Sony Xperia XZ2 with 5.7-inch Full HD+ HDR display, Snapdragon 845 launched in India for Rs. 72990

Sony Mobile today launched the Xperia XZ2, the company’s  flagship smartphone in India. It was introduced at the MWC 2018 in Barcelona earlier this year, packs a  5.7-inch Full HD+ 18:9 HDR screen with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection, is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform and runs Android 8.0 (Oreo). It has a 3D glass body and features the same Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection on the back. It also has front facing stereo speakers with S-Force Front Surround. It comes with a 19-megapixel Motion Eye camera with 1/ 2.3″ Exmor RS memory stacked sensor, 960 fps super slow motion videos (FHD/HD), Predictive Capture, Anti-distortion shutter, Triple image sensing technology and  5-axis image stabilization for shake-free videos, similar to the XZ1. It was introduced as the world’s first smartphone with 4K HDR Movie recording and also offers ISO sensitivity 51200 for photos and ISO 12800 for video.  It has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, has IP65/68 ratings for dust and water resistance and packs a 3180mAh battery with support for fast charging and also has wireless charging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdKMZwQ2Luk Sony Xperia XZ2 specifications 5.7-inch (2160 x 1080 pixels) 18:9 Triluminos HDR Display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform with Adreno 630 GPU ...

Honor Play with 6.3-inch Full HD+ display, 6GB RAM, AI dual rear cameras launching in India on August 6 exclusively on Amazon

Huawei's Honor brand, after the launch of Honor 9N this week, announced that the Honor Play smartphone will launch in India on August 6th, exclusively on Amazon.in. It was introduced in China last month, packs a 6.3-inch Full HD+ 19:5:9 display with a notch and a 89% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Kirin 970 10nm processor with 6GB of RAM, NPU as well as GPU Turbo graphics processing acceleration technology that increases graphics processing efficiency of mobile phones for smoother and faster mobile experience, especially for mobile games. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera AI scene recognition that can detect over 500 scenes and the 2-megapixel secondary rear camera for portrait shots. The 16-megapixel front camera uses pixel binning technology, combining the information from four pixels to create one large 2.0µm pixel. It has a metal back and packs a 3750mAh battery with support for fast charging. Honor Play specifications 6.3-inch (2340 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ LCD 19:5:9 2.5D curved glass display, 85% NTSC color gamut Octa-Core Huawei Kirin 970 (4 x 2.4 GHz A73+ 4 x 1.8 GHz A53) 10nm processor with Mali-G72 MP12 GPU,  i7 co-processor, NPU, GPU Turbo 6GB LPDDR4X RAM, 64GB (UFS 2.1) internal storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD Android 8.1 (Oreo) with EMUI ...

Xiaomi MIUI App Vault gets option to Check train PNR, Trending apps cards and more

Update 2 - July 2018: Xiaomi has added couple of new cards including ‘Check train PNR’ and ‘Trending apps’ to MIUI App Vault. Xiaomi has partnered with Ixigo for ‘Check train PNR’ service which can be used to check PNR status without leaving the home screen. Users need to enter their 10 digit PNR number for their upcoming train journey to see all the details. The card also shows recently checked PNR numbers which is really helpful as users don’t need to enter PNR number each time they check PNR status for the same journey. [gallery link="file" size="large" ids="259252,259251,259250"] Apart from new cards, users can now fold-unfold empty cards so that they can see more information on the screen. Users can click on ‘Tap to view details’ to unfold a card and click again to fold a card but only Notes, Calendar, Cricket and Stocks cards are supported as of now. MIUI team might extend this functionality to more cards in future. Earlier: Last month, Xiaomi added a ‘Stocks’ card to MIUI App Vault and also listed it on the Play Store. Now, Xiaomi has added another card which shows Today’s `Deal on app vault from shopplus, clicking on any deal it redirects to ...

LG V90 trademark filing surfaces in Mexico

Details about the LG V40, the next flagship in the ‘V Series’  code-named 'Storm' surfaced back in April, now the Korean giant has filed for trademark of V90 in Mexico. This could be entirely a new smartphone for Mexican markets or the V40 could release as V90. The trademark filing that was registered on July 13th doesn't reveal any other details of the smartphone except for the name. Earlier rumors said that next LG 'V series' flagship will be introduced sometime in late summer or early fall so there are chances we can expect it at the IFA 2018 on August 31st, same time the V30 was introduced. We should know more details about the LG V90 soon. Source | Via

Google to bring A.I technology to contact centers, adds new automated machine learning tools

Google today is introducing two new AutoML offerings; the AutoML Natural Language that helps you automatically predict custom text categories specific to domains and AutoML Translation using which you can upload translated language pairs to train your own custom translation model. Furthermore, Google also said that these are now available in beta, and announced new enhancements to Dialogflow Enterprise Edition, a new solution, Contact Center A.  Google today is announcing that its third generation Cloud TPUs are available in alpha, making support for larger amounts of machine learning computation. It is also launching several important updates to its core machine learning APIs. The Cloud Vision API now recognizes handwriting, supports additional file types (PDF and TIFF) and product search, and can identify where an object is located within an image. Furthermore, it is also pushing out improvements to Cloud Text-to-Speech, such as multilingual access to voices generated by DeepMind WaveNet technology and the ability to optimize for the type of speaker from which your speech is intended to play. The Cloud Speech-to-Text gets the ability to identify what language is spoken as well as different speakers in a conversation, word-level confidence scores, and multi-channel recognition. Google Dialogflow Enterprise Edition that was introduced it last November gets new capabilities ...

Chrome 68 for Android brings Spectre Site mitigations, ‘Not secure’ warning, Android P-like tab switcher and more

Chrome for Android is getting a new update bringing the version number to V68. This update brings the HTTP ‘Not secure’ warning as well as Spectre and redirects protections. It also gets a new tab switcher similar to Android P and also a new “Add to Home screen” prompt.  This update brings the long-running Google plan for HTTPS push as it involves marking HTTP sites as “Not secure”  in the Omnibar. this behavior was first implemented last year with HTTP sites in Incognito mode. Google notes that 76% of Chrome traffic on Android is now protected, and this is up from 42%, around 85% of the Chrome traffic on Chrome OS is now protected and this is up from 67%, lastly, 83 of the top 100 sites on the web use HTTPS by default. In the security front, Chrome 68 brings Site Isolation to Android and this is a technique for fixing Spectre. It involves rendering pages in separate processes to prevent malicious sites from stealing passwords, cookies, and additional data from other open tabs. Users can also manually enable this with "chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process" flag. The Chromium’s Certificate Transparency policy requires that Certificate Authorities maintain publicly available logs for all SSL certificates issued. This move is aimed to verify best practices and so with Chrome ...

Sony Xperia XZ3 with 5.7-inch Full HD+ display, Snapdragon 845 surfaces in renders

We've already heard rumors about Sony working on its next flagship; dubbed Xperia XZ3 that is slated to launch at the IFA 2018 event. Back in the news again, the Xperia XZ3 now surfaces in 360-degree renders showcasing just single rear camera despite earlier reports pointing at dual rear cameras.  And here comes your very first look at the #SONY #XPERIAXZ3! 360° video + official looking 5K renders + dimensions (as usual, based upon factory CAD), on behalf of @compareraja -> https://t.co/Atb7eUMwGc pic.twitter.com/qkUGuTxA93 — Steve H. (@OnLeaks) July 24, 2018 This new leak comes from the very famous @OnLeaks showcases Sony's path to continue to legacy of the XZ series. Since we have seen a dual-rear camera setup on the Xperia XZ2 Premium, it is believed that the upcoming flagship would also follow the same suit. Much to our surprise, Sony appears to be thinking differently. However, the phone does look beautiful in the renders with a bezel-less design and the same curvy glass back from the Xperia XZ2. The Sony Xperia XZ3 is rumored to sport a 5.7-inch Full HD+ display, powered by the Snapdragon 845, 6GB RAM. It could run on Oreo but might get Android P update. It is expected to pack a 3,240 mAh ...

Apple MacBook Pro 2018 update brings fix for CPU throttling and thermal management bug

Apple today is rolling out a new update for its brand new MacBook Pros that were released earlier this month. This update brings a fix for performance related issues and thermal management system under certain conditions. The bug especially drives the clock speeds of the MacBook Pro's lower than necessary under heavy workloads. The update comes after several reports about the performance issues related to CPU throttling. The  6-core Core i9 in the new high-end MacBook Pro seems to be quite aggressive but the bug discovered by Apple is not app specific and affects only intense workloads. Though reports point to the issues only in the high-end core i9 machines, it seems to be affecting all the new MacBook Pro models. It appears that Apple must have missed the bug as the internal benchmark testing wasn’t affected by the bug. So, post the new supplemental update, Apple's original claims of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro being up to 70% faster will still remain the same. Apple said to have internally ran tests using Premiere Pro with similar workloads and the update indeed appears to fix the problem. Apple in a statement said: Following extensive performance testing under numerous workloads, we’ve identified that there is a missing digital key in ...

Google G Suite gets Grammar Suggestions in Google Docs, Smart Reply in Hangouts Chat and more

Google today announced that it is introducing new grammar suggestions in Google Docs along with a revamped interface for spelling and grammar review. Alongside this, Google is introducing a slew of new features to GSuite including Security center investigation tool, Data regions, Smart Reply in Hangouts Chat, Smart Compose, voice commands in Hangouts Meet hardware. The new investigation tool in the security center adds integrated remediation to the prevention and detection capabilities of the security center. GSuite admins can identify potentially infected users and remove access to Drive files or delete malicious emails. The Investigation tool is available today as part of 'Early Adopter Program' for G Suite Enterprise customers. Next on the list is the new 'data regions' to G Suite. For organizations with data control requirements, G Suite will now let customers choose where to store primary data for select G Suite apps; globally distributed, the U.S. or Europe. Google says that it is also making it easier for you to manage your data regions. Data regions for G Suite is available to all G Suite Business and Enterprise customers starting today. Following the lines of Smart Reply in Gmail, Google today is bringing the 'Smart Reply' to Hangouts Chat to help you respond to messages quicker. Google's tech recognizes ...

Xiaomi India offers a chance to own the Mi A2 before launch

Xiaomi introduced the Mi A2 smartphone as the successor of the Mi A1, at an event in Spain yesterday. Xiaomi India head and VP Manu Jain has already confirmed that the smartphone will be launching in the country on August 8th, but the Mi A2 Lite may not come to India. If you are planning to buy Mi A2 and can’t wait till the official launch in India, there is a good news for you. As per an announcement on Mi Community, Xiaomi India is looking for Mi A2 Squad, which is similar to Mi Explorer program in which the company involves its fans to test the device before the launch. This time Xiaomi India is focusing on photography with Mi A2 Squad as it has mentioned that it is looking for the users who have knack for capturing extraordinary using a smartphone. Benefits: Squad members get a chance to keep Mi A2 smartphone upon completion of program. Also, the best 3 photographers will be awarded ₹5000 mi.com coupons as per the announcement thread. Selection: Xiaomi India will announce the selected squad members between 27-29th July 2018 and Mi A2 will be delivered to the selected squad members. Xiaomi India will ...