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Oppo F1s set to launch on August 3rd in India

Oppo F1s set to launch on August 3rd in India

by Ashwini Kuldeep on Jul 25, 2016 06:18 AM

Oppo India has begun sending out invites for the launch of their new "selfie expert", the Oppo F1s on August 3rd. It is expected to come with a 16MP front-facing camera and a fingerprint sensor embedded in the home button. Read More

Prisma is now officially available for Android on the Play Store, Download Now!

Prisma is now officially available for Android on the Play Store, Download Now!

by Ashwini Kuldeep on Jul 24, 2016 06:27 PM

Last week Prisma started rolling out its beta app for Android, which was quickly pulled as it reached to more people than they had intended. Now, the official final version of the Prisma app is now available in the Play Store. Read More

Samsung goes for the jugular, countersues Huawei on patent infringement

Samsung goes for the jugular, countersues Huawei on patent infringement

by Abhinav Pathak on Jul 23, 2016 07:04 AM

Samsung announced yesterday that they have sued Huawei Technologies Co Ltd for patent infringement in China. This move seems to be a retaliation as Huawei had earlier sued Samsung in California and China over 4G Cellular communications technology patents. Read More

MIUI 8 Global Beta ROM gets updated to v6.7.21 with bug fixes

MIUI 8 Global Beta ROM gets updated to v6.7.21 with bug fixes

by Abhinav Pathak on Jul 22, 2016 08:56 AM

Xiaomi has started rolling out an OTA update for MIUI 8 Global Beta ROM with version 6.7.21 which fixes time, date, weather issues in the status bar and adds automatic optimization to images when shared from Gallery. Read More

Video: The Iris Scanner on the Galaxy Note 7 seems to be very fast

Video: The Iris Scanner on the Galaxy Note 7 seems to be very fast

by Abhinav Pathak on Jul 22, 2016 05:30 AM

There have been many rumors surrounding the Galaxy Note 7, but an Iris Scanner in the front has been most persistent. Now, there's a video showing how the Iris Scanner works on the Galaxy Note 7. Read More

Pokémon Go Arrives in Japan, with 400 McDonald's as Gyms

Pokémon Go Arrives in Japan, with 400 McDonald's as Gyms

by Ashwini Kuldeep on Jul 22, 2016 04:51 AM

Pokémon Go has finally arrived in Japan, making it the first Asian country to play the Augmented Reality mobile game. John Hanke from Niantic announced the arrival on a video giving a nod to the game's origin in Japan. Read More

Samsung acknowledges and fixes waterproofing flaw with the Galaxy S7 Active

Samsung acknowledges and fixes waterproofing flaw with the Galaxy S7 Active

by Ashwini Kuldeep on Jul 21, 2016 10:35 AM

Just last week Consumer Reports has said that Galaxy S7 Active not as waterproof as Samsung claimed it to be. They tested two S7 Active smartphones and both of them failed the test. Samsung has now found and fixed the issue in one of its production lines. Read More

Android Marshmallow adoption still slow, more than 65 percent smartphones on KitKat and Lollipop

Android Marshmallow adoption still slow, more than 65 percent smartphones on KitKat and Lollipop

by Abhinav Pathak on Jul 21, 2016 08:18 AM

Even though major manufacturers like Samsung and LG are trying hard to get all their devices on Android Marshmallow, the adoption seems to have slowed down. Read More

Gionee M6 and M6 Plus launching in China on July 26

Gionee M6 and M6 Plus launching in China on July 26

by Mohit Kuldeep on Jul 21, 2016 08:00 AM

Gionee will be unveiling two new smartphones in China next week on July 26th. The Gionee M6 and M6 Plus will come with hardware encryption to secure your data including call logs, photos, documents and everything else on your phone. Read More

MIUI 8 stable release pushed to August 23

MIUI 8 stable release pushed to August 23

by Ashwini Kuldeep on Jul 21, 2016 04:01 AM

Xiaomi has announced that MIUI 8 stable update will now be rolling out from August 23 instead of August 16 as was previously told. Read More