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In times of the lockdown and home quarantine, the importance of staying fit has risen. To help this situation, Samsung has partnered with 6 leading fitness brands – barre3, Calm, Echelon, Fitplan, Jillian Michaels Fitness and obé Fitness, to release their fitness and wellness apps for the Samsung Smart TV platform.
Continue reading “Samsung Smart TVs get 6 new wellness apps with 5000+ hours of fitness content”
Apple’s problems from the COVID-19 pandemic are far from over as Ming-Chi Kuo revealed new information in an investors’ note. According to him, iPhone 12’s development continues to be impacted and while the iPhone SE pre-orders exceeded market expectations, it could negatively impact the iPhone 11’s sales.
Continue reading “Apple iPhone 12 production delayed, iPhone SE Plus announcement postponed: Report”
Update: April 22, 2020 – Meizu has confirmed that the Meizu 17 mSmart 5G will be announced on May 8th. Continue reading “Meizu 17 mSmart 5G with OLED display to be announced on May 8”
Facebook today announced that it will buy 9.99% equity stake in Jio Platforms Limited, part of Reliance Industries Limited on a fully diluted basis for $5.7 billion or INR 43,574 crore, making Facebook its largest minority shareholder, the largest investment for a minority stake by a technology company anywhere in the world and the largest FDI in the technology sector in India. Continue reading “Facebook buys 9.99% stake in Reliance Jio for Rs. 43,574 crore”
Motorola is all set to announce its flagship Edge Series tomorrow at an online event, but that doesn’t stop the leaks from surfacing. The promotional videos of the Motorola Edge and Motorola Edge+ have surfaced revealing key specifications and also shows both the smartphones in full glory.
To compete with the Play Store and App Store, HUAWEI has been working hard to bring partners onto its AppGallery. Today they announced that AppGallery will be onboarding Hungama, a popular digital entertainment company in India, to be its prime online streaming channel.
Continue reading “HUAWEI signs Hungama as AppGallery’s prime online streaming channel”
ZTE’s nubia brand just announced nubia Play, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in China, as it had promised. It packs a 6.65-inch FHD+ AMOLED display with 144Hz refresh rate and 240Hz touch sampling rate, up to 4096 levels of automatic brightness adjustment, is powered by Snapdragon 765G with support for 5G SA/NSA dual-mode, ICE2.5 rack-mounted liquid cooling system with 61mm large liquid cooling tube and various heat dissipation materials such as thermally conductive graphite, gel, copper foil, etc. that can bring down the temperature by up to 16° C. Continue reading “Nubia Play with 6.65-inch FHD+ 144Hz AMOLED display, Snapdragon 765G, quad rear cameras, 5100mAh battery announced”
Xiaomi is all set to introduce MIUI 12 in China on April 27th. Today the company has started sharing the features it will bring that includes Dark Mode 2.0. MIUI got dark mode in early 2019, and with MIUI 12 it is now present in 42 built-in applications and 20 mainstream applications are deeply customized for MIUI’s dark mod, and several third-party applications now support non-linear colour invert algorithm that accurately identify interface elements, and dynamically inverts colours for each interface object. MIUI 12’s invert colour algorithm is based on Lab, HSV colour space, and the inverse colour adaptation is wider and more natural. Continue reading “MIUI 12 Dark mode 2.0: Smart wallpaper dimming, dynamic contrast and font adjustment”
ColorOS 7 that was launched last year came with a lighter UI, several new features, etc, and Soloop video editing app was one among them. It has been available on a range of OPPO devices running ColorOS 7 and it was added through an update for realme devices. In order to make it available for several realme devices, the company has made the app available on the App Market, finally.
Continue reading “Soloop video editing app for realme devices now available on App Market”
Netflix has been rolling out a neat little feature to its android app users called Screen Lock, which as you might have guessed, locks the screen UI elements when viewing content on the app. It can helpful to prevent accidental screen touches that can sometimes lead to fast forwarding unnecessarily, skipping to the next episode or deactivate/activate subtitles.
Continue reading “Netflix brings “Screen Lock” button for its Android app”
Samsung’s Galaxy Watches will soon receive yet another functionality that will let users measure and track their blood pressure levels. The Samsung Health Monitor app will first launch on the Galaxy Watch Active 2, using its heart rate sensors to track the users blood pressure once its calibrated with a traditional cuff.
Continue reading “Samsung launches Blood Pressure Monitoring App for the Galaxy Watches”
Samsung today announced that it is looking to develop image sensor with a resolution of 600-megapixels (Mp) that will exceed perception capabilities of human eyes, which is said to match a resolution of around 500-megapixels (Mp). Continue reading “Samsung aims to develop 600MP image sensor in the future”
Update: 21st April 2020 – Following the announcement by Airtel and Vodafone IDEA, now BSNL and Reliance Jio have announced validity extension for prepaid users. Unlike Airtel which has increased validity only for limited number of users, Jio is extending incoming call validity for all users. Similarly, BSNL is extending prepaid pack validity till May 5th, 2020. Continue reading “Airtel further extends prepaid validity till May 3; Vodafone Idea extends validity for feature phone users [Update: Jio and BSNL]”
It seems like every major company that has access to large amounts of public data is releasing COVID-19 related maps to track the spread of the virus. The latest to join the fray is Facebook as they partnered with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to release a symptom map of counties in the USA.
Continue reading “Facebook releases COVID-19 symptom map starting from USA”
Xiaomi today announced that it will introduce Mi 10 Youth Edition (Lite) 5G smartphone and MIUI 12 at an online event in China on April 27th. The Mi 10 Lite 5G is the cheaper version of the Mi 10 that was introduced in Europe last month, but the company said that it will go on sale only in early May. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite 5G with 50x zoom and MIUI 12 to be announced on April 27”
