GIONEE S8 & GIONEE W909 with FINGERPRINT SENSOR Officially launched in China

GIONEE is a Chinese smartphone manufacturing company. Company launched its flagship device Gionee S8 and a premium dual screen Gionee W909 officially. Earlier Gionee S8 was first announced at the MWC 2016 event in Barcelona. Gionee W909 was also spotted on TENAA revealing all the specs.

The Gionee S8 is priced at 2,599 Yuan (approx $400 / 26,600 INR) while the Gionee W909 costs 3,999 Yuan (approx $616 / 41,000 INR). Now coming to specs Gionee S8 is powered with a MediaTek Helio P10 chipset (octa-core Processor) with 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage. The 3,000mAh can be fast charged at 18W (9V, 2A). It runs on Android 6.0 marshmallow with custom Amigo 3.2 skin and has a fingerprint reader on its Home key.  Gionee features a 5.5 inch Full HD AMOLED display with Force Touch Capabilities similar to iPhone 6. Now coming to the Camera it has a 16 MP primary camera with PDAF as well as a laser autofocus system. Gionee S8 also packs in some added features like time lapse and slow motion video support. Gionee S8 supports 4G bands ( dual SIM setup) VoLTE support and Cat 6 LTE as well.

Also Read:Gionee S8 Announced with Force Touch Display at MWC 2016

Gionee W909 comes with the dual displays one on front and other inside. Both the screens are of 4.2 inch size and have HD (1280 x 720) resolution. Now coming to other specs Gionee W909 features Helio P10 64-bit octa-core SoC, and it will ship with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage (expandable up to 128GB via a microSD card).. The 16-megapixel camera is placed on the back of this phone, and a 5-megapixel camera on front. The handset measures 124.6 x 62.5 x 16.4mm and weighs around 210 grams. It packs a 2530mAh battery that claims to offer 30 hours of talk time. Connectivity options of the device includes 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, and USB Type-C port.

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Oppo R9 & R9 Plus are coming to India on April 5th

Oppo is al set to launch its R9 & R9 Plus smartphones in India on April 5th. Oppo already launched its R9 and R9 Plus in China on 17th March. Both the smartphones are having the powerful front cameras. Moreover is designed very similar to iPhone 6.

Oppo India has started sending media invites for an event on April 5 for a “camera phone launch”.The Chinese company has also started teasing the “selfie-expert” handsets on Facebook and Twitter. Although the price of both the device in India are not out yet, but according to the pricing in china Oppo R9 and Oppo R9 Plus have been priced at CNY 2,799 (approximately Rs. 29,000) and CNY 3,299 (approximately Rs. 34,000) respectively.

Also Read:Oppo to Start Smartphones Manufacturing in India

Oppo R9 Specs

• Color OS 3.0 based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop


• 5.5″ Display with 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution


• Helio P10 Soc Clocked at 2.0 GHz


• 4GB of RAM


• 64 GB internal Storage


• 16 MP rear cam and 13 MP front cam


• 151.8 x 74.3 x 6.6 mm , weights only 145 g


• 2850 mAh Battery

Oppo R9 Plus Specs

• Color OS 3.0 based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop


• 6″ Display with 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution


• Snapdragon 652 Soc Clocked at 1.8 GHz


• 4GB of RAM


• 64 GB / 128 GB Internal Storage


• 16 MP Sony IMX 298, 1/2.8″ , f/2.0 Rear camera and 16 MP front cam


• 4120 mAh Battery

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Best Android Strategy Games of 2016

Android is very popular smartphone operating system and occupied around 60% of the smartphones market. Now Android Play Store offers a vast variety of game even those which we are playing earlier only on our PC’s like GTA, Need for speed,etc. So we’ve compile some Best Android games in Strategy genre to ease done your navigation.

Clash of clans

Clash of Clans is the most popular multiplayer game on Android Platform in this genre. Game’s core component is its multiplayer mode, wherein players can attack the villages of other players (and defend their own), but they don’t communicate with each other directly when these attacks occur. It was launched back in 2013 since than Clash of Clans is very popular game stays on top of the Strategy games chart.

Vainglory

Vainglory is the multiplayer online battle arena game designed for mobile devices. Vainglory takes the same team-based game play experience. Players take their pick from 16 different heroes and engage yourself in beautiful console-quality graphics and quick 20 minute matches. Crush minions, destroy towers, and clash in intense team fights. Explore a unique jungle area with mines, minions, and Bosses. Since the launch of Vainglory on Play Store it is one of the best games in this section.

