Xiaomi launches Mi Crowdfunding in India

Xiaomi today launched Mi Crowdfunding, where users can support, buy and also help Xiaomi decide which products can be launched in India. When 100% support is achieved within a stipulated timeline, a project will be considered successful for a specific product. It will be shipped to backers and will also be launched for others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54zk4MbImaI How does Xiaomi Crowdfunding work? Select the product, click on 'Support now' and place your order. Use any preferred online payment mode (Credit card/ Debit card ,Internet banking, payment wallets) and pay within the defined timelines on the payment page. You can come back anytime to check the project progress.Project is successful once the bar reaches 100% in the defined timelines. Priority delivery within the said timelines. If the project is unsuccessful, you get your entire money back. If you change your mind, you can always cancel the order before it ships out. Starting today midnight two products, Mi Selfie Stick Tripod and Mi Bluetooth Audio Receiver will be available for funding at Rs. 1099 and Rs. 999, respectively for the next 14 days. Mi Selfie Stick Tripod A unique selfie stick and tripod stand combined into one unit, with a Bluetooth shutter remote Bluetooth 3.0 supports Android 4.3 and higher and ...

Reliance Jio launches Jio Cricket Season Pack, Jio Cricket Play Along game and Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan Live Show for IPL 2018

Reliance Jio today launched new offerings -  Jio Cricket Play Along game that lets you win prizes, Jio Cricket Season Pack that offers live streaming of IPL matches on the app and Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan Live comedy Cricket show for the IPL season starting this week. All these will be available on My Jio app that will also be available for non-Jio subscribers. Jio Cricket Season Pack enables users watch IPL matches live on MyJio app throughout the duration of 51 days at Rs. 251 and also comes with  102GB data. Jio Cricket Play Along game will be available on MyJio app everyday during the matches, spanning 7 weeks and 60 matches and can be played in 11 Indian languages. You stand a chance to win a house in Mumbai, 25 cars, cash prize worth crores and more. Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan Live starts at 7th April  at 7:30 PM, with original live episodes, releasing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hosted Sunil Grover and popular sports anchor Samir Kochhar, every episode will feature cricketers and celebrity guests in fun conversations, gags and  more. They will be joined by a host of popular comedians along with cricket legends Kapil Dev and Virender Sehwag.

Honor schedules an event on May 15th in London, Honor 10 expected

Honor just sent out media invites for an event on May 15th in London and from the teaser image it is evident that the company is launching a smartphone and it is expected to be Honor 10. It looks like the company is again focusing on A.I which is evident from ‘Beauty in AI’ caption. Following the trend of launching its Honor flagships around this time of the year, the company is expected to introduce the Honor 10 and it will be powered by the same chipset that is powering the Honor View 10; the Kirin 970 64-bit octa-core processor. The Honor 10 will also pack slim bezel-less design with a 5.7-inches display and is expected to run on Android 8.1 Oreo with EMUI 8.1 on top with improved A.I features and enhancements. Just like the Huawei P20 series, the Honor 10 is expected to come with a top-notch. It will have dual-rear cameras and a front-facing fingerprint sensor. The live-image of the Honor 10 surfaced recently, however, the design of the phone is partially hidden given that it is in testing. It remains to be seen what Honor has planned up its sleeve and also if its ships with or without a notch. May ...

BlackBerry sues Snapchat over patented Messaging, Snap Maps and more

After suing Facebook, BlackBerry is now after Snapchat creator Snap Inc. over patented Messaging, Snap Maps and more. BlackBerry Chief Executive Officer John Chen has been working to find additional sources of revenue as investors express concern over company's growth.  As the growth of the company is tanking, the company is hunting through its library of wireless tech and messaging patents to find opportunities for more licensing deals, and lawsuits. The company is now after Snapchat and is accusing of infringing six patents issued in 2012 and 2014. Two among these are also among the suite that BlackBerry filed against Facebook in March. BlackBerry patent rights include map improvement for mobile devices, user interface improvements for mobile devices, modern mobile advertising techniques. Snapchat declined to comment on the issue A BlackBerry spokesperson in a statement said: BlackBerry has a well-earned reputation for protecting and securing our customers’ data and privacy. For more than a year we have been working to establish a dialogue with Snap as we believe there are far more opportunities for partnership than disagreement. While we continue to hold this door open, we also have a strong claim that Snap infringed on our intellectual property, harmed our shareholders, and we have an ...

Amazon said to be planning to acquire Flipkart

According to a latest report, Amazon is planning to submit a rival offer to buy India’s largest e-commerce firm Flipkart who are in advance talks with Walmart Inc. for selling a majority stake. The company is said to be in early exploratory talks to buy Flipkart even as Flipkart closes in on sale to Walmart. It is already well-known that Walmart is in talks to buy 55% of Flipkart through a mix of primary and secondary share purchases that values Flipkart at $21 billion. It is also reported that Flipkart investors Tiger Global Management, Accel Partners, Naspers, IDG Ventures and others are also expected to sell most or all of their shares in the Flipkart-Walmart deal. The secondary share purchases will happen at a lower valuation. It is widely believed that a deal with Walmart is more likely to go through. Back in August 2017, Flipkart received $1.4 billion in fresh capital from Japan’s SoftBank Group, valuing the retailer at about $14 billion. For Flipkart, valuation of more than $20 billion will be an interesting turn around with its competition against Amazon in India. It is also rumored that Google also wanted to invest in the e-commerce firm valuing it at $15-16 billion, according to reports from February. On the other hand, Since its ...

