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Essential Phone: an optional 3.5 mm jack and an optional update to Oreo Andy Rubin and his team have answered many questions about the Essential Phone, revealing the arrival of various accessories, including one dedicated to audio, as well as an approximate date for the upgrade to Android 8.0 Oreo. A part of the Essential team, founded by Andy Rubin, one of the creators of Android, organized an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit. This Q & A session provided an opportunity to learn more about the future of the Essential Phone. Accessories of Essential Phone: The Essential Phone has connectors on its back, allowing it to add a 360 ° camera to the phone. Like the MotoMods of Lenovo Motorola, a line of accessories should see the light in the long term. The first will be a charging dock, but Essential also promises "a premium audio accessory" featuring a 3.5 mm jack. The team also came back on the absence of port jack on the Essential Phone, explaining ...

Apple iPhone X cost: Apple announced their new flagship for 2017 “iPhone X” with an eye-watering price of $999 on September 12. Industry insiders is a Chinese based firm who did an investigation. The investigation is to know how much iPhone X actually costs. They released their report showing each component used in iPhone 10. See full details here.

Apple introduced three smartphones during its keynote of September 12: iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X (equipped with iOS 11). On the price side, they will be marketed respectively from 809, 919 and 1,159 euros. The first two will go on sale from 22 September. The iPhone X will only be available from November 3rd. Boasted as the biggest revolution from the iPhone, the iPhone 10 is equipped with two 12 megapixel cameras, Face Face recognition system, a wireless charging system. It will have 2 hours more battery life compared to  iPhone 7 and hosts animojis. Animojis are animated emojis that users can share exclusively via iMessage. Complete specs with pictures are here.

Google in talks to buy HTC: HTC is been struggling for a while in the smartphone market. Rumors are saying that Google is going to buy HTC’s smartphone business (not VR). More details here.

Huawei becomes world’s second largest smartphone company by overtaking Apple: According to the new report spreading all over the tech world from market research firm Counterpoint, Huawei has surpassed Apple and become the second largest smartphone company in the world. The achievement was made from the month of June and July. The first spot is still retained by Samsung as the world’s largest smartphone company.  You could view detail report here with graphical charts including top selling smartphones in June and July 2017.

Nokia to update Android 8.0 Oreo, the Nokia 3 will soon be upgraded to Android 7.1.1 After the release of Android 8.0 Oreo, Nokia smartphone users are eagerly waiting for the upgrade to the new version of the system. HMD provides an update on deployment. When the Nokia brand returned to the smartphone market, orchestrated by the manufacturer HMD, the firm announced that all its smartphones would benefit from a "pure" version of Android, that is to say without interface manufacturer and very close of the Google version. The goal was to be able to offer updates very quickly, especially the security updates at the beginning of each month. So far, HMD has managed to keep pace with security updates, but Android 8.0 Oreo is the first major update, which brings new features, to come out since the launch of the Nokia brand. The manufacturer is awaited at the turning point regarding the speed of deployment of its updates. Juho Sarvikas, head of HMD product development, spok...

Google has started to work on Android P: http://www.tecupdates.com/google-has-started-to-work-on-android-p/

Xiaomi to introduce new series of smartphone: Xiaomi is all set to launch Xiaomi Mi 5X which is a mid-range smartphone in their global launch. The Chinese smartphone manufacturing company confirmed that they’re launching an entirely new series of smartphones soon. This confirmation came in their official Twitter video teaser hereunder. Video Teaser by Xiaomi