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Amazon's Echo smart speakers already support a variety of music services, including Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. And  starting on December 17 , Apple Music will join this little cohort. Apple Music users will be able to ask Alexa to play their favourite songs, artists and albums as well as any of the streaming service's curated playlists and radio stations. Echo owners will simply need to enable the Apple Music skill in the Alexa app, link their account and they'll be good to go. Making Apple Music available on Echo devices might seem like it's running counter to Apple's usual strategy of using services as qlure for hardware (and vice versa), but the company can apparently see the sense of making its streaming service available on the most popular home speaker platform out there. It also to be happier about appearing on Amazon's platform recently. Earlier this month, it struck a new deal with the e-commerce gaint to sell iPhones, iPads and ot...

OnePlus is announcing a special edition 6T in cooperation with McLaren on December 11. The partnership was revealed a couple of days ago, but no details about the smartphone have been outed on that occasion. Now a new  report  says we should expect a OnePlus 6T with 10GB of RAM and 256GB of storage to be that McLaren edition device. That would make it King of RAM in the smartphone space, since not one other device has so far gone beyond the McLaren logo on the back, to set itself apart from the other 6T variants. The OnePlus 6T McLaren edition will be introduced in India on December 12 the day after the London event. Expect this to be a limited edition product, so if you're interested in the bragging rights that come owning a smartphone with 10GB of RAM, make sure you'll be ready to purchase one as soon as it drops.

Honor 8C Honor 8C was first lauched in China last month. Now, Honor 8C has been launched  in India. The new budget smartphone by the Huawei's sub-brand Honor features a 19:9 display panel with a traditional notch. It is also powered by an all-new Snapdragon 632 SoC. The smartphone has a face unlock feature that uses the frontal camera sensor along with an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to recognise facial features of users. Gradient colour options are also available on the Honor 8C that brings it against other Honor smartphone. Honor 8C Specifications The Honor 8C runs EMUI 8.2 based on Android 8.1 Oreo and features a 6.26-inch HD+ (720x1520 pixels) TFT IPS LCD panel with a 19:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, there is an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 SoC, coupled with Adreno 506 GPU. It has 4GB of RAM. The Honor 8C has 32GB and 64GB of onboard storage options that both are expandable upto 256GB via microSD card. In the camera department, the smartphone sports ...

Xiaomi's Mi A2 Lite is part of the Android One program and launched this  summer running Android 8.1 Oreo, but a beta build of Android 9 Pie was made available by the company a couple of weeks ago. It looks like there weren't any huge issues with it, because now the stable update to Pie is rolling out to some Mi A2 Lite units in the wild.  XDA Developers reports that one user in Poland has shared screenshots proving he got the update and you can see below. The Android 9 Pie update for the Mi A2 Lite comes as a 1GB download and brings with it FM radio functionality, adaptive battery and brightness, as well as recommended apps and actions based on your context. Of course since this is Android One you can also expect all the other improvements that Google announced to be baked in. Additionally, you're getting the November 5, 2018 security patch level. It's unclear at the moment if the update is going out in every market where Mi A2 Lite is offered, but eve...

Moto G7 Play Moto G7 Play will be the Lenovo-owned Motorola's budget smartphone in its upcoming Moto G series refresh sometime in next year. The smartphone has now been spotted on the FCC (US telecommunications certification website), where the most of the specficaspecif and design have been leaked well before the official unveiling, the date for which is yet to be confirmed. As per the spotted listing, the Moto G7 Play might get a significantly underpowered compared to its predecessor. Let's have a look at what all we can expect from Moto's next budget offering. Moto G7 Play will be powered by the Snapdragon 632 SoC, alongside the Adreno 506 GPU With launch expectedly nearing for the Moto G7 smartphone series, the most affordable of the lot - Moto G7 Play - has been spotted on FCC in the US. The listing  reveals  key specifications of the smartphone. An upgrade from the Snapdragon 400 series, the Moto G7 Play will be powered by the new Snapdragon 632 SoC, alo...

Vivo Y95 Vivo launched its Y95 smartphone in India which is the latest offering in the mid-range category. The Vivo Y95 was first lauched in China earlier this month. The Vivo Y95 sports FullView display and a waterdrop-style notch. It is powered by Snapdragon 439 SoC. The smartphone features dual rear camera setup and a single front-facing camera. It has a 4,030mAh battery. The smartphone is available in Nebula Purple and Starry Night colour variants. Vivo Y95 Specifications The Vivo Y95 runs Funtouch OS 4.5 on top of Android 8.1 Oreo and sports 6.22-inch HD+(720x1520 pixels) full-in cell Halo FullView display with 19:9 aspect ratio thanks to a waterdrop-style notch. It has a 2.5D curved glass on top. The Vivo Y95 is powered by octa-core Snapdragon 439 SoC coupled with Adreno 605 GPU. The smartphone has 4GB of RAM and 64GB inbuilt storage. Storage is expandable upto 256GB via microSD card. In the camera department, the Vivo Y95 bears dual rear camera with a 13-megapixel sens...

As per current info, the next Qualcomm mobile flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8150 will be unveiled on December 4. It has already flexed its muscles quite a bit in early benchmarks, including AnTuTu, Geekbench and ai-benchmark with its trendy workloads. Besides performance improvements, it also promises a 20% bump in overall efficiency ( presumably compared to the Snapdragon 845) and will most-likely include 5G connectivity.  The Qualcomm Invitation That pretty much sums up everything most users will need to know about the chip. However, for the more technically-inclined, a fresh new leak, courtesy of  Universe Ice , does bring about yet another confirmation of the previously rumoured tri-cluster CPU design.  As per the info, the Snapdragon 8150 will have four low-power Kryo Silver cores, with 128KB L2 cache each, running at roughly 1.8GHz Max in one cluster, then a trio of Kryo Gold ones, with 256KB L2 cache, per core and a max frequency of 2.419GH...