Project Ara Developer edition, OnePlus 3 camera sample surfaces and more – FoneArena Daily

Google Project Ara Developer Edition

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Samsung unveils 10nm 6GB RAM – Galaxy Note6 is a possible contender

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Samsung just unveiled a 6GB RAM chip at an event in Shenzhen, China. While, we have seen quite a few smartphones already that can boast about having 6GB of RAM, the key difference here is that the RAM has a tiny 10nm form.

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Lenovo-Motorola teases RAZR V3 flip phone from past for June 9 launch

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Motorola on Youtube added a video advertisement teasing its popular veteran Moto RAZR V3 with a date of June 9, 2016. Continue reading “Lenovo-Motorola teases RAZR V3 flip phone from past for June 9 launch”

Samsung patent listing hints at upcoming Galaxy Note6 Edge

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Samsung introduced an Edge variant of their Note smartphone alongside the Note 4 back in 2014. While the Note Edge wasn’t a runaway success and more of a prototype to test the market, Samsung decided not to bring out an Edge variant of the Note5 last year.

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Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) Benchmarks

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Samsung launched the J7 (2016) smartphone in India at Rs. 15,990. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 7870 14nm 64-bit processor that has eight ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.59GHz per core. It has Mali-830 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 5.5-inch 720p AMOLED screen and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.

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Everything you need to know about OnePlus 3, CEO says ‘feels good to hold’

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The upcoming OnePlus flagship smartphone – OnePlus 3 – design is already out in purported press render image, and now company’s CEO Pete Lau took on Chinese microblogging website Weibo teasing that the ‘OP3 feels good to hold’. Previously, he had shared a camera sample of the OP3 on Weibo too. Continue reading “Everything you need to know about OnePlus 3, CEO says ‘feels good to hold’”

Google shows LG smartwatch and JBL speakers with Project Soli radar-based gesture control

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Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division announced Project Soli, a radar-based gesture control technology at the I/O developer conference last year. Last year’s development kit was huge to use it in smaller devices such as smartwatches. So Google’s ATAP team with Infineon redesigned the chip to make it 3 times smaller and also reduce power consumption by 22 times, down from 1.2W to 0.054W. The footprint is now also 3x smaller.

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Google Project Ara Developer Edition coming in Q4 2016, consumer version in 2017

Google Project Ara Developer Edition

Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects division (ATAP) announced at the Google I/O that it will release the developer version of the  Project Ara modular smartphone in the fall of 2016. This will replace the Spiral 2 dev kit that was showcased last year. The consumer version of the Project Ara is further delayed and will only be available in 2017.

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Weekly Roundup: Coolpad Max, Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus, Smartron t.phone and more

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Coolpad launched its flagship Coolpad Max in India this week. It is their high-end smartphone that will also be available from Amazon exclusively. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Coolpad Max, Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus, Smartron t.phone and more”

Levi and Google introduce smart commuter jacket powered by Project Jacquard

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Levi and Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) have partnered to introduce its latest wearable technology – the Levi’s Commuter x Jacquard by Google Trucker Jacket at the Google I/O 2016. It is based on Google’s Project Jacquard that was announced at the I/O developer conference last year.

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Google Awareness API to power contextually aware apps

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Google has launched Awareness API that will allow developers to make apps aware of their surroundings. Announced at I/O conference, the new framework helps apps with a basic understanding of your phone’s actual surroundings.

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LG G5 now available for pre-order in India from Flipkart for Rs. 52990

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Yesterday LG announced that it will begin pre-orders for the flagship LG G5 smartphone in India starting today. Now the phone is available on pre-order exclusively on Flipkart for Rs. 52,990. Customers who pre-book the phone till May 30, 2016 will get a free LG Cam Plus companion device. After pre-order you can head to LG India website to fill the form providing your details and the invoice copy to redeem the free LG Cam Plus.

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