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#1 -JioPhone pre-orders start August 24: Here’s how to book the Reliance Jio 4G VoLTE feature phone
As for specifications, the new JioPhone gets a 2.4-inch QVGA screen. It sports a squarish design, a headphone jack along with microphone and speaker. Reliance Jio users will get an option to browse Internet on the device as well. It supports Jio’s suite of apps including JioCinema, JioMusic, and more. There’s also an option to cast content from JioCinema app from JioPhone onto users’ TV. Reliance Jio JioPhone supports all Indian languages, which is likely to help while giving voice commands. Other features include SOS functionality, which can be activated by pressing 5, and support for NFC that enables quick payments.
Coming to data offers, Jio has announced special plans as well as sachet packs for JioPhone users. Jio’s Rs 153 monthly plan gives users unlimited data with 500 MB FUP (Fair Usage Policy) per day. The Rs 309 monthly pack is for users who’d like to broadcast their JioTV app on their television. It lets people watch three to four hours of video. Jio’s sachet packs for Rs 24 and Rs 54 come with a validity of two days and a week respectively.
#2 -Meizu teases its dual-screened Pro 7 smartphone, will be unveiled on July 26
The Meizu Pro 7 smartphone is confirmed to be unveiled on July 26, and the company has now released a teaser image for the phone. The teaser highlights the most unique feature that the device is tipped to come with, the secondary screen at the back. Unlike the efforts of the YotaPhone, which put an e-ink display at the back, the Meizu device is expected to be a colour display. This display is tipped to be located just below the camera and may be used to take selfies with the rear camera.
Besides this, images of the device were leaked by Android Pure and matches up to other leaks in the past. At the front, the device looks quite ordinary with a single home button located below the display. However, it is the rear panel that is most interesting. The device is expected to features a dual-rear camera with the secondary display. And this entire setup is located towards one side of the device. The phone also seems to feature a brushed aluminium design.
#3 - Samsung Galaxy Note8 with Infinity Display and improved Bixby support launching on August 23
Samsung will announce the Galaxy Note 8, its successor to the ill-fated Note7 smartphone on August 23. The South Korean smartphone maker has started sending out media invites for an event in New York where it will launch the Note 8. The invite comes with the tagline 'Do bigger things' and shows a smartphone with Samsung's Infinity Design and S-Pen stylus.
#4 - Bitcoin swings as civil war looms
the value of the virtual currency Bitcoin has always been volatile.
Even so, there has been particular turbulence in recent days as fears of a "civil war" among its adherents first grew and then subsided, although they have not gone away altogether.
On Sunday, the value of one bitcoin dropped to about $1,863 (£1,430) before bouncing back to $2,402 on Wednesday, according to data from the news site CoinDesk - still some way off a June high of $3,019.
#5 - Google Expeditions app is now open to everyone, offers over 600 VR tours
Google is rolling out a new solo mode of Expeditions app to everyone. The Android app enables over 600 virtual reality field trips to places like Great Barrier Reef, the Taj Mahal, and more. It was initially restricted to classrooms. Google Expeditions offer self-guided tours like Expedition about the Hamilton-Burr duel narrated by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Expeditions app will be available for iOS soon. Users need to have a Cardboard or Daydream VR headset along with an Android phone to explore Expeditions app.
#6 - Invisibility cloaks in the offing
Scientists have developed a new technique that sprays metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors, an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting and even pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices. The technique can inexpensively grow metal nanoparticles both on and below the surface of semiconductors, said researchers from University of Michigan in the US.
The process adds virtually no cost during manufacturing and its improved efficiency could allow manufacturers to use fewer semiconductors in finished products, making them less expensive. The metal nanoparticles can increase the efficiency of LEDs in several ways. They can act as tiny antennas that alter and redirect the electricity running through the semiconductor, turning more of it into light, researchers said.
7-Nokia 2 with on-screen Android buttons spotted alongside Nokia 3 in new leak
Nokia 2, the rumoured entry-level Android smartphone from HMD Global has leaked once again. In a new leak, the smartphone has been showcased alongside a rough sketch of Nokia 3, indicating the budget handset could be announced sometime soon.
A leak last week revealed Nokia's chipset choices for its 2017 smartphone lineup including the yet to be announced Nokia 2, Nokia 7, Nokia 8 and Nokia 9 smartphones. It claimed that the Nokia 2 will be an entry-level handset powered by Snapdragon 212 SoC while Nokia 9 will be a flagship device powered by the Snapdragon 835. However, HMD Global seems to have changed its plans and will now launch the Nokia 8 as the flagship smartphone.
HMD Global is currently selling the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 globally but only the Nokia 3 is available for purchase here in India. The new leak shows that the Nokia 2 will sport a design similar to the Lumia 620 with rounded edges and a 5-inch display like the Nokia 3 smartphone. The handset is said to be powered by either the Snapdragon 212 or equivalent Snapdragon 210 processor. While HMD Global's existing smartphones use normal Android buttons, the Nokia 2 seems to be opting for on-screen Android buttons.
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