Moto G Turbo Edition with 5.0-inch Display

Plus housing all-metal body and metal accounting for up to 90 percent, and the body surface of the device comes with ceramic finish and nano-injection technology.
Huawei G7 Plus has been officially announced in China. It is the latest device from the company that is known as successor of Ascend G7 that was launched last year. The company claims that the Huawei G7

The Huawei G7 Plus is priced at 2,099 Yuan – approximately $330 in China, NT$ 12,900 – approximately $398 in Taiwan and HK$ 2,980 – approximately $385 in Hong Kong. It is available in three different color options such as Silver, Gray and Gold variants. While availability of the device in other region still unknown.

Let’s talk about several features of the G7 Plus, the whole body is made of metal, the screen comes equipped with 2.5D arc glass panel, the overall design looks classy. It features a 5.5-inch display with Full HD resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. It is powered by a 1.5 GHz octa-core Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of inbuilt storage that can be expandable up to 128GB with the help of microSD card.

Huawei G7 Plus runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS based on EMUI 3.1 interface and OTG to update device to Android 6.0 Marshmallow by the end of February 2016. It packs a 3000mAh battery which can provide talk time up to 320 minutes and standby time up to 300 hours. For connectivity, include 4G LTE, 3G, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS, and MicroUSB options.

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$16: Xiaomi Mi Band 1S Unveiled With A Heart-rate

Xiaomi's long-awaited and oft-leaked update to the popular Mi Band has been officially revealed. The new Mi Band 1S adds an important feature, missing in the predecessor, and that's a heart-rate monitor.

Measuring a slightly different 37 x 13.6 x 9.9mm, the Mi Band 1S may not fit in the existing bracelets, if you've piled up different colors from the old version (36 x 14 x 9mm). The new model also weighs a half a gram more than the 5.0 of the Mi Band. An IP67 rating for dust and water protection has been kept too.

The same 45mAh battery is inside the 1S, and while the previous model carried a 30-day endurance promise, we imagine the heart-rate sensor will take a significant toll on it, if used often enough.
The Mi Band 1S will be available in China starting November 11 for a price of CNY99, or just short of $16. The two models will be sold simultaneously, the original Mi Band priced at CNY 69 ($11).

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Offer: Get 50 Dollars To Activate Samsung Pay

Samsung is now offering $50 for activating and enrolling a compatible card on Samsung Pay. @SamsungMobileUS tweeted a link with all the terms and conditions for this promotion.

Samsung Pay is one of the very few mobile payment solutions that simulates the magnetic strip of a card so a specialized NFC terminal isn't needed to make a transaction. The promo period started yesterday and will be open until November 19. It seems to require that Samsung Pay be activated during the promo period, so it isn't certain if existing Samsung Pay users are eligible.

Users will have to activate the Samsung Pay app using a Samsung Account ID and register one compatible credit or debit card. A transaction is not required to be made for the offer to be fulfilled. Afterwards, an offer claim form needs to be submitted through https://samsungpromotions.com/samsungpayoffer. The form asks for the WiFi MAC address and the IMEI of the Samsung phone being used. 4 to 6 weeks after submitting the form, look in the mail for a $50 check in your name.

The offer requires one of these eligible devices:

• Samsung Galaxy S6
• Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
• Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+
• Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Only legal residents of the 50 Unites States, D.C. and Puerto Rico are eligible.

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Sony Announces New A68 SLT Camera

Sony has announced a new member in its mostly forgotten SLT range of cameras, i.e. cameras that sit between DSLRs and mirrorless cameras with a fixed translucent mirror that allows the AF to continue working even while shooting.

The a68 has a 79 point autofocus system, which Sony is calling 4D FOCUS, for some reason. The translucent mirror technology allows the camera to have continuous tracking and 8fps burst mode with continuous autofocus. Behind the mirror is a 24 megapixel APS-C EXMOR CMOS sensor with an ISO range of 100-25600 with a new BIONZ X image processor.

The OLED viewfinder has a resolution of 1.4 million dots, and the tilting 2.7-inch LCD has 460k dot resolution. The camera also features built-in image stabilization that works with all 34 A-mount lenses. It can also record videos in up to 1080p with 50Mbps XAVC S codec.


The a68 will be available starting March 2016 for €600 body only or €700 with DT18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM II lens.

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iOS Now Music and Spotify Previews In FB's News Feed

Facebook wants people to share more music on its social network, it seems. Hence, the company is launching a new feature today, for now only in its iOS app. It's called Music Stories, and it's an enhanced way of showing songs and albums shared from Spotify or Apple Music in the Facebook News Feed.

