The news is finally here. When Hugo Barra announced his exit from Xiaomi, a couple of days ago shook the entire world with his decision. However, everyone was curious about his next assignment. Today, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook on his official Facebook account posted that Hugo will be joining the Silicon Valley-based company after his tenure with Xiaomi next month. So, Hugo Barra will be joining as the VP of Virtual Reality as Facebook owns OCULUS, one of the pioneers in VR technology. This will be a huge boost for both Facebook and the team at OCULUS. Not only OCULUS, but Hugo Barra will also be leading the entire VR team at the Facebook. But, the major part of VR at Facebook is all about OCULUS.
Hugo Barra joined Xiaomi back in 2013 as the Global VP to expand the company's presence globally. Under his leadership, Xiaomi has grown globally as one of the major players in the international market. Xiaomi' Senior Vice President, Xiang Wang will now take charge as the Global VP.
Nearly a month ago, the Samsung Galaxy C5 Pro was certified by TENAA and was expected to be announced very soon. However, we might have to wait some more days for the official launch. The phone is now spotted on benchmarking site, GeekBench, confirming the specifications leaked by the GFXBench site.
The latest GeekBench listing reveals the phone's model number as SM-C5010, citing to the earlier leaked ones. The phone is powered by an octa-core chip at the time of benchmark testing with all the cores clocked at 2.21GHz. Also, the motherboard number is shown as msm8953, which is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoC. Also, the Galaxy C5 Pro comes with 4GB of RAM.
The phone will boot Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, which is a sad thing to see even in early 2017. The GeekBench listing did not reveal any details regarding the camera and display of the phone, but earlier TENAA listing and GFXBench listing said the phone will get a 5.5-inch FHD display, 16MP rear and front-facing cameras, and a 3000mAh battery. Samsung is expected to the announce the phone in near future, maybe in the first week of February. Also, the phone will make into the Indian market in coming months.
After updating Nexus 6, Moto Z, Z Force, G4 Plus and G4 to Android 7.0 Nougat, Motorola has finally started testing Android 7.0 Nougat for the Moto Z Play. Moto Z Play users who were registered for BNM have started receiving Android 7.0 Nougat Beta with January 1 security patch in China.
We already know that Motorola will start rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat update for unlocked (Sold directly by Motorola) variant of the Motorola Moto Z from next month, while both the Verizon and unlocked versions of the Moto Z Play would get Android 7.0 in March.
The Nokia 6 is one of the popular Smartphone of the year 2017. And so far, it is only available in China. This, however, may soon change as device is going to be on Sale In Philippines. Starting from February 26, Majority of retailers in Philippines will start selling "White color variant" of the Nokia 6. Listed at Lazada (Philippines e-commerce website), the Nokia 6 is priced at $370, which is $125 more than price of the device in China.
The Nokia 6 features a 5.5" 1080p screen with Gorilla Glass, classic Nokia design and an impressive audio quality according to HMD. The phone comes with an aluminum unibody and runs on a Snapdragon 430 SoC paired with 4GB of RAM. Its camera should follow the Nokia trend and impress everyone. It's 16MP with an 8MP front shooter. Source: Lazada | Via: Phonearena
This year's Google I/O will take place from May 17 to May 19 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. This news isn't official yet, but the company tweeted out a few puzzles, when solved, confirmed the details. Last year Google announced Android Nougat, Home, Daydream VR, Allo, and Duo.
