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LG G6: Meet the new Android king  With the new  LG  G6, the Korean company is going back to basics, focusing much of its attention on “design-driven innovations” and “practical improvements.” As a result, the G6 appears to be a solidly-executed, impressively-built flagship  LG  hopes will go toe-to-toe with the upcoming Galaxy S8 from  Samsung . Think of the G6 as an amalgamation of everything LG has learned over the past few years. As the numerous leaks showed, the G6 sports an aluminum frame with a glass rear panel, a move that gave  LG  room to introduce wireless charging. The edges of the device is chamfered, a la the  iPhone  5, which looks and feels premium. The back is subtly curved, outfitted with two 13-megapixel  camera  sensors that sits flush, along with a fingerprint sensor, which also doubles as a physical power button. The only other physical buttons ...

The Huawei P10 Plus, as its name implies, is the beefier of the two models with a 5.5-inch WQHD display. The standard P10 ships with a 5.1-inch 1080p screen. Both devices will ship with the same Kirin 960 processor. The P10 Plus has a 3,750mAh battery, a hair larger than the 3,200mAh option shipping  in the smaller Huawei P10. The Plus model also gets 128GB of storage and 6GB of RAM out of the box, with expandable storage as an option. The lower model still has a microSD card slot but ships with 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM out of the box. The cameras differ depending on the model, too. Leica is still providing the cameras. The Huawei P10 lens has a f/22 aperture, however, compared to the f/1.8 in the P10 Plus. Both feature a dual lens system, as Huawei has continued to add to its cameras, including a 12MP monochrome lens and a 20MP standard lens. The Huawei P10 and P10 Plus will cost 649 euros and 685 euros, respectively. No word yet on a US launch but look fo...

The Nokia 6 isn’t new, it was announced in January for some markets, but this is the official model that will be sold around the world. It runs on a Snapdragon 430 chip and sports a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080 display. It also has 32GB of storage, though a high-end model will ship with 64GB included. The Nokia 5 is similar and runs on the same processor but offers a smaller 5.2-inch display and just 16GB of storage. Lastly, the Nokia 3 is the smallest of the trio with a 5-inch screen. It’s powered by a MTK 6737 processor and has 16GB of storage. You can look for the Nokia 6 starting at about $242, the Nokia 5 for about $199 and the Nokia 3 for about $147. All three phones are expected to launch during the second quarter of this year. SOURCE: THE VERGE

Nokia  3310 during Mobile World Congress on Sunday. Yes, the popular  Nokia  3310 is back and alive   the  phone  said it sports the following specs: System: Dual band 900/1800 MHz Software platform: Nokia Series 30+ Dimensions: 115.6*51.0*12.8mm Weight: 79.6 g (including battery) Display: 2.4’’ QVGA (240*320) two Micro SIM slots Curved window with polarised layer for better readability in sunlight Connectivity: micro USB, 3.5mm AV connector, Bluetooth 3.0 with SLAM Camera: 2Mpxl camera with LED flash MicroSD card support up to 32 GB LED torchlight

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, announced the launch of Skype Lite for Android  during the Future Decoded event in India. The  new app  is specifically aimed at Indian users and offers a data-friendy Skype experience. Skype Lite is supposed to be fast, reliable as well as lightweight, as it’s only 13 MB in size. It allows you to check mobile and Wi-Fi data usage at all times and has a bunch of data saving features users will welcome with open arms. For example, the photos you share on Skype Lite get compressed before they are uploaded so that their size is reduced. And when you just forward a photo to someone, all the magic happens within the service, which means you don’t have to download the image and then uploaded it again to get the job done. The app consumes less power and should run smoothly on low-end smartphones. It is available in seven different local languages: Gujarati, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. The whole point of the...

