Gionee has launched its flagship device – the Elife E8 – in the Indian market. The phone is priced at INR 34,999 ($539) and will be sold exclusively through Snapdeal. This is the first time Gionee will be selling any of its devices officially through an online retailer in India.

The Elife E8 has a 6.0-inch, QHD AMOLED display, MediaTek Helio X10 chipset, 3GB RAM, 64GB storage, 24 megapixel rear camera with OIS and phase detection autofocus, 4K video, 8 megapixel front camera with autofocus, fingerprint sensor, 3500mAh battery, and Android 5.1 Lollipop.

The phone will be available starting October…

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that net-neutrality principles are not relevant for Internet access. He made the comment at a conference hosted by Vanity Fair magazine.

“If an operator wants to advantage their own video program and charge more for Netflix, then that is bad,” he said, adding that “if you’re a student in India and you’re getting access to some basic tools to do your homework for free and you can learn some more, it’s really hard to see how that is hurting anyone.”

He also pushed for universal Web access, saying that it is one of the “fundamental challenges of our generation.”

This comes just a couple of weeks after the social networking company changed the name of its Internet.org app to Free Basics. For the uninitiated, Facebook’s Internet.org initiative aims to bring affordable Internet to the 5 billion people in the world who otherwise can’t access it. However, the initiative has been facing net-neutrality concerns.

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Market research firm Kantar WorldPanel has released its latest report on mobile operating system market share. The report, which covers the 3 months ending August, reveals that Windows Phone’s share has increased in several countries around the world.

As you can see in the image above, the countries where Windows Phone has seen its market share increase considerably include Germany, France, and Australia, where the share has risen 3.6, 3.2, and 2.3%, respectively.

“Windows Phone share has experienced some growth in France, Germany, and Australia, and maintained share elsewhere, but we have not seen any major impact on the overall market, despite some aggressive price points,” said Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

“At the Windows 10 New York launch on October 6, we saw Microsoft refocused on offering a companion phone for users of Windows 10, and enterprise-class devices to IT departments – a more modest goal perhaps, but certainly a more realistic…

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According to a New York Times report, Chinese hackers in March this year infiltrated the computer systems of LoopPay, a company which was acquired by Samsung just the prior month and helped develop the South Korean firm’s mobile payments service Samsung Pay.

As per the report, it was only in August – which means after a long gap of 5 months – that the hack was discovered. LoopPay executives said that the hackers, popularly known as the Codoso Group or Sunshock Group, were apparently after the company’s Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) technology.

It’s worth mentioning that MST is central to Samsung’s mobile payments service, which launched in the US just last week. Both companies said they were confident that the hack did not affect Samsung Pay in any way, and that’s why the service’s US launch wasn’t delayed.

“Samsung Pay was not impacted and at no point was any personal payment information at risk,” said Samsung’s chief privacy officer Darlene Cedres. “This was an isolated incident that targeted the LoopPay corporate network, which is a physically separate network. The LoopPay corporate network issue was resolved immediately and had nothing to do with Samsung Pay.”

While law enforcement wasn’t involved as LoopPay claims no data or information was stolen, the Massachusetts-based firm did hire a couple of private forensic teams that are still investigating the…

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Google has updated its iOS app, bumping it to version 9.0 and brining a few new features, including some interesting ones such as the ability to play GIFs.

The updated app now lets you tap and play animated GIFs in image search results, something which is not only convenient but also saves you some time. In addition, you can now also add a photo or review for your favorite local places, as well as get map results right within the app whenever you search for an address.

The updated app is now available for download from the App Store. This comes just over a month after an update brought along a couple of new features – always-active OK Google and improved local search results – to the app.

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The Samsung Galaxy View tablet, which was recently spotted at GFXBench, has been approved by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The device carries a model name of SM-T677A.

If you take a look at the sketch of the back of the tablet (see image above), you’ll notice that there’s an AT&T logo in the top middle, suggesting that the slate is designed to work with AT&T’s network.

Other details like the letter ‘A’ in the name (along with the list of supported LTE bands) also reportedly confirm that the Galaxy View is headed to the carrier. In addition, the sketch also confirms that the device will feature stereo speakers on its back.

FCC documents also reveal that the tablet will have a width of 447 mm, height of 272 mm, and a diagonal size of 513 mm. The screen would be about 18.6-inches.

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A new feature of WhatsApp that lets you back up all your content from the messaging app to Google Drive has been in testing for many months now. It worked for some people on certain versions of WhatsApp back in April, for example, but not everyone got this ability enabled. Now it turns out that those who did may have either used beta versions of the messenger, or were simply lucky to be randomly selected to test this feature.

That’s because WhatsApp content backup to Google Drive only (finally) became official today. What’s even stranger is that this has happened through an announcement by Google, not WhatsApp – and not Facebook, the owner of the messenger.

Anyway, as you’d expect the feature lets you back up all of your WhatsApp content to Google’s cloud service. So when you change your phone you’ll be able to pull all your past chats from Google Drive and use WhatsApp as you did on the old device. For an online service, this is one thing that has surely been missed so far.

You can choose whether the backups should contain videos, but chat history, voice messages, and photos are always included. You pick the frequency from daily, weekly, or monthly. Oh, and there’s a “never” setting too in case you simply don’t want to back anything up.

Unfortunately the rollout for this is expected to take several months for whatever reason. So we may be well into 2016 when you can finally take advantage of the backup option, depending on how lucky you are (or…

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After many leaks and rumors, LG finally made the V10 official at the beginning of this month, and now it’s almost ready to become available.

The smartphone with two screens and two front-facing cameras will go on sale in LG’s native South Korea first, starting tomorrow. It will be priced at KRW 799,700, which right now translates into $693 or €616. That makes it a premium offering when it comes to price, but given how things work in the mobile world we wouldn’t be surprised if it was going to be slightly cheaper in the US.

Speaking of which, there’s still no telling when the V10 will arrive in any market outside of South Korea. In LG’s home country there will be a version of the V10 on offer from each of the three carriers over there. And if you buy one before October 31, you’ll get some freebies such as a second battery and a battery charger. Perhaps this promotion will make its way to other countries too when the V10 launches.

The LG V10 has a 5.7-inch QHD touchscreen, a 2.1-inch 160×1,040 secondary display, a 16 MP main camera with OIS, laser autofocus, and LED flash, two 5 MP cameras for selfies, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 808 at the helm, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of expandable storage, and a 3,000 mAh battery. It runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.

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In just two short days from now, Asus is set to launch a new tablet in India. This will be part of its ZenPad line which made its official worldwide debut in June. Since then we’ve seen the ZenPad S go on sale in the US, and it or one of its siblings may now be headed to the Indian market.

The image you can see below is a teaser posted by Asus’ Indian arm on its Twitter account, basically confirming the launch date.

The tablet in the teaser looks like it could be either the ZenPad 8 or the ZenPad 7, but unfortunately Asus hasn’t posted more details yet. All should thankfully be revealed on October 9, so only a little bit more patience is required.

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When it comes to the Compact family, Sony has quite a reputation to live up to. The Z3 Compact is arguably one of the company’s most-successful models.

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