Just two days after the company announced that it has partnered with the Britain-based automaker McLaren to possibly launch the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition smartphone, a report has claimed that the device in question will have 10GB RAM and 256GB onboard storage. According to mysmartprice, the device is expected to first launch in Woking, London on December 11, followed by a launch in Mumbai, India on December 12. With this expected launch, OnePlus will also join the fray of smartphone that have automobile brands special edition of devices. Recently, Huawei announced a Huawei Mate 20 Porsche Edition smartphone and Oppo released the Lamborghini Edition of its Find X smartphone. The collaboration has a new term “In a salute to speed” that falls in line with company’s new tagline, “Unlock the Speed”. The partnership incorporates both McLaren Automotive and McLaren Racing -- one of the most successful teams in Formula 1. OnePlus has been creatively collaborating with franchise since it launched the OnePlus 3T two years ago. The company teamed up with Parisian retailer Colette to produce the OnePlus 3T Colette 20th Anniversary Edition. Later, OnePlus worked with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac to launch the OnePlus 5 JCC+Limited Edition “Callection”. For the OnePlus 5T, the Chinese tech company launched the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition. The most recent collaboration was in April this year, when it announced a partnership with Marvel Studios to launch the OnePlus 6 Marvel Avengers Limited Edition smartphone.
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The RealMe has finally launched its first phone in the U series, which is also the world’s first smartphone to feature a MediaTek Helio P70 chipset “RealMe U1”. The smartphone is priced at Rs 11,999 in India for its 3GB/32Gb variant. On the other side, we have the Honor 8C, which comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 processor and also priced at Rs 11,999. So let’s do a quick specs comparison to see which one would be the right pick for you? The RealMe U1 comes with a 6.3-inch display that offers a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels, while the Honor 8C sports a slightly smaller 6.2-inch display that offers a resolution of 720 x 1520 pixels. In terms of display, the RealMe U1 has a bigger and better display than the Honor 8C as it looks like on paper. When it comes to the processor, the RealMe U1 is powered by a MediaTek Helio P70 processor, while the Honor 8C is backed by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 processor. As far as the cameras are concerned, the RealMe U1 has a 25MP front camera with a dual 13MP + 2MP rear camera. The Honor 8C is equipped with an 8MP unit on the front with a dual 13MP + 2MP camera setup at the back. Both RealMe U1 and Honor 8C are available in India at Rs 11,999. The Honor 8C will be available on Amazon from December 10, while you will be able to buy the RealMe U1 on December 5 from Amazon.
Meizu went silent in India last year and after a sabbatical it is reportedly preparing to bounce back with the launch of three smartphones in different segments in the country. If the report making rounds on the internet is to be believed, the company will unveil these smartphone as early as next month and pit them against OnePlus and Xiaomi. Not only these devices, the report says that Meizu is also planning to launch two devices at an event sometime in January next year. Citing industry sources, BGR India reports that one of these three smartphones with the codename ‘M16-TH’ will launch taking on the current ‘flagship killer’ and Indian premium segment market leader (Counterpoint Research) the OnePlus 6T. The other two smartphones are said to be affordable devices that are expected to rival Xiaomi’s Redmi series of smartphones. The launch will further congest the smartphone market which is already crowded with multiple Chinese smartphone makers. Like other Chinese players including Gionee and LeEco, Meizu also succumbed to the increasing competition and possible lack of fund injection. In February, 2015, Alibaba invested $590 million in Meizu, acquiring an undisclosed minority stake, and that same year, the company crossed borders to launch their first phone, Meizu M1 Note in India. Since the, we haven't heard from Meizu and with the three new smartphones, the company could now be looking to cover lost ground in the country. With a whopping 65 percent market share, Xiaomi is currently the most preferred brand for users in the Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 price segment, owing to value-for-money and brand awareness. Samsung is the second most loved brand in this category with 43 percent market share, followed by Vivo and Oppo with 29 percent market share. When it comes to the Rs 25,000 - Rs 40,000 segment, OnePlus leads with 55 percent, followed by Xiaomi at 47 percent, Apple with 45 percent and Samsung at 39 percent.
