It’s all leaks and galore for Motorola. The Moto G 2016 aka the Moto G4 has already been leaked and now it seems that Motorola Moto X 2016 has been spotted on benchmarks.
The new revision of the popular handset will get a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset according to the leak. The phone is codenamed “Moto XT1650” and runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, an internal codename “Sheridan” also exists.
Motorola is following up on the specs game and is loading the Moto X 2016 with 4 Gigs of RAM. Expectations that Motorola may launch the G4 and G4 plus around the same time as the Moto X 2016 which is expected to launch sometime in June after Google IO, also hinting to a possible Android N out of the box for Motorola’s high-end handset.
HTC has launched a new “mid-range” phone, mid-range because of the specifications it offers. The HTC One S9 is some sort of successor made available for the EU region in an online-only sale for a price of €499 that’s roughly Rs. 38000.
The phone, however, sports mediocre, at best, specifications, with a Mediatek helio X10 chipset, 2 GB RAM, 2 GB storage and a 1080p display. Some other specs include a 13 MP main camera and a HTC ultrapixel front camera. 2840 mAh battery.
With a company struggling severely to regain its ground, it seems that HTC is just offloading old cake in new boxes. May not be the best recipe, if you don’t want people to end up with a spoilt taste. For more details hit the source below.
OnePlus’s next flagship’s the OnePlus 3 is becoming everyday news. With its launch a few months away, it seems that a lot is already known for the US $ 354 Smartphone. (including the price)
The OnePlus 3, Codename Rain A3000, according to leaks will sport the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset with the Adreno 530 GPU, as well as Memory options in the following format : 3GB + 32GB, 6GB + 64GB, and 4GB + 128GB. Strange as it seems the 3GB + 32GB will cost US$ 354 whereas the 6GB + 64GB variant will cost US$ 384, well worth the additional if you ask us.
Leaks are also mentioning a quick charge feature, which details a 5-minute charge capable of giving 2 hours of phone calls. Android 6 with OnePlus’ new OS Hydrogen is expected to come pre loaded.
OnePlus’s is unsure of when it wants to announce the phone, so it’s either May 18th or May 28th for the launch and sales should begin soon after.
The handset, however, will still come with a 5.2-inch 1920x1080p display. Some benchmarks are also showing 5 inch and 5.5 inch displays, which could be model or variant dependent or simply different phones.
There is no denying that India is top on the list of polluted countries in the world. In-Fact 13 of the Top 20 polluted cities in the world come from India according to a report published by World Health Organization( WHO) in 2014.
Many claim that the reason for the pollution is the large population that is only second to China. To measure the levels of pollution PM10 and PM25 counts are used, PM10 is suspended particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in diameter; PM2.5 is suspended particulate matter 2.5 microns or less in diameter. Safe levels numbers kept by health organizations are PM10: Safe 40 µg/m3 over a period of a year and for PM2.5: Safe 25 µg/m3 over a period of a year.
Here is the list of Top 10 cities, any guesses for Number One?
10. Ludhiana
While a relatively small city, Ludhiana is seeing massive development and a large influx of traffic.
PM10 : 207 µg/m3
PM 2.5 : 91 µg/m3
The Pollution levels are almost four times the permissible levels for a healthy life.
9. Amritsar
Another small city of Punjab and the home of the Golden Temple, Amritsar hits the list at number nine. While the food there is amazing and the people happy, the pollution levels are off the charts. Only a little more than Ludhiana but much above the safe permissible limits.
PM10 : 210 µg/m3
PM 2.5: 92 µg/m3
8. Kanpur
A city with a population crossing 40 lac or 4 million residents Kanpur hits the list at number 8. with a
PM10 : 212 µg/m3
PM2.5 : 93µg/m3
7. Firozabad
Firozabad is located in north central India, in western Uttar Pradesh , 40 km from Agra and around 240 km away from Delhi. Firozabad has a large industry with a high pollution output which gets the blame for the degradation of the Taj Mahal’s white marble.
