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Reliance Jio Feature Phone, OnePlus 5 Price in India, Nokia's Android Phones, and More News This Week

Reliance Jio Feature Phone, OnePlus 5 Price in India, Nokia's Android Phones, and More News This Week 1n6f33

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 11 June 2017 13:53 IST

Highlights

Jio's feature phones will reportedly be priced between Rs. 999 & Rs. 1500
The OnePlus 5's design was confirmed to be similar to iPhone 7 Plus
Nokia's Android smartphones set to launch in India next week

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Welcome back to our weekly roundup of all the news that matters from the world of technology. It's been a big week with a number of leaks and launches, and one of the highlights was the Reliance Jio's 4G VoLTE compatible feature phones. The Jio feature phone will supposedly have a 2.4-inch screen, and 512MB of RAM, along with a 2-megapixel rear camera, and will be able to access the Internet via 4G, and make calls using Reliance Jio's VoLTE network. Jio may reportedly offer the phones at a price between Rs. 999 and Rs. 1,500 by subsidising the handsets. 4lk8

Besides this, TRAI data this week showed that Reliance Jio 4G speeds hit an reach the 15th spot for 4G availability. According to OpenSignal's "State of LTE" report, India had 71.6 percent 4G availability in the third quarter of 2016, which jumped to 81.6 percent in the first quarter of 2017.

Not everyone is pleased with Reliance Jio though - Kumar Mangalam Birla, in a letter to shareholders of Idea, said the telecom industry witnessed a 2 percent decline in annual revenues in 2016-17 fiscal, 25GB data at Rs. 786, along with unlimited calling.

Meanwhile, the cavalcade of OnePlus 5 India launch is set for June 22.

Meanwhile, source code on 6GB and 8GB variants.

The leaked OnePlus 5 price in Europe that pegs the device at EUR 550 (roughly Rs. 39,990) is roughly in line with this pricing.

in an official image, which showcased the rear camera setup in a horizontal layout - the first official image from the company showing the design.

That wasn't all though - HMD Global. A report says the Nokia 6 price in India will be between Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 16,000, while the Nokia 5 will be around Rs. 12,000, and the Nokia 3 will be around Rs. 9,000.

Apart from that, the was leaked in benchmark listings. Previously, 4GB and 8GB RAM variants had been tipped. The phone is also believed to have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC. The Nokia 9 is said to sport 5.5-inch QHD display, dual 13-megapixel cameras at the back, and have a dual-LED flash as well.

The Nubia Z17 mini, with dual-rear cameras and 4GB of RAM. The 5-inch phone has a full-HD display, and comes with 64GB of storage and is priced at Rs. 19,999.

Galaxy J7 (2017) in Europe. The phones are priced at EUR 279 (roughly Rs. 19,600) and EUR 339 (roughly Rs. 24,600) respectively.

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The ZTE V870, priced at CNY 2,699 (roughly Rs. 25,500). The phone is also powered by a Snapdragon 435 SoC, and has a 5.5-inch display, along with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage.

Another interesting launch this week was the iMCO Watch in India, billed as the world's first Alexa-powered smartwatch. Priced at Rs. 13,990, the smartwatch is available online and brings many of Alexa's assistant functionality, such as asking about the weather, controlling your smart home, looking up news, and more.

Apple's annual developer conference, for Steam VR.

Apple also new 13-inch MacBook Pro unveiled.

Apart from this, there was also the latest version of iOS - iOS 11 - which brings new 10.5-inch iPad Pro, with the India launch to follow later this month.

Additionally, Apple Alexa and Google Assistant, which would mean the company has its work cut out in this space.

Meanwhile, Gadgets 360 has learned that Amazon is going to make another attempt at selling which killed off its Fire Phone in 2015, is working on a new lineup of smartphones branded as "Ice", according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Unlike the Fire Phone — for which Amazon focused largely on the US and a couple of other western markets — the company is eyeing emerging markets like India for selling its new phones, said the sources.

allow you to recall messages - that is, delete messages that you've sent to others, deleting the messages from their phones. The recall feature, which is being tested, will allow you to delete a message up to five minutes after you've sent it. WhatsApp is also testing to bring the new Status feature to WhatsApp Web.

Meanwhile, although we're still in the wait for the Snapdragon 835 flagships, and it's months to go before the next flagship launch from Samsung, but there are reports that the Galaxy Note 8 will be the first phone to carry the Snapdragon 836 SoC. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 836 SoC is believed to come with some improvements over Snapdragon 835 SoC and feature an octa-core U clocked at up to 2.5GHz.

fired a top executive, Eric Alexander, the president of business in Asia Pacific, who had allegedly obtained medical records of a 26-year-old woman raped by an Uber driver in India in 2014, according to a media report.

Alexander brought the files to Kalanick and Michael, who read them, the report said, adding that soon all three began to consider the prospect whether Uber's main rival in India, Ola, was behind the incident to sabotage the company. Ola has responded describing this behaviour as "despicable", and "all-time low on morality".

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