LG G8X ThinQ with 6.4-inch FHD+ OLED display, Snapdragon 855 global roll out begins Nov 1, price revealed

LG introduced the G8X ThinQ at the IFA last month,  and it started rolling out as V50S ThinQ with 5G support in Korea earlier this month. Today the company has announced the global roll out for the G8X ThinQ, which will be available in the U.S. on November 1 followed by key markets around the world such as Brazil, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain and Turkey over the next several weeks. It will be sold in the U.S. unlocked at $699.99 (Rs. 49,630 approx.) on Amazon as well as AT&T and Sprint. The company is also offering LG Dual Screen worth $300 for eligible customers when discounted through carrier agreements. It will be available for pre-order from Friday, Oct. 25 and will vary by wireless provider and retailer. It packs a 6.4-inch FullVision FHD+ OLED display, is powered by Snapdragon 855 with 6GB of RAM, runs Android Pie with improved user interface with a cleaner design, refreshed icons and tabs such as Dial, Call logs, and Contacts moving to the bottom of the display so that users can get even more done with only one hand, has dual rear cameras, 13MP 136-degree super wide-angle and 12MP standard sensor. There is also a ...

OnePlus expands retail footprint in India with Redington (India) partnership

OnePlus India has announced its partnership with Redington (India) Ltd. to open up more offline stores across India. Redington (India) Ltd. is one of the most popular IT & Mobility distributors in India, serving customers such as Google and Apple. It will now work with OnePlus to enable customers experience and buy the latest OnePlus smartphone devices across many more offline stores throughout the nation. The partnership will boost OnePlus's offline footprint across India, in particular Northern and Northeast regions. The company plans to open retail stores in towns in the Northern region like Chandigarh, Agra, Lucknow, Patna and Ludhiana, to Eastern cities such as Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar, and Kolkata, as well as cities in the Northwest region such as Jaipur, Indore, Raipur and Bhopal among others. Marking the announcement, Vikas Agarwal, General Manager, OnePlus India said: As India continues to be a significant market for us, we look to partner with the best of market players who share a similar global vision like us to bring top-notch international quality of service to our customers across the nation. Therefore, we are excited to partner with Redington (India) Limited in an effort to bring the best of our premium product experience to our offline based ...

Meizu 16T with 6.5-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855, up to 8GB RAM, triple rear cameras announced

Meizu just announced 16T, the company's latest smartphone in China, as it had promised. It has a 6.5-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED display from Samsung, TÜV eye protection certification, is powered by Snapdragon 855 with up to 8GB of RAM, runs Flyme OS with Android Pie on top, has a 12-megapixel rear camera along with a secondary 8-megapixel 118° ultra-wide lens that is also capable of shooting 2.5cm macro and a 5-megapixel depth sensor for portrait shots. It also has a 16-megapixel camera on the front for 0.2 second face unlock. The phone has an optical in-display fingerprint scanner with 30% more unlock success rate for 0.2s rapid unlock compared to the predecessor, has dual stereo speakers, linear motor, retains the 3.5mm headphone jack, comes with game mode 4.0 and packs a 4500mAh battery life that promises whole day of battery life even with heavy use and comes with 18W mCharge fast charging. Meizu 16T specifications 6.5-inch (1080 × 2232 pixels) Full HD+ 18.6:9 Super AMOLED display with 430 nit (up to 600 nit peak) brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform with Adreno 640 GPU 6GB / 8GB LPDDR4x RAM with 128GB (UFS 3.0) storage / 8GB ...

