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General Mobile GM 6 Android One phone with 5-inch display, Android 7.0, 4G LTE, Fingerprint sensor announced

General Mobile GM 6

General Mobile has announced GM 6, its latest budget 4G smartphone in the ‘Android One’ lineup in partnership with Google at the Mobile world congress in Barcelona. It runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat), has a 5-inch HD display and a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash, similar to the GM 5 that was introduced a few months back, but this is powered by a MediaTek MT6737T processor instead of Snapdragon 410 SoC, and has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera that also has LED flash. Continue reading “General Mobile GM 6 Android One phone with 5-inch display, Android 7.0, 4G LTE, Fingerprint sensor announced”

Google announces new games for Android and Daydream VR, updates Play Store

Google play store registration

Google has announced new games for Android and Daydream VR at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco. The company has also announced few important updates to Play Store as well. Continue reading “Google announces new games for Android and Daydream VR, updates Play Store”

Nokia 5 is official, runs Android and costs 189 Euros

Nokia is officially making a comeback into the smartphone market. The Finish company at its Mobile World Congress press event in Barcelona revealed its newest mid-range smartphone.

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The Nokia 5 sports a 5.2-inch HD sculpted Corning Gorilla Glass display and as expected, the form fact of the smartphone resembles that of the old Lumia phones. Nokia claims that the device has a perfect 3D shape back, which is made up of single piece aluminium, which according to the company gives the phone added durability.

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Huawei Watch 2 and Watch 2 Classic with Android Wear 2.0 announced

Huawei Watch 2

Huawei has announced second-generation smartwatches – Watch 2 and Watch 2 Classic at MWC 2017, as expected. Both the smartwatches run Android Wear 2.0. Continue reading “Huawei Watch 2 and Watch 2 Classic with Android Wear 2.0 announced”

Google expands RCS with Android Messages to 27 carriers and OEMs worldwide

RCS

Just yesterday, Google rebranded Messenger as Android Messages. Now, the company has officially announced that it is making RCS messaging universally available to users across the world with 27 carriers and device manufacturers launching RCS to Android users with Google. Continue reading “Google expands RCS with Android Messages to 27 carriers and OEMs worldwide”

Google Messenger renamed as Android Messages

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Google had launched standalone SMS app Messenger for Android in 2014. Now, the company is rebranding the app as Android Messages. The renamed app can be seen in Play Store. Google has not revealed the reason behind the rebranding. Continue reading “Google Messenger renamed as Android Messages”

Asus ZenFone Live with real-time beautification technology, metal body announced

Asus ZenFone Live

Asus has announced ZenFone Live (ZB501KL), which the company claims is the world’s first smartphone that offers real-time beautification with live-streaming beautification app. It lets you see your skin smoothed and blemishes removed in real time, says Asus. It also says that BeautyLive integrates seamlessly with Facebook, YouTube, and many other popular streaming apps. The front-facing 5-megapixel camera has large 1.4µm pixel size and a soft light LED selfie flash.

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Gaana music streaming app gets Android Auto support

Gaana Android Auto support

Gaana music streaming app has received Android Auto support that will allow users to stream music via Android Auto compatible phones, vehicles and aftermarket radios. Gaana says that it is the first Indian music streaming app to get Android Auto support. Continue reading “Gaana music streaming app gets Android Auto support”

LG X400 with 5.3-inch display, Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor announced

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LG announced X300 smartphone in Korea last month, which is the K8 that was unveiled ahead of CES 2017. Now it has introduced X400 smartphone, which is the K10 for the Korean market. All the specifications are same as the K10 but the Korean version has HD DMB for mobile TV experience. Continue reading “LG X400 with 5.3-inch display, Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor announced”

WhatsApp Status starts rolling out for Android and iOS, takes on Snapchat and Instagram Stories

After testing out WhatsApp Status back in November last year and rolling out the feature for beta users last week, WhatsApp today officially announced that it will start rolling the Status feature that lets you add photos, videos and emojis to status messages from today. This is similar to Snapchat and Instagram Stories. Continue reading “WhatsApp Status starts rolling out for Android and iOS, takes on Snapchat and Instagram Stories”

Email by EasilyDo with Intelligent Assistant arrives for Android

Email by EasilyDo for Android

After almost a year of launching its ‘Email’ app on iOS, EasilyDo has launched the app for Android. It has a in-built intelligent assistant to keep your shopping, expenses, and travel organized. It also has several features to unsubscribe from junk, snooze messages, undo sent mail, and more. This is mostly like Inbox by Google. Continue reading “Email by EasilyDo with Intelligent Assistant arrives for Android”

Supercell’s Clash Royale mints 1 Billion Dollars in its first year

Clash Royale

Supercell, the company behind games such as Clash Royale and Clash of Clans had generated a revenue of 2.3 Billion US$ during the year 2016. However, we didn’t get a breakdown of the amount generated from each game during the said period until now.

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Xiaomi rolls out MIUI 8.2 Global Stable ROM with improved notification shade toggles, new ringtones and more

Xiaomi MIUI 8.2 Global Stable ROM

Today, Xiaomi has started rolling out latest version of MIUI 8.2 Global Stable ROM for select smartphones. It doesn’t have smart assistant available for MIUI 8.2 China ROM. Continue reading “Xiaomi rolls out MIUI 8.2 Global Stable ROM with improved notification shade toggles, new ringtones and more”

Uber gets a standalone app for Android Wear 2.0

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You can now book an Uber ride directly from wrist if you have a Android Wear 2.0 powered smartwatch. The standalone app lets you request a ride without a smartphone and works completely on its own.

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Meizu M5s with 5.2-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, metal body, fingerprint sensor, 4G VoLTE announced

Meizu m5s

Meizu just announced M5s, an upgraded version of last year’s m3s smartphone an event in China, as it had promised. It packs a 5.2-inch HD 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by a 1.3GHz octa-core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 processor and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with FlyMe OS 6.0 on the top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) that lets you focus in just 0.2 seconds and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Meizu M5s with 5.2-inch HD display, 3GB RAM, metal body, fingerprint sensor, 4G VoLTE announced”