Sony Xperia XZ2 Hands On and Photo Gallery

Keeping up with tradition, Sony unveiled its next generation flagships at MWC. The Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact are both top of the line phones with flagship grade specifications. The biggest change however is the all new design language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdKMZwQ2Luk Long awaited and much anticipated, Sony has completely revamped the design language. Gone are the large bezels and boxy build and instead we have a curvier and more ergonomic build. The XZ2 is equipped with a 5.7 inch 18:9 display and trimmed down bezels all around. This is a Full HD+ HDR that looks downright stunning. There’s Gorilla Glass 5 for protection. The fingerprint scanner has now been moved over to the back of the phone. Conveniently located towards the centre, you’ll easily be able to reach out to it. Up above you’ll find the camera, laser AF module, IR sensor for gauging white balance and an LED flash of course. The 3D glass body of the XZ2 is downright stunning but unfortunately, you’ll be left cleaning out fingerprints everytime you pick it up. There’s gorilla glass 5 here as well. Internally, the phone is powered by a Snapdragon 845 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM. There’s 64GB of storage that can be expanded further ...

Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro Camera Samples

Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 5 Pro smartphone in India last month along with the Redmi Note 5. We recently brought you the  first impressions of the smartphone, here we have the camera samples from the phone. The Redmi Note 5 Pro has a 12-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX486 sensor, PDAF, f/2.2 aperture and large 1.25μm pixel size. It has a secondary 5-megapixel camera with Samsung sensor, 1.12μm pixel size and f/2.0 aperture camera to capture the depth information. It also comes with LED flash. It has a 20-megapixel front-facing camera with Sony IMX376 sensor, f/2.2 aperture, LED flash and 1080p video recording. The camera UI is familiar with other Xiaomi smartphones with flash and HDR toggles on the top, front camera toggle on the bottom along with option to select modes (Panorama, Timer (3 to 10 seconds), Audio trigger, manual mode to adjust white balance and ISO (100 to 3200), Straighten, Beautify, HHT (Hand held twilight), Scene and Tilt-shift to blur a part of an image. It has image preview window, camera and video buttons on the right side. For the front camera, it has beautify mode, pro mode and smart mode that guesses your age using facing recognition algorithm. Coming to the image quality, daylight shots came ...

Idea starts rolling out VoLTE services, available for its employees initially

Idea Cellular has announced that it has started rolling out VoLTE services in some of its circles - Maharashtra & Goa, Kerala, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh & Telangana initially for its employees in the first phase. Commercial roll out will begin soon circle-by-circle. The company had promised to roll out VoLTE services by the end of 2017. It will initially cover 30 cities across 4 circles including Ahmedabad, Calicut, Hyderabad, Kochi, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Rajkot, Surat, and Thiruvananthapuram. VoLTE services on its 4G network will enable users to simultaneously have un-interrupted internet experience while using voice services. This will also allow users to automatically be routed to 3G or 2G network when they move out of 4G coverage, thus ensuring continuous call connectivity. Idea will be partnering with several handset manufacturers to push an update to enable VoLTE support to handsets prior to the commercial launch. It is already available for Honor 6X via OTA update and OnePlus and Xiaomi are expected to enable it soon. We will know the list of compatible devices only after the commercial roll out. Idea plans to roll out VoLTE services across all its 20 4G circles by April end.