Such as tracks and albums will be emphasized in the News Feed, and you'll be able to listen to a 30-second preview of the shared item without leaving Facebook. The preview is streamed from Apple Music or Spotify, depending on which service was used to share the song or album. If you like what you hear, you can buy from or save the shared song or album to the respective music service.

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Cute video explains the essence of Tizen

The Tizen OS is still very much in its infancy, but in its short 3 year lifespan it has come a long way and shows great promise. Now, you might not think much of the platform and that is perfectly understandable, considering its limited spread and immaturity when compared to the big boys, but Tizen is growing at an impressive rate and with Samsung and Intel backing it, it might very well be the next big OS to fuel the industry.

The clip itself is meant as a calling card of sorts, but it still shares quite a bit of insight on how Tizen works and what it does. Don't expect any technical details, but you might just get the initial orientation that you need.

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Micromax Canvas Mega 13MP Camera & 5.5-inch Display

Micromax has built up itself as a somewhat premium maker of Smartphones and recent tie up with the Yu is just helping its endeavors to enhance its image. Each Mobile manufacturer is propelling Android Lollipop controlled devices in India nowadays and Micromax wouldn’t like to left behind either. They just launched the Micromax Canvas Mega – E353 with Android 5.0 Lollipop for Rs 8,320 and available for purchase at Flipkart Store.

 The Micromax Canvas Mega features a 5.5-inch HD IPS screen panel and has a resolution of 720×1280 pixels that can rated to deliver pixel density of 267ppi in order to produce better color contrast. The handset comes with a 1.4 GHz Octa-core processor backed by the Mediatek chipset and Mali 400 GPU. It packs a 1GB of RAM for better multitasking and perform smoothly.

Micromax introduced two new budget series smartphones – the Bolt Q338 and Canvas Spark 2, priced at Rs. 7,490 and Rs. 3,999 respectively. Micromax Bolt Q338 is a Dual-SIM smartphone runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, a 5-inch HD IPS display, a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6580 processor and 1GB RAM. While the Micromax Canvas Spark 2 features a 5-inch display runs Android 5.1 Lollipop OS and a 1.3GHz quad-core processor.

Micromax Canvas Mega Specifications:

• HD LCD Display of 5.5 inches with IPS
• Resolution of 720×1280 pixels
• Rear Camera of 13 mega pixels
• Front Camera of 5 mega pixels
• Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system
• 1.4 GHz Octa-core MediaTek Processor
• Mali 400 GPU
• 1GB of RAM
• Internal memory of 8GB
• Expandable memory up to 32GB
• Connectivity of 4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS, A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB 2.0
• Battery capacity of 2820mAh
• Dual SIM

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Get A Free Wireless Charger For Activating Samsung Pay

Samsung is now running a new promotion for its mobile payments service, aptly named Samsung Pay. If you activate Samsung Pay and add a valid credit or debit card to it, you can receive a Samsung wireless charger for your phone, totally free. The charger is a $49.99 value, apparently, so this deal is nothing to sneeze at, especially if you are a fan of wireless charging.

There are some caveats, however. First off, the offer is only addressed to those who activate Samsung Pay and add a card by November 8. Second, you need to do that on one of only four smartphones: the Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 edge, S6 edge+, or Note5. And finally (though you may have seen this coming), the promo is US-only.

If you're eligible, after activating Samsung Pay on your phone, go to this page and register your claim for the free wireless charger. You can do that until November 15.

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Lenovo Yoga 700 Convertible Laptop Is Official

Lenovo has launched the Yoga 700 convertible laptop in 11.6" and 14" size options. While similar in looks, the two Yoga 700 offerings are quite different from one another, save from the 1080p resolution on their touch screens and trademark 4 working positions.

The Yoga 700 14" is powered by a Skylake Intel Core i7 with Intel HD Graphics 520. An optional 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 940M can be added, too. The base model comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB SSD, but you can opt in for a 256GB storage.

The laptop weighs 1.6kg with a 4-cell Li-Polymer 45Wh battery. Lenovo has equipped the Yoga 700 with 2 x USB 3.0 ports, a single USB 2.0 (also used for charging), a card reader and an HDMI-out. Stereo speakers and Wi-Fi 802.11ac round up the package.

