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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi managed to sell over 1 million smartphones in 48 hours during online festive sales in India, carried out by retailers Flipkart and Amazon. If you break it down, that’s 300 smartphones per minute on average. That’s an achievement of sorts for Xiaomi, given that last year the 1 million figure was…

Samsung’s Bixby digital assistant – dubbed Bixby Voice – debuted shortly after the arrival of the company’s Galaxy S8 series smartphones. It was first launched in the company’s home country of South Korea, following which it arrived in the US. Last month, Samsung started rolling out Bixby Voice worldwide. And now, the assistant has officially…

The Nokia 8 variant with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage was recently spotted in documents of the US FCC. And now, according to a new report, the model has been officially confirmed by HMD. The report notes the company has confirmed the variant will be made available in Europe (Germany, specifically) next month on October…

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have dominated the camera game according to DxO’s latest camera testing procedures with scored of 94 and 92, respectively. The Sony Xperia XZ Premium was also reviewed by the camera reviewers and scored 83 points. Considering that smartphones have been competing for DxO’s top spot including the Google Pixel…

Last week, Verizon sent notifications to about 8,500 customers which comprised of about 19,000 cellular lines in 13 states, that they would be disconnected as of October 17. The reason for this is that these subscribers were using too much data while roaming off of Verizon’s network grid. Roaming data is expensive for carriers and…