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OnePlus just launched the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition in India, as it had promised. It was introduced at an event in UK yesterday, packs 10GB of RAM and 30 watt Warp Charge 30, OnePlus’ new charging standard that promises 50% charge in just 20 minutes of charge for a day’s use. That company has used new Integrated Circuits in both the charger and the phone, as well as finely tuned power management software without generating excessive heat.
Supercell, creators of popular Clash of Clans and Clash Royale games announced Brawl Stars, a new 3v3 multiplayer shooter game back in June last year, it soft launched the game in select countries back in June this year. Today it has launched the game globally on both Android and iOS, as it had promised. Continue reading “Supercell releases Brawl Stars real-time multiplayer shooter game for Android and iOS globally”
OnePlus has released Android 9.0 (Pie) open beta update for its 5 and 5T smartphones (Open Beta 22 for the OnePlus 5 and Open Beta 20), ahead of stable roll out in the coming weeks. This comes after the OnePlus 6 got the stable Android Pie-based OxygenOS 9.0 update back in September. The update brings new navigation gestures for the 5T, Parallel Apps support for more phones, and more features. Continue reading “OnePlus 5 and 5T Android 9.0 (Pie) open beta update starts rolling out”
Skullcandy has announced Push, the company’s first truly wireless earbuds with Secure FitFin Gels, Activate Assistant and promises 6 hours of battery life, and additional 6 hours of battery life with the bundled case. The innovative form factor eliminates signal loss and easily control each earbud, says the company.
Continue reading “Skullcandy Push truly wireless earbuds announced”
Following the trend, it set, Google is back with ‘Year in Search’ for 2018. The quick recap highlights all the user’s interests based on the searches made by the users in India on Google and also covers the major events happened in the last 12-month period. Continue reading “Google Year in Search 2018: FIFA World cup 2018, Robot 2.0, Kiki Challenge top trending in India”
Tambo has launched the TA-40 Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone in India. It has a 5.45-inch 18:9 aspect ratio display, is powered by a quad-core SoC with 1GB of RAM, has a 5-megapixel front and rear cameras with LED flash, face unlock, rear-mounted fingerprint sensor and a 2400mAh battery.
Portronics Digital has launched the MUFFS G – Bluetooth 4.2 stereo headphones with an Aux-in option. It comes with soft cushioned ear-cups and headband. The Muffs G offers extra comfort and noise cancellation feature and the rugged foldable design ensures durability. Continue reading “Portronics MUFFS G wireless headphones launched for Rs. 1999”
Instagram is said to be testing new creator-specific accounts that will give users specialized tools. The “creator account” is meant for the traditional talent, digital influencers, and artists on the platform. These tools include growth insights such as data around follows and unfollows; direct messaging tools that allow users to filter notes from. Continue reading “Instagram said to be testing ‘Creator Accounts’ with DM Filters, growth insights and much more”
According to IDC, worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to decline by 3% in 2018 before returning to low single-digit growth in 2019 and through 2022. Despite the on-going US-China trade war, IDC says that it believes that continued developments from emerging markets, combined with potential around 5G and new product form factors, will bring the smartphone market back to positive growth. Continue reading “Worldwide smartphone shipments expected to further decline by 3% in 2018, will return to growth in 2019: IDC”
Google, until now allowed free photo and videos to be uploaded to Photos services as long as they are compressed. However, the company is changing it now, as of December 6th, videos in unsupported formats are no longer included in the free storage. Continue reading “Google Photos no longer offers unlimited storage for unsupported videos”
A new report from security researchers suggests a new trojan preying on Android users. It is first detected by ESET in November 2018, the malware combines the capabilities of a remotely controlled banking Trojan with a novel misuse of Android Accessibility services, to target users of the official PayPal app. Continue reading “Android Trojan said to be stealing money from PayPal accounts even with 2FA enabled”
LG has announced new ultra-light gram laptop line-up and will showcase the same at CES 2019. This new laptop in the gram series includes the new LG gram 17 (model 17Z990) and 14-inch LG gram 2-in-1 which conveniently folds to transform from laptop to tablet. Continue reading “LG Gram 17 with 8th gen Intel core processor, 16GB RAM, fingerprint reader and LG Gram 14 2-in-1 convertible announced”
After a leak, Huawei P Smart (2019) a mid-range smartphone has been listed by a French retailer revealing complete specifications and images. It has a 6.21-inch Full HD+ waterdrop notch display with 19:5:9 aspect ratio and over 90% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Kirin 710 SoC with 3GB RAM, support for GPU Turbo 2.0 and runs Android 9.0 (Pie) with EMUI 9.0 on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/1.8 aperture along with a secondary 2-megapixel camera for AI portraits and AI scene detection.
After Nokia 7.1 Plus Stable Pie update in last month, HMD Global is now pushing out Pie beta update for the Nokia 8 before stable roll out. The company already announced that Nokia 8 and Nokia 8 Sirocco would get Pie update in November, but there was a slight delay in pushing out the update. Continue reading “Nokia 8 gets Android 9.0 (Pie) beta update as the stable update is delayed”
Vivo just introduced its flagship NEX series smartphone with dual displays as it had promised. The main highlight of the smartphone is its 6.39-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED screen with 91.63% screen-to-body ratio and a secondary display on the back with 5.49-inch FHD resolution. It is powered by Snapdragon 845 with 10GB of RAM and runs Android 9.0 (Pie) with Funtouch OS 4.5 on top. It has a 12-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX363 sensor, 4-axis OIS, similar to the first-gen NEX, but this uses a 2-megapixel secondary night vision camera with 2.9μm pixel size, as well as additional TOF 3D Sensing camera for high-precision 3D depth information using 300,000 infrared points. Continue reading “Vivo NEX dual screen smartphone with Snapdragon 845, 10GB RAM, TOF 3D camera, in-display fingerprint sensor announced”
