Apple could soon be expanding their health monitoring capable devices from their Apple Watch to include the Apple AirPods soon. A new report has surfaced today, claiming that Apple is working on incorporating an ambient light sensor into future designs of the AirPods, possibly for health monitoring reasons.
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Samsung has announced a new turnkey security solution for mobile devices that utilises their Secure Element (SE) chip (S3FV9RR) and enhanced security software. It is certified with the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (CC EAL) 6+ certified, which is the highest rating ever achieved with a mobile-based component.
Opera Mini has released a new update to their android browser today, bringing it to version 50. They have focused on making UI changes to highlight some of their main features like the data compression, offline file sharing, styles, themes, etc.
Realme announced a bunch of new products, none of them being smartphones, for India during their LeapToNext launch event. They are making a stronger push in the lifestyle tech market with the realme Watch and realme Buds Air Neo and also the home entertainment market with the realme TV. Interestingly, right after the event, realme has already teased their next product, the 100W realme Soundbar.
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When Samsung released the Galaxy S20 series in February, it was received well within the tech community, claiming the spot as one of the best smartphone Android has to offer. Now, we await the launch of the Galaxy Note 20 series for later this year, and we have already got leaks of the design and some specs.
Focused on using the smartphone’s camera to give people more contextual information, Samsung’s Bixby Vision software provides many accessibility functions. To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Samsung is adding three new features to Bixby Vision, namely Quick Reader, Scene Describer, and Color Detector.
Samsung has added an interesting new TV to its Lifestyle Home Entertainment portfolio called the The Terrace. It is an outdoor focused 4K QLED TV, with many features like water resistance, high brightness, anti-reflection coating, etc. and is also accompanied by a soundbar.
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In light of the global pandemic, Facebook has announced new video features for their enterprise-focused Workplace. These include Workplace Rooms, Live Producer, Live Q&A, Live Captions, Translations & Caption Editing and Portal specific features.
Update — May 22, 2020: Xiaomi has updated their browsers again. Enhanced Incognito mode has been replaced with “Help use improve Mi Browser” which now clearly mentions that if you turn it on, it will share aggregated data stats in Incognito mode. This should clear the confusion among users whether to keep it on or turn it off. This is now reflected in Mint Browser and Mi Browser Pro downloaded from the Play Store. Preloaded Mi Browser on the phones should also receive the update soon.
May 21st, 2020 was Global Accessibility Awareness Day and in recognition, Google has released few useful apps and features that are aimed at helping individuals who have cognitive disabilities, people who are deaf or have difficulty hearing and for people who are wheelchair users.
Samsung India has launched yet another initiative that is aimed at creating an online presence for their offline Samsung retail stores. They have partnered with Facebook this time, to train Samsung’s offline partners to become part of an online ecosystem. With this initiative, Samsung aims to have customers purchase Samsung smartphones online via Facebook’s many services like Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Amazon has been working on rolling out their own food delivery in India for many months now to compete against Zomato and Swiggy. It is called “Amazon Food” and has finally started service in a few locations with Bangalore, India.
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Google has been steadily adding new functionalities to Digital Wellbeing ever since it was launched back in 2018. In the latest beta v1.0.312292882 update, Google is testing a few new features like sleep tracking, Daily Device Usage toggle, night notes and more.
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Twitter already offers a few ways to control the conversation surrounding a user’s tweet, like for example, the ability to hide replies to a tweet. Now Twitter has begun testing a new setting where the user will be able to control who can reply to their tweet.
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Using their over-the-air network in Dallas, Texas, Nokia has claimed the record of the fastest 5G connection in the world during a test, reaching speeds of 4.7 Gbps. The test was powered by their AirScale Radio Access end-to-end 5G solution and used a technique called carrier aggregation and Dual Connectivity over 5G and LTE networks.
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