We have already heard a bunch of rumors and reports about Apple’s iPhone 6S. Today KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is stating that that the next-generation iPhone will adopt Series 7000 aluminum.
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Micromax has launched Canvas Sliver 5, the company’s slimmest smartphone in the Canvas series. It has a 4.8-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by a 1.2 GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX219 sensor, Blue Glass Filter, LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Micromax says that it is the slimmest smartphone ever at 5.1mm thickness end-to-end without any bumps. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Sliver 5 with 4.8-inch HD AMOLED display, 5.1mm thickness, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 17999”
OnePlus One has received a new Cyanogen OS 12.0 incremental update to fix touchscreen sensitivity issues, as the company promised last month. The company already said that it has been working with Synaptics, developer of touch and biometrics hardware to fix the bug. The build YNG1TAS2I3 also fixes Bluetooth connectivity when connecting to in-car system and issues in sending MMS. Continue reading “OnePlus One gets a new Cyanogen OS 12 incremental update to fix touchscreen issues”
Twitter has announced the acquisition of a Whetlab, a startup focused on machine learning technology. Whetlab confirmed the acquisition on its website while Twitter announced it via an official tweet.
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Google is revamping Google Trends by introducing real time data to its services. The company claims that this is the biggest update to Google Trends since 2012.
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Samsung has responded to the recent news about Galaxy phones being at a risk due to pre-installed keyboards. The company is developing a patch for the Swiftkey vulnerability that will be rolled out as an over the air update to Galaxy phones.
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Earlier this month, we had told you that the Motorola Moto 360’s Android Wear 5.1.1 update was being delayed due to performance issues. Now it seems that the update has been fixed as they’re now rolling out the update to the devices.
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The emoji icons spotted on your phone’s keyboard are all part of an international standard that ensures that the icons are visible across devices and platforms. As part of Unicode 8, the Consortium has added 41 new emoji which cover a wide range of uses and emotions including a face with rolling eyes, a hugging face, taco, cheese and even a unicorn. Continue reading “Popcorn, Cricket and Robot Emoji headed to your phone as part of Unicode 8”
In a major organization reshuffle, Microsoft has announced the departure of two key executives. Stephen Elop, ex CEO of Nokia, had helmed the sale of the erstwhile smartphone giant to Microsoft. Jo Harlow, a high ranking member of the Nokia leadership, is also departing from the company. Harlow reported directly to Stephen Elop and was instrumental in the decision to kill future feature phones and also the Android powered X series of phones. Continue reading “Stephen Elop & Jo Harlow quit Microsoft as part of organization reshuffle”
Sharp, one of the most highly regarded manufacturers of smartphone displays, has announced that it has begun wide scale manufacturing of its new in-cell type touch displays. These displays are thinner and lighter and provide more flexibility to smartphone manufacturers to add more features within the space constraints of modern phones. Continue reading “Sharp announces mass production of in-cell type touch panels to facilitate thinner phones”
OnePlus has been relatively coy about the upcoming successor to their first handset, the OnePlus One. The sophomore release of the phone is being revealed piecemeal with the release date still unknown. On that note, the company took to its forums to reveal that the handset will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chipset.
In particular, the company has chosen to go with v2.1 of the processor. The Snapdragon 810 is an Octa Core chipset and is 64bit compatible. In terms of capabilities, the chipset will let users steam 4K video as well as record ultra HD video. The capabilities of the Snapdragon 810 chip are well known but OnePlus claims to have integrated a newer, version 2.1, of the chipset into the handset which goes a long way in fixing the problems associated with overheating. The Snapdragon 810 chipset has been widely panned for overheating and the likes of LG too haven’t been able to resolve this issue.Indeed the solution so far has been thermal throttling of the chipset which results in decreased performance. The problem is documented well enough to have forced LG to opt for a slightly lower end hexa core 808 chipset that delivers similar real world performance with none of the heating issues.
In addition to the work done on reducing heating issues in collaboration with Qualcomm on a chipset level, OnePlus is also employing layers of thermal gel and graphite to dissipate heat evenly. While practically all multicore phones actively delegate tasks to individual processors based on computing requirements, OnePlus claims to have deviced a proprietary solution that ensures that such tasks aren’t assigned to adjoining processor cores as far as possible.
It certainly seems like OnePlus is working hard to mitigate any overheating issues that have plagued the Snapdragon 810 chipset as they go ahead with integrating the SoC into their upcoming flagship. We’ve seen mixed results from the efforts made by larger smartphone manufacturers so we do feel a bit skeptical about the company’s ability to achieve these results. The OnePlus 2 will be out later this year and we can’t wait to find out if the company delivers on its promise when it comes to a high end, yet cool computing experience.
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OnePlus slashed the price of the OnePlus One smartphone by $50 permanently earlier this month for purchases through the company’s global portal OnePlus.net. Today, OnePlus India has announced a temporary price cut of Rs. 2000 for the 64GB Sandstone Black version. This is the first time the company is reducing the price of the smartphone in India. Continue reading “OnePlus One 64GB gets a price cut for a day in India, available for Rs. 19998 on June 18”
Xiaomi Mi 4 64GB variant got a price cut to Rs. 19,999 last week, down from Rs. 21,999. Today Xiaomi has announced a price cut for the 16GB variant in India, which has received a Rs. 3000 price cut to celebrate its recent achievement of selling over 10 million (1 crore) units of Mi 4 smartphones worldwide. Now the 16GB Mi 4 variant is available for Rs. 14,999, down from the launch price of Rs. 19,999. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 4 16GB gets another price cut in India, now available for Rs. 14999”
Amazon has launched New Kindle Paperwhite e-reader with a 6-inch screen at 300 PPI pixel density, similar to the Kindle Voyage. The 2nd generation Kindle Paperwhite has a 6-inch 212 ppi screen. It also has new Kindle font Bookerly, an exclusive font designed from the ground up for reading on digital screens and all-new typesetting engine that lays out words just as the author intended, which dynamically adjusts the layout as the reader changes the text size. Continue reading “Amazon launches New Kindle Paperwhite with 300ppi screen, starts at Rs. 10999”
Despite HTC stating that they don’t have any plans to introduce the One M9+ and E9+ in USA, the two handsets are now available for purchase on Amazon.
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