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Is there anything that Xiaomi cannot do? The company has a range of devices in its portfolio, from a portable mosquito repeller and an electric toothbruth to laptop - and that's just in the last month. Now, the company is expected to launch a VR headset on Monday. The company's General Manager Tang Mu has reportedly confirmed that Xiaomi is working on a virtual reality headset that will be compatible with Google's Daydream platform, which was announced at Google's I/O event last month. Android Headlines reports that Mu said he thinks that this is the best way to provide a VR experience that's optimised for MIUI users. There has been no word about the pricing of this VR headset. The headset is expected to be launched on August 1 as per a teaser posted by the company on Chinese website Weibo, reports Android Headlines. If the company does launch a virtual on August 1, it will join the likes of Samsung, Sony, HTC, and Google, who have developed their own VR headsets -...

An update is now available for those Pokemon Go players sporting an Android flavored handset. The only problem is that version .31 of the game is not yet available from the Google Play Store. Version .29 is what you get right now when loading the game from the Play Store. However, if you're good at following directions, you can click on the sourcelink and download the latest version of Pokemon Go from APKMirror. As for those Pokemon trainers that use an iOS powered device, this very same update is coming your way. Niantic founder John Hanke spoke at Comic-Con in San Diego last week about a future update that will give trainers the ability to trade Pokemon. This is not that update. Still, it does include a number of improvements and bug fixes. The changelist includes: Avatars can now be re-customized from the Trainer profile screen  Adjusted battle move damage values for some Pokémon  Refined certain Gym animations  Improved memory issues  Removed footprint...

Lenovo has launched its own Notebook laptop dubbed Lenovo Air 13 Pro just hours after Xiaomi unveiled the Mi Notebook Air. The Air 13 Pro sports almost similar specs and carries same 4999 yuan ($750) price tag as the Mi Notebook Air and obviously was released by the Chinese company to take on its fellow counterpart’s first notebook. The Lenovo Air 13 Pro clutches a 13.3-inch IPS display and is powered by an Intel I5-6200U processor with 4GB of RAM as well as 256GB ROM. The beautiful notebook is light enough to move about with, weighing in at just 1.29kg with a thickness of 1.48cm which is quite similar to that of the Mi Notebook Air. The Notebook laptop also features 2GB NVIDIA GT940MX graphics card and Lenovo included a new fingerprint recognition feature, something missing in the Mi Notebook Pro. The Lenovo Air 13 Pro laptop is already available for pre-sale registration from online mall Jingdong in China and price starts at 4999 yuan ($750). The price tag will take a slight...

It’s been more than a year since we first reported about a possible Xiaomi Notebook. At that time, it seemed impossible that a startup company could extend its reach to the laptop market. But nearly 1.5 years later, the Xiaomi Notebook (Xiaomi MiBook Air) is official and it’s just as good as we all imagined. The Xiaomi Notebook will come in two versions, and just as we reported earlier, the smaller one will feature a 12.5-inch display while the larger model comes with a 13.3-inch display. Both are covered with 7H hard glass. We had repeatedly said that the Xiaomi Notebook will directly rival the premium Apple Macbook range and guess what, during the reveal today, the company made sure it highlighted the fact that the new Xiaomi Notebook is going to best the Macbook in terms of design. Well, first of all, the Xiaomi Notebook is not its official name. The two laptop versions are called the Xiaomi MiBook Air 12.5-inch and the Xiaomi Mibook Air 13.3-inch. So, from now onwards, we will...

After months of leaks, rumors and teasers, Xiaomi has officially unveiled the Xiaomi Redmi Pro flagship. Like the name suggests, this will be the most powerful Redmi device from the company till date, featuring top-end specs that will rival existing flagship smartphones in the market. The Redmi Pro, like expected, comes with dual cameras at the back, a first for Xiaomi and hopefully something that will continue in upcoming devices. Like we saw in the leaked images, the Redmi Pro will come with an all metal body with CNC diamond cut and brushed metal finish with gloss anodizing process. This will ensure that the phone looks like a true flagship, featuring premium and refined design. You get USB Type-C port as well as 3.5mm headphone jack on the device, along with a 5.5-inch display and 2.5D glass up front. The fingerprint sensor is located on the front of the phone, embedded into the home button. As for the measurements, they are as follows: 151.5 x 76 x 8.15mm. Considering the pho...