Spectra selects Nokia for expansion of 1 Gbps broadband services across India

Spectra (formerly Spectranet) recently launched 1Gbps broadband unlimited broadband plans in Bengaluru at Rs. 1249, after Delhi NCR. Today the company has announced that it has selected Nokia's IP/MPLS routing and GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) fiber solutions to build out its network to meet customer demand for high-performance broadband services. Spectra also continues to lead the Netflix ISP SpeedIndex for India over other providers. Spectra is looking looking to expand broadband services to key metro markets in India. Nokia said that its IP/MPLS solution will provide an IP aggregation, Edge and core network based on the 7210 Service Access Switch (SAS) and 7750 Service Router (SR) for the network roll-out in Bangalore. The Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP) will handle end-to-end service provisioning and network assurance that will ensure high quality while lowering operational costs for Spectra. Nokia also is also providing its 7360 ISAM FX GPON solution to provide faster broadband speeds to customers and create the network foundation essential for future ultra-broadband services. "The enhanced fiber network will allow Spectra to address the emerging ultra-broadband needs of its customers and deliver best-in-class service," said Nokia. Commenting on the partnership, Udit Mehrotra, CEO and Managing Director, Spectra said: We are pleased to partner with Nokia to strengthen ...

Samsung Galaxy S9+ outshines Google Pixel 2 for the top spot on DxOMark

After DisplayMate rating the Galaxy S9 as the best smartphone display, DxOMark now rated the S9+ camera as the best on a smartphone and rated it a whopping 99 points. DxOMark is a standard for cameras of smartphones and Pixel 2 was the previous best with 98 points until the S9 came out.  DxOMark says that the Galaxy S9+ packs a camera setup that hasn’t got any obvious weaknesses and performs very well across all photo and video test categories. The Galaxy S9+ got a staggering score of 104 points making it the best. On the other hand, with 91 points, the video score is a little lower but still among the best. It now becomes the obvious choice for photography enthusiasts. The rear camera can produce excellent output in good light, and sunny conditions where the colors are bright and vivid and exposure is also good, with a very wide dynamic range. The DxOMark is taking the Bokeh, and Zoom features into account and these two are the critical areas as they are now crucial features for any flagship launching these days. From the attached samples, it is very obvious why the Galaxy S9 gets such an impressive score. The Galaxy S9+ achieves better detail ...

Sony RX0 waterproof, shockproof compact camera launched in India for Rs. 64990

Sony recently launched the RX0, the company's latest compact camera in India. It was introduced at the IFA 2017 in Berlin last year, has a 1.0″-type stacked 15.3 MP Exmor RS CMOS image sensor, BIONZ X processor and a wide-angle ZEISS Tessar T 24mm F4 fixed lens to capture both RAW and JPEG stills and 4K video, full HD at 240 fps and super slow motion capture at up to 960 frames per second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRxtIg3WRoQ It has Anti-Distortion Shutter that can shoot as fast as 1/32000 second and is waterproof at depths of up to 10 meters (33 ft) on its own, and can be used at up to 100m (330 ft) depth when paired with the new MPK-HSR1 Housing. It is also shockproof, when dropped from up to 2 meters (6.5 ft) and crushproof (1 to 200kg / 440lb / 2000N). It can be used as a standalone camera or as part of a multi-camera rig in any kind of shooting conditions. Multiple RX0s can be linked together to produce unique content like bullet-time, time-slice and many other unique styles and Sony’s PlayMemories Mobile app allows up to five RX0 models to be connected and controlled wirelessly from any paired device. The Sony RX0 is ...

Apple Watch Series 3 can now track skiing and snowboarding activities

Apple has started rolling out updates to the apps available in the App Store that now lets you track skiing and snowboarding activities. Watch users can now record runs, see vertical descent and other stats, and contribute active calorie measurements directly to the Apple Watch Activity app. Apple says that developers can take advantage of the built-in GPS and altimeter in Apple Watch Series 3 and custom workout APIs that were rolled out in watchOS 4.2 to enable tracking of specialized metrics. The update to apps for snow, Slopes, Squaw Alpine, Snocru and Ski Tracks now track metrics on the slopes including total vertical descent and horizontal distance, a number of runs, average and maximum speeds, total time spent, calories burned and more. Furthermore, apps can also auto pause, resume, users will get credit towards in Activity rings, and the workout information will be synched to Health app on iPhone with user permission. Using Siri, users can start Slopes and snoww to track runs using just their voice. The updated apps are now available on the App Store and require watchOS 4.2 or later. Commenting on the same, Jonny Moseley, Olympic Moguls Gold Medalist and Squaw Alpine Mountain Ambassador said: Having the ability to track the details of runs ...

