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A new smartphone rumoured to be Samsung Galaxy J8 has been leaked on a benchmark site.

Waymo on Wednesday showed off a 360-degree video to help people envision what it is like to ride inside an autonomous vehicle.

Apple has informed users on how to check the legitimacy of emails about App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or Apple Music purchase.

Flipkart's product page for the Galaxy S9 range mentions that pre-orders will start at 2pm on March 6, which coincides with the India launch date.

Bixby 2.0 will have a particular focus on expanding to other electronic categories such as Samsung's upcoming QLED TVs and other Family Hub home appliances.

Airtel has announced pre-registrations for the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ will be open till March 4.

Samsung Galaxy S9 price in India will start at Rs. 57,900 for the 64GB variant, while the Galaxy S9+ price in India will be Rs. 64,900 for the same internal storage.

Earlier this month Twitter reported that sales in Japan jumped 34 percent in the last three months of 2017, compared with a year earlier, to $106 million.

The BlackBerry World marketplace will become a "free-only storefront" and "all purchasing mechanisms will be disabled".

Coolpad's smart wearable products portfolio will be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear platforms, it said during the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018.

Google has brought the first beta SDK of its Flutter UI framework at MWC 2018. The new development is designed to boost the development of cross-platform apps.

An invite for a March 5 announcement that appears related to the Vivo APEX concept phone is being circulated.

Xiaomi has launched its first Mi Home Experience store in India, which opens on Thursday at the Phoenix Marketcity Mall in Chennai.

Sony Germany has officially outed pricing details for the Xperia XZ2 and Xperia XZ2 Compact in the respective market.

Facebook on Tuesday announced a $3 million pilot project aimed at helping US newspapers boost paid digital subscriptions.

Google is releasing Hangouts Chat this week, a service that allows users to message each other privately or in groups, and work collaboratively on projects. The software was first unveiled in March last year , but to date, it has only been available to companies enrolled in Google's Early Adopter Program. Now, it's open to all users signed up to G Suite, Google's software for businesses that includes Gmail, Google Docs, and so on. Hangouts Chat represents a big overhaul of Google's messaging strategy that signals its entry into the business communication arena. For businesses already paying for G Suite tools, Hangouts Chat could be an attractive alternative to Slack as it will be included for every G Suite subscriber at no extra cost. It's also tightly integrated with other G Suite apps. With updates announced today to Hangouts Chat, users will be able to upload items from Drive, work together on Docs, Sheets, or Slides, and hold group video chats in Hang

Snag a wireless fast charging car charger for just $29.99 today With each new generation of phone, one option that's increasingly becoming a standard feature is that of wireless charging. More and more we are finding that Qi support is built into devices. And, why not? The capacities are high enough now, and charging speeds are quicker than ever. The next step is to cut the cord and go with wireless charging. Our Deal of the Day is a wireless car charger that also acts as a dock. For only $29.99 you can place your Qi-ready phone in a comfortable position and receive a charge at the same time. Have a few minutes of running around town? Do you have a half hour commute each day? Double dip on the awesome and get this car dock with wireless charging built in. You don't even have to worry about removing and attaching cables — simply drop your phone against the charging plate and the adjustable arms automatically secure your phone while it charges wi

Android Go was first introduced by Google at I/O in May 2017 , so it's been a long wait for real devices running the slimmed-down Oreo experience. We hoped Mobile World Congress in Barcelona would be when OEMs began launching Android Go phones, and this was confirmed by Google last week . VIDEO The first ultra-low-cost phones with 1GB or less of RAM running Android Oreo (Go Edition) have been announced here at MWC. Let's take a look at what's on offer so far. Nokia 1 HMD Global made the surprising announcement that all of its Nokia-branded phones going forward will be either Android One or Android Go devices. That's great news for consumers as they'll be able to get the smoothest, most secure install of the OS across a range of different price points. At the lowest-end, there's the Nokia 1 with Android Go . It will cost a mere $85, and unlike other Go Edition phones, it will have practically no extra apps installed, outside of Nokia'

We saw recently what our favorite teardown guy – JerryRigEverything – did to a Vivo X20 Plus UD . His durability tests are very popular on YouTube, and although the Vivo phone survived the initial tests, the screen actually cracked and died on the last test. For those of you who are not familiar, the Vivo X20 Plus UD is the only phone in the market with an in-screen fingerprint sensor, hence the curiousity behind this particular unit. So the Vivo X20 Plus UD not having survived the durability test, our tester did what he did best – doing a teardown of the unit to see how the in-screen fingerprint sensor works. A bit of information on that – the sensor was developed for Vivo by Synaptics, and it works pretty much like a photographic sensor as well – detecting the ridges of your fingerprint through the LED display to detect fingerprint data. See the video below. VIDEO One thing we can say, that if the in-screen fingerprint sensor stops working on your Vivo X20 Plus UD,

It's almost perfect. Almost. I'm a huge fan of Android Auto. Actually, I'm a huge fan of anything that gets folks' phones out of their fat fingers while flying down the highway. Or at stoplights. Anywhere, really. And the good news is we have more options than ever. A car mount and Bluetooth are OK. Apple's CarPlay isn't too awful. But Android Auto is what all infotainment systems should strive to be. It's easy to use. It looks nice. And most important is that it doesn't just make it impractical to use your phone while driving — it mostly makes it so you don't even want to touch the thing. But all is not perfect in Google's implementation of a car mode. So as we enter into a new year of hardware and services — knowing full well that things on the horizon are liable to change our views as they come into focus — let's take a look at what's working, and what needs improvement. Android Auto is the safest — and ea