OPPO R15 and R15 Plus with bezel-less display, top-notch teased

After a recent leak, OPPO has officially teased R15 and R15 Plus, the company's upcoming flagship smartphones in the 'R Series' in China. Both these will have bezel-less full-screen displays and the image also confirms top notch. The phone is said to come with 93.94% screen-to-body ratio. These are said to come with improved dual rear cameras compared to the R11 series. Some rumors say that it will be the first smartphone to use upcoming Snapdragon 670 or 700 series SoC, an upgraded version of the Snapdragon 660 that powers the R11 series. The OPPO R15 and OPPO R15 smartphones are expected to be announced later this month. We should know more details about the smartphones, including the complete specifications and the announcement date soon. Source 1, 2

HTC Desire 12 Plus with 5.99-inch full-screen display, Snapdragon 450 surfaces

HTC Desire 12 retail box was leaked a few days back revealing some basic details regarding the chipset, display and more. Today the specifications of the Plus variant have surfaced online. Not just specs, according to sources, the Desire 12 Plus goes by the code-name "Breeze Plus," internally. The Desire 12 Plus is expected to be a mid-range, it is expected to be powered by the  Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Octa-Core chip clocked at 1.8GHz with 3GB RAM. Unlike the regular Desire 12 which is backed by a MediaTek chipset, Desire 12 gets a decent chipset from Qualcomm. It will sport a 5.99-inch TFT display (1,440 by 720 pixels) with  18:9 aspect ratio and a pixel density of 268 PPI. In terms of the camera, there is a 13-megapixel rear camera and an 8-megapixel shooter on the front. It will have 32GB storage and a microSD card slot for memory expansion. It measures in at 158.24 x 76.54 x 8.39mm and weight 155.01g. It gets support for GSM bands 850, 900, 1800, and 1900, as well as LTE bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20, and 40. It comes with a 2,965mAh battery and Qualcomm quick 3.0 charge support. Furthermore, according to report, the battery is expected to give 26 hours of talk ...

Best of MWC 2018 Awards – FoneArena

MWC 2018 is now over. We gave out FoneArena Awards to some of the latest products and innovations that were introduced at the event. We gave these awards under several categories such as Best Product, Best Smartphone, Most Innovative Product and Editor’s Pick of MWC 2018. The Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ won the Best Product of MWC 2018 award. Even though the new S9 series resemble the S8 series, most of the internals of the phones have been upgraded. These have new variable aperture camera that can adjust the aperture between f/1.5 and f/2.4 depending on the lighting conditions. The Galaxy S9+ also gets a secondary 12MP telephoto lens for portrait shots. There is a new Super Slo-mo 960fps mode and there also also some software enhancements.  HMD Global introduced five smartphones including three Android One phones, an Android Oreo (Go edition) phone and a 4G VoLTE feature phone at the MWC 2018 this year. The Nokia 8 Sirocco won the Best Smartphone of MWC 2018 and the Nokia 7 Plus was one of FoneArena Editor's pick. Compared to the last year's Nokia 8, the new Nokia 8 Sirocco Edition has a new glass body. It also gets a new 5.5 inch Quad HD pOLED panel, 12 ...

Twitter seeks ideas to make the platform more healthy and civil

In order to increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation around the world, Twitter says that it will be using the more holistic approach and measure the impact of the platform on the world in the days to come. Twitter's health measure will be built and measured just the way how the company encourages more healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking; conversely, abuse, spam, and manipulation will detract from it. Twitter is also looking for partners and outside experts to help in identifying how to measure the health of Twitter, keep accountability and share the progress with the world. Twitter says that this approach is inspired by the work of similar organizations in the industry. Cortico, a non-profit research organization, has spent the time to understand the concept of measuring conversational health and developed four indicators to measure it: shared attention, shared reality, a variety of opinion, and receptivity. To achieve what health means on Twitter, the company is taking in proposals by Friday, April 13 in the form that includes Contact information, proposed health metrics, and methods for capturing, measuring, evaluating and reporting on such metrics, resource requirements and methodology and more. All the selected applicants will be invited to share further details on proposals during May and June. ...

Worldwide wearable shipments up 10.3% YoY in 2017, Apple leads with 15.3% market share: IDC

According to IDC, the worldwide wearables market continued to grow in both the Q4 and whole of 2017 with the total shipments reaching a new record. Apple moved past Fitbit and Xiaomi to become the leader in the wearable market worldwide. The total volumes of the quarter reached 37.9 million units, which is up 7.7% from the 35.2 million units shipped YoY. As for the whole full year, the total wearable device shipments reached 115.4 million units, up 10.3% from the 104.6 million units shipped in 2016. However, the 10.3% year-over-year growth in 2017 is a marked decline from the 27.3% growth we saw in 2016. Apple after spending very close to Fitbit in the second position for several quarters has taken the first position. Watch series 3 with LTE connectivity made a huge difference. The company shipped a total of 8 million units in Q4 2017 with a market share of 21% and has seen shipments of 17.7 million units for entire 2017 with the market share of 15.3%. On the other hand, Fitbit shipped 5.4 Million units with the market share of 14.2%. While Xiaomi restricted to 3rd position with 4.9 million units and a market share of 13%. Garmin, Huawei ...

