Monday, 19 June 2017

Oneplus 5 Crosses 5.25 registrations in China

Oneplus 5 
Chinese company's new flagship smartphone Oneplus 5 is set to launch on Tuesday already getting tremendous response from Chinese consumers. The smartphone crossed 5.25 Lakhs registration via JD.com. Oneplus 5 also was spotted on India VS Pakistan match, while teasing it's other features and camera capabilities.
Oneplus 5 sales probably starts on Thursday in India via Amazon India e-commerce website.

In  the series of tweets, the global twitter handle of Oneplus India has tweeted few more specification about the smartphone like it is going to have dual SIM support and charging capabilities. In another tweet from Oneplus focuses on dual camera setup and Carl Pei Oneplus co founder teased with the Bokeh effect in an image said it was taken from Oneplus 5 smartphone.

Specifications
Company has confirmed that the smartphone is powered by Snapdragon 835 Processor but there is no certainty about RAM. On the other hand rumours expected it will have 8GB of RAM.

According to various leaks Oneplus 5 in India for 6GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage model will priced approx. Rs32,999 and 8 GB RAM and 128 GB of storage model will priced approx. Rs37,999.

Friday, 16 June 2017

Vivo Beats Apple In Shipping On screen Fingerprint sensor

Photo credit: Pan Jiutang
A new video is leaked in Weibo social media platform which features a new Vivo smartphone showing on screen fingerprint sensor. In the video smartphone is being unlocked by the on screen fingerprint sensor.
In this 4 seconds short clip shows that it has metal unibody design and has dual rear facing camera, which is much similar to Vivo X9 Plus. 

Smartphone analyst Pan Jiutang shared this short video on Weibo and says that it's the first company to launch with this technology. Jiutang also added that Apple is manufacturer who can bring this technology to mainstream. Vivo may showcase this new smartphone in the upcoming event of mobile world congress held at Shanghai later this month.

Many have been predicted that On screen fingerprint sensor would be on the new upcoming iPhone. Many reports says that Samsung can join it with Note 8 later this year.
The fingerprint module makers have confirms that they start shipping on screen fingerprint sensor to global manufacturers this year.  

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Moto C Plus with 4000 mAh launching in India on Monday

Moto C Plus 
Lenovo started sending invites for the launch event on Monday, where company is set to launch recently unveiled Moto C Plus. Last month company announced all the range of Moto C, and India is the first few country where the smartphone is being released. Moto C in India is priced at Rs 5999.
The company also started making publicity of the next launch. On Wednesday company tweets  "Yes, it'll never let you run out of juice. Yes, it's that charged!".
Company also set the price tag of Moto C Plus around EUR 119 (approx. Rs 8,300) for 1 GB RAM and 16 GB storage.


Moto C Plus specification 

Phone comes with 5 inch HD display (720 X 1280 pixels). It is powered by 1.3 GHz quad core Mediatek MT6737 processor and coupled with 1 GB or 2 GB RAM depending upon the variant, with 16 GB inbuilt storage. Moto C Plus has a 8 megapixel rear facing camera with aperture of f/2.2 along with LED light, while in front there is 2 megapixel camera.

The best part in phone is the 4000 mAh battery and the smartphone weighs 162 grams. On the screen their can be seen capacitive navigation buttons but there is no sign of any fingerprint scanner on front or back. 

Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro, Galaxy J7 Max Launched in India: Price, Specifications, and Features

Samsung Galaxy J7 Max
Samsung has recently launched it's new J series smartphone, Galaxy J7 Max and Galaxy J7 Pro at the event which is held in New Delhi. Samsung teamed up with Reliance Jio to give 120GB additional data to the buyers of Galaxy J7 Max and Galaxy J7 Pro. Now Samsung has added their Samsung pay service to these new smartphone, which earlier only was seen in Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. 

Samsung Galaxy J7 Max and Galaxy J7 Pro both has slim metal unibody design with no bezels on left and right edge of the screen. There is home button inbuilt with fingerprint sensor. While volume keys on left and power key on the right of the smartphone. Both phones are available in only two colour option : Gold and Black.

Samsung Galaxy J7 Max has been priced Rs17,900 and it start selling on 20 June onwards. On other hands Galaxy J7 Pro priced at Rs 20,900 and it available in the mid of July.

