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The Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 with a bezel-less edge-to-edge display was made available in its flash sale in China on Friday. And as expected with the rapid deman, the smartphone was sold out in just 58 seconds from the beginning of the sale, says a report. There is no information on how many units were placed for sale. The other smartphone, Mi Note 3 that debuted alongside Mi MIX 2, also went on sale the same day - however its sale numbers are not available as of now. According to a report (Translated version) on Chinese website MyDrivers, the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 units were sold out entirely in just a matter of 58 seconds. It has posted an official image from Xiaomi showing the milestone that its latest flagship smartphone has earned for itself. Just earlier this week, the MI MIX 2 crossed over half a million registrations, while the demand for the smartphone increased over time. As we said, Xiaomi did not officially provide the number of units available for sale, but the compan...

Apple needed to wow skeptics with its 10th-anniversary smartphone, the iPhone X. (That's pronounced "iPhone 10," for the curious.) As expected, Apple showed off a phone with an edge-to-edge screen, advanced facial recognition technology and no home button. I got to try it out, spending some brief time with the phone at Apple's launch event Tuesday. ALSO SEEiPhone X First Impressions This is a sleek, beautiful phone. It had all of the more credible features we were promised by a steady drip of leaks. And it is certainly the most futuristic iPhone that Apple's ever produced. But while the iPhone X looks like an evolution of the iPhone, it doesn't feel like an evolution - more broadly - of the smartphone. While the edge-to-edge screen on the iPhone X is crisp and beautiful, it still looks ever-so-slightly boxed in by its thin bezel, as compared to the Samsung Galaxy S8 or Galaxy Note 8. The iPhone X's design doesn't make an appre...

HMD Global launched the Nokia 8 in August at an event held in London. The Nokia 8 is the first flagship smartphone running Android OS under the brand name of Nokia and turned a few heads at the time of its launch. The smartphone was highly anticipated because of the nostalgia factor and launched with high-end specifications. At the time of its launch, HMD Global announced that the phone will be made globally available in mid-September. Now, the Nokia 8 has been launched in Malaysia at a price of RM 2,299 (Rs. 35,000 approx.), which means that its entry in other major Asian markets like India is not too far away. That being said, there is no official word on the date of launch of the Nokia 8 in India yet. The smartphone might have a lot of suitors in India as Nokia was one of the most well-known brands in the pre-smartphone era and a chance to hold a premium Nokia handset again might influence quite a few buyers. To recall, the Nokia 8 has a 5.3 inch 2560 x 144...

The crowd at Apple's new "spaceship" headquarters saw new smartphones - including a premium version priced at $999 (priced at Rs. 89,000 in India) - as the company commemorated its 10th anniversary of the iPhone. Apple opened the event asking the audience to cover their screens as an audio clip of Steve Jobs played. Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said that it was fitting that Jobs opened the theater - named after him - where the event is taking place. "His greatest expression of his appreciation for humanity would not be a singular product, but rather it would be Apple itself," he said. The bar is very high for Apple. Most of its revenue is generated through the smartphone. Cook promised that the company's new phones would make a splash by defining the future of the smartphone. iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus About midway through Apple's event, Apple's head of marketing Phil Schiller showed off the upgrades to the main iPhone ...

A whiff of dystopian creepiness has long wafted in the air whenever facial recognition has come up. Books, movies and television shows have portrayed the technology as mainly a tool of surveillance and social control - aimed by unseen others at you, for their purposes, not your own. Apple sought to reverse that equation Tuesday with the long-anticipated release of its 10th-anniversary smartphone, the iPhone X. It replaces the fingerprint sensor previous generations used for unlocking a user's device with facial recognition technology, while still keeping others from unlocking the phone without the user's knowledge. All users have to do, Apple said at the annual September event dedicated to touting its latest product updates, is look at the iPhone X, which recognises you as the registered user - even if you are wearing glasses or a hat or are sporting a new beard. Though not entirely new - several Android smartphones do something similar already - the technolog...

The crowd at Apple's new "spaceship" headquarters saw new smartphones - including a premium version priced at $999 (priced at Rs. 89,000 in India) - as the company commemorated its 10th anniversary of the iPhone. Apple opened the event asking the audience to cover their screens as an audio clip of Steve Jobs played. Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said that it was fitting that Jobs opened the theater - named after him - where the event is taking place. "His greatest expression of his appreciation for humanity would not be a singular product, but rather it would be Apple itself," he said. The bar is very high for Apple. Most of its revenue is generated through the smartphone. Cook promised that the company's new phones would make a splash by defining the future of the smartphone. iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus About midway through Apple's event, Apple's head of marketing Phil Schiller showed off the upgrades to the main iPhone ...

The newly launched iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and the iPhone X are noticeably different-looking from the previous generation iPhone models. But it is what driving these new iPhone models that is arguably far more exciting and displays company's major ambitions. Apple says the new iPhone models - all three of them - are powered by the Apple A11 Bionic SoC, its custom chip that features a 'neural engine' to handle machine learning or artificial intelligence based tasks, powering Face ID, Animoji, and other features. Smartphone companies, including Apple and Huawei, are increasingly placing bets on artificial intelligence for a range of new capabilities that were only a few years ago unimaginable. Huawei, for instance, recently announced Kirin 970, its own custom built chipset featuring "neural processing unit" that it claims will help accelerate image and voice recognition. Apple took its time to reveal what it has in store, but if the demonstration onst...

Apple is bringing many new changes with iOS 11 including Siri translations, revamped Control Center, new gestures that are compatible with the iPhone X big screen, and much more. One other notable addition is what Apple is calling 'Animoji' or animated emojis that will arrive with iOS 11 for iPhone X users only. This feature takes advantage of the facial recognition software built into the anniversary edition device, and brings to life all the emojis that we use every day. Animojis were demoed on stage at Tuesday's event, showing how emojis come to life mimicking the user's facial movements in real-time. The Animoji feature takes advantage of the Face ID tech embedded inside the iPhone X to provide these real-time animated emojis in an iMessage. These Animojis are available inside Messages directly, and are only compatible with iPhone X for now (for obvious reasons). When you record these Animojis to send a video, they also capture your voice and you can the...

iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X were unveiled at the Steve Jobs Theatre at the new Apple Campus in California on Tuesday. Of course, the iPhone X - with its Face ID facial recognition system, an OLED almost bezel-less display, and wireless charging support - is the star of the show but it is, in fact, the iPhone X price in India that is fans are finding a little hard to wrap their heads around. The iPhone X is scheduled to go on sale from November 3 (including India), while the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus will go on sale as soon as September 22 in the US. In India, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are set to go on sale as soon as September 29, with pre-orders beginning from September 22. This is the quickest iPhone launch in the Indian market, with it being just a week after its US launch. Considering that the iPhone X will be made available in India with a starting price of Rs. 89,000, it might not be a bad idea to look at some of the earlier generation models that ...

LG recently launched its flagship V30 and V30+ smartphones at IFA 2017 and while the company didn't reveal the pricing of its new handsets right away, it has done it now for its home country South Korea. LG has priced the V30 smartphone at KRW 949,300 (roughly Rs. 53,800) while the V30+ variant with more storage has been priced by the company at KRW 998,800 (roughly Rs. 56,600). The pre-orders for the LG V30 smartphone will start from Thursday and will continue till September 20 in South Korea. The handset will be made available for purchase from September 21 and customers who have made reservations for the handset will be able to purchase Google Daydream VR headset at a heavily discounted price of KRW 1,000 (roughly Rs. 60), the company said in its release. Notably, the South Korean pricing of the smartphone is more than the recently tipped pricing in the US but less than the expected price in Europe. Talking about the specifications, the LG V30 runs an UX 6.0+ int...

You don't need to wait for long to secure and then get your hands on the newly announced iPhone 8and iPhone 8 Plus smartphones. Apple distribution partner Redington India said on Wednesday it would begin accepting pre-orders for the iPhone and iPhone 8 Plus in the country beginning September 22. The pre-orders, Redington India, said could be made from any of the 3,000 stores it has across the country. Apple said on Tuesday that it will begin selling the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in India on September 29. The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models are available in two storage variants: 64GB and 256GB. The iPhone 8 64GB is priced at Rs. 64,000, while the iPhone 8 GB is priced at Rs. 77,000. The iPhone 8 Plus 64GB is priced at Rs. 73,000, while the iPhone 8 Plus 256GB will set you back by Rs. 86,000. Both the new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models offer a range of new features and attractions that previous generation iPhone models didn't have. Some of these features inc...

San Francisco: Living up to the hype it generated on the 10th anniversary of iPhone, Apple on Tuesday unveiled $999 iPhone 'X' with facial recognition system, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, new Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV 4K. Hosting the event for the first time at the opulent Steve Jobs Theater on the new Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, the tech giant introduced iPhone 'X' - an ultra-premium model. iPhone 'X' can be pre-ordered from October 27 and shipping starts November 3. iPhone 'X' sports a unique "FaceID" facial recognition system to unlock the device. Just look at your phone to unlock it. The feature is enabled by a 'True Depth' camera system in the A11 neural engine. Wearing a hat, glasses or new hairstyle will not fool the FaceID system that also works with Apple Pay. The device with 2046A-1125 resolution supports HDR in Dolby Vision, HDR10 and True Tone and comes in Space Grey and ...

iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and, most importantly, iPhone X will be the centrepieces of Apple’s September 12 event in Cupertino, California, according to the rumour mill. The event – being held at the new Steve Jobs Auditorium at the company’s new ‘spaceship’ campus – will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the launch of the first iPhone, a device that changed mobile computing for everyone. A series of leaks over the weekend suggest there will be more gadgets you can look forward to, though the iPhone X and iPhone 8 models will certainly be the most important devices at the event. Of course, there won’t be an iPhone 7s series as the iPhone 8 models will succeed the current iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. On the software front, it's pretty safe to expect iOS 11, macOS High Sierra, watchOS 4, and tvOS 11. The leaks also revealed two new software features, called Face ID, and Animoji. As the name suggests, Face ID is an evolution of Apple's Touch ID fingerprint recognition t...

Xiaomi on Monday launched the Mi Note 3 smartphone, essentially a larger version of the Xiaomi Mi 6 launched earlier this year, with some minor differences. The company is touting Mi Note 3's newly developed AI-based Beautify feature, a 16-megapixel front camera, and dual rear cameras, apart from facial recognition unlocking and a 4-sided curved body. The smartphone will go on sale in from Friday, September 15, with bookings opening on Monday itself. Alongside the Mi Note 3, Xiaomi launched the Mi MIX 2 smartphone at the event. Xiaomi Mi Note 3 price Xiaomi Mi Note 3 price start at CNY 2,499 (roughly Rs. 24,500) for the 6GB RAM/ 64GB inbuilt storage variant, CNY 2,899 (roughly Rs. 28,300) for the 6GB RAM/ 128GB inbuilt storage variant in Black, and CNY 2,999 (roughly Rs. 29,400) for the 6GB RAM/ 128GB inbuilt storage variant in Blue. Xiaomi Mi Note 3 features As we mentioned, the biggest highlight of the Xiaomi Mi Note 3 is its 'Adaptable AI Beautify' fe...

Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 was launched on Monday at an event in China, featuring a massive 5.99-inch bezel-less display with 18:9 aspect ratio, ceramic body, 6GB RAM, and facial recognition technology. Apart from these, highlights of the new Mi MIX 2 include the implementation of a 12-percent smaller chin (bottom bezel) than the previous generation Mi MIX, the use of a hidden sound-guided speaker as well as an ultrasonic proximity sensor. Along with the new handset, Xiaomi launched the Mi Note 3 smartphone with dual rear cameras at the same event, as well as a Special Edition model of Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 with ceramic body, 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. The new Xiaomi phone launches just a day before the iPhone 8 and iPhone X are expected to be unveiled by Apple, and only a few weeks after Samsung Galaxy Note 8 became official. Another top-end handset joining the fray soon is Google Pixel XL 2, meaning more competition for the new Mi MIX 2. Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 price, first sale date Xiaomi Mi MI...

iPhone X will the main attraction when Apple starts its September 12 launch event in Cupertino, California. Marking the 10th anniversary of the launch of the original iPhone back in 2007, the new iPhone X has been in the rumour mills for long, and will be the new flagship model in the company's lineup and come with certain features that even the other two models being launched at the same event - iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus - will not have. From its bezel-less design to an all-new way to unlock your phone, the iPhone X will bring about a number of changes to the smartphone industry with its launch. So, here's a look at the iPhone X specifications, features, price and more you need to know before the official event on Tuesday. iPhone X specifications Over the weekend, developers combed through an unreleased version of iOS 11 software to find several references of upcoming products. Based on those sightings, we know that the iPhone X would feature a six-core Apple Fusi...

Xiaomi is set to launch the Mi Mix 2 at an event that will take place in China on September 11. Last week Xiaomi took to the Chinese micro-blogging website, Weibo, to confirm that the successor of last year's Mi Mix was coming. Along with confirming the launch date, Xiaomi also shared an image of the upcoming Mi Mix 2 which hinted at the bezel-less screen of the phone. The company has now released a video teaser which notes that Xiaomi will also announce another device at the Sept 11 launch event. This will be the Mi Note 3 and it has also been hinted by Xiaomi co-founder Lin Bin.  Just the way last year Xiaomi announced the Mi Note 2 with the Mi Mix, this year too the company will launch a new high-end Mi Note phone along with the new Mix. Interestingly, there is also the talk the company may also announce the update to Mi Notebook too on September 11. Xiaomi's co-founder Lin Bin on Friday posted a teaser image of the Mi Note 3. The company executive...

South Korean Tech giant Samsung is all set to launch its flagship phablet Galaxy Note 8 on September 12. he phablet was already up for registrations in India. Pre-registration started on August 2 and is still live onthe Samsung India website. As per reports, over 2.5 lakh people have registered for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. According to industry sources, nearly 1.5 lakh people have registered for the upcoming Galaxy Note via Amazon India store. Out of the 1.5 lakh, about 72,000 people pre-booking the device on the very first day when the registrations were open last weekend. Apart from Amazon, nearly 1 lakh people have registered to buy Galaxy Note 8 on Samsung India website.

Following in Google's and Microsoft's footsteps, Samsung has now announced a bug bounty programme of its own. The South Korean giant is offering up to $200,000 (roughly Rs. 1.2 crores) to anyone, especially researchers who can spot vulnerabilities in its products. This is in line with rewards offered by the likes of Apple, Facebook, and Twitter in the past. Samsung's Mobile Security Rewards Program covers roughly 38 Samsung mobiles and tablets including the latest Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, Galaxy Note 8, and the Tab S3, among others that are eligible for rewards. Note that Android and Qualcomm vulnerabilities found in Samsung devices will fall under Google's and Qualcomm's bug bounty programmes, respectively and not Samsung's. "As a leading provider of mobile devices and experiences, Samsung recognizes the importance of protecting users' data and information, and prioritizes security in the development of each of its products and services,"...