Vivo India ropes in Aamir Khan as brand ambassador

Vivo today announced that it has signed Aamir Khan as its brand ambassador for India. This comes ahead of the V9 smartphone launch later this week. He will soon be seen in a full-fledged marketing campaign around the upcoming products and will feature in a new television commercial, said the company.

Garmin vivofit 4 with always-on color display, over one-year battery life launched in India for Rs. 4999

Garmin just launched vivofit 4 fitness tracker, successor of last year’s vivofit 3. It was introduced at the CES 2018, has an always-on color display for the first time in the vivofit series, comes with one-year battery life and the Move IQ captures different activities, such as walking, running, biking, swimming and using an elliptical, to view on Garmin Connect.

Over 4 lakh Xiaomi Redmi 5 smartphones will go on sale in India on March 20

Xiaomi launched its budget Redmi 5 smartphone in India last week and said that it will be available exclusively from Amazon.in as well as  Mi.com and Mi Home Stores starting March 20th. Today the company has announced that over 4 lakh units will be available for tomorrow’s sale compared to 3 lakh units for the Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro that … Continue reading “Over 4 lakh Xiaomi Redmi 5 smartphones will go on sale in India on March 20”

Apple said to be developing its own MicroLED display for future devices

Apple for the first time is said to be developing its own MicroLED display panels for future devices in a secret manufacturing facility in California. According to a report from Bloomberg, the company will use Apple Watch as its first product for the newly developed MicroLED technology.

Microsoft Edge Browser beta now available for iPad

Microsoft first introduced the Edge Browser beta for Android and iOS back in October 2017 and during the announcement it mentioned that browser for iPads will be made available soon, and now the day has finally arrived. Edge Browser is now finally available for iPads in beta via the Apple TestFlight system.

Weekly Roundup: Xiaomi Redmi 5, Honor 7C, Alcatel 1x Android Oreo (Go Edition), Fitbit Versa and more

This week Xiaomi launched its budget Redmi 5 smartphone in India. Huawei’s Honor brand introduced the Honor 7C in China, Huawei introduced the P20 Lite and Nova 2 lite, Micromax launched the Bharat 5 Pro, and lots more that happened this week in our weekly roundup.

Xiaomi Blackshark SKR-A0 gaming phone with Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM surfaces again in benchmarks

A new smartphone code-named Blackshark surfaced on AnTuTu, now the phone has surfaced on Geekbench listing revealing the code-name of the phone as  SKR-A0. This is believed to be Xiaomi’s first gaming smartphone under the new  Black shark brand, in which Xiaomi started investing last year.

Honor 9 Lite gets new Ride Mode safety feature via OTA update in India, coming to Honor 7X and Honor 9i soon

Huawei’s Honor Brand recently rolled out Face Unlock feature for the Honor 9 Lite smartphone in India. Today the company has started rolling out another over-the-air (OTA) update that bring new Ride Mode feature, exclusively for Honor 9 Lite smartphone in India, where numbers of road accidents are high due to several factors like distracted driving and mobile … Continue reading “Honor 9 Lite gets new Ride Mode safety feature via OTA update in India, coming to Honor 7X and Honor 9i soon”

Google Lens coming to more Android and iOS devices [Update: Now rolling out to iOS devices in Google Photos]

Update 2: As promised, Google has started rolling out the Lens feature through Google Photos for iOS devices as well. You just need to update the app to version 3.15.0 via the App Store. It is rolling out in batches from today and will reach everyone by next week.

Intel’s upcoming Xeon Scalable processors to include hardware protection against Spectre and Meltdown

Spectre and Meltdown are two most security vulnerabilities that shook up the tech world and these mostly affected every single Intel processor that released in the past decade. These vulnerabilities gave away access to sensitive data like usernames and passwords despite being stored in protected memory.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro launched in China with f/1.9 aperture camera, Dual 4G VoLTE, Android Oreo, Quick Charge 3.0

Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 5 Pro smartphone in India last month. The company today launched the phone in China today as Redmi Note 5 AI Dual Camera. Even though the phone has the same 5.99-inch Full HD+ 2.5D curved glass screen, Snapdragon 636 SoC with up to 6GB RAM, Hybrid Dual SIM slot, 4000mAh battery and comes … Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro launched in China with f/1.9 aperture camera, Dual 4G VoLTE, Android Oreo, Quick Charge 3.0”

Google Play Protect took down over 39 million apps from Play Store in 2017

Google today released 4th annual “Android security year in review,” and announced that its Play Protection technology has successfully taken down over 39 million from Play Store in 2017. Play protect was announced back in May 2017 at the I/O event.

Spotify working on launching its music streaming service in India soon confirms CEO Daniel Ek

At the investors day presentation, Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek confirmed that the company is working launching its services in India. Apart from India, the company is also working on bringing its services to other major markets in the world like Russia, and Africa which according to Daniel has rich musical culture.

Swiftkey 7.0 for Android and iOS brings new Toolbar, Stickers, GIFs and more; Location and Calendar sharing coming soon

Microsoft has updated Swiftkey app to version 7.0 for Android and iOS, which is a major update since it acquired it back in 2016. The update brings new Toolbar to easily access  Themes, Clipboard and more on Android and iOS. The toolbar replaces the existing Hub on Android. It also brings Stickers / Emoji that you can … Continue reading “Swiftkey 7.0 for Android and iOS brings new Toolbar, Stickers, GIFs and more; Location and Calendar sharing coming soon”

Audeze Mobius 3D surround-sound gaming headphones announced

Audeze has introduced the first cinematic 3D audio headphones; Mobius which are specially designed for gaming. The headphones combine the planar magnetic technology, and other technologies like Head-Tracking, Room Emulation, and Sound localization to unlock the full potential of Gaming Audio.