BoomBeach

In BoomBeach player is commanding an unnamed army seeks to liberate a beautiful archipelago from the evil Blackguard. Explore a huge tropical archipelago full of danger and treasure, Play with thousands of other players, raid their bases and enjoy the spoils of war, Discover the mysterious power of ancient statues and Life Crystals. This one of the best alternative to the Clash of Clans with some more things.

Anamoly 2

Anamoly 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. In this the planet is overrun by alien machines. Humankind is on the verge of extinction. Banded together in huge convoys, they search the frozen tundra for food and supplies. It offers up plenty of expertly designed strategy thrills with plenty of replay value. Anyhow, Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds new features to the single-player campaign and finally puts your skills to a test in a completely unique experience.

Simcity Buildit

In Simcity Builit is the game in which you have to build a city. In this you have to build residential zones and industries to increase the city wealth. To play this you have to keep in mind that keep Your Citizens Happy. With countless buildings and vivid, 3D-quality graphics, this is the most realistic city builder on mobile. Place buildings strategically to keep the taxes flowing and your city growing. Pinch, zoom, and rotate 360 degrees as you manage and expand your city on the go – both online and offline.

Age of Civilization

Age of Civilizations is a turn-based strategy game with no in app purchases. It also pulls out all the stops on add on content such as Google Play Games services, offline play, and a bunch of scenarios including both World Wars. The way it works is you issue commands before the start of every round and then those actions get completed. What you can do is limited by your Movement Points. Overall, it’s kind of like the classic board game Risk so fans of that should enjoy this title quite a bit. You can also do things like form alliances and sign peace treaties.

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AirDroid Brings Photos Backup on Local Network in Latest Update

AirDroid, a popular app to sync up your mobile device with your PC or laptop or vice versa. It can bring your messages to PC and you can even reply them from your big screen machine without opening your device.

Today, AirDroid has received the update which has brought a major feature of automatic Photos Backup on Local Network. This service is much similar to that of Dropbox and Google Photos but this time the photos are gettings backed up on your local PC. There’s no role of cloud in the AirDroid service of Photos Backup. The photos automatically gets synced to the computer whenever you establish local network between both of the devices.

The backup function is new in version 3.2.1 of the Android app and 3.3.1 of the desktop client. So before testing this new feature just take have a look at the versions of both the devices.

For more information and latest download you can hot the source link below.

Source: AirDroid

 

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YouTube Music Update Brings New Features like WiFi only Streaming and More

YouTube Music is receiving an update with lot of new features and one of the biggest is allowing the streaming when you are connected to WiFi only. You can enable this features by heading to the settings of the app.

If you guys are not familiar with the YouTube Music app than for your information, it is the app made for YouTube Red subscribers. You can now choose to stream music videos only in WiFi and that too you can choose from whether you want to Stream HD videos or not (it is old feature).

Other addition is the “More button(artist)”, which will give access to whole music from that particular artist.

Other changes are also present but you can experience all the advancements by heading to the Play Store.

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Samsung Accidently Confirms the Galaxy S7 Active

Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge is here after tits launch at Mobile World Congress 2016. Now, as like of the Galaxy S5, Samsung is going to launch the new variants like Active for the Galaxy S7.

Samsung Galaxy S5 came with various variants like mini, Prime, Plus and Active. The same variant of Active came with Galaxy S6. So, as similar like of Galaxy S7’s predecessors, the flagship of 2016 is also going to come with Active variant.

Today, SamMobile got a look of the latest edition of the Samsung Level app which lists the unannounced Galaxy S7 Active in its changelog. Though there’s still no word on specific features or release info, it’s now safe to say that the Galaxy S7 Active is in the works.

As per the details leaked, it is expected that model number SM-G891A, the S7 Active will likely add military-grade protection (MIL-STD-810G) to the handset. Also, higher capacity of battery is going to be attached by Galaxy S7 Active.

Further there are many more unknown features coming to the handset.

How many of you would buy Active instead of the main version of the Galaxy S7?

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Samsung Gear S2 18K Rose Gold, Platinum edition Unveiled in India

Samsung unveiled its Two new variants of Gear S2 classic in India, one is plated with 18K Rose Gold and other is platinum coated. Along with these two Variants of gear S2 company is also offering some new watch faces with news services like cab services from Uber, G’Night sleep tracking app, reminder specialist My Notes in Gear and an all-new YouTube browsing app.

For a reminder the Gear S2 features a 1.2 inch super AMOLED display that has a resolution of 360 by 360 pixels. The device also comes with a Snapdragon 400 processor and there is also 512MB of RAM and 4GB of built in storage and it runs Samsung’s Tizen OS. Gear S2 boasts of an IP67 rating that makes it dust and water resistant. It also comes with a heart rate sensor. Its connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and houses a 250mAh battery.

