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Following its launch in China and the announcement of weekly open sales every Tuesday in some countries, the OnePlus X Champagne Edition has now gone on sale in India . The retail price is set at Rs. 16,999, which is the same price as the regular Onyx variant, and the phone is now available to purchase through Amazon India. Although regular open sales have been announced for some regions, Indian consumers will still need to get their hands on a specific invite in order to purchase the Champagne Edition smartphone. The hardware in the Champagne model remains exactly the same as the regular looking handset. There’s a 5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 801 processor, 3GB of RAM, 13 megapixel rear camera and 2,525mAh battery. Internal storage is limited to just 16GB, but there is a microSD card slot for extra space. Read on: OnePlus X review 38 For a closer look at everything that the OnePlus X has to offer, be sure to check out our in depth review. OnePlus X Champagne Edition from

Pabak Sarkar Smartphones are an indispensable part of our daily lives. They serve a myriad of purposes and offer tremendous value. They boost our productivity and help us pass time in ways that just a decade ago didn’t even exist. And this is just the beginning – smartphones are getting better all the time, and they are about to become ubiquitous. Smartphone ownership is rapidly increasing globally and it’s expected that 6.1 billion people will be using them by 2020. Without any doubt, smartphones improved our lives in so many ways. As a foreigner living in Japan, I find myself frequently thinking about how I would go about my daily routine without my smartphone. But there’s another side to this picture, things that we don’t think about so often: the negative environmental and social impact of the smartphone phenomenon. The human costs Every month hundreds of millions of smartphones are churned out from factories across the developing word. The massive demand for smart devices is

About a week ago you may recall that YouTube and a small number of other online video providers were complaining about T-Mobile’s Binge On service , which allows customers to stream videos from certain services without eating into their data plan. The complaint goes that T-Mobile is also reducing the quality of videos from providers outside of the platform, such as YouTube, without direct consumer consent. T-Mobile has now officially responded to the complaint, stating that it thinks throttling data is a misleading term. Instead the company has simply “optimized” the content for mobile, apparently. “Using the term “throttle” is misleading … We aren’t slowing down YouTube or any other site. In fact, because video is optimized for mobile devices, streaming from these sites should be just as fast, if not faster than before. A better phrase is “mobile optimized” or a less flattering “downgraded” is also accurate.” – T-Mobile representative Perhaps T-Mobile has a technical point to m

Since it was first announced in September , the Pixel C has confounded customers, if not the industry-at-large. Why isn’t Google releasing a new Nexus tablet, yet is releasing a Pixel tablet? The former goes hand in hand with Android, the latter with Chrome OS. To this day there exists confusion among customers who are unclear as to what operating system the new product runs. Reviews and editorials for the Pixel C have also been highly divisive. While some sites have praised the product profoundly, others have taken a far more critical, analytical view. We have also offered our own take on the product . Given the dual dichotomy of dissent going on here, it seems particularly pertinent to analyze the Pixel C with respect to the nature of criticism it has received. Let’s get started with a look at why the Pixel C is actually not as bad as some might suggest. Pixel C Pixel C Review! Google Pixel C first look The “premier” Android tablet? To this day there exist ve

AMOLED, OLED, EL, SAMOLED, YOUM , POLED: whatever abbreviation one chooses to give organic display technology, they all describe the same basic results: deep inky blacks, vibrant colors, and near infinite contrast. Samsung has made a name for its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series in part, because of the Super AMOLED panels the devices make use of. Even LG has gotten into the game with its G Flex series, and smartwatches. Now however, it seems that  both companies are going to be working hard to put out panels for…Apple. According to a new report published today by Korean site etNews, the contracts have been finalized and are simply awaiting signatures to officiate. The possibly pending production won’t come cheap however, and will apparently require Samsung and LG to invest a total of $12.8 billion over the next 2 or 3 years, some of which Apple itself may help finance. LG’s lines The source goes on to state that LG Display, which already has experience in supplying displays for Ap

Samsung will be showcasing three projects to have come out of its Creative Lab (C-Lab) initiative at CES in just a few days’ time. The company will be gathering feedback on its rather oddly named WELT, rink and TipTalk ideas. Samsung’s C-Lab projects are basically the results of giving a number of the company’s engineers free reign to flex their creative muscles. We’ll start with WELT, a smart wearable health and fitness tracker that looks like a belt. WELT features the familiar step counting and eating habit features from other fitness trackers, but can also monitor your waist size and the amount of time that you spend sitting down. rink builds on Samsung’s work in the emerging virtual reality platform, offering up a hand-motion controller for mobile VR devices that presumably works something like a slimmed down Wii remote. However the device isn’t held, instead it wraps around your hands. Finally, TipTalk. Another oddly named product but it’s probably the most intriguing one

Reasonably priced Chinese smartphones with decent specifications are a dime a dozen these days, but you still have to look to the top tier OEMs for the best build quality. Smartisan’s new T2 flagship aims to buck this trend with a metallic frame and a rather sleek, minimalistic look. The T2 arrives 19 months after Smartisan’s T1 début and takes on quite a different design. There’s an all new seamless aluminium frame, a complete absence of a power button, no visible SIM tray and no bulging camera module or other protruding parts to ruin the look. There are some clever bits of design too. The nano SIM tray is hidden behind the right set of volume keys and pops out if you poke the nearby hole. Power is now controlled completely from the home button too. The range of customization options is also quite impressive. The left and right volume rockers can be switched between brightness and audio depending on if you’re left or right handed. There are also three customizable butto