Meizu HALO Bluetooth headset with glowing laser light and POP Bluetooth water-resistant earbuds announced

Meizu along with the 15 series smartphones also introduced its new Halo headset, which is a Bluetooth in-ear headset with built-in laser light in the cable that can flash with the music beat. It uses OSRAM laser diode so the brightness is 5x more compared to traditional LED, says Meizu. It also has CORNING custom side-emitting glass fiber, so the brightness is thorough and uniform. It also has customized app to adjust laser brightness, switch mode and other functions. Meizu also introduced POP really wireless water-resistant earbuds that has a 5.8g light-weight design. It has touch interaction and comes with a case for charging, and that case has wireless charging.  It has an ergonomic in-ear design so that it doesn't fall off easily even during strenuous exercise such as running and other fitness activities, says the company. Highlights of Meizu HALO In-ear earbuds Last light that glows to the beat, dedicated switch to turn laser on/off. Three buttons for playback control, volume adjustment, Bluetooth pairing and call capabilities Optical fiber from Corning Fibrance and laser from Osram Light, thin, elastic and flexible cable offers 360° uniform light Frequency Range:20Hz - 20kHz; sensitivity:96db@1KHz Bluetooth 4.1 with Qualcomm aptX lossless-audio technology, tri-band equalization Earbuds (S/M/L) in three different sizes 360mAh battery, 1.5h ...

Meizu 15 and 15 Plus with Super AMOLED displays, 12MP + 20MP dual rear cameras and Meizu 15 Lite announced

Meizu just announced 15, 15 Plus and 15 Lite smartphones at an event in China, as it had promised. The Meizu 15 has a 5.46-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display from Samsung with 1.175mm ultra-narrow frame and the 15 Plus has a 5.95-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display from Samsung with 84.4% screen-to-body ratio. Both the phones have a 12-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX380 sensor, 1.55μm pixel size, f/1.8 aperture along with a 20-megapixel secondary telephoto lens with Sony IMX350 sensor for portrait shots and 3x loss-less zoom and a 20-megapixel front facing camera with AI beauty recognition and Face unlock.  These have front-mounted fingerprint sensor that can unlock the phone in just 0.08 seconds and the built-in mEngine offer more real and delicate vibration effect.  The small home button has pressure sensor chip, which combined with mEngine can simulate the feel of the physical buttons, says the company. The phones pack a 3000mAh and 3500mAh battery, respectively with 24W mCharge flash charge. Meizu 15 specifications 5.46-inch (1080 × 1920 pixels) Full HD Super AMOLED display, 10000 : 1 contrast ratio Octa Core Snapdragon 660 14nm Mobile Platform (Quad 2.2GHz Kryo 260 + Quad 1.8GHz Kryo 260 CPUs) with Adreno 512 GPU 4GB RAM with 64GB / 128GB internal memory Dual SIM Android ...

‘Notify Me’ for OnePlus 6 will start today midnight exclusively on Amazon India

Yesterday OnePlus in a teaser confirmed that the upcoming OnePlus 6 flagship smartphone will be launched in India exclusively on Amazon.in, same as the earlier phones. Today Amazon has confirmed that the OnePlus 6 will be available for 'Notify Me' starting 00:00 hrs, 22nd April, 2018 exclusively on Amazon.in. OnePlus 6 is confirmed to come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. The new flagship will come with a large screen with a notch, will retain the slider, and will possibly have a glass back for wireless charging. There are also reports of bamboo back option. The OnePlus 6 is expected to launch sometime in early May. We should know the official launch date soon. Commenting on the launch, Noor Patel, Director - Category Management, Amazon India said: OnePlus 6 is inarguably one of the most anticipated smartphones in India today. We are glad to remain the partner of choice for such an iconic brand for over 3 years now and bring our customers exclusive access to the new OnePlus 6. Customers can visit the dedicated Amazon.in OnePlus 6 page (www.amazon.in/oneplus) at 00:00 hrs tonight and follow the instructions to get notified with updates for the ...

