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Fossil today has announced the Fossil Sport Smartwatch that is powered by the Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform and runs on WearOS by Google. It boats features like extended battery life, a new battery saving mode, enhanced ambient mode, integrated heart rate, NFC, and GPS capabilities. Continue reading “Fossil Sport Smartwatch with Qualcomm Snapdragon 3100, WearOS 2.1, heart-rate sensor announced”
Huawei’s Honor brand has announced that it has sold over 1 million or 10 lakh smartphones during the Diwali festive season sale on Flipkart, Amazon and Honor store. The Honor smartphones such as the Honor 9N, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 7S, Honor 9i, Honor 10 and Honor 7A were sold on special prices and offers. Continue reading “Over 1 million Honor smartphones sold during the Diwali festive sale”
Facebook introduced Portal and Portal+ video calling devices back in October. The company has clarified some privacy concerns saying that Facebook does not listen to, view or keep the contents of your Portal video calls and all the video calls are encrypted, the Smart Camera and Smart Sound use AI technology that runs locally on Portal, not on Facebook servers. Continue reading “Facebook Portal and Portal+ video calling devices with Alexa, AI smart camera tech go on sale in the US”
After Galaxy J2 Core (SM-J260), the company’s first Android Oreo (Go edition) smartphone that was launched back in August, Samsung is gearing to launch the Galaxy J4 Core soon. This reveals a 6-inch HD+ display, Snapdragon 430 SoC with 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front camera both with LED flash.
Amazon has finally launched its Audible service in India. This lets you listen to your favourite books using the Audible app. The company says that it has over 200,000 audiobooks narrated by performers across several genres. The company says that the service is currently in beta and it is still adding more new and exciting Indian and international audiobooks every day.
Continue reading “Amazon Audible audio book service launched in India”
GigSky has officially launched the eSIM service for iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, and iPhone Xr to its North American and worldwide mobile data plans. For this functionality, you need to update to iOS 12.1 update which Apple rolled out last week. Users can complete the process of eSIM conversion from GigSky app. Continue reading “GigSky brings eSIM support for iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs and Xs Max”
Google Photos has gained a new update which doesn’t bring any major changes to the surface. However, a teardown reveals that there might be a new informative boxes coming that can explain why backups aren’t running, and the ability to backup only when charging the phone might be making a return. Continue reading “Google Photos update hints at restoring backups while charging, guidance for backup conditions”
Samsung, as expected, has finally showcased its foldable display at its developer’s conference in San Francisco. The company has provided the details like screen resolution that are needed for developing a foldable smartphone to developers. Continue reading “Samsung showcases foldable phone with 7.3-inch inner and 4.6-inch outer display”
Apple’s Clips app gets a new update that brings more great content for video creation. The new version of Clips adds six Selfie Scenes. The Selfie Scenes use the TrueDepth camera system to allow users to record themselves against immersive, animated backdrops including a beautiful rainforest, a mad scientist’s lab and even an action-packed scene from Disney Pixar’s Incredibles 2. Continue reading “Apple Clips update brings six new Selfie Scenes, three new filters and much more”
The U.S. federal court in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which monitors acts of commerce, ruled against Qualcomm over the alleged anti-competitive practices and abuse of FRAND patents. This means that Qualcomm must license its modem patents to competitors. Continue reading “Federal Trade Commission rules Qualcomm must license its modem patents to competitors”
At Samsung Developer Conference 2018, Samsung is opening Bixby Developer Studio, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), to developers. It offers access to the same development tools Samsung’s internal developers used to create Bixby Capsules. Continue reading “Samsung finally opens up Bixby developer studio to developers”
Samsung Electronics has introduced new developer tools for its Bixby and SmartThings platforms, as well as new, powerful mobile experiences with One UI and Infinity Flex Display. Samsung is making it easier for developers and partners to quickly build, launch and scale new experiences to millions of devices around the world. Continue reading “Samsung introduces Infinity Flex for foldable smartphone and One UI mobile experiences”
At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, Google has announced support for a foldable smartphone as Android manufacturers are gearing up to launch this new flexible display technology as early as 2019. There are two variants; two-screen devices and one-screen devices. Continue reading “Google adds support for foldable screens; finally starts testing in-app Updates API”
At the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) in San Francisco the company has confirmed that notches are coming to its smartphones. Hassan Anjum, Director of Product Marketing, Samsung when talking about the evolution of the displays on its smartphones confirmed that the company has started testing notches on its displays. Continue reading “Samsung teases Infinity U, V and O notch displays, notchless ‘New Infinity’ display”
Samsung at its annual Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) in San Francisco confirmed that its flagship Galaxy Note9, Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones will get Android 9.0 (Pie) update in January 2019. The company is calling it One UI that helps you focus on what really matters to you. “With hardware and software working together in harmony, see only what you need, using and viewing your phone with an experience that feels second nature,” said the company. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note9, Galaxy S9 and S9+ Android 9.0 Pie update coming in January 2019, beta for Galaxy S9 series this month”
