A lot of app makers have been adding tools to help people find the right balance for how you use their apps. Back in 2018 Facebook added ‘Your Time,’ designed to help users manage social networking habits that reveals how many minutes you’ve spent on Facebook’s app on that device each day for the past week and on average. Continue reading “Facebook app gets ‘quiet mode’ to mute push notifications”
HUAWEI’s HONOR brand today announced HONOR Play 4T and 4T Pro smartphones in China. The Play 4T Pro packs a 6.3-inch FHD+ OLED screen with waterdrop notch, in-display fingerprint sensor, 48MP + 8MP + 2MP triple rear cameras and a 4000mAh battery with support for 22.5W fast charging over USB type-C that can charge up to 58% in 30 minutes. The HONOR Play 4T comes with a 6.39-inch punch-hole HD+ LCD screen with rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and 48MP + 2MP dual rear cameras. Continue reading “HONOR Play 4T Pro with 6.3-inch FHD+ OLED display, 48MP triple rear cameras and HONOR Play 4T announced”
OnePlus is all set to introduce the OnePlus 8 series smartphones on April 14th. The company already revealed several specifications of the phone, and the complete specifications have also surfaced online, now alleged Europe pricing has surfaced online, which hints at considerable higher pricing compared to last year’s OnePlus 7T series.
Update: April, 2020 – Xiaomi has started rolling out new build 11.0.11.0.QFQMIXM for the Mi A3 that is about 1.33GB in size bringing April Android security patch and also fixes bugs. This also adds Pro camera mode, but there is no Wi-Fi calling / VoWiFi support yet.
Samsung announced Galaxy A41 in Japan for NTT Docomo last month, but that will no go on sale until June. Now it has introduced a new Galaxy A41 smartphone for the global markets. It packs a similar 6.1-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity screen with in-display fingerprint sensor, is powered by an Octa-Core processor (could be Snapdragon 675) with 4GB RAM, runs Android 10 with OneUI 2.0, and features a 48-megapixel rear camera along with an 8-megapixel ultra wide-angle lens, 5-megapixel depth sensor and a 25-megapixel front camera, but the camera design is different. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A41 with 6.1-inch FHD+ AMOLED Infinity-U Display, 48MP triple rear cameras announced for global markets”
Samsung just announced the Galaxy A51 5G and Galaxy A71 5G smartphones. These pack a 6.5-inch and 6.7-inch FHD+ Infinity-O Super AMOLED infinity displays with 20:9 aspect ratio, respectively, and are powered by Exynos 980 SoC with built-in 5G support and 8GB RAM. The A51 5G has a 48MP main camera with the A71 5G come with a 64MP main camera, Both these have 12MP 123-degree ultra-wide + 5MP macro and 5MP depth sensors and a 32-megapixel front camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A51 5G and Galaxy A71 5G with FHD+ AMOLED Infinity-O Display, Exynos 980, quad rear cameras, 32MP front camera announced”
HUAWEI at its event in China introduced the Smart Screen X65, the company’s latest flagship Smart Screen device with a pop-up camera, as it had promised. It packs a 65-inch 4K HDR OLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate, MEMC, support for DC dimming and the screen has TUV Rheinland certification. It has 24.9mm ultra-thin all-aluminum alloy body and the screen is just 5mm thick. Continue reading “HUAWEI Smart Screen X65 with 65-inch 4K HDR 120Hz OLED screen, 24MP ultra-wide pop-up camera, 75W 14-speaker unit announced”
Apple released iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 with new Memoji stickers, Files app iCloud Folder Sharing, Trackpad Support for iPad and more couple of weeks back. Now it has rolled out iOS 13.4.1 and iPadOS 13.4.1 updates to fix FaceTime bug that prevented iOS and iPadOS devices from participating in FaceTime calls with devices running iOS 9.3.6 and earlier or OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and earlier. It also fixes a bug in the settings app that could cause choosing Bluetooth from the quick actions menu on the Home screen to fail. Continue reading “Apple releases iOS 13.4.1 and iPadOS 13.4.1 to fix FaceTime bug”
Google introduced seamless updates back in 2016 with Android 7.0. Any Android smartphone that features Seamless System updates will have two partitions; A and B and when a firmware update arrives, it is downloaded and installed on the second inactive partition. Once the update is downloaded and installed, the phone will boot into the newly updated firmware.
Last year OPPO joined the Wireless Power Consortium, a group of companies for developing and promoting the Qi wireless charging standard. Now a new OPPO Wireless Charger (OAWV01) has been certified by the WPC. This reveals that it will be a 40W charger and has the Qi version number v1.2.4. It shows a white with gray finish, a button in silver finish, place to keep the phone and a LED notification light in white that is hardly visible. Continue reading “OPPO Air VOOC 40W wireless charger gets certified by the WPC, could be introduced along with Ace2”
HMD Global has started rolling out Android 10 update for the Nokia 3.2 smartphone, which makes it the ninth Nokia phone to get the update after the Nokia 8.1, Nokia 9 PureView, Nokia 7.1, Nokia 6.1 Plus, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6.1, Nokia 2.2 and Nokia 7.2. It was launched last year running Android Pie. Android 10 brings number of additional privacy and security features for users, as well as Dark Theme, Focus mode, dedicated ‘Privacy section’, and lots more. Continue reading “Nokia 3.2 Android 10 update starts rolling out”
After teasing the realme TV earlier this year for its MWC event, realme CEO at the realme X50 Pro launch event in February confirmed that the realme TVs will be customized for India and will be introduced sometime in Q2 2020. Recently the TV has received BIS certification. Continue reading “realme TV to launch soon in India as it receives BIS certification”
It has been over two weeks since the government announced lockdown across India, and the poor and migrant workers are the ones who are suffering from the lack of food and night shelter. To help them Google in partnership with the Indian Government has started surfacing locations of food shelters & night shelters on Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant, to help migrant workers & affected people across cities. Continue reading “Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant now show food and night shelter locations in India”
After rumors OPPO has officially confirmed that it will introduce the Ace2 5G, the company’s new 5G smartphone in China on April 13th. This comes after the Reno Ace that was introduced back in October last year. On weibo, in an open letter OPPO VP Brian Shen said that the Reno Ace, the first generation of OPPO Ace series phone was introduced 180 days back featuring the first 65W super flash charge fast charging along with 90Hz refresh rate screen. Now the company is ready to bring Ace2, which will be independent of the Reno series. Continue reading “OPPO Ace2 5G with 6.5-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, Snapdragon 865, up to 12GB RAM to be announced on April 13”
OPPO announced Reno3 5G Vitality Edition in China back in February, now the smartphone is expected to be introduced in Europe as Find X2 Lite, as the image and complete specifications have surfaced. This show 6.4-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen with water-drop notch, Snapdragon 765G 5G, 8GB of RAM, runs ColorOS 7 based on Android 10, gradient design and support for 5G standalone and non-stand alone (SA/NSA) sub-6GHz networks. Continue reading “OPPO Find X2 Lite with 6.4-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen, Snapdragon 765G, 48MP quad rear cameras surface”
