Samsung, after several months of in-depth investigations today announced the cause of the Galaxy Note7 incidents, as it had promised. “Based on detailed analysis of the affected batteries, both Battery A from the 1st recall and Battery B from the 2nd recall, we identified separate factors that originated in and were specific to the two different batteries.” said Samsung. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note7 investigation finds two separate battery issues caused explosions”
While I was in the US recently , I had a chance to briefly use the Nokia 6 which is the first ever smartphone from HMD Global which calls itself the home of Nokia phones. The company is launching the Nokia 6 in China this month and expected to launch more devices at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona next month. Nokia was once a house hold name in India and many other markets. Sadly the previous Nokia management never managed to release an Android smartphone as the company embraced Windows Phone from Microsoft. Post that Nokia was acquired by Microsoft and the company continued to release Lumia smartphones which failed to gain main stream adoption in a smartphone market dominated by Android phone makers and Apple’s iPhone. All that is going to change with HMD Global taking over the Nokia brand from Microsoft last year and the new entity is aiming to bring to the market what was once not possible under the previous entity.
Say Hello to the Nokia 6 – The first real Nokia Android smartphone Continue reading “Nokia 6 First Impressions – The first real Nokia Android smartphone”
Amazon started its Great Indian Sale a couple of days back offering some great deals on smartphones, accessories, and more. Today on Day 3 of the sale it is offering great deals on LED TVs, hard disks, microSD cards and more. Continue reading “Amazon Great Indian Sale: Best deals on LED TVs, hard disks, microSD cards and more”
In the latest development, Amit Singhal, former Senior Vice President of Search at Google has joined Uber. From now on, he will be heading the Maps and Marketplace departments and also advise CEO Travis Kalanick and Uber VP of Engineering and Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski as well on self-driving technology. Continue reading “Amit Singhal former Google search head joins Uber as SVP of Engineering”
Apple has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Qualcomm saying that Qualcomm has been charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with. This comes days after Qualcomm was sued by US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for anti-competitive practices relating to maintain its monopoly in the supply of a key semiconductor device used in cell phones and other consumer products. Continue reading “Apple sues Qualcomm for $1 Billion over royalties, Qualcomm says Apple’s claims are baseless”
This week Xiaomi launched Redmi Note4 in India, Lenovo launched Phab 2 Pro Tango smartphone while Samsung launched Galaxy C9 Pro and mid ranger J2 Ace. Micromax launched Vdeo 3 and Vdeo 4 smartphones that support 4G VoLTE. Check out all the announcements and launches from this week in our roundup. Continue reading “Weekly Round up – Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro and more”
Amazon started its Great Indian Sale yesterday offering some great deals on smartphones, accessories, and more. Today on Day 2 of the sale it is offering great deals on wearables, headphones, Bluetooth speakers and more. Continue reading “Amazon Great Indian Sale: Best deals on Bluetooth speakers, headphones and more”
After launching the Evo Gamepad Pro 2 Bluetooth game controller for Android last year, Amkette today launched Evo Gamepad Wired, which is the wired version of the popular Evo Gamepad Pro controller. “The wired version of the game controller is designed to enhance the smartphone gaming experience for the users and is compatible with all the OTG supported Android devices,” said the company. Continue reading “Amkette Evo Gamepad Wired for Android launched for Rs. 2599, exclusively bundled with Lenovo K6 Note”
Amazon today started its first 3-day Great Indian Sale for the year. With only few hours left for the Day 1 sales, Amazon has announced 100% YoY growth on Day 1 of sale and said that this is its biggest ever January Sale till date. Continue reading “Amazon announces 100% YoY growth on Day 1 of the Amazon Great Indian Sale”
Previous report from SamMobil had stated that Samsung Galaxy S8 will come with AI powered smart virtual assistant dubbed as Bixby. Now, the publication has shared more information about various features of Bixby in a latest report.
Continue reading “Samsung’s Bixby virtual assistant might come with visual search, text recognition abilities”
LinkedIn has given its desktop website a major overhaul. The largest professional social network is calling it “the largest desktop redesign” since LinkedIn’s inception in 2003. Continue reading “LinkedIn for web gets major design makeover”
Reliance Jio is gearing up to make LYF phones in India. The company has asked Chinese and Taiwanese device makers along with Foxconn to manufacture LYF VoLTE smartphones, smart set-top boxes, home automation and automobile telematics devices in the country, according to latest report from the Economic Times. Continue reading “Reliance Jio asks Foxconn to make LYF smartphones, other products in India”
After Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan Airtel has rolled an upgraded mobile network in Bihar & Jharkhand. The ‘Dual Carrier’ technology combines the spectrum capacities of two 5MHz carriers in the 2100 MHz band that significantly boosts network capacity through highly efficient usage, and promises a superior mobile experience in the form of faster data speeds, better voice quality, and improved network coverage – indoors and outdoors. Continue reading “Airtel rolls out ‘Dual Carrier’ technology in Bihar & Jharkhand for 4G-like data speeds on 3G”
Japan Display Inc. (JDI) has announced that it has begun mass production start of 5-inch class (Starting from 5-inch) low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) LCD module with WQHD (1440×2560 pixels) resolution and over 500 PPI pixel density. JDI said that it has reduced LCD panel power consumption in the WQHD screen by using improved materials to reduce LCD driving frequency from 60Hz to 30Hz depending on the display image signal without affecting the image quality, thus achieving low power. Continue reading “JDI starts mass production of 5-inch class Quad HD In-cell touch LTPS display”
Last week, ICICI bank had blocked transactions on Flipkart’s payment app PhonePe citing security concerns. Now, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has asked ICICI bank to unblock transactions made on Flipkart’s PhonePe app immediately. Continue reading “NPCI asks ICICI Bank to unblock UPI transactions made on Flipkart’s PhonePe”
