Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Android 7 Update, Nokia 8 Price Leak, Snapdeal 2.0, and More: Your 360 Daily 5s3d6h

mentions Android Nougat update coming "very soon," at the bottom of the banner. Although Xiaomi's spokesperson hasn't confirmed this, Gadgets 360 has learnt the Android Nougat build for Redmi Note 4 is in beta phase at the moment.  3a6l3

The Redmi Note 4 has been one of Xiaomi's more popular models in India and to mark its 6-month anniversary, hosting a special sale which will include offers like a 40 percent value back when the smartphone is exchanged within a period of 6-8 months. Redmi Note 4 buyers can also avail EMI facility and "Buyback Guarantee" for a price of Rs. 249 for all variants of the phone.

 

Nokia 8 Copper Gold variant leaked in new images
Leaks for the previously rumoured price of EUR 589 (roughly Rs. 43,400). 

In other HMD Global has since responded, and has confirmed that it is working on a fix for the issue.

Snapdeal terminates Flipkart acquisition talks
Talks about called off the $950 million-takeover (over Rs. 6,000 crores) apparently over the complexity of the deal. A spokesperson from the company added that it will now pursue "Snapdeal 2.0" which is expected to help Snapdeal be "financially self-sustainable". 

Snapdeal's chief executive and founder letter to Snapdeal employees on Monday in which he encouraged them to aim for the bigger ambitions, saying, "We have a tremendous team, millions of loyal customers, hundreds of thousands of motivated sellers and a phenomenal platform that has been built with years of effort," Bahl wrote in the letter obtained by NDTV. 

Micromax launches Selfie 2 smartphone in India
After listing it quietly on the company website last week, MediaTek quad-core SoC, and 3GB of RAM. 

Apple iPhone 8's features spotted in HomePod firmware
HomePod’s firmware is a face unlock feature for the iPhone, which would allow customers to get past the lock screen by just looking at the phone. The codebase also mentions an infrared camera, which could be there to detect a ’s face in the dark. The existence of these references lends further credibility to several reports from earlier that suggested that Apple is planning to ditch the Touch ID fingerprint scanner on at least one of its iPhone models, potentially the iPhone 8.

Apple's 4K HDR soon as few s in the UK spotted a 4K HDR listing for recently-purchased films, stated a report. Some films like Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as well as engers showed copies of the film as 4K HDR, AppleInsider reported on Saturday.

WhatsApp beta for Windows Phone tips new features 
received an update that upgraded the version number to 2.17.234 along with features like verified profiles of business s. The WhatsApp beta update also disallows s to add a "check mark" symbol in front of their name in the app, which is being speculated to have been done in order to avoid confusion regarding the authenticity of the businesses in the future. 

OnePlus 5 'emergency call bug' fix reportedly introduces a new problem
Review) to reboot when a dials '911', the emergency hotline for the police in the US. However, the recent fix is reportedly causing an adverse effect on battery life, according to several s on the company's official forum. Some s have complained that their smartphone loses around 20-25 percent battery during night time in idle state even when the doze mode is switched on. The company is yet to respond on this new issue. 

Broadcom Wi-Fi chip flaw threatens 1 billion smartphones
Apple have both fixed the bug before anyone could take advantage of this exploit, but devices that haven't been updated could still be at risk.

Facebook shuts down AI system after bots invent their own language
Days after reportedly shut down one of its AI systems because “things got out of hand”. The AI bots created their own language, from scratch, and without human input, forcing Facebook to shut down the AI system. The AI bots’ step of creating and communicating with the new language defied the provided codes. Scared yet? 

Apple paid Nokia $2 billion as a part of a patent lawsuit 
Following a patents row that escalated between has paid Nokia $2 billion (roughly Rs. 12,818 crores) upfront cash as part of the settlement . According to a report in TechCrunch on Friday, Nokia will not get $2 billion every quarter - this was non-recurring catch-up revenue and Nokia hasn't said what it plans to do with all this cash.