We may be over a month away from Samsung's next Galaxy flagship smartphone launch but there's no dearth of leaks related to the upcoming flagship. We were recently treated to a flurry of live images claiming to show the Galaxy S8 in its full glory, and now a new bunch of leaked images have yet again made their way to the Internet. The new leaked images show the all-new navigation on-screen buttons. The new  Samsung Galaxy S8  leaked image has been posted by a Twitter  user  Benjamin Geskin and clearly shows the front panel with switched on screen. The iris scanner can be seen placed above the display alongside the front-facing camera. The new leaked image again shows that the upcoming Galaxy S8 will indeed sport a refreshed look with near bezel-less display with a  revamped on-screen keys . The leaked image also shows some of the apps that will come preloaded on the Galaxy S8 including Amazon Kindle, Samsung Gear, My Knox, My Galaxy, and Microsoft suite of...

CALIFORNIA: More than one billion users of the messaging service WhatsApp are set to discover a new feature that mirrors what you would find on increasingly popular messaging app Snapchat. The announcement comes just ahead of WhatsApp's 8th birthday on Feb 24. On its website, WhatsApp said it was reinventing the status feature. "Starting today, we are rolling out an update to status, which allows you to share photos and videos with your friends and contacts on WhatsApp in an easy and secure way. Yes, even your status updates are end-to-end encrypted." The Status tool which is essentially an update to WhatsApp Status will allow sharing of photos, videos and animated GIFs that will expire after 24 hours, much like how it works on Snapchat Stories. The feature has existed in Snapchat as Live Stories, since 2014. Facebook Inc, which owns WhatsApp, has adopted the signature feature of its rival Snap Inc, for all of its properties. Back in August, Facebook intro...

HTC U Ultra to launch in India on February 21 The company has sent out media invites for the launch event of the smartphone, which will be held in New Delhi HTC will launch its HTC U Ultra smartphone in India on February 21. The company has sent out Media invites for the event, which will be held in New Delhi. The HTC U Ultra was launched alongside the U Play last month, but considering that the invite only has the hashtag, #HTCUUltra, it is highly doubtful that the HTC U Play will be launched on February 21 as well. The HTC U Ultra features a 5.7-inch QHD display with a smaller secondary display, similar to the one used on the LG V20. The device sports a metal and glass build and comes with an AI-powered assistant called HTC Sense Companion. The company claims that the assistant will learn user behaviour and deliver prioritised notifications on the secondary display. The smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SoC with 4GB of RAM. At the back is a 12MP U...

The Samsung Exynos Twitter account just tweeted a teaser that seems to indicate the company is on the verge of releasing the Exynos 9 series of chipsets. Considering the timing of teaser, the new Exynos SoCs are likely set for inclusion in the upcoming Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. As always, Samsung’s flagship will be powered by both Qualcomm chips and its homegrown Exynos chips, depending on market. Until now, the general assumption was that it would be the Exynos 8895 inside the S8 family, but the image accompanying the tweet includes the telling line, “discover cloud 9 with Exynos”. The Samsung Exynos Twitter account just tweeted a teaser that seems to indicate the company is on the verge of releasing the Exynos 9 series of chipsets. Considering the timing of teaser, the new Exynos SoCs are likely set for inclusion in the upcoming Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. As always, Samsung’s flagship will be powered by both Qualcomm chips and its homegrown Exynos chips, depending ...

When the  iPhone  8 launches later this year, one of the big new features will  reportedly be wireless charging . Multiple rumors have circulated over the past few months, and yet another report claims the feature is indeed a lock. According to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has weighed in on the  iPhone  8 in the past, all three new models will come equipped with the feature, including Apple’s more advanced flagship, which may  sport a 5.8-inch OLED display . In order to accommodate  wireless  charging technology,  Apple  will apparently need to get creative with engineering. Kuo claims  Apple  will use a new 3D Touch module with “additional graphite sheet lamination,” something that will prevent the device from overheating. While we don’t expect general users to notice any difference, lamination of an additional graphite sheet is needed for better thermal control and, thus, steady operation; this...