American rivals Amazon and Best Buy have tied-up to sell smart television sets built on Amazon’s very own Fire TV operating system. The partnership was announced on 18th April 2018 via an official blog post by Amazon. Amazon has revealed that they will launch more than 10 Fire TV Edition models (from Toshiba and Insignia) this year. The televisions will be available exclusively through Best Buy’s own store, Amazon’s store and its retail outlets.
American e-commerce and cloud company Amazon has quietly released a new lite web browser for Android smartphones, called the Internet. In Google Play Store, it has been described as “lighter than the competition”. The app has been designed to consume less space on a device. It comes under 2MB in size and covers up to just 26MB of storage space in a device. The company claims, that the browser offers private user experience by not asking any additional permissions like other browsers to collect data. The browser is available for download via Google Play. It is compatible with smartphones running Android 5.0 Marshmallow and above.
Google has revealed an Augmented Reality-powered microscope prototype, that is capable of detecting cancer in human tissues in real time. During the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago on 16th April 2018, the company showcased the prototype, developed by a team of researchers. According to Google, it can save millions of lives across the world, as it can help accelerate and democratize the adoption of deep learning tools for pathologists around the world.
In December 2016, the first Developer Preview of Android Things was released by Google. In March 2018, Google released the seventh Developer Preview. It sported new Bluetooth APIs, console enhancements etc. Now, on April 2018, the company has released the Developer Preview 8 of Android Things OS.
Samsung has announced that they will be launching Orchid Gray variant version of their Galaxy Note 8, in India. Priced at Rs. 67,990, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Orchid Gray variant is just like the other existing versions (Midnight Black and Maple Gold). It can also be bought from Paytm Mall for as low as Rs. 57,900 under a cashback offer.
It has already been reported widely that Xiaomi is planning to launch Redmi S2, at least in India and China. Now the full specifications of the smartphone have been revealed by @FunkyHuawei via XDA Developers. According to the obtained information, the device will sport a rear dual-camera setup and Face Unlock feature.
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Chinese multinational company Huawei has revealed that they will launch its first 5G smartphone in the third quarter of 2019. The launch will be somewhere around July, August, and September of that year. The company announced it during an analyst summit in Shenzen– which it hosted. The company also revealed that it will launch an end-to-end 5G solution in the second half of 2018.
