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Joining the bandwagon to begin manufacturing in India, global internet technology conglomerate LeEco on Tuesday launched a state-of-the-art $7 billion smartphone manufacturing unit in Greater Noida. Spread over 200,000 square feet area and having a capacity to produce nearly 60,000 phones per month initially, the unit already employs over 200 professionals. LeEco is also investing $2 million for the automation process at the facility. "As the market size for electronics is expected to grow to $400 billion by 2020, it is imperative to promote indigenous manufacturing. LeEco is a name of global reputation and it is heartening to see it align with 'Make in India' after entering India just eight months earlier," said Information Technology (IT) and Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The Minister, who inaugurated the unit at a function in the capital, said the government hails LeEco's efforts to train local talent and build a centre of research and development

Aiming to address the issue of call drops, Reliance Communications on Tuesday introduced its 4G app-to-app calling for customers in Delhi NCR at an introductory price of Re one for 300 minutes of talk-time for 30 days. The offer is named 'Call Drops Se Chutkaara' (freedom from call drops). "We want Delhi to speak on data. Delhi NCR will get an India-first offer of 300 minutes of app-to-app talking. This will be valid for 30 days at just Re one -- 10 minutes a day for 30 days," said Gurdeep Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Business, Reliance Communications. The offer is valid for the month of September only, Gurdeep Singh said.  After the one-month trial period, customers can buy a data pack for Rs 39 which will give them 200 MB of data which "will be sufficient to make 300 minutes of talking". The new plan will enable Reliance 4G LTE customers to make calls worldwide through various popular data-based apps such as Whatsapp, FB Messenger, Skype, Goog

Chinese internet and technology conglomerate LeEco on Monday announced some unique offers on purchase of its LeEco superphones. This LeEco is pretty    LeEco is offering 10 per cent cashback on HDFC credit and debit cards on the purchase of Le 2 and Le Max2 from LeMall.com, the company's online marketplace.  The users can also avail cashback up to Rs 2,000 on all Citibank credit and debit cards from Flipkart. The offers on Le 2, Le Max2 and Le 1s Eco smartphones are available on LeMall and Flipkart for a limited two-day period from August 30 to September 1. The Rs 11,999 Le 2 and Rs 22,999 Le Max 2 come with a unique USB Type-C audio port featuring CDLA (Continual Digital Lossless Audio) technology that has made the traditional 3.5 mm audio jack redundant.

Popular smartphone brands Sony, Videocon and Sansui on Monday announced to partner with Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited to make the Jio Preview Offer available on their 4G smartphones. The Reliance Lyf  a Reliance Jio 4G handset Consumers buying these 4G smartphones can avail the Jio Preview Offer at all Reliance Digital stores including Digital Xpress and Digital Xpress Mini. As part of the offer, customers can enjoy unlimited access to Jio services for 90 days from the activation of Jio SIM. Jio's 4G-LTE services include unlimited HD voice calls and video calls, unlimited SMS, unlimited high-speed data and a host of Jio Premium apps such as JioPlay, JioOnDemand, JioBeats, JioMags, JioXpressNews, JioDrive, JioSecurity and JioMoney. In a move to counter Reliance Jio, telecom major Bharti AirtelBSE -0.68 % has slashed 4G and 3G mobile internet charges by up to 80 per cent to as low as Rs 51 per gigabyte (GB) under a special scheme. To avail this benefit, AirtelBSE -0.68 %

A smartphone speech recognition app can write text messages three times faster than humans, say researchers, adding that the discovery can spur the development of innovative speech recognition apps. Computer scientists from Stanford University, Chinese web services company Baidu and University of Washington devised an experiment that pitted Baidu's Deep Speech 2 cloud-based speech recognition software against 32 texters, ages 19 to 32, working the built-in keyboard on an Apple iPhone. "They grew up texting, so we're putting speech recognition up against people who are really good at this task," said James Landay, professor of computer science at Stanford. The subjects took turns typing or speaking about 100 phrases sourced from a standard library of everyday phrases such as "physics and chemistry are hard," "have a good weekend" and "go out for some pizza and beer".  The testing app recorded their times and accuracy rates.  Half the sub

Riding on the upcoming festive season boom in smartphone and mobile products and new product launches, mobile handset shipments are likely to surpass the 75-million-a-quarter mark for the first time in the third quarter of 2016, a report said on Wednesday. According to market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR), a total of 65.9 million handsets were shipped during the second quarter, of which 56.5 per cent where feature phones.  Samsung, Micromax and Intex, respectively, lead the market in overall feature phones and smartphones segments. While Karbonn is at fourth spot, Reliance's LYF brand is now at fifth spot within smartphones.  "Now onwards, we are going to see a clear demarcation between new customer acquisition and the refresh among existing users of the phones," said Faisal Kawoosa, Lead Analyst, Telecoms, CMR, in a statement.  Transsion Holding's brand, itel, garnered close to two per cent market share in the feature phones category in its first quarter o

