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The Department of Telecommunications today has approved the state-owned BSNL plan to seek airwaves in the 2100 Mhz band to launch 4G services pan-India. BSNL in 2017 has submitted a detailed project report and in a bid to acquire spectrum worth about Rs 13,885 crore, and sought Rs 6,652 crore as equity infusion from the government. Continue reading “BSNL gets Government approval for 4G services, wide roll out expected soon”
FiiO Electronics Technology launches the M3K Portable High-Resolution Lossless Music Player in India. It sports a 2.0-inch IPS screen with capacitive buttons + touchpad for operation. There are five sets of touch buttons to make getting around the UI easy: next/previous track, confirmation, back, and menu keys. It comes with an all-aluminium unibody construction with tempered glass to protect the display from scratches. Continue reading “FiiO M3K Portable High-Resolution Lossless Music Player launched in India for Rs. 6990”
Instagram has confirmed that it is testing a new feature that would allow users to tag their friends in video posts, not just limiting the tagging feature to photos. The feature would work similarly to photo tagging, but instead of pressing the small icon at the bottom left, it might be more difficult with videos. Continue reading “Instagram confirms it is testing video tagging feature”
Apple recently scheduled ‘Gather Round’ special event on September 12th where the company is expected to introduce its new iPhones, iPad, MacBooks, Apple Watch, and much more. The company’s new iPhone line-up includes a 6.5-inch OLED iPhone XS Max, 5.8-inch OLED iPhone X successor – iPhone XS and a cheaper 6.1-inch LCD model called iPhone Xr all with a notch, Face ID with the gesture-based control system and new A12 processor. Continue reading “Here’s what to expect from Apple’s iPhone event on September 12”
Vivo has announced plans to spearhead industry development of pre-commercial 5G smartphones through the introduction of 5G software and hardware based on Vivo NEX S smartphone. The company has also announced that it has completed the initial development of 5G smartphone software and hardware on Vivo NEX S. Continue reading “Vivo spearheads 5G-enabled NEX S with Qualcomm X50 modem”
Samsung today opened the world’s largest mobile experience centre in at Opera House on Brigade Road in Bengaluru. This will showcase differentiated product experiences, built around Samsung’s philosophy of Discover Tomorrow Today, and will include transformative technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT). Continue reading “Samsung opens world’s largest mobile experience centre at Opera House in Bengaluru”
OnePlus is expected to launch its next flagship device purportedly called as OnePlus 6T in upcoming days. As per the recent rumor, the company is likely to launch a new pair of Bullets Wireless headphones as well. Continue reading “New OnePlus Bullets Wireless Headphones passes through the FCC, could launch alongside OnePlus 6T”
Back at Google I/O, search engine giant announced some features and enhancement for Google News. Today, Google has announced new data-saving changes for the News app, which is expected to serve those with low internet connectivity. Continue reading “Google News gets new features to save data and work seamlessly on Android Go phones”
Xiaomi introduced the Mi Band 3 along with the Mi 8 in China back in May, and the fitness tracker when on sale on June 5th. The company already announced that it has sold 1 million units of the Mi Band 3 in just 17 days. Today the company has announced that the sales have now crossed 5 million units globally in just 3 months of launch. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Band 3 sales cross 5 million globally in 3 months, NFC Edition available from September 19”
NVIDIA today announced the rollout of SHIELD Software Experience Upgrade 7.1 bringing a host of new features, improvements and the return of one community favorite. It brings new in-game voice chat support for communicating in top titles like Fortnite and PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS. You can now connect a headset and mic to the SHIELD controller 3.5mm jack. Continue reading “NVIDIA Shield TV v7.1 update brings in-game voice chat, 120Hz display support and more”
Samsung Electronics today announced its new SmartThings Tracker, which is its small, lightweight GPS tracking device connected through an LTE-M network that can easily be attached to backpacks, a set of keys, pet collars and more. Continue reading “Samsung SmartThings Tracker with LTE-M, GPS announced”
Nokia and Sprint today announced that they will showcase the first live demonstration of a 5G New Radio (NR) connection over a dual mode-capable Massive MIMO radio at Sprint’s booth during Mobile World Congress Americas. For this, both the companies will use Sprint’s 2.5 GHz spectrum, Nokia’s commercial AirScale Base Station and Massive MIMO Active Antenna, and a VIAVI TM500 5G test device emulator. Continue reading “Sprint and Nokia to demo First Live 5G NR Connection over Massive MIMO”
Verizon, Ericsson, and Qualcomm Technologies today announced that they have completed the first end-to-end call with a smartphone form factor test device on a commercial 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) network in Minneapolis, MN. This test demonstrates the experience consumers will eventually have on a commercial 5G NR network when it becomes available. Continue reading “Verizon completes first 5G NR call on a commercial network with simulated smartphone”
After being in developers preview over the past few months, Google today announced that its Photos Library API is now generally available. Those who wish to build and test their own experience can join the partner program for a larger integration. Continue reading “Google opens up Photos Library API to everyone”
Qualcomm just introduced Snapdragon Wear 3100, the company’s next generation smartwatch platform and the successor of Snapdragon Wear 2100 that was introduced back in 2016. This based on a new ultra-low power hierarchical system architecture. In this hierarchical architecture, the high-performance quad core A7 processor, the highly efficient integrated DSP, and the new ultra-low power co-processor work in conjunction with each other to fundamentally look to re-imagine smartwatch experiences – enhance existing ones, bring-in new ones – while supporting extended battery life.
