Gionee M7 is official with FullVision screen and dual cameras

Gionee M7 is official with FullVision screen and dual cameras

As the Gionee M7 debuted today with a FullVision screen of 18:9 ratio and huge 4,000 mAh battery. It is the first phone with Helio P30 to hit the market after . The CPU of the Gionee M7 has eight Cortex-A53 cores, four of them clocked at 2.3 GHz. There is 6 GB RAM and the internal memory is 64 GB with microSD slot for up to 256 GB more. The screen has a 6.01 diagonal and comes with a resolution of 2160 x 1080 pixels. There is a dual camera on the back. The main sensor is 16 MP with the secondary being 8 MP. The back also houses an LED flash and a circular fingerprint screen. The power button and the volume rockers are on the right side and the phone lacks a home button on the front because of the big screen. One thing that has to be on the front is the selfie camera Gionee put an 8 MP snapper next to the earpiece. Gionee offers the M7 in five colors Sapphire Blue, Star Blue, Maple Red, Champagne Gold and Black. It will be available in China for CNY2,799 ($422) from September 26. |

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Weekly poll results: the iPhone X is the only one worthy of fan love

Weekly poll results: the iPhone X is the only one worthy of fan love

If youre going to have an iPhone and shows that maybe you dont get the . The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus barely registered on the charts they didnt improve enough, making them boring (not a great thing for an expensive phone). The voters liked the iPhone X, its a massive departure from the traditional iPhone design that has gotten quite stale. The upgrade to AMOLED was a welcome one and the TrueDepth camera/animoji seem fun. Its damn expensive though. Not that Apples phones were ever cheap, but the X is a hard hit to the wallet especially if youre paying in euros rather than dollars. Anyway, we think that Apple has nothing to worry about when it comes to iPhone X sales those will sell out as fast as Apple . Things are for the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus sales too, but it remains to be seen if they will be better or worse than iPhone 7 sales.

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Oreo update for Huawei Mate 9 could be arriving soon

Oreo update for Huawei Mate 9 could be arriving soon

Looks like could be receiving the Oreo update soon. The device with Android 8.0 on board has been spotted listed on benchmarking website Geekbench. For what it's worth, this is not the first time we are hearing about the Mate 9 Android 8.0 update back in April this year, we of Oreo-powered Mate 9 (the ROM was in early development stage at that time). A benchmark appearance doesn't guarantee, but does indicate that final testing is going on and if everything goes fine, roll out should begin sooner than later. |

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New update hitting Samsung Galaxy Note8 units on T-Mobile

New update hitting Samsung Galaxy Note8 units on T-Mobile

It has come to light that T-Mobile has pushed out a new update to units on its network. Arriving as version N950USQU1AQ15 and weighing in at under 200MB, the update includes some stability improvements related to the Navigation app, Google Maps, and the Weather Widget. Reportedly, the update also brings along Android security fixes for the month of August. It's already a week since the roll out began. However, in case you haven't received the update yet, be patient, as you likely see the notification soon. |

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Samsung's Bixby digital assistant now available in India

Samsung's Bixby digital assistant now available in India

Samsungs Bixby digital assistant dubbed Bixby Voice debuted shortly after the arrival of the company's series smartphones. It was in the company's home country of South Korea, following which it in the US. Last month, Samsung Bixby Voice worldwide. And now, the assistant has officially landed in India. Samsung says Bixby Voice features support for various Indian accents, and is hence capable of adapting to Indian dialects and contexts. The company notes that even those Indians who have opted for English (US) language can also use the assistant easily. Keeping in mind the diversity in Indian accents and our commitment to 'Make for India', Bixby has been optimized to understand Indian accents, said a senior Samsung India executive.

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Xiaomi sells over 1 million smartphones in India in 2 days

Xiaomi sells over 1 million smartphones in India in 2 days

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi managed to sell over 1 million smartphones in 48 hours during online festive sales in India, carried out by retailers Flipkart and Amazon. If you break it down, that's 300 smartphones per minute on average. That's an achievement of sorts for Xiaomi, given that last year the 1 million figure was crossed . This achievement marks an industry first, and is a key milestone for Xiaomi India, the company said. was the top seller smartphone as far as Flipkarts Big Billion Day Sale is concerned, while of all the smartphones sold by Amazon, an overwhelming majority were Xiaomi devices. This made Xiaomi the top smartphone brand for both sales.

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PSA: Oreo is causing Google Alarm Clock app to fail for some

PSA: Oreo is causing Google Alarm Clock app to fail for some

Oreo is Androids latest version release, and as with every release, there are always going to be kinks and issues that need to be ironed out in the following maintenance update. A considerable amount of users have been reporting that the Google Clock App is crashing. As a result of this, the moment a pre-set alarm goes off, the App Crashes and goes silent, causing many of these unsuspecting users to run late to work. You can find these over at Reddit. If you are running Android Oreo, you might want to check to make sure that your Alarm app is working as intended. An easy way to do this is say OK, Google, set alarm for 1 minute, and then wait to hear it go off. If your Google App is indeed crashing, you should install another alarm clock app until a fix is figured out or Google acknowledges that its an issue. |

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