Both the new variants Gear S2 classic rose gold and Gear S2 Platinum priced at Rs 34,900

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Xiaomi Mi 5 coming to India in this Week

Xiaomi launched its flagship device Mi 5 on February 24 in China. Now the company has sent us the official press invite for the launch of Xiaomi Mi 5 in India on March 31st. Although company did not say anything about the price yet.

For a reminder Xiaomi Mi 5 is powered by a Quad-Core Snadpragon 820 processor and runs on MIUI 7 based on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with two-tone LED flash and 4 megapixel front camera. It is also packed with USB Type-C port and a 3000mAh battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0, fingerprint sensor is present and phone also has a 3D glass body with strong glass.

Also Read:Xiaomi Mi 5 hits 179,566 Score on AnTuTu

Also Read:Comparison: Xiaomi Mi 5 Vs Vivo Xplay 5 Elite

Moreover, Xiaomi Mi 5 will be available in three versions – standard edition featuring 3GB LPDD4 RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage priced at CNY 1,999 (approximately INR 21,000); high version featuring 3GB LPDD4 RAM and 64GB storage priced at CNY 2,299 (approximately INR 24,000), and exclusive edition featuring 4GB LPDD4 RAM and 128GB storage priced at CNY 2,999 (approximately INR. 31,500).

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Install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on Galaxy S4

This time here we are with guide on how to install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on Galaxy S4. Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is quite old device which is was launched in the year of 2013.

Samsung’s flagship device of 2013 is packed with  Exynos 5 Octa 5410 SoC, with four 1.6GHz Cortex A15 cores and four 1.2GHz Cortex A7 cores packed on a single chip. Along with that it also has the PowerVR SGX 544MP3 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB internal memory with microSD card slot, 5.0-inch, 1920 x 1080 resolution Super AMOLED display, 13 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, 2,600mAh battery.

Samsung officially rolled Android 5.0 Lollipop to the Samsung Galaxy S4 in various countries. Also in the U.S. mostly all the carriers rolled the update to its users. Well, coming onto the Marshmallow, Samsung hasn’t said anything about the official update to Galaxy S4.

Also Read: Install Android Marshmallow on Galaxy Tab 2

Samsung didn’t rolled the update but team Cyanogen has rolled out CyanogenMod 13 support for the Galaxy S4. Today, we are going to install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on Galaxy S4.

You need to follow the following steps to install the CyanogenMod 13.

Things needed for Installing CyanogenMod 13 on Galaxy S4

• Charge your smartphone in order to avoid further problems – your phone might get bricked if it gets turned off in the middle of the CM 13 update procedure.


• Rooted Galaxy S4


• Charging of upto 50%.


• You must use a computer, your smartphone and its USB cable.


• On your computer you will have to download some files.


• On your Galaxy S4 Mini gain Developer Options: go to “menu – settings – about phone” and tap a few times on Built Number.


• Then, enable USB debugging option by accessing “menu – settings – developer options”.


• Make sure you apply this tutorial only if you have the 3G or LTE model of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini – the steps from below are compatible only with the mentioned Android based smartphone

How to Root Galaxy S4

Required files: download the TWRP recovery for Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500 from here and the Odin3 v3.04 on your PC. Extract the Odin file into a folder and run the exe.

• Switch off your Galaxy S4 i9500.


• Boot the SGS4 into Download mode: reboot by holding Volume Down, Home and Power buttons simultaneously. 


• Once in Download mode, connect the S4 i9500 to PC using a USB cable. Odin will detect the SGS4 and ID:COM on Odin box will turn yellow along with an ADDED!! message.


• Click on PDA button and locate the tar.md5 file from the firmware folder installed earlier. Do not make any changes in default settings of Odin. Just make sure that re-partition is unchecked.


• Click on the START button to start the flashing process. When the installation is completed successfully, your Galaxy S4 will restart automatically and you will get a PASS message on Odin.


• Unplug your phone from computer.

Install CM13 Android 6.0 Marshmallow custom ROM firmware on Galaxy S4

1. Make sure you’re running a proper working Recovery (CWM or TWRP)


2. Copy GApps and crDroid zip to your internal SDCard


3. Boot into Recovery (by holding Volume Up + Home + Power buttons simultaneously)


4. Wipe system,dalvik,data and cache


5. Flash crDroid zip


6. Flash GApps zip


7. DO A DATA WIPE / FACTORY RESET


8. Come back to Main menu of recovery select “reboot system now”.

All Done!! You are now on Android 6.0 Marshmallow on your Galaxy S6. If you have any Queries then comment below. We will reply over there.

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