Samsung Galaxy J3 (2018) and Galaxy J6 with Android 8.0 surface in benchmarks

Samsung smartphones with model numbers SM-J337P/SM-J337A and SM-J600F have surfaced in Geekbench, which could be Galaxy J3 (2018) and Galaxy J6. According to the listing both the phones will run Android 8.0 (Oreo) and pack 2GB of RAM. The  J3 (2018) is expected to be powered by Exynos 7570 14nm SoC and the Galaxy J6 is expected to be powered by Exynos 7870 SoC that powers most of Samsung's mid-range smartphones, including the Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 (2017). GFXbench listing reveals few more specifications of the Galaxy J3 (2018), including camera and storage details. Samsung Galaxy J3 (2018) rumored specifications 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos 7570 14nm processor with Mali-T720 GPU 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD Android 8.0 (Oreo) 8MP rear camera with LED Flash 5MP front-facing camera 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS + GLONASS The Samsung Galaxy J3 (2018) and Galaxy J6 are expected to be introduced later this year. Source 1, 2, 3 | Via 1, 2

Xiaomi Mi TV 4A Smart TV price surface on official site ahead of India launch, could start at Rs. 12999

Xiaomi just teased the launch of new Mi TV series in India. We expected it to be Mi TV 4, now a temporary listing on the official Xiaomi site has revealed that the 32-inch Mi TV 4 is coming to India and it also reveals the price as Rs. 12,999, which is possible since it about the same in India. The other TV doesn't show the name, but it is listed at a price of Rs. 21,999. However the source code reveals that it will be the 43-inch Mi TV 4A. These were first spotted by the same Twitter user who leaked the specifications and price of the Redmi Note 5 phones. We have added screenshots of the pages in case Xiaomi takes the page down. Xiaomi Mi TV 4A 32-inch specifications 32-inch (1366x768 pixels) HD LCD display with 178-degree viewing angle,  6.5 ms dynamic response, 3000: 1 contrast ratio 1.5GHz quad-core Amlogic  962-SX Cortex-A53 processor with 750MHz Mali-450 MP3  GPU 1GB RAM, 4GB internal memory MIUI TV based on Android with PatchWall WiFi 802.11 b / g / n,  2 x HDMI, AV,  USB 2.0 x 1, Ethernet Supports H.263, H.264, H.265, MPEG1 / 2/4, WMV3, VC-1 2 x 5W speaker Xiaomi Mi TV 4A 43-inch ...

Xiaomi teases new Mi TV is launching in India soon, Mi TV 4A expected

Xiaomi launched its first Mi TV 4 55-inch 4K HDR smart TV in India last month, which was sold out in 10 seconds in the first sale last week. Now the company has started teasing the launch of another Mi TV in the country. The teaser says "It’s time to switch to something smarter, slimmer & sleeker. Time to #SwitchToSmart TV. A new series coming soon!," hinting at another Mi TV in a new series. [HTML1] Xiaomi introduced its Mi TV 4A series of TVs that includes 43-inch and 49-inch TVs with 1080p displays and 55-inch and 65-inch TVs with 4K HDR displays last year. It introduced 50-inch Mi TV 4A in January this year. Since it has already introduced a 4K TV, it could introduce cheaper 1080p TV at less than Rs. 20,000 price point. Xiaomi Mi TV 4A specifications 43-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display with 178-degree viewing angle, 6 ms (LG) / 6.5 ms (AUO) dynamic response, 1200:1 (LG) / 3000: 1 (AUO) contrast ratio 49-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display with 178-degree viewing angle, 6 ms (LG) / 8 ms (Samsung)  / 6.5 ms (Huaxing Optoelectronics) dynamic response, 1200: 1 (LG) / 6000: 1 (Samsung) / 4000: 1 (Huaxing ...