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According to IDC, Indian smartphone shipments reached 30 million units in Q1 2018 and has seen a healthy 11% YoY growth, but it remained flat when compared to the previous quarter; Q4 2017. As expected Xiaomi retained the top position for the second quarter in a row. Continue reading “Smartphone shipments up 11% YoY in Q1 2018 in India, Xiaomi continues to lead with 30.3% share: IDC”
After cutting ZTE from U.S. suppliers for violating North Korea and Iran sanctions, American President Donal Trump Tweets reverse course saying that President Xi of China and him are working together to give ZTE a way to get back into the business, fast. Continue reading “US Govt pledges to bring ZTE back into business”
Meizu’s upcoming smartphones have passed through the FCC. These models come with model numbers M809L and M810L and they are rumored to be the marketed as the Meizu M8c Lite and the Meizu M8c respectively. While the Meizu M8c Lite will ship as an Android Go smartphone, the M8c will be company’s regular budget segment phone. Continue reading “Meizu M8c Lite Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone and M8c pass though the FCC”
Xiaomi has announced a price cut for some of its products in India. This temporary price cut is available across Mi.com as well as during Flipkart’s Big Shopping Days Sale and Amazon Summer Sale that started yesterday. Back in November Xiaomi announced a price cut for some of its accessories. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi Band 2, Mi Router 3C and Mi Car Charger get a temporary price cut in India”
Apple has been hit with class action suit over MacBook, MacBook Pro butterfly switch keyboard failures. The complaint lodged in the Northern District Court of California claims that owners of MacBook models manufactured from 2015 and MacBook Pro models produced from 2016 feating the company’s butterfly keyboard mechanism have experienced some type of failure. Continue reading “Apple hit with class action suit over MacBook, MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard issues”
Consistent updates to the Android ecosystem have been a major setup for Google since a few years now and it looks like Google is making sure it solves the problem to a certain extent at least. The company’s Project Treble made sure that updates are easier and for the first time, the beta version of the next major OS update is made available outside of Pixel devices. Continue reading “Google requires OEMs to roll out Android security patches regularly”
OnePlus 6 all set to go official in a couple of days. Now the official images of the smartphone has surfaced on Amazon Germany that reveals Midnight Black and Mirror Black versions along with the price. This clearly shows the notch, small bezel below the display, metal frame and a glass back for the Mirror Black version and the Midnight Black is said to come with smooth matte finish. Amazon listing also reveals OIS and water-resistant body, but it is not clear if it will be just nano coating like the Moto phones of it will have IP certification.
LG Q7, successor of last year’s Q6 was certified by the FCC last month with the model number LM-Q710TS, now the the phone with the model number LGE LM-Q710.FG has surfaced in geekbench benchmarks that reveals some specifications of the smartphone including MediaTek Helio P10 SoC with 4GB RAM and Android 8.1 (Oreo).
Continue reading “LG Q7 with 4GB RAM, Android 8.1 surfaces in benchmarks”
Xiaomi launched its Mi Crowdfunding in India last month with two products – Mi Selfie Stick Tripod and Mi Bluetooth Audio Receiver, to enable users support, buy and also help Xiaomi decide which products can be launched in India. At that time the company said that when 100% support is achieved within a stipulated timeline, a project will be considered successful for a specific product and it will be shipped to backers and will also be launched for others.
As announced at the Google I/O earlier this week, ARcore 1.2 is now available that brings Cloud Anchors, ‘Vertical Plane Detection’ and more. You can get the ARCore 1.2 Android APK here and side-load it manually.
Snapchat back in November had rolled out a redesigned interface that separates Stories of friends from brands. However, the redesign received a lot of flake from loyal Snapchat users. Now, thanks to the 1.2 million signed petitions, the company acknowledged that the new Snapchat was not satisfactory enough, so it is now rolling out yet another designed interface to iOS. Continue reading “Snapchat for iOS gets redesigned interface”
Huawei is teaming up with BTC.com to roll out bitcoin wallet to its app store. The AppGallery will be pre-installed on all new Huawei and Honor phones and rolled out to other devices in the second quarter. This app will allow consumers to hold virtual currencies. Continue reading “Huawei to launch BTC bitcoin wallet on its App Store”
At the Google I/O event, the company announced its digital well-being initiative to help people better understand their digital habits. One inclusion to this initiative is ‘Take a break’ self-set timer within YouTube to refrain users from spending too much time watching videos. Today, the feature is rolling out to YouTube for Android. Continue reading “YouTube for Android now lets you set a reminder to take a break”
Facebook is planning on creating its own cryptocurrency and this would allow users around the world to make electronic payments, according to a latest report from Cheddar. Furthermore, the company is also said to have started its research on blockchain almost a year ago and its corporate development team, lead by Morgan Beller began looking at how the social platform could use the emerging technology. Continue reading “Facebook said to be planning to launch its own cryptocurrency”
BlackBerry today announced that it will introduce its new smartphone codenamed ‘Athena’ as KEY2 at an event in New York on June 7th. This is the successor to last year’s KEYone that was introduced at the MWC 2017. Recent TENAA certification revealed that this will have the same display and physical QWERTY keyboard, but most other specs will get an upgrade.
