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Apple is said to launch the iPhone SE second generation in the first half of 2018 according to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News. The second generation iPhone SE, tentatively named iPhone SE 2 will be assembled exclusively by Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron at its factory in Bengaluru, India where the current generation iPhone SE are being made. Continue reading “Apple iPhone SE 2 rumoured to launch in the first half of 2018”
Rumors of upcoming Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ started surfacing a few weeks back. Now @evleaks aka Evan Blass at VentureBeat is reporting that the Galaxy S9 series will be an iterative update in “tock” cycle, since the Galaxy S8 was a major upgrade as a part of “tick” cycle. These flagships are expected to be previewed at the CES 2018 in Las Vegas in January, but it is not clear how much information about the devices will be revealed at CES, says the report. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ specifications surface, might be previewed at CES 2018”
Last month Bharti Airtel and Tata today announced that they have entered into an agreement to merge Consumer Mobile Businesses (CMB) of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML) into Bharti Airtel. Today Airtel has announced that starting today, Tata Teleservices customers will start transitioning to the Airtel mobile network under an Intra Circle Roaming (ICR) arrangement.
Project Treble is something that Google is very ambitiously working on in order to make Android updates faster and consistent. This feature was launched as a feature of Android Oreo, and later that makes OTAs modular. That means devices that launch with Android Oreo will support Treble and those that get the Oreo update after its launch won’t. Continue reading “OnePlus confirms Android 8.1 Oreo for 3, 3T, 5 and 5T, but no Project Treble”
Google has announced deals on Premium Games and more just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in select markets, including India. These are on sale for as low as Rs. 7 or $0.49. In the U.S. it is also offering Google Play Music subscription free for four months as well as discounts on movies, TV shows and books. Check out the complete list of deals on these games below. Continue reading “Black Friday App Deals: Android games on sale on Google Play starting at Rs. 7 / $0.49”
Microsoft today has announced that its Translator app now has support for Tamil text translation in Microsoft Translator and Office 365, along with over 60 languages worldwide. Tamil is one of the longest-surviving languages in the world and is currently being spoken by over 70 million native speakers within the Indian subcontinent and across the globe. Continue reading “Microsoft Translator gets Tamil text translation support”
Hike introduced version 5.0 of its Messenger app back in June with new UI along with Hike Wallet to allow users to send and receive money. At that time Hike said that it had tied up with Yes Bank for UPI and wallet service. Today the company has announced its partnership with Airtel Payments Bank to power its Wallet. Hike said that it has over 100 millions users and in just 5 months of launch of Wallet, it has seen over 5 million transactions every month, growing 30% month on month. Continue reading “Hike partners with Airtel Payments Bank to power Hike Wallet”
Facebook today has rolled out yet another exciting feature to the messenger which lets you send and receive images in messenger app at 4K resolution in addition to the features like PayPal support, new filters, stickers and more. The company says that text is no longer the only means of communication as people started exchanges images for better visual experience. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger now lets you send and receive high resolution photos”
Instagram has rolled out an update that makes it easier to join your friend’s live just by sending a request. When watching friends live video, you can simply tap the “Request” button in the comments section, and once you send a request, you shall get a confirmation once he accepts the request. Continue reading “Instagram now lets you request to join friend’s live video”
Huawei introduced Nova 2 and Nova 2 Plus smartphones earlier this year. Now images of a new Huawei smartphone which is expected to be the Nova 3 has surfaced in live images and also surfaced on TENAA in China. It shows a glass back and shiny finish on the sides. Continue reading “Huawei Nova 3 with full-screen display, dual rear cameras surface”
Google just in time for the holiday season has added a bunch of shopping tools for the mobile search for a better shopping experience. These tools include detailed product cards, buying guides, product comparisons, and more. This update brings more enhanced experience for users shopping during Black Friday and other sales. Continue reading “Google Search for mobile gets detailed product cards, buying guides and shopping tools”
Google’s Android software is said to be collecting users locations even when the location services are set to disable and sending the collected data back to Google reports Quartz in an investigation. Since the start of 2017, Android phones have said to be collecting the addresses of nearby cellular towers even when location services are disabled and sent back to Google. Continue reading “Google said to be collecting Android device location even when location services are disabled”
In a move to strengthen its AR headset technology that Apple is said to be working on launching in 2020; the company has acquired startup; Vrvana augmented reality-based headset company; the maker of the Totem headset for $30 million according to the sources close to the Techcrunch. Continue reading “Apple acquires Canada-based augmented reality headset startup Vrvana”
[Update: Google has announced that Google Lens in the Assistant will be rolling out to all Pixel phones set to English in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, India and Singapore over the coming weeks.]
Google at the Pixel event back in October debuted the Google Lens feature in the photos app which uses the camera to scan the objects and landmarks in photos to provide more information about the same. Though it was only possible via Photos app, at the same event, Google mentioned that it would gradually roll out Lens in Assistant and it looks like the time has arrived.
Continue reading “Google Lens in Assistant rolling out to Pixel smartphones [Update]”
[Update – November 21: Xiaomi has started rolling out stable MIUI 9 update for the Redmi 4 after rolling out Nightly build last week.]
Earlier: Xiaomi launched Redmi 4 running MIUI 8 based on Marshmallow back in May, the company rolled out Nougat based Stable ROM to the users a fortnight ago just before the MIUI 9 Global launch. As per the announcement, Redmi 4 was kept in the second batch of devices along with Mi 5, Mi Max and others which were supposed to receive the update in mid-Nov. Yesterday evening, some users started reporting that they are receiving a new OTA update as Nightly build on their Redmi 4 devices. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 4 MIUI 9 Stable update starts rolling out”
