OnePlus 6 Unboxing

OnePlus just announced its flagship OnePlus 6 smartphone at an event in London. It is the successor of the OnePlus 5T that was introduced five months back and has new 19:9 display with narrow bezels while maintaining the same body. We already brought you the first impressions of the phone. Check out the unboxing below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFe39tkLa3U Box Contents OnePlus 6 128GB Mirror Black Screen Protector (pre-applied) Clear protective case Dash Type-C Cable Dash Power Adapter (5V-4A) SIM Tray Ejector Quick Start Guide and Safety Information The OnePlus 5 has a 6.28-inch 19:9 Full HD+ Optic AMOLED 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass 5 display with 90% screen-to-body ratio, sRGB and DCI-P3 color coverage and is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform with 6GB or 8GB of RAM. It has a notch on the top that houses the 16-megapixel front camera with Sony IMX371 sensor, 1.0μm pixel size and f/2.0 aperture, earpiece and the usual set of proximity and ambient light sensors. It also comes with face unlock feature that can unlock the phone in 0.2 seconds. Running on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with Oxygen OS 5.1, which is upgradable to Android P. It also has an option to hide the notch, as you can see in the image. It has dual rear camera arrangement ...

OnePlus 6 Hands On and First Impressions

After lots of hype, teasers, and speculations, OnePlus today finally introduced its flagship OnePlus 6 at an event in London. With the change in time and trend, the company also seems to have changed its strategy. The 6th generation OnePlus flagship comes with a trending notch that equips notification LED, front camera, earpiece, and sensors, which is one of the most noticeable changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEcdKa5FwDk For the first time, OnePlus has opted for an all-glass build in the Mirror Black version, which has Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on both the front and the back of the device. Moreover, there is a slight curve on the back which makes it more comfortable to hold. The OnePlus 6 comes in three colors -- Mirror Black, Midnight Black with matte finish, and limited-edition Silk White. The OnePlus 6 measures 7.5mm in thickness and weigh around 177grams, which is 15grams heavier than 5T. The OnePlus 6 sports a 6.28-inch Full Optic AMOLED 19:9 aspect ratio display with a resolution of 2280x1080 pixels and offers an 84% screen-to-body ratio. With a larger display, the ergonomics of the device remains same as OnePlus 5T, which is a good thing. On the other hand, this device looks taller, which in turn ...

OnePlus Bullets Wireless water-resistant headphones with Dash Charge, Google Assistant announced

OnePlus at its flagship OnePlus 6 launch event in London introduced its new Bullets Wireless Bluetooth headphones with aptX technology. It has a magnetic design that lets you turn it off just by attaching the headphones together. It has memory alloy body covered in liquid silicone, and has a water-resistant body so that you can use them even in rain. It has a neck-band design with power button on the neck band and has in-line volume, music / call controls. It has a 9.2mm moving coil drivers and energy tubes which promises cleaner, crisper sound across all frequencies. Energy tubes are made of non metallic mineral and silica gel that reduces frequency diffraction and noise generation, resulting in cleaner and richer sound. It also has Dash Charge support that lets you charge it using the same Dash Charger that comes with the phone and get up to 5 hours usage with just 10 minutes of charging. OnePlus Bullets Wireless specifications Bluetooth 4.1 with Qualcomm aptX 9.2mm moving coil drivers and Energy tubes In-line remote control and magnetic switch Water-resistant Google Assistant 8 hours of continuous playback, Dash Charge offers 5 hours of playback with 10 minutes of charging The OnePlus Bullets Wireless comes in only Black ...

OnePlus 6 with 6.28-inch FHD+ AMOLED 19:9 display, Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM, dual rear cameras announced starting at $529

OnePlus just announced its flagship OnePlus 6 smartphone at an event in London, as it had promised. It has a 6.29-inch Optic AMOLED display with a notch, 90% screen-to-body ratio and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. It is powered by Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform with up to 8GB of RAM. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX519 sensor, f/1.7 aperture, OIS as well as EIS. The sensor is 19% bigger compared to the predecessor. It has the same 20-megapixel secondary camera with Sony IMX376K sensor and f/1.7 aperture, same as 5T for portrait shots and 2x zoom. Even the front camera uses the same 16-megapixel sensor with Sony IMX 371 sensor as the 5T. It runs Android 8.1 (Oreo) with OxygenOS 5.1, and the company will get Android P beta starting this week , and the stable version will be available later this year. In addition to fingerprint sensor on the back, which is now in oval shape, it has face unlock to unlock the phone in 0.4 seconds. For the first time OnePlus has introduced a glass back on its flagship with in the new Mirror Black version that has Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection. It has a thin layer of film underneath ...

OnePlus 5, 5T, 3 and 3T get new beta updates with May Android security patch, adds new Launcher, Switch features

OnePlus has rolled out new Open Beta update for its OnePlus 5 and 3 series smartphones (Beta 10 for  OnePlus 5, Beta 8 for OnePlus 5T, Beta 36 for  OnePlus 3 and Beta 27 for OnePlus 3T) that brings latest May 2018 Android security patch as well as new offers for Launcher, OnePlus Switch and Group MMS support. System Updated Android security patch to May Launcher Added Toolbox Card in shelf Added Hidden Space in app drawer Added support for editing dynamic icons(weather,clock and calendar) OnePlus Switch Optimized user interface for backup & restore Optimized logic for time remaining General bug fixes and stability improvements Messages Added Group MMS The update is about 108MB in size for OnePlus 3 and 3T  and 348MB for the OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T. If you’ve already flashed a previous Open Beta build, you will receive this update via OTA. If you haven’t, you will need to flash this manually by downloading it from downloads.oneplus.com. Source 1, 2

