It looks like Xiaomi may soon start making its own processors. According to a latest report from the Wall Street Journal, the Chinese smartphone maker is planning to move away from Qualcomm processors as its primary chip provider.
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After launching 4G services in Coimbatore and Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu in December and in Madurai last month, Vodafone has launched its 4G services in Chennai, as it had promised. Vodafone said that its 4G services will be made available in all major towns and cities across the state by March 2017. Continue reading “Vodafone launches 4G services in Chennai”
Intel has confirmed that its 8th generation Core processors will once again be built on a 14-nanometer process. The new CPUs are due in second half of 2017. Continue reading “Intel’s 8th generation Core processors will stick to 14nm node”
Huawei’s Honor brand has finally started rolling out EMUI 5.0 based on Android 7.0 (Nougat) update for the Honor 8 (FRD-L04) smartphone in the U.S. In addition to Android Nougat, the EMUI 5.0 also brings a range of UI changes including changes to Home-screen Interface, Notification Shade, App Drawer, Recent Apps and more.
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The advent of self-portraits or “selfies” as they are commonly known and the ever-increasing popularity of social media has resulted in the rise of smartphones that are specifically designed to cater to this particular demographic. The primary emphasis as a result becomes the front facing camera which ironically has always been refered to as the secondary camera. Now, it may seem as if terms such as “primary” and “secondary” depend on the smartphone itself and what it tries to achieve. The issue with such smartphones usually lies with the fact that manufacturers often concentrate too much on the “selfie” aspect and ignore the rest. The Vivo V5 Plus is the latest amongst the big lineup of selfie centric smartphones in India. In this review, we shall take a look at the smartphone in detail to see whether it’s just about the front facing camera or whether they’ve managed to focus on all aspects of the smartphone as well.
U.S operator Verizon today announced “Verizon Unlimited” that offers unlimited data, calling and texting (to Mexico and Canada) and up to 500 MB/day of 4G LTE roaming (in Mexico and Canada) at $80 per month for individual line or $45 per line for four lines with unlimited data, talk and text. This also includes 10GB Hotspot tethering at LTE speeds. Continue reading “Verizon launches unlimited data plan”
In an attempt to push digital payment throughout the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an app named as ‘BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money)’ for Android back in December last year, which is still one of the top apps on Google Play with over 500 million users. Now the app is finally live for iOS platform, as NPCI had promised earlier. Continue reading “BHIM app for UPI-based payments now available for iPhone”
Reliance Jio is now offering its high-speed Internet service for the ongoing India-Bangladesh test match till February 13th. Continue reading “Reliance Jio offers JioNet high speed Wi-Fi at Uppal Stadium for India-Bangladesh test match”
Samsung is expected to introduce Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus smartphones at a separate event on March 29th. Thanks to @evleaks the logo of the Galaxy S8+ is out confirming the name of the smartphone. The support page has also gone live on Samsung India site for the Samsung smartphone with the model number SM-G955FD. ‘D’ in the model confirms Dual SIM support. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S8+ SM-G955FD support page goes live on India site, logo confirms the name”
Gionee yesterday sent out invites for the global launch event of A1 and A1 Plus smartphones at the MWC 2017 in Barcelona on February 27th. Now live images of the smartphone has surfaced in Nepal. This coincides with earlier rumors that confirms 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5d curved glass display, 16-megapixel front-facing camera, Android 7.0 (Nougat) and more. There is also a fingerprint sensor on the back even though there is a home button on the front. Continue reading “Gionee A1 with 16MP front camera, Android 7.0 live images surface ahead of MWC 2017”
This week Xiaomi introduced the Redmi Note 4X Hatsune Miku Special Edition smartphone, Asus launched the ZenFone 3s Max (ZC521TL) with a 5000mAh battery, HTC launched the 10 evo with Snapdragon 810 SoC and more that happened this week in our weekly roundup. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X, Asus ZenFone 3s Max, HTC 10 evo and more”
Nokia has launched Nokia worldwide IoT network grid (‘WING’), a full service model offering seamless IoT connectivity across technologies and geographical borders to address the transport, health, utilities and safety markets.
Amazon is expected to launch Echo, its voice activated smart speaker device in India this year, according to a latest report from FactorDaily. Powered by Alexa which is an artificial intelligent voice assistant, Echo acts as a smart hub for your home.
Citing sources the report said that Amazon is “putting together content and localising the service,”. Amazon Echo is expected to be announced in second half of 2016. Announced in 2014, the device lets you enjoy music, manage everyday tasks and ask questions via voice commands. It offers real-time answers for questions ranging from cooking, news, sports and even basic day-to-day tasks like knowing the weather, stock markets and so on.
Last year, Google launched Google Home smart speaker that comes with Google Assistant which competes directly with Amazon Echo. Amazon is already aggressive in India with the recent Amazon Prime and Prime Video launch.
Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 6X smartphone in India last month starting at Rs. 12,999. It packs a 3,340mAh built-in battery, slightly bigger than than the 3000mAh battery on the Honor 5X, has a 5.5-inch 1080p screen and is powered by an Octa-Core Kirin 655 16nm processor. We already brought you the review of the smartphone, here we have the battery life test results of the phone.
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Google has announced that Chrome browser is getting support for VR. The move comes with an aim to bring VR content to everyone. Users with Daydream compatible Android devices can now view virtual reality (VR) content in the Chrome app.
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