LG G7 ThinQ said to feature dedicated Google Assistant button

LG is all set to introduce the G7 ThinQ smartphone on May 2nd. We know most of the specifications of the smartphone and even know how the phone will look like. Now a new report says that the phone will come with a dedicated Google Assistant button. A recent render just showed a power button on the right side, but the Google Assistant button will be on the left side of the phone, according to the report. This will be the first phone to have a physical button to launch Google Assistant, same as Samsung's Bixby button on the Galaxy flagships, but it will not be possible to be reprogrammed to launch another app, just like the Bixby button. It is not clear if it can be disabled. LG G7 ThinQ rumored specifications 6.1-inch  (1440 x 3120 pixels) FullVision MLCD+ 19.5:9 display Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform with Adreno 630 GPU 4GB LPDDR4x RAM with 64GB storage / 6GB LPDDR4x RAM with 128GB storage, expandable memory up to 2TB with microSD Android 8.1 (Oreo) with LG UX 16MP dual rear cameras with f/1.5-aperture, LED flash, Laser Auto focus 8MP front camera with wide-angle lens Fingerprint sensor, dedicated Google Assistant button Water, dust resistant (IP68), MIL-STD 810G certified 32-bit ...

Walmart said to acquire 51% stake in Flipkart next week

Back in February, it was reported that Walmart is likely to acquire more than 40% stake in Flipkart. However,  now report from Reuters says that Walmart could seal a deal to buy a more than 51% stake in Flipkart as early as next week. The U.S retail giant has been in the talks with Flipkart for quite some time now to acquire a controlling stake in Flipkart as it is aiming to take on rival Amazon in India. SoftBank Group, which owns about a fifth of Flipkart was unwilling to sell a part of its stake since Walmart was offering to buy existing shares at a valuation of $12 billion, which it thought was low. However, sources claim that stalemate between SoftBank and Walmart has ended, but it was not immediately clear though, whether SoftBank had agreed to sell some of its shares in Flipkart. Walmart’s purchase of new equity might value Flipkart at a minimum $18 billion.Walmart has made a proposal to acquire 51% or more of Flipkart for between $10 billion to $12 billion, but things could still push back to May should anything happen. On the other hand, some of Flipkart’s main investors including U.S. hedge fund Tiger Global Management, South African tech investor Naspers ...

Google Photos for Android gets advanced movie editor, reorganized bottom bar and more

Google is rolling out a new update to Photos app for Android which brings advanced movie editor, reorganized bottom bar and more. The advanced movie editor was earlier spotted in a teardown of v3.16 and now it is finally started rolling out in the v3.18 release. The new movie editor leaves behind the black background and takes on the white color scheme which Google seems to be following off lately. The new movie editor puts the primary video viewer toward the top of the screen and places each of your selected clips below it and only displays how much of each is included in the current edit. This U.I look is aimed at reducing the time it takes to make adjustments to the length of a clip. The new layout places all of the sliders front and center for speedy edits. Though the functionality remains the same, the look and feel are being updated like repositioning clips from one spot in the timeline to another by long-pressing on the thumbnail and then dragging it to a new location. Tapping on the overflow button next to a clip shows several features that weren't part of the old UI. Features like moving a clip up or down in the ...

Google expanding its policies to take on violent and hateful search autocomplete predictions

Google autocomplete predictions more often than not return funny and wild queries. Though they are fun at times, most of the times they tend to surface inappropriate predictions. However, Google is vowing to expand its policies to take on violent and hateful search autocomplete predictions.  The company will be rolling out updates in the coming weeks to reduce the possibility of it occurring. Autocomplete is especially useful for those using mobile devices to make it easy to complete a search on a small screen where typing can be hard. Google claims that on an average, it reduces typing by about 25 percent and is estimated save over 200 years of typing time per day. These predictions are common and are trending ones related to what someone types. However, Google removes predictions that are against its policies; Sexually explicit predictions, Hateful predictions, violent or dangerous predictions. In the coming weeks, it will be expanding the policies related to hate and violence and any predictions that “advocate, glorify or trivialize violence and atrocities, or which disparage victims” will be removed. Google is also providing an option for users to report using the “Report inappropriate predictions” which it launched last year, and appears below the search box on the desktop. As for mobile ...