Apple has hired Soonho Ahn executive from Samsung SDI Co., which is the battery making affiliate of Samsung Electronics Co. This move will help Apple lead its own battery department. Soonho Ahn joined Apple in December as global head of battery developments, after working as a senior vice president at Samsung SDI since 2015, according to his LinkedIn profile. Continue reading “Apple hires Samsung’s battery executive Soonho Ahn to lead its work”
Google is already known to be working on an entirely new operating system called Fuchsia. The development of the same is currently underway with new features and testing on a variety of form factors. Google has now hired Apple engineer Bill Stevenson to work on the Fuchsia OS and bring it to the market. Continue reading “Google hires Apple’s Bill Stevenson to bring Fuchsia OS to the market”
Samsung had pushed out Android Pie beta update for the Galaxy Note8 early last week and the company is now rolling out the second update. This fixes various issues such as camera app force-close when shooting slow-mo video, viewfinder freezing and undetected music stored on the microSD card and more. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Android Pie second beta update with camera fixes released; Galaxy A7 and A9 2018 update expected in March”
After Redmi Note 7 with 48-megapixel rear camera was introduced in China earlier this month, Xiaomi’s Redmi by Xiaomi’ brand has teased the launch of the smartphone in India soon with upside down text and a photo of Manu Jain, Vice President, Xiaomi and Managing Director along with CEO Lei Jun holding the smartphone. Continue reading “Xiaomi teases Redmi Note 7 with 48MP camera is launching in India soon”
LG has posted a teaser video on its social channels announcing its 2019 Premiere at the MWC 2019 in Barcelona on February 24th. The teaser says ‘Goodbye Touch’ hinting at gestures for the smartphone. As rumored earlier, we can expect the LG’s flagship G8 smartphone at the event.
Continue reading “LG MWC 2019 Premiere announced for February 24, LG G8 expected”
Meizu has announced Zero, the company’s latest top-end smartphone with an unique design that gets rid of all the ports and buttons ahead of the Vivo APEX 2019 announcement tomorrow. This gets rid of the 3.5mm audio jack, which is not surprising, but this also doesn’t have a USB Type-C port, instead it only relies on custom designed 18W wirless fast charging. The company says that uses have to rely on Bluetooth for wireless audio listening.
Apple has started rolling out minor iOS 12.1.3 update for iPhone and iPad after beta testing for a few weeks. This includes several bug fixes affecting iPad Pro, HomePod, CarPlay, and more. It also finally fixes the issue that could cause restarts or that could cause Siri to stop listening. It also fixes Audio performance issue when using some third-party apps is improved on iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) and iPad Pro 11-inch models.
Redmi 1S, Redmi Note/Prime, Redmi 2/Prime were the devices which redefined their respective price segments back in 2014-15 and helped Xiaomi becoming an established player in India but it was Redmi Note 3 that paved the way towards making company India’s No. 1 smartphone brand. The device is almost three years old now and so, Back in December, Xiaomi announced that MIUI 10.2 will be the last update for the devices including Redmi Note 3 and Mi 5. Last year, it dropped software support for some devices including Redmi 1S, Redmi Note 4G, Redmi 2, Redmi 2 Prime, Mi 4i that were launched in 2015 or before. Continue reading “Xiaomi rolls out final MIUI 10.2 update for Redmi Note 3”
According to several reports, users with 2016 and newer MacBook Pro models, particularly those with the Touch Bar are facing backlight issues. This results in a so-called “stage light effect” along the bottom of the display. Continue reading “Apple 2016 and newer MacBook Pro models with touchbar report display issues due to fragile flex cables”
Future Chrome update just might kill ad-blocker extensions. In October 2017, Google laid out plans to make extensions safer to use, however, these changes will reflect APIs and these might prevent most content blockers from working. Continue reading “Google Chrome Manifest V3 API change might kill some ad-blocking extensions”
Fortnite for Android comes to HONOR View20 and is also one of the few phones to support 60 FPS mode. Fortnite for Android didn’t have a traditional Play Store release, instead, it is available only to compatible phones through its website. It was first released for Samsung smartphones starting from August last year and expanded to other devices later. Continue reading “Fortnite for HONOR View20 60fps version and Honor Guard Fortnite outfit announced”
As mentioned in December 2017, Google starting from April 16, 2019, will transition classic Hangouts users on G Suite domains to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Between April and September 2019, Google says that features from classic Hangouts will come to Chat. Continue reading “Google to upgrade classic Hangout users to Hangouts Chat and Meet from October 2019”
After a leak earlier this month, Xiaomi has officially teased its foldable smartphone in a video. Xiaomi co-founder and President Lin Bin said that the phone has been developed after several technical problems inflexible folding screen technology, four-wheel drive folding shaft technology, flexible cover technology, and adapting MIUI to the foldable screen.
Continue reading “Xiaomi shows off dual-side foldable smartphone in official video”
Samsung Electronics has introduced the Samsung 970 EVO Plus; the company’s newest entry to the (NVMe) SSD portfolio. It comes with up to 2TB storage capacity. Samsung says that the 970 Evo Plus has achieved significant performance improvements – up to 57% faster write speed. Continue reading “Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 SSD with up to 2TB storage announced, starts at Rs. 6479”
Twitter for the web is getting a new interface that brings several key features including a newly designed emoji button, quick keyboard shortcuts, upgraded trends, advanced search, and more. Continue reading “Twitter’s new web interface brings emoji button, quick keyboard shortcuts and more”