As for the 11" Yoga 700, it's quite less powerful with an Intel Core m3 CPU and Intel HD Graphics 515. The smaller 40Wh battery has made it lighter at 1.1kg. The 11" Yoga 700 comes with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage as standard. There's also just a single USB 3.0 port and micro-HDMI port.

Lenovo is pricing the 11" Yoga 700 at $649, while the larger 14" model costs $799. Sales commence from next month.

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Microsoft Starts Selling The Band 2 In The US

The Microsoft Band 2 is now available for purchase in the US. Major retailers, both online and in brick-and-mortar stores, are offering the smartband including Amazon, Best Buy, Dell and Target.
Priced at $249, the band is offered in small, medium and large sizes. For the price, Microsoft gives you continuous heart rate monitoring, notification alerts as well as eleven sensors, which combined can track not only running, but also complex weightlifting exercising, rowing, biking, but not swimming.

The Microsoft Band 2 comes with a Microsoft Health companion app. It works on Android, iOS and Windows Phone alike and can give you pretty interesting data around your way of life and exercising routines. Best of all, the data that Band 2 collects can be exported to a plethora of popular fitness and activity applications.

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Apple Releases Beats Pill+ App For iOS And Android

Apple has released a new app for those who own the Beats Pill+ Bluetooth speaker. The app is not just available on iOS but also on Android.  Although you don't need the app to use the product, which works normally like any other Bluetooth speaker system, the app lets you control some additional functionality, such as being able to customize the audio quality, connect two Pill speakers to your device and then adjust their volume individually through the app, connect two audio sources to a single Pill speaker, keep track of the power levels of your Pill speaker and get additional software updates and product support.

Both apps are now available on their respective stores. Unfortunately, the Android app is once again being bombarded with 1 star ratings by petty manbabies who literally do not have anything better to do with their time.

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OnePlus X Onyx Ceramic Variants With 3GB RAM

The OnePlus, known for its ‘Killer flagships “, which there are already two OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 handset and today officially launched the new smartphone named OnePlus X. The company promises that this device will be aimed at those people who give more important to device design than its performance.

OnePlus X Ceramic is a limited edition model, an exclusive device will be only produced 10,000 units. OnePlus X is equipped with a 5-inch OLED display with FHD resolution of 1920×1080 pixels and pixel density of 441ppi. It is powered by a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, which backed by Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset along with 3GB of RAM.

On imaging capability front, it bears a 13-megapixel primary camera on the back with Samsung ISOCELL sensor, fast autofocus 0.2 seconds, f/2.2 wide aperture, phase-detection and LED flash. On front, it has an 8-megapixel selfie shooter that also able to shoot 1080p videos. Both versions support a 16GB of inbuilt storage with external Micro-SD card slot up to 128GB.
The battery capacity of the OnePlus X is 2525mAh, running OxygenOS based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop and has dual SIM-cards slots. The OnePlus X Onyx price is $249 – approximately Rs 16,999, EUR 269 for the European countries. OnePlus X Ceramic will be more expensive, priced at $352 – approximately Rs 22,999, EUR 369 and will go on sale via Amazon India on November 5 for the Onyx and November 24 for the Ceramic variant.

OnePlus X Specifications:

• Dimensions of 140x69x6.9 mm
• Weight of 138g (Onyx), 160g (Ceramic)
• OLED Display of 5.0 inches, 441ppi
• Resolution of 1920×1080 pixels
• Rear Camera of 13 mega pixels
• Front Camera of 8 mega pixels
• OxygenOS based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop
• 2.3 GHz quad-core Processor
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Chip
• 3GB of RAM
• Internal memory of 16GB
• Expandable memory up to 128GB
• Connectivity of 4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS, A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB 2.0
• Battery capacity of 2525mAh
• Dual SIM

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Samsung Galaxy View Tablet 18.4-inch Display

Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy View tablet, was last teased in September at the Berlin IFA 2015 Tech exhibition. Samsung Galaxy View rumored to be priced at $599, a very large screen tablet gets a 18.4-inch display and pretty heavy weighs around 2.65kg.

The Galaxy View features an 18.4-inch LCD display, but unfortunately there is only full HD 1920×1080 screen resolution, slightly lower than 1536×2048 resolution that Samsung was putting on Galaxy Tab S2 tablet line. As per rumored price, Galaxy View priced at just over $100 compared to Tab S2 so you cannot ask for more in terms of resolution.

Also integrated 8W speakers (2x-4W) to bring better sound experience. It packs a 5700mAh battery can rate to deliver video playback time up to 8 hours. The tablet bears only front camera of 2.1-megapixel for video calling, has a 4G LTE SIM slot and includes Side-Sync, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1 and MicroUSB options.