Xiaomi Mi 5 Android 8.0 Oreo MIUI Global Beta ROM released

Earlier this week, Xiaomi started rolling out Oreo Based MIUI Stable update to its 2017 flagship Mi 6, and with today’s weekly MIUI Beta update company is updating its 2016 flagship Mi 5 to Android Oreo. The new update is based on Android Oreo 8.0 and also brings February security patch to the device. Users need to flash the Oreo based ROM manually even if they are using MIUI Global Beta ROM on their devices as incremental update to MIUI 8.3.1 is still based on Android Nougat 7.0. Users can download the Recovery ROM here and flash it using updater method or download the Fastboot ROM to flash it using fastboot method. The company is recommending users to do a clean fastboot flash as the ROM contains an Android upgrade. In case you do not wish to go through the hassle of taking backup and flashing ROM, you can wait for a couple of weeks as company will eventually roll out Oreo to all users via OTA. This is MIUI Beta Build and Stable ROM users need to wait for 1-2 months to get Android Oreo on their devices, in case you wish to read more about different MIUI ROMs, refer to ...

Dropbox partners with Google to bring native G Suite integration

Dropbox today announced that it is partnering with Google to bring native integration of G Suite and let users make better use of the cloud collaboration company’s toolset which will bring the ability to create and save Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly from Dropbox.  Dropbox business admins will be able to manage Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides just like any other content that is present in the Dropbox. it also mentioned that it is building new, native Dropbox integration for Gmail and Google Hangouts Chat. With the integration, you’ll be able to select files from your Dropbox account and send links directly from Gmail and Hangouts Chat. In addition, the Gmail add-on will allow users to display creation, modification, and last-accessed dates for linked files, while the Hangouts integration will add previews for linked files directly to your chats. Along with the Microsoft Outlook and Adobe XD CC integrations, Dropbox says it aiming mission to help you ease up with the usage of platforms. Google Cloud integrations will begin launching later this year. Ritcha Ranjan, Director, Product Management at Google Cloud said: Our goal is to make G Suite accessible no matter what tools you bring to work, and these integrations help our shared customers better collaborate in ...

Microsoft to roll out Intel’s Spectre macrocode fixes in upcoming Windows update

Microsoft today announced that it is rolling out Windows security update for additional devices against  Spectre and Meltdown and distribute the available Intel firmware, and progress driving anti-virus compatibility. Microsoft says that windows devices need both software and firmware updates against these new vulnerabilities. Furthermore, Microsoft recently added software coverage for x86 editions of Windows 10 and said to roll out support for all compatible versions of Windows. Though the software security updates are not available broadly yet, Intel said that it recently finished the validations and started to release microcode for newer CPU platforms. Microsoft today announced that it will roll out the Intel microcode updates for some Skylake devices running the latest version of Windows 10 through the Microsoft Update Catalog, KB4090007 initially. It also said that it will offer additional microcode updates from Intel as they become available and will continue to work with chipset and device makers as they offer more vulnerability mitigations. Microsoft also mentioned that it is working closely with anti-virus (AV) partners on compatibility with Windows updates, which will result in the vast majority of Windows devices with compatible AV software installed. it also said that it will closely work with partners on further mitigations and tools to help protect against the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. It ...

LG said to have showcased its next-flagship in a private conference at MWC 2018 ahead of announcement in June

LG and Huawei backed out from announcing their flagships at the MWC 2018 earlier this week. However, according to a report from Ynet, the company is said to have showcased the upcoming LG flagship in a private conference at the MWC 2018 event. Going by the flake and how viral the video has become in the short period of time, we might actually be looking at the G7 indeed. LG has made it clear that it would launch flagships only when the timing is right, and will not following the launch cycles anymore. For the same reason, it halted the G7 development mid-way to completely reboot it from scratch. The upcoming LG flagship dubbed Judy is now expected to go official later this year in June. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPcJ-DCN5N4 It is said to be powered by the Snapdragon 845 SoC with just 4GB of RAM with 64GB storage and 6GB RAM with 128GB storage for the G7+ variant. The flagship also said to pack stereo speakers, 16MP dual rear cameras with f/1.6-aperture, IP68 certification, military-grade durability, wireless charging and more. It is expected to sport a 6-inches full screen (1440 x 3120 pixels) display with 19.5:9 aspect ratio and a whopping 900 PPI. LG has also adopted the notch design like ...

ASUS Zenfone 5Z Hands On

It’s not even been 6 months since the launch of the iPhone X and the Android world has completely latched on to the fad. The newest to join the notch life is the  Asus Zenfone 5Z. Announced at the Mobile World Congress, the phone could very well be an iPhone X doppelgänger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8hJsSwOVNo Up front, the Zenfone 5Z has a 6.2 inch Full HD+ display with a notch along the top. Bezels are effectively non existent along the sides and just slightly thicker along the bottom. The 18.5:9 aspect ratio makes it very comfortable to grip the large display. The screen itself is an IPS panel that looks rather spectacular. Brightness levels, contrast and viewing angles are absolutely top notch. The Zenfone 5Z is a great looking phone but that unbalanced design sure triggers our inner OCD. Asus has been hyping up the fact that their notch is smaller than the one on the iPhone ten and that’s true but they’re also fitting in fewer sensors here. Asus has also managed to built in stereo speakers on Zenfone 5Z. [gallery link="file" columns="2" size="medium" ids="245090,245089,245088,245087"] On the right side you’ll find the volume rockers and power button. Along the bottom is the USB type c ...