News | Fone Arena - Part 1809

Honor 7X with 5.93-inch FHD+ full-screen display, dual rear cameras launching in India on December 5

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Huawei’s Honor brand recently announced it will launch the Honor 7X smartphone, successor of Honor 6X in India in December exclusively on Amazon.in. Today it has announced that the phone will be officially launched for the Indian market at an event in London on December 5th and it will also offer live stream on its Facebook page at 8PM (IST). It also confirmed that the phone will go on sale on Amazon from December 7th at 12PM. Continue reading “Honor 7X with 5.93-inch FHD+ full-screen display, dual rear cameras launching in India on December 5”

Honor V10 with 5.99-inch full-screen display, 16MP + 20MP dual rear cameras, 6GB RAM announced

Honor V10

Huawei’s Honor brand just announced its flagship Honor V10 smartphone at an event in China, as it had promised. It has a 5.99-inch 18:9 full-screen display with ultra narrow bezels and is powered by an Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 970 10nm SoC with i7 co-processor, dedicated neural network processing unit and runs on Android 8.0 (Oreo) with Emotion UI 8.0 on top. Continue reading “Honor V10 with 5.99-inch full-screen display, 16MP + 20MP dual rear cameras, 6GB RAM announced”

OnePlus 5T goes on open sale in India starting at Rs. 32999

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OnePlus launched its flagship OnePlus 5T smartphone earlier this month, which went on early sale in India on November 21st. Today the smartphone went on open sale in the country on Amazon.in, oneplusstore.in, select Croma stores and OnePlus Experience zones in Bangalore and Noida at a price of Rs. 32,999 for the 6GB RAM with 64GB storage and Rs. 37,999 for the 8GB RAM with 128GB version.

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Amazon introduces Sumerian service to quickly and easily build AR, VR and 3D apps

Amazon Sumerian

At the Re: Invent AWS event, Amazon Web Services; an Amazon.com company has introduced Amazon Sumerian service that will make developers quickly and easily build AR, VR, and 3D apps and run them on mobile devices, head-mounted displays, digital signage, or web browsers. Continue reading “Amazon introduces Sumerian service to quickly and easily build AR, VR and 3D apps”

Sony Xperia X Performance Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out

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Just as it promised, Sony is now rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo update to Xperia X Performance two days after it pushed the update for Xperia XZ and Xperia XZs. The new update comes with a build number 41.3.A.0.401, and the update is live on both the single SIM (F8131) and dual-SIM (F8132) versions. Continue reading “Sony Xperia X Performance Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out”

Snapchat rolls out new contextual filters that can recognize food, pets and more

Snapchat has silently rolled out yet another feature that will automatically identify the object that is being snapped and serve them relevant filters. This feature was first spotted by Mashable and Snapchat later confirmed that it was rolled out to select users last week. Continue reading “Snapchat rolls out new contextual filters that can recognize food, pets and more”

Gboard v6.8 brings handwriting keyboard, to get Motion Stills for GIF creation and more

Gboard V6.8

Gboard after bringing 40 additional languages support in the previous update is now receiving yet another update with version number v6.8. The new update brings features like handwriting keyboards; planning Motion Stills integration and more. Continue reading “Gboard v6.8 brings handwriting keyboard, to get Motion Stills for GIF creation and more”

Facebook expands real time pattern recognition AI to help prevent suicides

Facebook has announced an upgrade to its suicide prevention AI in order to respond and report about the users who are expressing thoughts of suicide either via posts or live videos. The company has always tried to connect a person in distress with people who can support them in an effort to build a community that is safe on and off Facebook. Continue reading “Facebook expands real time pattern recognition AI to help prevent suicides”

Samsung introduces Burgundy Red Galaxy S8

Samsung Galaxy S8 Burgundy Red

Samsung introduced its flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone earlier this year in Midnight Black, Orchid Gray, Coral Blue, Arctic Silver, and Maple Gold colors. Today it has introduced new Burgundy Red color variant for the smartphone. Continue reading “Samsung introduces Burgundy Red Galaxy S8”

Google releases final Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2 for Pixel and Nexus devices

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Google released first Android 8.1 (Oreo) Developer Preview for Pixel and Nexus devices last month . Today it has released the final Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2 for the devices. The first update brought a set of targeted enhancements including optimizations for Android Go and new Neural Networks API to accelerate on-device machine intelligence, the latest one includes official APIs (API level 27), the latest optimizations and bug fixes, and the November 2017 security patch updates. Continue reading “Google releases final Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2 for Pixel and Nexus devices”

Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime (2017) passes through the FCC

Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime

Samsung launched the Galaxy J5 Prime (SM-G570F) smartphone in India back in September last year. Now the Galaxy J5 Prime 2017 (SM-G571F) has been certified by the FCC in the U.S. This reveals the model number of the smartphone that had already surfaced in GFXBench benchmark, but it doesn’t reveal any specifications.

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Canon EOS M100 24.2MP mirrorless camera launched in India for Rs. 39995

Canon EOS M100

Canon today launched EOS M100, its latest mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera in the EOS M series in India. It has a 24.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and DIGIC 7 image processor and uses Dual Pixel CMOS AF for high-speed autofocus. It also comes with 180-degree tilt up 3.0-inch LCD touch screen and comes with self-portrait mode with smooth Skin feature.

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Xiaomi replaces Samsung to become leader in smartphone sales in top 50 Indian cities in Q3 2017: IDC

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According to IDC’s latest India Monthly City-Level Smartphone Tracker, 50 major cities of India accounted for 50% of smartphone sales in Q3 2017 with a growth of 27% from the previous quarter. Tier one cities in India continue to dominate the smartphone market with 29% sequential growth in Q3 2017. Continue reading “Xiaomi replaces Samsung to become leader in smartphone sales in top 50 Indian cities in Q3 2017: IDC”

OPPO F5 Youth with 6-inch FHD+ full-screen display, 16MP front camera announced

OPPO F5 Youth

OPPO announced F5, selfie-focused smartphone in Philippines last month, now it has introduced the F5 Youth smartphone, a cheaper version of the phone. It has the same 6-inch full HD+ 18:9 full-screen display and comes with A.I. beauty recognition technology that scan 200 facial recognition spots to beautify a selfie shot perfectly and also offers bokeh effect along with Face unlock, but this has a 16-megapixel front camera and a 13-megapixel rear camera. Continue reading “OPPO F5 Youth with 6-inch FHD+ full-screen display, 16MP front camera announced”

Saregama launches Customized Music Cards with picture for Rs. 990

Saregama Customized Music Cards

Saregama India has launched customized music cards with the picture in India and it now allows you to gift up to 200 songs from its vast library and these songs can be selected from different languages and artists. It also has an option to print a custom photo with a personalized message on it. Continue reading “Saregama launches Customized Music Cards with picture for Rs. 990”