It measures a 275.8×451.8×11.9 mm and weighs 2.65 kg. The price of the new Samsung View Tablet has not announced yet, but as per previous leak, priced at $599 for 32GB Wi-Fi only model, but the price will be higher for LTE models.

 

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Microsoft Arrow Launcher for Android: Download Now

The Arrow Launcher is a developed by Microsoft for the Android OS. This app is designed in the simple style, easy to find apps or contacts and comes with customizable dock, thus helping the user to use the phone is quite convenient and comfortable.

A pretty good functionality of the Arrow launcher that you can swipe the screen left for contact and right to get quick notes & reminders, swipe screen up from bottom to find recently used apps. There is also a bar to find the installed app, search menu on top to find apps, in setting you can find options for update, set default launched and change wallpaper, user can also download to wallpaper through the launcher as well.

Currently Microsoft Arrow Launcher for Android is now officially available for download on Play store for free.

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Former Apple Creative Director Is Huawei's New Chief

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has hired Apple's former creative director Abigail Sarah Brody as its new chief UX designer. She will also be serving as the vice president of Huawei's Device & Consumer division.

A quick look at Brody's LinkedIn profile reveals that she has worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies in her 20 years career. At Apple, she worked with the team that designed iOS 1 for the first-gen iPhone. In addition, she also worked on the company's cloud-storage service iCloud as well as ProKit, which is Apple’s internal professional application design language.

As for Huawei, the company seems to be doing quite well lately. It is now China's top smartphone vendor and claims the third spot globally. The company has just revealed that it shipped 27.4 million smartphones in Q3 this year, compared to 16.8 million it shipped in the same period last year.

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Google Play Games Update Enables Gameplay Recording

The latest version of the Google Play Games app lets you easily record gameplay too. You simply open it, select any game you want to play, and then tap the record button. The resolution choices for capturing your gameplay are 720p and 480p.

You also have the option of adding video of yourself playing and commenting, via the front-facing camera and microphone. After you're done, it's possible to edit the video, then upload it to YouTube.
Gameplay recording will be out in the US and UK first, over the coming days. More countries will get the new feature "soon after", according to Google.

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Sony Ends Q3 2015 Profitable Thanks to PlayStation

The company's PlayStation and image sensor divisions are to thank for the $278 million (JPY 33.6 billion) profit. Overall revenue for the quarter is down 0.5% over a year ago to $15.8 billion, partly because of the strong dollar. Operating profit came in at $733 million.

Sony Mobile revenue is also down by 15% from over a year ago reaching $231 for the quarter. Sony surely remembers Q3 2014's loss of $1.58 billion, so this quarter's $172 million isn't as bad. The company explains the low smartphone sales with its "strategic decision not to pursue scale in order to improve profitability."

The game and network services division, from which the PlayStation 4 is part of, rose 16.5% year-over-year and account to $3 billion in revenue and $199 million profit. The company's image sensor division continues to be one of the company's most important parts with $215 million profit on $1.5 billion revenue.

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Apple Releases New Siri Ads Starring Jamie Foxx & Bill Hader

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Apple Pay Coming To Canada & Australia This Year

Apple's mobile payments service Pay will be rolled out in Canada and Australia by the end of the ongoing year, and will be expanded to countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Spain early next year.

This was revealed by CEO Tim Cook during the Cupertino-based company's fourth-quarter earnings call yesterday, saying that Apple wants to expand the service to more "key global markets." It's worth mentioning that the service will initially only be available to the owners of American Express cards.

Apple Pay is currently only available in the company's home country of US and the UK, where it was launched back in October and this July, respectively. There is, however, no official confirmation on how many users are currently using the mobile payments service.

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HTC RE On Sale For $50

HTC is offering a rather hefty discount on the little camera, bringing the price down to $50. If you ever considered purchasing one then this should be a good enough reason for you to make the jump. But if it didn't quite convince you the first time around, it's unlikely to change your mind now.

It has no display and not much of an interface. You interact with the couple of buttons on the device, one of them being the large shutter button on top. The RE is meant for spontaneous shots and not really for those who like to compose and setup their shots before capturing.

The camera pairs with your phone to transfer images and you can use your phone as a viewfinder at a pinch but it would just be easier to shoot with your phone, not to mention the RE image quality isn't exactly great. If all of that seems good to you somehow, then it's available at the lowest price so far.

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