Huawei P9 launch event scheduled for April 6 in London

Huawei P9 launch invite

Huawei has sent out press invites for the launch of its upcoming flagship P9 smartphone at an event in London on April 6th, as rumored earlier. Even though the invite doesn’t mention that it will unveil the P9, the two circles reveal dual rear cameras on the smartphone. It also has a tagline – Change the way you see the world, which again hints at the phone’s camera that is said to come with Leica lenses after its recent partnership. Continue reading “Huawei P9 launch event scheduled for April 6 in London”

Yahoo Mail for Android gets new themes and other personalized features

Yahoo Mail for Android is getting a fresh look with new customized options. The update that bumps the app to version 5.3 is getting a new set of custom color themes

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Opera Mini 15 for Android brings Video Boost to compress videos

Opera Mini 15 for Android Video Boost

Opera has updated its Opera Mini app for Android to version 15 that brings a new video boost feature that offers smoother video viewing using Opera’s video boost technology that reduces the size of video data, to lessen video loading time and combat buffering delays and also extend save data. The update also adds option to save files to the SD card in compatible phones, “Wi-Fi data savings” in the high data-savings settings for users on poor Wi-Fi connection and more.

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Truecaller for Android gets Smart Call History, new dialer to make calls and more

Truecaller for Android Smart Call History and Dialer

Truecaller has updated its Android app that brings integrated features such as Smart Call History, Availability and a new added dialer to make calls. “In 2014, we launched Truedialer to bring similar improvements to the dialer, which had not evolved since the introduction of the smartphone. Truecaller is now bringing many of the great features from Truedialer and integrating them into Truecaller, giving you full control your entire calling experience with just one app,” said the company. Continue reading “Truecaller for Android gets Smart Call History, new dialer to make calls and more”

Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge launched in India for Rs. 48900 and Rs. 56900

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Samsung just launched its flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones in India, as it had promised last week. Both these were announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, pack a 5.1-inch Quad HD and 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED always-on displays, respectively. These are powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 8 Octa 8890 SoC, run Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), come with a 12-megapixel Dual pixel rear camera with LED flash, OIS and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge launched in India for Rs. 48900 and Rs. 56900”

Google Photos gets Live Photos support for iOS

Google Photos is adding an important feature on iOS with the latest update. The iPhone and iPad app for Google Photos now supports Live Photos, a feature Apple rolled out along with the 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus devices.

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Facebook Messenger for Android gets Material Design makeover

Facebook is finally releasing a Material Design update for Messenger on Android. The latest update revamps the app with Material Design elements like bold colors, cleaner and more colorful UI.

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LG Stylus 2 launched in Korea, pricing revealed

LG Stylus 2

LG unveiled the Stylus 2, successor of last year’s G4 Stylus, ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona last month. Now the company has released the smartphone in Korea, as it had promised. It packs a 5.7-inch HD in-cell touch display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “LG Stylus 2 launched in Korea, pricing revealed”

Google rolls out March Android security update for Nexus devices

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Google has started rolling out new over-the-air (OTA) update for Nexus devices and also posted factory images as part of monthly Android Security release. The Android version is still at Android 6.0.1, but the latest update fixes several critical issues, including issues in Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Mediaserver and libvpx, Elevation of Privilege in Conscrypt, Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in the Qualcomm Performance Component, MediaTek Wi-Fi Driver and in Keyring Component. Continue reading “Google rolls out March Android security update for Nexus devices”

Intex Aqua Twist with rotating camera now available for Rs. 4999, Cloud Force coming soon

Intex Aqua Twist

Intex Aqua Twist, the company’s latest smartphone with a 5-megapixel rotating camera is now available from HomeShop18. Another budget smartphone, Cloud Force has been listed on the official website. Both the phones pack a 5-inch FWVGA screen, are powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core SoC, pack 1GB of RAM, run on Android 5.1 (Lollipop), have dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Intex Aqua Twist with rotating camera now available for Rs. 4999, Cloud Force coming soon”

Sony starts rolling out Android Marshmallow 6.0 update for global Xperia Z5 series, Z3 Plus and Z4 tablet

Sony has started rolling out Android Marshmallow 6.0 update for a couple of devices. First up, the update is coming to the Japanese variants of the entire Xperia Z5 lineup which includes the Xperia Z5, Z5 Compact and the Z5 Premium. The update will soon follow the global variants in the coming weeks.

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Huawei P9 expected to launch on April 6

We have already seen a couple of press renders of the Huawei P9 and now a possible launch date is revealed by @evleaks. According to the popular tipster, the upcoming flagship from Huawei is expected to launched on April 6th.

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HTC 10 tipped to be launched on April 19

Last week, we saw a couple of live and press images of the HTC 10, thanks to popular tipsters @evleaks and @onleaks. Today, Evan Blass aka @evleaks has revealed a possible launch date of the company’s upcoming flagship.

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BlackBerry Priv Benchmarks

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BlackBerry launched its flagship Priv smartphone running Android earlier this year for Rs. 62,990. We already brought you the photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by a Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 64-bit 20nm processor that has two bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.82GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.44GHz per core with 600 MHz Adreno 418 GPU. It has 3GB of RAM, 5.43-inch Quad HD AMOLED display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.

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BlackBerry Priv Photo Gallery

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BlackBerry announced the Priv Android Slider in October last year following which the phone was launched in India in January this year for Rs. 62,990. Let’s take a detailed look at the hardware and specifications of the first Android phone from BlackBerry in this photo gallery. Continue reading “BlackBerry Priv Photo Gallery”