News | Fone Arena - Part 1240

Google I/O 2020 cancelled due to coronavirus concerns

Google has cancelled its I/O developers’ conference for this year that was supposed to take place at Mountain View, California from May 12th to 14th due to coronavirus concerns. The company said that “it’s sad that we won’t be able to gather as a developer community but your health and safety is our priority.” The company said that it is exploring new ways to connect and support the global developer community and will offer more details on google.com/io. Continue reading “Google I/O 2020 cancelled due to coronavirus concerns”

WhatsApp Dark mode finally available for all Android and iOS users

WhatsApp for Android got dark mode feature in beta back in January, and it has been in the works for iOS for more than a year. Now WhatsApp has announced the roll out of dark mode for all the Android and iOS users. This lets users choose from light or dark theme. The dark theme is more like dark gray unlike pure black available in some apps. Chats appear with dark background, and your messages are shown in green bubbles. Continue reading “WhatsApp Dark mode finally available for all Android and iOS users”

Realme 6 series and Redmi Note 9 series India launch events cancelled due to coronavirus concerns, will have online launch

Last week realme announced an event in India to launch the realme 6 and realme 6 Pro smartphone on March 5th. Today the company has decided to cancel the event due to coronavirus concerns in the country. The company will still offer live stream of the event, in which the CEO Madhav Seth will give live speech at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi. Continue reading “Realme 6 series and Redmi Note 9 series India launch events cancelled due to coronavirus concerns, will have online launch”

Black Shark 3 Pro 5G gaming phone with 7.1-inch Quad HD+ AMOLED 90Hz display, Snapdragon 865, 12GB RAM and Black Shark 3 announced

Black Shark just announced the Black Shark 3 and Black Shark 3 Pro smartphones in China, as it had promised. The Black Shark 3 features a 6.67-inch FHD+ display and the Pro version has a 7.1-inch Quad HD+ screen. Both these have 90Hz refresh rate and world’s highest touch sampling rate of 270Hz, and the company says that single-finger touch response delay is as low as 24ms, multi-finger touch response delay is as low as 28ms. These have screen pressure sensitivity 3.0, and the number of pressure-sensitive sensors increased to 4, and the pressure-sensitive area increased by 48%. These have MEMC intelligence Motion compensation technology as well. Continue reading “Black Shark 3 Pro 5G gaming phone with 7.1-inch Quad HD+ AMOLED 90Hz display, Snapdragon 865, 12GB RAM and Black Shark 3 announced”

HMD Global schedules an event on March 19 in London, Nokia 8.3, Nokia 5.3 and more expected

HMD Global has scheduled an event on March 19th in London to introduce new smartphones. There is a new separate event since there is no MWC this year. Last year at the MWC the company announced Nokia 9 PureView, Nokia 4.2, Nokia 3.2, Nokia 210 feature phone and Nokia 1 Plus Android Go Edition phone. Continue reading “HMD Global schedules an event on March 19 in London, Nokia 8.3, Nokia 5.3 and more expected”

Samsung invests $220 million in Vietnam to build R&D centre

Samsung Electronics has announced that it is building a $220 million dollar research and development centre in Vietnam aimed at enhancing the companies research capabilities. However, news has surfaced that Samsung had to cancel a ceremony related to the launch of the centre was cancelled, likely due to coronavirus outbreak.

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OnePlus Snowbot Battle will let anyone control 5G-powered Snowbots in global snowball fight

OnePlus today announced world’s first 5G-powered interactive snowball fight, which will take place starting 9th March 2020 for more than 70 consecutive hours in Finland. The experience will allow anyone from around the world to control the OnePlus Snowbots in a live snowball fight. OnePlus says that this will demonstrate the true 5G potential and how this can change the way people interact with smartphones, OnePlus developed custom-made snowball-firing robots: Snowbots. Continue reading “OnePlus Snowbot Battle will let anyone control 5G-powered Snowbots in global snowball fight”

Apple to pay up $500 million to settle class action lawsuit for throttling older iPhones

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Apple received a lot of backlash from the tech community and its users when they confirmed that they were throttling the performance of older iPhones with ageing batteries. Apple was since sued with a class-action lawsuit and has now finally decided to settle it, paying up to $500 million in fines.

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Paytm gets brokerage licence to offer insurance products

Paytm today announced that it has received insurance brokerage license from IRDAI and will soon offer insurance across four categories including two-wheeler, four-wheeler, health, and life. The company added that Paytm Insurance Broking Private Limited (PIBPL), wholly-owned subsidiary One97 Communications Ltd (OCL), has already tied up with 20 of the leading insurance firms in India and will be integrating with 30 more companies over the next few weeks. Continue reading “Paytm gets brokerage licence to offer insurance products”

Facebook Messenger gets faster, smaller and simpler with Project Lightspeed

Facebook’s mobile application have always known to be extremely heavy on resources, causing many users to use the lite version of the Facebook and Messenger apps. Facebook has finally decided to update its Messenger app, rebuilding it from the ground up to make it faster, smaller and simpler.

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Google rolls out next Pixel Feature drop with updated music controls, AR emoji effects and more

Google has been steadily pushing out new features to its Pixel devices via its Feature drop, with the last one being rolled out in December, 2019. In the new Feature drop that’s rolling out today, Google is adding automatic car crash detection, new Motion Sense functionalities, more AR emoji effects for Google Duo and more.

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Infinix S5 Pro with 6.53-inch FHD+ display, 16MP pop-up front camera, 48MP triple rear cameras launching on Flipkart on March 6

Infinix has confirmed that it will launch its S5 Pro smartphone with a 16-megapixel pop-up front camera in India on March 6th on Flipkart. It was supposed to be launched in India in February, but it was postponed. The image also shows gradient back, camera bump and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. Continue reading “Infinix S5 Pro with 6.53-inch FHD+ display, 16MP pop-up front camera, 48MP triple rear cameras launching on Flipkart on March 6”

PUBG MOBILE 0.17.0 update with Royale Pass Season 12: 2gether We Play, DBS Shotgun and more released

Tencent games has released new PUBG Mobile update which brings the version number to 0.17.0. This brings Royale Pass Season 12: 2gether We Play, which will be available from March 9th, Amusement Park Mode in Classic Erangel as a part of 2nd Anniversary, DBS, a double-barreled shotgun that can be obtained through AirDrops, New Arcade Mode: Return of Hardcore Mode, Death Replay, and Brand New Survival Experience Arctic Mode is coming soon. Continue reading “PUBG MOBILE 0.17.0 update with Royale Pass Season 12: 2gether We Play, DBS Shotgun and more released”

realme announces Android 10-based realme UI Early Access for realme X2 and realme X2 Pro

realme announced Android 10 based realme UI a couple of months ago and started rolling out the update for eligible devices as per the schedule shared by the company. realme UI brings tons of new features such as dual earphone connection, animated wallpapers, screen-off display, customizable icon shape, new charging animation, realme Share (cross-brand file-sharing technology) and more. Continue reading “realme announces Android 10-based realme UI Early Access for realme X2 and realme X2 Pro”

Samsung Galaxy A21 with Infinity-O AMOLED display, quad rear cameras surface

Press image of Samsung Galaxy A21, the company’s upcoming budget ‘A series’ smartphone has surfaced. This shows HD+ Infinity-O Super AMOLED display, and quad rear cameras, which could be an ultra-wide, macro and depth sensors, in addition to the main camera and the image shows dual LED flash. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A21 with Infinity-O AMOLED display, quad rear cameras surface”