An image that is said to be an official render of the BlackBerry Neon, might be giving us a clue as to when we might see the handset introduced by the company. It's an old trick to be sure, but in many cases the date used on the official render will turn out to be the exact date that the phone is introduced. In this case, we could see BlackBerry's latest Android flavored handset greet the light of day on August 20th. Only problem here is that this this date turns out to be a Saturday, so we will have to wait and see what develops. The Neon, rumored to be a re-branded Alcatel Idol 4, has the same specs as the latter device. That means it is equipped with a 5.2-inch display carrying a 1080 x 1920 resolution. Powering the unit is the Snapdragon 617 chipset featuring an octa-core 1.7GHz CPU and the Adreno 405 GPU. 3GB of RAM is inside along with 16GB of native storage. On back you will find a 13MP camera with a front-facing 8MP camera available to snap selfies and handle video ch...

Google wants to ensure protection and security of mobile phone users and the company has started rolling out an update from Tuesday that will help you block and report spam callers. The company's Nexus account said via a Google+ post that it is updating the Google Phone app with spam protection. The company said that "If you already have Caller ID turned on, spam protection will be available on your phone once your app updates to the latest version," in its post. However, this new security update is only making its way to Nexus and Android One phones as of now. In its post, the company did not specify if the update will make its way to other Android devices in future. On its support page regarding spam protection, the search giant specifies: "To use caller ID & spam protection, your phone may need to send information about your calls to Google." The company says that the Caller ID and spam protection is switched on by default in your phone but you can cho...

Chinese handset manufacturer Huawei has confirmed an event on August 17 in India. The company is widely expected to unveil the Huawei P9 in the country. Huawei started sending event teasers to media on Monday and said, "Something exciting is coming for you on the August 17. Stay tuned for more information from Huawei." Unfortunately, there is no word whether the Huawei P9smartphone will be launched only or will it be accompanied by the Huawei P9 Plus. Unveiled in April, the biggest highlight of the Huawei P9 as well as P9 Plus is the dual-lens camera which has been made in collaboration with legendary camera maker Leica. The Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus sport two 12-megapixel sensors, with one capturing light in colour, and the other in monochrome. The dual lenses sport an f/2.2 aperture. Both sport 8-megapixel front-facing cameras. For specifications, Huawei P9 features a 5.2-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) IPS LCD display. It will be powered by the company's Hi-Silic...

We’ve been getting bits and pieces over the past few weeks about the Mi Notebook, but what we have today is more than bits and pieces. It’s a real life image to whet your appetite. A real life image of a man using what appears to be the Xiaomi Mi Notebook was posted online today. The image shows the side view of an all-metal PC which fits the description of the Mi Notebook, although the Mi logo is not visible. The picture also shows the Mi Notebook sporting very thin bezels. From the image we can confirm it will indeed have a USB Type-C port for charging. There’s also a full size port beside it which should probably USB 3.0. Another picture shows a close-up view of the arrow keys which also double as page keys and home and end keys. Previous leaks revealed the price and a new bunch of specs. The standard version will cost 3999 Yuan (roughly $600) and will feature a low power Intel Core-i5 processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, and 256GB of SSD storage. The Mi Notebook Pro on the other hand ...

Amazon has finally launched its Prime subscription service in India. Users can sign up for Amazon Prime via the Amazon website , starting with a 60-day free trial. If you sign up now, Amazon Prime will cost Rs. 499 for a year after the 60 day trial, though the usual price for Amazon Prime in India will be Rs. 999 per year. It's unclear at this point how long this inaugural price will be valid. If you are wondering what Amazon Prime includes in India, you may be in for disappointment. As of now, Prime comes with unlimited one-day and two-day delivery with no minimum order size and early access to some deals on Amazon, as well as some Prime-members only deals. Other benefits available to Prime members in the US like Amazon Video and Amazon Music - the shopping giant's video and music streaming services respectively - are not available in the country yet, though Amazon says the former "is coming". "Since its inception in every country, Prime continues to evolve a...