PM10 : 219 µg/m3
PM2.5 : 96 µg/m3
6. Lucknow
Lucknow is the largest city in Uttar Pradesh and the second largest in India after Delhi. Home of the Royals of the Mughal Empire also known as Nawabs of Awadh is no longer safe for Royalty or any inhabitation of any kind.
PM10 : 219 µg/m3
PM2.5 : 96 µg/m3
5. Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad River Front
The pride of the Prime Minister of India and the former capital of the State of Gujrat, Ahmedabad has a population of 6.3 million and an extended population of 7.2 million. While the PM10 count is well under control at 67 µg/m3, still above the permissible level, the PM2.5 is extremely high and toxic for humans.
PM10 : 67 µg/m3
PM2.5 : 100 µg/m3
4. Raipur
Clock tower in Raipur
Here is where the list goes shockingly out of proportion, Raipur the capital of Chhattisgarh is losing the battle with PM10 count and not only is it extremely high it is so bad that if you were to explain this with an image, you would use the following:
PM10 : 304 µg/m3
PM2.5 : 135 µg/m3
3. Gwalior
Coming it at a cool number 3 the City of Gwalior is located 319 kilometers south of Delhi in the heart of Madhya Pradesh. The 2014 WHO report calls Gwalior the third most polluted city in the world, only because the top two are also from India.
PM10 : 329 µg/m3
PM2.5 : 144 µg/m3
2. Patna
The state capital of Bihar, Patna is the second most polluted city in the world and also the second most polluted city in India. One of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world. Patna was founded in 490 BCE by the king of Magadha, little did he know the levels of pollution it would reach.
PM10 : 164 µg/m3
PM2.5 : 149 µg/m3
Delhi
You guessed it; the odd-even traffic laws will be little or no relief for Delhi, which is the capital of India and also the largest city in the country. In the 2011 census, Delhi’s population crossed 16 million inhabitants or around 1.6 crore people. A large number of vehicles and traffic is attributed as the primary cause of the city’s toxic levels of air pollution. No signs can signify the levels of damage this does to the human body.
PM10 : 286 µg/m3
PM2.5 : 153 µg/m3
Remember the safe limits of PM10: 40 µg/m3 and for PM2.5: 25 µg/m3 over a period of a year. The worst part about this situation is that the last collected numbers are from the 2014 report, which means that the current levels are expected to be much higher. The state or local authorities have taken no significant preventive measures or steps to control the rising levels of pollution.
While Delhi tries the Odd-Even formula, it may be too little too late.
Motorola has already started teasing the Moto 360 sport on their Facebook and twitter pages. The company is all set to launch the Moto 360 sport in India officially.
The watch which is a sportier variant of the Moto 360 launched last year, features a black silicone casing and strap that is sweat and dust resistant. The watch which costs US $ 299 in the US is expected to launch in India for a price of Rs. 17999 and will go on sale on Flipkart.
Moto 360 Sport has built-in GPS that works with Moto Body to measure your performance. It Also works independently without the smartphone. With inbuilt storage, Sync’d music can be directly played onto bluetooth speakers or headphones during workouts.
As strange as the names may sound, LeEco has launched the Le 2, Le 2 Pro and Le Max 2 phones at their Beijing event held today.
LeEco Le 2: Has a 5.5-inch full HD (1080p) display and is powered by MediaTek’s Helio X20 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. The primary Camera is a 16-megapixel with aperture f/2.0 with PDAF and LED flash; The front camera is an 8-megapixel shooter. The Le 2 is a seques to the Le 1s and will feature a 3,000mAh battery with fast charging support
LeEco Le 2 Pro: The Le 2 and Le 2 Pro are identical in appearance, powered by MediaTek’s Helio X25 deca-core chipset with 4GB of RAM and 32GB and 64GB internal storage variants. The Le 2 Pro has a 21-megapxiel rear camera and an 8-megapixel front camera.