Smartisan Nut R1 with 6.17-inch FHD+ display, Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM, up to 1TB storage announced

Smartisan has announced Nut R1, the company latest flagship smartphone in China, which is the first smartphone in the world to come with 1TB storage. It has a 6.17-inch Full HD+ display with 18:7:9 aspect ratio and 84% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Snapdragon 845 with up to 8GB RAM and runs on Android-based Smartisan OS 6. It has a 12-megapixel rear camera with OIS along with a 20-megapixel secondary camera to capture depth information for portrait shots, both with Sony sensors and a 24-megapixel front camera with face unlock that can detect 1024 facial points. It has a AI-based virtual ultrasound proximity sensor from Elliptic Labs instead of a standard proximity sensor. It has a fingerprint sensor on the glass back that can unlock the phone in 0.17 seconds and packs a 3600mAh battery with suppport for Qualcomm QuickCharge 4+ fast charging as well 10W Qi wireless charging. It has also introduced Nut TNT Workstation that lets you connect the phone to the screen over USB Type-C and use it as a PC. It has a 27-inch (3840 x 2160 pixels) IPS 10-point multi-touch screen with 300 cd/m2 brightness and 100% sRGB, has Three speakers (2 full-range speakers, 1 low-frequency speaker), Smart Amplifier, microphone,  5MP camera with 1.4 μm large pixel size, ...

HMD Global schedules an event on May 29 in Moscow, Nokia 2, 3 and 5 2018 editions expected

HMD Global has scheduled a press event in Moscow, Russia on May 29th where the company is expected to launch new Nokia phones. The company has started sending out media invites for the launch where the company's CEO Florian Seiche, HMD’s CMO Pekka Rantala and CPO Juho Sarvikas will be present. The invite teaser reads "Dear friends. We invite you to worldwide premiere new Nokia phones." This is interesting considering the company is promoting them as 'world premiere.'  While the exact models and specifications of these phones are unknown, recently three new Nokia phones; TA-1075, TA-1105 & TA-1116  have been certified in Russia, but the names of the phones have not been revealed yet. Nokia's 2018 line-up is already available in Russia except for Nokia 8 Sirocco and Nokia 8110 4G. If anything we might witness the launch of Nokia 2, 3 and 5 2018 editions. Either way, we should know more details as we move forward. Source

Bing will ban Cryptocurrency Ads globally from June

Microsoft's Bing search engine today has announced that it is jumping into the anti-bitcoin bandwagon and has banned Cryptocurrency Ads. Since cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, it sees them as a possible risk to Bing users with potential for bad actors,  scam consumers. It will be disallowing advertising for the cryptocurrency, related products, and un-regulated binary options. It will be implementing this change to financial product and services policy globally in June, and enforcement rolling out in late June to early July. With this announcement, Bing joins the league with Google, Twitter, and Facebook who have already banned Cryptocurrency Ads. Commenting on the announcement, Bing said: Because cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, we have found them to present a possible elevated risk to our users with the potential for bad actors to participate in predatory behaviors, or otherwise scam consumers. To help protect our users from this risk, we have made the decision to disallow advertising for cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency related products, and un-regulated binary options. Source

YouTube said to be testing Incognito Mode on its Android app

Incognito Mode in apps lets you use their functionality without being tracked and without your actions being logged into your usage history. It is reported that YouTube is testing incognito mode in its Android app While YouTube already has privacy settings; going into the app settings, then to the history and in the privacy you can toggling on the options to pause watch and search history. You can also sign out and use the app from being tracked. With this new setting, YouTube is aiming to make it easier without tinkering with the settings. Incognito Mode will show up in the account settings page in the top right of the app. Since the feature is testing, for now, you will only see Switch account and Sign out as two different items, but once the feature is rolled out they may be bundled into one, and the option below given to Turn on Incognito. Like with most Incognito Mode your activity is not saved and subscriptions are hidden too. Once you disable the mode, you are back on again. The feature is not rolling out yet, and it might be a server-side roll out. There are also strings relating to the Incognito Mode present within the app. Source

OnePlus 6 Idea offer announced – Rs. 2000 cashback, Up to 370 GB additional data and more

Yesterday OnePlus announced several  launch offers for its upcoming OnePlus 6 flagship smartphone, including Rs. 2,000 cash back and device insurance for Idea subscribers. Today Idea Cellular has details the offers. The  Rs. 2,000 (in the form of discount of Rs. 100/month for 20 billing cycles) cashback will be available for post-paid customers on OnePlus 6 and they also get 10 GB/month additional data for 20 months on the Nirvana 499 Plan, which will effectively make the plan Rs. 399. The plan also covers device security for 4 months along with Digital Idea content services – music, movies and game for free. Idea prepaid customers will get up to additional 370GB data (1.1GB additional data/day on recharge of Rs.199 recharge with validity of 28 days) on 12 continuous recharge cycles. It also said that OnePlus 6 will soon get  VoLTE support on Idea. Special Idea Offer on Oneplus 6 Type Recharge/Plan  Current Benefits Special Additional Benefits on OnePlus 6 Postpaid Nirvana Plan- 499 40GB Data Unlimited Local + National Calls, Free Roaming, 3000 L+N SMS.Free Device security for 4 Months. -Free Idea Games, Music, Movies & TV subscription for 12 Months -Free Idea Magazine for 4 Months    Instant Cashback of Rs.2,000* *Bill discount of Rs.100 for 20 Bill Cycles Additional Data of 10GB per Bill Cycle for 20 Bill Cycles Prepaid Rs.199 1.4GB/day, Unlimited ...