Instagram is reportedly testing vertical navigation for their Stories feature within the app. The feature, confirmed by Instagram to be in its prototype phase, will introduce a new way of navigating through Stories, that will bring it in line with another features in Instagram, which are Reels.
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The Indian mid-range market is highly competitive, with a lot of great offerings from Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, and Vivo. The Vivo V20 Pro is one among the many smartphones, found at the top of this market segment with a price tag of Rs. 29,990. It features beautiful design, it is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, and has a robust camera setup. Facing tough competition from smartphones like the OnePlus Nord, etc., can the V20 Pro justify its higher price? Read on in our review.
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The Android TV interface has mostly been unchanged over the last few years. That is finally changing as Google has begun rolling out a new update to Android TV that brings a fresh new redesign to the user interface and changing the organization to make content discovery easier.
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After nearly 27 years since it was founded, tech and e-commerce giant Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos has announced that in Q3 2021 he will be stepping down from his position and take up the role of the Executive Chair of the Amazon Board. Taking his place will be Andy Jassy, who is currently the CEO of Amazon Web Service (AWS).
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Instagram is introducing a new tool for their Android and iOS app called “Recently Deleted”. It is designed to help recover content that the user may want to restore in the event of an accidental or unintentional deletion of posts from their account.
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Apple is reportedly entering into a partnership with South Korean car manufacturer Kia, for the production of their future electric vehicle – the Apple Car. The two companies may enter into a contract on February 17th and will start producing cars that will likely launch in 2024. Apple will also be working with Hyundai for the designing and developing for their first car, using their E-GMP battery electric vehicle (BEV) platform.
Apple recently announced that in an upcoming iOS beta update, they will add a new feature called App Tracking transparency that will require apps to explicitly ask users for permission to track them across apps. In preparation, Facebook is rolling out a notification in their app that will inform users on what they do with their information.
MediaTek has announced their next generation M80 5G modem, replacing the M70 modem that was announced last year. The modem features support for both mmWave and sub-6 GHz 5G technologies, can function on both non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) architectures capable of reaching peak download speeds of 7.67 Gbps and upload speeds of 3.76 Gbps.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck last year, iPhone users faced a rather unique problem, they couldn’t use Face ID to unlock their phone when wearing a mask. Apple is now rolling out an update that will allow users to unlock their iPhone by using Face ID with reduced security, as long as they are wearing an Apple Watch.
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Fossil has launched their newest Android Wear OS smartwatch in India called the Fossil Gen 5E. It features an 1.19 inch AMOLED display, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC, interchangeable watch bands, quick charging, various activity sensors and more.
After a year of teasing us with the design, specs and upcoming games, Sony has finally launched their next generation game console in India, the PlayStation 5. The console has been in development for many years now, and has some major upgrades over the PlayStation 4 Pro, which was released more than 4 years ago. Similar to the last generation, Sony chose AMD CPUs and GPUs to power the console, and they are significantly more powerful than any of the previous generation.
After using it for about a week, and playing some of the launch titles, here are our thoughts and review of the Sony PlayStation 5.
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Netflix is rolling out a new feature to their Android that will enable the ability to turn on an automatic timer for their viewing period. Subscribers can choose between 4 settings, and it can be used to ensure that the app stops playing content after the set time period and not auto-play.
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About two weeks ago, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced a list of 9 companies that were being added to a blacklist of companies that were believed to be controlled by the Chinese Military. Xiaomi has now filed an official complaint against the ruling, claiming that the decision was “factually incorrect” and subsequently they are trying to reverse it.
In a report by Canalys, worldwide PC shipments, which include tablet shipments, has reached 458.2 million units during 2020, which calculates to a growth of 17% YoY. During the 4th quarter alone, the market shipped 143.7 million units, which is a growth of 35% YoY. Leading the market is Lenovo, followed by Apple, HP, Dell, and Samsung.
Telegram has released a new update to their Android and iOS apps, bringing the version to 7.4.0. In the update, Telegram is adding the ability to import chats from a few other messaging apps, more chat deletion options, a few improvements to voice chats and some new app animations on Android.