We know Lenovo is set to launch the K5 Note in India on August 1. Over the weekend however, the company revealed that a new variant of the smartphone is coming to the country, with 4GB of RAM instead of the 2GB of RAM seen on the standard variant launched in China in January. Lenovo India's Twitter handle on Friday posted a tweet that read, "With so much RAM at your disposal, the only thing you'll worry about on the #KillerNote5 is running out of apps," and followed it up with a similar tweet on Saturday that once again pointed to the presence of 4GB of RAM on the Lenovo K5 Note. To recall, the Lenovo K5 Note was priced at CNY 1,099 (approximately Rs. 11,350) for its 2GB of RAM variant in China, and we can expect the price to be significantly higher if the 4GB of RAM variant is indeed launched in India instead. The Lenovo K5 Note packs a lot of improvements over the K4 Note such as an all-metal body. Another highlight feature of the handset is its fingerprint scan...

Xiaomi’s sub brand, Mijia, launched a refillable pen today called the Mi Pen with a price tag of 19 Yuan ($2.85). Surprised? We are too. Xiaomi said all their smart home products will come under the Mijia brand name, but is this pen smart? No, it isn’t. It also doesn’t magically store all what you write but it still falls under home products sort of, so that counts, right? The pen uses Swiss PREMEC Refills with quick drying Japanese mikuni ink, which doesn’t fade easily or break. Mijia says the ink does not easily dry up even if you do not use the pen for a long time. The pen comes in white and black colour options, has a diameter of 9.5mm to ensure it offers a comfortable grip while writing, and also features a 120° spin which reveals or hides the pen’s 0.5mm high-precision tungsten ball tip. Mijia has taken great care in manufacturing the parts of the pen. The connectors are made out of metal and the rotating member is made of copper which has a life span of 50,000 rotat...

About one and a half weeks ago, the entry-level Motorola Moto E3 was introduced in the U.K. A few days after that, the phone was certified in the U.S. by the FCC. Today, some press images of the phone surfaced, more than a month before the expected early September launch of the device in the U.K. Outside of that region., we have yet to hear when the handset will be available. The price of the Moto E3 in the U.K is equivalent to $132 USD. The Motorola Moto E3 features a 5-inch screen with a 720 x 1280 (HD) resolution. A quad-core CPU is found under the hood with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of expandable internal memory inside. Those seeking additional storage can access the 32GB capacity microSD slot. A rear-facing 8MP camera is aboard, along with a 5MP selfie snapper in front. A 2800mAh battery will provide power all day without requiring a charge, and Android 6.0 is pre-installed. At the time that the phone was introduced in the U.K., we only had one new promo picture of the phone to show you...

We all love wallpapers but we love changing them more. The wallpaper on our phones sometimes reflect our mood or the kind of person we are. Our phones usually ship with a bunch of wallpapers from the factory. Sometimes these wallpapers are really beautiful, other times they are just meh. So if you are itching for a bunch of factory wallpapers to spice up your phone you should probably check out these Galaxy Note 7 wallpapers leaked by Sir Hydarnes. The S-Pen image which we have seen in leaked photos of the phone is also included and comes in 4 varieties. The ones above are compressed, if you want the full resolution images which are in PNG, you can download them here . It’s about 28 MB in size. The Galaxy Note 7 is the successor to last year’s galaxy Note 5. Samsung is skipping the Note 6 name so that all their flagships for each year can have the same number. The device will be officially launched in New York on August 2 and will feature dual-curved edges, an iris scanner,...