Samsung Galaxy J7 Max Specification 

The smartphone runs on Android 7.0 Nougat and a display of 5.7 inch full-HD. It is powered by Mediatek Helio P20 octa core processor coupled with 4GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, further it can be expandable via microSD. It has a 13 megapixel rear and front facing camera with an aperture of f/1.7 and f/1.9 respectively. And the phone is packed with 3300 mAh battery.

Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro specification 

It has a display of 5.5 inch full-HD (Super Amoled) and is powered with Exynos 7870 octa core processor coupled with 3GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage, storage also expandable via microSD. J7 Pro is packed with 3600 mAh battery.
Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro

Tuesday, 13 June 2017

Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 finally launched In India: Price, Specs and More

Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6
HMD global on Tuesday unveil the most awaited Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 in India. All three launched in India makes a reentry of the company Nokia. Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 will be sold offline or on the retail markets but Nokia 6 will exclusively being sold through Amazon India. All three smartphone support 4G VOLTE and runs on stock Android Nougat. Company also promises that it will gives us regular updates.

Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 prices in India

Nokia 6 price in India 14,999 Rs and registration starts on 14 July but company till not announced when sale to go on. On other hand Nokia 5 is priced at Rs 12,899 and prebooking starts on 7 July via selected offline channels. And last one is Nokia 3 which is priced at Rs 9,499 and will available from 16 July without any registration.

Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 specifications 

For details click below 
http://beingtechbeing.blogspot.com/2017/06/nokia-launch-set-for-june-13-in-india.html

Monday, 12 June 2017

Xiaomi MI Notebook Air with New processor and Fingerprint sensor


Highlight 

  • Intel core i7 
  • Nvidia geforce MX150 graphics 
  • Fingerprint sensor


Xiaomi launched its first laptop in July last year, to compete with Apple Machbook Air. Now Mi Notebook has upgrade their performance by using Intel's latest Kaby Lake processors.


New Mi notebook comes with 13.3 inch display and having seventh generation i7 processor for it's top variant, with clock speed at 3.0 GHz.  While in other variant the processor will be seventh generation core i5. This is said to boost the performance upto 10% over previous version. All of three models comes with 4G compatibility which was announced in December last year.

Mi notebook Air comes with a fingerprint sensor, which is situated on the top right corner of the trackpad.
And company claims a battery life of up to 9.5 hours. Graphics also upgraded to Nvidia Geforce MX150 graphic card with 2 GB GDDR 5 memory. For all three variant RAM will be same, 8 GB DDR4.  

What's app will Stop working on These Phones after June 30

WhatsApp
If you are still using outdated platform for using whatsApp, then it's time to upgrade to latest one because after 30 June, what's app will not supported for Blackberry OS, Blackberry 10, Nokia S40 and Nokia S60. Support for Android 2.2 Froyo, iOS 6 and windows phone 7 was ended by whatsApp in December last year.

Last year whatsApp had decided to end the support of few old platforms, but then company extended to June 2017 because Blackberry expressed their disappoint with whatsApp decision.
In the support page of WhatsApp, it says "These platforms don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future. If you use one of these affected mobile devices, we recommend upgrading to a newer OS version, or to a newer Android running OS 2.3.3+, iPhone running iOS 7+, or Windows Phone 8+ so that you can continue using WhatsApp.

Facebook recommends, to people if they wanted to continue chatting with their friends via whatsApp then they have to upgrade their platform or newer device.
WhatsApp also clarifies that, users cannot transfer their chat history to other platform but if user wants then they can get it via their email. You can go to WhatsApp support page to better understand the steps.

WhatsApp was launched in late 2009, until that time whatsApp were used only 25%.  

Saturday, 10 June 2017

iPhone 8 Running on iOS 11 Leaked in Renders

Earlier many leaks about iPhone 8 come out, but today's leaked renders confirms us that iPhone 8 will run on iOS 11. The latest renders shows how the new Control centre, lock screen and Apple music would like. It also shows us that it would be a bezel-less screen.

iDropNews leaked these new renders of iPhone 8. In device there expected no physical home button in front and a small lip at the top of the edge of iPhone. iPhone 8 will also have a front laser and infrared sensor for facial recognition.
iPhone 8 is expected to have wireless charging capabilities. At the back of the phone there's a vertical dual camera setup that is require for AR to work functionally.

Launch date of iPhone 8 is a big mystery, many reports states that there's a delay due to production issue's, but some other reports claiming that it's launch scheduled in September.

