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Redmi 5 New Variant, Nokia 3310 4G, Phone With 10GB RAM, and More News This Week

Redmi 5 New Variant, Nokia 3310 4G, Phone With 10GB RAM, and More News This Week 2l672s

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 4 February 2018 12:54 IST

Highlights

Xiaomi Redmi 5 gets a new 4GB variant
The Nokia 3310 (4G) was launched in China
A leaked Vivo smartphone could come with a whopping 10GB of RAM

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Welcome back to our weekly roundup of all the news you can use from the world of tech. This week, one of the highlights was the launch of Xiaomi Redmi 5. Packing 4GB of RAM, it's a step up from the existing 2GB and 3GB options, and its price in China is CNY 1,099 (roughly Rs. 11,000), a of CNY 200 (roughly Rs. 2,000). There's no official news about the Redmi 5 coming to India just yet, though the launch might well be around the corner. 4j711u

To recall, the Xiaomi Redmi 5, which was a new variant, but this just an additional colour - rose gold. The entry level phone is presently available at just Rs. 4,999 for the variant with 2GB RAM/ 16GB storage, and has a 5-inch HD display, along with a 3000mAh battery.

receiving the MIUI 9 update.

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Meanwhile, MWC 2017, when it stole the show by revealing the rebooted Nokia 3310.

Apart from that, the company had some more good news for interested buyers in India. The Nokia 8 (2018) model, are expected to make an appearance at MWC 2018.

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smartphone exchange programme, which was announced in November. In both cases, the Cashify team determines the exchange value, but in this case, you can avail the buyback service only after a smartphone order has been placed on the OnePlus website.

However, OnePlus also SMS categorisation for Indian s.

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There was one more interesting piece of news out of China - new leaks suggest that the launch with an under-display fingerprint sensor. The leaks also revealed a dual camera setup on the rear, with up to 4X zoom. None of this has been confirmed yet, but if it actually has these specs, this phone is going to be hard to top, at least on paper.

Google Play Protect. Those numbers might sound huge, but are really just indicative of the scale of the problem. Even now, if you search on Google Play store, you'll find far too many clones, and highly inappropriate apps, so Google has plenty left to do on this front.

Meanwhile, Facebook itself has. This was revealed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg while announcing the company's results for the quarter.

Other major companies also announced their results this week. Apple said that it saw Sundar Pichai said he expects more diversification at the company, which has relied on the Internet search engine and its related advertising revenues.

As for Sony, but when asked if Microsoft was falling behind in gaming, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company sees games as an opportunity beyond the console - especially with gaming cloud and entertainment services on the PC.

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Beyond the WhatsApp numbers, Facebook also reported Alexa digital assistant. Overall revenues for Amazon rose 38 percent from last year to $60.5 billion, and while Amazon offered only limited details, Bezos said a big factor was Alexa.

It was a surprisingly quiet week on the telecom front, with just a couple of announcements. First, Karbonn smartphones and feature phones.

Aside from that, we also had a few interesting smartphone launches this week. The Mobikwik.

In Pakistan, there was launched last September. Another entry level phone, it has 2GB of RAM and 16GB storage, but a 1.8GHz octa-core processor, a 5.2-inch HD display, and a 3000mAh battery. Price and availability has not been announced.

Finally, in Japan, the launched this week. The phone is lacking a fingerprint scanner, but features a 5-inch full-HD display, and is packing 3GB RAM and 32GB storage. It has a 2700mAh battery, and is water, dust, and shock resistant.

Aside from that, we got to hear a little more about the battery and ports were also revealed - while the Galaxy S9 is expected to have a 3000mAh battery, the bigger Galaxy S9+ will reportedly have a 3500mAh battery, and both will use USB Type-C.

Apart from that, reports also suggest that the notch on the front, akin to the iPhone X. Snapdragon 845 is already claimed to have an on-device artificial intelligence (AI) functionality that could result in features such as facial recognition on the new Mi MIX model.

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