OnePlus 6 will have an option to hide the notch

Last week OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei confirmed that the OnePlus 6 will have a notch and shared the reason for having a notch. Later the CEO Pete Lau shared more details about the screen and the notch on the forum saying that the phone will have a compatibility mode that will let you black out the sides of the notch when in landscape mode when watching videos or playing games . The CEO also said that the mode has been tested with the 1000 most popular apps in the Play Store, and it works wonderfully. Now he has posted an update saying that the phone will have an option to hide the notch. At first the company considered against adding this feature, now after feedback from the users, it has decided to add it in a future software update after the launch of the OnePlus 6. He added that OxygenOS will be optimized to work alongside the notch so that you can easily view and access all of your notifications. Option to hide the notch is available in Huawei P20 and P20 Pro smartphones that was introduced recently. Regarding the black-out option, Pete Lau A black-out feature was seriously considered in the early stages of the development ...

Xiaomi Redmi 5A Battery Life Test – #OneChargeRating

Xiaomi launched the Redmi 5A smartphone recently. We already brought you the review of the phone, here we have the battery life test results of the phone. It packs a 3000mAh (typical) / 2910mAh (minimum) built-in battery, has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by Snapdragon 425, has 2GB or 3GB of RAM and runs on Android 7.1.2 (Nougat) with MIUI 9. Check out the test results below. Talk Time It lasted for 25 hours and 5 minutes in our talk time test. 3G Browsing It lasted for 6 hours and 42 minutes in our 3G browsing test. WiFi Browsing It lasted 9 hours and 6 minutes in our WiFi Browsing test. Video Playback It lasted for 11 hours and 8 minutes in our video playback test, same as Redmi 4A. Charging Time It took 2 hours 16 mins for charging it from 0 to 100% since it doesn't have support for fast charging. Standby Time It lasted for 33 days in our standby test. It achieved a One Charge Rating of 12 hours and 38 minutes, slightly less than 12 hours and 53 minutes rating for the Redmi 4A since this has a smaller battery.  Check out our battery life test procedure, to know more about our tests in detail.

Nokia 6 2018, Nokia 7 Plus and Nokia 8 Sirocco Android One smartphones launched in India starting at Rs. 16999

HMD Global just launched new Nokia 6, Nokia 7 Plus and Nokia 8 Sirocco, the company's latest Android One smartphones that were introduced at the MWC 2018, as expected. All these run Android Oreo, come with Face unlock and also have Pro Camera mode. The company has also promised to offer latest Android security updates every month and also update to Android P. The new Nokia 6 has a 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by Snapdragon 630 Mobile platform, runs on Android 8.0 (Oreo), has a 16-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, ZEISS optics and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.  It has an unibody metal design made of 6000 series aluminium, has Nokia’s Dual Sight / Bothie feature and packs a 3000mAh battery with support for fast charging that can charge the phone up to 50% in 30 minutes. The Nokia 7 Plus has a 6-inch 18:9 Full HD+ display, is powered by Snapdragon 660, has dual rear sensors with ZEISS optics that combine an ultra-sensitive 12MP wide-angle primary camera for both low-light and extra bright conditions and a secondary 13MP camera for 2x optical zoom. It has an unibody metal design made of 6000 series aluminium ...

Facebook Messenger now lets you share 360-degree photos and HD video

Facebook Messenger has received the ability to send 360-degree photos, panoramic photos, and high-definition videos directly in Messenger. Facebook will now allow users to send and receive HD quality; 720p videos straight from their camera roll. To send 360-degree photos in Messenger, you can simply set your phone camera to panorama mode and snap a photo or click a 360-degree photo using a 360 photo app or camera and can share it directly in the Messenger as you would a normal picture. Facebook will then convert it to an immersive, envy-inducing photo which can be experienced on mobile by tapping and dragging the photo or by moving their phone, and on Messenger.com by clicking and dragging. As for the video, users can share a pre-recorded HD video or share from your news feed, or even share a video from one message thread to another. Users will see a compass icon on the right-hand side of a panoramic photo and the videos will also be easily identifiable with an HD or SD marker. You can also change the quality right from the marker on the lower right side. The 360-degree photos in Messenger are available all over the world on both iOS and Android. While the HD quality videos are ...

Facebook News Feed updated with more background information on publishers and articles

Facebook last year started providing more background information about the publishers and articles users see in News Feed. Today the company is rolling out this feature to everyone in the US and adding additional features to provide more context to users. Facebook said that its internal research within the company's community, academic, and industry partners have identified that additional key information helps users evaluate the credibility of an article and determine whether to trust the article’s source. With the same goal, Facebook is making it easy for people to view context about the article, it will also include the publisher’s Wikipedia entry, related articles on the same topic, information about how many times the article has been shared on Facebook, where it is has been shared, as well as an option to follow the publisher’s page. Facebook will indicate that the information is unavailable in case the publisher does not have a Wikipedia entry. Additionally, Facebook is also introducing 'More From This Publisher', which will give users a quick snapshot of the other recent stories posted by the publisher and 'Shared By Friends' which will show users if any of their friends have shared the article. Facebook will also display more information about the author if the publisher has implemented author ...