Friday, 9 June 2017

Meizu M5 Review


Meizu is back with another budget oriented smartphone called Meizu M5. This device is available in two variants with different RAM and Storage sense, but the main feature is their price, both variants are priced below Rs 10,000.


Meizu M5 is vary comfortable to hold in hands thanks to its rounded edges and 2.5D curved edge glass.The borders of the screen is not so thick that's why giving a pleasant look from front. There's is LED notification light, earpiece and camera, but however all three are not lying symmetrically in a line.
Meizu M5 has a physical home button under which there's lying fingerprint sensor. There is no navigation buttons available, howsoever on single tap on home button takes you step back, and app switcher is accessed on swiping up from bottom of the screen. There's no option to enable onscreen buttons.

The volume and power buttons are located on the right of the device, SIM tray is hybrid SIM slot which can accommodate 2 SIM cards or 1 SIM and microSD card, located on left. Meizu claims that it is anodised metal frame inside but not visible because on side and back is made of plastic.

Meizu M5 has a display 5.2 inch HD but onscreen colours become little dull. Smartphone has great viewing angles and under sunlight letters are visible. After all phone looks not so bad.

Fingerprint sensor works well but but in some instances it work or not accurate. But on other hand phone comes with many handy features 
Under this phone there is an octacore Mediatek MT6750 processor coupled with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB storage, other variant have 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. Both were priced around Rs 7000 and Rs 9500.

Thursday, 8 June 2017

Nokia Launch Set for June 13 in India

Nokia|HMD

Earlier HMD sent press invites for Nokia event June 13, the company has now confirms that it will launching Nokia smartphones in this event. Here we expected, company will launch Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 in this event. HMD Global invites doesn't include any list of smartphones but it say "welcome the new era of Nokia smartphones". To recall, In the month of may Nokia launched their Nokia 3310 at the price of Rs 3310 in offline markets.

A report powered by NokiaPowerUser says that the price of Nokia 6 in India is expected to be around Rs 15000-Rs 16000, Nokia 5 will be around Rs 12000 and Nokia 3 will be around Rs 9000 .

Nokia 6 has a display of 5.5 inch full-HD along with 2.5D gorilla glass protection and has a feature of fingerprint scanner. The smartphone is powered by Snapdragon 430 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM. It runs on Android 7.0 Nougat operating system, and has a battery of 3000mAh.
While in terms of camera Nokia 6 has 16 megapixel rear shooter and 8 megapixel front shooter. 

Nokia 5 has a display of 5.2 inch HD and has a feature of fingerprint scanner. It runs on Android 7.1.1 Nougat. It is again powered by Snapdragon 430 processor which is used in Nokia 6 and coupled with 2 GB of RAM. Nokia 5 has 13 megapixel rear facing camera while 8 megapixel in front. 

Nokia 3 has a display of 5 inch HD but it doesn't come along fingerprint sensor. It runs on Android 7.0 Nougat, 1.3GHz quad core Mediatek 6737 processor and has a 8 megapixel shooter on both front and back, with a battery of 2650mAh.

Amazon India gets a Funding of 207 Cr.


According to the documents which were filled with the registrar of companies, Amazon India gets funding of 207 Crore from Amazon Corporate holdings Singapore and Amazon Malaysia.


This is the second time in last six months Amazon allocating 67 crore to ATS (Amazon Transport Services) in September 2016. This fund invasion comes at a time when both Amazon and Flipkart were upgrading their warehousing and fulfillment network to cater to specialized lines of business, including heavy and bulky things.

Amazon has announced their seven new fulfillment centres. Company has invested heavily to increase it's presence in all over country and across multiple cities in terms of warehouses. Amazon currently has 41 fulfillment centres, under which 31 are in management. 

Akhil Saxena, vice president of fulfillment centres of Amazon says that it will increase flexibility and helps sellers to store their goods to any of the fulfillment centre.

In Amazon site there are approx 1.4 sellers, out them 80% uses Amazon fulfillment service to sell their goods. This year, Amazon India has already pumped in 67 crore in Amazon Pay and Rs 100 crore over Amazon wholesale. Amazon India also thinks to invest 500 million dollars on food retail over the time.
 

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

One Plus 3, 3T Now Receiving Oxygen OS 4.1.5 Update



Highlights

  1. The update is already to launch 
  2. The update brings many bugs fixes



OnePlus has now started rolling out Android 7.1.1 Nougat based on Oxygen OS 4.1.5 update to its Oneplus 3 and 3T.  With this update company also added push notification which can detect minor bugs and give possible solution to it.