Thanks to the numerous leaks, rumors and further coverage of the Redmi Pro and the Xiaomi Notebook, there would hardly be any fans on the internet who are unaware about the July 27 conference from Xiaomi next week. Recently, there has been so much information about these two products that Gizmochina’s majority of the Chinese news coverage have been focused on these two devices. Just a few minutes back, we reported that Xiaomi Redmi Pro is confirmed to feature Helio X25 deca-core chip and dual cameras. Now, real life images of the Redmi Pro’s metal back have just surfaced online, giving us a better look at the upcoming handset. Like what we saw in the earlier leak, the new images confirm that the phone will come with a brushed metal body. This is definitely a change from the smooth metal finish on previous Redmi models that have been announced by the company. Since we have seen that there is no fingerprint sensor at the back, it would most likely end up on the front, embedded i...

Its just a couple of weeks to the “7 Unpacked” event holding on August 2 in New York, yet more leaks have continued to trail the Galaxy Note7 which Samsung is expected to unveil on that day. The latest leak is a short hands-on video which shows a Galaxy Note7 in operation. The video (located under this post), comes from the stable of accessory maker Olixer and is actually an exhibition of the testing of a working Galaxy Note7 with three different screen protectors. Even though the video was meant to showcase the accessories, it offers us an opportunity to sample the flagship smartphone giving us a peek at the bezel-less edges and curved edge display the phone sport. Also, a photo render (pictured above) of the Coral blue color variant the Samsung Galaxy Note7 is said to feature was leaked online by famous leakster Evan Blass @evleaks on Twitter. The image shows the Note7 in all its glory and beautiful color. The press render also reveals the dual curved edges, USB Type-C port, the...

We’ve just got official confirmations about Redmi Pro, one of the devices that will be launched on 27th July 2016. Earlier in the day, Xiaomi confirmed that the Redmi Pro will indeed have an OLED display. Although there are hundreds of other devices with OLED screen in the market, for Xiaomi, it is going to be their first device featuring an OLED screen. Xiaomi, today, released new official teasers and in one of the teasers, celebrity Chef Liu Shi Shi is shown cooking an “OLED PING”. Other teasers reveals that Liu Shi shi is going to make “ten nuclear double stem head”, and “Mentor” Liu Hao is going to make “brushed gold potato” (literal translations from Chinese). With these two dishes, which will be revealed in detail in the next two days, Xiaomi could be trying to say that the Redmi Pro comes with a Deca-core processor (Helio X25) and dual cameras. Well, that’s exactly what we will take from the teaser as these features have been revealed before. What we already know is that Re...

According to the latest rumours, two Nokia-branded Android phones made by Finland's HMD Global might be soon making their way to the market. The leaks suggest that the 5.2-inch and 5.5-inch phones will sport 2K resolution (QHD) displays and will come with IP68 certification, which effectively means they will be highly resistant to water and dust on the similar lines to phones like the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and Galaxy S7. As per a report by Gizmo China, the phones are rumoured to be powered by Snapdragon 820 chipset and will come with Z-Launcher System UI based on the latest Android 7.0 Nougat. The phones is tipped to have an all-metal body and according to a report by Nokia Power User both will sport an Oled screen. It also adds that the phones might also pack fingerprint scanners, and will be based on Android 7.0 Nougat. It says that "the sensors on these two smartphones may be most sensitive ever and will be based upon Nokia's extensive research on wonder material gr...

Xiaomi is celebrating its second anniversary in India - it entered the country in July 2014 - with offers and discounts on its mobiles and accessories in a 3-day sale from Wednesday to Friday. Apart from online deals, Xiaomi has also announced Mi Store app-based deals. From Wednesday to Friday during the Mi 2nd Anniversary Sale, the Xiaomi Mi 5 will be available at a discount of Rs. 2,000 - bringing it to Rs. 22,999. The Xiaomi Mi 4 will get a discount of Rs. 4,000, making its asking price Rs. 10,999, on both Flipkart and Mi.com. The Mi Bluetooth Speaker on the other hand, will get a discount of Rs. 500, bringing it to Rs. 1,999. Beyond this, there will be a Re. 1 flash sale at 2pm IST on each day - as with most flash sales, registrations will be required to participate, and limited products will be on offer. On Wednesday, 10 Mi 5 smartphones and 100 20000mAh Mi Power Banks will go up for sale, while on Thursday, 10 Redmi Note 3 smartphones and 100 Mi Band 1A trackers will be avai...