Xiaomi might bring Split Screen to Marshmallow devices

Split screen was one of the major features that Google announced with android Nougat back in 2016, but some smartphones launched in late 2016 and early 2017 didn’t get the Nougat update. Xiaomi rolled out the Nougat update to Mi 5, Mi Max, Redmi Note 4 and Redmi 4 devices in second half of 2017 but core Nougat features like Split Screen and Quick Switch were not available (to Stable ROM users) until the announcement of MIUI 9 back in November. Redmi Note 3, Redmi 3S/Prime/Plus, Redmi 4/Prime (Chinese variant) are the Xiaomi devices launched in 2016 which are running on Marshmallow and despite being a capable hardware, users of these devices are not able to enjoy features like Split Screen and Quick Switch. Now, it seems that Xiaomi is working to enable Split Screen feature for these devices, a post from MIUI China Forum admin says: ‘分屏团队的工程师目前已在积极适配基于 Android 6.x 的机型，预计在1月初上线到6.x体验版机型进行测试，待测试完成后，就会上线到开发版及后续稳定版中。’ ‘Split screen team engineers are currently actively adapted based on Android 6.x models, is expected to go online in early January to 6.x trial version of the model to be tested until the test is completed, it will go online to the development version And follow-up stable version.’ The post was originally published ...

Apple App Store hit record $300 million sales on New Year’s Day

Apple just announced that apps and games were the bigger part of the holiday season in 2017 as the App Store has hit a record $300 million in purchases on New Year’s Day 2018. During the week of Christmas, a record number of iOS users made purchases from the App Store spending over $890 million in the seven-day period. Among all the games, Pokemon Go claimed back the top spot on December 21st, thanks to the introduction of new augmented reality  AR+ features built on Apple’s ARKit. The Apple App Store currently has over 2000 AR based apps widespread in various categories. The most popular AR titles in the games section include CSR Racing 2, Stack AR and Kings of Pool and in shopping category apps like Amazon and Wayfair topped. In the education apps including Night Sky and Thomas & Friends Minis; and social media apps including Pitu and Snapchat. The company says that the newly designed App Store introduced in the iOS 11 is making it easy for users to discover more apps and games. iOS developers since the time the App Store launched in July 2008, have earned over $86 billion. Commenting on the same, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing said: We are thrilled ...

10.or D Review

10.or (pronounced Tenor) made its debut in India with the 10.or E smartphone last year, and it launched  it launched the 10.or G later. Last month it launched its most affordable 10.or D smartphone as a part of "Crafted for Amazon" programme. Similar to the first two smartphones, the 10.or D too has impressive specifications on paper for the price. Did it live up to our expectations? Let us dive into the review to find out. Unboxing We recently unboxed the phone, check out the video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xSiRNzuztM Box Contents 10.or D in Beyond Black color 2-pin charger (5V-2A) micro USB cable SIM ejector tool Quick start guide Display, Hardware and Design The 10.or D has a 5.2-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 by 720 and a pixel density of about 282 ppi (pixels per inch). It has 400 nits brightness so the display is bright, colors are vibrant, viewing angles and the sunlight legibility are good as well. It has bezels, above and below the screen. The company doesn't say if it has used any kind of hardened glass for protection. There is an earpiece above the display. It has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture. There is also a tiny notification LED next to the camera. It has proximity sensor, but lacks ambient light sensor for auto brightness so you have ...

Dell introduces new XPS 13 with 4K display, 8th gen Intel Core processors

Dell ahead of the CES 2018 event has introduced the XPS 13 laptop with a refreshing new design that features InfinityEdge 13-inch display that fits in an 11-inch frame. It is powered by the 8th gen Intel Core processors with a 4K display on the 13-inch model. The company claims that the XPS 13 looks as good as it did on day 1 even on day 1,000.  Dell says that the laptop because of its woven glass fiber stays cooler to facilitate longer performance. At 1.22kg, the Dell XPS 13 is one of the lightest 13-inch laptops in the market. The company also claims that you can wipe off pen marks or other stains from the laptop. It comes with almost bezel-less InifinityEdge display except for thick bezels on the side closer to the keyboard. The Dell XPS 13 is powered by the 8th gen Intel Core processors with a choice of Core i5-8250U or Core i7-8550U with 1TB SSD. The company promises up to 20 hours on Full HD and up to 11 on UHD. It ships with ships with a USB Type-A to USB Type-C adapter. The Dell XPS 13 also packs voice, touch, facial recognition, and an optional fingerprint reader in the power button for Windows Hello. Since it is ...

UberEATS food delivery service expands to Pune

After Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Gurgaon, Chennai, Chandigarh and  Hyderabad Uber has expanded its food delivery service – UberEats to Pune, which is the eight city to get the service in India, since its launch in May 2017. Uber has partnered with over 300 restaurants, including  Malaka Spice, Marrakesh, Chaitanya Parathas, Blue Nile and more in Pune. The service will be live across key neighbourhoods in the city; such as Vimannagar, Kalyaninagar, Koregaon Park and Sangamwadi. As an exclusive launch promotion, UberEATS would be charging only Re.1 as the delivery fee on all orders in Pune with no minimum order value. HOW DOES UBEREATS WORK? Download the app (Android | iOS) Pick delivery location – Input your address where you’d like your meal delivered Find the perfect meal – Browse local restaurants or search by cuisine type to find exactly what your taste buds are asking for Place your order – Pick the items you want right now or schedule your order to arrive whenever is most convenient for you Pay through PayTM, debit or credit card Track the progress of the delivery – Get updates as your order is prepared and delivered to your destination Commenting on the launch,Bhavik Rathod, Head of Uber Eats India said: After successful launches across 7 cities, we are excited to launch ...