Belkin Lightning Headphones, Tempered Glass Screen protectors and more accessories for iPhone 11 series launched in India

Belkin, the consumer electronics manufacturer has announced a whole ecosystem of premium accessories for the iPhone 11 series. These include headphones, connectivity accessories and screen protectors. They feature the “Made for Apple” certification which means that they have met the developer standard for Apple performance, safety and regulations. The ROCKSTAR Lightning earphones deliver high quality sound, offer supreme comfort and have additional features such as water resistance and noise reduction. The most important feature is the fact that it has a lightning connector and not a 3.5 mm jack which makes it perfect for the iPhone 11 series. The earphones are priced at Rs. 4999, but you can get it from Flipkart for Rs. 3999. Belkin has announced BOOST↑CHARGE USB-C Cable with Lightning Connector. It is certified to support Fast charge for the iPhone 8 or later with an 18-watt or higher USB-C power adapter. The Wireless Charging Pad will retail for Rs. 4499 while the USB-C will retail for Rs. 2499 from Amazon.in. For screen protection Belkin has introduced two products. The SCREENFORCE Tempered Glass Screen Protection, designed for the iPhone 11 series, provides resilient, hard-wearing protection for your phone screen and will retail for Rs. 2999 onward. SCREENFORCE InvisiGlass Ultra Privacy Screen ...

ColorOS 7.0 with near stock Android experience coming to realme phones soon, realme Fitness Band expected next month

Realme's smartphone run ColorOS 6, based on Android 9 (Pie), and some of its latest phones have some tweaks so they call it ColorOS 6 realme edition. In the latest episode of #AskMadhav, the company's CEO, Madhav Sheth has answered some questions about their future OS. When asked about ColorOS 6.0.1, he said that realme phones will directly get ColorOS 7.0, which will likely be based on Android 10 that will roll out next year. When asked about the realmeOS that the company has been developing, he said that realme smartphones will continue to get ColorOS updates, and the ColorOS 7 will have an exclusive version for realme phones that will offer near stock Android experience. He also confirmed that video recording support on wide-angle camera will be available for realme 5, realme 5 Pro and realme XT will be available before the end of November.  And the realme 5 Pro has already got the update. He also said that realme XT is available offline in limited numbers and the company will expand the availability in the coming weeks. realme Fitness Band has also been hinted by the CEO, which is expected along with realme X2 Pro launch in November.  The company might ...

Realme 5 Pro ColorOS Software Update Tracker [Update: A.11 update with video recording through Wide-angle lens and Dark mode]

realme launched the realme 5 Pro smartphone in India last month running ColorOS 6.0 realme edition on top of Android 9.0 (Pie), it was recently introduced as realme Q in China. realme doesn’t follow a fixed update frequency but the company rolls out update frequently. This post will help our readers in keeping track of ColorOS updates for realme 5 Pro, also check out our realme 5 Pro content, realme 5 Pro Unboxing and First Impressions realme 5 Pro Review: Mid-range killer? ColorOS updates rolled out for the realme 5 so far, [Oct 23, 2019]: realme has started rolling out RMX1971EX_11_A.11 update with October 2019 security patch. The update brings video recording through Wide-angle lens and Dark mode features to the device along with minor bug fixes. [Oct 18, 2019]: realme releases Android Pie based kernel source codes for realme 5 Pro and users can now unlock the bootloader. [Sep 17, 2019]: realme has started rolling out RMX1971EX_11_A.09 update with Aug 2019 security patch. The update weighs around 341MB in size and brings an improved sharpness in the rear main camera along with improved system stability. [Sep 13, 2019]: realme 5 Pro will be upgraded to Android 10 in Q1 2020, confirms realme. [Aug 26, 2019]: ...

WhatsApp starts rolling out group privacy settings globally including new Blacklist feature

Earlier this year, WhatsApp rolled out new privacy settings for Groups that allowed users to choose who can add them to Groups. The feature was rolled out mostly in India initially and now, WhatsApp has started rolling out the group privacy settings globally for more users and also adds a new Blacklist feature. With the latest update, the Group Privacy Settings will have three options - 'Everyone, My contacts, My contacts except...' and WhatsApp has now removed 'Nobody' option that was available before the update. However, WhatsApp is replacing the 'Nobody' option with a new 'Blacklist' feature where users can add admins in the Blacklist so that those admins cannot add them to Groups. The Group Privacy settings are gradually rolling out to more iOS and Android users globally and the new Blacklist feature is rolling out to iOS users as of now. Users need to update their WhatsApp version to the 2.19.110.20 for iOS and 2.19.298 for Android to receive the updated Groups settings. Via

Redmi Note 8T with Redmi Note 8-like design, quad rear cameras, NFC surfaces in renders

Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro smartphones last week in India. While the second flash sale of Redmi Note 8 Series went live today, renders of alleged Redmi Note 8T have surfaced already revealing key details. According to new render images of alleged Redmi Note 8T, the smartphone is said to be identical in design and specifications to the recently launched Redmi Note 8, except for the addition of NFC in the Note 8T. The gradient design, quad-rear cameras, rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, etc are said to be same as Redmi Note 8. However, we advise you to take this information with a grain of salt as this is an early render and we should be knowing more information in the coming months. [caption id="attachment_289743" align="aligncenter" width="571"] Image of Redmi Note 8[/caption] To recall, Redmi Note 8 flaunts a 6.39-inch Full HD+ LCD screen with 90% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Snapdragon 665 11nm Mobile Platform with up to 6GB RAM, features a 48-megapixel main camera with 4-in-1 pixel binning for low-light shots, 8-megapixel 120° ultra-wide-angle lens, 2-megapixel depth sensor and a 2-megapixel sensor for 2cm macro shots. There is a 13-megapixel camera on the front. It has a rear-mounted ...

Realme 1 and Realme U1 get Dark Mode, October Android security patch with latest ColorOS 6.0 update [Download Link]

Realme launched the realme 1 smartphone last year and launched the realme U1 smartphone late last year. After announcing Dark Mode to all ColorOS 6 phones last month, Realme has now started rolling out a new update to realme 1 and realme U1 with the addition of Dark Mode. The latest ColorOS 6.0 update version RMX1831EX_11_C.15 for realme U1 started rolling out today and the changelog includes the addition of Dark Mode alongside October Security patch. For the realme 1 smartphone, ColorOS 6.0 update CPH1861EX_11_C.45 brings support for Dark Mode and October Security patch as well. Realme said that the update has reached 5% of devices and all Realme 1 & U1 users shall receive the update within a week's time. Alternatively, you can download the update file from Realme's website and update the software through Simple mode or Recovery mode. You can download the latest ColorOS 6.0 update for realme 1 from this link and for realme U1 from this link. Realme 1 update changelog Security ● Android security patch: October, 2019 System ● Added Dark Mode ● Added realme laboratory ● Added data switch in notification pannel ● App cloner support more third-party applications ● Added manual lock function by long press the power button ● Added Google Digital Wellbeing User ...

Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro Enhanced Edition 15.6-inch laptop with up to 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor announced

Xiaomi announced the Mi Notebook Pro with 8th Gen Intel Core processor, metal body back in 2017 and the company announced the Mi Gaming laptop with 9th Gen Intel Core processor. Expanding its lineup, Xiaomi has now announced Mi Notebook Pro Enhanced Edition with 10th Gen Intel Core processor, up to 1TB SSD, upgraded cooling system, and more. Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro Enhanced Edition flaunts a 15.6-inch FULL HD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, 178° wide viewing angle, 300nit brightness, 800: 1 contrast ratio, 81.5% screen-to-body ratio, and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It is powered by 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10510U processor on the top-end variant and i5-10210U processor on the base variant and features NVIDIA GeForce  MX250 GPU. It is paired with up to 16GB DDR4 dual-channel RAM with up to 1TB PCle SSD storage. It now features an upgraded cooling system with double heat pipe and fans with larger heat conduction area, high efficiency and rapid cooling. Regarding the audio, there are 2 x 2.5W speakers with Harman Audio and support for Dolby AudioTM Premium. There is also a fingerprint scanner with static push-type fingerprint unlock mechanism and has a full-size backlit keyboard. Xiaomi Mi Notebook ...