LeEco Le Max 2: The Le Max 2 has a 5.7-inch QHD display with a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels. Based on the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 quad-core with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. The phone runs on a 3,100mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0.
All the phone run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS with LeEco’s customized EUI 5.5.
Pricing for the phones is kept at 1,099 yuan ($170) for the Le 2, 1,499 yuan ($230) for the Le 2 Pro, 2,099 yuan ($325) for the basic (4GB RAM and 32GB storage) Le Max 2 and just 2,499 yuan ($390) for the high end(6GB RAM and 64GB storage) version. Pre-order starts on April 20th in China.
LeSEE Supercar concept
The LeSEE concept car has hands-free automatic drive capabilities. Along with facial recognition, emotion recognition, system recognition, and path recognition.
Delhi Metro is not the only one working on Free Wi-Fi. Google is woking with the Indian Railways and Railtel to provide High-Speed Wireless Internet access to 100 Railway stations by the end of this year and a total of 400 Stations in the coming years. A service which will be free to all passengers and visitors.
The service has already been launched at 9 stations including Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Ernakulam Jn, Kacheguda, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Vijayawada, and Vishakhapatnam. In January, the service was launched at Mumbai Central which makes the list a complete 10.
Google aims to make free Wi-Fi available to 10 Million Indians every day in its goal to hit 100 Railway stations by the end of 2016. The service is already a success according to Google with over 100,000 users logging in daily at Mumbai Central alone.
Google’s target of 400 stations may take a few years to come, but the service will be appreciated by everyone none the less.
Apple may be working on an iPhone that may shed metal from the front and rear giving it a unique rounded glass design. A single piece of glass that goes from front to back held in place with liquid metal sides.
This may be this year’s redesign or a variant of the iPhone which may launch in 2017 as perhaps the iPhone Pro. Apple has previously used glass front and back on the iPhone 4 and 4s.
The new iPhone will also have an AMOLED display which will allow the iPhone to become lighter and thinner, which in turn will also allow Apple to utilize the Apple Watch type 3D touch technique.
According to industry reports, Apple has already placed a $2.59 billion order to Samsung which is to supply 100 million 5.5-inch OLED displays starting 2017.
Which makes the iPhone 7 launching this year a non-AMOLED display based device, leaving a lot of Apple fans disappointed. Most leaks of the iPhone 7 have shown of similar iPhone 6/6s style designs with aluminum backs. With Apple revamping the iPhone lineup in 2017, the 2016 winter may not belong to the Cupertino fruit company.
But, as with all launches, we won’t know till we know.
HTC India has confirmed that it will be bringing the HTC 10 to India , that too earlier than before. While the news on which variant will launch in India remains mum, sources close to iGyaan tell us that the HTC 10 will be launched in both variants. The HTC 10 with Snapdragon 820 for those looking for a high-end device, along with the Snapdragon 652 variant for those looking for the handset in a less powerful format.
The source also tells us that the HTC 10 Life which sports the Snapdragon 652 will be cheaper and will be launched in India for less than Rs. 35000, whereas the HTC 10 with Snapdragon 820 will be launched for Rs. 47000 with 32 GB of storage. The Taiwanese company may not launch the HTC 10 with 64 GB of storage in India.
The HTC 10 will also come only in the Carbon Grey, Glacier Silver and Topaz Gold leaving out the highly coveted Camellia Red for the Indian market.
LG has just launched the K7 LTE and K10 LTE variants in India, for Rs. 9500 and Rs. 13500 respectively. For the specs available on these handsets, they cost a lot more than most of the competition.
The K7 features a 5.0 inch 480 x 854 pixel IPS display, Qualcomm MSM8909 Snapdragon 210 chipset with Quadcore 1.1 GHz along with 8GB Storage and 1.5 GB RAM. The phone has a 8 MP primary Camera that shoots 720p video and a 5 MP front camera.
The build of the phone is exciting and feels premium, the display is shabby for the price, offering roughly 191 ppi. The back panel adds a lot of grip, and the overall form factor fits well in the hands.
