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Huawei P9 Lite with 5.2-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor official

Huawei P9 Lite leak

Huawei introduced its flagship P9 and P9 Plus smartphones with dual Leica lenses at an event in London yesterday. Now the P9 Lite smartphone that was rumored earlier has gone official in Russia. It packs a 5.2-inch 1080p display, but this is powered by Kirin 650 Octa-Core processor, instead of Kirin 955 SoC. It also lacks dual rear cameras, instead it has a single 13-megapixel camera on the back. It runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with EMUI 4.1 on top. Continue reading “Huawei P9 Lite with 5.2-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor official”

Huawei P9 and P9 Plus with dual 12MP Leica cameras, slim full metal body announced

Huawei P9

Huawei just announced P9 and P9 Plus flagship smartphones at an event in London, as it had promised. The main highlight of these smartphones are the dual 12-megapixel rear cameras with Leica SUMMARIT lenses and 1.25-micron pixels promising brilliant image quality in low-light conditions. It also has an independent depth measurement chip and proprietary hybrid-focus technology. These phones also have full manual control and RAW support. Continue reading “Huawei P9 and P9 Plus with dual 12MP Leica cameras, slim full metal body announced”

OnePlus One Android 6.0 Cyanogen OS 13 update in final testing stage

Few moths back OnePlus promised to roll out Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) update for the OnePlus One and the OnePlus 2 smartphones in Q1 2016. It released the OxygenOS 3.0 Beta based on Android 6.0.1 for the OnePlus 2 last week. Today OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei revealed that the Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) update with Cyanogen OS 13 is in final testing stage. Continue reading “OnePlus One Android 6.0 Cyanogen OS 13 update in final testing stage”

HTC Vive Phone Companion app now available on the Play Store

Vive Companion app

HTC has released a Vive Phone Companion app which pairs your smartphone to your Vive headset and allows you to correspond with incoming calls and text messages.

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OnePlus X gets OxygenOS 2.2.1 update with several bug fixes and optimizations

Oneplus X OxygenOS 2.2.1

OnePlus yesterday started rolling out Oxygen OS v2.2.1 OTA update for the OnePlus X smartphone, couple of months after it rolled out the OxygenOS 2.2.0 update. This update fixes several bugs, includes GMS 3.0 upgrade and general bug fixes and optimizations. Check out the complete changelog below. Continue reading “OnePlus X gets OxygenOS 2.2.1 update with several bug fixes and optimizations”

Meizu m3 note with 5.5-inch 1080p display, metal body, fingerprint sensor announced

Meizu m3 note

Meizu just announced m3 note, the successor of last year’s m2 note in China. It has a same 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P10 processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Flyme OS on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) for fast focus in just 0.2 seconds and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Meizu m3 note with 5.5-inch 1080p display, metal body, fingerprint sensor announced”

Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) Benchmarks

Samsung Galaxy J3 2016 benchmarks_fonearena

Samsung launched the Galaxy J3 (2016), it’s latest 4G smartphone in India for Rs. 8,990 last week. We already brought you the unboxing and the photo of the smartphone. It is powered by a quad-core Spreadtrum SC9830 processor with four ARM Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 1.5GHz per core and has Mali-400 GPU. It has a  5-inch HD Super AMOLED display and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS. Check out the benchmark scores below. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) Benchmarks”

Microsoft Surface Phone with three variants may come in 2017

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Last year, Microsoft was said to be working on a Surface Phone that was expected to be launched in the second half of 2016. Now, a new report is claiming that the company is pushing the timeframe for releasing the phone to 2017. Continue reading “Microsoft Surface Phone with three variants may come in 2017”

HP Spectre announced as the world’s thinnest laptop

HP Spectre

HP has announced Spectre, which is currently the world’s thinnest laptop at just 10.4mm, thinner than 13.1mm MacBook. It has a 13.3-inch edge-to-edge 1080p scratch resistant edge-to-edge Corning Gorilla Glass display, is powered by 6th Core i5 or i7 processors, supports up to 8GB of RAM, up to 512GB PCIe SSD, has three USB Type-C connectors, two of which support Thunderbolt. It runs on Windows 10 and has Stereo speakers by Bang & Olufsen with HP Audio Boost technology. Continue reading “HP Spectre announced as the world’s thinnest laptop”

Android Auto comes to India and other countries

google-android-auto

Google’s Android Auto has finally entered India along with 17 other countries. This is Android Auto’s biggest international roll out so far as the in-car operating system is now available in a total of 29 countries which is up from 11.  Continue reading “Android Auto comes to India and other countries”

HTC Desire 626 Dual SIM Review

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HTC recently launched its mid-range Desire series smartphone the Desire 626 Dual SIM in India at Rs. 14,990. The phone is available at a much lower price already, but it still doesn’t have that competitive specifications on paper for its price segment of devices. Considering that it comes from a reputed brand like HTC, we decided to give it a closer look and here’s our full review of the Desire 626 for you. Continue reading “HTC Desire 626 Dual SIM Review”