LeEco has introduced a new content ecosystem for its devices in India. Called the Ecosystem Membership Program, it will let customers access local and international movies, TV shows, and music on their LeEco devices.

The program includes collaboration with three media companies. The TV show service, called Le Live, comes in partnership with YuppTV, and will let customers view channels such as Sony Entertainment, NDTV, Gemini Movies, 9X Tashan, Sun TV, Times Now, Nickelodeon, Colors, and others, in multiple Indian languages. The movie service is called Le Vidi, and is done in…

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If you recall, we told you a about a Motorola deal last month that took $50 off the company’s Moto X Pure Edition smartphone. Now the company has sweetened the deal further by dropping the phone’s price to $300 ($100 off).

Other third party retailers like Amazon still have the device listed for around $350, meaning you get to save at-least an extra $50 if you avail the deal. And not to mention the benefit of customizing your unit with the company’s Moto Maker tool.

The deal runs through May 9, or Monday next week – so, it’s apparently a Mother’s Day promo. Head to the Source link…

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Google has announced that it will be launching the Play Store carrier billing feature in India soon. The feature will initially only be available to customers of local carrier Idea Cellular, although it’d reasonable to assume other major carriers will also make it the whitelist eventually.

“We are in the process of adding direct carrier billing to Google Play in India on Idea Cellular so that people can more easily pay for their favorite content,” a Google spokesperson said. “We will have more news to share soon.”

Apparently, the feature – which lets you pay for your digital…

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Less than a month after the Meizu Pro 6 was announced, a purported variant of the device has been spotted on GeekBench. The listing reveals a Pro 6 variant with 3GB RAM, compared to the 4GB RAM that the standard model packs.

Other specs revealed by the listing – including Helio X25 chipset and Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS – are the same as the original model.

So, does that mean we’re looking at a ‘lite’ version of the Pro 6? Well, we’re not sure, given that the new variant appears to be only differing in the amount of RAM. Plus, the date of the listing – March 22, which is a few…

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A new update has started hitting Samsung Galaxy S7 units on Sprint. As per the change log, the update brings along optimizations related to the device’s battery life, as well as improvements related to the performance of voice over WiFi.

In addition, the update – which weighs in at around 142MB and bumps the software version to G930PVPU2APD3 – also includes the monthly security patch for the month of April. It isn’t yet confirmed whether or not the edge variant of the Galaxy S7 is also getting the same update.

Like we always say, it may take some time for OTA update to hit your…

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Google has released v5.0 of the Google Keyboard, and this is a big one.

The UI gets lots of little changes. You can now enable borders for keys so it doesn’t look like one plain surface. Google dropped the old Holo themes and the light and dark Material Design themes are the only ones available.

Google moved the emoji button inside the special character menu. There is also a new numpad button there now, which shows the numbers arranged in a traditional layout but the old row of numbers is also available. There is also a one handed mode now, which shifts the keys to either side…

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HTC’s newest flagship – the HTC 10 – is yet to go on sale but that hasn’t stopped the Taiwanese company to roll out an update to the device. Weighing in at around 85MB, the update is currently hitting the handset’s European units.

As for what all it includes, the change-log notes that there are some improvements related to the phone’s camera as well as WiFi connectivity. In addition, the update – which bumps the software version to 1.30.401.1 – also brings along some general bug fixes.

Here’s the complete change-log:

– Improved WiFi connectivity, including Smart MIMO

– Camera:…

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Why wake up to your phone making beeping sounds every morning, when you can wake up to The Rock actually saying “beep beep” instead?

Yeah, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has made an alarm clock app called The Rock Clock, and it’s a bit odd (or fun, depending upon how you see it).

The app is goal oriented, so you can type the name of the project you need to perform or choose from one of the preset options such as ‘gain five pounds of muscle’, ‘lose ten pounds of non-muscle’, ‘learn a new language’, etc. Then you can choose an end date for the project or skip it. After that you set the…

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The HTC 10 is everything an HTC fan has been longing for. A full smartphone package experience without compromise. The problem with this idea is that it doesn’t exist, there will always be some phone with a better camera or better battery or a larger display. But we can always look at this idea subjectively and find the right balance between what the phone offers versus compromises you might be making.

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BlackBerry was in a hole that it kept digging deeper and deeper for itself. Finally the BlackBerry Priv was its final hope. BlackBerry found it harder and harder to stay relevant in a market oversaturated with Apple and Android smartphones and lack of app support drove customers away from the platform. So BlackBerry (formerly known as Research In Motion) decided if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. And that’s just what it did with the BlackBerry Priv, the first BlackBerry phone to run Google’s Android operating system.

The BlackBerry Priv received a lot of attention for putting Android…

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