The K10, on the other hand has an entirely different back panel which looks and feels a whole lot better than the one on the K7. Specs wise a 5.2 inch 1280 x 720 px display, Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410 with Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53, Adreno 306 GPU. The Phone will come with 16 GB Storage and 1.5 GB RAM. The K10 on the back has a bigger sensor with 13 MP, f/2.2 and autofocus while the front gets a 8 MP camera both offering a maximum of 1080p video.
While both these phones feature a 2.5D arc screen which curves out to the edge, only the K10 comes with an included cover offers Galaxy S7 type Edge notifications, with the use of the cover.
LG’s plans seem unsure with the K series and with such high pricing, we are not sure if people will even look to buy these handsets, thanks to mighty competition of the LeEco and Xiaomi variety.
Nextbit Robin made its debut last year for being a new concept phone which makes onboard stoareg a non issue, With the cloud integrated into Android OS, onboard storage is merged with the cloud.
The San Fransisco based tech company is launching its Smartphone in the evergrowing market of India this month. The phone features a 5.2-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) display on a plastic body. It is powered by Qualcomm’s hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM and 32 GB of onboard storage and 100 GB cloud storage space. Other features of the Nextbit Robin include a 2680mAh battery, a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.
The phone received raving reviews in the US, although early adopters complained about the experience. The dependence on high speed data may become an issue in India. So let’s see how the company will translate the US $ 400 price tag into the Indian currency, and if this phone crosses the Rs. 25000 price mark it may not make a lot of sense to the consumer.
That’s it for HTC’s mega event before the company could even begin the virtual launch, the details of their handset have leaked all over the internet. For specs a 5.2-inch display with 2K Quad HD resolution, a 2.2GHz Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 12-megapixel rear camera with “UltraPixel” capabilities, 32GB or 64GB of internal storage, microSDXC support up to 2TB, Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and a large 3,000 mAh battery. The report also says that BoomSound has been reworked in the new HTC 10, with “HTC BoomSound HiFi Edition” featuring Dolby audio technology replacing last year’s BoomSound setup.
These are not the first leaks of HTC’s next Flagship, and with the launch only hours away. There is not a lot more to expect from HTC but the global price of the phone.
At this very moment, the largest debate in the world is around Whatsapp and their brand new End to End Encryption.
With the Apple vs. FBI debacle just barely out the door, a new threat to “National Security” of many governments is the encryption of messages on the world’s largest messaging app. This app which daily carries personal data of nearly a billion users has just pushed a major upgrade that will encrypt the messages, files, images, videos, etc. of each chat from a point of origin to a point of receiving.
How does it work?
If both users of a Whatsapp message (i.e. the sender and recipient) have updated to the latest update, then their message is encrypted with a 256-bit algorithm. Which in turn means that, apart from the sender and the recipient of said message, no one will know what message was sent, including WhatsApp.
WhatsApp uses what’s called public key encryption: To send a message to User B, User A asks a WhatsApp server for a public key that applies to User B. User A then uses the public key to encrypt the message. User B’s private key—only available on User B’s phone—decrypts the message.
Image via Wired
The encryption method is so diverse the service will encrypt all messages, phone calls, photos, and videos moving among them. And that’s true on any phone that runs the app, from iPhones to Android phones to Windows phones to old school flip phones.
To get more information on how this works you can download WhatsApp’s Whitepaper here.
Why Did it Happen?
Jan Koum, WhatsApps founder, was one of the first to voice support for Apple in the Apple vs. FBI debate. The company has been encrypting some of the information on the messages since 2013.
Facebook, which is WhatsApp’s parent company, is also trying to implement encryption in their messaging systems, and with WhatsApp’s encryption out the door, this may happen sooner than later.But, why is all of this important for us as users? The answer to this question lies within our thought processes. After the biggest information leak by Edward Snowden, it has become apparent that governments have become careless in combating terrorism. To the point where they are breaking the fundamentals of privacy and collecting data on each of their citizens, breachings the basics of the law systems set in many countries.
