Facebook’s over 1.55 billion monthly active users watch more than 100 million hours of video daily on the platform. Now, the social network is rolling out a new video feature that will allow you to send birthday wishes to friends and loved ones in a video form.
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Sony unveiled the Xperia XA, its latest mid-range smartphone in the new Xperia X series at the MWC in Barcelona. We got to check out the smartphone at the Sony booth, here are our hands-on impressions of the smartphone and its photo gallery.
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Intel has big plans for 5G in mobile and Internet of Things (IoT). The company has announced a couple of important partnerships with telecom players and other electronic companies, at the ongoing MWC 2016 in Barcelona.
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Sony announced the Xperia X performance, Xperia X and Xperia XA, the company’s latest high-end and mid-range smartphones in the new Xperia X series at the MWC 2016 in Barcelona. Now, the Xperia X and Xperia XA smartphones are available for pre-orders in the Europe.
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Panasonic announced Toughpad FZ-F1 and Toughpad FZ-N1, two new rugged smartphones running Windows 10 IoT Mobile Enterprise and Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop), respectively at the MWC 2016 in Barcelona. These smartphones have a 4.7-inch HD glove enabled, multi-touch, sunlight viewable display, powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor and come with IP65, IP67 and MIL-STD-810G ratings with drop rating of 6 feet, so they can stand up to the abuse of the most demanding usage environments and also submersible, in up to 3.3 feet of water for 30 minutes. Continue reading “Panasonic Toughpad FZ-F1 and FZ-N1 rugged smartphones with Windows 10 and Android announced”
Lenovo announced the Vibe K5 and Vibe K5 Plus smartphones at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. We are live at the event and got our hands on both the smartphones. So let’s take a detailed look at the hardware and specifications of both the phones that have an identical design. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe K5 and Vibe K5 Plus Hands On and Photo Gallery”
PowerVR, a division of Imagination Technologies – well known for its mobile GPU’s, has announced a new smaller and powerful GPU family aimed at the entry-level mobiles and for embedded market. Continue reading “Imagination unveils new PowerVR GPUs for ultra-affordable smartphones, tablets, 4K TVs and more”
Gionee just announced its flagship S8 smartphone at its MWC 2016 event in Barcelona and also unveiled its new logo. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED display with pressure sensitive 3D touch that can sense 3 levels of force including touch, tap and press and has screen-to-body ratio of 74.9%. It is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755) processor and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) wit Amigo OS 3.2 on top, which has several new features such a dual WhatsApp support for each SIMs, floating window to watch video while on WhatsApp or browser, Gionee abroad service and more. Amigo OS 4.0 will be available in June. Continue reading “Gionee S8 with 5.5-inch 1080p display with 3D touch, 4GB RAM, full metal body announced”
Google and a large number of global operators are collaborating to accelerate the availability of Rich Communications Services (RCS) on Android devices. The global operator include América Móvil, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, KPN, Millicom, MTN, Orange, PLAY, Smart Communications, Sprint, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, Telstra, TIM, Turkcell, VimpelCom, Vodafone, the GSMA.
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Garmin, the popular wearable maker has announced Vívoactive HR, a GPS smartwatch with Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate technology. It keeps track of activities like counting steps and floors climbed, intensity minutes, monitoring sleep.
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Garmin has announced the vivofit 3 fitness tracker, successor of last year’s vivofit 2, at the MWC 2016 in Barcelona. It has Move IQ that captures different activities, such as walking, running, biking, swimming and using an elliptical, to view on Garmin Connect. It is water resistant to 50 meters, has one-year battery life and comes with a range of colorful interchangeable accessory bands, designs from the Garmin Style Collection and new styles from the Jonathan Adler + Garmin line. Continue reading “Garmin vivofit 3 activity tracker announced for $99.99”
NXP Semiconductors and Qualcomm have announced the integration of near field communication (NFC) and embedded secure element (eSE) solutions across Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, 600, 400 and 200 processor platforms. The processors now includes pre-validation of mobile transaction services including transit and payment.
MediaTek has announced the MT2511, it’s first bio-sensing analog front-end (AFE) chip designed for health and fitness devices. The MT2511 enables bio signal acquisition through electrocardiography (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) simultaneously.
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Jide Technology that released Remix OS 2.0 alpha version for PCs and laptops last month, today announced that it will release beta version of Remix OS for PC on March 1st through OTA and will also be available for download on the official website. “The new Beta version has a substantial number of bug fixes and an increase in device compatibility, as well as over-the-air (OTA) updates, 32-bit system support and dual boot support through a new hard drive installer tool,” said the company. Continue reading “Remix OS 2.0 Beta for PC with 32-bit and dual boot support coming on March 1”
Cyanogen has announced the launch of MOD platform that allows developers to deeply integrate their apps into its OS. The new platform will introduce mods intelligent, contextually aware, and lightweight experiences built natively into the mobile operating system.
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