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Micromax has started teasing the Bharat 5 Plus, the company’s upcoming smartphone on its social channels and has also listed the phone on its site. It packs a 5.2-inch HD screen, is powered by quad-core MediaTek processor and packs a 5000mAh battery with up to 21 days standby and also allows the phone to charge other devices using OTG cable. Continue reading “Micromax Bharat 5 Plus with 5.2-inch display, 5000mAh battery launching soon”
Samsung is currently beta testing the Oreo build for the Galaxy S8 and S8+ and the stable update is due for later this month, and now when no one was expecting, a Note8 Exynos variant has randomly got the Oreo update according to a Samsung retail store employee. It is very unusual since the company never expanded the Oreo build to Note8. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Android 8.0 Oreo update rolling out to some units”
Airtel is already offering additional data for its broadband users for every Airtel postpaid or DTH connection as a part of myHome rewards program. It started with 5GB per connection, later it increased it to 10GB. Now it is offering its broadband customers 5GB additional mobile data every month on their Airtel Postpaid connection in your home. Continue reading “Airtel broadband customers get 5GB free monthly data on their postpaid connection”
Apple just announced that apps and games were the bigger part of the holiday season in 2017 as the App Store has hit a record $300 million in purchases on New Year’s Day 2018. During the week of Christmas, a record number of iOS users made purchases from the App Store spending over $890 million in the seven-day period. Continue reading “Apple App Store hit record $300 million sales on New Year’s Day”
Dell ahead of the CES 2018 event has introduced the XPS 13 laptop with a refreshing new design that features InfinityEdge 13-inch display that fits in an 11-inch frame. It is powered by the 8th gen Intel Core processors with a 4K display on the 13-inch model. The company claims that the XPS 13 looks as good as it did on day 1 even on day 1,000. Continue reading “Dell introduces new XPS 13 with 4K display, 8th gen Intel Core processors”
After Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Gurgaon, Chennai, Chandigarh and Hyderabad Uber has expanded its food delivery service – UberEats to Pune, which is the eight city to get the service in India, since its launch in May 2017. Uber has partnered with over 300 restaurants, including Malaka Spice, Marrakesh, Chaitanya Parathas, Blue Nile and more in Pune. Continue reading “UberEATS food delivery service expands to Pune”
The never-ending series of problems for the Pixel 2 returns and this time it is a voice recording bug that is affecting messaging apps. According to many users on the Pixel community, the Pixel 2 XL is limiting the volume levels when recording voice messages on WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Allo. Continue reading “Google investigating Pixel 2 XL voice recording bug affecting WhatsApp, Telegram messaging apps”
With Meltdown and Spectre security flaws taking over the internet from the past couple of days, Intel after confirming the memory leak issues, today announced that it has already issued updates for the majority of the processors. It also said that it expects to roll out security updates to 90% of processors released in the past five years by the end of next week. Continue reading “Intel to issue security updates to 90% of processors from past 5 years by next week”
It is a well-known fact that most modern Intel, ARM, and AMD CPUs and phones are affected by the serious Kernel memory leak issues known as the Spectre and Meltdown. Though Microsoft and Google had responded and said that they are taking steps to prevent any malicious attacks, it was Apple who didn’t respond. However, the Cupertino company has now acknowledged the flaw and said that all Mac and iOS devices are affected. Continue reading “Apple confirms all Macs and iOS devices are affected by Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities”
HMD Global today announced Nokia 6 (2018), the company’s latest mid-range smartphone and the successor of last year’s Nokia 6, smartphone in China, as expected. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by Snapdragon 630 Mobile platform, runs on Android 7.1.1 (Nougat), which is upgradable to Android 8.0 (Oreo), has a 16-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.
OnePlus just announced OnePlus 5T Sandstone White Limited Edition smartphone, a day earlier than expected. It unites the iconic sensation of OnePlus Sandstone with a sleek all-aluminum shell, says the company. It is created after 100 prototypes and takes 4 layers to create a body with a comfortable grip and a natural, minimalistic appearance, added OnePlus. Continue reading “OnePlus 5T Sandstone White Limited Edition smartphone announced”
ASUS India today announced permanent price cuts for a range of smartphones – ZenFone 3 (5.2, 5.5), ZenFone Max, ZenFone 3 Max (5.2, 5.5) and ZenFone Go (5.0, 5.5). Last year several ASUS smartphones received a price cuts in the country, and the new year starts with price cuts on several smartphones that were launched in the past couple of years.
Lenovo ahead of the CES 2018 event has introduced new ThinkPad T, X and L series laptops, Tablet 10 and ThinkPad Docking Station. The ThinkPad series laptops come with thinner and lighter designs with 8th Generation Intel Core processors with the support for Windows Hello Facial Recognition. Continue reading “Lenovo introduces ThinkPad T, X and L series laptops, Tablet 10 and ThinkPad Docking Station”
Vodafone and Airtel, two of India’s biggest service providers, today announced a strategic partnership with Samsung for cashback offers on select Samsung Galaxy J-series smartphones on monthly recharge of Rs. 199 and Rs. 198, respectively. Continue reading “Airtel, Vodafone tie up with Samsung to offer Rs. 1500 cashback on select Galaxy smartphones”
OnePlus introduced its flagship OnePlus 5T smartphone in Midnight Black variant, later it introduced the Lava Red edition of the smartphone in China, which was followed by the Star Wars Limited Edition in White finish that was launched in India last month. OnePlus started teasing a new Sandstone version of the OnePlus 5T smartphone recently, now the the Sandstone White version of the phone has been listed in jd.com and the bookings will begin at 10AM China time. Continue reading “OnePlus 5T Sandstone White edition listed online ahead of January 5 announcement”
