The smartphone shipment in India increased 23% in Q1 2016, according to a new report from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service. The report said that more than a billion smartphones will be sold in India over the next five years. Continue reading “Indian smartphone market soars 23% in Q1 2016, Reliance Lyf hits 5th spot: Counterpoint”
Huawei introduced its Jewel and Elegant Android Wear smartwatches for Women at the CES 2016 earlier this year. Both these have a 1.4″ circular AMOLED display, similar to the original Huawei Watch, but these have a larger 44mm dial as opposed to 42mm in the original. The Elegant features a top ring design on a rose-gold plated body, while the Jewel features 68 Swarovski Zirconia encircling the face. Continue reading “Huawei Jewel and Elegant smartwatches for women now available in the US starting at $450”
Google has filed patent for an electronic device that can be directly injected into the eyeballs and replace the lens. The patent was filed in 2014 and published last week. Continue reading “Google patents an electronic device to inject directly into eyes for better vision”
LG Innotek, one of the popular components and materials manufacturers has announced a smartphone cover glass which is embedded fingerprint sensor module. This can be integrated into smartphones that lets you just place your finger on the smartphone’s glass to register your fingerprint that can unlock the phone. Continue reading “LG Innotek introduces under glass fingerprint sensor module for smartphones”
Xiaomi has launched Mi Bunny smartwatch which is aimed at kids. The watch comes with built-in GPS, embedded unicom SIM and other features. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Bunny smartwatch for kids with built-in GPS launched”
It looks like WhatsApp wants to expand its availability from mobile devices to desktop. The popular cross platform messenger app is tipped to be working on native desktop apps for Windows and Mac.
Continue reading “WhatsApp could be working on desktop apps for Windows and OSX”
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Samsung’s anticipated Note 6 flagship leaks have been making headlines for quite a while now. Another addition from the rumour mill suggests that the firm is internally testing Galaxy Note 6 prototypes with IR autofocus for the primary camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 6 camera tipped to sport IR autofocus”
According to a Forbes report by analyst Patrick Moorhead, Intel is reworking its mobile SoC strategy and will no longer produce smarthphone chips code-named SoFIA and Broxton. Continue reading “Intel suspends smartphone SoCs SoFIA and Broxton with immediate effect”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has written his first “Founder’s Letter” that talks about his future vision of the company’s future. He said that the company is working towards creating a smart assistant that can follow you anywhere.
Microsoft is creating its own version of IFTTT (If This Then That) tool which is dubbed as Flow. The service lets you to connect apps and services and automate portions of your workflow.
Continue reading “Microsoft releases public preview of Flow, IFTTT rival”
LG’s two upcoming K series smartphones have been spotted online in a listing by a benchmark database website. The purported listing by the Geekbench for two LG devices – the LG-K530 and the LG-K535 – doesn’t reveal full specifications, but suggests that it could be the successor to existing K10 smartphone. Continue reading “LG’s upcoming K series smartphones with Snapdragon 430 SoC spotted online”
Lenovo has finally started rolling out Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) update for the Vibe P1 smartphone in India. The smartphone was launched running Android 5.1 (Lollipop) in India back in October. Continue reading “Lenovo Vibe P1 Android 6.0 Marshmallow update starts rolling out in India”
Samsung at its Developer Conference in San Francisco has announced that the next version of Tizen OS, the Tizen 3.0 is set for debut in September. Continue reading “Samsung to release 64-bit Tizen 3.0 update in September, beta release in July”
Xiaomi launched the Mi 5 smartphone in India for Rs. 24,999 last month, which went on sale through flash sale starting from April 6th, along with the 20000mAh Mi Power Bank that went on flash sale at a price of Rs. 1699. Now the company has announced open sale for both the devices on May 4th at 2PM through the mi.com website. Both the variants of the Redmi Note 3 will also go on open sale once again on the same day at 2PM. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 5, Redmi Note 3, 20000mAh Powerbank available through open sale in India on May 4”
