OnePlus Tops Premium Segment in India For Second Straight Quarter Chinese smartphone maker,OnePlus, topped the premium smartphone segment in India for the second successive quarter during Q3, 2018 after first emerging as the market leaderduring the previous quarter. According to IDC, the company accounted for a 37 percent share in the premium segment during the three months from July-Sept, riding largely on the popularity of the OnePlus 6. OnePlus was followed by Apple (30 percent) and Samsung (26 percent) at numbers two and three respectively....

PewDiePie Fans Are Taking YouTube Rivalry With T-Series to The Real World YouTube’s biggest creatorFelix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg, as we all know, is currently in a race with Bollywood record labelT-Series, as the latter has threatened to take PewDiePie’s throne as the biggest YouTube channel. Since it was first reported back in August, both PewDiePie and T-Series have been racking subscribers at an unbelievable rate. Presumably, they’ll continue to do so until T-Series overtakes PewDiePie as the biggest channel on YouTube....

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8150 Could Be Just As Powerful As Apple A12 Bionic Chipmaker Qualcomm has reportedly been working on the successor to its current flagship chipset Snapdragon 845 for some time now. This chipset, which is likely to launch very soon is expected to beQualcomm’s first mobile chipset with 5G capabilitiesand should display abetter performing capacity than the Snapdragon 845. Recently, an unfamiliar Snapdragon chipset was spotted on key benchmarking platforms –AnTuTuandGeekbench....

Realme Ditches Red For Yellow in New Logo and Brand Identity Realme Mobiles, Oppo’s latest spin-off smartphone company, has been tearing into India’s entry-level and budget segment with four successful phone launches since its debut earlier this year. The new kid on the block has grown rapidly, gaining recognition, and cementing a position for itself, thus, it has now unveiled a new visual brand identity – with a new logo....

Smartphones Set to Become More Expensive in India The weak rupee and rising input costs are going to force smartphone vendors raise prices of their devices in India in the coming months, the International Data Corporation (IDC) said on Thursday. “With the duty hikes in place and the dollar fluctuation, smartphone vendors are expected to raise prices of devices in the coming months rather than absorbing the cost or clocking it under cash backs and financing schemes,” said Navkendar Singh, Associate Research Director, Client Devices and IPDS, IDC India....

This Mozilla Tool Tells You if Your Connected Devices are ‘Creepy’ or Not Cyber Monday, Black Friday, and the big holiday shopping season is right around the corner in most Western markets, and we will be seeing a number of users flocking to grab smart gadgets on the cheap. While there are plenty of deals to go through, wouldn’t you like to know whether than shiny new gadget is actually secure and not just a creepy spy-toy?...

We Disagree with Apple but Only Use Android as It’s the Most Popular OS: Facebook Dismissing a media report that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered his management team to use only Android phones after his tiff with Apple CEOTim Cook, the social media network on Thursday said the decision to use Android is because it is the most popular operating system in the world. The New York Times on Wednesday said that “after Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, quipped in an interview that his company did not traffic in personal data, Mr....