Meizu Super mCharge technology can charge phones from 0 to 100% in 20 minutes

Xiaomi Super mCharge

Meizu today announced its Super mCharge fast charging technology at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, as it had promised. It claims that this is the the world’s quickest fast charging solution that can fully charge a phone with a 3000mAh battery from 0 to 100% in just 20 minutes. It can charge up to 30% in 5 minutes, 60% in 10 minutes and 85% in 15 minutes. Continue reading “Meizu Super mCharge technology can charge phones from 0 to 100% in 20 minutes”

Samsung, Reliance Jio to expand LTE services in India covering over 90% population

Jyotindra Thacker and Kim Young-ky at Samsung Jio event MWC 2017

Samsung at its joint event with Jio at the MWC 2017 in Barcelona today announced I&G (Infill & Growth) Project for Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd in India. This is aimed at upgrading current LTE mobile communication services across India by expanding both the current network capacity as well as network coverage.

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Uber SVP Amit Singhal resigns over non-disclosure of harassment allegation at Google

Amit Singhal

Amit Singhal, Uber’s senior vice president (SVP) has resigned from the company, according to a latest report from Recode. Singhal was asked to resign by Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, after Singhal failed to disclose that he left Google over allegations of sexual harassment.

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Xiaomi Redmi 4X with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 435, 3GB RAM, 4100mAh battery announced

Xiaomi Redmi 4X

Xiaomi just announced Redmi 4X, its latest budget smartphone in the Redmi series in China. It packs a 5-inch HD 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 435 SoC, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Xiaomi Redmi 4X with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 435, 3GB RAM, 4100mAh battery announced”

Xiaomi Mi 5c with 5.15-inch 1080p display, 7mm slim metal body, fingerprint sensor, 4G VoLTE announced

Xiaomi Mi 5c

Xiaomi just announced Mi 5c, successor of Mi 4c that was introduced back in 2015. It has the same 5.15-inch 1080p display from JDI with 1.6mm ultra narrow bezels and it is the first smartphone to be powered by Xiaomi’s own 2.2GHz Octa-Core Surge S1 processor that was introduced today. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 5c with 5.15-inch 1080p display, 7mm slim metal body, fingerprint sensor, 4G VoLTE announced”

People are watching 1 billion hours of YouTube video everyday

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YouTube has announced a huge milestone. The Google owned popular video sharing service has revealed that people are now watching 1 billion hours of YouTube content every single day.

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Xiaomi Surge S1 Octa-Core 2.2GHz 64-bit SoC with Mali-T860 GPU, support for VoLTE announced

Xiaomi Surge S1 specs

Xiaomi just announced Surge S1, its first in-house SoC at an event in China, as it had promised. It is an Octa-Core SoC with four high-performance ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and the other four  power-efficient ARM Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.4GHz. It has big.LITTLE structure for efficient usage of the eight cores. Continue reading “Xiaomi Surge S1 Octa-Core 2.2GHz 64-bit SoC with Mali-T860 GPU, support for VoLTE announced”

Nubia N1 lite with 5.5-inch display, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced

Nubia N1 lite

Nubia has announced N1 lite, its latest budget smartphone in the ‘N series’ at its MWC 2017 event, which is a slight dissapointment when everyone was expecting top-end Prague S2 promised. It packs a 5.5-inch HD screen, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek processor, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with soft-light LED front flash and beautification mode. Continue reading “Nubia N1 lite with 5.5-inch display, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced”

LG G6 price, availability revealed

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As expected, LG announced its latest flagship smartphone dubbed as G6 at the MWC 2017 event in Barcelona, Spain yesterday. While most of the information have been revealed at the launch, the LG Electronics President, Cho Juno didn’t reveal anything about the availability and pricing of the device at the announcement. Continue reading “LG G6 price, availability revealed”

SanDisk unveils 256GB iXpand Flash Drive and Connect Wireless Stick

Sandisk Ixpand

At the MWC 2017 event in Barcelona, Sandisk to took the stage to announce the 256GB SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive and 256GB SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick. Continue reading “SanDisk unveils 256GB iXpand Flash Drive and Connect Wireless Stick”

New Nokia Android phones to be made in India and launch in June

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Nokia finally launched new Android smartphones at MWC 2017 in Barcelona including the Nokia 3,5 and 6 devices. We had a chance to speak to Ajey Mehta, India VP at HMD Global who shed light on the company’s India plans. HMD plans to manufacture these phones through Foxconn in India from day one. The new Nokia Android phones are expected to hit stores in India by June this year.

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OPPO introduces world’s first camera module with 5X optical zoom

OPPO 5X Technology

OPPO at its MWC 2017 event in Barcelona announced new camera technology called 5X, as it had promised. It is a module that uses a periscope structure to divert light 90-degrees through prism into a hidden telephoto lens. “The resulting shift from the light’s natural path delivers an unprecedented level of clarity at any zoom level,” says OPPO. Continue reading “OPPO introduces world’s first camera module with 5X optical zoom”

ZTE Blade V8 Mini with dual rear cameras and Blade V8 Lite with Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor announced

ZTE Blade V8 Mini

ZTE has announced Blade V8 Mini at the MWC 2017 along with the Blade V8 Lite. The V8 Mini has a 13MP rear camera and a 2MP secondary camera for depth sensing for aperture range between f/1.0 and f/8.0 range and post-capture refocusing. Both the phones run Android 7.0 (Nougat) have a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, metal unibody design and a fingerprint sensor on the back. Continue reading “ZTE Blade V8 Mini with dual rear cameras and Blade V8 Lite with Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor announced”

Alcatel A5 LED, A3, U5 smartphones, PLUS 12 2-in-1 tablet announced

Alcatel A5 LED

Alcatel has unveiled three smartphones and a 2-in-1 tablet at the ongoing MWC 2017. The company has announced A5 LED, A3 and U5 smartphone while a PLUS 12 2-in-1 tablet. Continue reading “Alcatel A5 LED, A3, U5 smartphones, PLUS 12 2-in-1 tablet announced”

Moto G5 Plus with 5.2-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 625 launching in India on March 15

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[Update] – Motorola has officially sent out invites for the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus launch event that is scheduled for March 15th.

Motorola yesterday introduced its mid-range Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus smartphones at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017. Now Moto India has started teasing the launch of the Moto G5 Plus smartphone in India on March 15th.

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