We’ve been working for the past two years to give people better security over their conversations on WhatsApp… People deserve security. It makes it possible for us to connect with our loved ones. It gives us the confidence to speak our minds. It allows us to communicate sensitive information with colleagues, friends, and others. We’re glad to do our part in keeping people’s information out of the hands of hackers and cyber-criminals. – Said Jan Koum
But, why is all of this important for us as users?
The answer to this question lies within our thought processes. After the biggest information leak by Edward Snowden, it has become apparent that governments have started collecting personal analogue and digital data, which is an equivalent of hundreds and thousands of email, calls, personal images, videos, and messages.
Snooping in on private moments has been the biggest conversation of the past few years. With WhatsApp adding a no backdoor system the data on the service becomes completely private. No requests by the governments will be entertained, and WhatsApp has made that loudly clear.
This will ensure privacy to a billion users of the largest messaging application in the world. Which means no matter what moment you share on this app with the latest update, you can be assured no one is snooping in on it.
But it is not only the governments that this information encryption is trying to prevent. Hundreds of hackers and cyber-thieves are constantly on the lookout for an easy payday. This encryption will protect sensitive data from being easily taken and used against you. This also prevents identity theft and many other cyber crimes that one may have become a victim to in the past.
What About the Security Risk?
Many Governments and security agencies will debate, that this will help terrorists communicate easier, and security will mostly be broken. In pushing back against end-to-end encryption, the US government argues that it’s merely trying to maintain the status quo—that it has long had the power to issue a warrant for communications data.
With no backdoor, WhatsApp data will not be decrypted; no information apart from timestamps and metadata of when the messages were sent and possibly who they were sent to will be available to the app makers themselves.
Encryption is one of the most important tools governments, companies, and individuals have to promote safety and security in the new digital age. Recently there has been a lot of discussion about encrypted services and the work of law enforcement. While we recognize the important work of law enforcement in keeping people safe, efforts to weaken encryption risk exposing people’s information to abuse from cybercriminals, hackers, and rogue states. – WhatsApp
For the time being it seems that the free world citizens are winning the battle over privacy. But the security agencies and governments are not ones to sit back and watch quietly. For one there remains a significant vulnerability for privacy-concerned people using WhatsApp to communicate. The metadata about communications is not secret. The government, could, for example, demand to know from Facebook/WhatsApp with whom a particular user communicated, when he or she did so, and how frequently. They may even be able to tell where the parties to a conversation were located when the conversation took place.
The metadata and timestamps about communications are not secret. The governments could demand to know from Facebook/WhatsApp with whom a particular user communicated, when he or she did so, and how frequently. They may even be able to tell where the parties to a conversation were located when the conversation took place.
Xiaomi Mi 5 launched in India early but left a lot of people disappointed with its high price tag of 24999 for the base variant. Which by chance is the only option available in India on the April 6th sale and that too only in the white color.
The Mi 5 is extremely light weight for the specs it is packing, weighing in at a little over 130 gms. (Xiaomi claims 129 gms)
Inside the box of the Mi5 You will get :
The Mi 5 Handset
USB Wall Brick
USB Type C Cable
Documentation
Sim Ejector Tool
The handset on the back tapers just like the Galaxy S7 giving it an excellent grip in the hand. The cameras are impressive with f/2.0 aperture on the rear as well as the front camera. The front camera has a 2-micron pixel size and a 1/3″ sensor which in itself is pretty massive for a smartphone.
Xiaomi may have pushed a whole lot of customers away by pricing the phone at a higher than expected Rs. 24999. However, for the price, it is extremely premium and loaded with high-end specs. What is a bigger let down is the availability of only one model and only one color of the handset in the market, where the customer is left struggling to make that decision.
The Snapdragon 820 chipset along with a 3000 mAh battery which supports Quick Charge 3.0 is a significant upside of the new Mi 5, however, so is the set of cameras and the overall premium look and feel.
