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The Google Pixel and Nexus devices are among the first smartphones to receive Android Oreo 8.0 update LATEST NEWS       :Google in August announced Android 8.0 Oreo and released a list of smartphone manufacturers that will be updating their devices soon. The Pixel and Nexus devices will be the first among the first smartphones to receive the update and Google has already confirmed that the carrier testing is underway and the devices will receive it soon. Here are the smartphones that that will receive the update: Google Google Pixel Google Pixel XL The upcoming Pixel devices, which are launching on October 4 are expected to run Google Oreo 8.0 out of the box. Nexus Nexus 5X Nexus 6P Motorola Moto Z Moto Z Droid Moto Z Force Droid Moto Z Play Moto Z Play Droid Moto Z2 Play Moto Z2 Force Edition Moto X4 Moto G5 Moto G5 Plus Moto G5s Moto G5s Plus The rather small list does not feature any phone from Moto...

Xiaomi is witnessing rapid growth in the Indian market and clocked over $1 bn in revenue in 2016 Latest news : In a strategic move, Chinese tech major Xiaomi and Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia on Wednesday signed an agreement for business collaboration and patent licencing where Xiaomi will acquire key patent assets from Nokia. The multi-year patent agreement includes a cross-license to each company's cellular standard-essential patents. The financials of the deal were not disclosed. "As a company seeking to deliver more exciting technological innovations to the world, we are excited at the opportunity to work more closely with Nokia in future," said Lei Jun, Chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, in a statement. Although not faring well globally including in China, Xiaomi is witnessing rapid growth in the Indian market and clocked over $1 billion in revenue in 2016. Under the agreement, Nokia, which had recently revamped the feature phone market w...

The digital traces we leave behind create a wealth of data about our lives Latest news : There are now more mobile devices than people on the planet. You only have to glance around on trains, in the street, or in cafes to see how increasingly lost we are in screen time. We don’t just hold our phones, we cradle them. IPHONES  : It is ten years since the iPhone’s release to the general public. And so now seems a perfect time to reconsider our love of technology. I’m fascinated by our relationship with mobile phones, both past and present. Nokia has recently released a new version of the classic Nokia 3310. Originally launched in 2000, it was the company’s most successful phone, selling over 126 million units. This technology nostalgia speaks of simpler times when a phone was a phone, not a computer; when we weren’t tethered to our workplace. A time when we met the gaze of others rather than the ever constant glow of our interactive screens. Our phones track,...