People are watching 1 billion hours of YouTube video everyday

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YouTube has announced a huge milestone. The Google owned popular video sharing service has revealed that people are now watching 1 billion hours of YouTube content every single day.

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Xiaomi Surge S1 Octa-Core 2.2GHz 64-bit SoC with Mali-T860 GPU, support for VoLTE announced

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Xiaomi just announced Surge S1, its first in-house SoC at an event in China, as it had promised. It is an Octa-Core SoC with four high-performance ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and the other four  power-efficient ARM Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.4GHz. It has big.LITTLE structure for efficient usage of the eight cores. Continue reading “Xiaomi Surge S1 Octa-Core 2.2GHz 64-bit SoC with Mali-T860 GPU, support for VoLTE announced”

Nubia N1 lite with 5.5-inch display, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced

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Nubia has announced N1 lite, its latest budget smartphone in the ‘N series’ at its MWC 2017 event, which is a slight dissapointment when everyone was expecting top-end Prague S2 promised. It packs a 5.5-inch HD screen, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek processor, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with soft-light LED front flash and beautification mode. Continue reading “Nubia N1 lite with 5.5-inch display, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced”

Mozilla acquires read-it-later app Pocket

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Mozilla has announced acquisition of the Pocket, the popular read it later app that saves articles, videos and other content on the web. Financial details of Mozilla’s first acquisition were not disclosed. Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser.   Continue reading “Mozilla acquires read-it-later app Pocket”

Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 Hands On and Photo Gallery

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Samsung announced Galaxy Tab S3 at the ongoing MWC. We have got our hands on the successor of last year’s Galaxy Tab S2. Let’s take a look at hardware and specifications of the tablet. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 Hands On and Photo Gallery”

Google announces new games for Android and Daydream VR, updates Play Store

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Google has announced new games for Android and Daydream VR at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco. The company has also announced few important updates to Play Store as well. Continue reading “Google announces new games for Android and Daydream VR, updates Play Store”

How wireless storage helps you to optimize data plan and reduce cost

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Our data consumption needs are ever-increasing while telecom operators aren’t necessarily making it easier or cheaper for users to access the data that we need. As a result, many of us including some of us at FoneArena often face issues with burning through our data plans much sooner than expected. Storing data on the cloud will help easier sharing but will eat up data.Storing data locally may help reduce data consumption to a certain extent but is quite difficult to share. SanDisk has a new product that will help solve this exact problem by providing an alternate way to store and access your data.

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Samsung Galaxy Book 12 Hands On and Photo Gallery

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Samsung announced Galaxy Book 12 yesterday at MWC 2017. We have got our hands on the Windows 10 2-in-1 laptop so let’s take a detailed look at the hardware and specifications. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Book 12 Hands On and Photo Gallery”

LG G6 price, availability revealed

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As expected, LG announced its latest flagship smartphone dubbed as G6 at the MWC 2017 event in Barcelona, Spain yesterday. While most of the information have been revealed at the launch, the LG Electronics President, Cho Juno didn’t reveal anything about the availability and pricing of the device at the announcement. Continue reading “LG G6 price, availability revealed”

SanDisk unveils 256GB iXpand Flash Drive and Connect Wireless Stick

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At the MWC 2017 event in Barcelona, Sandisk to took the stage to announce the 256GB SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive and 256GB SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick. Continue reading “SanDisk unveils 256GB iXpand Flash Drive and Connect Wireless Stick”

New Nokia Android phones to be made in India and launch in June

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Nokia finally launched new Android smartphones at MWC 2017 in Barcelona including the Nokia 3,5 and 6 devices. We had a chance to speak to Ajey Mehta, India VP at HMD Global who shed light on the company’s India plans. HMD plans to manufacture these phones through Foxconn in India from day one. The new Nokia Android phones are expected to hit stores in India by June this year.

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OPPO introduces world’s first camera module with 5X optical zoom

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OPPO at its MWC 2017 event in Barcelona announced new camera technology called 5X, as it had promised. It is a module that uses a periscope structure to divert light 90-degrees through prism into a hidden telephoto lens. “The resulting shift from the light’s natural path delivers an unprecedented level of clarity at any zoom level,” says OPPO. Continue reading “OPPO introduces world’s first camera module with 5X optical zoom”

BlackBerry KEYone Hands On and Photo Gallery

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BlackBerry announced KEYone at its MWC 2017 event in Barcelona yesterday. This is the last phone that is designed by BlackBerry and is made by TCL Communication Technology (TCT). We have got our hands on the phone so let’s take a detailed look at hardware and specifications of the phone.
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ZTE Blade V8 Mini with dual rear cameras and Blade V8 Lite with Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor announced

ZTE Blade V8 Mini

ZTE has announced Blade V8 Mini at the MWC 2017 along with the Blade V8 Lite. The V8 Mini has a 13MP rear camera and a 2MP secondary camera for depth sensing for aperture range between f/1.0 and f/8.0 range and post-capture refocusing. Both the phones run Android 7.0 (Nougat) have a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, metal unibody design and a fingerprint sensor on the back. Continue reading “ZTE Blade V8 Mini with dual rear cameras and Blade V8 Lite with Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor announced”