[UPDATE! Second Teaser] Samsung Posts Galaxy S8 Teaser Video, Unpacked Scheduled for March 30 in Korea

 By Vaibhav Jain on March 20, 2017       

Article: 3/03/2017

We all know Samsung is readying to unveil its flagship device of the year, the Galaxy S8. Now, Samsung has aired the first Galaxy S8 TV commercial in South Korea.

According to an industry analyst "Samsung’s rare move to release a TV ad for the Galaxy this early appears to (be an attempt to) keep LG from dominating the nation’s premium smartphone market before the S8 rollout."

Samsung will be using the metal and glass body with the S8. The Galaxy S8 will sport a big 5.8-inch screen, whereas the S8 Plus will feature a 6.2-inch Quad HD+ display. 

At the heart of the phone, there will be a Snapdragon 835 SoC and the company will release another variant of the phone with their Exynos 8895 chipset, coupled with 4GB of RAM (U.S. and Europe) and 6GB of RAM (Korea and China). Storage on the phones might go up to 256GB, according to previous rumors. 

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is expected to launch on March 29 in the US and UK, and on March 30 in Korea.

Source: koreaherald

Update: 3/20/2017

Here's another Samsung Galaxy S8 Teaser Video

Samsung announces Bixby: An intelligent personal assistant

 By Vaibhav Jain on March 20, 2017       

Samsung has announced Bixby, its upcoming AI assistant for the Galaxy S8 and an answer to Apple's Siri and Google's assistant.

This upcoming Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus will be coming with an extra button on the left side if the phone, below volume controls. Pressing it will activate Bixby, Samsung's new voice assistant. 

With Bixby, Samsung has employed artificial intelligence, reinforcing deep learning concepts to the core of our user interface designs. 

Bixby offers a deeper experience thanks to proficiency in these three properties: 

• Completeness: Bixby will be able to support almost every task that the application is capable of performing using the conventional interface (ie. touch commands)

• Context awareness: When using a Bixby-enabled application, users will be able to call upon Bixby at any time and it will understand the current context and state of the application and will allow users to carry out the current work-in-progress continuously.

• Cognitive tolerance: Bixby will be smart enough to understand commands with incomplete information and execute the commanded task to the best of its knowledge, and then will prompt users to provide more information and take the execution of the task in piecemeal.

Starting with smartphones, Samsung will apply Bixby to all other "Samsung" appliances including your air conditioner or TV. Since Bixby will be implemented in the cloud, as long as a device has an internet connection and simple circuitry to receive voice inputs, it will be able to connect with Bixby.

Samsung plans to eventually release an SDK to enable third-party developers to make their applications and services Bixby-enabled easily.

We will get to know more about Samsung's AI assistant on March 29.

Source: Samsung

Xiaomi Announces the Redmi 4A at ₹5999 in India

 By Vaibhav Jain on March 20, 2017       

Today Xiaomi announced the availability and pricing details of the Redmi 4A in India. With 16GB of internal storage, the Redmi 4A costs ₹5999 and will be available through Amazon India and MI's website.

With Redmi 4A, you get a 5" Display with Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 CPU, 2GB RAM and 16GB internal memory which can be expanded upto 128GB via a MicroSD card. The Device is packed with 3,120mAh battery and runs MIUI 8 on top of Android 6.0 Marshmallow.



It comes in Dark Grey, Gold and an exclusive Rose Gold color, the Dark Grey and Gold variant will go on sale on March 23 at 12 noon, while the Rose Gold variant will be available on April 6.

Moto X Style Gets a Soak Test for Android 7.0 Nougat in Brazil

 By Vaibhav Jain on March 18, 2017       

Motorola kept its promise and is still one of the fastest when it comes to updating its devices! Now the company has started rolling out the Android 7.0 Nougat (Soak test) for the Moto X Style. 

The Soak test weighs in at around 1.3GB and adds many new features including New Moto Actions (One-handed mode) and Android Nougat goodies to the Moto X Style.

Screenshots:

Soak tests are beta tests for device firmware, usually sent to few dedicated members of Motorola's support forum. Public over-the-air updates usually start a few weeks (sometimes months) later. Moto Germany is expected to release the Official OTA for the Moto X family in May, 2017.

Via: Androidpit (Brazil)

Source: Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ to come in these color options

 By Vaibhav Jain on March 17, 2017       

Samsung is widely expected to unveil the much-anticipated Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus during a press conference in New York City on March 29th. The specs and design of these devices are no longer a mystery, as the device have been already leaked multiple times.

According to the information that we’ve received, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus will be available in Orchid Gray(Grayish Purple), Coral Blue, Arctic Silver and Midnight Black variants. At this point, we don't have any more information about the devices that we are yet confident enough to share.

We have already seen the phone leaked in full glory, thanks to Evan Blass and BGR for leaking the images. The phone will sport the glass and metal body, but the fingerprint sensor will be placed at the rear side of the phone beside the camera module, and this guy won't sport any dual camera, whatsoever.

Going by the iteration, Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus will go on sale from April third week if the rumors are believed to be true. 

Moto G5 Plus gets new update; Improves Audio During a Video capture

 By Vaibhav Jain on March 17, 2017       

Motorola's recently released Moto G5 Plus is now receiving it's very first software update in Brazil.

According to the changelogs, the software updates will Improve Audio Quality of the device during a Video capture, includes Stability improvement and bug fixes. The update shows the new build number as NPN25.137-33 and weighs around  280.7MB. 

If you haven't got the notification of this new software update yet, Just go to Settings > About Phone > Software updates, and It will automatically start downloading the latest update. The update will take around 10-15 minutes to get Installed on your device.

Thanks Leonardo Vinicius