“Apple iPhone XR has been the most popular and best-selling iPhone” and is outselling the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max since it hit the markets last month, Greg Joswiak, Apple Vice President of Product Marketing has claimed during an interview with CNET. The executive, however, did not give any numbers and declined to comment on the recent Wall Street Journal article that reported lukewarm reception of the Apple iPhone XR demand in most markets. Apple has been on a sticky wicket since it launched the three new iPhones in mid-September - at least for analysts. Apple priced the iPhone XS for $999, iPhone XS Max $1,099 and the iPhone XR for $749. In India, the price of the iPhone XS has touched the Rs 1-lakh mark and goes all the way up to Rs 1.45 lakhs for the iPhone XS Max. We wrote in our iPhone XR review that although the handset inherits some of the good things from previous generations of devices, minor things like the lack of an HD display, no dual camera and a terribly limited portrait mode makes the smartphone feel like an unnecessarily overpriced handset. It starts from a whopping Rs 76,900 for the 64GB model and goes upto Rs 91,000 for the 256GB one. At the time of writing this story, the iPhone X (64GB) is selling for Rs 83,990 on Flipkart. The lack of these “minor things” and high cost could have been the reason why the device fell short of expected demand. Earlier this year, a report by Nikkei Asian Review claimed that sighting a lower-than-expected demand for the iPhone XR, Apple told its primary phone assemblers, Foxconn and Pegatron to halt any plans to add more production lines for the “cost-effective smartphone”. Citing supply chain sources, the news platform also noted that Apple had also asked its secondary iPhone assembler Wistron to stand by for rush orders, and the company will receive “no orders for the iPhone XR this holiday season.” These claims in the story were cemented by The Wall Street Journal when it said that Apple may slash the price of the iPhone XR in Japan, and even revive the production of the older iPhone X. Apple also forecasts lesser sales in the Christmas quarter in its quarterly earnings report. The company’s CFO Luca Maestri had said the company would have “uncertainty around supply and demand balance.” and that it is facing “some macroeconomic uncertainty, particularly in emerging markets.” CNET says that Apple's fiscal fourth-quarter results at the beginning of November “showed it may be grappling with a case of iPhone fatigue.” Citing Apple, CNET claimed that the company didn't sell as many iPhones as analysts expected in the quarter that ended September 29. Further, Apple’s decision to not release the iPhone sale numbers (and only release consolidated revenue) also raised some eyebrows. Apple's stock has tumbled about 20 percent since the company announced its quarterly earnings, CNET says. The decline means that Apple is no longer a trillion dollar company, a feat it achieved in August. “It's also given Microsoft and its soaring stock the opportunity to become the world's biggest publicly traded company,” the report added. Earlier this week, Apple's shares took a hit after US President Donald Trump announced that he may place tariffs on iPhones and laptop computers imported from China.
The Honor 8C with dual rear cameras and Snapdragon 632 processor to launch in India on November 29. The smartphone is expected to be the latest mid-range device from the company. On the other hand, we have the Honor Play, which was launched by Huawei’s sub-brand Honor back in August at a price of Rs 19,999 for the 4GB variant. Let’s compare the two smartphones too which one looks strong in terms of specifications? Let’s start with comparing the display of the two devices. The Honor 8C sports a 6.2-inch display that offers a resolution of 720 x 1550 pixels. The Honor Play features a slightly bigger 6.3-inch FHD+ display that offers better resolutions than the Honor 8C as you can see in the sheet above. When it comes to the processor, the Honor 8C is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 processor, while the Honor Play comes with Huawei’s own Kirin 970 processor. Coming to the cameras, like almost every single device in the market these two devices also have a dual rear camera setup at the back. The Honor 8C sports a dual 13MP + 2MP rear camera with an 8MP unit on the front. On the other hand, the Honor Play comes with a dual 16MP + 2MP rear camera with a 16MP sensor at the front. The Honor 8C has been launched in India with a starting price of Rs 11,999, while you can get the Honor Play for Rs 19,999 in India 
Xiaomi has already outed its phones that will receive the MIUI 10 update and it included some of its older phones as well. Making good on its promise, the company is now seeding the MIUI 10 Global Stable ROM to the Xiaomi Redmi 4 and the Redmi 4A. First spotted by FoneArena, the news comes via the company’s Mi Forums, where the update has been announced for the Redmi 4A. As for the Redmi 4, there is no official post about the update but some of its users have posted screenshots with the new update on the Redmi 4 being available on their devices. The MIUI 10 update for both the Redmi 4 and the Redmi 4A is based on Android 7.1.2 Nougat. This means that even though the two devices get a facelift in terms of UI and colour schemes, there is no update to the underlying OS. Additionally, the security patch level on the Redmi 4A is a bit dated with the July 2018 patch, while the Redmi 4 gets the October 2018 security update. For the Redmi 4, the MIUI 10.1.1.0.NAMMFI update size is 316MB, while for the Redmi 4A update MIUI 10.1.1.0.NCCMIFI is 268MB in size. The Redmi 4 and the Redmi 4A were launched last year in India running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. They were later updated to MIUI 9 running on Android Nougat and are now finally receiving the MIUI 10 update. However, some users on the Mi Forums have complained that some of the most attractive MIUI 10 features like bokeh mode support on single camera and face unlock is also not available. Hopefully, the company will be rolling out these features to the phones with a future update. Xiaomi Redmi 4/4A users can check if the update is available for their unit by heading over to Settings > About phone > System updates > Check for updates. It might take some time for the update to arrive on devices since it is being rolled over the air (OTA). Via: FoneArena
