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Vivo V7 with 5.7-inch FullView display, 24MP front camera launched in India for Rs. 18990

Vivo V7

Vivo just launched the V7 smartphone in India, as it had promised. It packs a  5.7-inch (1440 x 720 pixels) FullView display with 18:9 aspect ratio, narrow bezels and 83.6% screen-to-body ratio, compared to the 5.99-inch FullView display on the V7+. It has the same 24-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash, Face Beauty 7.0, Face unlock and Portrait mode and a 16-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) and LED flash. Continue reading “Vivo V7 with 5.7-inch FullView display, 24MP front camera launched in India for Rs. 18990”

Uber launches mobile web version in India, pilots offline search, call to get a ride and more

Uber Web app and offline search

Uber today at its ‘Building for India’ event launched  m.uber.com, a light mobile web version. It also piloted new app features – offline search, request for a guest and call to book a ride, ahead of roll out. Continue reading “Uber launches mobile web version in India, pilots offline search, call to get a ride and more”

Airtel, Karbonn launch A1 Indian and A41 Power 4G phones at effective price of Rs. 1799 and Rs. 1849

Karbonn A1 Indian

Airtel partnered with Karbonn Mobiles last month to launch Karbonn A40 Indian, 4G VoLTE phone at an effective price of Rs. 1399. Later it launched the  Celkon Smart 4G at an effective price of Rs. 1349. Now it has launched two more Karbonn 4G VoLTE smartphones – Karbonn A1 Indian with support for 22 Indian languages and A41 Power with a 2300mAh battery
at effective rates of Rs. 1799 and Rs. 1849, respectively. Continue reading “Airtel, Karbonn launch A1 Indian and A41 Power 4G phones at effective price of Rs. 1799 and Rs. 1849”

OnePlus 5T with 6.01-inch full-screen display, dual rear cameras launched in India at a starting price of Rs. 32999

OnePlus 5T

OnePlus just introduced its flagship OnePlus 5T smartphone at an event in  Brooklyn, New York as it had promised. It has a 6.01-inch Full HD+ Optic AMOLED Display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, 80.5% screen-to-body ratio and with DCI-P3 color coverage, compared to the 5.5-inch 1080p screen on the OnePlus 5 , but body is almost same. Since it has a large screen, it doesn’t have a home button and ceramic fingerprint sensor has been moved to the back to unlock the phone in 0.2 seconds. Continue reading “OnePlus 5T with 6.01-inch full-screen display, dual rear cameras launched in India at a starting price of Rs. 32999”

Xiaomi to open its second Mi Home Store in Chennai on November 18

Mi Home Chennai Forum Mall

Xiaomi opened its first Mi Home Store in Chennai at Forum Mall in Vadapalani back in September. Today it has announced that it will open its second Mi Home Store in the city at Express Avenue Mall in Royapettah on November 18th, Saturday. It already has Mi Home Stores in Bengaluru, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and recently Pune.  Continue reading “Xiaomi to open its second Mi Home Store in Chennai on November 18”

Panasonic P91 with 5-inch display, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 6490

Panasonic P91

Panasonic has launched P91, a new budget smartphone in the ‘P series’ with support for 4G VoLTE. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6737 processor, runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat), has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Panasonic P91 with 5-inch display, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 6490”

Gionee M7 Power with 6-inch FullView display, 5000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 16999

Gionee M7 Power

Gionee has launched the M7 Power smartphone in India, as it had promised. It was introduced in China at the end of September, later it was introduced for global markets, and packs a 6-inch (1440 x 720 pixels) HD+ 18:9 FullView display with 85% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Snapdragon 435 and packs a 5000mAh battery with intelligent power management that promises up to 2 days of battery life. Continue reading “Gionee M7 Power with 6-inch FullView display, 5000mAh battery launched in India for Rs. 16999”

Timex BLINK activity tracker with OLED Display launched starting at Rs. 4495

Timex Blink

Timex today launched the BLINK activity tracker in India in association with Indian consumer technology start-up BLINK. The  activity tracker combines signature elements of a traditional watch with sophisticated technology for tracking your daily activities. Continue reading “Timex BLINK activity tracker with OLED Display launched starting at Rs. 4495”

Lenovo Tab 7 with 6.98-inch display, 4G LTE, voice calling launched in India for Rs. 9999

Lenovo Tab 7

Lenovo has launched Tab 7, the company’s latest budget tablet with support for 4G LTE and voice calling in India. It has a 6.98-inch HD screen, is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat), has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo Tab 7 with 6.98-inch display, 4G LTE, voice calling launched in India for Rs. 9999”

Airtel launches VoLTE services in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Airtel VoLTE

After Mumbai, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra & Goa and Gujarat, Airtel has launched its 4G VoLTE services in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana officially, after testing for sometime. This lets Airtel customers enjoy HD quality voice calls along with faster call set up time compared to normal voice calls on their VoLTE-compatible 4G handsets. Continue reading “Airtel launches VoLTE services in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana”

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 Review

Xiaomi Redmi Y1_fonearena-05

Xiaomi launched the Redmi Y1, a budget smartphone under the new ‘Redmi Y’ series in India earlier this month. This introduced in China recently as Redmi Note 5A. This comes after a successful Redmi 4 that was launched earlier this year. This also comes with a 16-megapixel front-facing camera that you rarely see in smartphones in the price range. Specifications of the phone look impressive for the price, is this one of the best in the price range? Let us find out in the review. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi Y1 Review”

Infinix Zero 5 with 5.98-inch 1080p display, 6GB RAM, dual rear cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 17999

Infinix Zero 5

Hong Kong-based Infinix forayed into India back in August with Hot 4 Pro and Note 4 smartphone. Today it has launched its top-end Infinix Zero 5 smartphone in the country at an event in Dubai. It has a 5.98-inch 1080p display, is powered by  MediaTek Helio P25 Octa-Core SoC with 6GB of RAM, runs Android 7.0 (Nougat), features 12-megapixel rear camera with wide-angle lens along with a 13-megapixel secondary camera with telephoto lens offering 2x optical zoom and portrait mode. It also has a 16-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. Continue reading “Infinix Zero 5 with 5.98-inch 1080p display, 6GB RAM, dual rear cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 17999”

Sony a7R III 42MP full-frame mirrorless camera launched in India for Rs. 2,64,990

Sony a7R III

Sony today a7R III (ILCE-7RM3), the company’s latest camera in the mirrorless camera lineup in India. It was announced last month and is the successor of a7R II that was introduced back in 2015. It has a 42.4 MP back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS image sensor with shooting speeds at up to 10 fps with full AF/AE tracking, 4K video recording, wide 15-stop dynamic range, high sensitivity with noise reduction of almost a full stop and more. It has the same  compact, lightweight body as the predecessor. Continue reading “Sony a7R III 42MP full-frame mirrorless camera launched in India for Rs. 2,64,990”

Xiaomi catches up with Samsung to become India’s top smartphone vendor in Q3 2017: IDC

Xiaomi Mi A1_fonearena-10

A total of 39 million smartphones were shipped to India in Q3 2017, which is a new record with substantial 40% Quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) growth and a healthy 21% Year-on-year (YoY) growth, according to the latest International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. India smartphone shipments accounted for 10% of the global smartphone shipments for the first time ever in a quarter. Xiaomi already said that it has shipped 9.2 million phones in the quarter, now IDC reveals that it has 23.5% market share for the quarter, same as Samsung.

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