Google’s new phones, world’s first four rear camera phone, Bose’s new speakers and more in top tech news of the week

This week was pretty exciting for both smartphone and music lovers. We saw Googlelaunching its new-generation of Pixel smartphones, Samsung unveiled world’s first smartphone with a four-lens rear camera setup while Nokia took on a nostalgic trip by launching the ‘Banana’ phone. On the other hand, Sony unveiled its new noise cancelling headphones and Bose launched new speaker and soundbars. Besides these launches, Google Plus, along with Facebook, also got added to the list of social networks to have suffered data breaches. All this and more in our top tech news of the week.

Google has launched the 2018 edition of its Pixel smartphones, Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL. The duo will go on sale in India starting November 1. Unlike all other top-end smartphones in the market, the Pixel 3 and 3XL sport only a single 12MP rear camera. They have dual front-facing cameras. Click here to read more.

The Galaxy A9 comes with a four-lens rear camera setup which offers a total of 47MP of sensors.The smartphone comes with a 6.3-inch Super AMOLED Infinity Display with Full HD+ resolution. The device is powered by a 2.2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 660 processor and comes in 6GB/8GB RAM. Click here to read more.

Both Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale and Flipkart’s Big Billion Days sale kicked off on October 10. Amazon sale will continue till October 15 while Flipkart one will end on October 14. The sales offer a host of discounts and offers on a range of products from categories like electronics, fashion, smartphones, furniture and more. To check out the offers, click here.

The firm, in a blog post, confirmed the hacking news from last month and added that attackers stole information of around 29 million users from the website. It also described the type of data hackers got access to and what they are doing as a result. To know more, click here.

American audio firm Bose launched its wireless Bose Home Speaker 500, Bose Soundbar 700 and Soundbar 500. The Home Speaker 500 comes with a price tag of Rs 39,000, while the soundbars are priced at Rs 59,000 and Rs 79,000 respectively. Click here to read more.

The feature phone’s most highlighted part is its banana-shaped curved look and the slider design. Priced at Rs 5,999, the Nokia 8110 4G has a 2.45-inch QVGA screen and is powered by the Qualcomm 205 processor with 512MB RAM. Click here to read more.

Google shut down Google Plus after the internet search giant revealed that a security glitch had exposed the personal data of around 5,00,000 Google Plus users. Accounts of these users were potentially affected. Click here to read more.

Coming as the successor to the WH-1000XM2, the headphone comes with upgraded noise cancelling technology. The WH-1000XM3 comes equipped with 40mm driver unit with Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) diaphragm. Major highlight of the headphone is the HD noise cancelling processor QN1. Click here to read more.

According to the latest report by Sensor Tower, Apple App Store earned $9.7 billion in Q3 2017, leaving Play Store behind with $5.1 billion. However, in Q3 2018, the App Store earned a massive $12 billion while the Play Store got $6.2 billion for Google. It has been mentioned that the difference between the two app store revenue generation has been increased as well.