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HUAWEI is pushing hard on App Gallery as an alternative mobile apps ecosystem, since the US government has blacklisted the company, preventing US companies from doing business with them. According to the recent company’s claims, the platform has 2.3 million registered developers, a 77% increase from last year, and a diverse global audience of 530 million Monthly Active Users. Continue reading “HUAWEI’s App Gallery witnesses 83% increase in app distribution in 12 months”
Samsung today confirmed the launch of Galaxy M12, the company’s new M series smartphone in India on March 11th. This was introduced last month, and the Indian version will pack a 6.5-inch HD+ Infinity-V display with 90Hz refresh rate. It will be sold on Amazon.in. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy M12 with 6.5-inch Infinity-V 90Hz display, 48MP quad rear cameras, 6000mAh battery launching in India on March 11”
Update: iQOO recently confirmed the iQOO Neo 5 5G announcement on March 16th. The teaser confirms a centre punch-hole screen for the phone. Continue reading “iQOO Neo 5 5G with FHD+ 120Hz AMOLED display, Snapdragon 870 to be announced on March 16”
Reliance Jio has launched new ‘2G-MUKT BHARAT’ offer that offers 12 months of service for existing JioPhone users at Rs. 749. For new JioPhone users, the phone along with the 1-year plan costs Rs. 1499 and the 2-year plan costs Rs. 1999. All the plans include unlimited voice calls and 2GB of data every month. The company says that currently, for a feature phone and 2-year service, a user on other network spends about Rs 5,000. Continue reading “JioPhone 2021 offer: 1 year plan for JioPhone users at Rs. 749”
After rumours, OPPO today confirmed the global launch of Find X3 series smartphones on March 11th. It is expected to introduced Find X3, Find X3 Pro and the Find X3 Lite smartphones at the event. The company already confirmed that the Find X3 series phone will fully support true 10-bit images as well as videos, right from shooting, encoding, storage, decoding, and display of the content. Continue reading “OPPO Find X3 Pro with 6.7-inch QHD+ 120Hz OLED display, Snapdragon 888, Find X3 5G and Find X3 Lite to be announced on March 11”
Previously, Amazon Music was exclusive to Nvidia Shield TV, but it ends now! From now on, users in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, India, Japan, and Australia, can download the Amazon Music app from the Play Store on your Android TV. It is also available on Google TV, set-top boxes, consoles, and sound bars. Continue reading “Amazon Music is now available on all Android TVs”
During their 2021 Analyst Day presentation, the developers of Twitter revealed that they are working on a new feature for the platform called Safety Mode. There aren’t a lot of details about the feature but from the presentation, it can be inferred that this mode is designed to detect and remove abusive tweets.
Continue reading “Twitter working on Safety Mode feature to auto-detect and block abusive tweets”
After almost a year of introducing the P40 series smartphones with 5G support, HUAWEI has silently introduced the P40 4G version with the Kirin 990 4G SoC while retaining other specifications. It has a 6.1-inch FHD+ Flex OLED screen with 3.48mm, 4.47mm and 3mm ultra narrow borders on the top, bottom and sides, respectively, runs Android 10 with EMUI 10.1 on top with HMS, has in-display fingerprint scanner, and a 50MP Ultra Vision Camera , 16MP ultra-wide camera and 8MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom. Continue reading “HUAWEI P40 4G with 6.1-inch FHD+ OLED display, Kirin 990, 50MP triple rear Leica cameras announced”
Samsung has started rolling out OneUI 3.1 for the Galaxy Z Fold2 to give a better user experience for the foldable phone with sevearl new features such as improvements to multi-window, camera improvements and lots more . Continue reading “Samsung rolls out OneUI 3.1 to Galaxy Z Fold 2 bringing new features”
According to the recent report released by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Indian tablet market recorded 14.7% YoY growth with shipments totaling 2.8 million units in 2020. Continue reading “India Tablet Market Returns to Growth in 2020 with 2.8 million shipments, up 14.7% YoY: IDC”
At its Analyst Day 2021 Twitter has teased two new features — Super Follows and Communities. According to the company, Super Follows allows users to charge their followers for access to extra content. Continue reading “Twitter announces Super Follows creator subscription and Communities features”
Zoom, the well-known video conferencing app, is introducing a new accessibility feature for all their users, called Live Transcription. The feature, otherwise known as automatic closed captioning, will be released broadly to everyone in the fall of 2021.
Continue reading “Zoom to bring Live Transcription accessibility feature to all users”
Update: Vivo has posted the image of the S9 that shows triple rear cameras. Next to the flash it says AI camera and 1.79 to 2.4 aperture and OIS. It shows a sleek metal frame, gradient finish in the back in one version and the other version has a blue finish. It has also confirmed 44MP front camera along with a soft selfie flash for night time selfies. Continue reading “Vivo S9 with Dimensity 1100 6nm SoC, 44MP front camera teased ahead of announcement on March 3”
Update: Xiaomi India head and VP Manu Jain today posted the image of the box of the Redmi Note 10 series phone which mentions 108MP camera along with three other cameras. It also shows a punch-hole display and a Rose Gold colour variant, but it is also expected to come in Green colour, based on earlier rumours. Continue reading “108MP camera confirmed for top-end Redmi Note 10 series smartphone ahead of launch on March 4 [Update: Box teaser]”
The technology around tracking our sleep and its various parameters has become quite advanced in recent times with the advent of smartphones, smartwatches and fitness trackers. Google is now introducing a new API in Android that will allow apps to better recognize when the user is sleeping, along with its related data.
Continue reading “Google introduces Sleep API for improved sleep tracking capabilities in Android”