Google investigating Pixel 2 XL voice recording bug affecting WhatsApp, Telegram messaging apps

The never-ending series of problems for the Pixel 2 returns and this time it is a voice recording bug that is affecting messaging apps. According to many users on the Pixel community, the Pixel 2 XL is limiting the volume levels when recording voice messages on WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Allo.  The phone apparently has no issues recording voice clips, but once the voice clip is sent, the recipient gets a message with very low volume, even when the phone's volume is at the maximum. The volume remains low even if listened via headphones, speaker. Even after sending the voice clip, the sender himself also seems to be not able to hear the audio clip. Users in the community have come up with ways like uninstalling/re-installing messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Allo, resetting phone to fix the problem, and since nothing worked, the issue is being finally escalated to Google for which the community manager; Orrin issued an official response, saying that Google would look into the issue. The issue is commonly seen on phones running Android 8.0 and 8.1 Oreo and since the issue is persisting to voice clips in messaging apps, it looks like it is widespread. As voice calls didn't result in the ...

Intel to issue security updates to 90% of processors from past 5 years by next week

With Meltdown and Spectre security flaws taking over the internet from the past couple of days, Intel after confirming the memory leak issues, today announced that it has already issued updates for the majority of the processors. It also said that it expects to roll out security updates to 90% of processors released in the past five years by the end of next week.  Furthermore, the company has also mentioned that most operating system vendors, public cloud service providers, device manufacturers and others have confirmed to have already updated their products and services. However, Intel didn't disclose any time frame for security updates to the processors greater than five years old since reports suggest that up to 10 years of Intel chipsets are affected. It is expected that the fix to the security flaw will incur performance drop by 5-30% depending on the chipset age and configuration, but Intel says that performance impact of these updates is highly workload-dependent and the change shouldn't be very significant for an average user. Even if there is any, it will be mitigated over time. Testing and improvement of the software updates should mitigate the impact of some discrete workloads from the software updates. Intel urges computer users worldwide ...

Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra with dual front cameras, Xperia XA2 and Xperia L2 press renders surface

Sony's upcoming mid-range and budget phones have been in the new for quite some time now. The Xperia XA2 recently got leaked in live images after being confirmed by the NBTC and SIRIM regulatory bodies in Thailand and Malaysia. Today, we are seeing the phones yet again as the press images of the phone are leaked by Evan Blass aka @evleaks of The VentureBeat. Going by the looks, it is pretty evident that Sony is sticking to its thick bezels design rather than adopting the 18:9 bezel-less designs. These three phones will replace the Sony Xperia XA1, XA1 Ultra, and L1 phones from 2017. However, the biggest change will be a transition from MediaTek chipsets to Qualcomm. The phones are said to be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 SoC. The Sony Xperia XA 2 Ultra is said to sport a large 6-inches Full HD display and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 chipset with 4GB RAM with 64GB storage. The XA2 Ultra will run on Android 8.0 Oreo. It will come with dual 15MP selfie cameras. On the other hand, the regular XA2 will have a smaller 5.2-inches display with same Full HD resolution and 3GB RAM with 32GB storage. In the camera department, the XA2 will ...

Apple confirms all Macs and iOS devices are affected by Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

It is a well-known fact that most modern Intel, ARM, and AMD CPUs and phones are affected by the serious Kernel memory leak issues known as the Spectre and Meltdown. Though Microsoft and Google had responded and said that they are taking steps to prevent any malicious attacks, it was Apple who didn't respond. However, the Cupertino company has now acknowledged the flaw and said that all Mac and iOS devices are affected. Though the systems and phone are affected, the company stressed by saying that there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time. Apple has also clarified that it released mitigations in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2 to help defend against Meltdown. Since exploiting many of these issues requires a malicious app to be loaded on Mac or iOS device, Apple has advised installing softwares from known sources only. Furthermore, Apple has assured that in the coming days it is planning to release mitigations in Safari to help defend against Spectre which is another form of the security flaw. Despite the concerns that the fixes might slow down the computers, Apple said that its steps against Meltdown haven’t dented performance. However, the fix to Safari browser to tackle Spectre could slow the speed ...

Nokia 6 (2018) with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 630, 4GB RAM, metal body announced

HMD Global today announced Nokia 6 (2018), the company’s latest mid-range smartphone and the successor of last year's Nokia 6, smartphone in China, as expected. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by Snapdragon 630 Mobile platform, runs on Android 7.1.1 (Nougat), which is upgradable to Android 8.0 (Oreo), has a 16-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has Dual-Sight technology that uses both front and rear cameras simultaneously directly from your camera app to create Bothie – a split screen visual for both photos and videos. It has a unibody design with 6000 series aluminium chassis created using two-color anodization process and diamond cutting technology. The fingerprint sensor has been moved to the back in the second-generation Nokia 6 and it also gets rid of the capacitive touch buttons on the front in favor of on-screen buttons. It packs a 3000mAh battery with support for fast charging that can charge the phone up to 50% in 30 minutes Nokia 6 (2018) specifications 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection 2.2 GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 630 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno ...