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Apple has clarified that it will replace the batteries of older iPhones at a discounted price even if they are not defective. The company has reduced the pricing of battery replacements from $79 to $29 last week following the controversial throttling of iPhones reports. Continue reading “Apple will replace iPhone batteries at a discounted price regardless of battery health”
Google has started rolling out new over-the-air (OTA) update for Pixel and Nexus devices and also posted factory images as part of monthly Android Security release. The update for this month fixes several critical issues in Media framework, System and Qualcomm closed-source components. Continue reading “Google rolls out January 2018 Android security update for Pixel and Nexus devices”
Intel chips from the last ten years said to have been affected with serious Kernel memory leak issue on modern computers including Windows, Linux, and macOS, according to a report from The Register. This needs a fix at the operating system level which might incur performance drop. Continue reading “Intel chips affected with Kernel memory leak flaw, fix might incur performance drop: Report”
Among the many other features the newly launched Pixel 2 series rock, Portrait mode surely caught the attention. The single-camera sensor on the back and front were able to pull off the mode so good that the mode is now being ported to first-gen Pixel phones, Nexus 6P, 5X and we were able to make it work on other devices running Android 8.0 Oreo. Continue reading “Pixel 2 Portrait mode ported to non-Google devices running Android Oreo”
Apple has acquired the Canada-based app development service Buddybuild in efforts to make it easier for developers create and iterate their apps for iOS. Buddybuild is a mobile iteration platform that is focused on integration and debugging tools essentially needed for app development workflow. Continue reading “Apple acquires Canada-based app development startup Buddybuild”
LG at the CES 2018 event that is going to kickstart in the coming week will introduce the ThinQ OLED and SUPER UHD TVs with Google Assistant and α (ALPHA) advanced image processor, and perhaps the biggest addition to LG TVs this year will be the support for Google Assistant. Continue reading “LG ThinQ OLED and SUPER UHD TVs with Google Assistant to be introduced at CES 2018”
Android Oreo (Go Edition) is Google’s trim down version of Android for low-cost phones with 512MB to 1GB RAM. The company announced the project back in May and said that it would be available from early 2018. The company is all set to launch the first phone in India in partnership with Micromax later this month, according to a new report. Continue reading “Micromax said to launch Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone this January for Rs. 2000”
LG introduced its flagship V30 smartphone in Aurora Black, Cloud Silver, Moroccan Blue and Lavender Violet color variants at the IFA last year, today it has introduced new Raspberry Rose color variant of the smartphone that will be showcased at the CES 2018 next week. Continue reading “LG V30 Raspberry Rose color variant announced”
The Government of India has made it mandatory to link your mobile number with Aadhaar card for identification verification and has put a deadline of March 31, 2018 to do so. While the process of verification by visiting the mobile network customer centers can be tiresome, UIDAI has rolled out OTP based verification system using which you can link your mobile numbers with Aadhaar from your home. Continue reading “How to link Aadhaar to your mobile number via OTP”
Lenovo has silently introduced K320t, the company’s latest budget smartphone and its first smartphone with full-screen 18:9 display and dual rear cameras in China. It was certified by TENAA last month, packs a 5.7-inch HD+ screen with 81.4% screen-to-body ratio and comes with an 8-megapixel rear camera along with a secondary 2-megapixel camera to capture the depth information. Continue reading “Lenovo K320t with 5.7-inch full-screen display, Dual rear cameras announced”
Samsung launched Galaxy On Nxt smartphone with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Exynos 7870 14nm processor, fingerprint sensor, unibody metal design and 32GB storage back in October 2016, last year in April it launched the 64GB version of the phone, now it has launched the 16GB version of the smartphone in the country. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy On Nxt 16GB version launched in India for Rs. 10999”
Last week OnePlus rolled out the OxygenOS 5.0 Android 8.0 Oreo stable update for the OnePlus 5 smartphone, and as promised the company has rolled out Face Unlock feature with the latest Open Beta 3 update for the smartphone, soon after the second beta that rolled out a couple of weeks back. The update also adds shortcuts on launcher and several optimizations and fixes for the phone. Check out the complete changelog below. Continue reading “OnePlus 5 gets Face Unlock with latest open beta update”
Samsung Electronics has announced today that the company’s C-labs will introduce three new innovative projects; S-Ray, GoBreath, and Relumino at the CES 2018 event. Additionally, seven start-ups which have been spun off from Samsung’s C-Lab will also showcase their newly released commercial products for new business opportunities. Continue reading “Samsung S-Ray, GoBreath, Relumino Creative Lab projects to be announced at CES 2018”
Nokia 6 (2018) with the model number TA-1054 surfaced on TENAA last month, showing a large display with minimal bezels, now the specifications of the phone has been detailed on the certification site that confirms that it will have a 5.5-inch 1080p screen with 16:9 aspect ratio and not 18:9 ratio as expected. It also reveals a faster Octa-Core SoC, which is rumored to be Snapdragon 630.
Continue reading “Nokia 6 (2018) specifications detailed on TENAA – 5.5-inch 1080p display, 4GB RAM”
LG Display has announced that developed the world’s first 88-inch 8K OLED display that boasts the highest resolution with 33 million pixels (7680×4320 pixels) – 16 times more than FHD (1920×1080) and four times more than UHD (3840×2160). Continue reading “LG introduces world’s first 88-inch 8K OLED display ahead of CES 2018”
