9.7-inch iPad Pro gets priced in India, launching early April

Apple iPad Pro 9.7 inch

Apple just announced its new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, a smaller variant of last year’s iPad Pro. Apple already confirmed that it will roll out the iPad Pro in India in April, now it has confirmed the pricing, few weeks ahead of its launch. The 9.7-inch iPad Pro has a True Tone display that measures the color temperature to the ambient light and adjusts the screen to match it, has A9X chip, Apple’s 3rd generation 64-bit chip, new 12-megapixel iSight camera with 4K video recording, similar to the iPhone 6s and also a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “9.7-inch iPad Pro gets priced in India, launching early April”

Apple CareKit open-source app development platform launched

Apple has introduced CareKit a new open-source framework that is designed to let developers build health apps. Available in April, CareKit makes it easier for individuals to keep track of care plans and monitor symptoms and medication.

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Apple iOS 9.3 with Night Shift will be available from today

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Apple has announced that iOS 9.3 update will be available for download for iPhone and iPad starting today. The latest version of OS was available for testers since January. Continue reading “Apple iOS 9.3 with Night Shift will be available from today”

Apple iPad Pro with 9.7-inch True Tone display, A9X chip, 12MP camera official, starts at $599

Apple iPad Pro 9.7

Apple just announced the new iPad Pro, a smaller version of last year’s iPad Pro with a 9.7-inch True Tone Retina display, as expected. The True Tone display measures the color temperature to the ambient light and adjusts the screen to match. It has a A9X, Apple’s 3rd generation 64-bit chip and four speakers, similar to the original iPad Pro. It has a new 12-megapixel iSight camera with 4K video recording, similar to the iPhone 6s and also a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Apple iPad Pro with 9.7-inch True Tone display, A9X chip, 12MP camera official, starts at $599”

Apple watch gets a price cut, now costs $299 in the US

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, during his presentation at the company’s special event today announced a price cut for the Apple Watch – which now costs $299 in the United States.

Apple Watch price cut

It’s kind of unprecedented for Apple to slash the pricing of a product without introducing a new model, but it looks like the company is being aggressive in order to improve the sales of the Apple Watch. Continue reading “Apple watch gets a price cut, now costs $299 in the US”

Apple’s brand new 4-inch iPhone SE goes official

After being out of service for a brief period, the 4-inch iPhone is back with some goodness. Apple is naming the new model as ‘SE’ – which can be depicted as an ‘enhanced’ version of the 5s or refer to as a ‘special edition’.

Apple iPhone SE

So what’s so special about the special edition? Well, the Cupertino giants have retained most of the external design from their previous 4-inch flagship, but the internals have all gotten better. To start off is the all new A9 and M9 processors – the same one that powers the 6s line up. Continue reading “Apple’s brand new 4-inch iPhone SE goes official”

HTC 10 display and battery details leaked, QiKU F4 announced and more – FoneArena Daily

HTC 10

Check out the new FoneArena Daily video that gives you a quick roundup of today’s technology news. Continue reading “HTC 10 display and battery details leaked, QiKU F4 announced and more – FoneArena Daily”

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Teardown – Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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Xiaomi launched its Redmi Note 3 smartphone in India earlier this month starting at Rs. 9999. We already brought you the teardown of the Helio X10 version of the Redmi Note 3, here is the teardown of the Snapdragon 650 version, which also has a new 16-megapixel camera.
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ZTE Nubia Z11 Mini with 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor gets certified in China

A new device with model number ZTE NX529J has been listed on TENAA which is the Chinese equivalent of the FCC. The phone is expected to be the ZTE Nubia Z11 Mini.

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LeEco Le Max Benchmarks

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LeEco (formerly Letv) launched its flagship Le Max smartphone in India earlier this year, which went on sale last month starting from Rs. 32,999. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 64-bit 20nm processor that has four bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.96GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.56GHz per core with 630 MHz Adreno 430 GPU. It has 4GB DDR4 RAM, packs a 6.33-inch Quad HD display, runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with EUI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.

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Microsoft is working on a tool to port Chrome extensions to Edge

Microsoft is working on a tool that will let Windows Insiders members port Chrome extensions to Microsoft Edge. Jacob Rossi of Microsoft Edge team confirmed the same on Twitter.

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Online shopping to soar 78% in India in 2016: Report

The Indian online shopping scene is set get a boost further this year. As per a new study from ASSOCHAM and PwC, the average online purchases are expected to increase by 78% in 2016 from 66% in 2015.

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Paytm and PVR team up to sell online movie tickets

Paytm has signed a strategic partnership with PVR to sell latter’s ticket on its mobile payment platform. In its first year, PVR targets to sell tickets worth Rs .2.5-3 billion in terms of revenue.

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Coolpad Note 3 Lite will be available through open sale on Amazon starting March 22

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Coolpad today announced that the Coolpad Note 3 Lite smartphone will be available without registrations through open sale on Amazon.in starting from March 22nd. It was launched in India back in January earlier this year for Rs. 6,999 and went on sale starting from 28th January.  It was initially available in Champagne White color, later the company introduced the Black edition of the smartphone. Continue reading “Coolpad Note 3 Lite will be available through open sale on Amazon starting March 22”

QiKU F4 with 5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced

Qihoo 360 F4

Qihoo 360 (QiKU) today introduced F4, the company’s latest budget smartphone at an event in China, as it had promised. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by an Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with 360 OS and anti-theft security feature. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, PDAF for quick focus in 0.1 seconds and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “QiKU F4 with 5-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced”