Samsung just launched the new Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ at MWC18 this week and the device can be pre-ordered across India by paying Rs.2000/-. Samsung kept mum on the Indian pricing details and we already got the document leaked which claims that the device could come up with a whopping price tag of Rs.62,500 for the base version of Samsung Galaxy S9.
As per the document leaked by 91mobiles, the new Samsung Galaxy S9 64GB will come with MRP of Rs.62,500/- and Rs.71,000/- for 256GB version but will sell for a price tag of Rs.56,900/- and Rs.64,900/- which is similar to last year flagship Samsung Galaxy S8 which was launched for price tag of Rs.57,900/-.
The Samsung Galaxy S9+ 64GB is priced at Rs.71,900/- and Rs.79,000/- for 256GB version but might be selling at Rs.63,900/- and Rs.71,900/- for 256GB.Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ also came with 128GB variant which was missing in the document.Anyway, we have to wait for few more days to get the official pricing for the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+.
Lava announced the Google Android Go OS running smartphone with Lava Z50 in India today and was also showcased on #MWC18.The device will be available in two colours with Black and Gold and will go on sale through 1,00,000 offline retail stores from mid-March 2018.Airtel has partnered with Lava to provide the new Mera Pehla Smartphone Plan where the user will get Rs.2000/- cash back after a period of two years.
The Lava Z50 is made out of plastic and comes with traditional smartphone design as all other Lava branded smartphones.It weighs 149 grams and is 9.1 mm thick.
The new Lava Z50 is the first Android Go OS smartphone launched in India. The Lava Z50 sports 4.5 inches display with a resolution of 854*480p covered with 2.5D curved glass and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.It is powered by MediaTek MT6737M SoC clocked at 1.1GHz coupled with 1GB RAM and 8GB internal storage which can be expanded via microSD cards up to 128GB.
The Lava Z50 features both selfies as well as a rear camera of 5MP with LED flash on both cameras. The Lava Z50 camera comes with Bokeh mode where one can blur the background.
The connectivity option includes Dual SIM with 4G LTE and VoLTE support, A-GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth 4.0, 3.5 mm audio port and micro USB port.Lava Z50 runs on a lighter version of Android with Android Go OS or Android 8.1 out of the box.
Qualcomm has now announced their new mid-range chip series with Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 series which will replace the present SD600 series.
Qualcomm has not yet revealed any details about the processors but has announced that the new SD700 Series will reach OEM’s by the first half of 2018.Qualcomm new 700 series will sit below the flagship SD800 series and might probably replace the current SD600 series.The new SD700 series will be powering most of the upper mid-range devices in coming months.
The new SD700 series will have the same features as the flagship SD800 series and will try to bring the flagship experience under mid-range devices.The new SD700 series is all set to be coming with AI features with help of Qualcomm AI Engine.The new SD700 series will provide 50% more battery life, and performance when compared with company’s current offering.
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 series will come with Hexagon processor, Spectra ISP, Kyro CPU, and Adreno GPU for better performance.With the inclusion of Spectra ISP, one can expect AI capabilities been implemented on Camera for better shots and slow-mo recording.The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 series will have support for Bluetooth 5.0 and better Wifi and ultrafast LTE support.It will also come with QC 4+ support for a faster charging time.
Google new low-cost smartphone OS the Android Go OS is trending after launching by a set of smartphone manufacturers from Nokia, Lava, Micromax, ZTE, and Alcatel now it is time for one more brand joining the race with Huawei.
The new Android Go OS-based smartphone will be called as Huawei Y5 Lite.The device was also passed through FCC certification recently in China.As per the listing the device is listed as CAG-L03/CAG-L23 which might be the model number of the device.The same model number is being now mentioned in the device firmware.
As per leaks, the Huawei Y5 Lite will be powered by MediaTek MT6737 SoC. It will feature 854*480p display. Apart from this, there are no more details available at the moment.The new Huawei Y5 Lite is rumoured to be priced under $100 segment.
OnePlus has already taken the premium market by storm by acquiring nearly 48% of the market shares under high-end segment.With all success from OnePlus 5 and 5T, now its time to launch the successor to the predecessor with OnePlus 6.
Yup, finally we have the first live image showing the rear of the alleged OnePlus 6 leaked online.As per the leaked image, we can look the rear of the device is completely inspired by recently launched Samsung Galaxy S9+ design. The new OnePlus 6 will come with metal and glass back with a glossy finish as per the leaked image.
The OnePlus 6 will now feature vertically aligned Dual cameras which are again having Samsung Galaxy S9+ touch with fingerprint scanner just below the camera module but with slight change with Dual Tone Dual LED flash in between them.Just below the fingerprint scanner, we have the OnePlus logo.
On the right of the device, we can find the Power button and Volume rockers. Apart from this, there are no more details being leaked.On the front, we have the iPhone X like notch carrying the selfie camera with earpiece above the display and features a nearly bezel-less display with curved corners.We also have an alert slider on the left of the device.
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Apart from that, we can also see the about the device section open on the smartphone which gives some details about the smartphone.The upcoming OnePlus 6 will have 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage space and is running on Android 8.1 out of the box with December month security update. It is running on Oxygen OS 5.1 on top.It might be powered by the SD845 SoC as there are no details were leaked.
As always OnePlus will not launch the OnePlus 6 anytime sooner than June 2018. So we still have a lot of time for some more leaks might pop up soon.
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Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is today announcing a company-wide approach to centrally position machine intelligence across its entire organization and customer operations. This includes the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that will enable networks to self-optimize, improve efficiency, and deliver optimal user experiences.
The complex reality of today’s telecommunications systems will only accelerate further with the introduction of 5G, IoT and ongoing industry digitalization. Machine intelligence, using machine learning and other AI technologies, is vital to handling this complexity with more efficiency.
Machine intelligence benefit examples:
By implementing AI technologies, Ericsson halves the handover time between cells – resulting in fewer dropped calls and shorter configuration and maintenance time for service providers. Similarly, machine learning algorithms can predict traffic patterns and dynamically put cells into dormant mode without impacting user experience – achieving energy efficiency of up to 10 percent
By applying machine intelligence to prevent future malfunctions, Ericsson can provide actionable recommendations to the Network Operation Center personnel thus reducing dispatches of services technicians by up to 30 percent
Self-learning agents are applied in virtualized core (vMME) for world first VNF Autoscaling using deep reinforcement learning which is improving system performance with 25 percent compared to predefined thresholds
Expert Analytics is now equipped with machine intelligence pattern recognition thru deep-learning, enabling detection and optimization, making it possible to achieve up to 20 percent fewer network quality calls to customer care
Erik Ekudden, CTO, Ericsson, says: “With automation and domain-specific AI, the intelligence built into the network platform provides superior performance while optimizing these of scarce radio network resources. We are developing Machine Intelligence solutions across our product portfolio and services to provide the highest performance and most intuitive and easy to use network operations for our customers.”
Ericsson Research has been strengthening competence in machine learning and AI since 2007 and the company now holds hundreds of patents in this area. These technologies include everything from basic machine learning to more advanced Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning techniques, as well as chatbot-like functionality with NLP and image recognition capabilities.
Learn more about our unique approach to machine intelligence and how technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence are driving systems for automation and network evolution.
Google today announced a deeper integration with State Bank of India (SBI) for its mobile payments app Tez. The integration will allow Tez users to now create an SBI UPI Id – @oksbi and get access to exclusive offers for SBI customers.
At a meeting held to announce this, State Bank of India, Chairman Rajnish Kumar, also spoke about the potential of the digital payments industry and outlined a strategic intent by both SBI and Google’s Tez to work towards a wider adoption of digital payments. The two will focus on building unique propositions for users and merchants including specially curated offers.
Rajnish Kumar, Chairman, SBI said “We are committed to creating an enabling environment to promote digital payments for more Indians. We already have a multitude of services including e-commerce and m-commerce, and this partnership with Google Tez will drive innovation and deliver exciting new opportunities for our 40 crores plus customer base. Our shared commitment to excellence in customer service and bringing simple and secure payments for all will boost adoption of UPI and is a significant step forward in the digitization of cash.”
Diana Layfield, Vice President, Head of Finance & Commerce Products, Next Billion Users, said, “We are very excited about the growth of Tez and our partnership with State Bank of India. We’re delighted to be working closely together to build unique propositions for users and create innovative solutions for merchants to go digital. We are still in very early stages of building a vibrant digital payments ecosystem – that brings together millions of smartphone users, small merchants, large businesses, and financial institutions. This is an important step forward in that journey.”
Tez, since its launch in September 2017, has processed over 250 million transactions and has over 13.5 million monthly active users, across India, from the major cities to Kashmir and Kanyakumari.
Tez is built on the Indian government-supported Unified Payments Interface (UPI), allowing users, free of charge, to make small or big payments straight from their bank accounts to the accounts of others from over 70 UPI enabled banks. The app was built for India, working on the vast majority of the country’s smartphones and available in English and seven Indian languages (Hindi, Bengali, Gujrati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu).
Now BlackBerry seems to target Indian markets with a new unannounced smartphone with BlackBerry Ghost.As per popular tipster, Evan Blass shared the renders of the device mentioning coming soon to India.
After Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, Vivo, and many other Chinese smartphone manufacturers launching their own version of the bezel-less smartphone we finally have a well-known business smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry entering the race with BlackBerry Ghost.The new Android smartphone from BlackBerry will be BlackBerry Ghost will sport a bezel-less display with thick top and bottom bezels as per the leaked renders.
We are still not sure about the device category whether it is a high-end or mid-range smartphone. The new BlackBerry Ghost is being manufactured by Optiemus Infracom which is one of three companies holding BlackBerry License.As Optiemus Infracom presence in India might make the device exclusive to India and might be landing soon.
Huawei upcoming Huawei P20 series is all set to be unveiled on March 27. Earlier we have got few renders of the Huawei P20 Pro and Huawei P20 which had a bezel-less display on the front with iPhone X like notch above the display. We also spotted the device on TENAA which was having a completely new design without notch when compared with other leaks.
Now, we have new live images of the Huawei P20 leaked online. As per the images, we can see the device is now having a different design when compared with previous leaks.Now the device doesn’t come with the physical home button below the display which we saw on earlier leaks and is built out of metal and glass.
Huawei P20
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On the back, we can see the Huawei P20 features triple cameras one with Dual camera setup with LED flash beside it and another camera next to it.We also have Leica branding on the top-left end corner of the device.The new leaks of the Huawei P20 are opposite to the previously spotted device on TENAA which had a Dual camera, fingerprint scanner button below the display.
Surprisingly, there is no fingerprint scanner on this device or might be coming with under display fingerprint scanner.We are still confused about the design of the new Huawei P20 as it keeps on changing every other day.
Samsung is now working on the latest budget to a mid-range smartphone with Samsung Galaxy J6. Samsung is trying hard to gain back the lost market under budget to mid-range devices and planning to introduce some new devices soon.
Now we have spotted the new J-series smartphone with Samsung Galaxy J6 on Geekbench.As per the listing, the device is listed as Samsung SM-J600F. Earlier we also had spotted the Samsung Galaxy J4 on benchmarking site.As per GeekBench, the Samsung Galaxy J6 is powered by 1.6 GHz Octa-core Cortex A53 CPU which is the Exynos 7870 which is powering devices like the Samsung Galaxy J5 (2017).
As per listing, it is coupled with 2GB RAM and probably come with FHD display.The device is running Android 8.0 out of the box.Apart from this, there are no more details leaked.
