Unicode Consortium has published the final Unicode 11.0 list of Emojis for 2018 just as it had mentioned earlier while it was in beta since December last year. With the newly finalized 157 new emojis, the total number of approved emojis count reaches to 2,823. These emojis will be on phones in the second half of 2018. Continue reading “Unicode 11.0 brings 157 emojis including Superheroes, Supervillains, Infinity and more”
Instagram is currently testing a new feature that lets you re-share public feed posts of whom you follow directly to your story. This feature will let you add commentary and overlaid stickers to a meme, celebrity post or even a friend’s photo according to TechCrunch. Continue reading “Instagram testing new feature that lets you share others’ posts to your story”
Google has just announced a new feature using which you can manually create themed movies via the app or the web. You can use the photos to create the movies where you can edit them, add music or just select the photos and ask Google to automatically create a movie for you which was available since quite some time now. Continue reading “Google photos now lets you manually create custom themed movies”
WhatsApp has been developing the ‘payments’ feature for quite some time now. In January we heard that the company will be rolling out the feature to users from February and since we are in February now, the Payment option is enabled to select WhatsApp beta users on Android and iOS. Continue reading “WhatsApp starts testing UPI-based WhatsApp Payments service in India”
The recently launched Honor 9 Lite is one of the few mid-range smartphones that runs on the latest Android 8.0 Oreo. The company has included their own customization skin -EMUI 8.0, to add some zing to the entire user experience. An upgrade from EMUI 5.1, the company has followed the same numeric order with Android Oreo. Continue reading “Honor 9 Lite: Best EMUI 8.0 features”
Panasonic today launched P100, the company’s latest budget smartphone in India. It has a 5-inch 2.5D curved glass screen with Corning Gorilla Glass protection, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek SoC with 1GB/2GB RAM depending on the model, runs Android 7.0 (Nougat), has an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, both with LED flash. Continue reading “Panasonic P100 with 5-inch HD display, fingerprint sensor launched in India starting at Rs. 5299”
The wearable market in India is progressively gaining momentum owing to its affordability, thanks to Chinese counterparts. These days, the affordable/basic wearable segment offer array of features including phone notifications, steps taken, heart rate, sleep monitor, and others, which in turn attracts the first time buyers. It is indeed safe to say that the tech, which incorporates health and fitness is on the rise among the Indian youths. It’s been approximately four years since Samsung made its presence in the wearable market and launched more than 6 to 7 wearables till now. Continue reading “Samsung Gear Sport Review”
Maruti Suzuki and Google have teamed up to offer AI-enabled voice assistant for auto enthusiasts attending the 14th edition of Auto Expo that is happening in India. The Google Assistant on smartphones lets access various kinds of information regarding the expo, along with details about the MSIL exhibit. Continue reading “Maruti Suzuki and Google team up to provide Assistant voice support at Auto Expo 2018”
Huawei’s Honor brand recently said that the Honor7X is now made in India and the company in partnership with Flex has started manufacturing the phone at Flex’s plant in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai. Today the company has announced that the 4GB RAM with 64GB storage version of the smartphone will be available across Honor partner stores pan India starting from February 9th at the same online price of Rs. 15,999.
Details about Samsung Galaxy C10 and C10 Plus surfaced last year, we even saw some live images of the C10 showing off its dual rear cameras. Now the Galaxy C10 Plus with the model number SM-C9100 has surfaced on AnTuTu listing revealing some of the specifications. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy C10 Plus with Snapdragon 660, 6GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks”
Check for update button on Android does nothing expecting for manually checking for updates in case you haven’t got an update notification automatically. However, back in September manually pushing the check for button update on Nexus and Pixel phones would fetch an available update even if the background check wouldn’t. Continue reading “Google Play Services update brings fix for Android ‘Check for update’ button on Pixel/Nexus devices”
At an event UCWeb today officially released UC Browser 12, especially for the India market. This supports faster video content consumption on mobile, which now consumes 50% less data and buffers with zero time lag. The company has also announced that UC Browser has crossed 130 Million Monthly Active Users (MAUs) in India as of January 2018. It also says that it is leading with market share of over 43% as per StatCounter, and is the sixth-most downloaded app in India. Continue reading “UC Browser 12.0 for Android launched officially, clocks 130 million monthly active users in India”
Lenovo has announced a recall of 83,500 (78,000 in the U.S. and 5,500 in Canada) ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Generation laptops (with machine type 20HQ, 20HR, 20K3 or 20K4), manufactured between December 2016 and October 2017 over concerns of fire hazard. It said that it has worked with United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for voluntary recall of these laptops. Continue reading “Lenovo recalls some ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptops over fire hazard concern”
UK-based Wileyfox enters administration to restructure its debt, and this information is now being revealed by the community manager of Wileyfox on Reddit. For those who are unaware, the administration is a process in the UK where the company gives full control of itself to a person, in order to pay off debts to creditors. Continue reading “Wileyfox enters administration to repay its debt”
Back in September last year, Qualcomm and Nokia announced plans to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on the 5G New Radio (NR) Release-15 specifications being developed by 3GPP. Today both the companies have announced that they have successfully completed interoperability testing in the 3.5Ghz and 28Ghz spectrum compliant with the global 3GPP 5G NR Release 15 standard using Nokia AirScale base station and device prototypes from Qualcomm Technologies.
Continue reading “Nokia and Qualcomm achieve 5G NR Interoperability”
