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Thursday, 9 May 2019

Boat Stone 1400 30W wireless water-resistant speaker launched for Rs. 5499

boAt launches the dynamite speaker Stone 1400 with a premium 70mm driver. The highlighted feature of the boAt Stone 1400 is its 30W sound output making it one of the loudest speakers in this price segment. It also comes with IPX 5 Water Resistant design with a compact dual and adjustable flat strap makes for easy portability. Coming in the urban finish, the speaker is compatible with Bluetooth V4.2, Aux-in cables and USB port. Also, the speakers have interactive elements like the button on top, and there are also two equaliser modes. boat Stone 1400 offers up to 7 hours of play-time powered by the 2500mAh Lithium Battery with Type-C charging point. The Boat Stone 1400 comes in Active Black and Army Green colors, is priced at Rs. 5499 and is available to buy on Amazon.in. Commenting on the launch, Ankush Guglani, Business Head said: boAt Stone 1400 speaker is a must have for all music lovers who love travelling. With Bluetooth speakers, you can enjoy your favourite music anywhere and anytime. Find your inner peace with soft and slow music or party hard with the latest heart thumping beats at group gatherings.

Lenovo Ego smartwatch with heart-rate monitor, 20 days battery life launched in India for Rs. 1999

Lenovo has launched its EGO digital smartwatch. It has a monochrome screen with night light mode, promises 20 days battery life, offers 24/7 heart-rate tracking, offers activity and scientific sleep monitoring, and is water resistant up to 50 meters so it can be used as a swim tracker. It also has smart features like remote camera and vibrating notifications along with alerts for phone calls, emails, text messages, and other social media apps. Lenovo Ego smartwatch (HX07) specifications 1.6-inch anti-reflective monochrome display with night light mode Bluetooth 4.0, Compatible with iOS and Android smartphones Activity tracking, Sleep tracking, Swim tracking Real-time heart rate monitoring Remote camera feature to take a picture with a single tap on the display screen of the smartwatch Vibration-based alarm Water-resistant 5ATM (50 meters) Dimensions: 55 x 48 x 15.8 mm; Weight: 42g 20 Days Battery Life, Magnetic charging The Lenovo EGO is priced at Rs. 1,999 and will be available exclusively on Flipkart and Croma from tomorrow, 10th May 2019. Commenting on the launch, Sebastian Peng, Head of Lenovo MBG Ecosystem said: Wearable technologies have emerged as the next big consumer electronics market in India and is expected to grow at a fast pace. With Lenovo EGO, we aim to acquire a 15% share of India’s ...

Xiaomi Redmi Y3 Camera Samples

Xiaomi launched the Redmi Y3 selfie-focused smartphone last month, here we have the camera samples from the phone. The phone packs a 12-megapixel primary rear camera with single LED Flash, 1.25um pixel size, f/2.2 aperture, PDAF, EIS along with a secondary 2-megapixel camera to capture depth information in portrait shots. It has a 32-megapixel front-facing camera with 1/2.8″ sensor size, 0.8μm pixel size, f/2.25 aperture and 80-degree field of view (FOV). The camera UI is familiar with other Xiaomi smartphones running MIUI 10 that includes flash toggle, HDR, AI (that can detect 33 scene categories), color modes (Normal, Vivid, Film, Amour, Latte, Sun, Cookie, Calm, Soda, Gourmet, Glow, Berries, B&W and Fade) on the top. Pressing the menu option shows timer, tilt-shift, straighten, group selfie, Google lens and beautify (that can be adjusted from 1 to 5) options. There is a front camera toggle on the bottom along with option to select modes such as Short Video, Video, Photo, Portrait, Square, Panorama and Pro mode (to adjust white balance, shutter speed (1/1000s to 32 seconds) and ISO (0 to 3200)). Xiaomi has also added palm shutter to the phone that shoots an image after 3 seconds if you show the palm in front of the camera. Coming ...

Sharp AQUOS R3 with 6.2-inch Quad HD+ IGZO 120Hz display, dual-notch design, Snapdragon 855, Android 9.0 Pie announced

After AQUOS R2 Compact last year, Sharp has announced AQUOS R3 smartphone with dual-notch design with front camera at the top of the display and fingerprint sensor at the bottom. It has a 6.2-inch Quad HD+ IGZO LCD screen with 120GHz refresh rate, is powered by Snapdragon 855 with 6GB of RAM, runs Android Pie, has a 12.2MP rear camera along with a 20.1MP secondary 125° ultra-wide camera. SHARP AQUOS R3 specifications 6.2-inch Quad HD+ (3120 × 1440 pixels) 19.5:9 IGZO LCD 2.5D curved glass display, 120Hz refnresh rate Octa-Core Snapdragon 855 7nm Mobile Platform (1 x 2.84GHz Kryo 485 + 3 x 2.42GHz Kryo 485 + 4x 1.80GHz Kryo 485) with Adreno 640 GPU 6GB LPDDR4X RAM, 64GB storage (UFS), expandable memory up to 512GB with microSD Android 9.0 (Pie) 12.2MP rear camera with LED Flash, f/1.7 aperture, 78° wide-angle lens, OIS, 20.1MP secondary camera with f/2.4 aperture, 125° ultra-wide lens 16.3MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture Fingerprint sensor 3.5mm audio jack, Dolby Atmos Dimension:156 x 74 x 8.9mm; Weight: 185g 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (2.4/5GHz), MIMO, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS with GLONASS, USB Type-C 3,200mAh battery with fast charging, wireless charging The SHARP AQUOS R3 comes in Premium Black, Platinum White, Elegant Green, Pink Amethyst and Luxury Red colors and will be ...

OnePlus 7 Series Pop-up events will be held across 7 cities in India: All you need to know

The OnePlus 7 Series is coming next week, and nothing can stop it! Keeping up with the tradition, OnePlus is giving its fans a chance to experience the OnePlus 7 series smartphones with one-of-a-kind ‘OnePlus Experience Pop-Up’. As of this 2019, OnePlus 7 Pro is arguably one of the more curious phones mostly because of its features, including HDR10+ certified screen, A+ certification from DisplayMate, UFS 3.0 and 3x zoom camera . The OnePlus Pop-up starts at 7 pm on May 17 at Amphitheatre, Select City Walk, New Delhi. Moreover, the Experience Pop-Up will be a unique, experiential zone where users and the community can come together to get their hands on the latest flagship from the company, the OnePlus 7 Pro. In addition to it, there will also be opportunities to meet up with both OnePlus team members and, of course, like-minded OnePlus fans. To make it more interactive, OnePlus will conduct exclusive workshops and exciting events over the month including gaming leagues, content creation and photography workshops as well. OnePlus will also be hosting limited stock pop-up stores across 7 major cities in India where attendees will be the first to get their hands on the device. The OnePlus pop-ups, starting at ...

Letstrack unveils world’s first voice integrated vehicle security system

UK-based IoT startup Letstrack has launched the first of a kind voice feature, where user talks with the app in a similar way you talk when you are with a companion during a journey or get solutions to any query. The company claims that it is the world’s first movers in the market with Voice AI feature offering a revolutionary solution to automobile stability. The real-time data provided by the app results in a swifter and progressively compelling experience for drivers. 65 percent of the commands are voice-based when you use this app. It implies no risk of losing control over your vehicle while driving. Even create your personalized shortcut commands in the app as per your convenience to regulate your car. With the voice feature, the driver can start or stop the automobile, cut the engine or restore the car's power, save a frequently travelled location and much more. For example, say change speed limit of Audi to 80, and it’s all switched. Additionally, amid a crisis like a car breakdown or any medicinal emergency, instant and timely action can be taken with the help of the voice-enabled vehicle security system. The app increases resource optimization for your vehicle enabling a driver to ...

LG V50 ThinQ 5G will finally roll out starting from May 10

Update : May 8, 2019 — After a delay, LG has confirmed that it will roll out the LG V50 ThinQ 5G smartphone from May 10th in Korea. Pricing remains the same — 1,199,000 won (US$ 1,016 / Rs. 71,019 approx.) for the phone and the Dual-Screen accessory costs 2,19,000 won (US$ 185 / Rs. 12,970 approx.), which is free those who buys the phone till June-end. It also offers one-year free replacement service for customers who purchase the phone before May 13. Update: April 16, 2019 — LG today announced that it has decided to postpone the launch of the LG V50 ThinQ scheduled for launch on April 19th in Korea. The company said that this move is to optimize the Snapdragon 855 and X50 5G Modem's functions and network interoperability with the existing LTE network. This move is to avoid bad network experience for customers purchasing the LG V50 ThinQ. LG said that it has been working closely with Qualcomm and domestic mobile operators to improve its 5G service and smartphone interoperability, including Software, Hardware and network. It will confirm the new release date later. Earlier: LG introduced its flagship  V50 ThinQ 5G at the MWC in February. Now the company has announced that it will go on sale ...

Samsung introduces 64MP ISOCELL Bright GW1 and 48MP GM2 image sensors for smartphones

Samsung has introduced two new 0.8-micrometer (μm) pixel image sensors — 64-megapixel (Mp) Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 and 48Mp ISOCELL Bright GM2. The new ISOCELL Bright GW1 is a 64Mp sensor offers the highest resolution, and the new ISOCELL Bright GM2 48Mp sensor is the successor of last year's ISOCELL Bright GM1 48Mp sensor that is being used in most smartphones this year. Highlights of 64MP ISOCELL Bright GW1 Pixel-merging Tetracell technology and remosaic algorithm offers 16Mp images in low-light environments where four pixels are merged to work as one to increase light sensitivity and highly-detailed 64Mp shots in brighter settings. GW1 supports real-time high dynamic range (HDR) of up to 100-decibels (dB) that provides richer hues. In comparison, the dynamic range of a conventional image sensor is at around 60dB, while that of the human eye is typically considered to be around 120dB. GW1 is equipped with a Dual Conversion Gain (DCG) that converts the received light into an electric signal according to the illumination of the environment. This allows the sensor to optimize its full well capacity (FWC), utilizing the collected light more efficiently especially in bright environments. Sharper results can be delivered through Super PD, a high-performance phase detection auto-focus technology Full HD recording ...

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

WhatsApp will end support for Windows Phone at the end of 2019, new UWP app expected

WhatsApp stopped support for Blackberry OS in 2017 and the company already stopped support for Android versions older than 2.3.3 and Windows Phone 7 back in 2016. Similarly, WhatsApp on Tuesday announced that it will stop supporting Windows Phone platform on December 31, 2019. WhatsApp will stop working on Windows 10 platform on December 31st which means that the app will stop getting future updates. Back in 2017, the company announced that it will stop supporting Windows Phone 8.0 platform and now, the company has updated the blog post with a list of platforms that it will stop supporting which includes all versions of the Windows Phone platform. While WhatsApp is ending support for the Windows Phone platform, new reports have emerged suggesting that the company is working on a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app. The UWP app will reportedly run on the recent version of Windows Phone and Windows Desktop platforms. There is no information regarding the new app yet, and we have to wait to know what WhatsApp has in store for us. Commenting on this, a WhatsApp spokesperson said: Following Microsoft's recent decision to end support for Windows Mobile devices in December, WhatsApp will release its final update for Windows phones in June. WhatsApp will ...

Nokia 6.1 Plus and Nokia 5.1 Plus get a limited time price cut in India, additional cashback for Airtel users

Nokia launched the 6.1 Plus and 5.1 Plus smartphones in India in August 2018 and September 2019 at a price of Rs. 15,999 and Rs. 10,999, respectively. Since its launch, there were offers and discounts on smartphones in sales. In similar lines, today, both the Nokia 5.1 Plus and Nokia 6.1 Plus are available at discounted prices on Nokia's official website. Nokia 6.1 Plus 4GB RAM variant and Nokia 5.1 Plus 3GB RAM variant are on a limited time offer where users can avail flat Rs.1750 discount by using the code DEAL1750 at Nokia India's official website. Additionally, Airtel users will get extra Rs.2000 cashback in the form of Rs.50 cashback per month for 40 months and in order to avail this offer, users should opt for Airtel's Rs. 199, Rs. 249, or the Rs. 448 plans. On top of this, Airtel users will also get 240GB of free data and it will be credited in the form of data packets worth 20GB each on 12 recharges. After the price cut, the effective price of Nokia 5.1 Plus 3GB RAM variant comes down to Rs.8849 from its regular asking price of Rs.10,599. The effective price of Nokia 6.1 Plus 4GB RAM variant comes down to Rs.13,749 from its ...