Honor Band 3 with OLED display, continuous heart rate tracking launched in India for Rs. 2799

Honor Band 3

After announcing the Honor Band 3 fitness and sleep tracking band in India at the Honor 8 Pro launch event earlier this month, Huawei’s Honor brand has launched it in India . It has a 0.91-inch OLED display, comes with continuous heart rate tracking and is also water resistant up to 50 meters. Continue reading “Honor Band 3 with OLED display, continuous heart rate tracking launched in India for Rs. 2799”

Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra with 6-inch 1080p display, 16MP front camera launched in India for Rs. 29990

Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra

Sony just launched Xperia XA1 Ultra successor of last year’s Xperia XA Ultra in India. It was introduced at the MWC earlier this year, has the same 6-inch 1080p display and a 2700mAh battery as the predecessor, but this is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek Helio P20 processor and runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat).

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Xiaomi Mi 5X official press shots show its design, gets certified by the FCC

Xiaomi Mi 5X

Xiaomi is all set to introduce its new Mi 5X smartphone next week. Few images of the phone surfaced yesterday, now the company’s marketing director Zang Zhiyuan has shared more images of the phone that shows similar design as the OPPO R11 or the OnePlus 5 that were introduced recently. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 5X official press shots show its design, gets certified by the FCC”

Softbank’s 20% stake buy in Paytm’s parent One97 Communications approved by CCI

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Japanese internet and telecom conglomerate, SoftBank’s 20 percent stake purchase in One97 Communications, the parent company of digital payments platform Paytm, has been approved by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The approval comes two months after Paytm raised Rs 9,000 crores ($1.4 billion) from SoftBank, making it the biggest investment by the Softbank in the Indian internet ecosystem.

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Avast acquires CCleaner creator Piriform

CCleaner

Avast, popular for its security products has announced that it has acquired Piriform, creator of CCleaner popular system cleaning utility used by 130 million people, including 15 million Android users. Avast said that it will maintain and support CCleaner separately from its current optimization portfolio, and Piriform customers will continue to get the attention and service they are used to. Continue reading “Avast acquires CCleaner creator Piriform”

HMD Global CEO Arto Nummela leaves the company

Arto Nummela

Before the re-launch of Nokia, HMD Global last year appointed Arto Nummela, who previously held senior positions at Nokia as the CEO of the company. He launched the new Nokia Android smartphones and the new 3310 at the MWC 2017. Today HMD Global announced that Arto Nummela will leave HMD with immediate effect, through mutual agreement between him and the HMD Global Board of Directors.
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Samsung Bixby voice assistant in English finally launched starting from the US and Korea

Samsung Bixby

After several delays, Samsung has finally launched the Bixby Voice assistant in U.S. English for Galaxy S8 and S8+ users in the United States and Korea. The Samsung Galaxy S8 series phones come with dedicated Bixby hardware button that lets you access Bixby Voice by pressing and holding it. At the announcement Samsung said that Bixby will only understand US English and Korean. Continue reading “Samsung Bixby voice assistant in English finally launched starting from the US and Korea”

Xiaomi Mi TV 4A cheapest 32-inch Smart TV announced

Xiaomi Mi TV 4A 32-inch

Xiaomi today introduced 32-inch version of the Mi TV 4A, which is the company’s cheapest Smart TV. It also has “Patch Wall”, a UI layer on top of the Android OS that’s based on deep learning AI technology, but it doesn’t have Bluetooth and Bluetooth voice remote control. It has intelligent system that offers recommendations based on your usage and is just 4kg making it easy to shift it. It is also one of the smallest measuring 435x478x733mm.

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Sennheiser CX 7.00BT in-ear wireless headset with apt-X, NFC launched in India for Rs. 11990

Sennheiser CX 7.00BT

Sennheiser has launched CX 7.00BT, its latest neckband style wireless headset with Bluetooth 4.1 and Qualcomm apt-X for true Hi-Fi sound. It also has NFC support for one-touch pairing. Continue reading “Sennheiser CX 7.00BT in-ear wireless headset with apt-X, NFC launched in India for Rs. 11990”

Xolo Era 1X Pro with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 5888

XOLO ERA 1X PRO

Xolo launched the Era 1X back in September last year, now it has launched an upgraded version of the phone dubbed the Era 1X Pro with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage, compared to 1GB RAM and 8GB storage. Continue reading “Xolo Era 1X Pro with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4G VoLTE launched for Rs. 5888”

OnePlus 5 bug is not allowing some users to make emergency calls [Update]

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Update – July 20: OnePlus has released a statement saying that it will be rolling out the software update soon to fix the issue.

We have been in touch with the customer and have tested a software update that has resolved the issue. We will be rolling out the software update shortly.

A new OnePlus 5 bug is not allowing some users to call emergency services in the U.S. and UK, according to post on Reddit. Few OnePlus 5 users are complaining that their phones are rebooting immediately after dialing ‘911’ (US) or ‘999’ (UK).
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Adobe Lightroom for iOS gets support for 3D Touch, Apple Pencil, Android app gets native design

Adobe Lightroom 2.8.0 for iPhone

Adobe has released a major update for its Lightroom Mobile app for iOS and the Android app has been redesigned from the ground up offering faster, more efficient experience. “Every screen has been redesigned with the goal of ensuring a natural, native Android experience while providing the highest quality, professional-grade mobile photo editing app ever,” said the company. Continue reading “Adobe Lightroom for iOS gets support for 3D Touch, Apple Pencil, Android app gets native design”

Samsung ramps up production of 8GB HBM2 DRAM to meet demand

Samsung HBM2

Samsung started mass production of industry’s first 4-gigabyte (GB) DRAM package based on the second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) interface back in January last year. Later it unveiled 8-gigabyte (GB) DRAM which has double the capacity of 4GB HBM2. Today it has announced that it is ramping up production of 8GB HBM2 to meet the growing market across artificial intelligence, HPC (high-performance computing), advanced graphics, network systems and enterprise servers. Continue reading “Samsung ramps up production of 8GB HBM2 DRAM to meet demand”

Moto G5S Plus with dual rear cameras surface in new image, more specs revealed

Moto G5S Plus leak

Upcoming Moto G5S Plus surfaced in press shot earlier this month. Now a new scanned image of the phone has surfaced that shows a similar design. It also reveals detailed specifications including Snapdragon 626, 13MP primary rear camera with RGB sensor with f/1.7 aperture along with a secondary 13MP rear camera with monochrome sensor and f/2.0 aperture.

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Google Glass Enterprise Edition with improved camera, battery life goes official

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Google is back with second iteration of Google Glass. The company has officially announced Google Glass Enterprise Edition. It was first surfaced back in 2o15 in FCC documents. Google X, the company’s research and development arm has developed the latest Google Glass.

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