A new tool to recover information stored in Smartphone’s volatile memory could give investigators important clues to solve a criminal case, say researchers. With the new device, the researchers from Purdue University move the focus from a smart phone's hard drive, which holds information after the phone is shut down, to the device's RAM, which is volatile memory. "We argue this is the frontier in cyber crime investigation in the sense that the volatile memory has the freshest information from the execution of all the apps," said lead researcher Dongyan Xu. "Investigators are able to obtain more timely forensic information toward solving a crime or an attack," Xu noted. Although the contents of volatile memory are gone as soon as the phone is shut down, it can reveal surprising amounts of forensic data if the device is up and running. The team's early research resulted in work that could recover the last screen displayed by an Android applica

Taiwan-based technology major ASUS will unveil Zenfone 3 smartphone with a first-ever 360-degree live streaming of the event in the country on August 17. "The live streaming will also provide the consumers a chance to be part of the actual live event with 360-degree visual access, guaranteeing a premium experience to every single person,” said Marcel Campos, Marketing Director, Mobile Division, India, in a statement. Users may visit Asus on August 17 at 4 pm to be a part of the immersive experience. Asus Zenfone 3 was first announced at the Computex Conference in Taipei earlier this year.

Japan-based Kyocera has announced a new smartphone that packs "Super Wide View" 1080p action camera which has its own image processor that gives it slow-motion, sports, action and underwater mode. For security, the 5-inch DuraForce Pro smartphone packs a lot of smart features: fingerprint sensor, built-in encryption, Android for work support and is expected to be priced around $418, engadget.com reported on Thursday. The 135-degree field of view is similar to dedicated action cams and Kyocera will eventually release a case that supports GoPro-style mounts. The smartphone is powered by Snapdragon 617 octa-core CPU, 2GB RAM, 32GB expandable storage and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system. Looks like a transformer huh? Kyocera's DuraForce Pro   Apart from an action camera, the device sports 13MP rear camera and a 5MP front camera, houses 3,240mAh QuickCharge 2.0 battery and includes NFC, Bluetooth 4.2 and a barometer. The device is a total ba

Ever worried about using smartphones and tablets at night affecting your eyes or sleep patterns? Do you love to read e-books on smartphones or tablets late at night but are worried about the negative results of the blue light exposure? Take heart, as according to a study, ample exposure to daytime light may help combat sleep disturbances associated with the evening-time use of electronic devices. The findings showed that daytime bright light exposure, by means of outdoor activities or light interventions in offices, did not affect sleep in young healthy students who used a self-luminous tablet for two hours in the evening time. "Our most important finding was that the issue of whether screen light in the evening could interfere with your sleep is more complex than previously highlighted and that there are certain important factors (such as daytime exposure to light) that affect this," Frida Rangtell, doctoral student at Uppsala University in Sweden, was quoted as saying to

Technology giant Apple is planning to launch two new models of its Watch later this year, with a bigger version called "Apple Watch 2" packing a set of hot new features: faster TSMC-built processor, GPS, barometer, thinner display and a higher capacity battery. The second Apple Watch model sounds like a smaller upgrade and will stay the same with some updated components and will not get the Apple Watch 2's new features, The Verge reported on Monday. Another model with a similar form factor is expected to come next year alongside LTE support. Apple is likely to hold an event next month to announce iPhone7 and new Watch models, the report added. Apple is said to be planning two new models of the Watch for 2016. The bigger upgrade, dubbed "Apple Watch 2" for now, will reportedly have "the same general design" as the current Watch, but include new internal components such as a GPS radio, a barometer, a thinner display, and a new, faster 16nm proce

The Cinemax 3 smartphone  Domestic mobile manufacturer Zen Mobile on Monday launched a new Cinemax 3 smartphone priced at Rs 5,499 that comes pre-loaded with games, live TV streaming app NexGenTV, music streaming service Saavn and Vuliv video player. "Zen Cinemax 3 is loaded with various smart features at an affordable price that provides seamless experience," said Sanjay Kalirona, CEO of Zen Mobile, in a statement. The device with 5.5-inch FWVGA IPS display is powered by 1.3GHz quad-core processor coupled with 2GB of RAM and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system. The smartphone sports 5MP auto-focus rear camera and 3.2MP front camera, has 16GB internal memory that can be expanded up to 32GB and houses 2,900mAh battery. The smartphone also has SOS feature that allows users to send location details to five pre-defined numbers of user's choice in case of an emergency.