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Saturday, 3 March 2018

Weekly Roundup: Samsung Galaxy S9 / S9+, Sony Xperia XZ2 / XZ2 Compact, Nokia 7 Plus, 8110 4G and more from MWC 2018

This week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 Samsung, Sony, HMD Global, ASUS and others introduced their smartphones. Motorola, HTC and Xiaomi did not announced anything new as rumored earlier. Check out all the new announcement from the MWC this year. Samsung announced Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ smartphones with variable aperture cameras. The S9 has a 12-megapixel rear camera with variable aperture tech that uses f/1.5 aperture for night shots for a brighter picture and f/2.4 aperture for normal shots in daytime. The S9+ has a secondary 12MP Telephoto lens for live focus for bokeh effect with background blur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEE1tqBWvtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rhu5h_Kwa8 The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ come in Midnight Black, Titanium Gray, Coral Blue and Lilac Purple colors  These will be available starting in March 16, 2018. Samsung has already started pre-bookings for the phone in India and it will launch on March 6th. HMD Global introduced Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 1, Nokia 8110, New Nokia 6 and Nokia 8 Sirocco. The Nokia 8110 is the company's first 4G VoLTE feature phone with a 2.4-inch curved glass display and a keypad.  It is priced at €79 ($98 or Rs. 6,340 approx.) and will be available from May. Check out the hands-on impressions here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ_bsCU1-PM&t=1s The Nokia 8 Sirocco and is also an Android One variant. While the core specifications remain almost same, there are ...