In the new Oxygen OS 4.1.5 update, network setting has been modified for selected operators, community app updated to version v1.8, and updated security patch level to May 1 2017.

This new update solves many bug issues which was occurring earlier like, storage issue on third party File Manager, a VOLTE issue on selected JIO sims (as mentioned earlier).
This update also brings the optimization for the operating system in terms of battery, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS features. It also makes better camera performance in low light conditions and brings stability to the operating system.

Oneplus will roll out the Oxygen OS 4.1.5 in stages and should show up to the smartphone owners in coming days. On other hand Oneplus is full set for the launch of it's new smartphone Oneplus 5 on 20 June.
 

India Got 15th Spot in 4G Availability due to JIO


It's all credit goes to Jio launch which attracted 100 millions subscribers in it's first six months, due to which India got 15th position in 4G availability globally, a survey by London based Open Signal.


Report which declared through Open Signals states that India had 71.6% availability in the third quarter 2016 and now it jumps to 81.6% in the first quarter of 2017.


India is the most dynamic and fast growing country in mobile markets. The government and other companies should use this opportunity to grow India to be more powerful.  

However when it comes to 4G download speeds, India is way behind from top countries. The average 4G download speed in India 5.1 Mbps and it's continuously dropping. These 4G speeds are little more than average global 3G speed which is 4.4 Mbps.
If we left the statistics of JIO, then the availability of 4G by other networks remains only 60%.

On the other hand South Korea proved the highest availability of 4G and second highest in 4G download speed in test, according the report from Open Signal.

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Honor 9 Launching On June 12, Official Poster Reveals

Honor 9 smartphone earlier it's been a part of leaks but company sets it's official launch date as June 12. This information was identified from the poster which was leaked in last week, now new poster confirms that Honor 9 smartphone will launch on June 12 event.

From the launch poster, teases the dual camera setup on the smartphone just like previous one. Earlier Honor 9 was tipped to launched by the company at an event in Paris last month but it didn't turn out to be the case.

Huawei Honor 9 expected to feature 20 Megapixel + 12 Megapixel sensor at the back of the phone, as per reports. The smartphone is further expected to be powered by HiSilicon Kirin 960 Soc coupled with 4GB or 6GB RAM.

Honor 9 display size will be 5.2 inch full-HD just like it's predecessor. Further Honor 9 will run on EMUI on the top of Android 7.1 Nougat.

As these are the rumoured specifications, we will have to wait for official confirmation from the company.


UPI Payment Maybe Chargeable Onward 10 July

To convert the masses to try cashless payment, Government launched UPI payments in the country last year. The aim was to simplify the payment system and transfer money from one bank to other bank through an easy process with help of mobile phones. Many banks followed Government's regulations and releases their respective UPI mobile app that facilitated users to make cashless payments while paying bills, and even buying groceries. Earlier the advantage was that it's all absolutely free but now 10 July onwards it wouldn't free anymore.

In an email which was sent by HDFC to their customers stating that "all UPI outward transactions will be chargeable from 10 July 2017". For the transaction amount Re 1 to Rs25000 the fee will be Rs3 plus taxes, and for transaction of Rs25001 to Rs100,000 fess will be Rs5 plus taxes. This email was shared on Reddit by user Gatiman.

A few other HDFC customers also get this email. If a small transaction with merchant also charged then people will prefer cash rather than online transaction.

Oppo R11 Selfie Focused Smartphone

Oppo R11
After many leaks Oppo finally revealed it's new smartphone Oppo R11 in front of market. The smartphone's biggest features are it's dual camera setup, android Nougat 7.1, and 20 Megapixel selfie camera. On officially it's price remain mystery, but company confirms that it will made available for China on 10 June this year.

However rumours indicated that the price of Oppo R11 approx.485 dollars. There would be three colours were available- Black, Gold, Rose Gold. It looks sleek metal unibody with home button with embedded fingerprint sensor. The power button is seen on the right edge of the phone, while volume button on it's left edge. There's also 3.5mm audio jack on the bottom edge of Oppo R11.

Oppo runs on Colour OS based on Android Nougat 7.1, has screen size 5.5 inch full hd (1080x1920 pixels). It include Snapdragon 660 processor with 4 GB of RAM, and offer 64 GB internal Storage memory.
Now Oppo R11 biggest feature- dual camera setup with one 20 megapixel camera accompanied with 16 megapixel by dual LED flash.

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