB RAM, dual rear cameras announced

SHARP AQUOS S2

SHARP today announced AQUOS S2, its latest smartphone at an event in China, as it had promised. 5.5-inch (1080 x 2040 pixels) Full HD+ display with 84.95% screen-to-body ratio. It uses FFD (Free Form Display) technology to make small holes precisely in the screen for front camera and receiver. The fingerprint sensor that is present below the screen is just 3.6mm, making it the world’s narrowest fingerprint identification module. Continue reading “SHARP AQUOS S2 with 5.5-inch FHD+ bezel-less display, Snapdragon 660, 6GB RAM, dual rear cameras announced”

Apple iPhone 8 case render shows bezel-less display, no homebutton and more

iphone 8 caseWe have already seen several rumors, leaks and reports about the upcoming iPhone 8. Now popular tipster Evan Blass has shared an alleged iPhone 8 case that gives a clear look at design of the phone from front.
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LG V30 with FullVision display with narrow bezels, dual rear cameras surface in videos

LG V30 leak

LG is all set to introduce it flagship V30 smartphone later this month at the IFA. Today live images of the phone has surfaced on HitRecord, a forum that was running a contest. This shows the phone’s 6-inch (1440 × 2880 pixels) QHD+ OLED FullVision display with 18:9 aspect ratio and narrow bezels. As revealed earlier, the phone doesn’t have a secondary display. It is said to come with a floating bar to provide quick access to shortcuts and notifications. Continue reading “LG V30 with FullVision display with narrow bezels, dual rear cameras surface in videos”

YouTube launches in-app messaging for easier video sharing and chatting

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YouTube has started rolling out its in-app messaging feature which has been in testing for over an year. The feature will give YouTube users an ability to share videos and chat with their contacts directly from within the app.
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Google rolls out August Android security update for Pixel and Nexus devices

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 latest update this month fixes several critical issues, including issues in Framework, Libraries, Media framework and more. Continue reading “Google rolls out August Android security update for Pixel and Nexus devices”

OnePlus 5 Soft Gold Limited Edition smartphone launched, available in India starting August 9

OnePlus 5 Soft Gold

OnePlus just introduced the Soft Gold Limited Edition OnePlus 5 smartphone, as expected. It uses advanced sandblasting process, so the finish of the Soft Gold OnePlus 5 is 30% finer than that of previous OnePlus Soft Gold devices, said the company. It is priced at Rs. 32,999, same as the Slate Gray 6GB RAM with 64GB storage version and will be available from Amazon.in and oneplusstore.in starting August 9th at 12:00 AM. OnePlus said that the phone. In other countries it will be available from August 7 at noon EDT / 9:00 AM PDT / 5:00 PM BST / 6:00 PM CEST from oneplus.net. Continue reading “OnePlus 5 Soft Gold Limited Edition smartphone launched, available in India starting August 9”