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The Honor 8  smartphone  -- a sub-brand of Chinese telecom giant  Huawei  -is all set to enter India in a couple of weeks from now.  Honor 8  was showcased to select media at a special preview session in Goa this week.  Huawei will also launch its first "  Made in India " phone around the same time, a company spokesperson told IANS on Thursday.  The world's third largest smartphone maker announced last week that it will collaborate with the leading sketch-to-scale solutions provider Flextronics' Chennai facility to manufacture some of its products in the country.  The sleek Honor 8 phone, which has already been launched in China and a few other countries including the US, comes with heavy 2.5D glass on front screen and back surface to give it a premium look.  The curved metallic sidebars of the 156 gm phone have no edges, thereby allowing users to have an easy grip.  One, however, would have to be a little brave to handle the phone, as the glass on the front scr

Apple iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus will be launched in India on October 7, and Flipkart which is one of the official online retailers is accepting pre-orders for the new phones. Customers can start pre-ordering the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus from today, September 29 at 23:59 hours from the company’s website. Flipkart has a separate landing page on the website for Apple iPhone 7 and users can ask to be notified on when the phone is up for pre-order. Flipkart will charge the full payment for the pre-booking of the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and not a token amount. Officially the iPhone 7 series hits the stores on October 7 in India, and the starting price is Rs 60,000 for the 32GB version. The full price list looks like this: iPhone 7 with 32GB storage at Rs 60,000, iPhone 7 with 128GB storage at Rs 70,000, iPhone 7 with 256GB storage at Rs 80,000. iPhone 7 Plus with 32GB storage starts at Rs 72,000, iPhone 7 Plus with 128GB storage at Rs 82,000, iPhone 7 Plus with 256GB storage at Rs 92,000. Ap

Reliance Jio Says Airtel Gesture Welcome, but Won't Address Call Drops Reliance Jio on Sunday welcomed Bharti Airtel's decision to provide better interconnection for its calls. But it also said the number of such points proposed remained substantially less than actual requirement - and these won't be able to address the issue of large-scale call drops. Airtel rebutted in a counter-statement. "Based on the current traffic flow between the two networks, the proposed augmentation by  Airtel would still only suffice for less than one-fourth of the required interconnection capacity," a  Jio statement said. "More than two crore calls are failing everyday between the two networks, which is far in excess of the quality of service parameters and of alarming proportions. Urgent steps are required to be taken in the interest of customers of both operators," the statement said. "It is unfortunate that the  Telecom Regulatory Authority's  inter

Customers report strange hissing sound when the iPhone 7 is under stress The noise was first pointed out by Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels and was quickly followed by other users reporting the same thing. In terms of malfunctions it absolutely pales in comparison to the exploding battery issue in Samsung’s Note 7 that prompted a global recall recently. But nevertheless, Apple customers and technologists have been debating the exact cause of the curious hissing sound. “Some suspect coil whine or similar electromagnetic effects, but there’s no guarantee that this is the case,” claimed Jon Fingas from. Not all news phones are making the unsettling noise though. A number of customers reported putting their iPhone 7 under enormous stress and heard no hissing sound at all, leading some to speculate the problem could be a manufacturing issue rather than an inherent design quirk.

Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime Launched in India: Price, Release Date, Specifications, and More   Samsung on Monday as expected launched the Galaxy J7 Prime in India. The company also launched the Galaxy J5 Prime in the country. The smartphones are priced at Rs. 18,790 and Rs. 14,790 respectively. While the Galaxy J7 Prime is officially available from Monday, the Galaxy J5 Prime will go on sale from September-end. For both the  Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime  and Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime, the company is touting features like S Power Planning (a reserve battery technology for when the battery is running low) and S Secure (allowing users to lock/ hide apps, and more). The company has also detailed a Vodafone bundled data offer for Galaxy J7 Prime and Galaxy J5 Prime customers, wherein they pay for 1GB of data and get 9GB of data free over three months. To recall, the Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is the upgraded version of the  Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) , and features a fingerprint sensor on the