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OnePlus is rolling out its first update for the newly launched OnePlus 2. The new update dubbed 2.0.1 version will update OTA and fix a few bugs in the new UI. In terms of improvement, the update is firstly patching out the Stagefright security exploit that is causing Android users a lot of trouble. In other features, the battery performance along with some bugs has been fixed. The user interface logic along with coherence has been improvised too. In addition, the update fixes the issue faced while using the pinch-to-zoom feature in Google Photos along with the Dark Mode, which was said to be unstable with a few apps. The update also fixes an issue related to import/export of contacts stored on the SIM card. Also, this update will include additional support for global carrier APNs. This OTA will be rolling out incrementally, starting in India, so it may take some time before the update reaches all OnePlus 2 devices. OnePlus had launched its all new OnePlus 2 in the world’s fi...

biggest market for the devices, fell in the second quarter for the first time, market research firm Gartner Inc said on Thursday. Sales of smartphones in China declined 4 percent in the quarter, the first year-over-year fall, the company said. “China has reached saturation — its phone market is essentially driven by replacement, with fewer first-time buyers,” said Anshul Gupta, research director at Gartner. The country accounted for about 30 percent of total smartphones sales during the second quarter, according to the report. Gartner also said worldwide smartphone sales grew at the slowest pace since 2013. Still, Apple Inc’s share of the worldwide smartphone sales market rose to 14.6 percent from 12.2 percent a year earlier. Total iPhone sales in China soared 68 percent to 11.9 million units, Gartner said. Apple’s big-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which shattered iPhone sales records when they were launched, are about 11 months old. Rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s share of ...

A 16-year-old Canadian boy of Indian origin, Anmol Tukrel, has developed a personalized search engine which he claims to 21% more accurate than Google on average and can be as high as 47% more accurate than the search engine giant. He started working on the search engine as a project to submit in the Google Science Fair, which is a global competition that's open for students aged between 13 to 18 years. Anmol Tukrel, who has just passed the 10th grade, said that it took him about 2 months to design and 60 hours to code the search engine. He further said, "I thought I would do something in the personalized search space. It was the most genius thing ever. But when I realized Google already does it, I tried taking it to the next level." For development, his kid included a computer with at least 1GB free storage space, a Python-language development environment, a spreadsheet program, and access to Google and The New York Times. However, he limited his search queries to ...

Huawei has announced Honor 7i , the company’s latest smartphone in the Honor series, as it promised. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display with narrow bezels, is powered by the latest Octa-Core Snapdragon 616 SoC and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Emotion UI 3.1 on top. The main highlight of the smartphone is the 13-megapixel camera with Sony sensor and dual-tone LED flash that can flip 180-degrees to the front so that you can use it as a front-facing camera for selfies. It also comes with a fingerprint sensor that is present on the side of the smartphone, unlike the Huawei Honor 7 smartphone that has a fingerprint sensor on the back. It can even unlock the phone when your finger is wet and can learn automatically based on your usage. You can also use the fingerprint sensor button as a camera shutter for capturing selfies easily. The smartphone has a metal frame and is just 7.8mm thick. Huawei Honor 7i specifications ▶5.2-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) multi-touch display, 1...

After the guessing game that went on for months, Google has finally announced its next Android iteration will be named after the sweet treat Marshmallow. So, now M is for Marshmallow. Marshmallow was one of the highly speculated name that fits Google’s nomenclature of sweet treats like – Cup Cake, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, KitKat and Lollipop. It beat other probable names like mud pie, mousse, and our very favourite Malai Barfi. The company revealed the name on its developers blog and alongside also revealed the final Android 6.0 SDK that will be available for download via the SDK Manager in Android Studio . It will bring access to final Android APIs and latest build tools. “Today with the final Developer Preview update, we’re introducing the official Android 6.0 SDK and opening Google Play for publishing your apps that target the new API level 23 in Android Marshmallow,” Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android writes in a blogpost. M...

As expected , Samsung today launched its recently unveiled Galaxy S6 Edge+ in India today. The smartphone is priced at Rs 57,900, and will go on sale from August 28 onwards. Samsung launched the Galaxy S6 Edge+ at its Unpacked event in New York last week. In terms of an upgrade, it is merely a bigger variant of the Galaxy S6 Edge launched earlier this year. It features the same dual-edged display (albeit bigger), with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection on the front as well as the back. The curved portion acts as a secondary display where you can view notifications and launch applications with one hand. Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ specifications: The smartphone flaunts a 5.7-inch QHD (2560×1440 pixels) Super AMOLED display, and is powered by an Exynos 7420 64-bit octa-core (2.1GHz Cortex-A57 quad-core + 1.5GHz Cortex-A53 quad-core) processor paired with Mali T760 GPU and 4GB LPDDR4 RAM. Also on offer is 32GB internal storage, but just like its predecessor, there is no microSD ca...

Meizu has announced that it has partnered with Snapdeal to sell its flagship MX5 smartphone in India. It had partnered with Amazon.in to sell its m1 note and the m2 note smartphones in the country. The MX5 has mBack touch-sensitive home button that offers different functions based on press, similar to the m2 note. It also has a mTouch 2.0 fingerprint sensor on the home button, comes with 4G connectivity with support for LTE bands for India. Meizu MX5 specifications 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Super AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Protection 2.2 GHz MediaTek Helio X10 (MT6795T) Octa-Core 64-bit processor with PowerVR G6200 GPU 3GB RAM, 16/32/64GB internal memory variants Flyme OS 4.5 based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) Dual SIM 20.7 MP rear camera with dual tone LED Flash, Laser Auto focus, Sony IMX220 Exmor RS BSI sensor, 6P lenses f/2.0 aperture, 4K video recording 5MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture Dimensions: 149.9x 74.7x 7.6mm; Weight: 149g 4G ...