Nokia 9 PureView with penta rear cameras and an in-screen camera phone to be announced on Feb 24 at MWC 2019

HMD Global has started sending invites for its MWC 2019 event on February 24th to introduce its flagship Nokia 9 PureView smartphone with penta rear cameras. There is another invite that shows that the company will introduce its first in-screen camera phone at the event. Juho Sarvikas, chief product officer at HMD Global already teased that the company's Barcelona MWC showdown is going to be huge. We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really would like you to tune into our Barcelona MWC showdown on the 24th of Feb 😎 — Juho Sarvikas (@sarvikas) January 25, 2019 Renders of  Nokia 9 PureView surfaced last month showing penta camera arragement arranged in 1-1-3 formation with ZEISS optics, rotating zoom-camera tech on the back. The smartphone codenamed ‘Beholder’ will feature an in-display fingerprint sensor, 18:9 aspect ratio display, glass back and a metal frame. The phone is rumored to come with a 5.9-inch Quad HD 3D glass OLED display, powered by Snapdragon 845 with up to 8GB of RAM, 128GB storage, expandable memory with microSD, Android 9.0 (Pie), IP68 ratings for water-resistance, Nokia OZO Audio and 4150mAh batery with wireless charging. The other phone could be Nokia 8.1 Plus with ultra-slim bezels with a cut-out for the selfie camera on the top-left corner. It is said to ...

Huawei Republic Day offers on Amazon – Rs. 7000 off on P20 lite, free Bluetooth headset with Y9 2019

After recent offers during Great Indian Sale, Huawei has started its five-day Republic Day offers on Amazon. It also offers no cost EMI options on Huawei P20 lite in addition to Rs. 7000 discount and cotiunes to offer Boat ROCKERZ 255 SPORTS Bluetooth wireless headset worth Rs. 2,990 on purchase of recently-launched Huawei Y9 2019.  Huawei P20 Lite – Rs. 12,999 (Rs. 7000 off) Huawei Y9 2019  - Rs. 15,990 (Free boAt Rockerz Bluetooth wireless when you check out with both the Y9 and the headset in the cart) These five-day limited-period sale has already started from today, 25th January and ends 31st January, 2019.

Facebook plans to integrate Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp messaging

Facebook will integrate its messaging services — WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger by the end of this year or by early 2020, according to the latest report by The New York Times. These service will have their underlying messaging infrastructure unified but will continue to operate as stand-alone apps after the integration, according to the report. This will require thousands of Facebook employees to reconfigure how all these messaging services work at their most basic levels and will come with end-to-end encryption, which is already supported by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. This will enable a Facebook user send an encrypted message to someone who has only a WhatsApp account. Combining these messaging services will keep the Facebook's billions of users highly engaged inside its ecosystem and directly compete with Apple's iMessage as well as Google's services. This will also boost its advertising business across these platforms. The company aims to build the best messaging experiences for fast, simple, reliable and private messaging. In a statement, Facebook said, "As you would expect, there is a lot of discussion and debate as we begin the long process of figuring out all the details of how this will work." Source

Motorola Moto G7, G7 Plus, G7 Play and G7 Power detailed specifications surface ahead of Feb 7 announcement

Motorola recently scheduled an event in Brazil on February 7th to introduce Moto G7 series smartphones — G7, G7 Plus, G7 Play and G7 Power. Now Motorola has accidentally revealed the specifications of all the G7 series smartphone its Brazil website. This shows that the G7 Plus will actually be powered by Snapdragon 636 SoC, even though earlier rumors said that it will be powered by Snapdragon 660. Other devices are powered by Snapdragon 632 SoC, as rumored earlier. Moto G7 rumored specifications 6.24-inch (2270 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 19.5:9 aspect display 1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 632 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 506 GPU 4GB RAM, 64GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD Dual SIM Android 9.0 (Pie) 12MP rear camera with Dual LED flash, f/1.8 aperture, secondary 5MP camera with f/2.2 aperture 8MP front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture Fingerprint sensor Dimensions: 157x75.3x7.92mm; Weight: 174g Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS, USB Type-C 3000mAh battery with Turbo charging Moto G7 Plus rumored specifications 6.24-inch (2270 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 19.5:9 aspect display 1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 636 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 509 GPU 4GB / 6GB RAM, 64GB internal memory, expandable memory up to ...

XOLO Era 4X 2GB Unboxing and First Impressions

XOLO made a comeback recently to announce two new devices in New Delhi, targeting the budget segment of the smartphone market. The XOLO Era 4X which has an HD+ display and a front facing flash, along with some AI bokeh features, starts at Rs. 4,444 for the 1 GB RAM variant while the 2 GB RAM variant comes with an additional Face unlock feature. I had went hands on with it at the event and now the 2 GB RAM variant has arrived for testing and here are my first impressions. Additional reading - What XOLO's comeback tells us about Indian manufacturers Xolo Era 4X specifications 5.45-inch HD+ 18:9 FullView 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass protection 1.5GHz Quad-Core MediaTek MT6739ww processor with PowerVR Rogue GE8100 GPU 1GB / 2GB RAM, 16GB storage, expandable memory up to 128GB Android 8.1 (Oreo Go Edition) Dual SIM 8MP rear camera with LED flash 5MP front-facing camera with LED flash Face unlock (only in 2GB RAM version) 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio Dimensions: 146.47 x70.2×8.65mm; Weight: 139g Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS 3000mAh built-in battery Here's what you get in the box - Yes, the device comes with a removable back cover, so ...

LG to introduce Snapdragon 855-powered 5G smartphone with vapor chamber at MWC 2019

Recently reports said that LG G8 will not feature 5G support, but there will be a separate 5G phone in the new series later in March. Now LG has confirmed that it will be unveiling its 5G smartphone at the MWC 2019 in Barcelona, ​​Spain on February 24th. The smartphone will be powred by Snapdragon 855 and will use Vapor Chamber for improved heat dissipation compared to existing heat pipes. The surface area of ​​the vapor chamber is 2.7 times that of the LG V40 ThinQ heat pipe, and the amount of water contained is more than two time bigger, says the company. Since the heat dissipation chamber is made of copper with high thermal conductivity, the larger the surface area, the quicker and widespread the absorption of the surrounding heat. The water inside also stably stores the heat absorbed from the copper surface and reduces the temperature change inside the smartphone, it adds. The phone will pack a 4000mAh which is 20% larger than 3300mAh battery on the LG V40 ThinQ and promises 5G will not increase the battery consumption. The company is strengthening its partnership with major mobile operators, mainly in Korea, North America and Europe, where 5G service will be launched this year. The ...

Apple dismisses over 200 employees from its Project Titan autonomous vehicle group

Apple has laid off 200 employees earlier this week from Project Titan, which is its autonomous vehicle group. In August 2017, Apple enlisted a Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, to lead the Titan team alongside Bob Mansfield. However, this week’s dismissals from the group were seen as anticipated restructuring under the relatively new leadership. The laid-off employees will be staying at Apple but will be moved to different parts of the company. Apple, for a while now has been silent about the company's car prospects indicating that the company has scaled back from the initial rumored vehicle to a focus on software. In 2016, Apple laid off employees from the same group, shifting its strategy. An Apple spokesperson acknowledged the layoffs and said the company still sees opportunity in the space. In a statement, the spokesperson said: We have an incredibly talented team working on autonomous systems and associated technologies at Apple. As the team focuses their work on several key areas for 2019, some groups are being moved to projects in other parts of the company, where they will support machine learning and other initiatives, across all of Apple. We continue to believe there is a huge opportunity with autonomous systems, that Apple has ...

Microsoft Office 365 now available via the Apple Mac App Store

Apple has announced that Microsoft Office 365 for the first time is available on the Mac App Store, thus making it easier for Mac users to download Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and the whole suite of Microsoft’s popular apps. Users can also purchase a subscription for Office 365 from within the apps. Office 365 for Mac has been designed specifically for Mac to support features like Dark Mode and Continuity Camera in macOS, as well as the MacBook Pro Touch Bar and Mac’s Trackpad. With Office 365 on the Mac App Store, these apps can now be easily distributed to employees using Apple Business Manager. Office 365 provides experiences tailored to the Mac and macOS including OneDrive Files on Demand support on the MacBook Pro. And it’s connected to the cloud, so you can access your content from any device. Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing said: We are excited to welcome Microsoft Office 365 to the all-new Mac App Store in macOS Mojave. Apple and Microsoft have worked together to bring great Office productivity to Mac users from the very beginning. Now, with Office 365 on the Mac App Store, it's easier than ever to get the latest and best version of Office 365 for ...

Gmail v8.12 starts testing Dynamic Email support

Google has started testing a feature called Dynamic Email in the Android app. Google for a while now has been talking about bringing AMP to Gmail; AMP for those who are unaware is basically supposed to speed up load times for web pages. The company started testing out AMP for Gmail on the web soon after the announcement but was only open to few.  The company is now expanding AMP to Gmail app itself as testers gained a new account setting that allows them to enable AMP support, also known as "Dynamic Mail" in the setting title. As the test explains, this lets Gmail show Dynamic Mail whenever it is available. Similar to HTML emails, AMP messages can be included alongside plain text versions as a separate MIME type. While AMP is a pretty cool way to implement more power to email, there is a possibility of phishing schemes and abusive advertising campaigns, or even exploit vulnerabilities in Gmail and web browsers. Google is hard at work to sandbox anything that could run with AMP email, we will have to see where it goes and how it works in reality. Source

Apple iOS 12.2 beta brings new ‘Hey Siri’ setup for the rumored AirPods 2

Apple has released iOS 12.2 beta for developers. This update brings quite a few changes and feature, it also includes a new setup screen that’s used when configuring AirPods and this is currently hidden. This new setup screen clearly states that the user will be able to talk to Siri with AirPods or iPhone by saying “Hey, Siri”. When pairing the new, yet to be announced AirPods, users will be asked to set up “Hey, Siri”, just like it can be set up for other devices such as iPhones and iPads.  The main difference from using “Hey, Siri” with these new AirPods is that the new AirPods themselves will do the recognition; it sends the command to the paired device and you’ll be able to use Siri while your iPhone is in your pocket without having to tap on your AirPods. Rumors regarding the new AirPods has been in the news for a long time now and support for "Hey Siri" has been the top listed feature. The introduction video of the iPhone XS and XR showed a person at Apple Park using “Hey, Siri” with their AirPods. Reports suggest that the new generation AirPods would be launched in the first half of 2019,  including new ...