HMD Global has slashed the price of its flagship smartphone Nokia 8 (review) and mid-range smartphone Nokia 3 in India today. The Nokia 8, which was retailing for Rs 36,999 earlier is now available at Rs 28,999 after the price cut, while the Nokia 5 3GB RAM variant has received a price cut of Rs 1,000 and available at Rs 12,499. This news is tweeted by Mumbai-based retailer Mahesh Telecom,... Read More
American smartphone brand, InFocus has launched a new entry-level smartphone in India, namely, the InFocus A2. The company has announced the launch of the device on microblogging platform Twitter saying that the phone will retail for the best buy price of Rs 5,199. As per the company's website, the device will be an offline-only model. The InFocus A2 offers 4G LTE and VoLTE support, and it comes with up to... Read More
HMD Global is working on a smartphone with Penta-camera setup at the back. And the smartphone was allegedly said to be Nokia 10. Now, a few concept renders of the said Nokia 10 with Penta-camera setup, glass back, and a gorgeous 18:9 display have surfaced online. While in the previous leak, we just got to see the camera module sketching, but in this leak, we got to see how the... Read More
Oppo Electronics has silently introduced a new model to their portfolio, dubbed, the Oppo A71 (2018). This variant succeeds the original Oppo A71, which was launched just a four months ago. The Oppo A71 (2018) is now official in Pakistan, and it might make into the Indian market this month itself. The USP of the new A71 is the AI-Beauty Recognition, and it also brings in a couple of improvements... Read More
Samsung Electronics posted another quarter of record earnings in its Q4 2017 report. The South Korean manufacturer recorded biggest operating profit in the company's history in the fourth quarter of last year. Samsung posted $61.5 billion (65.98 trillion won) in overall revenue with an operating profit of a staggering $14.13 billion (15.15 trillion won) for Q4 2017. Operating profit for the technology giant surged 64% from a year earlier in... Read More
HMD Global, the Nokia brand licensee, has now acquired the trademark for Nokia Xpress-On label, reports GSMArena. This was used ages ago for replaceable front and back covers of older Nokia feature phones. The Xpress-on trademark is classified as follows: “accessories for communications apparatus, namely microphones, speakers, coloured covers, housings, cases, antennas, batteries, battery chargers”. The newly re-registered trademark is valid until 2028. This basically means that HMD Global could... Read More
OnePlus has finally started rolling out the official and stable Android 8.0 Oreo-based OxygenOS 5.0.2 update to the OnePlus 5T. The Chinese company clearly stated that it's an incremental rollout, meaning only a small batch of users will receive the update first. Do make a note that it's not an Open Beta update which means that OnePlus 5T users on stable Android Nougat based OxygenOS ROM will receive the update.... Read More
Since last year, Google has been very strict over the applications on Google Play Store. It rolled out new policies for developers and today, the search giant announced that it removed over 700,000 apps that violated the Google Play policies in 2017, which is a whopping 70% more than the apps taken down in 2016. On top of these apps, Google says that 99% of apps with abusive contents were... Read More
WhatsApp is finally bringing its support to Apple iPads very soon, as it was rumoured a couple of months back. Instead of launching a separate standalone application, WhatsApp is now said to introduce an iPad client for WhatsApp Web, which allows you to connect with your WhatsApp account phone by scanning QR code. It is also said by WABetaInfo that WhatsApp will launch a standalone application for Android Tablets in... Read More
Google is trying to make the Google Assistant more accessible to the consumers in India. The latest update (maybe a server-side change, we're not sure) has brought the Hindi language support to the Assistant in India. That said, you can now interact with your smartphone in India with just a tap. However, it is said that only a few phones have received this functionality at the moment, but we're expecting... Read More
Honor is now rolling out a new software update to the current best mid-range smartphone, the Honor 7X. The update with build number B192 brings the much-awaited Face Unlock mode to the 7X, which is in-line with the company's promise. Alongside the Face Unlock mode, Honor also added AR Lens feature to the 7X which allows users to tweak selfie camera experience. Also, the new update includes January 2018 security... Read More
Chinese company OnePlus is now rolling out a new OxygenOS Open Beta 3 update to the OnePlus 5T with bug fixes and a special SMS categorisation function for the Indian users. Also, the company removed the Clipboard application, which was recently claimed to be sending users personal data to the Chinese servers. OnePlus promised of removing the Clipboard application, and it did so rightly. This new beta update is rolling... Read More
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What kind of logic is this? Band 28 is exclusively used for coverage and not for speeds. They have mmwave…
Band 28 is just for VoNR and coverage. There is no other usage. Inside home, 20-50Mbps on an average. ARPU…
This is not going to happen. Vi is empty network everywhere now. 33 crore to less than 20 crore within…
where are the plans?no details , whats new whats changed?
Vi should decrease the tariff somewhere near to Jio's. So it can grab users from Airtel and Jio.
